There are many descriptions of sacred mulberries such as the Tongtian Sacred Tree in various Xia classics.
According to legend, there were ten suns in the sky in ancient times, and they all inhabited the huge sacred mulberry tree. The sacred mulberry tree became the legendary place where the sun rises.
The most famous one is "Fuso". In addition, there are "Fusu", "Zemu", "Three Mulberry", "Shenzi Pine", "Ruomu" and other ancient sacred trees. They are all among the sacred mulberry trees that the sun and moon go in and out of.
Genus.
There is also "Emperor's daughter mulberry", which is also called "Emperor mulberry". "Guangyi Ji" records that the Red Emperor's daughter "learned Taoism and became an immortal" and stayed on a sacred mulberry tree all day long. The Red Emperor "could not seduce her.
Burn her with fire, and the girl will ascend to heaven, and will be named the Emperor's daughter Sang."
Therefore, after the Xiong family learned the art of sericulture from the Xiling family, they searched for unowned sacred mulberry trees everywhere in the wilderness. Later, they were indeed found by Emperor Xuanyuan. The "Shan Hai Jing" records: "A hundred trees are built without branches.
There are nine vines, and nine walnuts underneath. They are actually like hemp, and their leaves are like awns. They are bright and bright, and this is what the Yellow Emperor did."
After listening to these ancient secrets, Wu Qiudao suddenly realized that this is how the silkworm technology in this fairy world was developed? It is very reasonable to worship nature, imitate nature, and then extract knowledge from nature!
He asked curiously: "Then where does the light on the top of this 'Tongtian Sacred Tree' come from? Is there a little Golden Crow living on it?"
The embroiderer shook her head: "The Tongtian Sacred Tree has not yet grown into bloom, so no golden crows have fallen. However, the mulberry leaves of the sacred mulberry are fifty feet long and have a solid and fine texture. We imitated the story of the Red Emperor and burned the Tongtian Sacred Tree.
The mulberry leaves are used for lighting, and each mulberry leaf can be burned for more than thirty days."
Wu Qiudao was choked by these words, and after a while he asked: "This has been burned for a thousand years, are the mulberry leaves still burning enough?"
The embroiderer sighed: "Nine out of ten of them have been burned now, and only the lowest branch still has residual leaves. Calculating, maybe in a hundred years, we will have no leaves to burn."
Wu Qiudao asked: "What if it's all burned out?"
The embroiderer looked at Wu Qiu sadly and said: "What else can we do? When the leaves are burned, burn the flowers, and when the flowers are burned, burn the trees. Our Xiling clan is also the inheritance of Zhu Xia civilization, and we can't use the fluorescence of moss to
Do you want to read and write?"
Indeed, Wu Qiudao has also seen these glowing moss. If you want to see the road, you still want to see the words, but if you want to read the characters, your eyesight is 5.3. Unless you enlarge the characters to the size of a human head, it takes several sides to carve such a large character.
wall?
He always felt that this was not right, and could not refute it, so he asked: "Have you ever thought about returning to the surface?"
"I've thought about it, but we won't leave." Xiu Niang looked at the towering sacred mulberry tree and said, "If it weren't for the protection of the Tongtian Divine Tree, we wouldn't have survived the earthquake and it has been passed down to this day. Where there is a sacred tree,
This is the home of the Xiling clan."
Then you still burn trees? The God of Heaven taught you how to weave mulberry trees, saved you from a major earthquake, and even let you dig holes in your own trunks to live in, only to be burned in exchange for that?
Wu Qiudao complained in his heart, but did not dare to speak out. He did not dare to come into close contact with the cilia on the spider's abdomen, so he could only be wrapped in the silk spun by the embroiderer and hung underneath to go to the mulberry tree hole.
Xiu Niang climbed up the spider silk and moved forward slowly and cautiously. Although these spider silk paths were continuously wrapped and expanded to more than two meters in diameter, the wind in the underground cracks in the cave was very strong. This was probably because the sacred tree was burned down.
It's been thousands of years since these spider-men were poisoned by carbon monoxide.
As the saying goes, the four poisons in the world are: "The sun in the clouds, the wind in the cave, the scorpion's tail, and the stepmother's heart."
Wu Qiudao hung under Xiu Niang and was shaken by the wind in the cave. Although there was lighting from the burning mulberry leaves on the top of the tree, the environment in this underground crack was still very cool and humid. The cold wind blew on him, biting the bones.
The closer you get to the trunk of the Tongtian Sacred Tree, the more Xiling Spider-men you encounter, and they can't help but stare at Wu Qiudao's face. These spider-men are the same as Xiu Niang, except for their normal two big eyes.
There are also two small eyes growing where the eyebrows should be, which is very scary.
No matter how far away these spider people are from Xiu Niang, or whether Xiu Niang sees them, they will bend down and salute very respectfully, which makes Wu Qiudao a little surprised. Is the status of the granddaughter of the patriarch so noble?
But thinking about it, this might be an underground clan with a caste system, and he felt that this was normal.
After Xiu Niang and Wu Qiudao finally landed, many Xiling Spider-men were already standing on a dug tree hole platform in the Tongtian Sacred Tree, waiting quietly.
"Saint!"
"This is the corpse of a chiseled tooth! Holy lady, have you completed the ceremony of hair extensions?"
"Holy girl, just come back!"
"Holy girl, is this naked insect the slave you captured?"
Xiu Niang ignored those greetings that were either respectful or curious, and directly threw herself into the arms of an old spider man: "Grandfather! I really miss you!"
Grandfather? Wu Qiudao immediately transferred his energy to the old spider man. He must be the patriarch of the Xiling clan, right? It seems that this patriarch is very approachable, and the clothes on his body look very ordinary, and they look old after being washed.
Don't change.
The old spider man patted the embroiderer on the back, and then said: "Holy girl, please call me serving father! I am just an Israeli servant, and now that I am getting older and my appearance is no longer good, you always
If you call me grandpa, my mistress will be angry."
Wu Qiudao was confused when he heard this. What? The patriarch is not him, but a female spider?
She is both a saint and a mistress, so what else can she do with her face?