Seeing that it was difficult for the carriage to enter the forest, Ying Zheng ordered people to place the bags containing meat products on the backs of the cattle, and then rode alone, holding the rope into the restricted area.
It was different from the previous time. This time Wu Chan didn't have too much worry. Probably she felt that Ying Zheng was very familiar with the mountain god. Besides, with so many tributes brought this time, the mountain god would not be embarrassed no matter what. Ying Zheng.
After entering the restricted area and walking for a while, the road became increasingly difficult to walk. Ying Zheng dismounted and tied the horse to a tree. Then he took the rope and pulled the cattle, and the cattle in turn pulled the sheep, and found the road to the road. The cave where Taotie lives.
Ying Zheng tied the cow to a big tree and the sheep to another tree, then picked up a bag of dried meat and got into the cave.
The car was familiar with the road, and we were traveling quickly, and soon we saw Taotie.
This mythical beast seemed to have known it was him. He was half-lying on the ground without getting up, and said lazily: "Why are you here again when you are so idle?"
Ying Zheng chuckled, opened the bag of dried meat on his back, placed it in front of Taotie and said, "Jing Jue has something to do, so I came here to see my senior."
Taotie had already smelled the aroma and couldn't help but take a few bites.
It's really delicious, much better than raw!
After he was satisfied, Taotie suddenly stopped and said, "I smell a lot of meat outside the entrance of the cave. Is this all brought by you?"
"Yes." Ying Zheng replied, "There is a lot of cooked meat, as well as live cattle and sheep."
"If you want to ask me for something, just ask me directly." Taotie understood that he would not put on such a big show for no reason.
Ying Zheng expressed his intention.
"The Jingjue tribe...are all going to move away?"
Ying Zheng nodded: "The desert continues to expand, making the living space smaller and smaller. It is no longer possible to live here for a long time."
Taotie sighed: "Of course I know this situation well. Come to think of it, in the future, this mountain top will be completely covered by desert, and the number of living creatures will decrease sharply. I'm afraid I will often be hungry."
"That's why I brought so many cattle and sheep here and left them for seniors as a backup."
Taotie said regretfully: "I'm afraid they won't live that long either."
That's right. Cattle and sheep can live a good life for several years. It would take quite a while for the desert to cover this place.
"Resisting the erosion of the desert cannot be done by humans." Ying Zheng asked what he was thinking, "May I ask if your predecessors know any method that can change the impact of natural sources on the landscape?"
Taotie did not answer him directly, but asked: "Do you know that there are many fire eyes in the underground red veins of the Western Region, why do I choose to guard them here?"
Ying Zheng shook his head slowly.
The nine guardian beasts of the Chinese land guarded the three dragon veins. Why Taotie guarded this fire eye in the Western Region, he had never thought about it.
"Because this place..." Taotie paused and continued, "It is the north gate of Kunlun Holy Mountain."
"Kunlun Holy Mountain?"
Although he has never been there, Ying Zheng certainly knows the name of Kunlun Mountain, and he has also heard from Ji Fa that the place where Nuwa last mended the sky was located in Kunlun Mountain.
Taotie sat up straight, his eyes a little dazed, as if he was lost in long-lasting memories, and he only heard it say leisurely: "Kunlun Holy Mountain is a high mountain on the Qiang-Tibet Plateau, but you humans don't know that this mountain, Even the plateau was once a vast ocean!"
Ying Zheng was shocked, and then he thought of the problem - the disaster of annihilation!
Sure enough, I heard Taotie continue to say: "When the natural source of power was not damaged, this place used to be an ocean. Later, the mountains and seas of Jiuyou and Jiuxiao changed positions, and the prehistoric era broke out. From then on, it became the highest place in Jiuxiao. .”
"The corresponding land of Nine Netherworlds has turned from a high mountain into a sea in an instant. Countless beasts were swallowed up by the sea water, and instead became the food of the divine fish."
“Do you know why this is where the biggest changes are happening?”
Ji Fa said that looking at the changes in the entire star during the world-destroying disaster, there are two most obvious ones.
One is the Mediterranean Sea that sank Western civilization to the bottom of the sea, and the other is the Qiang-Tibet Plateau to the west of China.
The former was originally land, but sank to the bottom of the sea and became an ocean. The latter was originally an ocean, but it rose up into a plateau and became the roof of the world.
Of course, this is a change from Jiuxiao's point of view, but the opposite is true for Jiuyou.
Ying Zheng thought for a while and said: "In my opinion, the natural source power here should have exploded the most violently. In other words, the natural source power has been damaged the most among the strata in this area."
Taotie nodded slightly and said: "The reason why the natural source power is the most severely damaged is because it is its core. Since it is the core, it is even more difficult to repair."
"I understand." Ying Zheng suddenly realized, "It is said that the ancestors of Nuwa used Nuwa stones to mend the sky, which is the natural source of the core repair power in Kunlun Mountain."
"Haha, you should have realized this a long time ago." Taotie said, "What Fuxi and Nuwa have really cultivated is the core source power located under the Kunlun Mountains, which is also called the 'Dragon Source'."
"Long Yuan?" This was the first time Ying Zheng heard this title.
"That's right." Taotie continued, "Although the Dragon Source has been generally repaired, the leaked energy needs to be channeled, so they guided this huge energy into the three dragon veins. If you take those three dragon veins, If the tails of the two are extended, you will find that they finally meet at a location in the Kunlun Mountains, and this location is where the source of the dragon is!"
Ying Zheng's heart trembled.
Under the guidance of Ji Fa, he always believed that repairing the dragon veins was the responsibility of the Tiancheng lineage, but he did not expect that there was a dragon source above the dragon veins, let alone extending the tails of the three dragon veins so that they could eventually meet at a little.
Think about it, since the dragon vein is called a "vein", it is like the meridians or blood vessels in the human body, and the dragon source is the heart, connected to the three aortas.
"But..." Ying Zheng wondered, "Why haven't we seen these things in the classics we inherited?"
Taotie said: "Fuxi and Nuwa have already restored the source of the dragon. Naturally, future generations don't have to worry about it anymore. So in the Five Emperors plan they set, they just asked them to repair the dragon vein."
Ying Zheng seemed to understand something and said: "The reason why my senior told me this is because I am the last Heavenly Successor. Maybe I still have some tasks to complete."
But Taotie said in a low voice: "The last mission... you can't complete it."
Ying Zheng: "..."
Can't finish it?
Taotie took advantage of his daze to eat a few pieces of dried meat, and then continued: "Because the strata changed too much, the original artifact of the Gods, the 'Mountain and Sea Map', was fragmented. Fuxi traveled all over Jiuyou before he could barely piece it together, but there were still few Two pieces."
"He finally determined that the two fragments should be located at the bottom of the Kunlun Mountains, but we helped him search for them for a long time but could not find them."
"Not found?" Ying Zheng said, "Does that mean that the map of mountains and seas has not been put together completely yet?"
Taotie nodded: "Although we didn't get it all together, it doesn't have much impact. We didn't find it at the beginning, and you definitely can't find it, so you can't complete it."
Ying Zheng thought for a while and asked: "Is it possible to completely repair the dragon veins after completing the 'Mountain and Sea Map'?"
Taotie shook his head and said: "The repair of the dragon vein has nothing to do with it, but if the mountain and sea map is pieced together, the energy direction will definitely return to normal. Perhaps the sand millstone can slow down the spread, or even... stop it."
Only then did Ying Zheng realize that Taotie had taken a big detour just to tell him how to cure Sand Mopan.
"But..." Ying Zheng said regretfully, "Since no one can find those two fragments, how can we put the 'Mountain and Sea Map' together completely?"
"That picture is a divine artifact. If you can't find it, it doesn't mean that the gods can't find it either." Taotie said, "Only with the help of the power of the gods can we find the whereabouts of the fragment."
"The Gods?" Ying Zheng put his hand on his forehead and seemed to have a headache. "The Gods only exist in my imagination. My ancestors must have never seen them, let alone me."
Indeed, not to mention Ji Fa, even the Five Emperors who went forward seemed to have never seen the gods.
Taotie shook his head and said: "It's not difficult to see. As long as you can send the signal, they will send envoys to help you. After all, you are completing the last step of repairing the star, so there can be no omissions."
"Signal?" Ying Zheng asked, "What signal?"
"Celestial Eye." Taotie said, "If you gather together the activated divine Celestial Eyes and place them in the Nine Cauldrons, the gods will naturally receive the signals transmitted by the Celestial Eyes."
With the third eye gathered together, can you see the messenger of the gods?
If we can get help from the Gods, the problem will become simple.
"If the Gods come to help, will the Dragon Emperor have any objections?"
Taotie laughed: "Although the Dragon Emperor does not want the Gods to enter Jiuyou, restoring the natural source of power is such a big deal. The two races must once again determine how to get along in the future, so the Dragon Emperor will definitely meet with the Gods."
"That's good." Ying Zheng said, "Then wait until I get the third eye together."
Having said that, he really had no idea whether he could see the Gods or not.
In any case, the purpose of this trip has been achieved.
"Senior Taotie, if the desert really covers this place, what are you going to do?" Ying Zheng asked again.
"Of course I will stick here until you succeed." Taotie said, "As for food... I have my own way."
There were no other questions, so Ying Zheng bowed politely, said goodbye, and exited the cave.
On the way back, he walked slowly.
If we fail to find the fragments of the mountain and sea map in the end, will we just watch the desert spread wider and wider?
Is there no other way?
Maybe, but as Taotie said, it's not something that human beings can do.
As for the ancient and majestic Kunlun Mountains...
It is really a magical and mysterious place, where the past of changes in the entire world is covered, and the struggle of human beings to change their own destiny is also buried there, and three vital dragon veins stretch out!
For a moment, Ying Zheng was full of curiosity about the snowy mountains on the plateau, and he was also full of imagination about the past of his ancestors.
When chatting, Ji Fa once said that the Qiang-Tibet Plateau is extremely vast, basically the same as the hinterland of the Central Plains.
Due to the climate, there are not many ethnic groups there. The two largest groups are the Tibetan and Qiang ethnic groups.
The territory of the Qiang people is almost the same as that of the Tibetan people. Except for the Western Qiang who have good relations with the Qin Dynasty, among their branches, the Ruoqiang is the strongest and is mainly active in the area between the Ajin Mountain and the Kunlun Mountain.
Although they are from the same clan, Xiqiang and Ruoqiang are separated by snowy mountains, and their interactions are not very frequent.
The Xiqiang are close to Shu and the Hexi Corridor, so they are willing to carry out activities there more often. Now that they are on good terms with Da Qin, they are even less willing to go back to the Kunlun Mountains to suffer the cold.
The Ruoqiang are relatively reclusive and have little contact with the outside world most of the time, except for some interactions between their offshoots the Nuoqiang tribe and the Qiemo tribe.
As for the Tibetan area, it has always been called Bianzang. It is said that there is a large snow mountain at the edge, which is called "the hometown of snow" by the local Tibetans, which means that all the snow in the world falls from here. It can be seen how huge the snow-capped mountains are.
No one can walk around the snow mountain, so no one knows how big it is. I only heard that it vaguely exceeds the size of Kunlun Mountain, and forms two barriers with Kunlun Mountain in the north and south, protecting the mountains on the plateau. The people graze their cattle with peace of mind and live a life without any worries.
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