After some self-beautification by Li Dabao, I finally understood what this underworld bird was all about.
Another name for the Yellow Spring Bird: Three-Eyed Golden Crow.
Legend has it that it is a branch descendant of the three-legged Golden Crow in mythology. It can also be said to be the product of evolutionary failure.
The earliest fossils appeared beneath the ancient glaciers of the Kunlun Mountains.
It was discovered by a certain army during the founding of the People's Republic of China, and was later confirmed to be a strange bird with a special bloodline.
This bird looks like a crow, with a third eye on its forehead, which is dark green.
The third eye will open when attacking an enemy. It hates sunlight and has the same habits as a bat.
Her mouth is not poisonous, but the saliva secreted in her mouth is poisonous and can cause wounds to rot, become infected, cause high fever, and eventually lead to death from necrosis of the internal organs.
This bird was called the Yellow Spring Bird in ancient times.
They feed on ancient corpses, but when they smell the scent of a living person, they will also attack, kill the person and then share the food. They are a kind of social bird.
Most of them live in cool and humid places. If bitten by this kind of bird, congestion will appear on the body. If timely treatment is not obtained, the congestion will completely accumulate in the body.
If one is alone, it can't actually kill a person.
What's so great is that when they appear, they are so densely packed that it's hard to guard against them.
So when I learned everything about this underworld bird, my eyes naturally turned to Leng Yue, who was sitting silently aside.
"Miss Leng, your arm...?"
After all, Leng Yue faced the countless underworld birds yesterday with one man and one sword. It was obviously a miracle that he was still alive.
When Leng Yue saw me asking her, she just replied: "I'm fine!"
I also checked some of the bruises on my body, and they were slightly different from the corpse spots on my back. Fortunately, I took the corresponding medicine before going to bed yesterday, so the problem shouldn't be too big.
As for Li Dabao, he knew some defense methods because he had experienced these things before, so he took medicine as soon as he woke up.
At the same time, while I was sleeping, I went out with my mule to find the leaves of a plant called huaziman.
Crush these leaves and apply them to areas with bruises to remove bites from the yellow spring bird.
This is because animals have an instinct to heal themselves. When they are injured, they will find flowers and plants that can heal their injuries.
These flowers and plants all have highly valuable traditional Chinese medicine properties.
But some also have side effects. For example, after eating this Huaziman mule, I had diarrhea for a day.
That's why I didn't see the mule in the mountain temple. It turned out that Li Dabao was tied to the stone pillar outside.
Li Dabao said: "It's so difficult to see Grandma Zhente. I didn't expect to see the underworld bird in a place like this. I feel like Master Bao came here just for me."
I waved my hand and said, "Okay, at least we didn't break our arms or legs. Let's think about what we should do next?"
"What should I do? Just fix it up and go on..."
As Li Dabao spoke, he briefly told me what they discovered while I was asleep.
It turned out that while I was asleep, Li Dabao found some clues on that half of the stone tablet.
Although Li Dabao looks very out of place, he can understand some of the scattered words on the stone tablet.
But what allowed him to confirm that we had reached the range of Twelve Cave were some patterns on the back of the stone tablet.
So when Li Dabao said this, I rushed over to see the content of those patterns.
There are only two patterns, arranged one above the other, and I didn’t see them at all yesterday.
The first pattern is a scene of a group of people building a mountain temple. The clothes of these people are different from those in the Central Plains.
The reason why you can tell the difference is because there are two pointed horns on both sides of the clothes, as if they are covered with an animal skin.
The second picture is a perspective from a high place. It is a series of twelve rugged peaks.
In the center of the twelve peaks is a very large primitive tribe.
Because it is a bird's-eye view, there are no characters depicted, only a few strokes showing the appearance of houses and fields.
In the very center, there is a picture of a bird. This bird has three legs.
When I saw this, I was excited and at the same time very worried.
What is exciting is that these twelve peaks are connected to each other, just like the pattern of the twelve flying dragons in Taosha Yin Yang Secret Technique.
This pattern is described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, which talks about the twelve dragons flying into the sky, representing the twelve creatures.
This pattern is not suitable for burying people, it is only suitable for tribes to live in groups, and will be protected by God.
In Taosha Yin Yang Secret Technique, it is said: Twelve divine dragons fly to the sky. Because the mountains are connected to each other, they seem to be imprisoned together.
Therefore, later generations also called this pattern, trapped dragon situation!
A flying sky and a trapped dragon actually look at the problem from different angles.
Everyone knows that China's ancestral dragon veins come from Kunlun. The sudden appearance of twelve main dragon veins is obviously not allowed by God, so there is this natural situation of trapped dragons.
In fact, if you want to break this situation, you only need to cut off the remaining eleven dragon veins, and then all the dragon energy of the other dragon veins can be superimposed on the only remaining one.
But the disadvantages of this are also quite big, because except for the ancestral dragon vein in Kunlun Mountain, the dragon veins in any part of the world are not static.
Once a natural disaster occurs and the only main dragon vein is broken, the dragon vein earth energy that eventually comes out will completely destroy this hundred thousand mountains.
The destruction here does not refer to simple physical destruction, but to some situation and qi underground, which will cause the dragon qi to mix and eventually become a chaotic area.
If you want to completely recover, it will take at least tens of thousands of years or even longer to recover.
Finally, cutting the dragon veins is not that easy. It is almost impossible to artificially change a naturally formed Feng Shui pattern.
That requires the efforts of the whole country, and even after several dynasties, it may not be possible to completely change the situation in the Twelve Dragons situation.
So I think even with the mystery of the Twelve Cave, I might not want to touch this naturally formed Twelve Divine Dragons Flying into the Sky.
Because the backlash they suffered was not something they as a tribe could bear.
Another worry is that the three-legged crows we encountered last night are likely to be the worship totems of these twelve caves.
After all, in myths and legends, the three-legged bird refers to the Golden Crow, and the Golden Crow refers to the sun.
If we find the ruins of the tribal gathering place of Twelve Cave, will it be possible to enter the nest of the Yellow Spring Bird?
Wouldn’t that mean you’ve thrown yourself into a trap?
When I expressed my thoughts, Li Dabao said: "How can we be so unlucky? Didn't the old woman say that Twelve Cave is twelve tribes?"
"Is it possible this is one of them?"
I retorted to Li Dabao: "Grandma Ka did not say there were twelve tribes, but twelve branches."
"In other words, the tribe is a complete alliance, but the twelve branches have their own rights to govern their own family members."
"This is exactly the same as their ancestors, the Jiuli tribe. The Jiuli tribe is actually an alliance of nine barbaric tribes with surnames!"
Li Dabao nodded repeatedly and said: "Okay, okay, even if you are right, I, Li Dabao, am sure that this Yellow Spring Bird is only a totem of one cave at most, and cannot represent the entire twelve caves."
In fact, I am not entirely sure about this, because what Li Dabao said makes sense.
As for whether this is the case, I think we can only tell after finding this place.
More importantly, it is not enough to find the ruins of this tribe. You also need to find the underground palace of Twelve Cave.
As for the funeral habits of the Twelvedong people, we cannot fully guarantee that they build underground palaces underground from time to time like the Han people.
Everything needs to be seen to be believed.
Finally, I asked Li Dabao what was written on half of the stone tablet.
Li Dabao said: "I only recognize a few words. What can I tell you? The eldest sister may know the words above, but she doesn't say it. What can I do?"
When I heard Li Dabao say that Leng Yue knew the words on the stone tablet, I immediately became interested and walked over to Leng Yue to ask.
But Leng Yue seemed to know what I wanted to ask, so she stood up and walked outside.
"Let's go and find the ruins of Twelve Cave as soon as possible before dark...!"
