"gentlemen."
Zhou Xiaoran's face turned pale, and the light in his eyes disappeared: "If I am not mistaken, this huge skeleton should have looked like this when it was still alive..."
She raised her hand, and a stream of true energy gathered in her palm.
The color of Zhou Xiaoran's true energy is very interesting. It is not fixed. It seems to be constantly changing, but it can also remain unchanged.
After a while, the true energy simulated the image of a living creature.
After seeing this, Lin Zixiao was also stunned and fell into deep thought.
This is a scary and somewhat weird creature.
Human head and dragon body, all red!
Of course, there are no other special effects.
Although the Linglong body is a bug-like existence, it is not to the point where one can figure out what special effects it has just by looking at the skeleton.
The best we can do is to "calculate" its original appearance through the skeleton, which is much more complete and accurate than computer simulation and calculation.
"Dragon clan?"
Thinking of the images in movies and TV dramas, such as the Dragon King, Dragon Daughter, Dragon Prince and so on, Lin Zixiao's first reaction was the dragon clan.
But then, she kept shaking her head.
"No, that's not right. In the images in movies and TV shows, as well as in the legends of the dragon clan, the dragon kings and the like are still dragons. Even if they transform, they have a dragon head and a human body. How could they have a human head and a dragon body?"
"Not only that, shapeshifting is just a change of form, not a true change of species."
"After a dragon dies, it will only transform into its original form. It is impossible for it to maintain the appearance of a dragon head and a human body. Its skeleton should also be that of a dragon."
"So what is this?"
Don't understand.
Lin Zixiao suddenly had a thought: "Xiao Ran, could this not be the skeleton of the same creature?"
"For example, a human head and the body of a dragon creature?"
It’s not that Lin Zixiao accepts incompetence.
But if we infer this way, it will undoubtedly be more reasonable.
"Probably not."
Zhou Xiaoran shook his head slowly and said thoughtfully: "Although it looks a bit strange, all the skeletons are related. From the essence of the skeletons, they should belong to the same creature."
Lin Zixiao: “…”
Is that what it looks like
Human head, dragon body, whole body red
"What about skin color?"
"Can this be simulated?"
"I'm not sure about this." Zhou Xiaoran shook her head, then nodded: "But my intuition tells me that it should be this skin color."
Lin Zixiao remained silent.
intuition
This thing is often unreliable? Especially when setting a flag, it is absolutely unreliable.
But sometimes? A woman's 'sixth sense' can be very accurate.
Especially for a cheating player like Zhou Xiaoran, her intuition is usually frighteningly accurate.
Even? Her intuition cannot be described as intuition? That is... cheating!
"A human head and a dragon body, the whole body is red."
"A human head and a dragon body, the whole body is red..."
Lin Zixiao repeated it silently several times? Then, he looked at Zhou Xiaoran, and they both reacted, their eyes gradually widened.
"The Ancestral Witch of Time? Zhu Jiuyin?!"
"No way?"
"This... a super powerful person of this level?!"
The legends of ancient China have a long history and seem to be chaotic, but in fact they all have their own schools and can even be traced back to their origins.
For example, the five great kalpas constitute a series of myths and legends.
From Pangu creating the world to Journey to the West, all stories belong to this series.
If you are familiar with ancient legends and stories, then you will definitely be familiar with the word "Ancestor Witch".
Lin Zixiao was not particularly familiar with these stories, but he had read them, and cultivators basically all had photographic memories, unless they forgot for some reason or had their memories "cut off".
This is where the problem arises.
The Ancestral Witch was too 'powerful' and too 'high-end', and for this reason, Lin Zixiao and Zhou Xiaoran did not think about it in this regard at first.
After all, the ancestor witch... is related to the existence of Pangu!
How did the ancient witch tribe come from? !
Legend has it that after Pangu's nirvana, his spirit split into three pure ones, namely Taiqing Daode Tianzun (Laozi), Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun (Yuanshi), and Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun (Tongtian).
Pangu's body and blood turned into the twelve ancestor witches.
If we use a metaphor, the Three Pure Ones are like the roots of a tree that is cut down and divided into three parts and transplanted.
The Ancestral Witch is a mutated plant that grows from the trunk of a cut-down tree. It is a new derivative of the tree, but not the original tree.
Afterwards, the grafted plants and the mutated plants all took different paths. They were no longer the original plants, and they were also different from each other - this is the relationship between the Three Pure Ones, the Ancestral Witch, and Pangu.
The Twelve Ancestral Witches, also known as the Twelve Demon Gods by the outside world, were born with unrivaled physical bodies. They swallowed up the heaven and earth, manipulated wind, water, thunder and lightning, filled the sea and moved mountains, and changed the world.
They are an indispensable part of the ancient mythology.
When the Twelve Ancestral Witches gather together without exception and use the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation, they can condense Pangu's true body, create the world, destroy it, and few people below the Saints can match them.
As for the description of their image:
Dijiang: Like a yellow sac, red as fire, six legs and four wings, solid and faceless. He is the ancestor of space speed.
Ju Mang: As green as a bamboo, with a human face and a bird's body, he rides on two dragons and is the ancestor of wood witches in the East.
Zhurong: He has a human body and a beast's head, covered with red scales, with fire snakes piercing his ears and a fire dragon under his feet. He is the ancestor of fire in the south.
Rushou: He has a human face and a tiger body, covered with golden scales, wings growing from his shoulders, a snake piercing his left ear, and riding two dragons under his feet. He is the ancestor witch of gold in the West.
Gonggong: A human body with a python head, covered with black scales, stepping on a black dragon, with a green python wrapped around his hands. He is the ancestor of water witches in the north.
Xuanming: A ferocious beast with bone spurs all over its body. He is the ancestor of rain and ice.
Hou Tu: She has a human body and a snake tail, seven hands behind her back, two hands in front of her chest, and she holds Teng Snake in both hands. She is the ancestor witch of the Central Earth.
Qiang Liang: He holds a snake in his mouth and hands, has a tiger head and a human body, four hoofed feet, and long elbows. He is the ancestor of thunder.
Zhu Jiuyin: He has a human head and a dragon body, and his whole body is red. He is the ancestor witch of time.
Tianwu: has eight human faces, a tiger body and ten tails, and is the ancestor witch of wind.
Xizi: A witch with a human face and a bird body, with a green snake hanging from his ear and a red snake in his hand. He is the ancestor of lightning.
Shebisi: A witch with a human face and a beast body, he has dog-like ears and green snakes hanging from his ears. He is the ancestor of poison.
The witch tribe believes that all things have spirits, and they can use their spirits to summon the ancestor witch to come, and can summon all kinds of creatures to help in battle. Practicing the legendary spiritualism does not require possessing tyrannical strength, but emphasizes a kind of spiritual belief and mental cultivation, and the results are extremely fast.
As for the witch clan and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, there are not only stories passed down orally among the people, but also some relatively formal documents.
"Shuowen" says: "Wu means to pray. A woman can do things without form and summon spirits through dancing."
"Book of Han. Records of Sacrifices" states: "The people who are honest and sincere, and clever and intelligent, may be visited by gods.
Men are called shamans, and women are called witches. They are responsible for determining the positions of the gods, making sacrificial vessels for them, and knowing the sacrifices of the four seasons. All the people on the altar and below the altar are regarded as the ancestors.
As the saying goes: Gods, demons, monsters, Buddhas, and immortals, I am the first to cultivate the will of heaven.
The twelve ancient witches are blessed by heaven, and the magical powers of the three realms are interpreted in dance.
Lin Zixiao's mind quickly flashed through all the legends he knew about the Twelve Ancestral Witches...
At first, she really didn't dare to associate it with Zhu Jiuyin, one of the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
Because they are really too powerful.
They are all among the Golden Immortals!
It should be known that in the prehistoric world, the strongest are undoubtedly the saints and the Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian who are at the same level as the saints, the so-called "Zhengdao Hunyuan".
The next level is the 'quasi-saint', and below that is the Daluo Jinxian.
Each of the Twelve Ancestral Witches is at the level of Golden Immortal, and the key is that they all have their own amazing innate magical powers.
If they unite, they can even activate the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array and summon Pangu's body. Under the level of a saint, almost no one can defeat them.
Even Di Jun and Tai Yi, the masters of the demon clan's heaven, who brought countless powerful demon clan members and displayed the equally terrifying Zhoutian Xingdou Formation, could only end up in a fight with the Twelve Ancestral Witches, ending in a draw.
And this battle is the 'ultimate battle' of the Lich-War Catastrophe!
After that battle, almost all of the twelve witch ancestors died...
Only two left.
One of them is Hou Tu, who later became Hou Tu Niangniang. After that, she turned into reincarnation, which is the origin of "Hou Tu turned into reincarnation".
The other is Zhu Jiuyin.
According to legend, the seriously injured Zhu Jiuyin went to the northwest and became a guardian god.
So, according to the legend, this ancestor witch should still be alive, right? !
But now, its skeleton has been found?!
“Could it really be Zhu Jiuyin, the ancestor of time?”
Zhou Xiaoran was also a little bit unconvinced and whispered: "It has a human face and a dragon body, and holds a "fire spirit" in its mouth."
“It is also recorded in many ancient books.”
"Chu Ci: Heaven Questions: "The northwest is open, how can the air flow? The sun does not shine, how can the candle dragon shine?"
"《Ultimate Move》: "There is a cold mountain in the north, and the candle dragon pardons the one who has been killed.""
"The Zhulong is located in the north of Yanmen, hidden by the Weiyu Mountain, and is not visible from the sun. It has a human face and a dragon body but no feet."
"The Great Wilderness Northern Classic says that the sky is insufficient in the northwest, and there is no news of yin and yang, so there is a dragon holding a fire essence to illuminate the gate of the sky."
"The Ten Thousand Forms Sutra says: The sun follows the qi of the four directions. The ancient sage said: When the candle dragon moves east, it clears things up; when it moves west, it is great; when it moves south, it is powerful; when it moves north, it kills severely."
"Overseas Classics: "The god of Zhongshan is named Zhuyin. He sees as day, sleeps as night, blows as winter, and exhales as summer. He does not drink, eat, or rest. His breath is wind. His body is a thousand miles long. He is located to the east of Wuxie. He has a human face and a snake body. He is red in color and lives at the foot of Zhongshan."
The more Zhou Xiaoran spoke, the more shocked the two became.
There are really many records and legends about Zhu Jiuyin, but in fact, some legends about Zhu Jiuyin are not about the 'ancestor witch Zhu Jiuyin', but a 'mountain god'.
They also didn't know whether that was the impression Zhu Jiuyin left on the world after his defeat, or whether the records were biased.
But no matter what, he was once a powerful figure who was once a big shot in the prehistoric world and one of the twelve ancestor witches. He faced the great calamity between witches and demons and fought a great battle with the demon clan, which was the most powerful at that time.
According to legend, in the ancient world at that time, the two tribes of witches and liches divided the heaven and earth. The demon tribe occupied the thirty-three heavens and created the demon heaven, while the witch tribe occupied the boundless earth...
"If the corpse in front of us is really the skeleton of Zhu Jiuyin, one of the Twelve Ancestral Witches..."
As soon as Lin Zixiao finished speaking, he felt a chill down his spine!
Even the three originally "stable" golden rings of merit behind his head flickered, as if the "voltage" was unstable.
A super powerful being from countless years ago!
In his heyday, it is estimated that a single glance or breath could kill a large number of emperors, mortal immortals, and even true immortals and celestial immortals!
What's more, he also controls the laws of time and is the God of Time!
How could the corpse of such an ultimate powerful man from ancient times be so lonely for endless years, lying so carelessly in this nameless cave
“This is too…”
Zhou Xiaoran was amazed, but didn't know how to describe it.
Is it true that the powerful man who once wielded all the power and attracted worldwide attention is now just a pile of bones
I wonder how many people still know about its former glory
"If it is really Zhu Jiuyin, what about the 'candle fire' it mentioned?"
Lin Zixiao suddenly came back to her senses. She wanted to confirm the identity of this skeleton. Was it the God of Time, Zhu Jiuyin, one of the twelve legendary witch ancestors
Zhu Jiuyin’s most powerful magical power is naturally the ability to control time.
But the candle flame in its mouth is also an extremely terrifying existence. Once it is sprayed out, even the ordinary Golden Immortal will suffer.
The two searched everywhere, but found no candle or anything related to it.
Finally, Lin Zixiao's gaze locked onto the symbol in the shape of ￥ on the top of the cave, and a strange look flashed in his eyes.
"Xiao Ran, tell me, if this is Zhu Jiuyin's grave, and I dig a few pits for it, will I be hunted down by the descendants of the witch clan?"
Zhou Xiaoran: “(ΩДΩ)???”
"Sir, I don't know."
How could she know this
Linglongti is indeed a 'cheating player', but he cannot foresee the future or be omniscient and almighty!
"Did you see anything, sir?"
"uncertain."
Lin Zixiao's eyes were dim as he locked onto the mysterious symbol on the top of the cave: "But I always feel that the symbol is attracting me, as if it's asking me to get closer."
"According to my experience, this kind of 'attraction' is either a great opportunity that makes me want to get closer."
"Either that or there is a great danger, and they want to lure me closer and then kill me!"
“There are only two possibilities.”
She hesitated for a moment, then said, "I can't figure it out."
"But I just got the Three-Wheel Golden Ring of Merit, and I have good luck. It shouldn't be the first time I encounter such a situation that it will be a life-and-death catastrophe, right?"
"If that's the case, the Golden Ring of Merit is too 'watery'."
"Sir." Zhou Xiaoran hesitated slightly: "Is this too risky?"
"The idea of luck is too vague..."
"It is very vague, but it is not without trace." Lin Zixiao emphasized.
At the same time, she thought of a foreign movie she had seen.
Among them, there is a woman whose "superpower" is luck. The audience even joked that if there were only her and Thanos left in the entire universe, Thanos would not dare to snap his fingers.
Of course, the description of luck in that movie seemed too exaggerated to Lin Zixiao.
However, with the blessing of the three golden rings of merit, he would not die as soon as he went out.
"Stay a little further away, I'll fly up and take a look."
This cave is huge!
Especially here, which is already the deepest part, can be regarded as the suspected tomb of Zhu Jiuyin, and the top of the cave is several thousand meters high.
It’s not that Zhou Xiaoran couldn’t fly up, but if there was any danger and it was too close, she would have trouble escaping.
"Please be careful sir."
Zhou Xiaoran nodded and slowly retreated to a distance. Then Lin Zixiao soared into the sky and came under the huge symbol.
Looking closely, you can see that this symbol is not "carved", but rather seems to be printed on the stone wall of the cave ceiling.
"Similar to... a tattoo?"
Lin Zixiao watched carefully, and the closer he got, the stronger the attraction became.
But she wasn't too reckless.
Although you have good luck, if you act recklessly and do something stupid, you may actually end up killing yourself.
Just because it’s not easy to cool down doesn’t mean it won’t cool down.
Everything should be done in moderation.
After a brief observation and finding no traces or aura of danger, she slowly reached out and enchanted the stone wall...
Buzz!!!
Almost at the same time when Lin Zixiao's fingertips touched the stone wall of the cave ceiling, the symbol suddenly began to distort.
There are also circles of ripples on the stone wall. From a distance, it doesn't look like a stone wall, but more like "water surface"!
call out!
Sudden.
The symbol broke away from the stone wall, turned into a 'substance', floated in front of Lin Zixiao's eyes, and then... suddenly trembled!
Then, the symbol flew around Lin Zixiao continuously, as if sensing something.
Extremely mysterious and incomprehensible complex divine patterns and principles emerged from nowhere, blessing this "symbol" and making it look even more mysterious and brilliant.
Grab it!
Absorb it!
At this moment, Lin Zixiao seemed to hear a voice constantly urging himself to grasp and absorb this symbol.
After a slight hesitation, she slowly extended her fingertips and gently touched the symbol...
hiss!!!
In just a moment of contact, the symbols suddenly and frantically rushed into Lin Zixiao's body through the contact point.
But in the blink of an eye, a symbol resembling '￥' appeared between Lin Zixiao's eyebrows, looming...
at the same time.
The profound principles and complex divine patterns enveloped Lin Zixiao, as if to highlight his extraordinary nature, and they lingered for a long time.
Then···
Lin Zixiao entered a passive state of enlightenment.
Even if she didn't want to realize the truth, she had to enter the same state as Qi Zifan in the abyss of the Ten Thousand Worlds...
······
In the abyss of all worlds, in the hidden space of the immortal tomb.
The 'egg' formed by the Dao principles and divine patterns suddenly trembled, and then shattered with a loud bang.
The divine patterns and Taoist rules are still there.
But it can no longer form an 'eggshell'.
Qi Zifan woke up with a start, stood up, and looked at the divine patterns and Dao rules around him, somewhat puzzled: "Why are all these divine patterns and Dao rules suddenly in disarray?!"
"It feels completely different from before, as if... everything has changed?"
"this···"
"What's going on?!"
Until now, he didn't even know what the symbol formed by the coffin left by the fairy was.
Why did it appear between my eyebrows? Why did it even allow me to passively attain enlightenment, even if I wanted to wake up
It's even stranger now.
All of a sudden, the Dao rules and divine patterns that were originally very peaceful and could allow one to passively enter a state of enlightenment just by being around him suddenly became disordered and blurred, and even seemed to explode? !