015. Shennong Ruins
The tiger baby appeared in a strange mountain and river, surrounded by bamboo forests. The bamboo is more than one person tall, quite slender, and is like artemisia. The newly grown tender bamboo branches are crimson red, the grown old bamboo stems are dark purple, but the leaves are green and green.
Of course, the Xianjia Cave barrier is different from ordinary mountains and fields. These bamboos do not grow and spread at will, and have a clear distribution boundary. There is also a winding path among the bamboo forest.
The tiger widow walked along the path and found that there were bamboo-eating rats and rat-eating marten in the bamboo forest. Occasionally, the marten-eating harriers could be seen in the sky. This world seemed full of vitality, unlike the desolate scene in the Black and White Hill Xianjia Cave, which was different from the small world of Bujinshan.
Walking out of the bamboo forest is a hillside, with valleys in the distance and springs in the valley. The road under your feet passes through the valley, and there are small bridges on the way to a hill on the front. You can see an altar-like high platform on the slope of the opposite hill from afar.
Huwa suddenly felt that the scene in front of him seemed familiar, and inexplicably remembered the holy land of Lishan in the depths of the Southern Wilderness. It was also a small world of immortals, with a similar pattern as here, but it was much smaller in scale. The holy land of Lishan was a place to worship Chiyou, and was opened by Chiyou's remaining subordinates. What is the connection with the holy land of Lishan?
Just as he entered the Lishan Sheng, there was a maple forest around him, and what he passed through was a strange bamboo forest. When he walked to the valley plain, Huwa discovered that the seemingly ordinary vegetation was actually various rare spiritual medicines on earth, many of which he had never seen before. Even the immortals who had seen through the realm of life and death, they could not recognize them.
It doesn't matter if you don't know it. The tiger baby can distinguish the various physical properties between heaven and earth. He can know the effects of various spiritual medicines, but he doesn't know its name, and he can also name them by himself. The mountains and fields in this small world of immortals are almost all medicinal fields, and the techniques of creation are extremely clever.
The ancient immortals who opened up this small world did not simply plant the spiritual medicine in pieces like farming in the countryside, but seemed to be like a wild creature, mixing different spiritual medicines together in different regions, thus forming a clever complementary and mutually beneficial relationship...
Huwa walked across a bridge, and the bridge was made of directly kneaded clay. The great magic power of the immortals was condensed into stone and jade, which was simply a super-large magic weapon, but the creator just wanted to put a bridge on the spring. Huwa couldn't help but be shocked. The bridge builder's cultivation magic power and weapon refining methods are far from the same.
The tiger widow walked up the hill to the front of the high platform. The platform was not an altar. In the center, there was a three-legged cauldron with both ears, shaped like a round tripod, with thunder, fire, and cloud-shaped patterns on the surface. Its material is like pottery, but it is not something that ordinary people can fire. Not to mention that in ancient times, even today's tiger widows have never seen it.
This big tripod is actually a magical artifact, and it is an artifact that cannot be moved away. The remaining high platform is one, and the high platform is one with the entire small world of the immortal family, which is the center of this cave. There is actually a strange medicinal fragrance in the tripod. This medicinal fragrance is not emitted, but is reflected into the senses when it is sensed by the spiritual sense, which is a cool feeling.
It seems that some immortals once refined medicine here and actually created such a magic weapon as a medicine cauldron. The tiger baby looked down at the cauldron, and there were still several inches of colorless crystal particles left at the bottom, which should be the medicine residue left during the last time he refining medicine.
Even the medicine residue is very effective in the eyes of Huwa, no less than the best spiritual medicine refined by many monks, and can almost relieve all the sores in the world. But after all, it is a medicine residue and is also toxic, so you should not take it randomly.
There is a shelf next to the platform, made of ebony, with hooks on it. Something should have been hung, but now it is empty. Walking down the platform, there is a flat mountain wall not far ahead. There are carved patterns on the mountain wall, which looks like the character "cauld", or a cauldron-shaped object is drawn.
Tiger Was knows Cangjie. Mr. Cangjie looked at the textures of all things in the world, birds and beasts, and each totem made characters into text, which looked like objects and meant to know things. The characters created by Cangjie did not come out of thin air. He collected and sorted out many totems, including artifacts, and created systematic texts.
When Huwa and Mr. Cangjie first met and drank, they also created the character "Li" with branches. The carved patterns on the stone wall in front of them should have appeared long before Cangjie created the character. When Huwa saw it, he felt like the character "Ku" and at the same time, a mysterious immortal spirit was inexplicably printed in the soul.
The carved patterns on this stone wall are accompanied by the information left by the pioneers of this small world of immortals. They must at least have the cultivation level of the Nine Realms Immortals to sense it. Huwa was shocked on the spot. He could have thought that this place has an extraordinary origin, but he did not expect that it would have such a big background!
The one who opened up this small world of immortals is Emperor Shennong. From the information left by Emperor Shennong, he can see that he ascended through the great catastrophe of heaven and earth, and had visited the nine-level fairy world opened by Emperor Taihao, and received guidance from Taihao. Although Emperor Shennong did not introduce this, the tiger can infer that before he became an immortal, he should have obtained the inheritance of the essence ritual and cultivated it.
Like Huwa, Shennong did not directly ascend to the earthly immortal cultivation level until his cultivation level was completed in the nine realm and nine transformations, and he became a true immortal through the great catastrophe of heaven and earth. Then he went to the Nine Heavenly Immortal Realm to meet Taihao Heavenly Emperor. But later Shennong left the Nine Heavenly Immortal Realm and returned to the earth and became a true immortal in the lower realm. He did not say the reason himself.
As for this small world of immortals, it is 800 miles in radius and is called Shenfugang. It was created by Emperor Shennong Tiandi in two times, and it took more than 300 years in total.
The first time was after he became an earthly immortal. Before he had gone through the great disasters of heaven and earth to prove the true immortal, he opened a fairy cave here. He practiced here on weekdays, refined medicine, and built a medicine garden in the courtyard. The second time was after he returned to the earth from the Nine-level Immortal Realm, he used his great magical power to open the immortal cave barrier to its current scale, leaving behind the magical artifact medicine cauldron and the medicine field all over the mountains.
Why did Emperor Shennong open up this small world of Shenfugang? Its purpose may be different from many other ancient immortals.
For example, the ancient immortal ancestors in Bujinshan, who became local immortals and opened up a small world, trying to create the so-called immortal world, but in fact they opened up the Immortal Cave Heaven barrier. The so-called Immortal Cave Heaven barrier is actually still in the human world. Although it does not exist independently, it is integrated with the spiritual breath of the human world and the world, and it can be opened and operated.
Emperor Shennong had already been to the Nine Heavenly Immortal Realm. When he returned to the human world and opened up such a small world of immortals, it is unknown whether Huwa had another purpose of verifying his cultivation. He only knew what Shennong "telled".
One of the purposes of Emperor Shennong's Heavenly Emperor's purpose of opening up the small world of Shenfugang was related to the Immortal Medicine. According to Shennong, the Immortal Medicine is not an ordinary plant or spiritual value, but a certain rule manifestation between heaven and earth. He took and studied five Immortal Medicines and left a pill prescription.
"Seeing" this pill recipe, Huwa was stunned. It was not the method of refining medicine that ordinary monks could understand, but it was the flower bud he left on the tree of the Yan Emperor's Immortal Palace! Huwa's own understanding and attempt was a method that he thought was unprecedented, but unexpectedly it coincided with the idea of Emperor Shennong Tian's thoughts back then. However, Emperor Shentu pointed out that it was actually a magical medicine.
As for the effect of this magical medicine, it is difficult to describe it, and it is indescribable. Huwa can understand it, but he did not understand it in the way pointed out by Emperor Shennong. Because since ancient times and present, Shennong has only been refining this magical medicine, but it is no longer of great use to Shennong himself, and Huwa cannot be considered to have completely refined it.
Although Emperor Shennong Tian refined this magical medicine, he believed that the immortal medicines in the world were something that could not be found. It would be impossible for later generations to refine them again.
Shennong pointed out that the Immortal Medicine is not an ordinary spiritual plant. From its own physical nature, it is just a manifestation of the rules of the Great Dao, so its life span is endless, or it does not matter how long it takes to grow. However, the Immortal Medicine itself will appear and disappear inexplicably, and it is not always found in the world.
This is a secret that Huwa has never heard of. As far as Shennong knows, Taihao suddenly realized it when he was practicing in the wilderness, and saw a spring flowing out of the ground, and a five-colored divine lotus suddenly appeared. The sky shone brightly and turned into a jade tree. As soon as these two kinds of immortal medicines appeared, they had grown in the world for a long time, but in the moment before this, they did not exist, which seemed to be a paradox of time and space.
Emperor Shennong Tianming explained this, and the tiger kid could "listen" to understand it, but it was difficult to describe it in words. Later generations learned and gained wisdom from the past dynasties, inherited and accumulated, and what they knew and learned should be more than in ancient times, or they would explain it in quantum entanglement, super-dimensional theory, etc. But that was still described by what they knew and did not prove it, it was just a way of understanding.
Emperor Shennong also pointed out that since the Immortal Medicine will be inexplicably manifested, it will also be inexplicably hidden. This kind of hiddenness does not mean that it disappears due to human damage, but that it will naturally disappear between heaven and earth at a certain period of time, and inexplicably appear in heaven and earth at another period of time. Since this is the case, it may be difficult for people to always collect five Immortal Medicines.
Emperor Shennong Tian came up with an idea, then could he use the various spiritual medicines that were originally found in the world to refine the same magic medicine instead of the Immortal God Medicine? After having an idea, he tried it. Emperor Shennong Tiancang cultivated the various spiritual medicines he collected in the Shenfugang and created such a magical artifact medicine cauldron.
Shennong's attempt was not successful. At least he failed when he left this message, but it was not in vain. He realized it himself and created a great skill. Then he left the world to open up his own imperial land and proved that the Emperor of Heaven had achieved success. He specially left this message in the small world of Shenfugang, hoping that future generations could try to succeed.
Huwa already knew where this place was. This place was in Chengyang Mountain, and the area of Chengyang City outside the mountain was called Shennongyuan in ancient times. On the wooden stand beside the altar, the legendary Shennong Hundred Herbs whip. Legend has it that Shennong used this whip to whip the plants and trees in the world to distinguish their nature and spiritual effects. Later, he taught the people about farming and planting on Shennongyuan.
The immortal's divine intentions in the carvings of the stone wall contained too much information, and the tiger wore a little dazed for a moment. When he came to his senses, he bowed to the stone wall, medicine cauldron and wooden frame to show his respect to his ancestors.
Huwa just stood up straight, but suddenly squinted his eyes. The divine talisman mark on the back of his left hand was also sentient and Ji Meng came in!
If it was a minor coincidence that Ji Meng was accidentally caught in Chengyang Mountain, then Ji Meng also followed him into the small world of Shenfugang, it would never be a coincidence. Huwa suddenly realized what was going on. Ji Meng did not come to Chengyang Mountain to find him specifically, and even Chonghua overreacted three days ago.
Ji Meng may not have set up an ambush against the Emperor's Mission in Chengyang Mountain. He originally planned to enter Shenfugang, but happened to find the whereabouts of the Emperor's Mission. He "spyed" it, but alarmed Hougang and made Lord Chonghua falsely alarmed.
If you have not obtained the inheritance, you will not be able to find the location of the Immortal Cave Heaven, and you will not be able to open the door to enter and exit. The tiger baby was able to enter here because of the beast-tooth artifact, so Ji Meng would definitely have received the inheritance if he could come in.
Ji Meng is a true immortal in the lower realm. He also ascended to the divine land of the imperial country opened by Emperor Shennong Tian. Perhaps he had the opportunity to obtain the inheritance of the Shenfugang. After returning to the human world, he might have regarded this place as his practice cave and often traveled and left.
Huwa has just discovered that many spiritual medicines in the valley have traces of being picked. Someone has come here recently. It seems that this person is Ji Meng. As a true immortal who has experienced the great disasters of heaven and earth, those spiritual medicines are no longer of great use to Ji Meng himself, but they are still precious and difficult to find when taken outside, and can also be used to make friends or bribe others.
Huwa was ready to deal with Ji Meng's sudden attack, but after waiting for a long time, there was no movement. If it weren't for the fact that there was always a sense of the back of his left hand, he would even think that Ji Meng was not here at all. Not to mention finding Ji Meng's position, he would not feel any murderous intention.
Huwa was a little strange. Just now, in Chengyang Mountain outside the Shenfugang, he suddenly felt that Ji Meng was spying on him, and he could also feel a murderous intent emerged between the world. After entering Shenfugang, Ji Meng even had his murderous intent completely restrained, and he didn't know what he was doing.
Since this is the case, Huwa did not show any flaws and walked through this hill quietly. The small world of Shenfugang is very large. If you take the ordinary people's footsteps, you won't know how many days it will take to take a walk. Huwa seems to be walking slowly, but in fact, his feet are extremely fast and he is always on guard against various emergencies.
If the small world of Genshin Impact Bugang is regarded as a fairy home, then the bamboo forest when I first came in is the "gatekeeper", the valley where Huwa had passed by before was the "front yard", the hill where he had just climbed was the "main hall", and the next time he arrived at the "back garden".
Walking around the hills, there are rolling hills, with scattered lakes and plains dotted between the hills. Looking to the left and right, there are winding mountains distributed. There are also medicinal fields around them, and various spiritual plants are distributed. On the plains in this "back garden" area, Huwa discovered large crops, just like the fields around the villages in the world.
The tiger widow actually discovered spiritual plants such as beans, hemp, wheat, millet, and millet. These are ordinary crops in the world, but they were specially planted here and were cultivated into spiritual plants. Outsiders may feel strange when they see it, and the tiger widow has witnessed the immortal spirit in the carvings of the stone walls and understands what is going on.
The most common things that people have long been accustomed to are often the most unusual, but few people think deeply about it. For the world, what is the best "spiritual medicine"? It is not Langyan or Lizhu, but the staple food in daily life. However, before ancient times, these things were not available, and the process of discovery and selection was extremely long and difficult.
They must not only have enough nutrition to maintain vitality and replenish vitality, but also have a suitable taste to make people not greasy when they eat. They must also prevent almost everyone from being allergic to the body. They must be easy to cultivate, plant, harvest, process, and preserve, and produce high enough. At the same time, "treasures" that can meet so many conditions almost do not exist at the beginning and require a long screening and cultivation process.
What is the most precious "spiritual medicine" that Shennong found in the ancient legend when he tasted hundreds of herbs, and what does this legend symbolize? The answer is self-evident!
Emperor Shentong Tian cultivated spiritual plants in the Shenfugang, but this spiritual plant cannot be suitable for the cultivation of all people. The harvest cycle is too long and the cultivation process is too difficult. However, he selected some seeds, which are ordinary crops suitable for the cultivation of all people. He taught people to cultivate and sow in the Shennongyuan area outside the mountain.
In the Shennong era, the various crops cultivated by people may be different from those of today. Today's crops should be able to better meet people's various needs. This is also the result of the evolution of the selection and breeding of good varieties in previous dynasties.
Emperor Shennong not only taught the people to farm, but also taught everyone how to select and breed crops. After Shennong was Emperor Emperor of Heaven for hundreds of years, Hou Ji, the minister of Emperor Gaoxin, also specialized in this way and was admired by all people.
Even if more than a thousand or ten thousand years later, mortals in later generations have mastered more clever means to cultivate various good plants by accumulating knowledge and wisdom, but they still adhered to this idea. It was Shennong who first guided the people to do this. He probably foresaw this result a long time ago, and this is an unparalleled achievement!
While sighing, Huwa did not relax his vigilance for a moment, because Ji Meng was always spying on the back of his left hand, and the mark on the back of his left hand was always inducing. Huwaha was a little puzzled why Ji Meng became so cautious after entering the Shenfugang. When he thought about it, he understood what was going on.
Ji Meng must have been scared by him! Huwa encountered Ji Meng in Chengyang Mountain, which should have been an accident. Ji Meng wanted to do something at that time. But Huwa suddenly escaped into the Shenfu Gang, and Ji Meng was also shocked.
Ji Meng will inevitably suspect in secret why Huwa knows here and can get in? Where did he get the inheritance from and what unknown origin? What is the purpose of suddenly entering Shenfugang at this time? The small world of Shenfugang was originally a secret tradition obtained by Ji Meng. He thought he would enjoy it exclusively in the world, but Huwa had already known it.
Ji Meng didn't know that Hu Wa was the God Bugang that he had just discovered. It was his first time entering today. He would definitely wonder whether Hu Wa would take the opportunity to set up an ambush and wait for him to come to the trap. In this case, Ji Meng would inevitably think more and more, and he would not dare to act rashly for the time being. He tried to figure out the situation first.
Interestingly, Ji Meng didn't know that Hu Wa had discovered him; and although Hu Wa knew that Ji Meng had come in, he didn't know where he was. After all, his cultivation was not as good as that. A true immortal had not yet exposed his behavior. If he deliberately hid, Hu Wa really couldn't find it. The two of them had their own thoughts in this very strange state.
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ps: This article is a long chapter in two in one. Sorry, I’ll ask for a day off tomorrow. The next chapter will be updated on Monday, please forgive me!
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Chapter completed!