Chapter 1005: Shooting the Dragon and Killing the Phoenix, Heavenly Merchant Oracle Bone

The Heavenly Principle Sect was originally reorganized with the fist people who were all over Henan and Hebei and practiced fist gatherings as the backbone.

In those years, the fist masters of the north walked the world, opening altars everywhere, teaching people to practice fist and martial arts, among which there were countless masters, and I don't know how many martial arts masters contributed their own unique skills.

Because opening altars was not restricted, practicing fist was not divided into high and low.

When it was time to overthrow the Gan Dynasty and exterminate the foreigners, the fist altars everywhere marked the directions with the Eight Trigrams, combined into eight general altars, and agreed to work together to overthrow the Gan Dynasty.

Among them, the Heavenly Principle Sect was a sect formed by the fist people who were besieged by the Gan Dynasty and foreigners, and after the uprising failed miserably, they took root in Zhigu and Cangzhou, the Shock and Li trigrams, transformed fist into a sect, and re-hibernated.

The Grain Transport Gang of the Wei and Lu helms were even more like geographical ghosts who had been rooted in Zhigu for hundreds of years.

"Later, the nine rivers flooded, so Emperor Yu opened the ancient Yu river channel in the southeast of today's Zhigu to anchor the nine rivers."

"It is said that at that time, the Yellow River had a river demon that commanded ten thousand water demons in the world, together with Wuzhiqi of the Huaihe, Gonggong of the Ji River, and Xiangliu of the Yangtze River, to obstruct Emperor Yu, wanting to unleash boundless floods and drown all living beings."

"Later, Emperor Yu suppressed Wuzhiqi at the water eye of the Huaihe, quelled Gonggong's rebellion, and trapped Xiangliu in the Yunmeng Marsh, only then finally having the time to suppress the most difficult of the four demons, the Yellow River demon."

"The two sides fought a great battle in the ancient Yu river channel. Under the river demon's command, there was a fierce phoenix. Every time Emperor Yu piled up river embankments on the plain, it would dig up the mud on the river embankments. Every time Emperor Yu split the mountains on the river channel, it would peck down the mountain tops and fill the gaps again!"

"The two sides fought a great battle on the ancient Yu River channel. Under the river demon's command was an evil phoenix. Every time Emperor Yu piled up river embankments on the plains, it would dig up the soil on the embankments. Every time Emperor Yu split the mountains on the river channel, it would peck at the mountaintops to refill the gaps!"

"The ancient Yu river channel was opened nine times, and all were destroyed by the fierce phoenix."

"In order to pacify the flood and save the suffering people of the world."

"Emperor Yu cut off his own hair to make a bowstring, his wife Tushan extracted her tail to twist into a strand, and his father Gun, after death, transformed into a yellow dragon, extracted his dragon bones to make a bow. Thus, a divine bow was made."

"Emperor Yu, at Mount Dapi, held the divine bow, mounted the Heaven-Shaking Arrow left by the Huang Di, and shot at the fierce phoenix..."

"But the fierce phoenix just flapped its wings and returned to the sun! The arrow only hit the fierce phoenix's tail. Countless heavenly fires fell, burning the high places, and the floods raged, drowning the low places. The common people struggled between water and fire, and Emperor Yu cried bitterly."

"Just at this time, the arrow that shot to the nine heavens transformed into a divine dragon carrying wings. It pounced down, faster than the fierce phoenix."

"Its dragon claws grabbed the fierce phoenix's neck, threw it down from the sun, pressed it onto the earth, and finally wrapped around the fierce phoenix, biting off the fierce phoenix's head!"

"After the fierce phoenix died, the divine dragon and it intertwined. The traces of their battle carved ditches on the earth, diverting the water of the Yellow River, and transformed into this Dragon and Phoenix River north of the ancient Yu river channel!"

"After the evil phoenix died, the divine dragon became entangled with it. The traces of their battle carved trenches into the earth, diverted the waters of the Yellow River, and transformed into this Dragon-Phoenix River north of the ancient Yu River channel today!"

He pointed to the two small rivers flowing into the North Canal and asked: "Emperor Yu shot the dragon and killed the phoenix, and only left these two small rivers that are not ten zhang wide?"

He pointed to the two small rivers flowing into the North Canal and asked: "Emperor Yu shot the dragon and killed the phoenix, and all that was left were these two small rivers less than ten zhang wide?"

Zhao Tianli heard the Nine River Long Wang and immediately became serious.

"Wait, you said this dragon-phoenix legend is related to the Nine River Long Wang?"

Zhao Tianli's face changed slightly. He was very sure that there was a great demon in the Yellow River.

During the violent Yuan Dynasty, Prime Minister Tuotuo conscripted hundreds of thousands of people in the north to repair the old Yellow River channel.

For a time, countless people died in the heavy labor of repairing the river, and the great river flooded, water and drought, locusts and plague made the two sides of the great river empty. This towering resentment made the river workers dig the ancient river channel, and with one hoe, yellow mud splashed blood. The river workers discovered the strangeness, and because of resentment, they did not report it to the imperial court, but swore an oath with blood, dug open that relic, and finally released the shocking great demon, unleashing boundless blood rain.

Finally, the Esoteric Sect and Buddhist Sect supported by the violent Yuan, and even the Daoist Sect hidden in the world, put down their prejudices and helped, only then suppressing the river demon.

Zhao Tianli was very sure that the river demon was a one-eyed stone man, so when he heard about some divine dragon and fierce phoenix, he didn't take it seriously.

Not to mention that the river demon controlled water disasters and floods, and its subordinates were all water demons. Where did a fierce phoenix burning with divine fire come from? And the divine dragon that manipulated floods to help Emperor Yu kill the fierce phoenix that flapped its wings to the nine heavens—don't you think the basic logic is wrong?

The Nine River Long Wang is not a dragon, but a flying bird phoenix?

This myth and legend really doesn't even want logic...

This myth and legend really doesn't even want logic anymore...

After Zhao Tianli's sorting, a series of clues were finally connected:

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow River stone demon appeared. The Daoist and Buddhist sects worked together to encircle and suppress it. Chen Tuan's disciples carried precious treasures and suppressed it at the Three-Forked River mouth in the ancient Yu river channel where the river demon borrowed the flood to reconnect and wanted to go out to sea via the Haihe.

Later, Chen Tuan's disciples stayed at the Three-Forked River mouth and built the Tianhou Palace.

Zhao Tianli had always thought that the precious treasure under the Three-Forked River mouth was the Yellow River stone man, with the Yellow River iron ox by the river as evidence, and the precious mirror in the Tianhou Palace was the key to suppressing and controlling the stone man. Once the stone man was dug out again, he could borrow the stone man's power, dye the red scarf with blood, and reproduce the momentum of the Red Scarf Army sweeping the world at the end of the Yuan Dynasty!

But how the legend of the Nine River Long Wang, which had been circulating for thousands of years in Zhigu, was integrated with the Yellow River stone demon was something Zhao Tianli had never been able to figure out.

Because the Nine River Long Wang was clearly the righteous god guarding the Haihe, while the Yellow River stone man was a shocking great demon!

If it weren't for Chen Tuan's relics, Zhao Tianli would never have linked the two.

But although the legend of the Dragon and Phoenix River had many absurdities, it clearly linked the Nine River Long Wang with the Yellow River demon, confirming that Emperor Yu suppressed the river demon at the lower reaches of the Jiuhe, and like Wuzhiqi of the Huaihe, it was long worshiped as a river god by the living people.

"But there are still many places that don't make sense!"

Zhao Tianli was a little confused: "Yellow River stone demon, Nine River Dragon God, Emperor Yu, dragon-phoenix legend, many places are contradictory. Not to mention how the Yellow River stone man, whom even Emperor Yu found difficult to suppress, was suppressed by a group of Daoist and Buddhist monks who were only in the Longevity Saint Realm? What is the relationship between the fierce phoenix and the stone man? The dragon god who killed the fierce phoenix seems more like the Nine River Long Wang!"

"And the Nine River Long Wang is clearly the god of the Haihe, but when the Yellow River stone man was unearthed at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it was clearly in the Huaihe!"

"How did the river demon suppressed by Emperor Yu in Hebei run to Huizhou?"

"The only thing that can connect all this is the Yellow River..."

Zhao Tianli looked toward the not-far-away intersection of the Dragon and Phoenix Rivers in the sunset, and suddenly noticed a temple there.

He pointed remotely and asked: "What temple is that?"

The Wei and Lu helm masters looked at each other, and one of them bowed and laughed: "This is exactly the Niangniang Temple I want to take the Sect Master to! It is said that in the past, a great dragon corpse was washed out by the flood. The villagers thought it was the divine dragon bones that killed the fierce phoenix in the past that were washed out by the flood, so they built a Niangniang Temple with dragon bones and worshiped the Heavenly Empress!"

"There was originally an ancient relic inside, named Yu Cave, which is said to be the stone cave drilled by the dragon god when it landed, and a spring eye gushed out. Because the water quality is extremely bitter, it is said to lead directly to the Yellow River!"

"The Niangniang Temple uses fish bone fossils as beams, and because its statue is seated on a round fish bone (giant turtle shell), it is also called the Double Bone Temple."

Zhao Tianli was already unable to refute. Why build a temple for the Heavenly Empress to feel the grace of Emperor Yu and think it was the bones of a divine dragon? Why is the spring eye inside named Yu Cave, but it worships the Heavenly Empress?

Why?

Because there is a Tianhou Palace in Zhigu! It's probably a temple built by the Daoists of the Tianhou Palace, so of course it's a temple for the Heavenly Empress!

The Fish Bone Temple leaned against a small mountain at the intersection of the Dragon and Phoenix Rivers, with eaves and corners, and a towering roof ridge. The four ridges were high, like elephant trunks, and the shell wind chimes under the corners swayed with the wind, crisp and pleasant. Looking from afar through the surrounding farmland and low farmhouses, it looked like a flying pavilion.

Just as they arrived, Zhao Tianli saw a pair of couplets at the door: "A hundred years of fish bones as beams, a thousand years of turtle marrow carrying the supreme."

The temple was only three rooms, neither big nor small.

Stepping into the hall, the crossbeam of the main hall was indeed white bones, but Zhao Tianli was knowledgeable, and it was clearly the bones of giant whales and salamanders in the sea. What did it have to do with a dragon? The Heavenly Empress's statue was indeed standing on a huge divine turtle shell, and an ancient well beside the statue should be the Yellow Spring of Yu Cave.

There were only three temple buildings, neither large nor small.

In the back hall, a temple keeper wearing a Daoist robe ran over hurriedly. Seeing a group of people in brocade clothes, his eyes lit up, and a smile piled up on his face.

"Everyone, be careful, don't disturb the Heavenly Empress's dharma carriage!"

The Heavenly Principle Sect members and the Grain Transport Gang disciples arrived in a mighty crowd, so many that even the main hall couldn't hold them. Most of the disciples remained outside the hall, and even so, those who entered the hall were packed tightly.

He immediately said to the left and right: "You all retreat!"

The temple keeper greeted him and laughed: "Everyone, don't look at my temple as small, it actually has a great origin! This is the earliest temple of the Heavenly Empress. Don't look at the famous Tianhou Palace in the city; it's not as long-standing as mine!"

Zhao Tianli laughed after hearing this: "Is this temple of yours more ancient than the Tianhou Palace?"

"But I heard that the dragon bones used to build the temple were washed out by a flood hundreds of years ago!"

The temple keeper explained hurriedly: "First there were gods, then there were temples! This main hall was built later, but our god is early! When Emperor Yu shot the dragon and killed the phoenix, it was the Heavenly Empress who helped him, so he found the Heaven-Shaking Arrow left by the Huang Di! The so-called Qiankun Bow and Heaven-Shaking Arrow are the relics of the Third Prince Nezha..."

"No, what kind of mess is this?"

"But I heard that the dragon bones used to build this temple were washed out by a flood hundreds of years ago!"

"It's the same thing, the same thing..." The temple keeper laughed: "You must know the origin of the twelve Sichen, then it's the same thing!"

Zhao Tianli had a strange color in his eyes. Knowing the Sichen means knowing secret history, and knowing secret history means knowing that history is chaotic, so the east, west, south, north, past, and future are intertwined, so it might really be true.

Being able to say this sentence shows that the temple keeper's knowledge is extraordinary.

Seeing that everyone didn't believe it, the temple keeper hurriedly said: "Everyone, I'm not talking nonsense, there is evidence, please look..."

The temple keeper pulled everyone to the Heavenly Empress's statue. Only then did they see that this statue was inlaid with shells, a rare mother-of-pearl statue. Under the statue's feet was a giant ghost's shell. Zhao Tianli just took a look, and his brain exploded like a thunderclap.

His martial arts were based on the various fist types exchanged by the fist people. Everyone gathered because of righteousness, gathered a hundred schools of thought, and used the Eight Trigrams as the source to open up the unique skill called Eight Trigrams Palm.

But what made him reach the peak was a relic he obtained after digging Chen Tuan's tomb and experiencing life and death—that relic was a stone turtle the size of a palm, carrying the Jiugong and Eight Trigrams on its back.

Zhao Tianli realized from this and realized a set of earth-shattering unique skills, named "Innate Qiankun Skill."

That palm-sized stone turtle was therefore regarded by him as a treasure and kept secret.

The relationship between the Nine River Long Wang and the Yellow River stone demon also came from the inscriptions on the turtle's belly...

But the appearance of that stone turtle was 90% similar to the divine turtle under the Heavenly Empress's feet.

Especially the Eight Trigrams and Jiugong diagram on the shell, and even the Eight Trigrams and Jiugong diagram on the divine turtle's shell was more ancient and mottled, but this Innate Eight Trigrams was stepped on by the Heavenly Empress, covering most of it.

This matter related to his martial arts inheritance, and Zhao Tianli's heart was naturally surging with huge waves.

The divine turtle shell carried traces of fire, and in addition to the Jiugong and Eight Trigrams, there were many mysterious inscriptions, which were mysterious and unpredictable in Zhao Tianli's eyes.

Zhao Tianli looked at the Heavenly Empress statue stepping on the turtle shell, and it became more and more difficult to endure. Seeing the temple keeper's greedy appearance, he asked directly: "This divine turtle shell is extraordinary, and it has the favor of the Heavenly Empress, and it has become a treasure that suppresses feng shui and spiritual energy. I see that your Niangniang Temple is called ancient, but it is narrow and unbearable. Why not let me take this divine turtle round bone back, and I will give you a large sum of money to repair the Niangniang Temple, which can be considered my sincerity."

The temple keeper really widened his eyes and said: "This turtle shell is not ordinary..."

"It is engraved with the turtle divination of Emperor Yu in those years, and the divination given by the Heavenly Empress, stating the miracles of the Heavenly Empress. Even ten thousand gold is hard to exchange for it. Even the Tianhou Palace can't ask for such a treasure!"

Zhao Tianli saw the temple keeper's greedy appearance and sneered in his heart.

"Look at the oracle bone runes on it, this Innate Eight Trigrams, this Jiugong drilling, and the cracks burned out, are all relics of the Shang and Zhou dynasties!"

"Especially the cracks on it, as the sun and rain fall, they will even change by themselves. The Dao of Heavenly Mystery is in it. Through the dynasties, countless major events, official history records it, and secret history is also difficult to escape from it. The poor Daoist drew one or two, and saw all the heavenly mysteries."

"Drew a 'Turtle Back Map'!"

"Look at the oracle bone runes on this, this innate Bagua, this Jiugong drilling, and these burnt cracks—they are all relics from the Shang and Zhou dynasties!"

The temple keeper widened his eyes: "That is the 'Pushing Back Map'!"

Zhao Tianli saw him blowing more and more outrageously, and couldn't help but interrupt: "Then what did you calculate in this Turtle Back Map?"

The temple keeper puffed out his chest and laughed happily: "Calculated that today all the distinguished guests have arrived, and calculated that the distinguished guests are interested in my divine turtle shell and Shang-Zhou turtle talisman."

Zhao Tianli showed a look of mockery, and the true qi of the Innate Qiankun Skill began to fill the main hall, gradually shrouding heaven and earth.

He had no intention of killing, but facing the temple keeper who treated him like a fool and opened his mouth like a lion, he had to give him some color.

The temple keeper danced and danced: "Calculated the stone turtle in your sleeve! Calculated the heaven and earth Qiankun..."

Zhao Tianli's face changed drastically, and he raised his right palm in his sleeve and slapped it out flatly.

The temple keeper danced wildly in front of the Heavenly Empress statue, stepping on the number of Jiugong under his feet, which was the famous Yu Step.

He was like a madman, saying loudly: "I calculated various secret histories, calculated that only you can open the secret treasure of the Nine River Long Wang, calculated that the Yellow River stone man will appear, calculated the river breaking and breaking, the world is surging, calculated the way of salvation, calculated the shooting of the dragon and killing the phoenix, the appearance of the stone man, and the triple secret history of the Five Gods of Xing Tian!"

The temple keeper suddenly knelt on the ground, his face full of tears: "I followed the Sect Master's order to welcome everyone here, but unfortunately, when I saw Yu Cave, my spiritual machine moved, and I used the "Tai Yan Heavenly Merchant Oracle Bone River Map" given by the Sect Master to calculate the heavenly mystery. Although I calculated the fate of you people to death, I also leaked the heavenly mystery, and was suppressed here by the true talisman stepped on by the Heavenly Empress!"

"The secret on the oracle bone true talisman, I can no longer report to the Sect Master!"

"But the Sect Master ordered me to welcome you here and push your fate into the established track, but I will do my best."

Zhao Tianli slapped his right palm horizontally: "Shocking Hundred Miles!"

The true qi filling Qiankun vibrated violently, causing everything with or without form to explode in resonance. The air between the two exploded again, condensing into a white, substantial shock cloud.

"Wind... Wind..."

The temple keeper could not use the power of one of the eight Heavenly Mansion True Talismans refined by Qian Chen, which was suppressed by the Heavenly Empress behind him.

He was only in the fourth realm of cultivation, and the distance from Zhao Tianli's sixth realm of cultivation was almost a world of difference.

But all the shock was overturned the moment he entered the secret history with the "Tai Yan Heavenly Merchant Oracle Bone River Map," wanting to leverage the vast and mighty power of secret history, lock the future of Zhao Tianli and others, and accidentally touched the secret history and peeped at some of the Heavenly Empress's plans!

The temple keeper could not borrow the power of the turtle shell suppressed by the Heavenly Empress behind him, one of the eight Heavenly Mansion True Talismans refined by Qian Chen.

"Then she left the turtle shell recording all the secrets in this temple. The moment I calculated everything, the "Tai Yan Heavenly Merchant Oracle Bone River Map" became the divine turtle shell, stepped on by the Empress."

"All karma formed a ring, sealing me in this temple!"

"The omniscience of the Ming Zun is also trapped in this strange place that is not in the past, not in the future, and not in the present."

The temple keeper sighed deeply: "The calculation of the Heavenly Empress is terrifying!"

"Compared to this, you are like an ant!"

"Ants in the flood struggle hard! Since you are in the game, you can't help yourself!"

Zhao Tianli glared, the temple keeper's simple words pulled him into the karma of the Heavenly Merchant Oracle Bone calculation, and everything was decided.

"Wind breaks the earth!"

A faint line on the oracle bone behind the temple keeper connected the secret history.

Chen Tuan's ancestor stirred up boundless gang wind on the Yellow River, vast and mighty, shrouding everything, exhausting the power of the nine heavens, and struck down with one blow, shaking the entire Yellow River into the sky.

It was also a sound: "Wind breaks the earth!"

The water of the Yellow River goes to the sky, and heaven and earth strike together with the wind.

The one-eyed stone man driving the Yellow River was hit by the "Wind breaks the earth" blow that pierced heaven and earth...

Zhao Tianli flew high, the true qi shrouding Qiankun shattered like thin paper. Only a wisp of aura revealed in the secret history, borrowed by the temple keeper from the stone turtle in his sleeve, easily shattered his martial arts.

He was beaten to his knees without any resistance!

He was destined to be captured by that deacon of the Xuanzhen Sect, relying on the talisman bestowed by Qian Chen, as...

Half an hour ago, the temple keeper walked into the temple. The Heavenly Empress's statue stepped on the turtle shell, waiting for him quietly. The Eight Trigrams on the turtle shell held by the temple keeper rotated, and all heavenly mysteries were opened before him. Finally, the runes on the turtle shell became exactly the same as those under the Heavenly Empress's feet.

At that moment, the past time and space, and karma were all reversed into a ring.

At that moment, the despair in the temple keeper's heart was billions of times more desperate than Zhao Tianli at this moment! ===== CHAPTER 1006 =====

Half an hour ago, the temple keeper walked into the temple. The statue of the Heavenly Empress stepped on the turtle shell, waiting for him quietly. The Bagua on the turtle shell held by the temple keeper circulated, and all the heavenly secrets were revealed before him. Finally, the runes on the turtle shell became exactly the same as those under the feet of the Heavenly Empress.

At that moment, the past space-time and causality all reversed into a loop.

At that moment, the despair in the temple keeper's heart was billions of times greater than that of Zhao Tianli at this moment!