Volume 1 Chapter 58: Blood Jade
Therefore, after the Liuzhi tribe mastered the use of the snake skin shed by the sky-swallowing python to extend their lifespan, they also often suffered from the dragon's water caused by the tribulation caused by the sky-swallowing python.
This secret technique of extending life has indeed solved the short lifespan of six-fingered people due to congenital deformities, but it has also caused many six-fingered people to die in disasters caused by dragons absorbing water.
In order to avoid the deaths of clan members caused by each disaster, the Liuzhi clan has been trying to find ways to reduce the number of deaths.
They soon discovered that meteorites that were broken into small pieces and integrated with the mountain had very unique miraculous effects. They could swallow almost anything, but they lost this property only when they encountered granite.
The six-fingered man combines the fear of rocks with the characteristics of granite. Every time the sky-swallowing python is about to turn into a dragon, he hides in a pre-dug tunnel. The tunnel formed by these meteorites will quickly bond, even if the outside is flooded.
They won't let any of their clan members die.
After the disaster, the six-fingered people relied on stone powder made from granite to dig out the tunnel.
This also explains why the mountain walls surrounding the earth building of the Six-Fingered Man are covered with granite.
The Liuzhi people relied on this method to extend the lifespan of their clan members and avoid disasters that would cause a large number of deaths among their clan members, causing the Liuzhi clan to grow stronger.
Of course, not all six-fingered people will give birth to babies with defects. These normal babies will only have six fingers, but they will not have the two strange diseases of being ugly and having a bad temper.
Usually when such normal babies are born, the six-fingered people will bring them up with the highest standard of education in the clan, and then send them down the mountain, so that these normal six-fingered people can use the secret of life extension to make a lot of money in the palace to ensure the continuation of the six-fingered clan.
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Over time, because the sky-swallowing python brought so much convenience and affluent life to the Liuzhi people, the Liuzhi people regarded this snake as an object of worship.
The Liuzhi tribe invited a large number of craftsmen to make the meteorite they surrounded in the center of the earth building into the shape of a dragon.
The mural basically ends here, which completely clarifies the process of the Six-Finger Clan from its establishment to its peak, and explains many doubts in the story Wang Degui told me and Dawu.
Of course, it is impossible for Wang Degui to know this anymore. I am afraid that he has been killed by the butterfly in the secret room on the top floor of the earth building.
I was silent for a moment and said to Yang Dao: "But according to the mural, the Liuzhi people have always lived deep in the mountains, relying on the tribesmen they sent out to make a lot of money to consolidate the foundation of the Liuzhi clan. It stands to reason that such a group only needs
Without being known by the kings of each dynasty, they can survive until modern times safely, but how did the Six Finger Clan get exterminated later?"
Yu Yang shook his head and said that he didn't know. After all, the Six-Finger Clan would not record the history of their demise on the murals. Or maybe they never thought that they would die, and the change of annihilation happened overnight.
"It's not necessarily that the clan has been exterminated, it's just that we haven't found any surviving Six-Fingered people when we came here... Didn't the woman just say that she was a descendant of the Six-Fingered people, which means there are still Six-Fingered people in the world.
"The second brother added.
The history of the Six-Finger Clan is too magical and huge. At first, they were just three weirdos who got radiation sickness and were born with genetic defects. Unexpectedly, they learned the secret of life extension by relying on the abducted witches.
, in this way, an inconspicuous ethnic group like them has survived for hundreds of years and experienced so many dynasties.
But it is undeniable that all this stems from the meteorite that fell from the sky, which brought them convenience. Otherwise, every time they encountered the dragon walking in the water, they would lose half of their clan members, and the clan would not be able to survive.
It continues intact despite being hit hard every time.
Dawu and I were people who had seen that kind of strange rock, so we were naturally very surprised. He said: "I didn't expect that strange rock to be a meteorite. No wonder it's so weird. After all, it's an alien object from the sky... If I had the chance to see it...
Take some of this meteorite out and give it to a scientific research institute for study. Wouldn't we be the first to discover this strange stone?"
I glanced at Dawu and said with a smile: "What, are you planning to go back into the water to find the tunnel and get a stone down?"
Dawu trembled all over: "Forget it, I really don't want to go back to that ghost place!"
In fact, many years later, by chance, I encountered this kind of meteorite again in the antique market. Thinking back to today's past, I spent more than 100,000 yuan to buy that small piece back and put it on the
The most prominent place in my antique shop.
We know almost everything about the establishment and history of the Six-Finger Clan. The only thing we don’t understand now is how the Six-Finger Clan disappeared later. Only people like Butterfly who are true descendants of the Six-Finger Clan will know this.
The stairs inside this stone statue were longer than I thought. We walked for a long time before reaching the end. I estimated that this stone statue is at least 400 meters tall, which is higher than I previously estimated.
At first I couldn't imagine how the Six Fingers built such stone statues with such incredible craftsmanship, but now that I understand their history, I'm not surprised anymore.
Presumably, this stone statue is the same as the Song Dynasty tomb we saw before. It took several generations of masons to finally carve such an amazing carving. But hundreds or even thousands of masons must have finished their work.
, in order to prevent their clan address from being exposed, the Six Fingers said that these stonemasons were all closely guarded.
Only then did I remember to ask my second brother what was in the secret room on the top floor of the earth building and under the lotus platform.
The second brother showed a regretful expression and said: "The mural mentioned that when the Six Fingers tribe was building this huge stone statue, they dug out a lot of jade-like things from the meteorites... We were in the cave of the burial pit.
The jade lotus platform seen here should be made of the jade they dug out... The mural also mentioned that they found several round stones from the jade. I think those round stones
The stone is a jade similar to blood jade.”
"Blood jade?"
The second brother nodded and explained what blood jade was.
On many jade stones, jade that is completely inconsistent with the jade itself will grow, just like sarcomas growing on the surface of the human body. For the sake of beauty, the ancients would cut off these "tumors" that affect the beauty of jade, but it is precisely this kind of "tumor" that affects the beauty of jade.
After careful polishing, the "tumor" will turn into scarlet jade, which is called blood jade.
Blood jade is very rare, and only a small piece can grow on tens of thousands of jade stones, but the Six-Fingered Man found several pieces on jade stones found in meteorites.
The second brother just saw several round stone balls placed in the groove under the lotus platform. He guessed that they were the blood jade dug out by the Six-fingered Man back then, which had not been polished yet.
The second brother Bai Shanbi was the first to realize this thing. It was more profitable than us making several trips to the oil bucket. Naturally, Bai Sha did not escape with us first.
Chapter completed!