"This statue should have been built by Du Yu's descendants..."
Mo Lian thought: "Du Yu transformed into a cuckoo bird, so his descendants regard the cuckoo bird as the worship totem of the clan."
"It seems that all of Brother Jiang's analysis is correct. Du Yu did escape here after his failure, but was imprisoned after the turtle spirit sealed the exit..."
Yajima nodded: "Later, Du Yu turned into a cuckoo in order to go out."
"The descendants of Salt Girl should have built this secret passage long ago, found the Salt Lake Valley, and thrived there..."
Jiang Zhonglou thought: "It wasn't until the Shang and Zhou dynasties that Du Yu, a man with divine power, came out of Ba She Zhi Ba, walked out of the Salt Lake Valley, overthrew the Yufu dynasty, and carried forward Ba She Zhi Ba...
Therefore, history books record that Du Yu is a god descended from heaven because no one knows his origins...
The Yufu Dynasty was probably founded by White Tiger Zhiba, so Du Yu wanted to kill all the royal family of the Yufu Dynasty to avenge the ancestor god Salt Girl...
Du Yu has great power after becoming the Queen of Shu. He can get whatever he wants, so he probably had this cuckoo statue built..."
"Look, one of the eight little cuckoos down here is dozing off and taking a nap here!"
Sanya pointed at a small cuckoo bird on the base of the stone platform and shouted.
When everyone took a closer look, they found that one of the cuckoos had his head down and his eyes closed, as if he was dozing off...
But the other seven cuckoos, like the big cuckoo, have two eyes with red light and their heads bent in full alert...
"This bird is not dozing off, but its mechanism has been cracked!"
Yajma said: "This stone platform should be a complex engineering mechanism. These eight birds represent eight branch mechanisms. Only by cracking them one by one can the entire mechanism be opened!"
"Yes, I think so too..."
Jiang Zhonglou looked at the eight cuckoos and said: "According to the Bagua orientation, this cuckoo is at the Gate of Qian Position, and the cave we just entered, the turntable on the door is the Qian Gua...
Obviously, after we walked through the cave, we opened the mechanism of the dry position...
I guess there should be eight doors in this cave, and we must open all the mechanisms in the eight doors to find the passage to the Salt Lake Valley!"
"Oh...then where are the other seven gates?"
Sanya looked around and saw a sea of giant snakes. Where was the portal?
"If we look in the direction of the eight cuckoo birds, we should be able to find the corresponding door..."
Jiang Chonglou looked at it and said, "Let's go this way to find Dui Gua Jingmen, which is adjacent to Qian Gua."
"Surprise door? Is there anything surprising inside?" Sanya asked curiously.
"The Jingmen is located in the west, and the five elements belong to gold. It is mainly responsible for fear and trauma, and it confuses the crowd. It is one of the three evil gates..."
Jiang Zhonglou said: "However, Jingmen is in the position of exchange, and exchange means joy, and it means people are happy, so Jingmen is not bad."
"Oh...that'll do!"
Although Sanya couldn't understand what Jiang Zhonglou said, she felt relieved when Jiang Zhonglou said that the shock was not bad.
"Brother Jiang, Oga and Yajima are tired. Why don't we take a rest on the table here and have something to eat before we leave?" Mo Lian suggested.
"Okay, it's time for dinner."
Jiang Zhonglou looked at the time and found that it was already dinner time.
"Bai Ding, go get some big snakes to eat!" Sanya said to Bai Ding.
"yes!"
Bai Ding and Meding directly entered the group of snakes, and immediately countless big snakes climbed on them and attacked them!
However, Bai Ding and Mo Ding all have bronze heads and iron arms. How can a big snake bite them?
Bai Ding and Mo Ding caught many big snakes, twisted their heads off and threw them onto the high platform.
Sanya pulled out the knife, peeled off the snake's skin, swallowed the snake's gall raw, then cut the snake meat into pieces, and let Wu Dinglishi's arms spit fire and grill them...
Soon, the snake meat was roasted to a brown color and exuded a fragrant aroma.
Sanya took out some seasoning bottles from her vest pocket and sprinkled the snake meat with seasoning.
This time she came down for an adventure and prepared a whole set of seasonings just to bake something underground... She can be called a seasoned foodie!
After everyone ate the fragrant snake meat carefully roasted by Sanya, they followed the direction pointed by the cuckoo bird at Dui Wei, looking for the door of Dui Wei.
The giant snakes on the road gave way...
After walking for a long time, everyone saw an octagonal green jade door on the mountain wall in front of them.
The turntable on the door is inlaid with rubies with the pattern of Dui Gua.
"I'll open the door! Brother Jiang, which direction does this Dui Gua correspond to?" Sanya ran over and opened the door.
"It's on the right side." Jiang Zhonglou said.
"Okay!"
Sanya pressed the Dui Gua and turned the dial so that the Dui Gua was facing straight up and parallel to the right...
"Click..."
There was a sound of gear springs, and the door of Dui Gua was opened.
When everyone gathered around, they saw that there was also a green corridor inside Dui Gua's door.
On both sides of the corridor, there are also green jade carvings and murals inlaid with colorful gems.
"Wow! There is another beautiful mural, go in and take a look!"
Sanya jumped into the corridor, and everyone followed.
I saw that in the first mural, there were a group of people with colorful feathers on their heads, holding shields, and carrying bows and arrows.
Their shields are all in the shape of tigers, with eyes wide open and fangs exposed, very ferocious!
Some people hold shields in their hands, while others place their shields far away and shoot with bows and arrows...
"These people with colorful feathers on their heads should be the descendants of Ba Snake Zhi Ba, but why do they have tiger-shaped shields? Aren't they and White Tiger Zhi Ba a feud?" Yajima looked at the mural curiously.
"They were supposed to shoot tigers with arrows!"
Jiang Zhonglou smiled and said: "Didn't you see that many people in the murals set up tiger shields in the distance and shot them with bows and arrows?"
"Aren't they... practicing archery?"
"Practicing archery is certainly one thing, but more importantly, it should be to express one's hatred for tigers, and also to remind oneself not to forget the blood feud with White Tiger Zhiba..."
Jiang Chonglou sighed: "I guess these descendants of Ba Snake Ba hated White Tiger Zhi Ba, so they carved tiger-like arrow targets to practice archery...
Later, they used the tiger target as a shield and carried it with them at all times...
This reminds me of what Professor Zeeland said about a group of Cuban descendants, the Banzhen Barbarians!"
"Banzhenman? What is it?" Sanya asked curiously.
"According to the research of some historians, the upper Cuban people were later divided into two groups, one was the Linjun Man in the Qingjiang River Basin, and the other was the Banchen Man in the Qujiang River Basin of the Jialing River...
Jiang Chonglou thought: "The custom of Lin Junman is to worship the white tiger and respect the white tiger as his ancestor...
The custom of Banzhen Man is to "shoot white tigers as a matter of special interest", so Banzhen Man is probably the direct descendant of Ba Shezhiba...
These banchen barbarians were very active in the Han Dynasty. When Liu Bang left Shu and conquered the Three Qin Dynasties, he relied on the help of the banchen barbarians from Shu...
During the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Banzhen barbarians lived in the Nanzhong area of Shu capital, and their leader was the famous Meng Huo...
Later, when Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times, there was a king of Mulu who could drive away ferocious beasts and poisonous insects. It can be seen that at that time, there were still people in the Banchen barbarians who knew some magical magic...
When Zhuge Liang conquered Nanzhong, he recruited some banzhen barbarians and organized them into an incompetent flying army. Led by Wang Ping, they were invincible and invincible...
It is said that Wang Ping was actually born in Banzhen barbarian. Historical records record that he was illiterate, but he was very strategic in fighting..."
"So, it is the Banzhenman, the descendants of the Ba Snake, who discovered the Salt Lake Valley and built the Ba Snake Temple?" Yajima asked.