Strange Tale

"Leader! It's not good!"

Yi was watching the sky when someone came to inform him.

"What's the matter, flustered?"

"The tribes of Youyi, Youge, and Chuguan joined forces to fight from the southwest. And..."

"what?"

"They also brought two monsters, Wuzhiqi and Roe Owl. Our people have already been eaten by Roe Owl. If Wuzhiqi makes trouble again..."

Yi turned and walked to his own tribe, "Go get my bow and arrow!"

Three days later, there was a large tent in the army of the Qiong family.

An old man with silver hair and beard knelt in front of Yi, "Your Majesty, please agree to marry the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven!"

Yi quickly helped the old man up, "Elder, what are you doing? Get up!"

"Your Majesty doesn't promise that I won't get up." The old man knelt back stubbornly.

"Elder Li!"

"Marry Concubine Mi, let Emperor Jun send heavenly soldiers to support, otherwise the Youqiong clan will die in our hands today! I know that the king is a general from heaven, and the fighters of the Youqiong clan are also brave and invincible, but we will die in the end." They are outnumbered. What's more, they still have monsters to help... If this continues, they really won't be able to last for a few more days!"

Yi's face showed embarrassment, "I know what the elder said. But at the beginning, I offered to leave the lower realm of Tiangong to become king so that I could stay away from the turmoil in the palace. Now that you let me marry Concubine Mi, didn't you go back to the starting point after a long detour? I'm really... Sigh! I just blame my current bow and arrow as an ordinary mortal thing. If I can get back the red bow and white feather arrow I used in the heaven, let alone Wuzhiqi and roe owl, it will be all mountain spirits I can destroy all the monsters together!"

"That's why you want to marry Concubine Mi even more, and become the son-in-law of the Emperor of Heaven. What else can't you get?!"

"This……"

"My lord! The overall situation is the most important thing!"

By the river of fierce water.

"Nine babies! Nine babies!"

Yi yelled at the surface of the water twice, and a ball of light in the water floated up and flew towards him and circled around twice before stopping.Yi stretched out his hand, and the ball of light landed on his palm.

"Xiao Jiu, I'm leaving, I really miss you."

The light cluster floated up and swayed left and right.

"I don't want to go either, but I can't help it. Alas—"

The ball of light fell back into Yi's hand, and the light dimmed a bit.

"Forget it, let's talk about something happy. On the way, I remembered that when I saw you for the first time, you didn't dare to come out."

The ball of light jumped up and turned around and trembled again.

"Yeah, how ridiculous. People made you so scary that I thought it was some great monster. I brought people here with great fanfare to prepare for a desperate battle, and it turned out that it was you, a little thing. Hahahaha!"

The light ball floated over and flew to Yi's face and rubbed against it.

"Do you know? If you don't just refer to people, you are actually the first friend I came to the world. Others regard me as a god, and keep them at a respectful distance. Only you are different. You have never been afraid of me. This walk... Sigh ? Why don't you come with me? I'll take you to the sky, and with the nourishment of the heavenly aura, maybe you can turn emptiness into reality and own your own body!"

The light cluster flew away with a whoosh.

"Oh! Don't go! I just said, if you don't want to go, I won't force you!"

After a while, the light cluster flew back again.

"Well, if you don't want to go, you don't want to go. It's not a particularly worthwhile place. However, the concubine Mi, the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven I want to marry, is called Chang'e. Jun likes her very much and won't let her go away, so I will have to go back to heaven to live in the future.”

The light cluster dimmed again and almost became transparent, invisible light.

Yi stretched out his hand to touch the air where he couldn't feel anything, "Don't be sad, don't worry, I will come to see you as soon as I have time."

The light cluster barely regained a little brightness, slowly drifted away and sank back into the water.

30 years later, by the river of fierce water.

"Nine babies! Nine babies! I'm back!"

Half of the light cluster in the water floated out.

Yi hurriedly waved at it, "Xiao Jiu, I'm back! Don't you miss me?"

The whole light cluster floated out of the water and came to Yi.

"Huh? You seem to have grown a lot. Oh──I see, one day in the sky and one year in the earth, and I have been away for more than 30 years. Hmm... I don't know the biography of the leader of the Qiong Clan How many generations have you reached? I’ll come and see you first when I get out of the realm. How about that, I’ll go and see now, and I’ll come back to you later.”

100 years later, by the river of fierce water.

"Nine babies! Nine babies!"

With a bang, the entire surface of the water lit up.

Standing on the bank, Yi was a little dumbfounded, "Xiao...Xiao Jiu?"

The surface of the water became brighter and brighter, and finally even the sky changed color.

Yi was dumbfounded, "You... have grown so big?! How could it be so fast? You haven't changed for nearly 100 years before I go back to the sky!"

The ray of light completely surfaced, and the edge touched the woods on the shore, and all the grass and trees touched were withered in a blink of an eye.Only then did Yi realize that most of the dense forests on the surrounding banks had now turned into river beaches.If you look carefully, you can still vaguely see the bones of some unknown animal in the river beach.

"Xiao Jiu... are you absorbing the energy of various creatures?!"

The light dimmed.

"That's not okay. Someone will come to make trouble if found out."

The light got dimmer.

"Well... don't worry. I'll go back and find a way."

Three years later, beside the Jishui River, the shallows have become barren mountains.

"Nine babies! Nine babies!"

Ripples first appeared in the water, and then the splashes became bigger and bigger, and a serpentine light came out, and finally one end of the light stopped in front of Yi, and gradually divided into nine paths.

"Xiao Jiu? You can already transform your own form?"

The nine rays of light returned to one place and turned into a tree.Yi widened his eyes and was about to express surprise again when the tree turned into a fish again.Then the fish turns into a deer, and the deer turns into a tiger.In the end, the light turned into a person, and upon closer inspection, one could tell that it was a beautiful woman.

Yi was surprised and speechless, but when he realized that there was a girl standing opposite him, he quickly looked away, raised his arms and opened his hands to express the purpose of his trip, "This is what I want with Empress Nuwa. This is the only five-color stone left over from Butian. With it, you can have your own body."

The woman turned into a snake and dived back into the water.Yi took out a dagger and cut his wrist to let his own blood drip on the stone before throwing the stone into the water.

After a while, there were a few muffled noises from the bottom of the water, and then the water waves rolled and gradually turned into huge waves.Yi retreated again and again, but was splashed all over with water.

When the water waves subsided and the river calmed down again, Yi wiped the water off his face and raised his head. What he saw was a monster with a hydra body and flames burning on each head looking down on him domineeringly.

Yi stared blankly at it, "Xiao Jiu?"

The head in the middle of the monster extinguished the flame and lowered down to Yi's face.

"Uh..." Yi raised his hand to touch that slippery head, "I never thought you would become like this. Hmm... don't be sad. Maybe you will look better after a while of practice."

"What kind of look is 'beautiful'?" The head was touched and he suddenly spoke.

Yi was startled, and instinctively withdrew his hand, "Can you talk?!"

The flame on the head was rekindled and lifted back to its original position, "You don't like that I can talk?"

"Of course not, I just didn't think of it."

"You haven't answered me yet, what is good-looking? Like the woman who embarrassed you just now?"

"I'm not embarrassed, it's polite, you didn't wear clothes just now."

"I'm not wearing any now."

"..."

"What would look better?"

"Well, at least it won't scare others. Of course, it would be better if people like it when they see it."

"woman?"

"uncertain."

"Ok."

"what?"

Before Yi understood what Jiuying was going to do, it moved and shrank into the water again.The movement is not big but the body is too big, Yi was completely poured by the pocket again.

After a while, there were waves of ripples on the surface of the water, and then a naked man with scarlet eyebrows and red eyes and fiery red hair that reached his ankles got out of the water and stepped on the water and walked to Yi step by step, "So better?"

The author has something to say: Youyi, Youge, and Chuguan: These are all tribes that once existed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers before the Shang Dynasty.

Wuzhiqi, Roe Owl: The monsters described in "Shan Hai Jing" are available on the Internet, so I won't write more.

Di Jun and Mi Fei: There are many theories about the specific identities of these two people.Di Jun still has a few names, so I won't mention them for fear of being too confusing.But the more common record is that he is Fuxi.As for Concubine Mi, there is a saying that she is Chang'e.And Concubine Mi being the daughter of Fuxi is only one of many legends.In that long time ago when there were more myths than historical facts, there were too many things that could not be determined, and this article was empty, so I only selected the parts that were conducive to the development of the plot of this article to write.But there are also records and sources.There are too many specific contents, if you are interested, check it yourself.