The Classic of Marvels said: "Its bird inscription reads: There is a rare bird, green and red, shining brilliantly. It neither cries nor eats. To the east, it covers the Eastern Kingfather; to the west, it covers the Queen Mother of the West. When the Queen Mother wishes to go east, she climbs upon it and passes there freely. Yin and yang rely upon each other, and only their union brings greater skill."
These records also showed from another angle that the roc had both green and red colors, neither cried out nor ate, and that even the small featherless patch on its back was ten thousand nine hundred li wide. One could only imagine how enormous its body was. As it turned out, the distance from the Western Kunlun Mountains to the Eastern Sea was no more than the span between the roc's two wings.
From this, it was clear that scholars all loved to blow smoke.
Ancient scholars liked blowing smoke even more than modern scholars.
That was because the things ancient scholars exaggerated about were all gods, ghosts, and strange creatures—things impossible to verify.
Whenever modern writers exaggerated, they were easily exposed, followed by all kinds of humiliating backlashes.
This Kun Beast was enormous too—extremely enormous. At a glance, it blotted out the sky and sun. Between heaven and earth, there was only this one beast, supreme above all others.
However, it was not quite as the scholars had recorded, with the distance from the Western Kunlun Mountains to the Eastern Sea—
Moreover, this Kun Beast did not have the recorded green-and-red coloring. It was deep blue, blue like seawater.
The Kun Beast circled high in the sky, glaring fiercely at Snowball with an expression that seemed to say, *I trusted you so much, and you actually