Scion of the Black Bird, Body of an Immortal [First Update]

The Records of the Grand Historian: Annals of Qin stated: "Qin's ancestor was a descendant of Emperor Zhuanxu, named Nü Xiu. As Nü Xiu was weaving, a Black Bird dropped an egg. Nü Xiu swallowed it and gave birth to a son named Daye. Daye took the daughter of Shao Dian as his wife, named Nü Hua. Nü Hua gave birth to Dafei, who assisted Yu the Great in taming the floods and regulating the land."

The Book of Songs: Hymns of Shang: Black Bird stated: "Heaven commanded the Black Bird to descend and give birth to Shang."

The Black Bird was a special kind of fantasy species. Though some believed it to be a swallow, that was not the case. The so-called Black Bird was not some shallow creature like a swallow; rather, it was closer to the Golden Crow, the fantasy species that represented the sun in Chinese mythology.

Or rather, the Black Bird was the opposite of the Golden Crow—the incarnation of sunspots, a subspecies of the Phoenix, an immortal bird burning with the sun's true fire.

This legendary fantasy species was the symbol of the Shang dynasty, and also the symbol of Qin.

There was a connection between the Shang dynasty and the Qin state enfeoffed by the Zhou dynasty.

The Qin dynasty carried the bloodline of the Shang dynasty's final descendants. It had inherited not only Shang's Black Bird totem, but also Shang technology.

However, immortal-path technology was simply too advanced and difficult for mortals to comprehend. Even with the key to the Shang ruins, and even though Qin kings had excavated them generation after generation, they had only barely achieved a breakthrough during the reign of Duke Xiao of Qin. With the aid of a talent like Shang Yang, Qin's rise became unstoppable from