Gun and Taowu (Please Subscribe)

Hearing this, Yu Chen turned to look at the newcomer and asked another rather important question.

"May I ask, in what capacity are you saying this? As an envoy of His Majesty the Black Emperor, as Gun, father of Xia's ancestor King Yu, or as the ferocious beast Taowu?"

As he spoke, Yu Chen met the man's gaze. Black mist surged around this person's body, with faint watery glimmers. Divine markings guarded his brow, and at first glance, he resembled a fiendish god.

Yet the image formed by his aura behind him was a beast shaped like a tiger, furred like a dog, with a human-like face, tiger-like legs, boar-like tusks protruding from its mouth, and a tail eighteen feet long that swayed ceaselessly behind it. Strands of black mist churned the void along with that tail, muddying the distinctions between righteousness and wickedness, good and evil.

The beast's form was precisely that of the ferocious beast Taowu.

The reason Yu Chen had asked who the newcomer was stemmed from the exceedingly complicated relationship between Taowu and Gun.

Back when floods ravaged the Central Plains, Gun happened to sit in the position of commander of the Gonggong Clan.

Of course, by then, the Gonggong Clan and Xiangyou no longer had a superior-subordinate relationship. After the Black Emperor Zhuanxu suppressed the water god Gonggong, the Gonggong tribe underwent a lengthy reorganization and eventually fell under the control of Zhuanxu's descendant, Gun.

Gun's bloodline was also rather intriguing. As a descendant of the Black Emperor, his bloodline should originally have been closer to that of the Human Sovereign, manifesting the aspect of earth. But after he took command of the Gonggong tribe, his bloodline became one where water and earth mutually generated one another. It was precisely this unique bloodline trait that