Recorded Across Generations.
For Those Who Come After.
Shaped like an ox, with azure hide and standing on a single leg. It lives by the water, lingering in the shallows. Slow and halting, it never gives chase. It has no need to. When prey wanders beyond reach, it merely lifts its head. A gale tears across the water, overturns the quarry, and drags it back to shore. Those watching from afar swear a storm has come, but that is simply what the wind looks like over open water. Eat its heart, and the wind obeys you. What your leg cannot catch, the wind hunts down. What your hand cannot reach, the wind reaches. To kill a man a hundred paces away is no more than lifting a hand. But the curse of its lone leg comes with the gift. One of yours will never obey you again. You drag it behind you, moving in halting hops like the beast at the water's edge. You can summon a gale to sweep the plains, yet you can scarcely stand upright yourself. You can drive a gale across the whole of The Untamed, but never keep pace with it on one leg.
形如牛,苍身,只有一足。 它栖于水畔,独脚立于浅滩,动作迟缓,一步一顿,从不追猎。它不必追。风是它的脚,替它奔向它去不了的地方。猎物在远处,它不动,只抬头望一眼,风便自水面卷起,裹着漫天水沫扑过去,将那猎物掀翻、卷碎、拖回岸边。世人远远望见,只当是它带来了风雨,其实它从不唤雨,那不过是狂风掠过水面的模样。 食其心者,得这一身御风之能。你抬手,风便替你出手。你那条腿追不上的,风替你追上;你的手够不着的,风替你够着。远隔百步取人性命,从此于你不过抬手之间。 只是那独脚之患,也一并归了你。从此你有一条腿再不听使唤,只能拖着它,一跳一顿地挪,正如那水畔的独足之兽。你唤得来席卷八荒的狂风,自己却连稳稳站直都难。 你能驱风追至天涯,自己却只能独脚跳着,追在风的后头。
棲 流波之山 Mount Liubo
狀如牛,蒼身而無角,一足,出入水則必風雨,其光如日月,其聲如雷,其名曰夔。