The Most Three Dreaded Dragons of Honghuang Era

Do you know the three most evil dragons in ancient mythology?

The second one is Bingyi, who is comparable to Yinglong in strength, but can only barely rank second.

The first one is even hailed as the ancestor of all dragons.

Black Dragon: Heilong (黑龙)

It is said that in ancient times, a powerful black dragon appeared in Jizhou, controlling the North Sea.

Legend has it that he is the ancestor of the Dragon King of the North Sea, and also one of the generals under the Water God Gonggong.

He has great magical power. He once followed Gonggong to fight against the Fire God Zhurong.

But after Gonggong angrily destroyed Mount Buzhou, the sky collapsed and the earth cracked.

Mount Buzhou is an ancient Chinese mythological mountain which, according to old texts, lay to the northwest of the Kunlun Mountains, in a location today referred to as the Pamir Mountains. It is the mountain said to have supported the heavens.

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The flood poured in and the Black Dragon stirred up waves in the flood, harming the creatures, slaughtering the people, and making the people of Jizhou suffer.

So Nuwa refined five-colored stones to mend the sky, cut off Ao’s feet (Ao is a Giant Turtle) to support the four poles, and killed the Black Dragon to save Jizhou.

Bingyi (冰夷)

Legend has it that when the chaos first opened, the Kunlun Mount gave birth to an ancient dragon.

This dragon has great magical power and is one of the Five Evil Dragons in ancient mythology.

Bingyi’s image first appeared in the Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas).

It is recorded that Bingyi lives in the abyss of the Antarctic. He can spit out the cold wind with his mouth.

It is said that Bingyi’s character is extremely violent. Wherever he goes, water turns to ice, the ground is frosty, nothing can grow.

Zulong: Ancestral Dragon (祖龙)

Legend has it that at the beginning of the ancient times, Zulong, Yuanfeng (Ancestral Phoenix), and Shi Qilin (Ancestral Qilin), the three great divine beasts, were born in the chaos.

Zulong controls the ocean.

Yuanfeng controls the sky.

Shi Qilin dominates the land.

Later, the ambitious Zulong tried to dominate the whole ancient world. He led many dragons to start a war, slaughtered the different races.

Causing the three great races to suffer.

Some mythologies, because he killed too much, his luck (气运 – Qì yùn) ran out. He was finally imprisoned under the Kunlun Mountains, never be able to stand up again.

The war known as the Longhan First Tribulation brought the three tribes – Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin – to the brink of extinction, forever altering the landscape of the ancient world.

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