The Emperor Xuanyuan once cast fifteen mirrors.

These fifteen ancient mirrors are engraved with the Four Elephants, Eight Trigrams, and Twelve Tens, and the back of the ancient mirror is engraved with the four holy beasts of Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu surrounded by the four sides, and the center is depicted with a unicorn.

Fifteen precious mirrors, each of which is sized according to the width of the mirror. The largest side is one foot five inches in diameter, then arranged downward in turn, and the smallest is only one inch in diameter.

Legend has it that these fifteen ancient Xuanyuan mirrors all have special functions, and they were later left in the world without a trace.

There is a county magistrate in the Jiangnan area. There is a treasure mirror left by his ancestors in his house. It is rumored that this ancient mirror has a mirror surface like water waves, and it can also exorcise demons and ward off evil spirits and eliminate diseases.

One night, the county magistrate was fast asleep in his room when he suddenly heard the sound of a woman crying in the bedroom, sobbing and sobbing continuously. He was so scared that he hurriedly called his attendants, put on his clothes, got out of bed, and looked around. When he walked into the hall, he found that the cry was actually coming from the ancient mirror of the family.

Just as he was astonished, the figure of a woman suddenly appeared in the mirror. The woman was wearing a red robe and looked beautiful. A green jade hairpin on her head slowly walked out of the mirror.

When the county magistrate saw the woman walking out of the mirror, he was so scared that he retreated and asked, "Who are you?" Why did you come out of the mirror?

The woman in the mirror said, "You don't have to be afraid, I am the elf in this mirror, named Chi Xi. Outside the county you are in charge of, there is a village that is being killed by monsters, and the lives of the whole village will be lost. I am worried about the tragic death of the villagers, so I cry here.

After hearing this, the county magistrate was very puzzled and asked. Fairy in the mirror, the lower official did not receive any reports from the surrounding areas that there were demons. Moreover, there were no disasters in the county, and the people were well off with plenty of food and clothing. Where is there any monster at work?

This monster has not yet been born to harm people, but lives in Shuozhou Village, 5 miles away from Chixi, the county seat. There is a thousand-year-old tree in the village, which is the size of Chixi and several people. It is the roost of the monster. It is fine, but the monster is a giant snake with a strange poison, which has corroded the ancient tree for a long time. The fruits that have been produced in the past few years have been contaminated and contain highly poisonous.

However, the villagers are ignorant and grab the fruit. Even if Hua Tuo is alive, he cannot be cured for a long time. Only one death. I implore the county magistrate to take me to beg for the lives of the people and kill the monsters.

After hearing what Fairy said, the county magistrate immediately agreed, which was related to the safety of the people. This is the arrangement of the lower official. Fairy saw that the county magistrate had agreed, so she returned to the bronze mirror and disappeared.

At this time, the county magistrate suddenly woke up, only to realize that he had just had a dream, but what he saw in the dream was like a personal experience. He sat on the bed and thought for a long time. Decided to follow what the fairy in the dream said. Go to Shuozhou Village to have a look.

The woman in the mirror said, "You just need to take the ancient mirror with you, and the strange python will not harm you. When you see a villager who is poisoned, you just need to shine the mirror on his abdomen, and in a moment, the poison will be dissolved. After you have cleared all the poisons from the people in the village, hang the ancient mirror on the thousand-year-old jujube tree, and wait until the night is over, then go and take off the ancient mirror, and then I will kill the strange python."

The next morning, he got up early and dressed neatly. After calling everyone in the yamen, he set off for Shuozhou Village.

As soon as they entered the village, as the fairy in the mirror had said, it was already desolate, and the popularity was ridiculed. Every household had someone poisoned. At least one person was poisoned, and most all the family members were poisoned.

The county magistrate hurriedly took out the old mirror and pointed the mirror at abdomen of the villagers. He saw that the villagers' faces were no longer livid, and their skin began to recover elasticity, no longer like zombies. After a quarter of an hour, the villagers gradually woke up.

Therefore, the county magistrate ordered all the poisoned people to be gathered in one room, hung the treasure mirror in the house, and treated the villagers for poisoning. The treatment was not completed until the moon rose.

After doing this, he asked the villagers where the thousand-year-old story in the village was. It meant that there was a giant snake living in the ancient tree that had become a spirit. This time the poisoning was caused by the monster. Let the villagers take him to the ancient tree.

The county magistrate hung the ancient mirror on the tree according to Fairy Chi Xi's words. The celebrity observed from a distance, and when it was midnight, he suddenly heard a storm outside, dark clouds billowing in the sky, covering the sky and closing the moon, and lightning as thick as a bucket struck the ancient tree. Suddenly up and down, it was as if he wanted to blow the ancient tree to powder before he was willing.

Everyone was so scared that they couldn't sleep all night. When the sky was bright, the county magistrate took everyone to the side of the ancient tree. To their surprise, they found a huge snake lying next to the tree. The strange snake was covered in purple scales, and the sun shone brightly. There was a pair of horns on the turquoise triangle head, and the word king was clearly visible on the top of the head. The skin was blown open by lightning.

The county magistrate ordered the villagers to cut down the ancient tree and burn the giant snake on the spot. Since then, there has been no incident of the giant snake causing harm to the villagers.