Chapter 41 — The Blackwater Serpent
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Note 1: From the "Classic of Mountains and Seas, Classic of the Great Wilderness, South": South of the Blackwater there is a dark serpent, which eats deer. There is the Mountain of Wu, and west of it the Yellow Bird. The Emperor's elixir, eight chambers. The Yellow Bird is on the Mountain of Wu, and governs this dark serpent.
Another annotation: from the "Chapter on Divine, Demonic, and Strange Beasts" — the Blackwater Mystic Serpent: a colossal serpent, black of body and white of belly, with green eyes; its girth exceeds four zhang and its length surpasses a hundred zhang. It fed upon the elixir of the immortals and so does not die; its lifespan stretches beyond ten thousand years. It dwells in the great marshes of the West, and is also said to dwell in the sea.