Cangjie simply used the twig in his hand to trace the character for "bird" once, then closed his eyes and pondered for a while. When he opened his eyes, tears were streaming down his face. He had suffered countless hardships in creating characters. Some mocked him, while others sympathized with him. He had long been used to it. Seeing the "bird" character written by Xuantian, which was perfectly round and elegant with simple strokes, he realized that it was far superior to the two crooked and messy drawings he had made.
He bowed to Xuan Tian and said, "Daoist Master, you are truly a great man! The people of the prehistoric world will forever remember your great kindness and virtue!" He paused, threw away the branch in his hand, and sighed, "I, Cangjie, was arrogant and conceited. I spent twenty years trying to create characters, but I never expected that characters would already exist. I am truly ashamed."
Xuan Tian smiled, his figure blurred, revealing his true form, and said to Cang Jie, "I am Xuan Tian, the Sage of Penglai Island."
Cangjie was greatly surprised when he saw Xuantian's appearance. It was none other than the Holy Father whom his family had always worshipped. He quickly bowed and said, "Greetings, Holy Father. May you live a long and prosperous life. Please forgive my previous rudeness."
Xuan Tian helped him up and said, "I've come today specifically to take you as my disciple, Cangjie. Are you willing?"
"How could Cangjie dare to disobey the Holy Father's great kindness? Cangjie is willing." Cangjie immediately bowed again, overjoyed.
Xuan Tian laughed and said, "What I used just now was a clever trick. I borrowed your ideas and organized them to write the character 'bird.' I can't write the rest of the characters. Don't feel bad about it. I took you as my disciple because the people of the prehistoric world currently have no written characters. I only took you as my disciple because of your act of creating characters. Creating characters is to educate the people of the prehistoric world. It is a meritorious deed that will benefit thousands of generations. Don't give up. Continue to finish creating the unfinished characters! If you have any questions, you can ask me!"
Cangjie then realized that the Holy Father had come to take him as a disciple. Thinking that the Holy Father was extremely learned, he must have many insights into the creation of characters. He immediately asked Xuantian about the methods of character creation. Xuantian did not hold back, explaining to Cangjie the six principles of Chinese character creation summarized in later generations: pictographs, ideographs, phonetic compounds, associative compounds, semantic extensions, and phonetic loan characters. After listening, Cangjie felt as if the clouds had dispersed and the fog had cleared. Many things he had not understood before suddenly became clear. He looked up to the sky and exclaimed in admiration, "Master's knowledge is truly unparalleled in the primordial world! If I had met Master earlier, how could I have come to this?"
In order to enable Cangjie to create characters better, Xuantian took him to Penglai Island. Since there was no one left in his family, he settled down on Penglai Island.
On the day of the great war between the Lich King and the Demon King, Mount Buzhou collapsed, the sky shattered, and the waters of the Milky Way poured down. The waters of the Milky Way were the muddy waters of the Nine Heavens, so that even a goose feather could not float on them. The floodwaters poured down and drowned most of the survivors of the two races who had just experienced the war between the Lich King and the Demon King at the foot of Mount Buzhou. The remaining demon race was taken in by Nuwa and Tongtian, while the Lich King was taken in by Xuantian and placed among the fragments of the primordial world.
Putting all that aside, on that day, most of the Wu Clan's fighting force was led by the Ancestral Witches to storm the Heavenly Court, but a small number survived by guarding the Pangu Palace with the Great Witch Jiufeng. After the great battle, Jiufeng led her people out to search for their clansmen, but there was no trace of the Wu Clan. Now that all the Ancestral Witches were gone, they dared not call themselves the Wu Clan anymore. Helpless, they had no choice but to lead the remaining clansmen to hide their identities, calling themselves the Jiuli Tribe, and live among the humans.
After more than a thousand years of integration with the human race, the Jiuli tribe had grown to tens of millions of people. Because of their Wu ethnic bloodline, the Jiuli tribe was known for its martial spirit, with its people being strong, powerful, and highly skilled in martial arts. However, they were unruly and extremely unruly, and fighting was commonplace. Therefore, the teachings of Emperor Fuxi and Emperor Shennong were not able to reach the Jiuli tribe.
During the war between the Wu and Yao tribes, Chi You was killed by Taiyi with the Chaos Bell, but unlike other members of the Wu tribe, he did not return to the world after death. Chi You was an anomaly among the Wu tribes. In his youth, he had mistakenly eaten a magical herb, which gave him a primordial spirit. This greatly surprised the ancestral Wu tribes, who then ordered Chi You to draw a picture of the herb and search for it everywhere, but unfortunately, they never found it again, and the matter was eventually dropped. After Chi You was killed by Taiyi, a wisp of his true spirit drifted to the underworld and entered the cycle of reincarnation, where he was reborn in the Jiuli tribe.
One day, Chi You went hunting and went straight into the deep mountains, but he did not catch any animals. It was not because he was bad at hunting. Usually, Chi You relied on his superior skills and hunted the most animals in the tribe. But today he did not see a single animal. Chi You was very surprised and did not believe it. So he went deeper into the forest, determined to catch some prey.
As they were walking, suddenly the view opened up before them, and there stood a long black sword stuck in the ground. The sword exuded a fierce killing intent, and within a radius of a hundred feet, not a blade of grass grew. Chi You thought that the absence of birds and beasts in the forest must be due to the killing intent of this sword.
Just as Chi You was about to approach the blade, a black light suddenly enveloped the blade, and with a hum, it rose from the ground and slashed straight at Chi You. Caught off guard, Chi You hurriedly dodged, but the blade still cut his arm, splattering blood onto the blade. The blade trembled, turning from black to blood red, and flew above Chi You's head, circling three times before falling directly in front of him.
Chi You thought to himself, "That was close! Luckily, this blade was recognized as a master by chance; otherwise, I would have lost my life today."
With a thought, the knife flew directly into Chi You's hand. The moment Chi You touched the blade, he felt an icy chill travel from the knife into his mind. His head throbbed, and after a moment, Chi You remembered his entire past and present life.
It turns out that this sword was the Demon-Slaying Sword that Taiyi used to possess. Because it still retained Taiyi's obsession, it attacked the Wu tribe members as soon as it saw them. However, Chiyou unintentionally recognized it as his master. Stimulated by the Demon-Slaying Sword, Chiyou awakened his bloodline and remembered his past.
Remembering past events, Chi You found Jiu Feng and recounted what had happened to him. Jiu Feng was overjoyed. After Chi You's bloodline awakened, his cultivation level skyrocketed, and he achieved the body of a Great Witch. Jiu Feng had known Chi You before. At this time, all the Ancestral Witches of the Witch Clan had passed away, leaving only a few Great Witches. Now that there was another Chi You, she was naturally very happy. So Jiu Feng handed over the Jiuli tribe to Chi You to manage, and she herself lived under Chi You's command.
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