On the 20th of the first month of the 5562nd year of the Great Wilderness Imperial Calendar, Gonggong struck Buzhou Mountain, causing the sky to collapse and the earth to tilt to the southeast. The Earth Goddess Nuwa refined stones to mend the sky, but died from exhaustion.
From then on, every year on the 20th of January, the people of the wilderness would spontaneously worship Nuwa, with the most solemn worship of Nuwa herself.
One hundred years after mending the heavens, Suiren rose to power, becoming invincible for a century. He sealed three of the ten savage beasts of the wilderness and infused his own supreme true energy into the wilderness.
Any tribe that recites the "Incantation of Life" can obtain the heavenly fire of Suirenshi to defend against enemies and be free from the interference of wild beasts.
In the 23rd year of the Great Wilderness Emperor's Calendar, with the help of heavenly fire, the wilderness flourished. Suirenshi ordered all tribes in the world to rush to Sacred Snake Mountain on the 20th of the first month to worship Nuwa.
On January 20th, Suirenshi used the Heaven-given Human Emperor Sword for the first time, commanding the wilderness. On that day, whether in the frigid Arctic or the fiery Southern Wilderness, all flowers bloomed.
On Mount Sacred Snake, the Nuwa flowers bloom in profusion, stretching endlessly, turning winter into spring.
From then on, the Nuwa Flower never withered again, and January 20th became the day for mending the sky.
But no myth lasts forever; even the greatest achievements will eventually be forgotten.
Today, the significance of the Heaven-Mending Ceremony in worshipping Nuwa has faded. Various ethnic groups gather to trade, compete, entertain themselves, or discuss important matters of the wilderness under the auspices of the Human Emperor (later the Heavenly Emperor).
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Li Changzhou put down the animal skin that recorded the history of the barbaric lands. The oil lamp had already been extinguished, and the sky outside the window was just beginning to lighten, a moment before dawn.
Today is January 20th again.
He stood up, walked out of the main hall, and stood on the platform in front of the hall.
Just one step away is a cliff, and below the cliff is a training platform where, even today, the young men and women of the Nuwa clan are still honing their skills.
He brandished a black broadsword with both hands.
The black sword was forged from black iron from the shady side of Dragon Head Mountain, and it weighed exactly a thousand catties, about the size of Li Changzhou's fist.
"Tail!"
Snap!
The elder, as if he were about to kill someone, mercilessly slapped a girl away, sending her flying and creating a small crater in the ground.
The others' eyes twitched, beads of sweat streamed down their cheeks, and they subconsciously raised their tails.
The snake's tail is completely wrapped with square blocks of Wei River rock, each the size of a grain of rice and weighing a thousand kilograms.
They used snake tails to coil around rocks and practiced swordsmanship with both hands.
"As members of the snake clan, your tails are naturally agile, so you must train your hands! You must train your hands to be as agile as your tails!"
The elder walked around, like a venomous snake—he was a venomous snake to begin with—staring at every boy and girl.
Whenever her tail twitched, the boys and girls nearby would close their eyes tightly, bracing themselves for a beating.
"Okay, put it down."
"call!"
Before everyone could catch their breath, the elder continued, "Transform into the Five Virtues Body and cultivate true qi."
The expressions on the faces of those boys and girls were like those of someone who, before a three-day holiday, after handing out three test papers, then pulled out three piles of them, looking so distressed they didn't want to speak.
"Elder, can I continue body tempering instead of cultivating true qi?"
"Yes, even if you cultivate true qi, why would you want to become a body of five virtues? Walking on two legs is slow and inconvenient, and your body will be as small as a child's."
The elder smiled.
"Oh no! Get out of the way!" a girl shouted.
The elder exhaled a breath of true energy, and the gale almost solidified into a giant wave, sweeping up the rocks and black iron swords on the ground and hurling them down on the young man and woman like a torrential rain.
With a single breath, thousands of boys and girls collapsed to the ground, wailing in agony.
"Shall we practice or not?" the elder asked slowly.
"Practice! Let's practice!"
The girl who had shouted "Get out of the way!" was the first to jump up. Her snake tail turned into legs, and her body, which was more than two meters tall, became only one and a half meters tall.
She manipulated other people's legs, then positioned herself with her legs crossed, and began to cultivate her inner energy.
The elder nodded: "Yi'er, you don't need to come tomorrow."
"Really?" The girl opened her eyes.
Peng!
It was whipped away by a tail.
"Not virtuous enough? Clean up Holy Serpent Mountain for a month!" Ignoring Sheyi's screams, the elder roared at the others, "Is he dead? Get up!"
The bruised and battered boys and girls sat up one by one, transforming into unfamiliar bodies of the Five Virtues.
Once the young men and women had all begun cultivating their inner energy, the elder suppressed his anger and slowly said:
"In the ancient times, all things in the wilderness cultivated their physical bodies, breathing in and out with a single breath, which was all false energy. It wasn't until Fuxi encountered a divine tortoise in the Luo River that he comprehended the Heavenly Book from its shell, cultivated a body of five virtues, and became the first to refine the energy of heaven and earth, obtain true energy, and become the Heavenly Emperor."
"From then on, all the barbarian tribes followed suit, but only those at the imperial level and a very few at the divine level could cultivate the body of the Five Virtues."
"When the Goddess Nuwa is born, she will use her heaven-reaching wisdom to perform the divine work of creation. From then on, all clans and tribes, as long as they have some talent and are born into the right family, will be able to cultivate the body of the Five Virtues and practice true qi."
"You snake bastards have been able to cultivate with the Five Virtues Body since you were young, and you're still not satisfied? All of you, practice properly!"
But today was the Heaven-Mending Assembly, so the elders only allowed everyone to cultivate for half the usual time before dismissing them.
The boy and girl's legs transformed into snake tails, and they cheered as they flew away.
The elder looked up and met Li Changzhou's gaze from the cliff. His previously fierce expression had now turned into a beautiful and radiant one.
Li Changzhou stepped off the cliff and walked down step by step.
A strong wind swept through, blowing up countless Nuwa flowers, and he casually picked one up and held it in his hand.
"I picked these especially for you," he said with a smile, handing the flowers over.
She Man'er rolled her eyes at him: "Do you think I'm blind? Don't I see you were picked up from the sky?"
"Don't bother."
She Man'er snatched it away: "Who said I didn't want it!"
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