Chapter 119: Yuanshi and Tongtian Meet Taiqing...
Yuanshi and Tongtian rose as Taiqing and Cangli returned.
"Big brother, you're back."
As they spoke, they looked at Cang Li, as they still couldn't bring themselves to call her "sister-in-law."
Cang Li didn't mind at all, and said with a grin:
"What's wrong? You went out for a bit and don't recognize me? Hmm... maybe you don't want to call me sister-in-law?"
Tongtian/Yuanshi: ...
The two looked away, inwardly condemning Taiqing.
Cang Li laughed heartily, and after he had laughed enough, he looked at the two brothers and said, "Alright, alright, I won't tease you anymore. Call me whatever you used to call me, I don't mind."
It has to be said that Yuan Shi breathed a sigh of relief. He was a man who valued etiquette the most, and with Cang Li saying this, he no longer needed to worry about it.
Tongtian asked Cangli, "Cangli, what did you and my elder brother do at the teacher's place?"
Cang Li took out the lotus petals and said, "I went to ask about something, and the Dao Ancestor even gave me a gift."
Yuanshi and Tongtian looked over, both somewhat surprised. Yuanshi took a lotus petal and said:
"I'll forge a robe for you. Keep it here for now. I'm still missing some materials. I'll forge it for you when I have all the materials."
Cang Li nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, the Taoist priest said he would help you refine it when we came back!"
Tongtian pondered for a moment and said, "I still have dragon scales and phoenix feathers there. I'll have Duobao send them over later."
Yuanshi nodded. Dragon scales and phoenix feathers are hard to find these days. What Tongtian has must be from the ancient dragon and phoenix clans. Even if we find dragon scales and phoenix feathers now, they probably won't be as good as the ones Tongtian gave us. Since we're going to make a magic robe for Cangli, we should naturally use the best materials.
"How is the teacher?"
After Yuanshi put away the lotus petals, he asked Hongjun again, "I haven't been to Zixiao Palace since it was closed."
Taiqing nodded: "It seems there's nothing seriously wrong."
Tongtian said from the side, "What could be wrong with our teacher? He's probably almost reached the Dao Integration stage, otherwise we wouldn't be wandering around like this now."
Yuanshi nodded subconsciously, feeling that Tongtian's words made sense.
Cang Li yawned, squinted, and leaned against Tai Qing; she was feeling a little sleepy.
Upon seeing this, Yuanshi frowned and instinctively began to lecture him:
"You're too lazy, which makes cultivation difficult..."
Before he could finish speaking, Taiqing looked over.
Yuanshi: ...
Yuanshi got up and left. Forget it, it's pointless to say anything.
Tongtian suppressed a laugh and followed him away, realizing that his second brother really couldn't do anything about Cang Li.
Taiqing turned her head and asked Cangli in a low voice, "Go back to your room to sleep?"
Cang Li thought for a moment: "I can't sleep inside."
Feeling sleepy now doesn't mean you'll feel sleepy even when you're in bed; maybe moving around will make you feel sleepy again.
So Cang Li didn't move, and neither did Tai Qing. They even adjusted their posture to make Cang Li more comfortable.
In fact, what Yuanshi said was not wrong. Once you reach a certain level of cultivation, you don't need to sleep anymore. Cangli just hasn't been cultivating for long enough and hasn't gotten rid of this habit yet. He likes to close his eyes and take a nap whenever he has nothing to do.
However, this time Cang Li really fell asleep, and in his sleep, he vaguely returned to the human race.
The human race has changed quite a bit. She didn't know how many years had passed since she left the human world, but it seemed like more than just a year or two, because she saw that Hua Xu's face had matured, and the short, clumsy Fu Xi had grown into a tall and slender young man.
Hua Xu seemed to be handing over the position of tribal leader to Fu Xi. Many humans were witnessing this scene. Hua Xu handed a finely crafted pottery axe to Fu Xi, then said something to the people of the tribe. Soon everyone cheered and began to sing and dance to celebrate the birth of the new leader.
Cang Li was very pleased that people had developed their own history.
Another voice in her mind told her that it wasn't enough. Humans only live for a few decades before forgetting the things that happened at the beginning of their lives. Humans shouldn't forget; they should record these things.
Cang Li opened her eyes abruptly, and the first thing she saw was Tai Qing's concerned gaze.
That's right, people should record history because what people are best at is learning from history and avoiding repeating the same mistakes.
Cang Li looked at Tai Qing with bright eyes: "I want to go back to the human race."
She initially felt that people no longer needed her, so she was somewhat listless. However, after calming down during this period, Cang Li realized that there was still a lot she hadn't finished teaching.
After saying this, Cang Li's cultivation level relaxed slightly.
Taiqing paused for a moment and said:
"good."
So when Yuanshi and Tongtian came to Taiqing to ask when to formally become Daoist partners after discussing the matter, they found that Taiqing and Cangli were not there and they didn't know where they had gone. Xuandu knew nothing about it either.
Tongtian: "...Second Brother, is Eldest Brother playing a trick on us?"
Yuanshi: "..."
Taiqing and Cangli have already gone to the mortal realm.
After leaving the human race, they returned to Kunlun, then went to Zixiao Palace, and stayed in Kunlun for a while. Ten years had passed in the human world.
The changes of time are like fleeting clouds in the eyes of immortals.
Hua Xu also showed signs of aging. She was considered long-lived among humans, having lived for over forty years since birth. There weren't many of the second-generation humans born in the same year as her left. Illness, accidents, and overwork can shorten a person's lifespan.
Fuxi took over as her leader, and he did a good job. He led his people to identify plants that were edible and that could be used to treat simple diseases, as well as the meridians and acupoints of the human body... Under the leadership of the new leader, the human race had gained some more skills than before.
Hua Xu sat by the stream, basking in the sun, looking towards her homeland in the distance. She felt that she might not have many years left to live. She wanted to go back to the cave where she was born, and she also wanted to see Cang Li one more time. She wondered if she could see the Great Chief again before she died.
"Mother, you haven't been feeling well lately, so please don't sit by the stream for too long."
The mild-mannered teenager looked at Huaxu with some concern.
Hua Xu waved her hand: "What's the big deal? I've fished in the water plenty of times before. I'm perfectly healthy. Don't worry about me, just go about your business..."
As Hua Xu spoke, she suddenly stopped, gripping the wooden stick in her hand, and said:
"Child, I suddenly want to go back and take a look."
Fuxi asked, somewhat puzzled, "Go back to where?"
Hua Xu looked into the distance with a touch of nostalgia and said:
“The place where I was born wasn’t as populated as it was back then. My mother was among the first humans. They lived along the Yellow River. The chief lived with us, separated by a small river. It was a vast plain, much more suitable for farming than our place. I think I don’t have many years left, and I really want to go back and see it before I die.”
Maybe I'll get to see the Great Leader again.
Fuxi's heart skipped a beat: "Mother, are you saying that land is fertile? Wouldn't that be a more suitable place for humankind to live?"
Hua Xu nodded: "Yes, but at that time, because there were suddenly too many people, we couldn't fit them all, so we moved out with everyone. Speaking of which, it's been almost thirty years since I last saw your Aunt Qi. I wonder how she is doing."
Fuxi said to Huaxu:
“Mother, this place is not suitable for human habitation. It is too watery and low-lying. When it rains, the crops we plant cannot be harvested at all. Let us lead the tribe to migrate to the place you mentioned.”
Hua Xu was taken aback: "Move back? But there are already tribes there, and the chief said that tribesmen cannot fight each other."
Fuxi laughed: "Mother, the past is the past. Now I am the leader of the human race. I can make the people live better. Why don't we migrate? In recent years, the harvest in the fields has been getting better and better. In winter, the people can hardly get enough to eat. If this continues, our tribe will only starve to death."
Hua Xu hesitated, unable to make a decision. Finally, she said to Fu Xi:
“You’re right, you’re the leader. If you have any decisions to make, you don’t need to tell me, just do them directly.”
Hua Xu was never one to cling to the past. If she had, she wouldn't have taken the initiative to leave the cave and move elsewhere.
Fuxi acted quickly and had just harvested a crop. The weather wasn't too cold either. Following the route Huaxu had given them, they could reach the cave before it got cold to spend the winter. Next year, they could cultivate the land and plant crops, and they would get even more food on the fertile soil.
The migration began here, with most people following Fuxi, while a small number of those unwilling to undertake the long journey stayed behind.
Cang Li and Tai Qing have returned to the cave. They haven't been here for a long time, and the grass outside the cave has grown as tall as a person, almost the same as when Cang Li first transmigrated here.
"Why is no one taking care of this land? It's such a waste."
Cang Li stood at the entrance of the cave, looking down at the lush weeds below and sighing.
Before they left, they placed a protective spell on the cave, and everything inside was preserved exactly as it was. Cang Li's hoe, axe, pots and pans were all neatly placed inside.
Taiqing cast a dust-removing spell, tidied up the cave, hesitated for a while without touching anything in the large cave, and instead went to the small cave next door to take out the jade bed, table and chairs from his Qiankun bag and set them up.
Cang Li flew up and glanced at the other side of the river, only to find that it seemed no one lived there anymore, and it was overgrown with weeds. It seemed that the tribes in the vicinity had all moved away.
"So they all moved away. No wonder this place is deserted. But this place is so suitable for farming, why did they all move away?"
The number of humans who originally lived here was not large after they were massacred by the demon race. Later, due to disease and inheritance issues, they eventually abandoned this place and migrated to other tribes.
Over time, the place fell into disrepair.
Cang Li started clearing away the weeds and cleaning the entrance to the cave. He walked from the cave entrance towards the river. The bridge over the river was still usable, but it was covered with a layer of moss because of the diary entries. Cang Li took two steps on it and even jumped, but the bridge didn't budge.
After crossing the bridge, Cang Li saw traces of collapsed houses in the grass.
Just as Cang Li started weeding, her ears twitched. She seemed to hear a lot of people walking over. Cang Li looked up, but her view was obscured by weeds, so she flew up again and hovered in mid-air, looking into the distance.
Sure enough, a large crowd of people, like tiny ants, slowly moved towards them from a hundred miles away.
Cang Li's eyes lit up when she saw Fuxi and Huaxu leading the way. She had just been thinking about how to get people to live here again, and now Huaxu and Fuxi had moved here. She didn't have to worry anymore; she could just wait here for Fuxi and the others to set up camp here again.
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