Chapter 125 Cang Li and Tai Qing, accompanied by...
Cangli and Taiqing took Jiexian back to the Eight Views Palace. Fuxi had already returned to his position. The human race had undergone many changes over the centuries. Hongyun, who was originally supposed to be reincarnated, was delayed for several hundred years before he was able to be reincarnated through the cycle of reincarnation because the business of the underworld was not smooth in the early stages.
At this time, the human race had developed to the point where it still retained its agricultural civilization. Among them was a person skilled in using fire. Without matches, he learned to preserve fire, discovered flint and steel, and revived some skills that had been severed by the great catastrophe. Therefore, he was called the Flame Emperor.
The cave in Cangli has long since disappeared. Taiqing moved everything inside to the Bajing Palace. There are two tribes living nearby: the Shaodian clan and the Youjiao clan. Both clans are under the jurisdiction of the Jiang clan of Emperor Yuyan.
A young couple from two different clans married and lived happily together. Two years later, they had their eldest daughter, Anong. This girl was born different from others. She held a scroll in her hand, and the writing on it was different from the writing they had learned. However, Anong was born with the ability to understand it. By the age of three, she had learned to pick herbs without a teacher and tasted the medicinal properties herself.
Cang Li and Tai Qing watched from the shadows for a while, and Cang Li was a little confused:
"Fellow Daoist Hongyun, were you reincarnated as a little girl?"
No one has ever said that Shennong Yandi was a woman.
Cang Li blinked. At first, when she saw Anong, she couldn't believe that he was the future Yan Emperor. It was only after seeing the familiar herbal encyclopedia that she dared to believe it.
Taiqing could see through Anong's past life at a glance, and nodded, saying:
"Yes, that's not surprising. Your human race has an equal number of male and female offspring. Fellow Daoist Hongyun just happened to be born as a female."
Cang Li watched the cute little girl, her hair disheveled and stuck in the bushes. She grabbed a blade of grass she had never seen before, examined it, and then stuffed it into her mouth. After chewing it a couple of times, she swallowed the grass with a wrinkled face. Then, she mumbled something as she pulled out a piece of tortoise shell and began carving something on it with a knife.
Out of curiosity, Cang Li quietly walked behind Anong and looked at the tortoise shell in Anong's arms. He then saw that the tortoise shell was painted with the grass that Anong had just eaten, and there was a short text description below it, which was written in oracle bone script that people can recognize today.
The label reads: Coptis chinensis, bitter and unpalatable, clears heat and detoxifies.
Cang Li almost burst out laughing, but thankfully she covered her mouth and took two steps back in time.
The next second, Anong looked back suspiciously, but seeing no one, he continued to squat down and do his own thing.
Cang Li patted his chest lightly, leaned against Tai Qing, and whispered:
“A-Nong is quite quick-witted; she noticed me after I stood behind her for a while.”
Taiqing said, "That's because she was the first cloud in the world, cultivated for so many years, and once possessed the primordial purple energy. The keenness in her soul cannot be erased."
Cang Li watched Anong grow up. After he was able to live independently, he built a big house for himself. The house gradually filled with tortoise shells, which recorded the properties of the herbs he had tried, and he used them to cure many complicated diseases.
In addition, Anong further subdivided crops and divided them into five categories for planting. Gradually, he accumulated a certain reputation, inherited the title of Emperor Yan, and became the new leader of the human race, leading the tribe to gradually grow stronger.
Cangli often corrects some of the errors in Anong's records in his dreams and discusses edible crops. Anong feels that he is valued by the heavens and protected by immortals.
After Ah Nong grew up, she had several children. The youngest one was born when she was thirty years old, and she was also the daughter who looked most like her.
Cang Li looked at the baby girl in Anong's arms and said to Tai Qing:
"This child is so cute."
Taiqing hesitated for a moment before asking, "You want to have a child?"
Cang Li immediately shook his head: "No, no, no, you know that back then, Ji Hejie and the other three were the only ones who were easy to deal with. Zhong and Yu were fighting almost every day, making a lot of noise. We shouldn't raise them. Look at other people's cute kids."
Taiqing thought for a moment and said, "It's not that we can't raise him. We have Xuandu at home. He's a very reliable senior brother. It's definitely okay to leave him with him."
Xuan Du: ? ? ?
Cang Li: "...Daoist, that's not how you use disciples. Besides, if you're going to raise a child and then not take responsibility, then don't raise them anymore. Children also need their parents' love. If you raise a child just because you're interested, and then abandon them to someone else after a few days because they're annoying, the child will have psychological trauma and may develop a distorted personality when they grow up."
Taiqing seemed to be deep in thought after hearing these words, and only asked after a while:
"So you took care of those five people because you were afraid they would go astray?"
Cang Li scratched his head: "That's not it. The main thing is that I didn't know this was the prehistoric world back then, and I didn't know that there were really gods and immortals. My mother was Nuwa. But at that time, there were only people there besides me. If they died, I would be alone... well, I guess I would be too lazy to live. Humans are social animals."
Taiqing frowned: "So Er became like this because you were too busy surviving to pay attention to him back then?"
Cang Li: "Huh? What are you talking about? What happened to your perfectly upright young man?"
Taiqing: "...Never mind, it's nothing." So, just because the Four Seas Dragon Clan refuses to submit, does that mean they intend to annihilate the upright and good young man of the Four Seas Dragon Clan?
The primordial world today is not like it was at the beginning of creation, where ruthless fighting for survival resources was necessary. Er's methods against the dragon clans of the four seas were too cruel, and even he had heard about it, but Cang Li was unaware of it.
The aquatic creatures of the four seas suffered countless casualties and could not hold out for long. Their ruthless methods were indeed effective. As long as the dragons were unwilling to watch the aquatic creatures perish, they would eventually bow down and submit.
Cang Li watched for a while longer. At this time, Anong's parents gave birth to another child. Strangely enough, it was extremely rare for a human to have a child at Anong's parents' age. This child was very strong from birth. He was comparable to a one-year-old baby at only one month old. He had clear eyes and began to speak human language at five months old.
"Master, this child is quite peculiar!"
Because the baby was so strange, Anong's parents almost abandoned him. It was Anong who took her brother back and asked her parents to take good care of him, offering to provide all the food. That's how the baby was saved from being abandoned in the wild.
Youjiao named the child Xuanyuan.
Cang Li was utterly shocked upon learning this, and said to Tai Qing:
"Xuanyuan!"
Taiqing: "Hmm? Xuanyuan, what does this have to do with your Xuanyuan Sword?"
Cang Li was so shocked that he was incoherent: "The Yellow Emperor!"
Taiqing: ...
Taiqing sighed and decided to go directly to see Xuanyuan, only to find that Xuanyuan's soul had no previous life. In other words, this Xuanyuan was a pure human, a soul born of the human race itself. Since the Six Paths of Reincarnation came into being, very few new souls have been born among the human race. They are basically reincarnated, and people from all races have been reborn into the human race.
This Xuanyuan is a completely human being.
After being shocked, Cang Li pondered for a moment and then said to Tai Qing very solemnly:
"Let's go south and take a look. I haven't been to see the humans there yet, and I don't know how they are doing."
The human race in the south was developed by Aqi. Cangli hasn't been there for a long time. Now that the Yellow Emperor has appeared, it's unlikely that Chiyou will appear in the Central Plains, so he has to go there to take a look.
At this time, the Jiuli had formed a large tribe. The people here showed some signs of atavism. Over the past few hundred years, the original witch tribe had long since mixed with the human race, and they were indeed better off than ordinary humans.
When Cang Li arrived, he saw that the people here were all wearing short-sleeved shirts and shorts because of the climate, and they were barefoot. Their hair was also much shorter. Everyone was strong and healthy, with a bronze complexion, and they were carrying weapons. They would start fighting at the slightest disagreement.
"...Which one is Chi You?"
As Cang Li looked around, she muttered to herself that the people here had a combination of human and shaman features, and most of them were handsome. She vaguely remembered that Chi You had eighty-one brothers with bronze heads and iron foreheads, and ears like swords and halberds. Although the records might be wrong, they were definitely not uncommon in appearance.
After taking Taiqing on a tour of Jiuli without finding their target, Cangli sighed and gave up.
"Forget it, let's stop looking, Daoist Master, let's go back." The Battle of Zhuolu was bound to happen, as it was the key to the unification of human culture. Afterwards, the Yellow Emperor became the ancestor of Chinese civilization, and together with the Yan Emperor, they built the Huaxia civilization. People after that were called the descendants of Yan and Huang.
Taiqing didn't know what Cangli was looking for, but seeing that Cangli seemed to have figured something out, she said:
"Since we're here, why not stay a few more days?"
Cang Li shook his head: "No, I have to go back and keep an eye on Anong." He couldn't let Anong really eat all the herbs that were said to kill him, like in the legends.
The two leisurely walked out of Jiuli. They hadn't gone far when, just as they were about to ride the clouds, they saw a group of people by the river, surrounding a thin old man with long, disheveled hair and ears that drooped to his shoulders. The one in the lead had an arrogant expression on his face.
"Witch! We've finally caught you! You've harmed the entire Miao village, and you still dare to come to Jiuli to wreak havoc on us!"
After saying this, he decisively killed the witch, and then used her corpse as a sacrifice to the river god. He then addressed his subordinates:
"Now that the witch has been eliminated, everyone can stop worrying. And don't listen to her lies about how there are vast and fertile lands to the north. Those are just old legends. If they were real, why didn't our ancestors go there? Would we still be here eating the mountain food and drinking the water, occasionally getting poisoned?"
Those around sighed, "The leader is right. If our ancestors really were here, why didn't they go?"
Cang Li: ...
Alright, we've found Chi You. The one who made the move was Chi You. No wonder they say he had a bronze head and an iron forehead; it turns out he was wearing a hat made of some kind of metal from who-knows-where, and the hat even had horns on it. Isn't this just pure misinformation?
Cang Li shook his head and was about to leave when Chi You's gaze suddenly swept sharply over him. He raised his hand to stop the people behind him, gripped his axe tightly, and cautiously walked towards Cang Li, saying as he went:
"Watch out, there's something there."
Cang Li was startled, then looked up and mouthed to Tai Qing:
"He saw us?" No way.
Taiqing shook his head slightly, took Cangli and flew up. Looking down, he saw a huge spotted python suddenly emerge from where they had just been standing. It was as thick as three people combined and could swallow more than ten people in one gulp.
Upon seeing the python appear, Chi You immediately shouted an order:
"We've found a big one! Let's take it back and everyone can have a good meal!"
He then charged forward without the slightest fear.
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