Chapter 50 Ancestors
Adu now comes to take care of Sanxiu every day. After talking to them more, Gu Qingqing has roughly pieced together their origins.
Gu Qingqing guessed correctly. It turned out that Adu and the others were indeed descendants of the Witch Clan. However, they were different from the Lich Clan that Gu Qingqing had encountered on the reef island. The one she had encountered before was actually a Lich-Demon hybrid.
If the ancient ancestral witches could come back to life, seeing this scene of the Lich Clan would probably make them want to die again on the spot.
But this is not the fault of the Lich Clan; they were helpless as well.
According to the Wu tribe's autobiography, the Wu tribe was transformed from the hair of their ancestral goddess, Nuwa.
After separating heaven and earth, Nuwa died from exhaustion, but her wish was not fulfilled.
His enormous body fell to the ground, and his mind transformed into the will of heaven and earth, soaring into the clouds to continue carrying out the tasks assigned by the division of heaven and earth.
Organs differentiated and gave birth to various ancient gods to work for them; the flesh transformed into undulating mountains; blood vessels into rushing rivers; and bones gave birth to ancestral trees that could continue to support heaven and earth.
Hair then transforms into myriad races.
Among them, the Dragon Clan dredged waterways, the Phoenix Clan managed mountain ranges, and all the clans walked on the earth. Each clan held certain authority and tested the various functions of the new world. The Witch Clan was one of the major clans.
Everything was arranged perfectly.
However, as time went on, some of the ancient gods began to feel dissatisfied with their own decline, while others simply refused to associate with weaker races because of their own strength.
They seized the mountains, built palaces in the heavens, captured the will of heaven to forge their destiny, felled the ancestral tree that connected heaven and earth, and drove the tribes that submitted to them to sever the roots of the ancestral tree.
The powerful ancestral witches of the witch clan disagreed with this matter, so they were suppressed and gradually driven to the desolate sea area.
Years of wars decimated the Wu tribe, causing it to decline. Meanwhile, the ancient gods not only conquered all races but also created the Celestial Race, which resembled the Wu tribe.
Since ancient times, in order to slow down their own decline, the gods severed all the spiritual veins of the Nine Provinces. After that, fierce winds swept across the desolate sea, and the Witch Clan suffered even more.
Although they went through many hardships to find several spirit crystal mines, this amount of capital was not enough to fight against the powerful celestial palaces.
Ultimately, in another battle, nine of the ancestral witches of that generation died, one was wounded, and one was on the verge of death. According to their last wishes, the successor took away the corpses of the nine ancestral witches, as well as the clansmen who were willing to follow.
The remaining old, weak, sick, and disabled were sealed off from heaven and earth by the dying ancestral witch who sacrificed her own flesh and blood to create a seal, which has been passed down from generation to generation to the present day.
Gu Qingqing listened with disdain, not because what the little girl said was different from what she had heard when she was in the Fire Fox Clan;
Rather, there's no need to verify these old sayings passed down through generations; everyone's ancestor wasn't the Goddess Nuwa.
As for who is right and who is wrong, Gu Qingqing said that whoever has the bigger fist is the successor of the ancestral god and the agent of the heavens.
Just listen to stories about grudges and love affairs as they come.
Surprisingly, this branch of the Wu clan that left the tribe actually embarked on the path of intermarriage with other tribes, which surprised Gu Qingqing.
When she was a child, she had heard of the great name of the Witch Clan. They were a tough nut to crack that the heavenly palaces had been trying to crack for many years.
"To survive, everything can be abandoned."
Gu Qingqing stared coldly at her messy, mottled hair, wondering whether she was referring to the witch clan or herself.
"Sigh, I'm the only one who woke up." A melancholy Gu Qingqing slapped Ji Rong with her paw.
Loneliness made the fox ponder deeply. Gu Qingqing sighed, "Ji Rong, wake up quickly, Ji Zhuang, wake up quickly. If you don't wake up soon, my heart will be filled with ashes."
In fact, Gu Qingqing can walk now, and the Wu tribe has not restricted her movements, but the memory of her many escapes makes her extremely nervous.
She always felt that if she left the cave, Ji Rong and Ji Zhuang would disappear; so she stubbornly refused to go out, even though she really wanted to go out and bask in the sun.
Adu noticed Gu Qingqing's longing for sunlight, asked for her opinion, and then rolled all the wooden stakes that separated the cave from the sun out. He also made the windows large and low, and fixed the wooden stakes at the base of the windows.
She would do it with her younger brother, A'xiao, and the two of them would always come after the physical training was over.
They worked for many days, and every piece of wood bore the sweat of their labor. Seeing this warmed Gu Qingqing's heart.
As the project was nearing completion, she rummaged through her storage ring and finally found a decent-quality mid-grade spiritual herb. She put it in a jade box and handed it to Adu. She raised her head, glanced at him, and pretended to be nonchalant, saying, "Well done, here you go."
Adu's eyes lit up when he saw the jade box, but he didn't take it; instead, he kept backing away. A'xiao quickly stepped forward and took it, sweetly saying, "Thank you, Sister Fox."
Gu Qingqing was extremely satisfied, and her tail, which had been drooping, instantly rose high.
That's great! So this is the right way to raise cubs!
After receiving the gifts, Adu and Axiao worked even harder. They wove curtains for the windows and thick mats for the wooden stakes. Although they were ordinary items, they were very soft.
Looking at these cushions, Gu Qingqing couldn't help but think of her beautiful cushion woven from fire spirit grass and heart-clearing grass, and her heart ached.
The incident happened suddenly, and apart from the ring, all of their other belongings were left on the rocky island, presumably turned to ashes by lightning.
With the sunlight, Gu Qingqing would often squat on the window to bask in the sun. Sometimes, as she watched Adu turn Ji Rong and Ji Zhuang over, she would think to herself with a sinister glint in her eyes: "When these two wake up, I'll make them search the world for spiritual herbs to weave a comfortable herb mat for me."
But the chicks couldn't hear her inner cries.
Thus, Gu Qingqing and her companions drank the spiritual soup and soaked in the spiritual herbs every few days, and five years passed in the blink of an eye.
Gu Qingqing's wounds have healed, her fur has grown back, and her storage ring is almost empty.
Ji Rong and Ji Zhuang both gained weight.
Ji Rong, in particular, now has a rosy complexion and no longer shows any trace of the way she was once drained of her energy, yet she still hasn't woken up.
Gu Qingqing was anxious watching this, and often carried a chicken-head fan with her every day.
The wait is long!
In fact, Gu Qingqing had given up hope of their awakening by the end of the second year, but she still couldn't bear to let them go.
She would often hear their voices and see their figures in a daze.
With a few thoughts in mind, I said, "Qingqing, let's go out and play. We'll dig a hole and bury them. We can just dig them out when we come back."
But the thought of digging up two birds covered in dust made Gu Qingqing resolutely shake her head and dismiss the idea.
Nowadays, she often travels all over the island, and wherever she goes, she uses her tail to curl up Ji Rong and Ji Zhuang and take them with her.
Lately, Gu Qingqing has been sitting on the cliff every day, enjoying the wind and sun. She often puts Ji Rong and Ji Zhuang down, flicks their tails and says, "I've only been waiting for more than five years, and I haven't seen you wake up. I often think about just throwing you off this cliff."
How could you two have taken such good care of me for ten years? You two are really strange!
Then she whipped herself again and said, "I got whipped too. See, now it's fair."
Just then, a tree root climbed up Gu Qingqing's face. Gu Qingqing was so startled that her hair stood on end. She thought she was hallucinating again, so she took a step back and fell down.
Just as Gu Qingqing calmed herself down and was about to use her tail as a leap point to climb up and find her chicks, a pair of familiar colorful wings appeared before her eyes.
Ji Rong, who was quite obese, grinned with her beady eyes. She stretched her neck down and caught the falling Gu Qingqing steadily.
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