Chapter Eighteen: Creating Witchcraft Texts

  Returning to Bu Zhou Mountain, Emperor Jiang didn't waste any more time and immediately entered the Zu Wu Temple to start his closed-door cultivation. The last calamity had just ended, it was about time he did a thorough review of his experiences.

  Emperor Jiang first took out the Li Di Yan Guang flag and refined it. The Li Di Yan Guang flag was also transformed by Hun Dun Qing Lian, but it could lead to some understanding of Hun Dun Qing Lian's Tao, to supplement the later stages of the Hun Dun Qing Lian technique, which is currently the most urgent thing Emperor Jiang needs.

  At this time, Emperor Jiang had many magical treasures. There were three five-colored flags of the five directions, and one of the four-square lotus platforms was the world-destroying black lotus. Although the Wu Ji Huang flag and the world-destroying black lotus were both damaged to their cores and could not be used for the time being, they would eventually find a way to repair them in the future.

  In addition to these, there are also the extremely rare and precious Pre-Heaven Spirit Treasures, the Invincible Brick of the Ancients; the Treasure Lotus Lamp and the Sky-Splitting Sword, which were snatched from the hands of a Qilin tribe cultivator. The Treasure Lotus Lamp is one of the three lamps of Heaven, Earth, and Man, and if all three are gathered, it can be used to sever corpses and prove one's Dao, making it a decent choice. The Sky-Splitting Sword, on the other hand, is an essential item for those who wish to attain the position of Human Emperor in the future, but it can also be used to gain merit. Apart from these, there are some Pre-Heaven materials, among which the most precious one is a section of the main trunk of the Fusang Tree given by Emperor Jun himself.

  Emperor Jiang cultivated the Chaotic Blue Lotus Technique for 300 years and had already derived the portion that could cultivate to the quasi-saint level. However, Emperor Jiang felt that something was lacking in his derivation of the Chaotic Blue Lotus Technique, which seemed to be inferior to the Nine Turns Mystic Skill at the same level. In contrast, cultivating the Nine Turns Mystic Skill not only elevated his physical realm but also allowed him to comprehend spatial laws and acquire many useful divine abilities. On the other hand, the Chaotic Blue Lotus Technique he derived only enhanced his yuan spirit realm without granting any additional divine abilities.

  It seems that this Chaos Qinglian Jue deduced by himself is not complete after all, Emperor Jiang thought to himself, and he still needs to find Sanqing to teach him later.

  Di Jiang recalled his thoughts and continued to practice.

  Unbeknownst to him, tens of thousands of years had passed. Emperor Jiang's Yuan Shen realm had smoothly reached the middle stage of Da Luo Jinxian, but his physical body realm was still the same as before, still in the late stage of Da Luo Jinxian. Compared to the other eleven Ancestral Witches' strength, he only had some advantage in terms of Yuan Shen cultivation.

  In this ten thousand years, many newly born witch tribes were born in the Pangu Hall, including some powerful ones, such as Hou Yi, Xingtian, Kuafu, Chiyou, Xiangliu, Jiufeng, Fengbo, Yushi, Feilian and others, all of whom had golden immortal strength. At the same time, there were also millions of relatively weak ordinary witch tribes. Suddenly increasing so many people, the belly of Mount Zhongshan was no longer enough to accommodate them, and they began to migrate outward. However, the vast wilderness was full of ferocious beasts and dangerous terrain, and the ordinary witch tribes could not adapt for a while, resulting in many deaths and injuries.

  After learning about the situation, Emperor Jiang was very worried and summoned other ancestral witches to discuss it. In the end, they decided that each ancestral witch would lead some of their clansmen out to adapt to the life in the vast wilderness, protecting them along the way. With the presence of a powerful ancestral witch who had reached the later stages of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, the witch clan finally stopped suffering heavy casualties and slowly began to flourish.

  One thousand years later, the Wu tribe established twelve major tribes with Mount Bu Zhou as their center. Each tribe was named after the ancestral witch who resided there. At that time, people from the Wu tribe were spread throughout the central region of Hongyuan, and no one in the land did not know the name of the ancestral witch.

  Apart from the Wu tribe, several forces have risen on the vast continent. One is the Dragon tribe, one of the three ancient tribes, living in the four seas, but far less prosperous than before; one is the demon tribe built by Emperor Jun and Taiyi, with a large number of people, also thriving; one is the force pulled up by Kunpeng in Beiming, which is not to be underestimated; finally, there are some scattered cultivators gathering together to form a loose alliance.

  The great gods who were familiar with the previous life also began to move in the vast wilderness, the Three Purities on Mount Kunlun, the Zhunti who guided the poor land of the West, the Fuxi Nuwa on Mount Zhou, the Minghe in the bloody sea, the Zhenyuanzi in the Wuzhuang Temple, the old good man Hongyun, and the Dongwanggong and Xiwangmu, etc. What surprised Emperor Jiang was that among these great gods who began to make a name for themselves in the vast wilderness, there was one called Leiyuxiannü, but he had never heard of her in his previous life. However, not having heard of it didn't mean that others didn't exist, and Emperor Jiang didn't pay much attention to it either.

  At this time, Emperor Jiang was studying the script in his tribe. It is said that creating characters is a great merit, and Emperor Jiang thought he had a foundation, so he wanted to create some Wuwen (shamanic scripts) to obtain this merit. However, when he wrote out the small seal script from memory, it would not leave any trace. Every time he finished writing the first stroke and began to write the second stroke, the first stroke would automatically disappear. Emperor Jiang knew that the Heavenly Way did not allow him to use this type of script, and he sighed in his heart. It seemed that this script was destined by the Heavenly Way to be left for future generations.

  "Ancestor Witch, what are you drawing on the ground? Why did it disappear all of a sudden?" A young girl standing beside Emperor Jiang asked curiously. The little girl was 15 or 16 years old and looked delicate, but her actual strength was that of a solid Golden Immortal realm.

  "There's nothing much, I just want to make some marks to record some things that have happened."

  "Jiufeng understood, just like tying a knot to remember things." Jiufeng opened her eyes wide and said with great satisfaction, as if she had guessed an adult's mind.

  The Emperor Jiang smiled lightly, "Alright, it's just that using knots to record events is too simple. After a long time, I can't even remember what event the knot was originally tied for. So, I want to create some symbols to record things in more detail, so they won't be easily forgotten."

  "Remember things in more detail?" Jiufeng apparently didn't quite understand this sentence.

  "Uh-huh, remember more details." Emperor Jiang didn't give her an explanation either, but instead fell into deep thought by himself.

  "Ah, I see," said Jiu Feng after a moment's thought. "Is it like some of our people who can't bear to use strings to keep track of things, so they draw circles on the ground instead? Big events are marked with big circles, small ones with small circles, and complicated matters are represented by intersecting circles."

  Emperor Jiang was initially just casually listening, but after hearing the back, he had a kind of epiphany, and one by one symbols appeared in his mind. There were symbols with a big circle on top and a small circle below, representing "heaven"; there were symbols with a small circle on top and a big circle below, representing "earth"; there was a symbol with a big circle and a small circle inside, representing "enclosure"; there was a symbol with a big circle and many small circles inside, representing "fullness"...

  Emperor Jiang's mind was filled with more and more symbols, and he entered a state of emptiness. All things under the heavens appeared in his mind one by one, then transformed into individual symbols composed of circles.

  Suddenly, Emperor Jiang floated up, summoning a withered branch in his hand, and shouted "Tian" (Heaven). A character made of concentric circles flew into the air, shining brightly with golden light that lingered for a long time without dispersing. The people of the Wu tribe all felt something, looked up at the sky, and when they saw the golden Tian character, they all gained insight, and involuntarily etched it in their hearts.

  "Earth!" Emperor Jiang shouted again, and an earth character appeared.

  "Mysterious, Yellow, Universe, Vast, Desolate, Emperor" Jiang seemed to have adapted to the rhythm of creating characters, and this time he created six in one breath. At this moment, golden light surged in the air, and the cloud of merit began to gather, rolling and moving. When Jiang saw it, his heart was filled with good fortune, and without any hesitation, he wrote out all the other characters he had created in one breath.

  "The sun and moon are full, the stars are arranged in order, cold comes and heat goes, autumn harvests and winter stores..."

  One thousand words appeared in the air, and every member of the Wu tribe looked up to watch, then firmly remembered them in their hearts, while shouting "Great virtue of ancestor Wu".

  The Emperor Jiang created a complete character, and his heart was relieved. In this way, the civilization of the Wu tribe would not be interrupted, and the civilization continued, could the tribe still perish?

  "Now I, Di Jiang, feel that the Shu people's civilization is having a hard time being passed down, so I specially created Shu characters to record history and follow the heavenly way."

  Di Jiang saw that the merits and virtues in heaven were slow to descend, so he flew up anxiously and said these words, which can be considered as a report to the Heavenly Way.

  As expected, as soon as Emperor Jiang finished speaking, the cloud of merit suddenly dispersed a piece of auspicious energy, 90% of which fell on Emperor Jiang's body, and he led them all into the Qiankun Ding. The remaining 10% fell on Jiufeng's body, but it was a reward for her words that gave Emperor Jiang inspiration, Jiufeng was very surprised, absorbed the merit energy, and her physical realm directly broke through to the early stage of Daluo Jinxian. This is the first Daluo Jinxian in the Witch tribe besides the twelve ancestral witches.

  Not bad, and also has a small half of the open sky merit, Emperor Jiang is very happy, holding the nine phoenixes on the side and turning around in a circle. The nine phoenixes' face turned red, and they softly protested: "Ancestor Wu, quickly put me down, I'm not a child."

  "If you're considered a grown-up, then I'm an old man." Di Jiang burst out laughing and completely ignored Jiu Feng's protest, Jiu Feng's face turned even redder.

  "We're both at an age now, how can you still have a child's mindset."

  Just as Emperor Jiang was rejoicing, a gentle and elegant girl walked up to him with a smile on her face - it was his younger sister Hou Tu Zu Wu.