81. Humanity for ten thousand years

  Xun Daozi and Yuanshi had a secret meeting with three people on Mount Kunlun, after which they rushed out of the Kunlun Cave Mansion all the way to Mount Buzhou.

  Even with Xun Daozi's current cultivation and magical powers, the divine ability to shrink the earth into inches could only achieve a distance of tens of millions of miles in one step, yet it still took some time to arrive at Mount Buzhou.

  Arrived at the Nüwa Mountain where humans were created, Zǐ also saw shadows of many demons and witches, seemingly all secretly observing this newly born species - humanity.

  Xun Daozi saw that the human race at this moment was not much different from when Nüwa had just created them. Due to Nüwa's declaration, both the witch and demon tribes and some other practitioners of the Primordial Chaos would not harm humans. Except for some unspiritualized wild beasts, humans were temporarily safe.

  From the time of Nüwa creating humans to now, many years have passed. Zhen Daozi saw that there were fewer people around Mount Buzhou. In his spiritual exploration, he found that there were only tens of millions of people left, which was tens of millions less than the hundreds of millions created by Nüwa at that time. It seems that human survival is extremely difficult. Among these remaining tens of millions of humans, Zhen Daozi also saw some newborn babies. He remembered that among the humans created by Nüwa, there were some children, but now these are clearly not created by Nüwa and should be born from human reproduction.

  Xun Daozi's divine consciousness enveloped the land for thousands of miles, silently observing the current state of human life. However, this investigation revealed a situation that was not pleasant to Xun Daozi's heart. At this time, tens of millions of humans had lost the tunic made of animal skin given by Nüwa, and most were only wearing some leaves tied around their waists with a vine. A small portion were even naked, having to search for wild fruits and grasses to fill their hunger. When encountering wild beasts, they could only flee in a hurry, unable to resist, and those who fled slowly would be eaten by the beasts as food.

  Xun Daozi suddenly felt a kind of regret, wondering why he had followed Nüwa to watch the grand opening of the Dao field. If he hadn't gone, he could have helped the newly born human tribe and prevented them from suffering so much! He also had an urge to catch the three-eyed snow lion beast and give it a good beating. Although he had left in a hurry without saying goodbye, this guy couldn't just let the human tribe suffer like that!

  These three-eyed Snow Lion Beasts were also remembered by Xuan Daozi with hatred.

  At dusk, these people searching for food everywhere gathered together, with a few hundred at the least and tens of thousands at most. They either huddled in the leeward side of mountains or under big trees, or hid inside caves. One by one, they curled up their bodies and squeezed together. The adults stared blankly ahead, while the children looked around fearfully with wide eyes. Silently waiting for the night to pass.

  This night, Xun Daozi silently pondered how to help the newly born human tribe. Doing everything was definitely not an option, as this Zhou Shan was the center of the witch and demon tribes' struggle. Although there was the protection of the Female Progenitor Saint for a thousand years, after that, they would likely be affected by the conflict between the two tribes. It seemed that the migration of the human tribe still had to proceed. Given the current state of the human tribe, it would take thousands of years to migrate to Kunlun Mountain. This journey would likely result in the death of all current humans, and only their descendants would arrive at Kunlun Mountain. If he were to use his divine powers to transport the tens of millions of humans away in an instant, that wouldn't be impossible, but was it ultimately good or bad for the human tribe? Xun Daozi was torn.

  Finally, Xunzi decided to gather the remaining tens of thousands of people and teach them some simple physical exercises and breathing techniques, so that these people would have a little self-defense ability when facing beasts, and first get through this difficult time before considering what to do next.

  That night, Xun Daozi gave the order to the three-eyed snow lion beast to hurry back to Nüwa's place of creating humans. Xun Daozi knew that this three-eyed snow lion beast was just around Mount Buzhou.

  The next morning, the humans who had been curled up for a night began to get up and were about to search for food everywhere when suddenly, in front of their eyes, a Taoist priest wearing a moon-white robe appeared in mid-air. The Taoist priest looked sorrowful and asked everyone to follow him. As soon as the crowd saw the Taoist priest, they couldn't help but feel a sense of closeness, trust, and dependence on him in their hearts. They listened to what he said and followed him voluntarily, no matter where he went!

  Xun Daozi was about to impart the method of strengthening one's body to the human tribe when he felt the transmission jade symbol shaking. He took it out and saw that Su Xin had already entered the Hongyuan and was inquiring about his whereabouts. Xun Daozi was overjoyed and quickly sent a message to Su Xin, telling her to hurry to Mount Bu Zhou. In his heart, he thought that with Su Xin's meticulous mind, this migration of the human tribe would be much easier, and perhaps he could even gain some merit for Su Xin.

  The people who were scattered around gradually gathered in front of Xun Daozi under his guidance. In the past few years, the range of human activity has not been very large, and the farthest place from where Nüwa created humans is no more than 100 miles away. After being guided by Xun Daozi, even the latest ones arrived at his location by dusk. Although the physical body of humans is now weak, it's only in comparison to the current creatures of the desolate wilderness. Compared to the humans of Xun Daozi's previous life, the physique of the humans created by Nüwa is much better, otherwise, Xun Daozi wouldn't have judged that this human tribe could live for hundreds of years. Perhaps this is also due to the abundance of spiritual energy in the desolate wilderness. Therefore, with the current humans, if they were to migrate, traveling a few hundred miles a day would not be a big problem. The key lies in solving food and shelter during the migration journey. One cannot just provide everything for them; one must think of ways to let the human tribe solve their own problems. One's role is to help them solve some problems that the human tribe currently cannot solve on their own, allowing the human tribe to grow independently.

  It was also at dusk that the three-eyed snow lion beast brought the little qilin, when the huge body of the three-eyed snow lion beast appeared, it caused a panic and chaos among the human race, until they saw clearly that this giant beast would not harm them. After all, in the time when humans were born, except for those who had just been born, everyone had seen this white three-eyed snow lion beast and the little qilin, and knew that these big guys wouldn't hurt them.

  The three-eyed snow lion beast that rushed over was immediately arranged by Xun Daozi to perform a task, to go and find some food for these humans. The sorrowful three-eyed snow lion beast had no choice but to bring its discontent as it went to find food for the tens of thousands of humans.

  Two hours later, the three-eyed Snow Lion Beast returned, opened its own spatial treasure, and all kinds of fruits piled up into a small mountain bag, along with two giant barbaric beasts.

  Xun Daozi had a portion of the people from the human tribe selected to distribute food to the crowd, and dozens of people walked out of the crowd. Xun Daozi took a look and found that these dozens of people were among the more than 100 people who were first pinched by Nuwa's hands. He then used his divine consciousness to investigate the remaining people, but did not see any other people who were pinched by Nuwa's hands, it seemed that they had also died in these few years. Although he felt uncomfortable in his heart, he didn't say anything and arranged for these dozens of people to each find a few more people, under their leadership, to distribute the fruit to the remaining crowd.

  Xun Daozi again assigned a task to the three-eyed snow lion beast, and it easily handled the barbarian beast. It roasted it over an open flame, which was a trivial matter for the three-eyed snow lion beast's current level of cultivation and magical powers.

  The roasted barbarian meat, Xun Daozi once again ordered the group of people who had previously distributed the fruit to distribute it among the crowd. This should be the first time for these tribespeople to eat meat, each holding a piece in their hands and not knowing what to do, even with a hint of fear. Xun Daozi could only take a piece himself and eat it with them, although this barbarian meat was not as good as the first time he had eaten it among the witch tribe, but due to the quality of the meat, it was still quite delicious. Seeing Xun Daozi eating the roasted meat in his hand, the crowd also followed suit, and after tasting the flavor, they wolfed down the meat in their hands, their eyes fixed on the barbarian meat roasting on the fire that had intimidated them.

  Xun Daozi once again had the selected people distribute food to the crowd. In the end, they even ate half of the roasted beast meat, and if it weren't for the other half being eaten by the three-eyed snow lion and the small jade qilin, who were tempted by the sight of the crowd eating, I'm afraid they would have been eaten together too. It's worth noting that the two beasts caught by the three-eyed snow lion are not small, each weighing nearly a thousand kilograms. Even if roasted, it should still weigh hundreds of millions of kilograms. The two beasts, minus what was eaten by the three-eyed snow lion and the small jade qilin, still had at least hundreds of millions to nearly a thousand kilograms of roasted meat left, which was devoured by tens of thousands of people in one sitting, with each person eating at least ten or more kilograms of roasted meat. And those fruit that were like small mountains, it's unknown why humans are so capable of eating nowadays. It seems that the food for this human tribe cannot be solved solely by relying on the tribe itself during migration.

  This was the most restful and comfortable night for humanity since its birth, each one leaning against the other, sleeping in the warm firelight, with a faint smile on their faces.

  A night without words.

  On the second day morning, Xun Daozi gathered everyone to teach some basic fist and footwork, letting them practice. The problem of food was handed over to San Yan Xue Shi again.

  In the evening, Xun Daozi again summoned more than 100 people who had practiced the best during the day to teach them a simple breathing method and let them practice at night. It's true that this human tribe has a good talent for learning, and both the daytime practice of all the people and the nighttime practice of these hundreds of people made Xun Daozi relatively satisfied.

  Half a month passed, and he began to let everyone practice martial arts in the morning. In the afternoon, except for the children and a few women who took care of them, the rest were led by those who had been selected by Xuan Daozi to learn the method of transmission and breathing exercises, divided into dozens of groups to go around picking fruits and various edible grasses. And let some people try to hunt some beasts. He and the three-eyed snow lion beast drove away some powerful fierce beasts in secret, letting the human tribe slowly adapt to this desolate life.

  After a year or so, these tribes were able to capture some of the more docile wild beasts with crude weapons - wooden clubs and stones. They also gathered many edible fruits and found numerous edible grasses.

  What delighted Xun Daozi even more was that Su Xin finally arrived at Buzhou Mountain, and after understanding what had happened, he entered the role of guiding the human tribe to survive in the vast wilderness. The Halberd Dragon Beast also became a guardian deity for these humans, just like the Three-Eyed Snow Lion Beast, and even the still-young Jade Qilin joined their ranks.

  With this, Xun Daozi thoroughly relaxed and soon after, the migration of the human race began to be planned and implemented.

  After a period of preparation, under the arrangement of Xun Daozi, the human tribe began its long migration. At this moment, the human tribe regarded Xun Daozi as the mainstay, and whatever he said was unconditionally and firmly executed. When Xun Daozi said to migrate, although some people were reluctant to leave their birthplace where they had lived for many years, they still followed him silently and firmly along the route arranged by Xun Daozi, led by more than 100 selected people, and walked out of Buzhou Mountain with difficulty.

  After a long and arduous journey, with many stops along the way, when they finally arrived near Mount Kunlun, it had already been a thousand years. Most of the humans created by Nüwa had died on the road, and those who remained were all practitioners of the breathing technique taught by Xun Daozi. Among them, more than a hundred people who started practicing this simple breathing technique had reached the edge of the Mystic Immortal realm, which surprised Xun Daozi greatly.

  When they finally arrived at the dwelling place chosen by Zhen Daozi, there were more than a million people who had reached their destination. The proliferation of this ethnic group was so great that even on such a difficult journey, the number increased significantly.

  After arriving at the destination, Xun Daozi let Su Xin bring three strange beasts to stay in the human tribe for practice, and told her that she only needs to make simple protection for the human tribe, and let the rest of the human tribe develop on its own. When one day the human tribe takes the initiative to leave this area and go to other places in the vast wilderness to live, bring the three strange beasts back to Kunlun Mountain or Xun Dao Mountain.

  This is what Xun Daozi wants to give the merits of protecting the human race to Su Xin and the three alien beasts. Even if he gets some merit, it will be absorbed by that purple vortex, so it's better to give it to Su Xin and the three alien beasts, which can also make Su Xin and the three alien beasts get some benefits, and in the future, they can help themselves.

  After handing over, Xun Daozi slipped away and ran to the Kunlun Mountains cave mansion for secluded cultivation.

  For the masters, time really doesn't matter much. In the blink of an eye, ten thousand years have passed, and the human race has lived and multiplied under the protection of Su Xin, San Yan Xue Shi, Ji Long Shou, and Xiao Yu Qilin near Mount Kunlun for tens of thousands of years. The tribe has grown significantly, with a population of over 100 million now, but in recent days, it is facing a major choice for the human race...

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