Chapter 7: The Birth of Di Huang, Lie Shan Shen Nong

  In the northwest of the Kunlun Mountains, by the Yellow River, there is a place called Wei Water. At the foot of Lie Shan Mountain in this area lives the Jiang surname tribe. The people of the tribe are all kind and good. In the tribe, there was a woman named Nu Deng from the Jiao family. She often heard the tribespeople say that near Lie Shan Mountain, there is a mountain called Hua Yang, with beautiful scenery, intoxicatingly beautiful, and she yearned for it endlessly. So she left the tribe and came to Hua Yang Mountain.

  After walking for half a day, I finally saw Mount Huayang in the distance. Only to see: Clouds and mist entwined, rainbow-colored gates; peaks clustered together, straight into the sky piercing through layered clouds; flying waterfalls splashing, shattered jade breaking ice echoing with jade dragons; streams gurgling, bamboo shadows swaying dancing on the river; dark eagles soaring, flapping wings flying high in the nine heavens; deer calling out loudly, stepping on water creating ripples and tiny waves! What a wonderful place of treasure for immortals, a paradise on earth!

  The girl was so enchanted by the beauty of Mount Huayang that she lost all sense of time, and when she came to herself again, it was already sunset. She was about to head back in the direction she had come from when suddenly a divine dragon flew down from the horizon, circling around her nine times before diving into her belly and disappearing without a trace! The girl didn't come to her senses for half a day, unsure whether this was good or bad luck, and made her way back to her tribe in a daze.

  Three days later, Nü Deng was doing chores at home when someone suddenly rushed in from outside. Nü Deng took a look and saw that the person had thick eyebrows and big eyes, with a sturdy build, about 40 years old, and it was indeed the clan leader. Nü Deng asked curiously: "Clan leader, what brings you here?"

  The clan leader didn't even have time to catch his breath, and while pulling the girl, he walked towards the outside path: "Right now, my ancestor of our tribe is waiting for you at my home!"

  The woman was completely stunned! The ancestors of the human race wanted to see her, which she could never have imagined. All the way being pulled by the tribe leader to their home, they saw two people sitting upright in the main hall, one on the left holding a whip for creating humans, and one on the right holding the holy extreme sword. The woman recognized that it was indeed the ancestors of the human race. She hastily knelt down and kowtowed, saying: "Female Deng pays respects to the ancestors!"

  The Lord of Fire chuckled and helped her up, saying kindly to her: "Nü Dēng, you must take good care of the unicorn in your belly!"

  The girl heard the words and was stunned for a moment, then her pretty face turned red on one side, and she said in a soft voice: "It's good that our ancestors have obtained it. Girl Deng has not married until now, where did Lin Er come from?"

  Youchao and Suiren looked at each other and burst out laughing, laughing so hard that the tribal leader and Nv Deng were speechless. After they finished laughing, Youchao asked: "Nv Deng, three days ago on Mount Huayang, did a divine dragon enter your body?"

  "But how did you know? I haven't told anyone about this yet!"

  You Shi laughed and said: "This is what the Holy Father has said, you have a divine dragon in your body, and you will give birth to the Holy Master. You are the Saintly Virtue King after Fuxi, so take good care of him!"

  The clan leader and Nü Deng were shocked upon hearing the words, and immediately a surge of filial piety rose in their hearts. That was the Holy Father! The Holy Father who had saved the human tribe from danger! Since it was the Holy Father's words, he would not deceive them. Nü Deng nodded and said: "Ancestor, rest assured, if the child in my womb will truly bring blessings to the human tribe in the future, I will teach him well!"

  Youchao and Suiren both nodded, and Suiren said to the clan leader: "Very well, during this period we will live among your tribe, you must take good care of our daughter!"

  The chief nodded and said: "The descendants know!" Then he went to arrange everything. So the Youchao clan and the Sui people lived in the tribe from then on.

  In the blink of an eye, October had passed. On this day, the Jiang clan was bathed in a warm, golden light. Nine divine dragons coiled in the sky above the Jiang clan, their roars shaking the heavens. In an instant, they vanished into a small house. A loud, clear cry echoed throughout the Jiang clan, and the working clansmen stopped what they were doing, their eyes fixed on the house of the lady who had given birth.

  At this time, many clansmen gathered outside the door of the woman's house. The two men, Youchao and Suiren, stood at the entrance, both curious about what the newborn child looked like. Before long, an old woman came out from inside holding a baby, and the two men hastily went forward to take the child. When they saw that the child had the head of a cow and the body of a human, with horns on its head and a transparent belly, its five organs and six viscera all visible, both of them sighed and said: "Indeed, it is a heaven-born prodigy!"

  The Lord of Fire held the child and entered the house, looking kindly at the weak woman lying on the bed, and asked: "Nuwa, I see that this child is born with a special appearance, he will surely lead the human tribe in the future, give him a name!"

  The girl smiled slightly and said: "This child was born in Lie Shan, so take it as a surname, name him Shi Nian, what do our ancestors think?"

  The Lord of Fire nodded and smiled: "Very well, from now on this child will be called Lie Shan Shi."

  Lie Shan's family was born extraordinary, three days old could speak, five days old could walk, three years old knew the affairs of farming and harvesting, with a heart full of benevolence, respecting the elderly and caring for the young, with high moral integrity, so everyone in the clan admired him!

  At that time, the human tribe was weak and often injured by wild beasts. Lie Shan thought for three days before making a wooden bow to shoot and kill the wild beasts, teaching his tribesmen how to use it. From then on, unless they encountered ferocious beasts, the tribesmen could protect themselves with their bows and arrows without harm. His prestige gradually increased. The tribal chief saw that Lie Shan was a virtuous man and handed over the position of chief to him. From then on, Lie Shan managed the affairs of the tribe in an orderly manner, and his reputation spread far and wide, and everyone called him a great sage!

  Although they had bows and arrows, the population of the tribe was growing, but the flying birds in the sky were getting fewer and fewer, and the beasts on the ground were getting rarer and rarer. The food obtained was not enough to fill their stomachs. Hunting and fishing alone were not enough to sustain the survival of the tribe members. Lie Shan Shi was worried about this and thought day and night, but he couldn't think of a solution.

  One day, Lie Shan was thinking about how to solve the problem of his people's food source when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his eyes from a beam of colorful light. After adapting to it, Lie Shan looked up at the source of the light and saw that there was a bird with a completely red body hovering in mid-air, holding something in its beak that emitted a five-colored glow. The bird circled around Lie Shan several times before dropping what was in its beak onto his feet and flying away into the distance.

  Liè Shān shì fǔ shǒu yī kàn, què jīng yà de fā xiàn jiù zhè duǎn duǎn de jǐ xī shí guò, nà dōng wéi zhōu bǎi zhàng chōng mǎn le mó yàng hé nà wù yī yàng de wù shì, tā mǎn huái hào qí de jiǎn qǐlai xì xì guān kàn, zhǐ jiàn cǐ wù sè chéng wǔ cǎi, shàng fēn jiǔ suì, cháng mǎn le yī lì liǎng lì de kē lì zhuàng de wù tǐ, yī gǔ xī rén xīn pí de xiāng qì yín rào zài bí jiān!

  Liè Shān shì couldn't help but pick one, put it in his mouth and slowly chewed, feeling that this thing was fragrant when entering the mouth, not hungry when falling into the belly, just suitable for eating. Liè Shān shì was overjoyed, thinking: With this thing, my tribe will no longer worry!

  He then named it Wǔ Cǎi Jiǔ Suì Gǔ (Five-Colored Nine-Tasseled Valley) and brought it back to the middle, letting his tribespeople take its seeds and plant them on the ground. A year later, millet grew everywhere, and both his tribe and the Lie Shan clan were overjoyed!

  This greatly encouraged Lie Shan, and he led his people to cut down trees, cut off wild grasses, and according to the suitability of the weather and the benefits of the land, make wooden farming tools such as wooden plows and hoes, open up the land, and plant millet. Another year passed, and all the millet grew out, but the millet and weeds grew together, and the herbs and flowers bloomed together, which ones were edible and which ones were not could not be distinguished. Lie Shan then tasted them one by one, tried to cultivate them one by one, and finally selected five grains from among them, called rice, millet, barley, wheat, and soybeans.

  Moreover, he pioneered the nine-well connected irrigation technique, which led water to the fields, so that crops could grow without daily watering. The people of the tribe were grateful for the virtues of Lie Shan and called him Shen Nong.

  The Jiang clan, because they had the five grains to eat, no longer needed to go hunting, and casualties greatly decreased. As a result, they grew stronger and more prosperous, and far and near, big and small tribes heard that Shen Nong was virtuous and could plant the five grains, so they came to join him one after another. The Jiang clan gradually developed and grew strong, becoming a major tribe among humans.

  When Fuxi was in power for hundreds of years, the population of the human race grew more and more, and relying solely on hunting and fishing could no longer sustain the livelihood of the human race. He was also worried about this, just as the virtuous name of Shennong had reached Fuxi's ears, and he heard that the ancestors of the human race were in the Jiang clan tribe. His heart moved, he took out the Hetu Luoshu to calculate the heavens, and after three days, he finally calculated that Shennong was indeed the next Human Emperor, proving the Dao fruit of the Earth Emperor.

  Fuxi was overjoyed and hastily sent someone to summon Shennong to Chen Du. He wanted to meet his next successor.

  Shennong was perplexed after receiving Fuxi's imperial edict, and didn't know what Fuxi wanted to see him about in Chendu, so he came to the gate of Youchao and Suiren's residence, seeking an audience with them.

  The two men led Shen Nong into the house and asked him: "Shen Nong, what brings you to seek us out?"

  Shennong bowed respectfully to the two and said: "Good teaching from ancestors, Shennong just received a decree from Gongzheng, asking Shennong to go to Chendu, but I don't know what's going on. So Shennong came to ask for advice from ancestors."

  The two of them looked at each other and smiled, and the You Nao clan said: "Shennong, you are the next co-ruler of humanity destined by heaven. Fuxi's summons for you now is to prepare to hand over power to you. For the sake of our people, you cannot decline! Go back and pack your bags!"

  Shennong heard the words and suddenly realized! He then bid farewell to the two, returned home to pack up his luggage, said goodbye to his mother and relatives, and headed in the direction of Chendu.

  It is: The divine dragon soars in the mountains of Huayang, and the five-colored nine-ear grain grows!