webnovelfull Chapter 279, Achievements of Our Ancestors
Chapter 279, Achievements of Our Ancestors
Chapter 279, Achievements of Our Ancestors
When Mo Shang returned to the Chaos City of the Initial Universe after stepping down from his post in the Qi Mo Universe Kingdom, all the marquises and kings of the Qi Mo Universe Kingdom felt as if the clouds had parted and the sun was shining brightly.
Who was the kind person who impeached three ministers during their six-thousand-year term, resulting in the death penalty for one, imprisonment for 30,000 epochs for another, and imprisonment for 10,000 epochs for the third?
Even King Qi Mo breathed a sigh of relief. Mo Shang's teacher, Venerable Mingwu, was a powerful figure who could enter the heart of the Demon Clan Alliance and kill a top-tier universe overlord and escape unscathed. If his disciple were to encounter trouble in his own universe kingdom, he couldn't even imagine whether that lord would destroy his universe kingdom.
He, the ruler of this universe, is truly exhausted. Every extra day that Mo Shang stays here, he has to be on his guard and deal with it.
Fortunately, Mo Shang has finally returned to Chaos City. Next, barring any unforeseen circumstances, he will undergo a life-or-death trial at the Realm Lord level, which will have nothing to do with him.
After all, Qi Mo Universe Kingdom isn't the same Universe Kingdom from which Mo Shang originated. Mo Shang's original Universe Kingdom already has a core member of the Giant Axe Martial Arts Arena serving as an inspector envoy. Moreover, he's neither Mo Shang's team leader nor his teacher, so his safety is none of his concern.
After returning to Chaos City, Mo Shang cultivated in seclusion for thousands of years, eventually breaking through the Primordial Tongtian Mountain, a Domain Lord-level realm, and advancing to the Realm Lord level in the same year.
Thousands of years later, Mo Shang quietly left Chaos City and began his life-and-death trials as a Realm Lord. Many Kings and Venerables lost track of him.
At the same time, a genius also emerged in the Giant Axe Arena. Almost at the same time as Mo Shang, he broke through the Primordial Tongtian Mountain, which was at the Domain Lord level, and together with Mo Shang, they were hailed as the twin stars of the younger generation.
Meanwhile, in the Qianwu Universe Kingdom, within the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, an adventure team abandoned by their family finally ventured into the Milky Way.
After tens of thousands of years of exploration, they discovered a tiny, newly formed solar system located in a remote part of the Milky Way.
This family adventure team declared this small star system their own and established a new family power, completely severing ties with the family that had abandoned them. The new family registered in the Silver Blue Empire, a nascent cosmic nation under the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, and began purchasing large numbers of planetary slaves to develop mineral resources on various planets within the solar system.
After years of experimentation, the family finally decided to send some of its elite members to manage the solar system. This blue planet, which is home to many life forms, was designated as a base for livestock development, where various plants and animals were raised.
On the planets surrounding the blue planet, various mineral resources are mined. Even B-grade minerals are not a significant resource for a family.
It's all a good fortune.
However, in the universe, occupying a small star system is easy, even a single star system. But whether one can hold onto it is another matter entirely.
Even a cosmic-level powerhouse, who is considered a hegemon in a galaxy, might not be able to hold it.
The newly formed family lasted less than a few hundred thousand years. Their mining fleet in the solar system was instantly annihilated by a high-level military lord, an immortal who had returned from exploring the secrets of the universe, along with the destruction of their entire family base. This high-level military lord was somewhat renowned throughout the entire Qianwu Universe Kingdom.
Because he had a servant under his command who was a marquis, with the title of Iron Sword Marquis.
This immortal being, whose strength was at the level of a high-ranking military lord, was a master of mental energy, and his strength was barely enough to be granted the title of Marquis, though he did not have an official title. His name was Huyanbo.
He has a mortal enemy whose strength is at the initial level of the King rank, and whose title is Demon Hand King!
Thousands of years later, Huyanbo and the Demon Hand King encountered each other in the starry sky, naturally leading to a battle. Huyanbo was ultimately defeated, and during his escape, he perished along with his nine immortal servants and numerous disciples. Even after escaping the Demon Hand King's pursuit, Huyanbo was severely wounded and never fully recovered. Before dying, he used a spatial secret technique to obscure the cosmic coordinates of the corresponding dark universe within several light-years of the original universe.
His spaceship also crashed into the blue planet during its flight, penetrating thousands of meters deep into a continent.
For decades, an avatar of Venerable Mingwu and Ye Muxuan, dressed in simple white robes, observed all of this unfolding from an iceberg on this planet. Whether it was a few star-level adventurers forming a family power, using this planet as a livestock farm, and mining mineral resources from surrounding planets, or that immortal military commander annihilating an entire fleet with a single move, culminating in a chase between two immortals in space, one dead and one wounded.
The starry sky is like a stage play, with one scene ending and another beginning.
With the fleet destroyed, the slave groups that remained on the surrounding planets mining various mineral resources were unable to leave and were eventually forced to decide to build their own spaceships.
However, building a spaceship capable of interstellar travel from scratch is no easy feat. A group of planetary slaves, unable to connect to the virtual universe and lacking data sources, could already fly through space using their physical bodies, but it was still extremely dangerous. In the end, this group of planetary slaves experienced internal strife, resulting in the deaths and injuries of most of them. The remaining planetary slaves also passed away after their lifespans reached their limit.
Only the steel cities they built on various planets still bear traces of their presence, indicating that they were once here.
On this life-bearing planet that was originally used as a livestock farm, the remaining humans continue to multiply and thrive.
They were the weakest members of their families to be thrown here as "shepherds," not to mention their mere apprentice-level strength. A century later, these first generation members died without leaving behind a complete civilization. Hundreds of years later, their descendants faced the even greater challenge of survival.
Reproduction, survival, war.
Civilizations began to emerge on this planet under specific conditions.
Some lived by the meandering river, building pyramids based on fragments of ancestral wisdom, attempting to reconnect with their ancestors. Ultimately, they were buried in the sands of time, lost to oblivion.
Some built sky gardens beneath snow-capped mountains, believing they could welcome their ancestors. In the end, the flowers withered, and the gardens collapsed into ruins. Others built clay sculptures and worshipped them day and night, thinking they could communicate with their ancestors and bring hope, but ultimately they turned to dust.
The "shepherds" scattered across the continents of this planet multiplied in their own way, and in the end, many places became nothing more than a fleeting wave in history, vanishing without a trace.
No trace.
Only in the east of a huge continental plate, along various rivers, numerous tribes of humans with yellow skin and black eyes, who have always believed that human will can overcome nature, have made their way forward step by step.
In the end, he struggled and survived.
In the process of survival and development, they have encountered unprecedented difficulties, with earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, droughts, plagues, and other disasters occurring frequently, accompanying them every step of the way.
A chief named Pan, skilled in using stone axes, led his tribe in hunting wild animals and guarding the four directions. Later generations of the tribe, because their time was so distant and ancient, respectfully called this chief "Pangu".
In another tribe, the people encountered an unprecedented flood. A female leader named "Wa" led them to defend high ground and control the flood. After the flood, she also re-established the astronomical calendar. For the tribe, this achievement was no less than that of "Pan," the leader of another tribe. They respectfully called this leader "Empress Wa," and because she was a female leader, she was also known as "Nuwa."
The two tribes eventually met at a river crossing, and after years of trial and error and integration, they finally merged into a larger tribe. To commemorate their great leader, they created folk songs and stories such as "Pangu Creates the World" and "Nuwa Patches Up the Sky," and also inscribed these stories on rocks and tortoise shells in their own writing, passing them down to future generations so that they could know, understand, and praise the achievements of their leaders.
This type of tribal civilization developed extremely slowly and was extremely vulnerable to the natural environment; a major natural disaster could reduce a small tribe to dust. Therefore, in the end, the trend was for many small tribes to merge into larger tribes, eventually developing into the prototypes of "nations".
In this process, one folk song after another was created, telling one story after another, commemorating the great achievements of our ancestors, and ensuring that future generations will not forget the hardships our ancestors went through.
P.S.: I interpret myths like Pangu creating the world and Nuwa mending the sky in a different way. I prefer to think of them as reflecting the hardships faced by humanity in ancient times and praising their achievements.