Da Zaojun

Chapter 221 The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl Against the Background of the Great Migration

Beneath a large tree, for who knows how many hundreds or thousands of years, its branches and leaves flourish.

The ancient tribes used this as their center to expand in all directions.

Why migrate?

Because the land beneath their feet had become barren and could no longer sustain them.

The land is getting drier and drier each year, and the rainfall is decreasing year by year. It is becoming increasingly difficult to harvest crops from the loess soil.

Water had to be carried back from more than ten miles away.

If you disperse them, they can survive.

The departing people parted ways under the big tree, each carrying a seed with them as they migrated to more distant places.

Song Wuji was standing on this big tree, gazing into the distance.

This is clearly just a secret place for the Magpie Bridge, but for some reason, it carries the tragic image of a large-scale population migration and people leaving their homes.

Against this backdrop of migration from the Loess Plateau to various places, this is the beginning of the secret realm.

People go in all directions, like a spider web, and bloodline is the thread of that blood.

Huang Qiaoyun followed Song Wuji and said, "Back then, my Huang family ancestors were also among these migrants."

"On their migration route, they discovered a field of wild hemp and settled there."

"Not long after settling down, our ancestor received a dream in which a female immortal asked our ancestor to take good care of Matian and lent him a magic shuttle."

"This shuttle can weave a piece of cloth that is rarely seen in the world."

"Our ancestors used the magic shuttle and found that this treasure was very useful. In one night, they wove two hundred bolts of cloth."

"I used to think this was just a legend, but I never imagined it could actually evolve into a secret realm."

Song Wuji watched as a steady stream of people came to this big tree, and a steady stream of people migrated outwards.

This place is like a distribution center. Some people don't know where to go, so they simply settle down under the big tree. One generation, two generations, three generations... until they wait for an opportunity, and then they migrate out together.

"Which branch of your Huang family's ancestors did you come from?" Song Wuji couldn't tell, and besides, the theme of this secret realm was the Magpie Bridge, which is the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

“I can’t tell either,” Huang Qiaoyun said. “The spider demon has also entered the secret realm… Should we go find her first?”

Song Wuji shook his head: "You see, although the secret realm is large, it also has boundaries. Those people seem to be traveling normally, but when they reach the boundary, it's as if they have entered another space. This secret realm is just a fragment taken from the long river of history, and it is just the background."

"The spider demon must have slaughtered people here, but the place remains the same, which means the cycle repeats itself..."

"I tend to think that this is not even a bubble in the long river of history, but merely a carrier of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl story."

The Heavenly Weaver Girl said that those without the strength of a seventh-rank cultivator should not explore the secret realm, which means that the secret realm is extremely dangerous. However, so far, apart from seeing these mortals as if they were ants migrating, Song Wuji has not discovered anything.

"Perhaps we need to experience it for ourselves?" Song Wuji said. "We may not be able to truly understand it just by observing."

"I'm just afraid there won't be enough time."

The two concealed their presence, changed into ordinary clothes, and covered themselves in yellow dust and sand before settling down under the large tree.

Song Wuji went to gather information, while Huang Qiaoyun made up some things to sell. This place wasn't truly barren, and besides, she had some magical abilities.

……

As the two immersed themselves in the secret realm and began to act out their roles, everything became much more realistic. It no longer leaned towards a grand narrative, and some details became richer. The common people who interacted with Song Wuji... no longer just said a few words.

The threads of fate and the threads of cause and effect are constantly being woven together.

It's like two stones falling into a pool, creating ripples.

"Moo!"

"Old ox~ Old ox~"

A young boy, leading an old, ravaged ox, sighed, "My elder brother gave you to me; you're a hero of our family. I can't bear to sell you to a butcher. I'll take care of you in your old age!"

"Moo!"

“My sister-in-law said they have a hard life, so it’s only right that we give them the house. Living in the cowshed is the same for me, and at least I can talk to you.” “Moo!”

……

Song Wuji felt fate, cause and effect, karma, which coalesced into something almost tangible.

The Galaxy Shuttle, suppressed by itself, trembled.

"It looks like it's him."

She smiled slightly and said, "It seems that the Cowherd is still kind at heart..."

And that cow...

Although it possessed some spiritual qualities, Song Wuji did not see anything particularly special about it.

and many more!

Is the key treasure in our hands?

Song Wuji thought of the Weaver Girl's fairy clothes, her physical body, and the Milky Way shuttle...

Who is the Weaver Girl?
Song Wuji looked at Huang Qiaoyun, who had taught others weaving in the secret realm; she seemed to be the Weaver Girl…

However, there is another Weaver Girl, the Spider Demon. Her inner core is the result of stealing the essence of the Heavenly Weaver Girl's body. In addition, spiders are naturally good at weaving, just as the Heavenly Weaver Girl became a Weaver Girl when she descended to earth...

Song Wuji asked, "Then who am I? Am I the Golden Ox Star?"

"No, I am the Kitchen God!" In recent days, besides gathering information to determine who the Cowherd was, Song Wuji also had another identity.

That was a noodle stall owner who claimed to be a disciple of the Kitchen God.

After all, there is a ritual for the "Yang House Master" in their own household, which requires 10,000 households to acknowledge them as the head of the household.

This is the gathering and dispersal center of the Great Migration. Even if it's just a matter of obsession, what if we can turn the deception into reality and spread the belief in the Kitchen God?
In fact, Song Wuji had already gathered a number of followers.

The people on the Loess Plateau have pure faith. They know that the Kitchen God is in charge of people's meals, and they all spontaneously have faith in him.

Moreover... they didn't know where they would finally settle during this great migration, and they prayed to the gods and Buddhas, hoping to find a prosperous and abundant place to settle down.

More often than not, they worship the big tree, regarding it as the Tree King Bodhisattva.

Incense sticks were burning everywhere under the big tree.

Song Wuji also suspected that this giant tree might be some powerful demon or evil god from a secret realm...

However, no substantial divine power was discovered; this guy remained just a background figure.

"It seems we still need to find the lake where the fairies bathed."

But this place is arid and almost barren, lacking water and food... Where would a lake come from to provide a place for the fairy to bathe?

After spending a few days with him, Song Wuji discovered that the Cowherd was a genuinely kind-hearted person, accustomed to compromise, honest, and fond of taking a loss.

He respects the elderly and cares for the young, and doesn't mind if others take advantage of him.

The more Song Wuji observed, the angrier he became, but he also understood that this was the original description of the Cowherd in the secret realm.

"I've found Fairy Lake," Huang Qiaoyun sent out the message.

"That's not actually a lake, it's a silk handkerchief!"

"The spider demon also hid among the villagers, but she couldn't stand the life of being covered in yellow dust, so she secretly went to the back mountain to take a bath."

"That handkerchief is probably the magic weapon of the Weaver Girl in the Heavenly Net."

Song Wuji stroked his chin: "It seems the evolution of destiny has begun!"

"Moo!"

A cow mooed.

The old ox in the next yard is so old it can't get any older, and now it's time to speak.

(End of this chapter)