Primordial Era: Starting with the repair of Penglai Immortal Island

With a slight exertion, he crushed the Wind and Thunder Ape, turning it into a cloud of blood mist that dissipated.

Dozens of witch warriors behind him moved at the same time.

The beast's hooves shattered the ground, and the rune warriors shot into the ape horde like arrows. Those apes, who had not even reached the True Immortal Realm, were torn apart, smashed, and thrown away like paper dolls in their hands.

In the blink of an eye, all of the dozens of Wind and Thunder Apes were killed.

Bloodstains were splattered on the ruined stone house, mixed with the dried, dark brown old stains, making it impossible to distinguish which were new and which were old.

Chi You jumped off the back of the black and white behemoth.

He walked to the child's skeleton, squatted down, and stared at it in silence for a moment.

Then he reached out and gently picked up the broken little finger bone, examined it in his palm, and carefully put it back in its original place.

"They're human," he said in a low voice.

A soldier stepped forward, gazing at the ruins and the countless ape carcasses scattered around, and asked, "Brother, what about these beasts..."

"These are just a bunch of small fry." Chi You stood up and looked beyond the ruins towards the north, where there were still more traces of the Wind and Thunder Apes.

He could smell the lingering scent in the air, thick and persistent, indicating that a larger group was gathered not far away. "Since we're already here, let's clean up the surrounding area."

Without saying another word, he mounted the black and white behemoth and headed north towards the direction of the stronger scent.

Dozens of warriors followed silently behind, the sound of the beast's hooves echoing through the mountains and forests in a series of dense and muffled crackling sounds.

After that, an unknown force appeared on the southern border of Jambudvipa.

The battle between the Witch Clan and the Wind and Thunder Apes lasted for several days, resulting in the complete annihilation of more than ten ape tribes that had been entrenched within a radius of 100,000 li.

However, an even larger ape tribe came from afar, including several Taiyi Realm experts.

Chi You led his dozens of warriors in several head-on clashes with them. After both sides suffered casualties, the Wuren tribe was defeated and retreated to the Ten Thousand Mountains for a short rest. They then brought out another group of strong warriors from the mountains.

This back-and-forth struggle lasted for several months.

The Wuren tribe, relying on the natural miasma barrier and terrain advantage of the Ten Thousand Mountains, has been constantly fighting against several tribes, including the Wind and Thunder Ape.

When the news spread, all the races of the prehistoric world were stunned.

"Are there still humans in the Hundred Thousand Mountains?" A Luo Immortal from another race was reading through the message that had been sent back. He frowned as he looked at the description of the team that had suddenly appeared. Their faces were covered with runes, they were tall, rode strange beasts, and had fierce physiques...!

They do look similar to humans, but I've never heard of such a branch of humans before...!

"Perhaps it's a branch of the human race hiding in the Hundred Thousand Mountains!" Another Great Luo of another race waved his hand dismissively. "Shennong sent out many humans to scatter throughout the prehistoric world. There are humans in Beiju Luzhou, Dongsheng Shenzhou, and even Xiniu Hezhou. It's not surprising that there are humans in these Hundred Thousand Mountains."

No one thought of them as "the witch tribe".

The Wu tribe has been gone from the primordial world for so long that those two words have been forgotten by most living beings in the depths of their memories.

To onlookers, those runes and those physically powerful beings, which were almost unreasonable, were nothing more than a unique inheritance of the "human race".

The fact that the Witch Clan did share some of the pressure from the south with the Human Clan is undeniable.

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After Guang Chengzi took Youxiong Xuanyuan away from the Youxiong tribe, he did not bring him back to Kunlun Mountain as Suiyang had worried.

He took the blood-covered boy and found a spiritually rich mountain in the human territory, set up an array of restrictions, and settled there.

That sacred mountain is not high, but it is rich in gentle and abundant spiritual energy.

There is a natural stone cave on the mountainside, from which a spiritual spring gushes forth. The spring water is clear, sweet, and covered with a thin layer of milky white mist.

Guang Chengzi set up a barrier at the cave entrance to isolate the internal and external energies, and then took out all sorts of rare treasures, immortal herbs and spiritual medicines that he carried with him and piled them up in the stone cave.

Any one of those rare and precious herbs would be enough to make a Golden Immortal drool, but in Guang Chengzi's hands, they were merely materials for "laying the foundation" for his disciples.

He first soaked Xuanyuan in the spiritual spring for seven days and seven nights, using the power of the spring to wash away the turbidity accumulated in his body over the years. Then he added a nine-leaf lingzhi mushroom into the spring, allowing the medicinal power to seep into his bone marrow.

Xuanyuan lay curled up in the cold spring water with his eyes closed, his whole body aching... The feeling of the spiritual medicine washing over his flesh and bones was like thousands of fine needles piercing through his flesh at the same time, but he did not make a sound, only his bitten and bleeding lips showed the pain he was enduring.

Guang Chengzi stood by the spring and watched, only saying, "If you want revenge, then endure it."

He would add a medicinal herb to the spring every now and then, then sit aside and recite the Primordial Golden Chapter for Youxiong Xuanyuan.

He didn't want Xuanyuan to cultivate step by step, from refining essence into qi, and from qi into spirit...

In his view, those realms were a complete waste of time.

A century has passed silently in the stillness of that sacred mountain.

Xuanyuan grew from a child with a face covered in blood into a tall and slender young man.

His features inherited the delicate features of the human race, but due to a century of arduous cultivation, they gained an extra layer of sharpness.

As he sat cross-legged in his cave, comprehending the Primordial Golden Chapter, the aura of the Jade Purity Immortal Law faintly circulated around him, and endless spiritual energy continuously flowed into his body, nourishing his physique.

In just one hundred years, Xuanyuan broke through to the realm of Celestial Immortal.

Guang Chengzi, who was outside the cave, sensed the nascent, pure Jade Purity Qi and the corners of his mouth curved slightly.

Achieving immortality in a hundred years is unparalleled among humans, comparable to Fuxi and Shennong.

"It's time to go back."

After Xuanyuan broke through to the Celestial Immortal realm, Guangchengzi did not allow him to continue his secluded cultivation.

Xuanyuan emerged from the stone cave and stood at the entrance, facing the mountain breeze. A hundred years had passed, and his face had lost the roundness of his childhood, with his jawline becoming distinct and strong.

The murderous intent that once lingered in his eyes was now hidden even deeper, making it difficult for ordinary people to discern.

Guang Chengzi waved his hand and removed the restrictions on the mountain, then flew towards the Youxiong tribe with Xuanyuan.

The village of Youxiong tribe, shrouded in a pale golden light, has not only recovered its vitality over the past century but has also grown considerably stronger.

The humans who remained in the tribe were able to recuperate under the protection of Guang Chengzi's formation. They also gradually accepted some humans who had fled from the surrounding areas. The tribe was nearly twice the size of what it was a hundred years ago. The walls were rebuilt and wooden watchtowers were erected on top.

Under the care of the ancestral land of humanity, the Youxiong tribe has never been harassed by other races in the past hundred years and has continued to develop peacefully.

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