Primordial Era: I rule the great sect and command all immortals.

Chapter 68 Shennong Proves His Dao, Xuanyuan Ascends the Throne

With the endorsement of Xing Tian and Jiu Feng, two top-tier shamans, the entire shaman clan mobilized. Seven or eight shamans alone left the mountains. In addition, there were many more shamans in Beiju Luzhou and Nanzhanbuzhou who were ready to come to Chi You's aid at any time. With this force being poured in, the strength of the Jiuli tribe greatly increased.

In just three months, a backward and weak tribe has become the most powerful human tribe in the Eastern Continent.

Seeing that all the powerful figures of the Wu tribe had arrived, Chi You discussed the matter with Xiang Liu, Feng Bo, Yu Shi, and other great shamans. They then began training soldiers and practicing battle formations in the Jiuli tribe, preparing for the battle to claim the throne of the Human Emperor.

Several years passed in the blink of an eye, and the training of the soldiers of the Jiuli tribe finally achieved some success. Chiyou then began to use his military force to wipe out several surrounding tribes. For a time, the tribes around the Jiuli tribe were terrified. These tribes either moved to the north or assimilated into the Jiuli tribe.

After years of war, eighty-one human tribes eventually joined the Jiuli tribe. Chiyou dispersed all the Wu tribe members into these eighty-one human tribes to manage them. After hundreds of years of development, more and more people in the Jiuli tribe had Wu tribe blood, and the Jiuli tribe became stronger and stronger.

When the two tribes intermarry, the newborn shamans can not only summon wind and rain, but also tame insects and snakes, and concoct all sorts of strange shamanic medicines. These medicines can kill people and also prevent and treat miasma.

As the time came, Chi You selected the eighty-one most outstanding shaman children from the eighty-one tribes, kept them by his side, and personally taught them.

Finally, after another five hundred years, these eighty-one young shamans, carefully cultivated by Chi You, were ready to be put to use.

On this day, Chi You commanded these shamans to sit cross-legged around him, gave each of them a drop of his heart's blood, and instructed them to drink it while chanting an incantation: "Heaven and Earth, Black and Yellow, All Heavenly Gods and Demons, Contract!"

The eighty-one shamans who drank Chi You's heart blood felt a jolt in their minds, their consciousness was in a state of chaos, and Chi You's mark was etched into their true spirits. They would gradually transform into the bodies of great shamans, which could be said to be Chi You's own body and incarnation.

With eighty-eighty-one avatars, Chi You's power grew to an extremely terrifying level, and his ambition also grew further.

The entire Jiuli tribe was once again in a frenzy of activity, with military drills never ceasing. Chi You was waiting for Shennong to ascend to the throne and for the young Xuanyuan to succeed him. Before Xuanyuan could consolidate his power, Chi You would completely defeat him and seize the throne of the Human Emperor.

Just as Chi You was about to make his move, Chen Du, Shennong finally finished studying the art of alchemy, leaving behind the methods of refining elixirs and some prescriptions for humankind. His "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica" was also finally completed after several revisions.

After performing good deeds in the human world for two thousand years, Shennong's cultivation was finally completed. He received a decree from the Taiqing Sage, which instructed him to pass on the throne of the Human Emperor to someone else and go with Fuxi to the "Fire Cloud Cave" for quiet cultivation.

After receiving the Taiqing Edict, Shennong was overjoyed and began to prepare for the succession. Shennong did not choose his own son, but instead chose Xuanyuan in the most objective and fair way, and passed the throne of the Human Emperor to Xuanyuan.

On the day of the succession, the Supreme Sage, Emperor Fuxi, and the Chaos Daoist Master, the tutor of the Three Emperors, all came to witness the ceremony.

After worshipping Heaven and Earth and paying homage to the sages, when Shennong passed the throne of the Human Emperor to Xuanyuan, heavenly merits descended upon Shennong. When the radiant light dissipated, Shennong's cultivation broke through to the Great Luo realm, and he severed his good and evil corpses, becoming a great master in the late Quasi-Saint stage.

Shennong gazed at the primordial land with awe, his aura spreading out to intimidate all the races of the primordial world and establish the supreme authority of the human race as the protagonist of heaven and earth.

When the human race gave birth to its second Quasi-Saint, the prehistoric world was shaken. All forces had complex expressions. It seems that the protagonist destined by heaven is indeed powerful!

The primordial world has already gone through two great calamities, hundreds of millions of years have passed, and there are only so many Quasi-Saints. Each of them has gone through countless hardships and spent countless years to cultivate to this level. However, the two Quasi-Saints of the human race have achieved enlightenment in just a few thousand years, which is the envy of others.

Shennong attained the title of Earthly Sovereign, and Chaos Dao Lord felt a pang of sadness in his heart, but he kept smiling as he looked at his disciple, appearing extremely gratified.

After thinking it over, Li Yunjing felt better as he pocketed another merit. He was now just one step away from becoming a Grand Luo Golden Immortal.

Seeing that his disciples had all attained the quasi-saint level, Li Yunjing adjusted his mindset. He knew he couldn't be impatient; he would continue to cultivate steadily and methodically.

Li Yunjing wanted to use merit to prove his Dao, and he could have severed both his good and evil corpses long ago, but his ambition did not allow him to do so; this was not what he wanted to pursue.

Merit shouldn't be wasted like this!

After the Sage Taiqing left, Chaos Daoist had a rare opportunity to chat with his two disciples for a while.

After a long while, Fuxi looked at Shennong, bowed and said, "Brother, the auspicious time has arrived, and we should go to the 'Fire Cloud Cave' as well."

After saying this, the two human emperors bid farewell to Chaos Dao Lord once more, and then had their disciples bring the dragon horses. They rode together with Shennong, and amidst the respectful farewell of countless humans, they flew towards the "Fire Cloud Cave" beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.

After the handover of power among the three emperors was completed, Chaos Daoist returned to Wuyi Mountain to go into seclusion.

This time, however, he planned to raise his cultivation to the late stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal before emerging from seclusion. Xuanyuan would face many troubles in the future, and as his teacher, he would definitely have to take action. To ensure a sure victory, Li Yunjing naturally dared not be careless.

The primordial land was in the calm before the storm, but now it is said that the Lords of the Thirty-Three Heavens, Haotian and Yaochi, were there.

Since these two took up residence in the Heavenly Court, they haven't had a single day of leisure. As the saying goes, a day in Heaven is equivalent to a year on Earth. Nearly a thousand years have passed in the human world. The two rulers of the Three Realms have also been busy in the Thirty-Three Heavens for three years.

Haotian and Yaochi humbled themselves and made a special visit to various powerful figures, even including experts from the Witch Clan and the Demon Clan. However, the result was not satisfactory, as all the powerful figures explicitly refused their recruitment.

Are these powerful beings unaware of the benefits of the Heavenly Court?

of course not!

However, Haotian and Yaochi's status was too low, and these great supernatural beings would look down on mere Daoist disciples, even those of Dao Ancestor Hongjun. Moreover, there were six Sages above them, so the Lord of Heaven was destined to have little authority.

These powerful beings would never suffer alongside Haotian. As long as they didn't actively enter the tribulation, the Quasi-Saint level experts were all living freely in the prehistoric world, and no one could do anything to them. How could these people possibly mess around with Haotian?

Reality dealt Haotian and Yaochi a heavy blow. The two adjusted their mindset and focused their attention on recruiting some Great Luo Golden Immortals. Through this recruitment effort, their confidence finally recovered somewhat.

(End of this chapter)