Houtu is infatuated with me, so I made her lean against the wall.

Shennong was furious at Chiyou's departure.

Moreover, he believed that Chi You was too violent.

Despite his great talent, his violent nature is completely unsuitable for him to become the ruler of the human race.

Therefore, Shennong simply stopped sending people to persuade Chiyou and instead continued to search for a suitable successor in private.

When Lin Kui saw that Chi You and Shennong had clashed and that Chi You had left in anger, he was overjoyed. So he catered to Shennong's preferences and began to govern the human race with gentle methods.

Although he also scoffed at this method, Shennong was, after all, the current ruler of the human race.

Therefore, Lin Kui had to suppress his restless thoughts in order to gain the favor of Shennong.

However, what he didn't know was that everything Lin Kui did was in vain.

Shennong had long since abandoned the idea of ​​him as his successor.

After all, although Lin Kui is considered a prodigy of the human race, to become the ruler of the human race, one needs to make outstanding contributions to the human race.

Over the years, Lin Kui has accomplished nothing, not even comparable to Chi You. How could Shennong possibly choose him as his successor?

Meanwhile, back on the northern continent, Chi You of the Jiuli tribe used his prestige among the human-witch tribes to begin his own conquest.

On one hand, Chi You studied the stone and wooden weapons that the human race currently possessed and believed that these weapons were not sharp enough, were easily broken, and could not unleash the powerful strength of the human shamans.

Thus, after hundreds of years of painstaking research, Chi You created a method for smelting copper and iron, producing weapons such as iron swords, bronze swords, armor, spears, and halberds, which greatly enhanced the individual combat capabilities of human shamans.

On one hand, Chi You used his own portrait to make military flags and established a military rule that anyone who retreated would be killed without mercy wherever the flag went. He then recruited soldiers and trained the early Jiuli army.

While Chi You was training his army with great enthusiasm, Shennong's avatar once again set foot on the various territories of the human race.

Fifteen thousand years have passed, and Shennong still has not found a suitable talent.

Even Shennong was somewhat anxious at this moment.

After all, he was getting closer and closer to achieving his goal.

In addition, he has been feeling increasingly powerless lately.

He discovered that his path was no longer suitable for the human race.

If this continues, the development of the human race will stagnate.

Whether he can successfully attain enlightenment is a minor matter, but if it delays the development of the human race, that would be a matter of utmost importance.

Just when Shennong was anxious, a tribe caught his attention.

It is currently the time of severe drought, and the weather is extremely hot.

In this tribe, various buildings are arranged in an orderly manner, and some buildings are even built underground.

Humans can avoid the scorching heat by entering it.

At the same time, the clothing worn by the people of this tribe is completely different from that of people from other tribes.

Since the ancestor of humankind, Ziyi, used animal skins and leaves to make clothes, so that humankind no longer had to be naked, this method has continued among humankind.

However, the people of this tribe did not wear clothes made of animal skins and leaves, but rather woven from silk threads.

Most importantly, other tribes suffered from severe drought and water scarcity, resulting in reduced grain production.

Yet this tribe had a bountiful harvest.

This greatly intrigued Shennong, who then went deep into the tribe to investigate both openly and secretly.

Soon, Shennong learned the reason for the changes in this tribe.

It turns out that the reason they had undergone such a big change was because of Ji Xuanyuan, the leader of the Youxiong tribe.

A severe drought struck, and the sweltering heat became unbearable. Ji Xuanyuan led the people of his tribe to build palaces to escape the heat and cold.

Animal hide clothing is not warm enough in the cold winter, and clothes made of tree leaves are scorched and fragile in the sweltering summer.

Leizu, Ji Xuanyuan's wife, invented the method of raising silkworms and used silk to make clothes.

At the same time, since ordinary humans had difficulty traveling, Ji Xuanyuan created boats and vehicles to facilitate their travel.

Most importantly, in the face of severe drought and water shortage, Ji Xuanyuan led his people to dig wells, established laws, and distributed water resources equally, enabling the people of the surrounding tribes to work together, help each other, and overcome the difficulties.

Upon learning all this, Shennong was overjoyed and went to visit Ji Xuanyuan in the Youxiong tribe.

At the same time, they inquired about Ji Xuanyuan's methods of governing the world.

Ji Xuanyuan spoke eloquently, explaining his thoughts one by one.

Similarly, Ji Xuanyuan, like Chi You, proposed laws and punishments, and formed a large army to prepare for any eventuality.

However, compared to Chi You's directness and violence, Ji Xuanyuan's proposed ideas were undoubtedly much more moderate.

At least, it would be easier for Shennong to accept.

After understanding Ji Xuanyuan's philosophy of governance and examining his character, Shennong concluded that Ji Xuanyuan was the successor he had been searching for.

Therefore, Shennong revealed his identity and invited Ji Xuanyuan to return to the human royal city with him, so that he could spread his ideas of governance to the entire human race.

Ji Xuanyuan was delighted and longed for it.

Lin Kui, who was handling human affairs in the imperial city, was surprised to find that Shennong had brought another person with him.

Furthermore, it was explicitly stated that Ji Xuanyuan was his successor.

This news struck Lin Kui like a thunderbolt.

Immediately afterwards, endless resentment arose in Lin Kui's heart.

However, on the surface, Lin Kui dared not reveal his true intentions. On the one hand, he honestly assisted Shennong in governing the human race, and on the other hand, he secretly informed his teacher, Sangmu Daoren, to find the primordial immortals who would support him.

That's right. Since he can't smoothly inherit Shennong's position, he'll wait until Shennong has achieved his goals and Ji Xuanyuan has not yet firmly established himself as the supreme ruler before seizing it by force.

However, before he could make a move, Chi You launched a fierce military offensive.

Having prepared for over ten thousand years, Chi You personally led an army of 120,000 Jiuli soldiers, along with eighty-one sworn brothers, to wage war on all sides.

Faced with the massive army led by Chi You, the human-shaman tribes of the northern continent surrendered without resistance and merged into the Jiuli tribe.

After consolidating the forces of the northern continent, Chi You officially raised his banner and set out to attack the western continent.

The human tribes were completely unprepared and collapsed at the first contact when Chi You's army arrived.

Battle reports flooded the human royal city like snowflakes.

Shennong, who was preparing to abdicate and build the Fengshan Terrace, was greatly alarmed upon receiving the battle report.

He never expected that Chi You would dare to launch a rebellion, intending to split the human race.

Enraged, Shennong mobilized a large army and great sages of the human race to confront Chiyou's army on both banks of the Yellow River.

"Chi You, how dare you rebel and divide my human race?"

Shennong glared angrily at Chiyou.

"Lord, times are changing. If humanity does not adapt accordingly, it will only become a discarded pawn in the long river of time."

"Your methods are too benevolent, which has long since caused the human race to lose its ambition."

"In the past, facing the powerful zombie race, the Holy Emperor formed the Twelve Zodiac Guardian Gods to fight on the front lines. After thousands of years, they finally quelled the zombie scourge!"

"Faced with the powerful demon race, the Empress, knowing it was futile, led the human race in a fierce resistance, which repelled the demon race's invasion of our human race."

"Now that humanity has developed to this point, it has long lost its former fighting spirit."

"If this continues, our human race will only grow weaker and weaker."

"As a member of the human race, I cannot watch humanity gradually decline."

"You are no match for me, surrender."

Chi You looked calmly at Shennong and stated his philosophy.