The primordial era began with the Upper Cave Man.

Chapter 171 Spiritual Roots, Terrifying Upright Ape, Luo's Classic of Mountains and Seas

"If you travel another ten thousand miles west, you will see a mountain called Liaoshan. There are a group of monkeys in the mountain. Their voices are like bells. They have sparse fur and many ears. Sometimes they walk on all fours and sometimes they stand on two legs. Their flesh is tender and smooth. Their internal organs can be used to refine the Quenching Pill. They are free-range monkeys of the Red-Nosed Demon species."

"But now the Red-Nosed Demon race is probably wiped out."

Standing atop an ancient, weathered tree, Luo Zu gazed into the distance.

There is a mountain range stretching for three thousand miles, shrouded in clouds and mist. Under the sunlight, it shimmers with five colors due to the Tyndall effect, with colorful clouds flying everywhere. The scenery is so beautiful that people linger there and never want to leave.

But such scenery was commonplace in the prehistoric world and nothing to be surprised about, so even Luo Zu could look down on it.

This place is 30 million li away from Luoxiang, and it has been more than a month since Luozu set off.

Traveling 30 million miles took a month, which was quite a long time. However, Luo Zu's trip was not for a specific mission, but for a long-held wish—to see Buzhou Mountain.

He also wanted to see more of the primordial Dao.

It's impossible to work in isolation; how can one witness the Great Dao if one doesn't go out and face the world?

The primordial world is vast, and the Great Dao is countless, possibly numbering in the tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.

Perhaps the Great Dao is born at every moment. As for the Great Dao disappearing, that is impossible. It has been recorded by heaven and earth. Even if this phenomenon of the Great Dao disappears at this moment, it may reappear.

Therefore, the Great Dao recorded in the primordial world over countless years is also countless. A certain fleeting natural law disappears after being recorded once. When the same conditions are met in a certain place in the primordial world at a certain moment, such a natural law will reappear and then disappear quickly again.

This is a manifestation of the Great Way.

Luo Zu could not possibly have witnessed this fleeting natural law.

That is why Luo Zu wanted to travel, so that he could fulfill his wish and also meet and collect more of the Great Dao.

"Master, that red-nosed demon has already moved away."

A toad the size of a palm, with a purple lightning-patterned golden skin, jumped onto Luo Zu's shoulder and cautiously reminded him.

"When did this happen?" Luo Zu didn't find it strange.

After all, much of the information he knew was outdated.

"Thirty thousand years ago, a red-nosed demon attained the Golden Immortal realm. He was summoned by the Heavenly Emperor to the Heavenly Star and brought all the red-nosed demons from this place to the Heavenly Star. Now they are descendants of the Demon Gods, and their glory is unparalleled," the toad explained.

"When one attains enlightenment, even his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven."

Seeing Luo Zu's attitude, Toad Koko shrank back and dared not say anything more on the matter.

The Lich and Elyos races are really not sensitive to time. They can remember things from 30,000 years ago perfectly, but they never make a systematic update.

"Master, the blood food of that free-range red-nosed demon is still around. If you want to eat it, it's not too late to kill one now," Toad Knock said.

There was no need for Koukou to remind him; after learning that the Crimson-Nosed Demon was not present, Luo Zu had already spread his divine sense and discovered this group of strange creatures in the mountains.

"There are spiritual fruits in the mountains; eating them grants the ability to breathe fire," Luo Zu recalled.

To be honest, Luo Zu used to yearn for these spiritual fruits and plants. Later, as he mastered many Daoist techniques and his cultivation gradually improved, he gained a new understanding of spiritual plants.

Based on the universality of the primordial world, spiritual plants are divided into three grades, from best to worst: acquired spiritual roots, innate spiritual roots, and chaotic spiritual roots.

Acquired spiritual roots are plants that naturally develop after the creation of heaven and earth, or plants that undergo mutations due to the nourishment of spiritual energy, and eventually become spiritual roots.

The innate spiritual root is a plant that was born at the same time as the creation of heaven and earth.

The Chaos Spiritual Root is something that existed before the creation of heaven and earth. Such things are mostly myths and have never been proven.

However, chaotic spiritual roots are unseen, innate spiritual roots are extremely rare, and acquired spiritual roots are also hard to find. In the many years since the beginning of the primordial world, countless living beings have emerged. Among them, there must be those who have discovered the wonders of spiritual roots. Therefore, collecting them has become a perfectly normal thing.

Over the years, every inch of the primordial land has probably been plundered, leaving no scraps for Luo Zu, this rising star.

After all, the Lich and Demon races are also very sensitive to these spiritual roots. Whenever they encounter them, they quickly collect them, either to report them or to keep them for their own private use.

Finally, all that's left are these spiritual plants with limited effects.

In order to make the best use of resources, later generations studied and developed the methods of alchemy.

In that case, those spiritual roots are made by using heaven and earth as a furnace to extract and refine the great medicine of heaven and earth to form "elixirs". The method of refining elixirs is a method that imitates this kind of technique.

Of course, there are many theories about the origin of alchemy, and imitating spiritual roots is just one of them. No one can verify its authenticity, but some people believe it.

As for spiritual roots, whether acquired or innate, they are great treasures that seize the essence of heaven and earth, capable of being consumed, used for refining weapons, creating living beings, reversing innate talent, and even directly creating an innate saint.

Therefore, it is extremely rare.

The spiritual fruit that Luo Yu is currently holding only has the basic ability to be eaten and breathe fire, which is inferior and at least Luo Zu would not think much of it.

However, the fruit has a strange appearance, resembling both a peach and an orange.

It looks like a peach, but when you peel it, it separates into orange-yellow segments.

Eating only one segment will not grant you the ability to breathe fire; at most, it will increase your physical strength. Only by eating the entire fruit can you gain the ability to breathe fire.

"Master, there is another kind of strange beast in those mountains called Kui, which is a distant relative of the Kui beast of the East Sea. It can summon wind and rain, but unfortunately, like its distant relative, it is not intelligent," said Toad Knock Knock from the side.

Luo Zu weighed the fruit in his hand, but was also quite interested: "Kui, its thick skin can be used to make armor, its flesh and blood can be used to refine medicine, and its large bones can be boiled into soup to gain some ability to summon wind and rain."

"Where did you hear these words, sir? Were they also written by the Witch Clan?" Toad Knock Knock stretched out his webbed hind legs, flapped his head a few times, and asked curiously.

Luo Zu then took a piece of jade that recorded a legal prohibition: "I compiled it myself, and it is called the Luo Clan Classic of Mountains and Seas."

Upon hearing this, Toad Knock Knock immediately boasted, "This book will surely become a classic for future generations of the human race, and it will certainly be ranked alongside the Demon Master's Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Emperor Jiang's Classic of Mountains and Seas."

That's an overstatement.

Luo Zu also learned about these two volumes of the Classic of Mountains and Seas from the toad's knocking. The Classic of Mountains and Seas was compiled by the demon master Kunpeng of the demon race's heavenly court. It records the landscape and spirits of mountains and rivers from the distant ancient times to hundreds of millions of years ago. It also records many innate deities, some of whom are extinct and some of whom have survived to this day.

Therefore, this book, "The Demon Master's Classic of Mountains and Seas," has always been known by name but has never been widely distributed or seen by the world.

Dijiang, the chief of the twelve ancestral witches of the witch clan, saw that the demon clan had such a book of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. He then had an idea. One hundred million years ago, he spent thirty million years sorting out all the mountains and rivers of the prehistoric world, naming them, and writing them down as the twelve ancestral witch domains to establish place names.

This copy of the Classic of Mountains and Seas is also hard to find; only various great shamans possess one.

Therefore, even Luo Zu only knew its name but never saw its contents.

Therefore, Toad Knock Knock listed his Classic of Mountains and Seas alongside those of the Witch and Demon clans, and Luo Zu deeply felt that shamelessness was the greatest virtue in the world.

But he's shameless.

I think so too.

His Classic of Mountains and Seas will specifically record the edible effects of various creatures in the present prehistoric world.

This can be considered as filling the gap in biological research in the ancient land.

Now, the terrifying upright ape of the primordial world pays its respects to all living beings of the primordial world.

……

After another month of travel, he had covered a hundred million miles, and he had memorized his entire collection of the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

They passed through three witch tribes along the way, but thanks to the letter of advice issued by the Moon Witch Tribe, they were easily allowed to pass and even received a hospitality.

Today he discovered an extremely rare vein of refined gold, which contains various gold elements and is rich in a very important metal—uranium.

So Luo Zu decided to stay here for a while.

"Master, do you want to forge a weapon?" Toad Knock asked, sticking out his tongue.

With just his mouth, he caught a huge greenbottle fly, bigger than himself.

But he opened and closed his mouth and swallowed it whole.

"Yes." Luo Zu did not give the full answer.

However, he did need to refine his weapon. His Giant Sword had now been refined to seventy-two magical restrictions, which was just the right time to try and break through to the realm of magical treasures in the theory of Ancestor Luo.

In addition, the refinement of the Yellow Sand Pearl has not stopped. Luo Zu plans to refine it into a grotto-heaven magic treasure, and then collect twenty-three more to make a total of twenty-four. In this way, he can also compete with other people's Sea-Stabilizing Pearls and then refine them into the Twenty-Four Heavens.

It's quite interesting to think about.

"Master, may I lend you a hand?" Toad Knock Knock then said.

"How can you help me?" Luo Zu asked.

Toad Knock Knock immediately replied, "We Thunder Swamp Frogs can transform spiritual energy into a kind of oil, which is helpful for refining weapons and pills."

"That's fine." Upon hearing this, Luo Zu also showed a look of joy.

I didn't expect that kid Koko had been hiding his true abilities.

"How many more surprises do you have that I don't know about?" Luo Zu asked meaningfully.

The toad immediately broke out in a sweat.

"Master, I can't think of the whole picture right now. Could you give me some time to think it over and give you an explanation?" Toad Knock quickly tried to make amends.

Luo Zu smiled; he didn't care about any of that.

More surprises are welcome, especially for technical geniuses like Hama Koko; we should relax a bit and not be too tense.

"Forget about explaining for now, just help me with a weapon forging exercise first," said Luo Zu.

"Okay, okay," the toad replied.

He was afraid that he was useless and would be killed and eaten by Luo Zu.

It's true that Luo Zu has been eating a lot of wild game lately.

Cruel, so cruel.

I went to my wife's parents' house today, and it took quite a long drive, so there are only two updates today.

(End of this chapter)