The primordial era began with the Upper Cave Man.

Chapter 151 The three-year period has come to an end, 70,000 cavemen.

The rosy clouds stretched endlessly, like colorful clouds, and auspicious omens abounded as we entered this mountain.

The mountain is not high, only about a hundred feet high, but you can see green and red houses lined up one after another from the bottom to the middle of the mountain, covering the entire mountain, as if it were wearing a green and red scale armor.

The radiant glow of the sunset spilled across the mountains, adding a dazzling array of colors to the landscape. The inhabitants of the mountain houses emerged one by one, all gazing in astonishment at this beautiful and strange celestial phenomenon.

"The three-year period has come to an end."

"The clan chief has returned."

"The clan leader has emerged from seclusion!"

Everyone was excited, and their eyes were all drawn to a deep cave entrance below the mountain platform.

Because the clan chief always resides here, everyone regards this place as a sacred site for the tribe. No house is ever built higher than this mountain peak; they are all seven or eight feet shorter.

Therefore, this cave is considered a unique gem (in a positive sense) of the tribe.

The auspicious light faded, the floating clouds thinned, and the strange phenomena disappeared.

Finally, everyone gathered at the cave entrance on the mountaintop.

Today, Luoxiang has a population of seven thousand. So many people gather here, forming a vast, surging crowd, like a tidal wave crashing from the foot of the mountain to the summit.

The "Peak Caveman" tribe now has a population of 70,000, and nine villages are under its jurisdiction in Luoxiang.

Among them, Luoxiang has a population of 7,000, Hutou Village has a population of 8,900, Yanquan Village has a population of 6,100, Tieshan Village has a population of 12,000, Xiaosushan Village has a population of 7,500, Dongshan Village has a population of 4,800, Yezhu Village has a population of 9,100, Liyu Village has a population of 7,200, Yang Village has a population of 3,600, and Niulangang has a population of 5,400.

A total of more than 71,000 people.

More than a decade has passed. Under the leadership of Luo Zu, the human race is in a stable and peaceful environment. Coupled with the human race's inherent desire to reproduce, the population of the tribe has expanded rapidly over the past ten years, like an inflating balloon. Luo Zu used to plan a new village almost every year to alleviate the population pressure in each village.

Each village has its own affairs, and each has its own village head who is in charge of its own affairs.

As the population increased and the villages under its jurisdiction became autonomous, they were essentially small tribes. So, Luo Zu designed a coin – the Spirit Coin.

A large batch of crystals can be mass-produced using the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and can be directly used for cultivation.

Because these spirit coins are bound to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, they are considered hard currency and have since been linked to various commodities.

However, the spirit coins were exquisitely crafted, and the people often hoarded them for cultivation, so the villages still preferred to barter for goods...

Luo Zu was also helpless about this. He wanted to directly order everyone not to hoard spirit coins, but he was worried about disrupting the existing market. Well, there was no market economy in primitive society...

Therefore, he directly announced that spirit coins could only be used for commodity transactions and were not allowed to be used for cultivation.

However, this policy was only implemented for three months before being withdrawn by Luo Zu.

The people have this need, and his excessive suppression has backfired.

Therefore, he could only learn from the Wu tribe and from the world within the pot.

Unfortunately, due to different social structures, a perfect solution cannot be provided.

Luo Zu then gathered everyone's experience together and used the computing power of a spiritual brain to perform deductions.

Ultimately, he decided to abolish the Spirit Coins and instead link a type of Immortal Gold Iron Coin to them. This changed the anchor, and with the addition of Luo Zu's own credit, the Immortal Gold Iron Coin became the newest currency.

Such a monetary system should be able to operate for decades. Once it collapses, Luo Zu will study another one.

That concludes my explanation (Note 1).

Let's return to the current situation of the "Peak Caveman" tribe.

Luo Zu remained the clan chief, while Tie Tou Wa and Huo Wa were in charge of the tribe's two main industries and were appointed acting clan chiefs by Luo Zu. As a result, they were surrounded by many clansmen.

Of course, they had no ulterior motives, and none of the clansmen had any ulterior motives.

Although power is a fascinating thing, with Luo Zu in power and having accumulated authority for many years, what kind of thoughts could he possibly have?

Moreover, Luo Zu didn't care too much about this. The development of the human race needed talented people and heroes. If someone could truly lead the human race to its peak, he was willing to give up his position.

He wasn't someone who craved power.

He cared more about the development of the human race and his own cultivation.

Now the population has exceeded 70,000, and talented people are emerging one after another among the human race, or rather, everyone is a talented person.

After all, the tribe had only multiplied to the sixth generation of the human race, and the blessings of the Goddess Nuwa had not yet dissipated.

Therefore, all adults in the tribe today have embarked on cultivation. There are 36,891 people who have refined essence into qi, 846 people who have refined qi into spirit, 71 people who have refined spirit into emptiness, and one person who has refined emptiness into the Dao.

However, this cultivator who has attained the Dao of Refining Emptiness is neither Iron Head nor Fire Boy, but Fire Boy's son—Deer.

This child was born fifty years ago, only two years younger than Luo Zu. He was quite talented and even had two innate supernatural abilities: one was spiritual fire, and the other was dark water. With water and fire complementing each other, he was destined for greatness.

He was born lucky. When he came of age, he was in the period of Luo Zu's rise to power. He then followed Luo Zu's great power and cultivated the various resources created by Luo Zu.

However, there were ups and downs during this period, and he often suffered setbacks in his cultivation. But after Luo Zu officially determined his cultivation realm, he began to exert his strength in the later stages.

A year ago, he successfully cultivated his primordial spirit, entering the realm of refining spirit and returning to emptiness earlier than his fathers, becoming the second person in the "Upper Caveman" tribe.

However, he is a low-key person, and so far only the upper echelons of the tribe know about his breakthrough.

Although the boy was intelligent and humble, Luo Zu had no intention of taking him as a disciple.

He is still exploring his own cultivation and has his own world within the gourd, so there is no need for him to find a disciple to verify his own path.

Besides, all the "cavemen" were considered his disciples. He never kept his cultivation methods secret; everyone could access them and practice them.

The various versions and updates of the practice methods are also recorded and collected in the cave's library, which everyone can browse and view on a regular basis.

In this way, everyone can understand the process of creating a Dharma, have something to learn from, and be guided to create their own Dharma practice methods.

Apart from Lu, the remaining cultivators who had refined their spirit and returned to emptiness also showed signs of refining emptiness and merging with the Dao, especially Tie Tou and Huo Wa, who were the first to enter this realm.

Luo Zu had previously been optimistic about them, but unexpectedly, the fourth generation of humans beat them to it.

Actually, there was another person who also achieved the Dao of Refining Emptiness.

That is Tang, who lives far away in the Hot Witch tribe.

She was quite talented, had good comprehension, and was quite intelligent; otherwise, she wouldn't have become the leader of the vassal human tribe of the Hot Witch Tribe.

Moreover, she discovered the wonder of her own innate supernatural power—the power to follow the laws of heaven and earth!

She has made further progress in the study of natural laws, so she may become an immortal even earlier than the deer.

Luo Zu was very pleased with this.

He was pleased that the human race was powerful.

He was overjoyed at the prosperity of the human race.

I only hope that everyone can become like a dragon and become the protagonist of the primordial world.

The Lich and Demon races, your human grandfather has arrived.

Note 1: The author is not an economics major. Please forgive any errors in the statements; these are just fictional settings.

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