Deities: Rulers of Nature

The integration of the Snow Spider Clan not only brought forging techniques but also stimulated the cultural development of the Xishan Tribe.

Before the arrival of the Spider-Men, among the various races in the Mountain and Sea Divine Realm, the Xishan Snake People had developed some rudimentary symbols of writing thanks to the efforts of Qingdao, while the White Scale Snake People did not have the conditions to invent writing in the swamp, and the Cherry Blossom Spirits had not developed writing either.

Unlike the Snowy Spider-Men, as a race from the Old Age, they possess a written system with underlying logic.

Of course, under Ji Xuan's influence, the Xishan tribe would not directly use the Spider-Man's script, just as Ji Xuan never bestowed upon them Chinese characters.

The Spider-Man's writing system served as a valuable resource, allowing Qingdao, who already had ideas, to develop a clear framework. After seven years of refinement, deliberation, selection, and integration, the first version of the writing system belonging to the Xishan tribe was about to be completed.

In the rear hall of the Temple of Nature, the afternoon sun streamed in through the transparent crystal windows, landing on the large wooden table and gilding it with a layer of gold.

High Priest Qingdao was holding a carving knife, intently carving a character on a small piece of wood. The character was composed of a winding snake-man silhouette, an axe, and abstract tree patterns.

In Seido's design, this character symbolizes felling and harvesting.

But after carving the last stroke, Seido frowned and pondered for a while, then sighed and discarded the small piece of wood.

"High Priest, have you discovered another problem?" asked a young snake-man who was not yet an adult, standing next to Qingdao.

"Grandpa feels that this character has some issues with the parallelism between it and the previously determined character that represents labor and mining." Qingdao didn't try to fool the little snake-person just because she was young; instead, he genuinely expressed his concerns.

"High Priest, look at this!" The little snake-man picked out a few pieces from a pile of small wooden chips and placed them on the wooden table in front of Qingdao. "This is the confirmed human character, this represents trees, this represents objects, this represents minerals..."

The little snake-woman's eyes were incredibly bright at that moment, and she pointed to one of the pieces of wood and gestured:

"Grandpa, look, if we don't use the specific axe character, but instead use this tool character that represents an object, and don't add any subsequent characters indicating the work content... then we can create a character that represents an action."

"When it's followed by a tree character, it means cutting down a tree; when it's followed by a mineral character, it means mining... In this way, it's not static, but ever-changing. We don't need a single character that represents too many meanings; instead, we connect the simple ones together."

Seido's hand holding the carving knife suddenly stopped. A flash of inspiration passed through his mind, and Seido successfully grasped it.

"Little Jin Chen, you are really talented." Before starting a new round of research, Qing Dao patted Jin Chen's head and praised him.

The underage snake spirit who inspired Seido was none other than Kim Jin.

The daughter of the leader Qingyun and Jinyang has just turned ten years old this year.

Although he is still young, Jin Chen has shown great talent since childhood.

Jin Chen perfectly inherited the bloodlines of the Azure Scale Serpent People and the Golden Ring Serpent People, and awakened a mutated perceptual talent, which made her mental power particularly active from a young age, and her thinking was also very flexible.

This trait made Jin Chen's childhood less than perfect. Because of her precociousness, she couldn't play with the snake people of the same age and also felt that those games were too childish.

When Jin Chen was four years old, she noticed by chance that her father, Jin Yang, had brought home several pieces of wood with simple and abstract symbols carved on them.

Unlike the other snake-people who would throw, gnaw, or even use wooden chips as weapons, Jin Chen was very interested in the symbols and kept looking at them over and over.

Jin Yang didn't pay much attention at first, until Jin Chen grabbed his finger, pointed to a symbol, and asked, "Father, is this the sun in the sky? Is this a tree?"

It was only then that Jin Yang realized that his four-year-old daughter had actually guessed the meaning of these abstract symbols on her own. You should know that these symbols had been simplified by Qingdao many times, and some of them had become so abstract that they had no clear connection with the original.

After that, Jin Yang took out some more pieces of wood, and Xiao Jin Chen gave his thoughts on each one.

Although some of them took a long time and some of the directions were not the most accurate, Xiao Jinchen's overall accuracy rate was very high. Even if he got a few wrong, his ideas were still related to the real answer.

Without a doubt, Xiao Jinchen possesses some talents that Jinyang does not have.

When Jin Yang told Jin Chen that these symbols were created by the High Priest Qing Dao, the little guy begged Jin Yang to let him learn from Qing Dao.

After discussing it, Jin Yang and Qing Yun decided to take the young Jin Chen to the Temple of Nature. After meeting Qing Dao, Jin Yang explained his purpose. At that moment, Qing Dao rarely lost his composure, and the excitement in his eyes was so obvious.

There is no doubt that Seido was a solitary figure on the path of studying writing, which had nothing to do with his status as a high priest.

In the tribe, Green and Crimson were able to occasionally help Qingdao at first, as they understood the importance of writing to the tribe. However, one was the Pope and the other was the King of Xishan, and they had too many things to deal with. Gradually, they came less and less frequently, and later they couldn't keep up with Qingdao's research progress at all.

Qingdao had considered finding other people in the tribe to conduct research together, but not everyone had the talent in this area. They even struggled to learn the results of Qingdao's research, let alone provide assistance to Qingdao.

Even worse, some people's excessive enthusiasm has backfired, making things worse for others.

Over time, Seido was left to work on the study of writing alone.

Therefore, when Seido saw that Kim Jin's eyes were full of curiosity and longing for symbols, he was happy, even gratified.

From that day on, a small snake-man appeared in the back hall of the Temple of Nature.

At first, four-year-old Jin Chen still needed to be picked up and dropped off by her father or mother. During the day, she would study with Qingdao, and when she was alone, she would obediently sit in front of a small table, tracing the symbols on the wooden pieces one by one.

As Jin Chen grew older, her fascination with symbols deepened. Sometimes, in order to examine the rigor of a symbol, she would study it until late at night, refusing to leave even when her parents came to pick her up.

Finally, when she was seven years old, Jin Yang and Qing Yun could not persuade Jin Chen, and with Qing Dao's consent, they simply let her move to the back hall to live with Qing Dao.

The Temple of Nature was arguably the safest place in the tribe, and with the guidance of High Priest Qingdao, Jin Chen received some treatment that was even better than that of her parents, who were the leaders.

From then on, the old man and the young man were often accompanied by mountains of wood chips.

The research progress of writing has also evolved from abstract symbols to characters with specific meanings.