Chapter 816: The Inheritance of the Nuwa Clan (2)

The most important affairs of a state are war and sacrifice.

After heaven was opened and earth was divided, at the dawn of humanity's birth, on the vast barbaric land, dangers lurked everywhere.

Fuxi Emperor and Nuwa Emperor, as the two supreme sage-level beings at the dawn of humanity, passed down humanity's way of survival.

The Xi Clan, war.

The Nuwa Clan, sacrifice.

War means resisting external enemies, hunting and killing beasts, like the fangs and claws of a ferocious beast that occasionally flashes, thereby intimidating foes.

Sacrifice means developing civilization, preserving inheritance, it is the brain of a people, hidden deep within flesh and blood, solely to ensure the lineage never ends.

The Nuwa Clan's way of inheritance is, 'to use humanity's reasoning to make up for the deficiencies of the heavenly way.'

The Great Dao of Heaven and Earth operates according to its own laws.

Like water flowing downhill, like the seasonal growth of melons and fruits, like the self-propagation of birds and beasts, and so on.

But the human way is, within the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, to open a different pivot.

Water flows downhill, yet I insist on using various tools and canals to make water flow uphill, letting the lowland water irrigate the highland fields.

The growth of seasonal melons and fruits follows its own law; varieties have their own categories; their growing regions also have natural patterns. But the human way is to make melons and fruits bloom and bear fruit in all seasons, obtain superior varieties through grafting, and let those that only grow in the south also blossom in the north.

Birds and beasts freely reproduce in mountains, forests, and grasslands. Yet humanity can select those easily domesticated birds and beasts, make them adapt to a mode of coexistence with humans, alter their reproductive nature and growth patterns, and thus provide more eggs, meat, milk, and hides.

Digging canals, sinking wells, building cities, forging……

These knowledge and skills acquired by humanity later can overturn heaven and change earth, can fight heaven and struggle against earth, and can make the entire universe shine with new radiance and take on a new appearance.

Humanity's great way, in the primordial ages, during an extremely long period, displayed extraordinarily brilliant splendor.

Even during humanity's weakest period, when it fell into the Age of Dharma Decline, people were feeble like sheep and lifespans did not exceed a hundred years, yet humanity's knowledge still burst forth with terrifying power.

The primitive prototypes of giant divine soldiers such as 'Old Iron' appeared in humanity's Age of Dharma Decline, and then evolved into the terrifying existence of Old Iron, possessing the power to confront deities head-on.

The Nuwa Clan's inheritance is the transmission of knowledge, is humanity's way of propagation, is humanity's way of mending heaven, is humanity's way of changing heaven.

The Xi Clan, war.

Therefore, the Xi Clan's members huddle tightly together, like a clenched fist, ready to strike out at any moment.

The Nuwa Clan, sacrifice.

Thus, the Nuwa Clan's people scatter in all directions; within the Nuwa Clan's spiritual space, they gather into a mass of flame capable of burning all things; upon the boundless Mu Dalu, they disperse into countless tiny sparks.

No matter how formidable the enemy, it is impossible to simultaneously extinguish so many tiny sparks.

As long as a single spark remains, the Nuwa Clan's inheritance will never be cut off; it can continuously reignite, shine, and illuminate the vast humanity.

A stone the size of a chicken egg, smooth and lustrous like jade, emitting five-colored divine light, flew out of nowhere from the Nuwa Emperor's statue; this five-colored divine stone slowly drifted toward Nuwa Mother and then merged into her forehead.

All the Elders of Nuwa Valley saw this five-colored divine stone, feeling its vast and immense power; they were all excited to the point of trembling, and more than half of the Elders could not help but burst into tears.

The five-colored divine stone is also called the heaven-mending divine stone.

Its origin need not be elaborated; any human tribe with a shred of inheritance knows the legend of the five-colored divine stone.

Within the Nuwa Clan, the five-colored divine stone is like a divine state's heirloom jade seal, representing orthodoxy, representing authority, representing the Nuwa Clan's endless knowledge inheritance, and furthermore representing the Nuwa Clan's unique power.

Nuwa Mother's aura suddenly erupted.

Wave after wave of terrifying power undulations spread outward in all directions.

Different from the power Wu Tie cultivated, Wu Tie's power is mighty and violent—wind, rain, thunder and lightning, hurricanes and tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes, heaven collapsing and earth splitting, and so on; those divine abilities brought by the 'Heaven and Earth Great Dao' belong to the category of 'war'.

Such power is mostly born for destruction, mostly born for battle.

And behind Nuwa Mother, vast spiritual light appeared, showing scenes of the descendants of the Pangu lineage working at sunrise and resting at sunset, scenes of countless tribes breeding offspring and offering sacrifices to heaven and earth…… they farmed, fished, herded, hunted, gathered; they built cities, sank wells, opened rivers, forged; they studied, learned characters, concocted medicines, made paper……

'The human way' is not merely battle and destruction.

'The human way,' its core is——'survival'!

This is engraved in humanity's bloodline, the most urgent, most flexible, and also the strongest belief.

Whether facing sky or earth, whether facing earthquakes or tsunamis, whether facing meteorites or volcanoes, whether facing wild beasts or deities…… humanity always holds a steadfast, indelible belief: to survive.

Nuwa Mother's body emitted five-colored points of light.

The points of light merged into the bodies of the surrounding Nuwa Valley Elders; their auras continually rose, and they began to receive endless knowledge.

'Survival'…… how simple, yet how difficult these two words are.

For survival, humanity's ancestors spared no effort to wage war against the primordial heavenly gods that Mu Dalu itself bred, sparing no battle to shatter the entirety of Mu Dalu.

For survival, after the Age of Dharma Decline, humanity's ancestors, with supreme power and perseverance, retrieved the fragments of Mu Dalu from the void piece by piece, and reassembled them into a complete Mu Dalu.

For survival……

Countless bizarre and wondrous images, more fantastical than myth, appeared in the minds of Nuwa Mother and all the Nuwa Valley Elders.

Nuwa Mother gritted her teeth, bearing on one side her rapidly advancing cultivation, and on the other side the inconceivable knowledge flooding her mind.

"Nuwa Mother, we have considered your tribe; from now on, your tribe shall be called 'Xin', the 'Xin' of firewood inheritance…… the Nuwa Xin Clan…… we hope…… our hope, do you understand?"

Nuwa Mother knelt deeply before the Nuwa Emperor's statue, wave after wave of strange, powerful energy continually emanating from her body outward.

She said in a low voice: "I can understand, but I hope that my child Wu Tie can know part of the truth he ought to know."

From within the Nuwa Emperor's statue, that aged yet gentle voice slowly sounded.

"Based on his deeds, he is qualified to know part of the truth…… I hope he can make the correct choice, able to withstand the fate he is about to bear."

"The divinations of the Xi Clan and our calculations both saw a sea of blood enveloping all of humanity."

"We hope…… we hope…… this time, our humanity, will still be able to tenaciously survive."