Chapter 7: The Chinese Continent

Dongyi warriors

Ethnic background: Dongyi people, derived from the ancient Yi people, are mainly distributed in the eastern part of the continent. They live by water, make a living by fishing and hunting, and have developed a strong physique all year round. They worship the divine powers of nature and ancestral spirits, and the highest authority in the clan is the "Wu Lao", who presides over the ritual to communicate with the natural and ancestral gods, and confirms the ownership of the patriarch through specific divination and rituals, but he cannot interfere in specific matters other than sacrifices.

After three thousand years of carefree life, an abrupt change has brought about a dramatic change in the lives of the Guyi people. One morning, people were amazed to see that ten suns appeared in the sky...... At that time, Wu Lao Mo told the patriarch Hou Yi after sacrificing to the ancestors of heaven and earth, and God ordered Hou Yi to shoot down the extra nine suns. Hou Yi, who was convinced of Mo Li, used the specially created sky-shooting bow and sunset arrow, and spent nine years walking across the entire continent from east to west, shooting down the extra nine suns in the chase.

Hou Yi shot the sun, after winning a short period of prestige for the Guyi people, they fell into an unprecedented crisis, under the instruction of the Emperor of Heaven, the sun never rose again, the earth fell from the heat into the bitter cold, and the snow-capped mountains actually appeared in the Central Plains. Many tribes, including the Huaxia and Shennong tribes, are increasingly dissatisfied and resentful of the Guyi people. What's more, a person of a different race who claimed to be Zhu Rong actually went to the Guyi tribe to make trouble. It is claimed that when Hou Yi shot the sun, a golden crow feather fell, smashing their tribe's territory into a deep pit and turning it into a sea of fire, and the people were killed and wounded. Zhu Rong's various unreasonable actions finally angered Hou Yi, and in a fit of rage, Hou Yi beat Zhu Rong away, but the village was also burned by Zhu Rong's fire......

In order to appease the anger of the public, Hou Yi left the mainland, and the priest Mo Li set himself on fire, and Hou Yi and Mo Li's actions were finally exchanged for the re-rising of the sun, but the Guyi tribe was still discriminated against by other tribes. In order to no longer be discriminated against and ostracized, some Guyi people stayed away from the Central Plains and settled in the wilderness. The remaining Guyi people lived tenaciously under the leadership of the successor patriarch Yiyang and Wu Lao Baidu.

However, the good times did not last long, and the Huaxia people were forced to migrate eastward because their original residence could no longer survive, and they inevitably collided with the Guyi people. The difference in the way of life of the two races, coupled with some old feuds in the past, finally broke out into war. The ancient Yi tribe was defeated, and Yiyang, in order not to suffer the disaster of extermination, had to lead the tribe to leave the Central Plains and went to the Jidong Peninsula in the northeast to settle down. Since then, the Guyi people have been called the Dongyi people.

Illusory Mage Race Background: After Hou Yi's death, the land fell into a bitter cold, and the most powerful Huaxia clan on the continent also joined in the condemnation of the Gu Yi clan. However, Xia Geng, as one of the five elders of China, was very dissatisfied with everyone's anger, thinking that this was purely a move to cross the river and tear down the bridge. Xia Geng's cynicism and previous behaviors finally aroused public anger and he was directly expelled from the Council of Elders. Subsequently, when the Huaxia people moved eastward, the Xia family, under the leadership of Xia Geng, insisted on staying in the Northwest Plateau.

Xia Geng built the original city with fences and mud around the original villages of the Huaxia people, and gradually prospered after hundreds of years of development. But beneath the surface of prosperity lies an unprecedented crisis. One winter, Ji Xiu, a cultivator from the Unruly Mountain, came to the village, and through divination and observation of celestial phenomena, he calculated that the "Dust Circle" would undergo an unprecedented change in the past one or two years, and the first to bear the brunt was the village where the Xia family was located.

Because he happened to meet the festival, Ji Xiu was warmly entertained. After the festival, Ji Xiu identified himself to Xia Kang, who was the parent at the time, and persuaded Xia Kang to lead his clan to move elsewhere, but his attachment to his homeland made Xia Kang only willing to lead his clan to take refuge in the nearby mountains. Ji Xiu had a very deep relationship with everyone at this time, and he had to hurry up and inform the other tribes, in order to minimize the casualties, Ji Xiu taught the Xia family some very simple life-saving spells, and then went to other tribes. Ji Xiu was later imprisoned for violating the rules of the Unruly Mountain and teaching spells to the outside world without permission.

This time the change was so strong that the hills collapsed and the sea poured in, a swamp appeared in the arid land of the west, and the Loess Plateau continued to rise, and finally it was covered with snow and ice. Because the Xia family learned spells, most of them were preserved after the disaster, but unfortunately their homes have been buried by mountain rocks and loess. Under Xia Kang's leadership, everyone rebuilt their homes on top of the ruins, and the scale was larger than ever. After several generations of hard work and accumulation, their spells have become more and more abundant and perfect, although there is still a big gap with the cultivation realm, it is enough for them to become the most eye-catching clan in the entire continent. Because they are gentle on the outside and tough on the inside, sincere and truthful to others, but always maintain a gentleman's distance in their dealings with people, they are slowly called the Silent Illusory by other tribes, and their city is also known as the Silent City.

Illusionist of the Hundred Fruits

Ethnic background: The Shennong people are mainly distributed in the western part of the continent, and like the Huaxia people, they mainly focus on farming. More than 7,000 years ago, the tribe produced a great hero Shennong, who was later respected as the originator of medicine, and his descendants and clansmen were called Shennong. The Shennong tribe and the Guyi tribe are far apart, and there is the Huaxia tribe in the middle, so there is never any major contact with the Guyi tribe. Subsequently, with more and more exchanges with the Chinese people, the two ethnic groups gradually had a tendency to integrate; The civilization of the Huaxia people is obviously more inclusive, and some habits of the Shennong people are getting closer and closer to the Huaxia people.

A series of changes caused by the Houyi shooting sun led to the destruction of the Shennong homeland. Subsequently, the Shennong tribe had no choice but to move east with the Huaxia tribe, and at the same time drove the Guyi tribe to the distant Jidong Peninsula. In this process, the Baiguo Elder of the Shennong tribe, who is the best at medical pharmacology, was unwilling to be annexed by the Huaxia tribe, and with some nostalgic clansmen, he resolutely broke away from the tribe and moved all the way to the southeast, and finally settled in the Duxiu rainforest. The unique natural conditions of the Duxiu rainforest have given birth to many exotic flowers and plants, which are undoubtedly excellent materials for the preparation of pills, and Elder Baiguo is secretly pleased with the original decision. Elder Baiguo's exquisite medical skills and miraculous elixirs benefited the nearby tribes, and gradually, this branch of the Shennong tribe was revered as the Baiguo tribe.

After a few years, there was a Dan master in the clan, Yao Zhu, who found several spars in the depths of the rainforest, and used these spars into medicine and alchemy, and succeeded after several twists and turns. After taking it, there was an unexpected effect, this elixir can greatly increase people's strength, and the body exudes a faint light. After several generations of continuous improvement, this strange ability has become a kind of ability that everyone has. Many tribes were envious, and tried every means to get their secrets, even at the expense of them, but each time they were spared because of the help of other tribes. In view of this, the Baiguo clan is also becoming more and more low-key, trying to avoid being too eye-catching.

Banish the Witch

Ethnic background: The Remnants were not originally called by this name, they were also a branch of the Huaxia Clan, just because the patriarch at that time treated a cultivator who fell into the Demon Dao and returned to the sentient world, Zangyou, which caused misunderstanding among the elders of other tribes, and was expelled from the Huaxia Continent.

In search of a place to live, the entire tribe decided to cross east to Guyun Island. On the way to migrate, the monstrous waves and ferocious sea monsters devoured too many people, and the patriarch of the remnant clan died of grief and anger. Zang You felt deeply guilty about this, and after leaving some experiences, he did not say goodbye, and did not know what to do. Nine deaths, the remaining remnants of the clan finally set foot on Guyun Island, and the son of the previous patriarch changed his name to Jiu Hate and took over as the patriarch. In order to remember this deep hatred, the Remnants completely abandoned all the customs of the Huaxia tribe, and only on the day they left their hometown every year, the whole clan gathered together to encourage and spur themselves with hatred.

By chance, Nine Hates found the bones of the ancient heroes in a cave on the island; And among his relics, he found some remnants of scrolls that recorded strange cultivation methods. After burying the afterglow with a big gift, Jiu Hate studied with his clansmen, and a few years later, he actually gained a very strange ability with incomplete records. These strange methods are called Gu planting, descending, poisoning, and so on by later generations. At the same time, they also studied the ability of how to summon demonic beasts from the demon realm in the handscroll left by Zangyou. Originally, the record left behind could only summon a monster with very weak strength and could only protect itself, but Zangyou didn't expect that the Nine Hatreds would actually combine with the posthumous scroll to summon enough demonic beings to run rampant in the sentient world, and this ability has also been passed down from generation to generation among the relict clan.