I attained immortality in the real world.

Red Soil Village, Stone Quarry.

All the warriors of the tribe held weapons, their eyes burning with fury.

An old man with several colorful feathers stuck in his hair and wearing a skull necklace, his body hunched over, was jumping around a bonfire and throwing a tortoise shell into the embers.

After a moment, he took out the tortoise shell to examine the patterns burned by the flames, and his body convulsed as he said, "The God of Heaven has given instructions that only by offering a blood sacrifice can the brave warriors be granted divine power to ensure a great victory in this war."

Sacrifice, blood sacrifice. Two thin men were brought in, bound with ropes, wearing tattered animal skins, their eyes empty and numb, already knowing their fate as sacrifices.

The warriors on either side, wielding stone spears, turned their gazes toward Xu, the tribal chief, ready to plunge their weapons into the sacrificial offering at his command.

After Xu became the leader of the tribe, he realized that the god was nothing more than a human-shaped stone. Even if he offered up two lives, or even a thousand or ten thousand lives, he would not receive any divine power.

However, the tribe's warriors believed in gods, and if they did not perform sacrifices, their morale would plummet, causing incalculable damage.

Without the slightest hesitation, he waved his hand and shouted, "Kill!"

Chen Jing surveyed the two tribes clashing, captured the scene, replayed it, and reset the image to a level where it could be captured.

Xu led his tribe's savage warriors to annihilate the Stone Spirit tribe, which was about the same size as the Red Earth tribe and had abolished the practice of human sacrifice to gods. However, Xu also died in this battle.

From today's perspective, the Stone Spirit Tribe is more civilized and advanced, but civilization is not the key to victory or defeat; it is merely a matter of potential and foundation.

"........."

Three days!

ten years!

Chen Jing's consciousness possesses Xu, allowing him to review important experiences of the past decade.

The moment Xu let out a painful howl, his high-frequency state of perception in his brain ended.

In the real world, even if a cultivator's thoughts are processed at a fast speed, they cannot digest ten years of memories in three days. But how many things can a human recall when looking back on the past ten years?

In terms of the final insights gained, three days were not much different from ten years. Looking up at the scorching sun in the sky, he murmured, "Insights from the early days of human civilization, achieved!"

"After the Green Emperor, humanity gradually moved from ignorance to civilization, but the development of civilization requires an adaptation process. People's thoughts and cognition need time to evolve."

"People can be divided into three levels: the ignorant are beyond teaching, the wise do not conform to others, and the truly wise live in harmony with the world."

“The ignorant are like wild beasts who believe that might makes right, while the wise are not swayed by it and suffer a miserable end if they go against the tide. Only the truly wise can rule over the former.”

“In the early stages of civilization, there were still human sacrifices, starving people, people who violated ethics, and blind worship of gods. The bestial nature had not completely disappeared, and barbarity was used to ruthlessly trample on the rules that were based on human beings.”

"Humanity! Heaven! Gods! Humanity! Only by using the faint flame of civilization to ignite the great trend of humanity, those who seem foolish but are not can become the masters of the times."

"........."

"Might makes right is animal instinct; wisdom is so powerless and useless. How can wisdom be used to govern the world?"

“A layer of packaging is needed. Since the world cannot understand my wisdom, then I will not let the world understand it. I will put the higher logic in the name of God. Herbs are witchcraft, epidemics are sorcery, and natural disasters are the wrath of God. This is the manifestation of the period when human wisdom was ignorant.”

"In the primitive era, the shaman, as the representative of human wisdom, would always choose the sacrifice from within his own tribe, and the sacrifice would always be the weak." "Only by holding the power of life and death over the tribe could the shaman's authority be consolidated, and this only began to change slightly in the early stages of civilization."

"........."

"If the warriors of the Xuhongtu tribe do not worship the gods and their morale is low, they will definitely not be a match for the Shiling tribe."

"The difference in combat power between warriors who perform sacrifices and those who do not is what is known as divine power, and it is the fundamental reason why wizards have been able to continue in the civilized era."

"The essence of divine power is that people believe that God can bestow divine power, making them fearless of death and hardship, and unleashing even greater strength. Therefore, there is God because of faith. God exists because of human beings, and does not exist in the same way as God."

"........."

"When humans jumped out of the food chain and had no natural enemies, they gradually replaced the way of heaven with the way of humanity. But the way of humanity is not the way of the wise men like Suiren and Fuxi, but the way of ordinary people who believe in gods."

"The two sacrifices were commoners from the Red Earth tribe. They had a chance to live, but because of the ignorance of the people, who believed that sacrifice would bring blessings from the gods, Xu faced a choice: either sacrifice the two of them or sacrifice countless warriors, or even lead to the destruction of the tribe."

"To know one's mistakes and still act wrongly—in this era of scarce resources, survival is the top priority, leaving little room for compassion. Ultimately, such actions are a victim of human folly."

"Wisdom is hijacked by ignorance. The wisdom of this era does not show its edge. Concealment, ease, and education are the original forms of civilized and wise people."

"Heaven kills, man kills, humanity usurps the power of heaven, humanity is the master of the people... no, no one can control everyone, one should be a king, the king should be like heaven killing all things in autumn, without mercy is unbenevolent, sometimes though wrong, it is in accordance with humanity."

"........."

Chen Jing's mind raced as he gradually analyzed the era in which Fuxi lived.

The insights gained about individuals, groups, and events are interwoven like threads, gradually forming an understanding of this era, and then constructing a portrait of people who represent this era.

This is similar to how the Azure Emperor absorbed the characteristics of all living beings to construct the image of the ancestor of humanity.

Using the computing power of the training ground, a blurry human figure began to take shape. The man was dressed in animal skin, held a stone spear, and had an ordinary face.

This person, seemingly ruthless yet possessing humanity, appears foolish yet harbors profound wisdom. Their appearance is ninety percent similar to Chen Jing's, but their temperament is ordinary and unremarkable, yet they possess a regal air.

The appearance of humanity, the appearance of wisdom, can also be called the initial appearance of the Azure Emperor. It is considered the appearance of a person who has just stepped into the threshold of cultivation in physiognomy, yet it is incredibly complex.

"........."

Chen Jing circulated his divine essence within his body, intending to use it to forge his primordial spirit.

The main god warned: "If the host uses this image to forge his primordial spirit, it will damage his own wisdom."

Ancient wisdom, when viewed today, is not wisdom at all, but foolishness. Compared to ordinary primordial spirits, the Azure Emperor's initial form not only does not provide any blessing, but will also subtly diminish wisdom.

But history is a long river, and the wisdom of a people is accumulated little by little. Talking to primitive people about airplanes, nuclear bombs, madmen of wisdom, and gods will destroy the wisdom born from ignorance and turn it into worship, which is harmful and not helpful.

Knowing the past is essential to predicting the future, and only by understanding the source of wisdom and its gradual development can we deduce its higher levels.

One word to describe it is greed; two words to describe it are—great ambition.
Chen Jing said dismissively, "Times are changing, and my primordial spirit will naturally change as well. It's just a seed." (End of Chapter)