My cultivation is too warm

Liang Huanhuan and Wang Er, who were watching this scene together, did not realize the problem with Jiang Nian's work. Although they had also read the "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica" that Xu Mo had given them, they only thought that the name might have changed later.

However, Xu Mo knew that the "Compendium of Materia Medica" written by Jiang Nian at this time and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that he later inherited were two different things.

The reason is quite simple: Shennong at that time was not a cultivator at all. If that was the case, how could he have written the later "Shennong's Classic of Herbs"?

So, the "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica" was created after this?
I wonder when Jiang Nian will begin his cultivation.

Xu Mo thought with some doubt, after all, Jiang Nian is already very old now. In the ancient tribe, he was already considered very old.

As we all know, if one starts cultivating at an advanced age, it will be difficult to go far in the path of cultivation. However, judging from the figure I saw in the time river of Shennong Secret Realm, Shennong Yandi Jiang Nian must be a cultivator with both great strength and cultivation.

At such an advanced age, he only entered the Daoist path, yet he managed to become a big shot. Xu Mo became even more curious about Jiang Nian's subsequent deeds.

After Jiang Nian finished writing the "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica", he handed it over to the spirit of the secret realm. After seeing the contents through the spirit's gaze, Xu Mo's guess was confirmed: the "Classic of Materia Medica" and the "Classic of Herbs" were indeed two different books.

After the spirit of the secret realm memorized the contents of the "Compendium of Materia Medica", Jiang Nian selected more than 300 young and strong people from the tribe and taught them the contents of the "Compendium of Materia Medica" from beginning to end.

Five more years passed since then.

After the more than three hundred young men had learned the contents of the "Compendium of Materia Medica", Jiang Nian instructed them to take what they had learned and spread the contents of the "Compendium of Materia Medica" to every corner of the human race.

This decision was met with opposition from many people in the Jiang clan, since these three hundred-plus young men accounted for one-third of the entire clan's youth.

In this tribal era, the strength and survival ability of a tribe can be represented by the number of its able-bodied men in a week. The sudden loss of almost a third of its able-bodied men is a major blow to the entire Jiang clan, and will leave the tribe unable to cope with any disasters and crises that may follow.

Faced with the questions from the tribe members, Jiang Nian explained with reason and evidence:

"All humankind under heaven are one family, one race. Today, there are still many human tribes in the world that do not even know basic common sense, let alone how to build houses, make clothes, or grow food."

"As people of the same race, we have a responsibility to teach them how to survive in this world. Only when all humans in this world live a good life and learn survival skills can our human race grow and prosper."

"When the whole world is filled with our people, then in the future, no matter what crisis we face, we will no longer be afraid, because we have enough people of our own. If we work together, even if the sky falls, we will be able to repair it with our own strength."

"I have always said that if our human race wants to survive in this world, we must be self-reliant and rely on our own strength. If we are unwilling to help other peoples and only care about our own tribes, and if the human race is not united, how can we cope with other disasters?"

"Therefore, our human race must become stronger, and we will eventually become stronger."

After hearing Jiang Nian's explanation, the people of the Jiang clan were convinced, and no one opposed his decision anymore.

Subsequently, the more than three hundred young people from the Jiang clan went to other human tribes with all their knowledge and passed it on to the people of those tribes.

Furthermore, after arriving at each tribe, in addition to spreading knowledge, they would select some young people from those tribes to learn the knowledge of the "Compendium of Materia Medica" from them. After they taught the people of the tribe the skills and knowledge of the "Compendium of Materia Medica", they would have those people do the same thing as themselves and go to other tribes to spread knowledge.

This was Jiang Nian's instruction to do so. After all, if they were only allowed three hundred or so people, they wouldn't be able to spread the knowledge of many tribes in their lifetime. But by doing this, it wouldn't be long before the human race in every corner of the Canggu world would learn the knowledge in the "Compendium of Materia Medica".

More than 300 people went to 300 tribes, and each person developed three to five or more people. Each trip lasted three to five years. In just a few times, the number of people responsible for spreading knowledge in this land could increase by dozens or even hundreds of times.

In just thirty years, almost every place with human tribes learned the knowledge in the "Compendium of Materia Medica".

As the creator of the "Compendium of Materia Medica", Jiang Nian Shennong's name resounded throughout the world.

Through the spread of the Jiang clan, everyone learned that there was a sage who, in order to enable the human race to live a good life, observed the changes of heaven and earth every day, learned from and summarized his experience, and transformed it into knowledge and skills that were useful to the human race.

He also tasted all kinds of herbs to identify their properties of "neutralizing, detoxifying, cooling, and warming" so that everyone would know what to eat, what to eat when going out, and what to eat to treat illness.

They also observed birds cultivating the land and summarized methods for farming, taming and cultivating seeds so that people no longer needed to worry about food.

He then shared all his knowledge and skills with the people of his tribe, spreading these experiences and skills among all human tribes.

For all these reasons, many people call Jiang Nian "Shennong".

From then on, the name of Shennong Yandi of the Jiang Nian era was officially established.

Xu Mo and Liang Huanhuan, who had been watching this scene unfold, were also filled with excitement and emotion. They were deeply moved. This was truly their ancestor. In that era, he had been able to think so far ahead and possess such a broad mind. He truly deserved to be called their ancestor.

A sense of pride and honor welled up in Xu Mo and his companions.

However, what puzzled them was that Jiang Nian was almost a hundred years old, but he was still just an ordinary mortal and showed no signs of becoming a cultivator.

They couldn't understand why this was happening. Could it be that Shennong Yandi was actually just a mortal, not a cultivator?
But this shouldn't be the case. Putting everything else aside, the inheritance Xu Mo received, the "Shennong's Classic of Herbs," is clearly a cultivation technique. Not to mention, he had even seen the other party's tall figure in the time-space river of the Shennong Secret Realm.

Although the figure Xu Mo saw in the River of Time was just a blurry image, and he couldn't see the other person's specific appearance, Xu Mo was certain after seeing Jiang Nian that the person he saw in the River of Time was him. Although he had no evidence, his intuition made him very sure.

Just as Xu Mo and the others were secretly anxious, wondering when Shennong Yandi Jiang Nian would become a cultivator.

Time flies, and several more years have passed. Those who went out to spread the "Compendium of Materia Medica" have gradually returned over the years. Of the more than 300 who left, only 77 returned. The rest either met with accidents on the way, grew old, or lived out their old age in other tribes and never returned.

Moreover, they left in the prime of their youth, but now their hair is completely white, their bodies are hunched, and their faces are weathered by time.

This left Xu Mo, Liang Huanhuan, Wang Er, Ye Qingyue, and Ou Fenjin, who witnessed this scene, feeling quite uneasy.

These were the original preachers. In this ancient tribal era, transportation was inconvenient, there were no tools, and they had to face many dangers in the wild along the way. They had to take one step at a time and traverse the entire settlement of the ancient Canggu people.

But none of them backed down. They did not complain at all in order to spread knowledge to the land of humanity. Everything they did was for the sake of a better future for the entire human race.

And they did indeed do it. Following in their footsteps, the lives of the ancient humans have undergone earth-shattering changes.

When they returned, looking at their weathered faces, now a hundred years old, their once strong bodies now hunched over, Jiang Nian would always lead the entire tribe to greet them each time someone returned. Then, with a solemn and dignified expression, he would lead everyone to bow deeply to them and say, "Welcome home, warriors."

Those former preachers encountered many crises along the way, including natural disasters, attacks by wild beasts, and other dangers, but no matter what dangers they faced, they never shed a single tear.

However, now, as they faced their most admired clan leader leading the clan to welcome them home, their tears flowed uncontrollably.

The elderly man with white hair had tears streaming down his face, but none of the people from the tribe who came out with Jiang Nian to greet them laughed at them. Many of them were also in tears.

After all, they had been away from home for decades. Of the more than 300 people who had gone out, only 77 had returned. Everyone was both happy and sad.

But it's always good that they've returned. This is a contribution their Jiang clan made to the human race, and everyone feels genuinely proud and honored.

That year, Jiang Nian turned one hundred years old, and all those who had gone out to preach the gospel returned.

At this time, the person in charge of teaching the new generation in the Jiang clan had changed from Jiang Nian to Jiang Rui, the spirit of the secret realm.

Jiang Nian's movements have become extremely inconvenient, and the spirit of the secret realm has done just as Jiang Nian had told him, becoming a respected figure throughout the entire tribe.

Even though he was just a "medicine furnace", he was the most knowledgeable person in the entire Jiang clan. The people in the clan did not show him any disrespect because he was not human. On the contrary, they respected and worshipped him from the bottom of their hearts.

This made the spirit of the secret realm very happy. He had now become a beloved figure, just like his grandfather, and he had not disappointed his grandfather.

However, on this very day, countless meteorites and endless sparks suddenly fell from the sky, bringing with them scorching heat that made everyone on Earth feel a suffocating sense of impending doom.

Many people were filled with despair, and faced with this scene of world destruction, they could not muster any thought of resistance.

But at that moment, a figure suddenly appeared in the sky, blocking the countless meteorites with his own body, preventing them from advancing an inch.

This left everyone who witnessed it in disbelief; no one could comprehend how that person had managed to do it.

Xu Mo and the others were also incredulous when they saw this scene, because the person who blocked the meteorite was not Jiang Nian, but they recognized him because he used to be a member of the Jiang clan. However, his behavior and beliefs were too extreme, and he was called a madman and a demon by everyone. In the end, he was driven out of the clan by Jiang Nian.

In the sky, the man pressed his head against the meteorite and shouted, "Get out of here! Leave the place where we humans live!"

Upon hearing that person's voice, Xu Mo's feelings suddenly became complicated. He suddenly recalled his conversation with Ji Cangsheng.

At that time, Ji Cangsheng asked him whether the first cultivator in the world was a righteous person or a demonic person. He didn't know how to answer, but Ji Cangsheng answered that it was a demonic person because he believed that only the fanaticism of the demonic person would have the courage to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and become the first cultivator in the world.

Moreover, Ji Cangsheng firmly believed that the opportunity for that demonic person to achieve enlightenment must have been for the sake of protecting what was in their heart.

At the time, Xu Mo felt that what the other party said made a lot of sense, but he did not agree with it. When he was looking at the memories of the spirit of the secret realm, he subconsciously thought that the first cultivator in this world should be Shennong Yandi Jiang Nian. Since Jiang Nian was not a person of the demonic path, the answer to this question was undoubtedly that Ji Cangsheng was wrong.

However, what is happening now undoubtedly shows that Ji Cangsheng is right. Just as he said before, the first cultivator in this world was someone who was expelled from the Jiang clan, considered to have gone astray, and called a demon.

Moreover, the opportunity for the other party to attain enlightenment was indeed for the sake of protecting what they believed in.

What he wanted to protect was not just one person, but... the entire human race.

Many meteorites fell from the sky. The first few dozen meteorites to enter the Canggu world were stopped by the "demon" in the sky. However, he was only one person and had just attained enlightenment. He was currently confronting those meteorites and had not completely destroyed them.

Then, following those dozens of meteorites, hundreds more entered the ancient world.

That "demon" clearly had no strength left to resist more meteorites.

Just as the people on earth were falling into despair, another figure suddenly appeared in the sky, heading towards the meteorite that was emitting flames and exuding an aura of world destruction.

This time, Xu Mo and the others were not disappointed. The person who appeared in the air was none other than Shennong Yandi Jiang Nian.

(End of this chapter)