The primordial era began with the Upper Cave Man.

Chapter 192 The Human Race for Ten Thousand Years, Immortal and Indestructible, Free from Calamity and Calamity (Yesterday)

"Humans? Humans?"

The creature before me had a peculiar appearance: its hands and feet resembled noodles, its neck was long and thin, its head was like a snake, and its eyes had four pupils, making it look somewhat like a plesiosaur from a picture book.

Its body was not small, a hundred feet long, but its body was as thin as a piece of paper, with only a bulge at the head of the snake, which seemed to contain a brain.

He was an elder of the Xifu Wu tribe, named Ke.

"There have been other humans who have passed through before, but they didn't have your level of cultivation and were very weak," the elder added after thinking for a moment.

"When did you come here?" Luo Zu hadn't expected such a pleasant surprise.

Luo Zu traversed such a vast distance in the primordial world, yet he never encountered the human race, as if Luo Township were the origin and center of the human race.

But he also knew that the center of the human race could not possibly be Luoxiang, but rather Buzhou Mountain.

The human race in Luoxiang may be significantly smaller in number compared to human groups in some other places.

For example, the group of humans that the Chuxiong tribe kept in captivity, as described by Xi.

Their numbers may have exceeded one million at the time.

Such numbers would naturally make the humans of Luoxiang feel ashamed of themselves.

But according to the elders of Luoxiang, they had traveled through many places, seen many different landscapes and races, and encountered many terrible dangers, before finally arriving at the valley on the edge of Luoxiang.

Their starting point was Mount Buzhou.

Even if the second-generation human race possesses the innate ability to traverse space, they cannot instantly travel such a long distance; they must still pass through certain places.

Moreover, according to the oral memories of the second generation of humans, they had indeed traveled to many places. However, after Luo Zu retraced this route, he discovered that the elders had only traveled to some areas, specifically the area near Luo Township, which spanned tens of millions of miles.

As for more distant areas, they are extremely rare.

When he asked the witch tribes or other tribes he passed through, they all said they had never seen humans, or even knew what kind of race humans were.

The strangeness of it all made Luo Zu wonder how the elders of Luo Township had "traveled" this distance that even Luo Zu could only stare in disbelief.

Today, however, he heard an elder of the witch clan say that he had seen humans, which naturally surprised and intrigued Luo Zu.

After pondering for a moment, the elder of the Xifu Wu tribe replied, "Ten thousand years ago, I suppose."

"Um?"

"What? Is something wrong?" the elder asked him curiously.

Luo Zu nodded: "The human race has only existed for a little over three thousand years."

Upon hearing this, Elder Ke was not startled and did not sit up immediately. Moreover, judging from his limp body, he did not seem to be able to sit up right away.

"Perhaps it's not human, maybe I'm mistaken," Elder Shell said calmly.

This only made Luo Zu more suspicious.

"How much difference can there be in appearance? How much difference can there be in aura?" Luo Zu pressed.

Elder Ke simply raised his hand and exhaled a wisp of blue-red magic power.

This wisp of magical power seeped into the void and quickly transformed into a blue-red phantom.

In the shadows, figures flashed by quickly, accompanied by indistinct sounds.

These figures are indeed human-like.

"I'm sorry, ten thousand years is quite a long time, and I have a habit of using medication to alleviate heart failure, so this memory is a bit unclear," Elder Shell said apologetically.

Even the heavens, if they had feelings, would grow old. Even immortals, if their hearts grow old, would fall into a strange and eerie calamity.

Immortals may not die directly during a period of decline, but they will gradually fall into a state of decline and decay of the Dao.

While immortals may not die in such a state, their physical functions will weaken.

Of these, heart failure is the most dangerous.

However, there are also methods to overcome tribulations, and some practitioners have even researched methods to overcome these tribulations and attain enlightenment.

However, the decline and calamity are still terrible. Even if there are methods, one may fall into a situation where the methods are dispensable, and then fall into an even more terrifying calamity, or even death.

Therefore, when Luo Zu heard Elder Ke's words, he felt it was normal, after all, this was a small trick that many cultivators used to resist calamities.

"That's enough," Luo Zu said.

They are human.

It's just that the human race has only been created by the goddess Nuwa for a little over three thousand years. A large number of the second generation of humans have died, and some of the third generation have also died. The normal lifespan of the primordial human race is one thousand years. By calculation, the fourth generation of humans in some places may have already entered old age.

But encountering humans ten thousand years ago makes this matter quite strange.

"Although the human race is not strong, they are gifted and quite intelligent, which is why they left a deep impression on me and I still remember them now," Elder Shell said slowly.

"However, if the human race has only existed for three thousand years in the primordial world, then there are two possibilities. One is that it is similar, and the other is that your memory is wrong. Perhaps there is an error in the records of your race. After all, many primordial races have few records of their initial period of ignorance. Later generations, after gaining wisdom and establishing civilization, will always have some deviations in their tracing of past history," Elder Ke then explained.

"Our Wu tribe does have some methods for inferring the evolution of our civilization; perhaps you could try them out."

Luo Zu didn't immediately respond to that question, but instead pressed on, "What were they doing passing through your tribe? Migrating? Or trading?"

Elder Shell has lived for quite a long time; according to Itachi, he should have lived for over ten million years.

This is definitely a very long period of time. Although true immortals can live for so long, most of them will fall into a deep sleep to avoid calamity.

Others are courageous and diligent, achieving the status of Golden Immortal, thus becoming immortal and indestructible, free from disasters and calamities. The disasters mentioned here are calamities bestowed by heaven and earth, such as thunder and fire, while the calamities are calamities of decline. Moreover, there are not only calamities of decline, but also heavenly calamities, earthly calamities, and calamities of inner demons.

After achieving the Golden Immortal realm, one transforms into the Great Dao, and these calamities vanish without a trace.

On the other hand, there are quite a few Golden Immortals in the primordial world, after all, they are everywhere.

Elder Shell is not a Golden Immortal (Heavenly Witch), but an Earthly Witch (Mysterious Immortal). Weasel Witch and Luo Ancestor said that Elder Shell has a great chance to break through to the Heavenly Witch realm and is now waiting for an opportunity.

Even so, Elder Shell could not escape the calamities, especially the calamity of decline.

However, the matter of misfortune is also closely related to one's personal cultivation level. Elder Ke's openness to him surprised even Luo Zu.

"It's possible that time and space reversal could cause such a problem," Elder Ke suddenly added.

"Time and space reversed?" Luo Zu felt as if he had been enlightened, and understood in an instant.

A battle of powerful beings can reverse time and space, pulling the past into the present, sending the present into the past, and even freezing the future...

In short, such a battle between beings is bound to be accompanied by many strange phenomena, and the aftershocks are no longer limited to the material level of the primordial land, but also extend to a higher dimension, a level that a minor character like Luo Zu cannot touch.

In response, Luo Zu recalled Hou Yi's battle with the demon god Gui Che and the Golden Crow Prince.

Starting today, I'll resume updating three times a day, with 9,000 words daily.

(End of this chapter)