483: Nuwa and the Three Sovereigns

Then, the life and society within the small world continued to undergo various changes.

At this time, the Grand Elder suddenly spoke up.

"Don't you find it strange? It seems that no matter the place, whether in a small world or elsewhere, humans always appear."

"I once conducted an experiment where I completely isolated a small world, ensuring no external human factors remained within."

"In the end, humans would still emerge within it due to various changes."

"Furthermore, their appearances and primal thoughts are basically the same."

Shi Li bowed and said, "I do not know. Please enlighten me, Grand Elder."

The Grand Elder, Chang Qi, shook his head with a smile. "That answer, I do not know either."

He laughed self-deprecatingly and said, "Don't look at the fact that I've lived for tens of millions of years; compared to this universe, to the entire human race, or even just to a single continent..."

"...this amount of time doesn't even count as an embryo that hasn't started developing yet."

"However, regarding the emergence of humans, the most common Legend is that it originated from Empress Wa."

"In the Legend, Empress Wa was one of the earliest Congenitals in the universe. Her power, greatness, and magnitude are far beyond what we can imagine."

"One day, while Empress Wa was roaming the universe, she looked at the empty expanse."

"In the primordial universe, there was no distinction between Post-Natal and Congenital; there was only one kind of living existence, and that was the Congenital."

"But the conditions for nurturing a Congenital were too harsh, and their gestation period was too long. Thus, the universe remained in a state of immense emptiness."

"Because of this, she conceived the idea of creating a race."

"She created them in the image of the Congenitals' Congenital Dao Body."

"Thus, humans appeared. The earliest human race numbered only three to the power of one thousand people, abbreviated as the Three Thousand Human Race."

"But in terms of numbers, even a fraction of them far exceeded what the Congenitals could reach."

"These humans were born in the Immortal Law Realm and could be called Congenital Humans, also known as the Three Thousand Congenital Humans."

"However, they were also called Semi-Congenital Humans because they were not nurtured by heaven and earth."

"It's just that for the entire universe, these people were still far too few."

"If they were scattered, even with one person per domain, they might not occupy even one-ten-billionth of the space of an atomic nucleus within a single grain of sand on the cosmic beach."

"A powerful sense of discrepancy swept through Empress Wa's heart; she was determined to see this through."

"Empress Wa created a law. At that time, the universe was still primordial and craved perfection—instinctively and desperately craving it—accepting any imprint without refusal."

"This law was extremely grand because its scope covered the entire universe, but it was not a natural law."

"Although Empress Wa was at the peak of Immortality, the law she created was naturally at the peak of Immortality as well."

"But in the face of the vast universe, even greatness like Immortality would be worn away."

"Therefore, Empress Wa needed to constantly maintain the consumption of this law."

"With Empress Wa's strength at the peak of Immortality, she could support it."

"The basic logic of this law was that no matter where a living being was born, it would eventually evolve into a human."

"In fact, long before Empress Wa, many Congenitals had already created various kinds of living beings."

"But most of them viewed all this with a playful mindset."

"Therefore, the creatures they created had all sorts of styles."

"But none had a style like Empress Wa's, or such determination."

"It was also because of this that the emergence of the human race truly established the concept of the distinction between Congenital and Post-Natal."

"As the strongest branch among them, the human race naturally held the dominant position among the Post-Natal."

"To this day, most places in the universe are filled with that law created by Empress Wa." (Except for the territories of other Congenitals of the same level and some places of special existence.)

"Later on, the first powerhouse of the Divine Tribulation Realm emerged from the human race, whom posterity honorably calls—the Grand Emperor!"

"During the time of the Grand Emperor, humans were still Congenital Humans, so their focus was more on the exploration of the Congenital Dao—the Supreme Emperor's Profound Life Dao Scripture!"

"After the Grand Emperor, the proportion of Congenital Humans gradually decreased. Most people were in a state of being semi-Congenital and semi-Post-Natal, and the era of being born as an immortal began to fade away."

"But at that time, the universe only had the Congenital Dao, which was the cultivation of the Immortal Realm."

"For existences below Immortality, there was no path for advancement."

"This was a boundary of life levels; without crossing it, one could never step into the cultivation of Immortality."

"Thus, after the Grand Emperor, the Earth Sovereign emerged as the times required. He was also a semi-Congenital, semi-Post-Natal Human, but with a high Congenital component. After many hardships, he finally managed to step into the Immortal Law Realm."

(Congenital Humans were not truly Congenital either; they just had a very high Congenital component.)

"No one could have imagined that this Semi-Congenital Human could soar to the heavens after stepping into Immortality."

"Like the Grand Emperor, the Earth Sovereign also reached the level of a god with incredibly astonishing cultivation."

"In the process, he created the Mountain and River Seal, pioneered Martial Arts, and so on."

"He connected the path of the Post-Natal Mortal Realm with the path of Immortality, beginning the exploration of the Post-Natal Dao—the Earth Sovereign's True Martial Dao Scripture!"

"After the Earth Sovereign, Congenital Humans completely withered away, and even semi-Congenital, semi-Post-Natal Humans became extremely rare. At this time, the largest proportion of the human race was Post-Natal Humans."

"The talent of Post-Natal Humans was very poor, one could even say they were beyond teaching. Even the most talented among them was like a stray dog on the roadside compared to a Semi-Congenital Human."

(The talent of Semi-Congenital Humans was like a stray dog compared to Congenital Humans, and the talent of Congenital Humans was like a stray dog compared to true Congenitals.)

"With such strength, let alone facing the outside world, it was hard for them to even survive in human territory without others taking care of them."

"Although the Earth Sovereign pioneered Martial Arts and tried his best to simplify it, this path was still too difficult for Post-Natal Humans."

"Perhaps when he first created it, he didn't expect that humans could be so dull-witted."

"He had already greatly underestimated them back then, but it turned out he had still overestimated them by a lot." (Because when it was first created, humans were still in a semi-Congenital, semi-Post-Natal state.)

"But the existence of Martial Arts, though incredibly difficult for pure-bred Post-Natals, ultimately provided a path to achieve Immortality."

"And so, the third sovereign of the human race, the last sovereign after the Earth Sovereign, also emerged as the times required."

"The Human Sovereign was a very pure-bred Post-Natal Human, and he was also the one who suffered the most among the Three Sovereigns."

"He did not enjoy the treatment of a chosen one like the Grand Emperor, nor was he like the Earth Sovereign, who, despite a slightly difficult start, soared to the heavens once he crossed the boundary between immortal and mortal."