How important were writing and language?
Evergreen Heaven currently had five widely used scripts:
The cultivation community used Cloud Seal Script; the Mystic Dragon Domain had its own Dragon Language; demon cultivators and evil cultivators used Golden Cauldron Script; wizards, priests, and the like used Totem Script; and the Demon Race used Celestial Demon Script.
Among them, the Golden Cauldron Script of demon cultivators had evolved from Cloud Seal Script and could be considered a derivative script. Yet after countless years of development, it had developed its own characteristics and become thoroughly "demonized"—demonized in the sense of demon cultivators.
The most widely used was still Cloud Seal Script, the script of cultivators. Cultivation had a halo around it.
Strictly speaking, demon cultivation was also a form of cultivation, which gave cultivation an enormous foundation.
The Dragon Language widely spread outside was simplified and watered down. True Dragon Language was said to be Innate Script and was used only within the Dragon Race. Yet even the simplified Dragon Language remained extraordinary.
Simplified Dragon Language and cultivator Cloud Seal Script were actually evenly matched. It was simply that cultivation had that halo around it.
Totem Script carried an air of mystery and stood apart in areas such as faith cultivation and rituals.
Chu Fei had once believed that faith should use phonetic writing, but that had been a "bias" formed under the influence of Earth's cultural environment.
The earliest faith was reverence for heaven and earth. Intelligent beings would draw lightning, storms, and the like, and that was also how totems began. After faith merged with totems, Totem Script gradually emerged—probably something along those lines.
The birth of Chinese characters had also been somewhat similar, with early traces of totemic color. But in their subsequent development, Yanhuang Civilization did not seek to