The Oath of Brotherhood, a Shura Field?

After Lie Shan became the Grand Minister of Agriculture of the human race, his cultivation entered a phase of rapid development. In just a hundred years of enlightenment, he became an immortal Golden Immortal.

After Lie Shan broke through to the Golden Immortal Realm, a red gourd fell from the sky one day; it was Hong Yun's Nine-Nine Soul Scattering Gourd.

Along with it came many of Hong Yun's spiritual treasures, including Hong Yun alchemy cauldron, a High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure named "Heavenly Square Cauldron".

Lie Shan easily refined these two spiritual treasures, and it was with their help that Hong Yun comprehended the Way of Fire Virtue and the Primordial Spirit Great Dao.

His cultivation level surged once again, reaching the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.

At this very moment, an unprecedented plague broke out among the human race, first evolving from the Dao and then spreading among cultivators.

Many human cultivators died in this plague, their souls returning to the underworld.

After that, the plague evolved again and spread among ordinary mortals, killing hundreds of millions of people.

Faced with this situation, Human Emperor Fuxi wanted to use his cultivation to eradicate the plague in one fell swoop and wipe it off the face of the earth.

However, plagues evolved from the Great Dao, corresponding to the Plague Great Dao of the Three Thousand Great Daos in the Primordial Wilderness.

As long as the Great Way endures, plagues will never cease.

Moreover, this plague is a calamity brought to humankind by the Heaven, Earth, and Human Daos; it is a test. Even if Fuxi can solve the plague, he must not resort to violence.

At this critical moment of life and death, Fuxi collected all the medical books and alchemical texts of the Primordial Wilderness and summoned people from all walks of Primordial Wilderness to study ways to solve the plague.

It was at this time that Lie Shan, as the Grand Minister of Agriculture, stood out.

He risked his life, contracted the plague, and then used his special body to begin experimenting with medicine.

Lie Shan traveled through mountains and rivers, with Xuan Ming following along. The two discussed the effects of various medicinal herbs, and Lie Shan eventually recorded his findings in a book.

After eighty-one years of research, they finally discovered a medicinal formula that could cure common plagues.

One dose of medicine, and the plague was eradicated!

The name of Lie Shan Primordial Wilderness, and people revered him as Shennong.

Many people built temples to Shennong and worshipped Lie Shan, and carved images of Shennong in their homes to worship Lie Shan.

A vast amount of incense and faith surrounded Shennong.

But Shennong was not excited by this. Instead, he continued to travel around the prehistoric Primordial Wilderness, tasting all kinds of herbs, observing their three flavors and characteristics, and recording them in a book.

Xuan Ming was also influenced by Shennong's personality. He no longer remembered that he was a Daluo Golden Immortal, but an ordinary immortal. He also forgot to teach and cultivate virtue, and only knew how to accompany Shennong to taste all kinds of herbs.

While the two were traveling through the prehistoric Primordial Wilderness, they met a human on the way, who was Cangjie, one of the earliest Innate Human Race created by Nuwa.

Cangjie's cultivation had already reached the peak of the Daluo Golden Immortal. In order to break through to the Quasi-Saint, he traveled through the Primordial Wilderness, looking up and down between heaven and earth, and observing the mysteries of the universe.

In the Primordial Wilderness Shui Bu, Shennong met a woman named Tingyu.

Tingyu is the daughter of the chieftain of the Shui Bu. She is naturally intelligent and her cultivation has reached the level of an immortal Golden Immortal, making her a Heavenly Pride among humans.

After Shennong and Tingyu met, they quickly fell in love. Under the witness of the rolling Red River, they became Dao Companion and held a wedding ceremony with the rites of mortals.

The four traveled together, traversing the Five Continents, and even eventually entered the Heaven Realm to search for common medicinal herbs to bring back to the mortal world for cultivation.

During this period, Cangjie discovered that the script used by Shennong to record medicinal herbs was the script used by cultivators.

Although the script used by these cultivators is not the script of the Great Dao Immortals, ordinary mortals cannot understand it.

Therefore, Cangjie vowed to develop a script suitable for ordinary mortals. He based his work on the changes in the heavens, earth, mountains, rivers, and the images of all living things in the world.

He created the oldest Pictographic Script in human history, and from then on, Cangjie had a goal, vaguely sensing that this was the key to his breakthrough to the Quasi-Saint.

So in the following period, Cangjie began to refine the Pictographic Script, from the first few characters to hundreds, and finally to thousands.

Pictographic Script gradually became more sophisticated!

Shennong also began to use Pictographic Script to record the properties of medicinal herbs.

During this period, in order to help Shennong measure dimensions and weigh medicinal herbs, Tingyu invented items such as rulers, scales, and measures.

In an instant, the names of the four men resounded throughout the human world.

The group traveled among various human tribes, studying and teaching as they went, a process that lasted for quite some time.

"Xuan Ming, Shennong, Tingyu, I have created 2,997 Pictographic Script. The Great Dao has 3,000 characters, and so do the characters. I still lack the last three characters I don't understand."

Xuan Ming asked in confusion, "I wonder which three characters Cangjie is still missing?"

"Heaven, Earth, and the Way!"

Upon hearing these three words, the group fell into deep thought, sometimes nodding, sometimes shaking their heads.

Of the four, Xuan Ming and Cangjie were at the peak of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, while Shennong and Tingyu were Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, each with their own understanding of heaven, earth, and the Dao.

They could also write down their own understanding of heaven, earth, and the Dao, but they had no clue how to use ordinary Pictographic Script to represent these three characters; it seemed impossible for them to achieve this.

Cangjie sighed and then said, "My three friends, please forgive me for not being able to accompany you on the road ahead. Pictographic Script embody my Dao, and they are the key to my breakthrough to the Grand Unity and my attainment of Quasi-Saint."

"No matter how difficult it is, I will create Heaven, Earth, and the Dao. Therefore, I will go alone to create these three words and perfect my own Dao."

The three did not try to stop them, for this was Cangjie's path, and they also had their own paths.

That night, the four returned to the banks of the Chishui River. On a small boat, they drank themselves into a stupor.

They seemed not to be a lofty immortal, but rather a mortal friend about to part ways.

At dawn, Cangjie left Chishui alone.

Just after Cangjie left, the three of them stood on the riverbank, gazing at Cangjie's figure, without turning back for a long time.

Shennong gently patted his wife Tingyu's shoulder, embraced her, and said, "Don't overthink it. You're pregnant. Your second brother will surely perfect his own world and the Dao on this journey."

Xuan Ming spoke up, "Sister Tingyu, you've been pregnant for a thousand years. The child in your womb is definitely extraordinary. Be careful. My second brother has already gone to seek his own path; we should be happy for him."

Just last night, after the four of them got drunk, they swore brotherhood, Xuan Ming seemed to have forgotten that he was Shennong's master.

The four men swore brotherhood, with Xuan Ming as the eldest, Cangjie as the second, Shennong as the third, Tingyu as the fourth.

This is a very fantastical story.

Hong Yun addressed Donghua as his Daoist brother.

Shennong referred to Xuan Ming as his master.

Xuan Ming is Donghua's son.

Now, Xuan Ming has also become sworn brothers with Shennong.

It's impossible to figure it out, absolutely impossible!

Thinking of this, Xuan Ming suddenly laughed. The title of Shennong's master was only a temporary one. Once Shennong broke through to the Grand Unity, this title would be gone.

If you don't believe me, go ask Xuandu. Now that Fuxi calls him "Master," would he dare to accept it?

However, the sworn brotherhood with Shennong will continue.

"Then can I also call my father 'Brother Dao'?"

Thinking of this, Xuan Ming felt an uncontrollable excitement, a sense of rebellion that was quite thrilling.

"Master, now..."

Xuan Ming immediately interrupted Shennong, saying that it was no longer appropriate to call him master. The purpose of becoming his disciple was to teach Shennong, since the Dao should not be easily passed on.

"Please don't call me Master anymore. I have nothing more to teach you now; on the contrary, I often need to learn from you. If you don't mind, just call me Elder Brother."

Shennong was a straightforward man, and he nodded directly, saying, "Brother, now all kinds of medicinal herbs in the mortal and Heaven Realm have been recorded, except for the last one in the underworld. Our next step is to go to the Netherworld Earth Realm. Is that feasible?"

"Excellent!"

After the two finished their discussion, they set off for the Netherworld Earth Realm. Tingyu, however, went to Chen Du, because Shennong also held the position of Grand Minister of Agriculture. Tingyu there both to rest during her pregnancy and to help Shennong handle government affairs.

After a brief farewell, the three set off on their own.

Xuan Ming and Shennong went straight into the Netherworld, where they continued their research on medicinal herbs in the Twenty-Four Heavens realm.

The discussion begins with the properties of medicinal herbs, and sometimes extends to the Dao, the workings of all living things, which are governed by the Dao.

The Tao is everywhere!

Each realm has its own unique atmosphere, and the two began to extend their footprints across the land, discovering medicinal herbs, tasting them, identifying their properties, recording them, cultivating them, and repeating this process over and over again.

This is a job that requires no skill and is tedious and boring, yet it has meaning in it.

Along the way, Xuan Ming did not deliberately cultivate, but he felt that his Dao had been sublimated.

This is a fundamental sublimation; the Dao is still the same Dao, but it has gained more vitality.

This means that Xuan Ming truly possessed his own Dao and had an understanding of it.

This is a period of reflection, a period of reflection that has challenged the concept of Hun Yuan. Only with this understanding can one be qualified to hope for Hun Yuan.

Yes, I only had a slight chance of qualifying.

This is the power of Hun Yuan, encompassing all things, where words and actions are the Way.

In the Heaven Realm, Donghua was also constantly monitoring the development of Hong Yun and Xuan Ming, and naturally noticed the changes in Xuan Ming.

"Good lad, you haven't disappointed me. The Central Heaven Myriad Saints Great Emperor truly belongs to you."

Before this, Donghua had only given Xuan Ming the possibility of becoming the Central Heaven Myriad Saints Great Emperor, giving him an opportunity, but if he failed to live up to expectations, he would not forcibly bestow the title, but would choose someone else.

The same applies to Xuan Tian.

Now that Xuan Ming has this qualification, he can suppress all dissenting voices, and even the Heavenly Dao can make a decision with a single word.

"This kid seems a bit rebellious, actually daring to call me 'Brother Dao'," Donghua snorted coldly.

Actually, he didn't mind Xuan Ming's ambition to call him "fellow Daoist," but this lack of mind stemmed from their shared strength. He hoped that Xuan Ming would only call him "fellow Daoist" if he had sufficient strength.

He was not addressed as a fellow Daoist because of any relationship.

"This is utterly upside down!"

"Looks like we need to increase the intensity of this kid's training!"

"It seems these two brothers haven't met yet?"

"Hmm, we haven't met them before, so let's meet them and put some pressure on these two kids."

"Wouldn't you call this a chaotic scene?"