Although he had never looked into it, it was much as he had imagined!
Since the ancient Human Race raised its children much as Xu Tong had imagined, that settled that.
Naturally, it did not affect Xu Tong's question:
"Then might I ask, Daoist Companion Yu the Great, how did you grow up?"
Yu the Great looked startled.
For the moment, he could not see what his own upbringing had to do with how the tribe's children grew up.
But this matter had clearly risen to the level of the Heavenly Dao, so Yu the Great answered truthfully:
"When I was born, unusual signs appeared in the heavens. I could walk and speak from birth. An immortal took me away and taught me how to govern the mortal world. I returned to my tribe when I was six, and three years later, I became its chief. By the time I was sixteen, I had turned my small tribe into a large one."
Yu the Great looked proud as he spoke of this!
After all, in those ancient times,
the tribes of the Human Race did not merely have to fight other humans!
The wild beasts that had grown immensely powerful under the nourishment of spiritual energy were suppressed by the Human Path and could not develop sufficient intelligence, but their bodies were still advancing toward those of demons!
Moreover, there had been many exotic creatures of the Primordial World back then. In the eyes of the humans of that age, animals such as tigers and jackals were merely middling predators.
With adequate preparation, one or two strong, experienced hunters could kill them and bring them back to the tribe!
Then turn them into barbecue!
The ancient Human Race's true enemies had been exotic creatures of the Primordial World: the Zhēng