After Sui's death, Fuxi took the reins of power and joined forces with his younger sister Nuwa, the leader of a matrilineal tribe, to begin unifying the tribes.
They were both siblings and husband and wife, and they had children together.
The two great tribes united, and under Fuxi's leadership, the tribe developed rapidly.
Thanks to Sui's teachings and Fuxi's forceful unification, the matrilineal tribe fully integrated into tribal life, with a clear division of labor between men and women.
Throughout Sui's travels across the world to spread writing, he had always kept the two children at his side. Thus, many tribes recognized their standing and willingly joined the Fuxi-Nuwa Tribe.
Eventually, they united many tribes across Blue Star and were hailed by those tribes as Human Kings.
Fuxi established his capital in Central Province and combined body parts from various animals to create the tribe's totem-the dragon.
Fuxi also displayed wisdom far beyond his era, establishing dedicated hunting and fishing teams and having trees felled to build wooden houses.
Nuwa led the tribe's women in making weapons and household utensils, gathering wild fruit, weaving, and sewing, with an orderly division of labor.
The Human Race began building large numbers of wooden houses. The tribespeople left their caves to live in communities and had more time to develop their culture. As time passed, the Fuxi-Nuwa Regime became the largest tribe of its era.
Zhang Yang offered no guidance throughout this process. He began to wonder whether this Fuxi was a transmigrator. He knew far too much.
Time flew by. During the 111 years of Fuxi and Nuwa's rule, the population flourished, human lifespans increased, and many talented individuals emerged within the tribe.
Fuxi divided his territory into regions to govern them, appointing numerous officials to administer the world and establishing official posts for hunting, fishing, weaving, population affairs, rites and music, construction, and weapon-making.
Under the Fuxi-Nuwa Regime, a calendar was created, and people began recording time.
Blue Star's calendar also began counting from this year, known to history as year 1 of the Blue Era.
During the Fuxi-Nuwa Regime, the qin and se zithers were invented, pioneering ritual traditions.
Drawing on the changes of heaven, earth, and all things, Fuxi created divination and the eight trigrams.
Events were recorded in writing, with major developments in the tribe inscribed on clay tablets, pioneering historical records.
They began cultivating pasture grass, planting wild grasses, and taming and raising livestock, pioneering agriculture and animal husbandry.
They predicted the weather, made straw rain capes, raised silkworms, and even began establishing laws.
They instituted monogamy for the first time. This was the earliest marriage law.
Animal hides served as tokens of marriage. These were the earliest betrothal gifts...
Zhang Yang counted with his consciousness. At that moment, the total population of Blue Star was 373,869.
People felled vast numbers of trees to build wooden houses, hunted dinosaurs, and caught fish.
Even the fiercest Tyrannosaurus Rexes fell to humanity's combined efforts, with several successfully hunted down.
An enormous Tyrannosaurus Rex skull was placed on the village's sacrificial altar. The Human Race still maintained the custom of offering sacrifices to the Father God.
Because Zhang Yang had continuously strengthened the Human Race with energy points, and Blue Star had a high oxygen content, even the shortest members of the Human Race on Blue Star stood over two meters tall and possessed astonishing strength.
Seeing how rapidly the Human Race was developing, Zhang Yang also designated humans as the "destined species."
This effectively made the Human Race the protagonists of Blue Star's heaven and earth, blessed with fortune.
According to Zhang Yang's statistics, the average lifespan of the Human Race on Blue Star was around one hundred years.
In year 111 of the Blue Era, the Human Race's leader Fuxi passed away, leaving the regime to Nuwa.
Fuxi had lived for 131 years and made enormous contributions to the Human Race during his reign. When he died, the clear sky suddenly filled with dark clouds, and torrential rain poured down.
The Human Race honored him as Emperor Xi.
Later generations honored him as the Earth Emperor.
After Fuxi's death, Nuwa held power. After reigning for over a decade, she passed the throne to her son.
From the sky, Zhang Yang watched the succession of the Human Race's tribes. Seeing that he had only seventy energy points left, he chose to accelerate time.
Under accelerated time, two thousand years passed. The Human Race developed rapidly, and its population flourished. Constant strife began breaking out among the tribes, until the Jiang Tribe rose to prominence.
The Jiang Tribe was also known as Shennong, and its leader was called the Yan Emperor.
Shao Dian, the last Human King under the Fuxi-Nuwa Regime, had two sons. He passed the throne to his eldest son, who was exceptionally skilled at using fire and was also called the Yan Emperor.
His younger son took his own tribe into seclusion at the edge of the continent, withdrawing from worldly affairs.
Shennong did not refer to any one individual, but was a collective name for an era.
The Yan Emperor was not one individual either. Every leader of Shennong was called the Yan Emperor.
During Shennong's rule, people were taught to farm, wooden plows were invented, countless herbs were tasted, trade was developed, hemp was processed into cloth, five-stringed zithers were made, wood was shaped into bows, pottery was produced, metallurgy was developed, institutions were established, and civilization was pioneered.
Shennong made enormous contributions to the development of Human Race civilization. In particular, the third Yan Emperor was honored by later generations as the Human Emperor.
During the fourth Yan Emperor's reign, one tribe left Central Province and vanished without a trace.
As time passed, Shennong had nine Yan Emperors in succession, ruling for over five hundred years.
During Shennong's rule, the population flourished and multiplied in great numbers, surpassing twenty million.
As people grew more numerous, so did their disputes. Wind and rain loomed on the horizon, and Shao Dian's eldest son became the Yan Emperor.
As mentioned earlier, Shao Dian's second son had taken his tribe into seclusion at the edge of the continent, withdrawing from worldly affairs.
Indeed, the tribe founded by Shao Dian's second son was called Xuanyuan. It lived in seclusion at the edge of the continent, keeping a low profile and acting discreetly.
By the reign of Yu Wang, Shennong's ninth Yan Emperor, Blue Star's total population had surpassed twenty million.
By the ninth Yan Emperor's reign, Shennong as a whole was already in decline. Strife among its tribes was constant, and Yu Wang lacked the ability to command their allegiance or keep all of Shennong under control.
But Xuanyuan's leader in this generation possessed great talent and grand strategic vision, and the tribe was stronger than ever. Meanwhile, the Xuanyuan Tribe began secretly courting support, gradually winning the people's hearts, and many tribes secretly joined it.
Xuanyuan forged large quantities of weapons to arm itself. Finally, in year 2731 of the Blue Era, the Xuanyuan Tribe and the Yan Emperor Tribe waged an unprecedented war in Central Province.
The two sides fought for seven days and seven nights. Many of the Yan Emperor's tribes defected, and the Xuanyuan Tribe ultimately defeated the Yan Emperor Tribe.
History called it the Yan-Huang War.
Because Xuanyuan revered the virtue of earth, its leader changed his title to the Yellow Emperor and succeeded the Yan Emperor as ruler of all the tribes under heaven.
Likewise, the Yellow Emperor was not one individual, but the collective title of the Xuanyuan Tribe's leaders.
Although the Xuanyuan Tribe had won a temporary victory, it had not fully absorbed the Yan Emperor Tribe and was still working to settle the people's hearts.
As time passed, another two hundred-odd years went by. The Xuanyuan Tribe developed rapidly in Central Province, inventing and creating houses, clothing, carts and boats, battle formations, music, utensils, the well-field system, and more.
The Yan Emperor Tribe also developed alongside it under the Yan Emperor's leadership. Though it had been defeated, both tribes had sprung from the same root, and the Xuanyuan Tribe had not exterminated it to the last person.
Although conflicts still occurred between the two tribes, they no longer engaged in large-scale armed clashes, each maintaining a reasonable space in which to live.
Central Province was now stronger than ever. The combined population of the Yan Emperor Tribe and the Xuanyuan Tribe had surpassed twenty million.
From the sky, Zhang Yang could see that the population of all Blue Star had actually surpassed thirty million.
Because the Xuanyuan Tribe revered martial might, the martial spirit throughout the tribe grew stronger by the day.
The Xuanyuan Tribe began studying tactics, and its battle formations greatly strengthened the Human Race's position as the dominant species.
There was just something strange about it. Why did so many seemingly savage creatures shy away at the sight of humans...?
Like mice encountering a cat, they were instinctively suppressed at the bloodline level.
One night, the Xuanyuan Tribe's leader had a very, very long dream.
The next day, large quantities of copper ore were dug up, and the Yellow Emperor began guiding the craftsmen in forging bronze weapons.
Over decades of experimentation, large quantities of bronze objects were produced.
Bronze goods slowly became widespread, and large quantities of bronze weapons, armor, and everyday tools were manufactured.
The Human Race's hunting efficiency grew ever higher. Meanwhile, with the emergence of bronze knives, axes, spears, and other implements, civilization developed faster and faster.
Finally, one day, the Yellow Emperor's tribe discovered that there was another large tribe in the distant north???
Before you continue