Rewriting the Investiture of the Gods in the Primordial Era

For hundreds of millions, billions, or even tens of billions of years, the souls of True Immortals and Mystic Immortals truly couldn't withstand it. The vast expanse of time was enough to erode their immortal souls and extinguish their true spirits.

Only those who had formed the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit were qualified to not fear the scouring of the river of time.

In the Primordial Era, one Calamity spanned fifty million Planck units, and one Planck unit was 129,600 years, totaling 64.8 billion years. True Immortals and Mystic Immortals simply couldn't live that long.

According to Jiang Haofeng's travels through the Primordial Era, Witch Tribe members at the True Immortal stage could generally live for about a thousand Planck units, roughly 120 million years.

As for Witch Tribe members at the Mystic Immortal stage, they could live for about ten thousand Planck units, or 1.2 billion years.

Of course, this was a rough estimate. The stronger the cultivation, the longer they lived. Some peak Mystic Immortals could even live for around fifty thousand Planck units.

In other words, if one couldn't break through to Golden Immortal, they wouldn't survive to the next Calamity. Those who could survive from the previous Calamity were at least Golden Immortals!

At the Golden Immortal stage, one could be considered an elite in the Primordial Era. Whether it was the Witch Tribe or the Demon Tribe, Golden Immortals were the elites of their respective clans. At this stage, they were also barely qualified to traverse the Primordial Era.

Beyond Golden Immortals came Grand Unity Golden Immortals, who were already the backbone of the Primordial Era. Every minor advancement in cultivation was calculated in tens of thousands of Planck units. This was for those with exceptional talent. Some with insufficient luck and talent could only advance one or two minor stages in an entire Calamity.

At the Grand Unity Golden Immortal level, increasing one's cultivation was no longer a simple matter of practicing. At this stage, comprehending laws was the key. Once the laws were comprehended, accumulating Dharma power was simple. However, without comprehending the laws, cultivation would stagnate!

At the Grand Unity Golden Immortal stage, advancing a minor realm in a hundred thousand Planck units was already considered good, and that was for those with good talent. For those with lesser talent, an entire Calamity might pass without much improvement in their cultivation.

Many old relics who survived the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity were still at the Grand Unity Golden Immortal stage even now.

As for Grand Luo Golden Immortals, they were already at the limit of Immortals. The next step was becoming a Saint. Comprehending a law to perfection, transforming the Law Dao Fruit into the Great Dao, touching the threshold of the Great Dao, severing the past and future, and transcending the river of time—at any Calamity, they would be considered top powerhouses in the Primordial Era!

At this point, improving one's cultivation became even more difficult. Disciples of the Chan and Jie sects, who joined the Saints' tutelage from the Witch-Demon Calamity, listened to the Saints' sermons countless times. After cultivating for over a Calamity, very few eventually achieved Grand Luo Golden Immortal.

Beyond them were Quasi-Saints and Saints. They no longer comprehended laws, but the Great Dao!

Laws were the laws of the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial Era, while the Great Dao was the eternal and unchanging Chaos Great Dao. Anyone who comprehended even a sliver of the Great Dao could transcend heaven and earth, roam the chaos, and become a Great Divine Power!

The three hundred and sixty-five Demon Gods of the Demon Tribe once shook the Primordial Era, showing the significance of Grand Luo Golden Immortals. Moreover, more than half of them were powerhouses from the previous Calamity collected by the Demon Tribe.

Forty-odd Grand Unity Golden Immortals. Humanity was a weak race in the Primordial Era, vulnerable and easily defeated. If there were forty-odd Grand Luo Golden Immortals, they would be a race that shook the Primordial Era. After reaching the Golden Immortal stage, improving one's cultivation was far from simple.

Getting back to the point, Jiang Haofeng looked at the Life Spring's source before him. A small pool of white jade, the size of a millstone, stood on the ground. Mysterious light rippled above the pool, and a dense vitality surged forward. However, the pool, the size of a millstone, was now empty, not a single drop of spring water in sight.

Beneath the pool, a spring eye the size of a needle tip was visible. Dense vitality converged on the spring eye, and faintly, a drop of spiritual liquid was condensing.

As his consciousness touched the Life Spring's source, Jiang Haofeng immediately understood the situation. Its effects were exactly as the Grand Pure Sage had described. Below Grand Luo Golden Immortal, it was absolutely a top-tier life-saving treasure. Any law-inflicted injury could be resolved by the Life Spring water.

It also had an effect on Grand Luo Golden Immortals, but the effect was much weaker. The weaker the strength, the better the effect.

As for those above Grand Luo Golden Immortal, it had virtually no effect on Dharma power containing the power of the Great Dao.

Every day, the Life Spring could condense one drop of spring water.

Jiang Haofeng nodded with satisfaction. Good, it was much better than he had imagined.

With the Life Spring water, humanity's foundation instantly deepened several times. A treasure that continuously produced healing sacred objects was undeniably important to a race!

Next, the Innate Humans arrived at the Death Spring's source, which was also a pool the size of a millstone. However, this pool was made of black jade, which was unfathomably deep, as if it could devour souls.

The effects of its spring water were the complete opposite of the Life Spring, and the effects were similar. It was ineffective against Great Divine Powers like Quasi-Saints, and it also condensed one drop per day.

The most important function of this Death Spring was its ability to corrode the physical body, Dharma power, and primordial spirit. As long as one was not protected by the Great Dao, coming into contact with this Death Spring water would definitely be… unpleasant.

This water was similar to the Weak Water from legends; it was an excellent material for refining offensive magical treasures. If caught off guard, even Grand Luo Golden Immortals would regret it!

After observing both spring sources, Jiang Haofeng was extremely satisfied. It was indeed worthy of being a treasure that absorbed half of the Human Creation Merit; its power was truly formidable.

Looking at the power of the Creation Sacred Spring, Jiang Haofeng couldn't help but eagerly anticipate humanity's first supreme treasure that had yet to be born!

The treasure of humanity's destiny, the treasure that protected the race!

When Nuwa created humans, fifty percent of the destiny returned to Empress Nuwa, ten percent was absorbed by the Human Creation Whip and the Creation Sacred Spring, and the remaining twenty percent was absorbed by the Innate Humans. As for the remaining twenty percent, it vanished into thin air, its whereabouts unknown.

Others might not know, but Jiang Haofeng knew exactly where that twenty percent of merit had gone.

It was absorbed by the Ultimate Innate Spirit Treasure, the Kongtong Seal, which was being nurtured. It became an Innate Merit Spirit Treasure, becoming the most powerful magical treasure below Innate Supreme Treasures in the Primordial Era. Some even speculated that the Kongtong Seal could rival Innate Supreme Treasures!

Of course, its exact power would be known when the Kongtong Seal was born. However, being an Ultimate Innate Spirit Treasure, coupled with twenty percent of the Human Creation Merit, its power was definitely not to be underestimated.

According to the original development of the Primordial Era, when Emperor Fuxi became the co-lord of humanity and unified the entire human race, the Kongtong Seal would be born as the Human Emperor Seal. It would become the race-protecting treasure of all humanity and a symbol of the Human Emperor's authority.

After the Three Sovereigns governed the world and the Five Emperors established order, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors entered the Fire Cloud Cave to suppress humanity's destiny. The Kongtong Seal would be handed over to the Grand Pure Sage for safekeeping, granting him the power to depose and establish Human Kings. Naturally, the Grand Pure Sage never used this treasure from beginning to end.

After examining the Life and Death Springs, Jiang Haofeng began planning the city according to his pre-conceived plan. He collected a large number of innate materials and refined them into bricks using the Samadhi True Fire to build Nuwa City.

Time waits for no one. The Saints' protection had already dissipated. Although humanity still possessed the residual power of the Saints, and the myriad races of the Primordial Era dared not harm humanity, Jiang Haofeng, who knew the development of the Primordial Era, naturally understood what would happen next.

The Witch Slaying Sword and the Demon Slaying Sword, these two swords of resentment and slaughter, were forged with the boundless resentment of humanity.

The sooner Nuwa City was built, the more a place for humanity to live and establish themselves would exist. When the Calamity descended, the more humans would survive!

Jiang Haofeng never considered altering the Witch-Demon War, nor did he think of rapidly increasing humanity's strength to the point of resisting the Witch and Demon tribes.

Without experiencing the Witch-Demon Calamity, one would not know how powerful the Witch and Demon tribes were. It was a power that inspired despair. In a short period, humanity had no possibility of catching up.

If the current Witch and Demon tribes were each taken separately and placed in later eras, they could flatten the Heavenly Court and the Spirit Mountain without issue, of course, this was under the condition that Saints could not intervene.

Twelve peak Quasi-Saints. Just mentioning them brought a sense of pressure. Let alone twelve peak Quasi-Saints, even assembling twelve Quasi-Saints would be incredibly difficult.

To end the Witch and Demon tribes, they could only fight each other. Before the Witch and Demon tribes were eliminated, humanity would forever be supporting characters in the Primordial Era.

What Jiang Haofeng needed to do now was not to participate in the Witch-Demon War, but to minimize the casualties and losses of humanity in the future calamity. Ideally, to prevent that disaster and prevent the Witch Slaying Sword and Demon Slaying Sword from appearing in the Primordial Era.

At the very least, he had to preserve the core of humanity, the three thousand Innate Humans. They were the true foundation of humanity. Given the brutality of that massacre and the subsequent history of humanity, it was likely that very few of the three thousand Innate Humans survived.

The Innate Humans with the best origins have all perished. It's no wonder that later generations of humanity didn't produce many powerful individuals. While humanity monopolized the destiny of the Primordial Era, surpassing even the Witch and Demon Tribes in fortune, they lacked the might of the Witch and Demon Tribes.

The reason for this was the severed elite of humanity.

This time, at the very least, they had to protect three thousand Innate Humans, laying the foundation for humanity's future rise.

This Nuwa City was Jiang Haofeng's trump card. No matter how frenzied the Witch and Demon Tribes became, they wouldn't dare to directly attack Nuwa City.

Even if Saint Nuwa no longer concerned herself with worldly affairs, if one breached Nuwa City, disrespecting the Saint's prestige, the Saint would absolutely intervene.

Once Nuwa City was completed and humanity had a fallback, it would be time to plan for the preservation of all of humanity.

Actually, Jiang Haofeng had always been puzzled by one thing. During the Witch-Demon Calamity, humanity was incredibly weak. Furthermore, with two Saints backing them, they were a typical case of having a substantial background but being incredibly troublesome.

If the Witch Tribe and Demon Tribe had any sense, they wouldn't have provoked humanity.

While the Witch Slaying Sword and Demon Slaying Sword were powerful, their might was far from enough to decide the outcome of a battlefield. What truly decided the direction of major battles were peerless formations like the Twelve Capital Celestial Gods Array and the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array.

Or perhaps Innate Supreme Treasures like the Chaos Bell.

The Witch Slaying Sword and Demon Slaying Sword, by all accounts, didn't seem like artifacts that could determine the course of a major battle. Moreover, during the Witch-Demon war, these two killing swords didn't play a significant role. Was it truly necessary to risk offending two Saints by slaughtering humanity?

If one were to say that the later born demons didn't know about Saints or that humanity had Saints behind them, and thus attacked humanity, that would be reasonable. However, the Demon Emperor, the Demon Sovereign, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches were all Great Divine Powers who were clearly aware of humanity's origins.

Under such circumstances, they still dared to order the slaughter of humanity and the forging of killing swords; it truly baffled Jiang Haofeng.

There must be a conspiracy involved!

Jiang Haofeng secretly resolved in his heart that he would do his utmost to protect humanity's peace in the future, causing the great catastrophe that swept through humanity to vanish into nothingness.

With the Human Clan Assembly's approval, the entire humanity was instantly mobilized. The Manifestation lineage of humanity collected innate materials from the surroundings, continuously sending them to Central Phoenix Mountain. Meanwhile, the three hundred thousand True Immortals and three thousand Innate Humans within Central Phoenix Mountain were doing their utmost to build the city.

With the full might of humanity unleashed, the construction of Nuwa City progressed astonishingly fast. In just a thousand years, a massive city stood tall on the land of the Primordial Era. Its city walls were thirty-three feet high, twelve feet wide, and two hundred and eighty thousand miles long. The entire city was protected by the Two Forms Micro Dust Great Array.

The walls of Nuwa City were not particularly high; they were no different from ordinary city walls. Humanity was only so large, so building walls ten thousand or a thousand feet high would be both laborious and without benefit.

Tall city walls wouldn't appear magnificent; instead, they would make humanity seem exceptionally small. If they were truly to build walls a thousand feet high, then this city would be more suitable for the Witch Tribe to inhabit, not humanity.

Within Nuwa City, two avenues running horizontally and vertically divided it into nine sections. The innermost section was the location of Central Phoenix Mountain. This land remained unchanged compared to before; there were no cities, no streets, only mountains, plants, blooming flowers, and small wooden houses dotted among the forests.

This was where the three thousand Innate Humans resided. These wooden houses were built by the Innate Humans themselves. After Da Chao observed birds building their nests and invented wooden houses, all the humans constructed their own dwellings.

Jiang Haofeng did not intend to disturb this place. This was the birthplace of humanity, the root of humanity.

Jiang Haofeng used his magical power to carve out a long river, encircling the entire Central Phoenix Mountain and separating a section of land at the foot of the mountain from the other eight districts outside.

From now on, this would be the core of humanity, the inner city of Nuwa City. Only those who attained the position of human clan elder could move in and build their own wooden house to reside there.

Simultaneously, being able to enter here meant truly entering the core of all of humanity.

Jiang Haofeng moved the Human Ancestral Pavilion, the Holy Mother Temple, the Holy Master Temple, and the wooden houses of the first fifty Innate Humans he had created to Central Phoenix Mountain.

This was the core of the core of humanity. Only by becoming a Supreme Elder of humanity would one be qualified to move to Central Phoenix Mountain.

The positions of Elder and Supreme Elder were Jiang Haofeng's way of gathering humanity's strength. Only by consolidating their strength could they exert their greatest power. Wasn't the current Demon Tribe also a convergence of myriad races, even including large numbers of Dragon and Phoenix tribes, which gave them their current immense might?

However, in the original history, humanity was scattered. The entire human race was divided into countless tribes, with no connection between them. Humanity, already not strong, became even weaker due to this fragmentation.

The three thousand Innate Humans were dispersed among various tribes. Suiren, Da Chao, and Zhisheng were all leaders of their respective tribes at that time. The three of them relied more on their reputation to become the nominal leaders of humanity, but only in name.

The true unification of humanity only occurred during the time of the Heavenly Emperor Fuxi.

And now, with Jiang Haofeng's intervention, humanity had unified ahead of schedule. However, humanity had not yet developed, their numbers were small, and with humanity divided into the Manifestation and Concealment lineages, and lacking a common ruler, it wasn't a complete unification.

Getting back to the point, the innermost city still retained its primitive state. The eight outer districts were built according to the city layout in Jiang Haofeng's mind, with crisscrossing streets lined with small courtyards.

These eight districts were where the people of the Concealment lineage resided. Currently, the three hundred thousand cultivators of the Concealment lineage of humanity lived within them.

As Jiang Haofeng inscribed the three large characters "Nuwa City," the first city of humanity, and the first city of the Primordial Era, was thus completed!

In an instant, heaven and earth sensed this, and a beam of merit light descended from the sky. Upon its birth, two-tenths of it surged into the chaos and was collected by Nuwa.