Chapter 182: Suiren's Merit in Creating Fire

But what first trapped Suiren was not the Wu clan, but the food problem.

Indeed, the human race today is created by the Nine Heavens Xitu and the Three Lights Divine Water. Even those with the weakest cultivation are close to becoming immortals, and are only half a step away from ascending to become immortals.

In theory, as long as one is practicing cultivation, he will hardly be troubled by food. He only needs to inhale and exhale spiritual energy to maintain the body's consumption, but this is only limited to being in ordinary mountains.

The human race today stands on Mount Buzhou, shrouded in the heavy majesty of Pangu at all times. Even if they are protected by the luck of humanity and will not be crushed to death, they still have to expend a great deal of energy to resist the remaining majesty, and their mana is consumed extremely high. Even the continuous intake and exhalation of spiritual energy cannot achieve a balance between the two.

Due to excessive consumption and insufficient replenishment, many humans soon began to feel hungry, thirsty and had to rest on the spot to refine their spiritual energy.

Suirenshi looked at this scene and pondered in his heart: "Should I use my magic power to help them resist the majesty?"

But then he rejected this idea. Mount Buzhou is majestic and sacred, and is governed by its own laws. It is difficult for anyone other than a Golden Immortal to fly here. And as the most powerful person among the human race, he is only at the level of a Profound Immortal. Unless he has a magic weapon to help him, he can only travel on foot.

However, walking inside Mount Buzhou will inevitably bring disaster.

Even if they have a trace of Nuwa's breath protecting them, ordinary poisonous insects and ferocious beasts will not dare to attack them. But they are afraid that some alien species will appear in Mount Buzhou and will not be afraid of the shock of this breath. In that case, the clan leader will have to step forward to resist it personally.

Therefore, he must save his mana to deal with possible powerful enemies. Moreover, this is also a test for the human race today.

"But we have to stop and rest from time to time, which really slows down the journey. We must think of a way to give our people more physical strength."

Suiren looked around and found that most people's problems were not only due to lack of magic power, but more because of lack of physical strength.

At the beginning of creating humans, in order to enlighten their spirituality and ensure that their offspring would have the same spirituality, Nuwa Niangniang extracted a large amount of power from the Nine Heavens Xirang and the Three Lights Divine Water, resulting in their current bodies being much weaker than other races, and they do not have the demeanor of being created by the two top-level divine objects of the ancient times.

But this also gives them extremely pure growth and potential, and earth is the root of the five elements, and water is the mother of the five elements. These two have the characteristics of accommodating all things, so Suiren did not think that he could not come up with a good idea.

At this moment, a bolt of lightning suddenly came from a distance and broke a big tree.

At first, Suiren did not take it seriously. After all, the weather on Mount Buzhou was unpredictable. It was common to have clear skies and scorching sun one moment and dark clouds and heavy rain the next. This was just a bolt from the blue.

But when the tree fell, a ray of fire lit up at the broken place. Looking at the faint fire, the whip of creation in the Niwan Palace of Suiren moved slightly. He suddenly grabbed a few wild boars in the distance and roasted them on the fire.

Not long after, a strong meaty aroma wafted out, and some humans who were resting nearby immediately gathered around, their noses twitching as they kept sniffing the meaty aroma. They suddenly felt their saliva watering, and a desire arose in their bodies to eat a few bites of wild boar meat.

These wild boars have lived on Mount Buzhou for many years and have long been accustomed to the omnipresent majesty of Pangu. In order to prevent themselves from running out of energy when being hunted, they have accumulated a lot of spiritual energy in their bodies, which is naturally a great tonic.

The human race nowadays is simple and honest, and has no rules at all. Since they want to eat, they will rush forward and devour the wild boars completely.

Looking at these tribesmen with greasy faces, Suiren was not angry but laughed out loud because he knew how to help them recover their strength faster.

Suiren immediately wanted to cast a spell and create a few more fires, but in the end, his hands slowly stopped moving.

It was because Hengming once left him a saying: "It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. Although you are the chief of the tribe, you cannot do everything for them. If you do this, the human race will never grow. You must teach them how to do things. Only in this way can you fulfill your responsibilities as a chief. Otherwise, you are just a guardian and can never be a real leader."

"It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish..."

Suiren's eyes moved slightly, and then he cast a voice transmission spell to let all human beings gather here.

Suiren flew up in the air and said loudly: "Everyone, watch what I am going to do next. I will teach you how to light a fire. After hunting wild animals, you must roast them on the fire before eating them."

Some of the humans below immediately began to whisper to each other and voiced some objections. One of the ancestors even shouted, "Chief, we have magical powers and strong bodies. Why do we need to roast the food with flames before we can use it?"

Suiren replied calmly: "You have magical powers now, so you are not afraid, but if you lose all your magical powers one day and become weak, will you still be able to tear your prey with just your teeth? Moreover, the magical powers of our human race will decrease sooner or later, and we may even become ordinary people. At that time, will you still be able to burn them without burning them with flames?"

When people heard what Suiren said, that human beings would sooner or later turn into mortal bodies and have no innate magical powers, the atmosphere immediately exploded and people started arguing. Some people refuted Suiren, while others supported him, but in the end there were more people who refuted him.

But Suiren had expected this and continued, "Nowadays, even the innate races can be transformed into acquired races, so why can't our human race be transformed into mortals? Can mortal bodies hunt prey and eat it without roasting it? Can they light a fire out of thin air? What I am teaching you now is how mortals can also light a fire. You will all be the chiefs of various tribes in the future, so you must pay attention to it."

Seeing that Suiren had used the power of the clan leader to suppress dissent, the other humans had no choice but to watch carefully. Suiren picked up two wooden sticks, one of which was placed flat, and the other was held in both hands. He first dug a small groove on the flat stick, put some hay in it, and then used the stick in his hand to drill and grind it.

The movements of Suiren's hands were not fast, it was a speed that even ordinary people could achieve. After two quarters of an hour, a wisp of green smoke ignited from the connection between the two wooden sticks, followed by a little spark of fire, and the fire was actually ignited!
Many humans looked at it in amazement, and for a moment even the people who had refuted it looked at it carefully, not missing a single thing.

After all, although their magic power is weak, they can still create fire and water out of thin air. Now they can light a fire with just two wooden sticks that can be found everywhere. This is also a rare thing for them, so they naturally have to watch carefully.

Suiren carefully raised the stick in his hand and said loudly to the tens of thousands of human beings in front of him: "In this way, the flame can be lit. This is the first flame ignited by the human race in the world. This is the fire of the human race, named the Eternal Fire, which means that the fire will be passed on and the human race will not be destroyed!"

"The torch is passed on, and the human race will never be destroyed!"

Many humans couldn't help but shout out these words loudly, their hearts filled with excitement. As the humans spoke, a golden cloud condensed in the sky, with fairy music lingering in the air, singing in the distance, and auspicious energy filling the place. Anyone who saw it would feel peaceful and at ease in their hearts.

Suiren's eyes flashed, and he recognized that this was the golden cloud of merit, but he didn't know why it was bringing down merit.

The golden cloud of merit split into two in the air, 50% fell into Suiren's body, and the other 50% merged into the flame in his hand.

With this golden cloud as its carrier, the flame immediately burned fiercely, and the original fiery red color gradually turned into pure golden yellow, and finally fell back into the hands of Suiren.

"A top-grade spiritual treasure of acquired merit, an inextinguishable fire?"

As soon as Suiren picked up the flame, he knew the origin of the flame.

Although it was unknown why humans would receive merits when they lit fire, Suiren still took it as his duty to collect it. The more merits, the better. No one would complain about having too much, only too little.

South China Sea, Yingzhou Island.

Heng Ming opened his eyes and realized that the long river of humanity had actually evolved into a ray of merit. After realizing the reason, he smiled and said, "The flame was ignited so quickly, so that the human race no longer has to live a life of eating raw meat and drinking blood. This can be regarded as promoting the progress of humanity. No wonder there is merit added to me."

Humanity is separated from the Way of Heaven, and naturally has the authority to bestow merits.

As long as it is an action or thing that can help the progress of humanity, humanity will naturally reward it with merit.

And Suiren created a method for human beings to ignite fire without using any magic power, which brought great benefits to the mortal race in the future. It can also be regarded as a deduction of the progress of humanity, and humanity will naturally reward him with merits and praise.

However, the bestowal of merit by humanity is not without cost. Instead, it requires the consumption of humanity's own destiny as a guide in order to evolve the power of merit. As the saying goes, a good cook cannot cook without rice. If humanity itself does not have enough destiny, then it will naturally be difficult for humanity to bestow merit.

"Well, now that I have the human race in my hands, all the merits I have accumulated over the years are useless, so I might as well blend in."

Hengming's mind moved, and a huge sun suddenly flew out from behind him. This was all the merits he had accumulated during his monastic career.

Originally, he accumulated merits only to attract one or two spiritual treasures to become his owner, but after he became a saint, the path he practiced was not the path of merits, so having merits was of no use other than looking good.

It would be better to integrate it into the long river of humanity, so that he doesn't have to always consume the human race's luck to evolve merit in the future. After all, he has arranged several catastrophes for the human race. Now that too much luck has been consumed, many twists and turns are inevitable in the future.

The Great Sun of Merit penetrated into the long river above Hengming's head, instantly illuminating this illusory and invisible long river with a golden color, as if it was going to transform from a long river of humanity into a long river of merit.

The long river of humanity trembled continuously and was simply unable to contain such a huge sun of merit. However, with the protection of Heng Ming, the small river finally swallowed up the sun completely, as incredible as a snake swallowing an elephant.

Looking at the sun of merit under the long river, Heng Ming was thoughtful, "The merits I have gained over the years are the merits of the Way of Heaven. I wonder if this river of humanity will bring about any changes when it bestows them. Well, they are all merits anyway, so there is no difference."

There is no essential difference between the merits of the Heavenly Way and the merits of the Human Way. It is just that too much merit of the Heavenly Way can attract the fruit position, while the merits of the Human Way can occupy the destiny of the human race. The choice is decided by the cultivator himself.

But if you just want to transform the merits into your own magical powers, then any kind of merit will do.

After doing all this, Hengming cast his gaze towards the vast land, with a faint smile on his face: "After this catastrophe, the human race has just begun to develop."

(End of this chapter)