Gu Qing Shan looked down at his hands.
After the two sharp rocks were sharpened, the skin on his hands broke a bit and started to bleed.
Some of the black fur on his arms also fell off.
— — -what's going on?
Could it be that doing things that push civilization forward will result in a slight evolution?
Gu Qing Shan fell into thought.
On the mountain slope.
The ape people roared one after another.
They swung their torches, wanting to scare the gigantic saber-toothed tiger away.
But the saber-toothed tiger only retreated a bit, when it was forced to a corner, it circled around and returned to its original position.
Normally, as long as its prey noticed it, the saber-toothed tiger would give up on its hunt.
But today, it seemed to be determined to eat a few ape people.
Seeing the saber-toothed tiger's attitude, the ape people became visibly nervous.
They loudly shouted and gestured behind them to chase them away.
Immediately, the old, weak, and sick were chased into the cave.
Only the youngest and strongest ape people were left on the mountain slope, ready to fight to the death with the saber-toothed tiger.
The ape man 'Prophet' was also invited out.
He looked at the current situation with a bored expression on his face.
Gu Qing Shan jumped down from the tree, approached him, and asked in a low voice: "How do you usually deal with them?"
Prophet: "This animal isn't leaving, it must be because it really wants to eat ape people today, seems like we'll have to fight"
Gu Qing Shan asked: "Saint's Chosen # 2 was struck to death by lightning, do you know where Saint's Chosen # 1 is?"
"What do you want to do?" the Prophet asked.
"Cooperate with him, this way we'll be able to progress a lot faster" Gu Qing Shan replied.
"Saint's Chosen # 1 didn't use the entrance on my side" Prophet:
Gu Qing Shan was a bit surprised.
That's right.
This is the entrance to the human realm's Saint's Chosen.
Other than this place, there must be other entrances to the Samsara realm.
"You're the Boss of this place, how about you assign me to fight that saber-toothed tiger?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
If the other Saint's Chosen aren't here, I need to hurry.
The old pixie gave me 3 hours of pixie luck.
— — I need to win the recognition of all the Simians as soon as possible.
Only then would it be convenient for him to do what he wanted to do next.
The prophet glanced at him and immediately understood.
The prophet then raised the wooden staff in his hand, pointed at the saber-toothed tiger not far away, and then pointed at Gu Qing Shan, loudly said: "You, go deal with that beast!"
Gu Qing Shan walked out from behind him, walked past the apes, and strode towards the saber-toothed tiger.
At first, he walked, then he jogged, moving his arms as he ran.
He had neither a stone hammer nor a torch in his hands, only a stone in each hand.
The Saber-toothed Tiger vigilantly watched for a while, its eyes quickly filled with killing intent.
— Only one ape?
An ape-man wanted to deal with him?
The saber-toothed tiger felt insulted.
It took a deep breath.
"Roar!"
The saber-toothed tiger let out an extremely ferocious roar.
As soon as it opened its mouth, Gu Qing Shan abruptly threw a rock at it!
The stone shot into the saber-toothed tiger's mouth like a cannonball.
The howling was immediately interrupted.
The saber-toothed tiger's 10-meter-long body fell heavily on the grass with a dull thud.
— — without being able to react at all, it was already dead.
Silence reigned.
All of a sudden, the apes erupted in cheers.
A burly ape man ran up first and loudly declared: "That's impossible! A single stone can't kill this beast! "
Gu Qing Shan replied: "You're right"
He stepped forward and opened the saber-toothed tiger's mouth.
A large hole was opened deep inside the saber-toothed tiger's mouth, blood and mucus were slowly flowing out.
Gu Qing Shan casually took out a sharp stone and showed it to the apes who came up.
"As long as you sharpen this stone, it can pierce through the beast's skin and severely injure them!" Gu Qing Shan loudly declared.
The apes looked at the stone in his hand, then at the large corpse of the saber-toothed tiger.
Quite a few of them appeared contemplative.
…
Two days later.
Gu Qing Shan crouched on top of a tree and looked not too far away.
A cheetah had intruded into the ape people's territory.
This time, aside from the stone hammer, the ape people also had another weapon.
— — -a stone spear.
By tying a sharpened stone to a tree branch, it was made into a spear.
Gu Qing Shan silently watched for a while.
The ape people were obviously used to using stone hammers, so they were a bit nervous and uncomfortable about using a spear to fight.
— — -they couldn't kill it in one strike.
Being stabbed by the stone spear, the cheetah sensed an unprecedented threat and used its advantage in speed to run away.
The ape people cheered again.
Although they couldn't kill the cheetah, they still couldn't imagine how easily they won against it.
They stood in a circle, dancing and singing to celebrate their victory.
Gu Qing Shan watched for a bit longer, jumped down from the tree, and headed back into the cave.
The Prophet was still in the depths of the cave, sitting in front of the bonfire, smoking a long cigarette made of rolled leaves in boredom.
"You've done very well, why do you still look so sad?" the Prophet asked.
"Is this good enough?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"You had to go through countless Apocalypses and monsters, as well as countless tombs, as well as knowing the exact location to reach this place — — you've done that"
The Prophet breathed out some smoke and continued: "Furthermore, the ape people have begun to consciously craft tools, this would have been unimaginable in the past. The entire ape people civilization is currently on the path of rapid development"
Gu Qing Shan raised her arm.
The black fur on her arm had shrunk a bit more, but not by much, far less than when she first created the sharp stone spear.
Gu Qing Shan sighed: "I only managed to make 5 stone spears in 2 days, during the process of creating and using them, three ape people were wounded — — there's still a long way to go before they can fully master the spear and use it to fight against large beasts"
"You can teach them a few basic attacks with long-handled weapons — — that way, it should be a bit faster"
"But how much faster can it be? There are too many things to learn, and the ape people are still uncivilized, they don't understand words, they don't understand the basic rules of how all things work, sometimes they only know how to shout and shout to express themselves "
Gu Qing Shan couldn't help but sigh again and continued: "Even if I continue to teach them a few things — — - if they want to enter a higher civilization, they would need to go through several generations, a process that would take at least several hundred years. My evolution would also become a long process along with theirs"
The Prophet abruptly laughed.
"I didn't think that the Saint's Chosen would also have to endure this' Prophet 'identity like me"
"— — I've been here for several hundred years, during this period of time, I've always been surrounded by these ignorant fools. Even if I wanted to teach them something, they wouldn't be able to understand, they would only record what I say down as scriptures"
"But with their knowledge and knowledge, they wouldn't be able to understand the truth I'm telling them"
"How lonely this is!"
He was laughing so hard that his entire body was trembling, tears were flowing out of his eyes.
Gu Qing Shan looked at him, waited for him to calm down a bit, then asked: "That's why I'm wondering if you're mistaken about something"
"Hm? What do you mean? "the Prophet doubtfully asked.
Gu Qing Shan paused for a bit, then said: "I remember what you told me before — –"
"You said that because of the mistakes you made in the past, you were punished to remain in this ignorant Primitive Era, staying inside the body of an ancient ape"
The Prophet nodded: "That is indeed the case"
"While you've remained in this Era without ever going to another Era, nor do you know of any way to escape from this Ancient Prison" Gu Qing Shan said.
"Indeed, what exactly are you trying to say?" the Prophet couldn't help but ask.
Gu Qing Shan waved her hand to signal him not to ask and continued:
"Your job is to tell the Saint's Chosen that they need to push the progress of civilization, so that they can reach the end of civilization from this Primitive Era, then awaken the human realm"
"Indeed" the Prophet knew first.
"In other words, the Saint's Chosen must continuously progress through the Era" Gu Qing Shan replied.
"You could say that" the Prophet knew first.
"Then, how does the Samsara judge the progress of civilization? What is the symbol? "Gu Qing Shan asked.
The Prophet was a bit surprised.
"You're imprisoned in this Era, imprisoned inside the body of an ancient ape — — but if the Era advances, you're still a prisoner — — will you become a human, or remain an ancient ape?" Gu Qing Shan pursued.
The Prophet opened his mouth, then hesitantly said: "I only know that it's my job to deliver the message … or do you think that this ignorant Era's prisoner is also a hint from the Samsara?"
Gu Qing Shan silently observed him and nodded.
The Prophet abruptly stood up and loudly shouted: "What exactly are you thinking? How do you leave this Era? Tell me! "
Gu Qing Shan replied: "I've already explained it very clearly"
The Prophet knew first: "But I don't understand!"
Gu Qing Shan replied: "The Samsara allowed us to start from the barbaric Ape Man era and continue to push civilization forward, but it didn't specify what to use as a standard for judging, which would cause a huge problem — —"
"In truth, you should know that as a civilization, we all have different 'sides'"
"At many crucial points in history, science and technology would be more suited to humanity's needs, thus defeating the inferior cultivators; in other suitable historical opportunities, magic might defeat science and technology; in other times, martial arts might be able to kill magic; not to mention those Mysticism and Occultism civilizations — —"
"In short, nothing is set in stone. Many small incidents could decide the direction of an entire civilization, deciding which side it ultimately belongs to"
"Then, what is the standard?"
The Prophet was stunned, then couldn't help but ask: "That's right, what exactly is the standard?"
Gu Qing Shan sighed and replied: "This step would eliminate many people, they wouldn't have thought that you are actually the Samsara's standard"
"Me?" the Prophet knew first.
"Indeed, you're trapped inside the Ape Man's body, so you're trapped in this primitive Era that belongs to the Ape Men, then … perhaps the standard is this body?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
"Body? My body is indeed my cage, but if the body is used as the standard to judge a civilization's level, how do you escape from the Ape Man's body? "the Prophet doubtfully asked.
Gu Qing Shan spoke in a low voice: "To escape the cage of the body, you must first decide which side you want to walk, only then can you escape the cage of the Genesis and head towards the future of a certain civilization"
"This is a very interesting thing."
He took out a tree branch and drew a rune on the ground.
"This rune represents the Magical Civilization, it is the most basic Water Condensation technique, capable of condensing the water vapor in the air onto the rune"
"You want to show off a miracle?" the Prophet knew first.
"No, I didn't declare myself to be a God, nor did I deceive living beings — — the rune I drew came from the Laws of Nature, the foundation of the Magical Civilization. Just like the stone spear I made, it was the standard of humanity's ancient civilization" Gu Qing Shan replied.
The Prophet looked at the rune.
Small droplets of water were gathering on the rune's surface.
He slowly understood and spoke in a low voice: "You want to — —"
"Whether or not it is what I think it is, we will know very soon" Gu Qing Shan replied.
The two of them looked down at the rune and silently waited.
At the very next moment.
Lines of crimson text appeared in the void of space:
[Congratulations, you've seen through the Samsara's secret]
[Each era is a tomb of the past, the Samsara used this to seal the true human realm, ensuring that it was under the strictest of protection]
[Of course, there is nothing wrong with promoting the development of the entire civilization, although the process is very long]
[But there are those who would notice another kind of test of the Samsara. He would see through the secrets of the human tomb and directly jump between the tombs of civilizations to reach the ultimate tomb]
[Using the body as a cage, using civilization as a method to escape the cage, this is one of the methods to pursue the ultimate civilization]
[You will soon leave the Genesis and continue forward]
Gu Qing Shan felt a bit dazed.
He felt like he had left the ape's body. His soul was continuously floating in the void of space, flying towards a certain direction.
After an unknown amount of time, perhaps it was a single instant, or perhaps it was a very long time.
Gu Qing Shan suddenly felt himself landing on solid ground.
This was a large and spacious building that was filled with some sort of wondrous power.
— — magic.
A loud voice resounded in front of him:
[From today onwards, you will begin studying magic]
[Magic, is the foundation we rely on to fight against evil …]
The voice continued to preach.
All around him were people of the same age, standing neatly in rows, wearing the same uniform.
Gu Qing Shan looked up at his hand, then at himself.
— — I've turned into a 12-year old boy.
No longer an ape.
But a human child.
Miao Shu Ye
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