"I … I will tell sir about the fifty-four marquises …" The beeman mustered up his courage and said.
"Hehe, of course you can!" Xiao Hua smiled and said, "If you have nothing else to do, you can come with me now!"
"Wait a moment, wait a moment …" The beeman flew up and said, "I am an elder of the human race, I have to make some arrangements for the tribe!"
"You are an elder too?" The antman elder was a little dejected.
After the beeman elder finished making arrangements, he returned to Xiao Hua's palm. This time, he brought another young beeman with him. This beeman respectfully said to Xiao Hua, "Greetings sir …"
"This is the next elder of our clan …" the beeman elder said. "If I don't come back alive, I'll have to trouble you to give my corpse to him. Also, if you can help us, I hope you won't hesitate to help us!"
"Damn it!" The antman elder suddenly whispered, "Why didn't I think of that??"
Xiao Hua agreed to the beeman elder's request and brought the beeman elder and the antman elder on their journey. However, after half a cup of tea's time, Xiao Hua suddenly thought of something and asked the antman elder, "Is the next elder of your race the one who brought me there?"
"Yes, sir, how did you know?"
Xiao Huayu somewhat understood. The only ones who could understand and speak to him … were the elders of their tribe.
Then, Xiao Hua asked again, "Then … were the eighteen solar terms summarized by your tribe based on the changes in the seasons?"
"Of course!" The antman elder said proudly, "This was passed down by our ancestors …"
"Tch …" The beeman elder said disdainfully, "How long could your ancestors have lived to be able to summarize this? This was left behind by a Saint! "
"Saint??"
The words of the beeman elder struck Xiao Hua like a bolt of lightning. Xiao Hua's body trembled and he looked at the beeman elder in disbelief and whispered, "You said it was left behind by a Saint?"
"Yes, a Saint!" The beeman elder said proudly, "A Saint about your age!"
"Do … do you know what a Saint looks like?"
"How would I know?" The beeman elder shook his wings and shook his head.
The Sage, the Sage who had disappeared!
Could this Sage be the Sage who disappeared from the Hidden Immortal Continent?
"Can you explain the 54 solar terms in detail?" Xiao Hua's voice trembled. He felt that he might have made a huge discovery.
The Wasp Elder looked at the Ant Person Elder and said proudly, "Of course. Let's start with the three marquises of autumn …"
The beeman elder explained in detail, pointing at the distant forest from time to time.
However, after walking for another three to five hundred miles, the forest began to disappear, and swamps and wetlands appeared. The beeman elder was dumbfounded, and his reaction was exactly the same as the antman elder's.
At this moment, the Antman Elder asked leisurely, "Since your tribe has the inheritance of a Saint, and there are also 54 Marquises in the three seasons of spring, summer, and autumn, then … there should be 18 Marquises in the winter. Do you know what they are?"
"No, I don't know!" There was sorrow in the eyes of the elder of the beeman tribe. He shook his head and said, "Our tribe needs to break out of the cocoon during winter and wait for the east wind to thaw before we can break out of the cocoon. How would I know? Even if we had the inheritance of a Saint, it … it would have been lost long ago! "
After walking for another few thousand miles, the autumn rain began to fall, and the weather became cold. There was a lot of water around them, and they didn't see the usual scenery of the beeman and antman. Thinking that it was cold, the beeman and antman would feel sleepy from time to time, and withered yellow light would appear around their bodies. It was obvious that they were about to break out of their cocoons or eggs.
Xiao Hua stopped and looked at the rain falling in the distance. He asked softly, "This place is very far from your tribe. If we turn back now, we should be able to send you back before winter comes. If we go further …"
"Go further!" The Wasp Elder and the Ant Person Elder were energized at the same time. They said in unison, "We want to see the Wondrous Paradise at the end of the earth!"
"Wondrous Paradise?" Xiao Hua asked curiously, "At … at the end of the earth? How do you know? "
"We … we don't know either. How do we know!" The Ant Person Elder shook his head and said, "This was passed down by our ancestors. I almost forgot about it, but I remembered it when he mentioned it! "
"The Saint said it!" The Wasp Elder explained, "The seasons in the Wondrous Paradise are like spring all year round. No human needs to break out of their cocoons, and all humans can … can live for more than a hundred years!"
Xiao Hua couldn't help but be energized when he heard that. He knew that if he wasn't mistaken, the Saint that the Wasp Elder was talking about should be the Saint that disappeared from the Hidden Immortal Continent. This Saint went to the Immortal World through the crack in the Immortal World here.
After walking for another two thousand miles, it was already the end of autumn. The Ant Person Elder couldn't even open his eyes. He pointed at the white frost around him and said, "This … This is Frost Descent, which is the season when the weather is getting colder and the first frost appears …"
The Wasp Elder beside him couldn't even move his wings. He still argued, "What do you know? This … this is the second last of the fifty-four seasons, when the grass and trees fall … "
Before the Wasp Elder could finish speaking, Xiao Hua's body trembled. He said in shock, "Great … Great Ocean???"
After saying that, without waiting for the Wasp Elder and Ant Person Elder to say anything, Xiao Hua quickly climbed up a mountain in front of him. Indeed, about ten miles away, a vast ocean appeared. The waves on the ocean rolled, and it stretched as far as the eye could see. There was still a faint green color where the sunlight fell.
However, in the depths of the green light, there was a patch of pitch-black darkness that was like the night slowly approaching!
"What … What is this???"
The Ant Person Elder and the Wasp Elder struggled to get up. The Wasp Elder even flew up and looked into the distance in disbelief. He exclaimed, "Is this the Great … Great Ocean?"
"Damn it!" The Ant Person Elder blurted out. He shouted, "How can this ocean be so big?? I … I can't see the end of it! "
"Could the Wondrous Paradise be on the other side of the ocean??"
The Wasp Elder was a little dejected. He muttered to himself, "Who … Who can reach the Wondrous Paradise!"
"Let's go back, let's go back!" The Ant Person Elder said dejectedly, "Even if we live for another thirteen years, we probably won't be able to cross this Great Ocean, let alone see the Wondrous Paradise …"
"Caw caw …" At that moment, there was a faint sound of birds chirping in the distance. Then, a flock of fist-sized birds flew out of the fog and quickly swooped into the ocean. Then, these birds flew out of the ocean again. The birds shook their bodies vigorously. Xiao Hua could see clearly that these birds were also human. When they flew out, some of the birdmen were carrying small prawns, while others were empty-handed.
The birdmen who carried the small prawns turned around and flew towards the low cliff in the distance. The birdmen who were empty-handed spread their wings and soared into the sky, preparing to fly somewhere else!
"Oh my god!" The Wasp Elder exclaimed. "They actually have such long wings? Could it be that they can go to the Wondrous Paradise? "
"Who is it?" A voice sounded from the group of birds. Then, a dark blue birdman flew over with a flock of birds.
"Hello …" The Wasp Elder spread his wings and flew out. The Ant Person Elder also waved his tentacles and greeted.
"You are?"
The birdman glanced at the Wasp Man and the Ant Person Elder, then looked at Xiao Hua's enormous body.
"We want to follow you to the Wondrous Paradise …" The Ant Person Elder explained. "But when we reach this Great … Great Ocean, you can't do anything, so we want to go back. I want to ask, what does the Wondrous Paradise look like? "
"Haha …" The birdman laughed. He turned around and said a few words to the group of birdmen. The birdmen all flew away. Then, he said to the Ant Person Elder, "The Great Ocean is too big. I only flew over a thousand miles. I heard that it's not even half of the Great Ocean, so I don't know what the Wondrous Paradise looks like!"
"A thousand miles!" The Wasp Man Elder said enviously. "You can fly a thousand miles?"
"I didn't fly in a single breath!" The birdman replied. "It's just that when winter comes, the weather will get colder. I have no choice but to bring my clansmen to the depths of the Great Ocean. That place … is probably close to the Wondrous Paradise, so the temperature is higher …"
"You … You've seen winter?" The Wasp Man Elder said in surprise.
"That's right!" The birdman nodded in disbelief. "I've lived for nine years. I'm the longest living human within a thousand miles. I've seen eight winters!"
"Haha …" The Wasp Man Elder and the Ant Person Elder looked at each other and laughed. "We've lived for thirteen years!"
"That's impossible, right?" The birdman looked at the two elders in surprise. "How can you live for so long?"
"Because we either turn into cocoons or eggs in winter …" The Wasp Man Elder and the Ant Person Elder replied, "We don't have to endure the cold, so we live long lives!"
"That's true!" The birdman looked up at the dark sky in the distance and said, "It's dark and cold in winter. It's not suitable for us to find food. Many humans have died."
Then, the birdman looked at the low cliff that the birdmen had just flown to and said in a low voice, "The frost is about to end. The insects are about to descend. The beginning of winter is coming. The beginning of water is about to freeze. We have to prepare for migration."
Beginning of winter?
The Ant Person Elder exclaimed, "Are … are you one of the Six Solar Terms of winter?"
The beginning of water is about to freeze?
The Wasp Man Elder also exclaimed, "Are … are you one of the Eighteen Solar Terms of winter?"
"That's right?" The birdman blinked and replied, "These are the Twelve Solar Terms of Autumn and Winter and the Thirty-six Solar Terms!"
"Haha, haha …" The Ant Person Elder laughed and said, "Apart from the Twelve Solar Terms of Autumn and Winter, there are also the Twelve Solar Terms of Spring and Summer!"
"Apart from the Thirty-Six Solar Terms of Autumn and Winter, there are also the Thirty-Six Solar Terms of Spring and Summer!" The Wasp Man Elder also laughed.
"Are you an elder of our tribe?" Xiao Hua, who had been silent this entire time, asked.
"Yes, Master!" The Wasp Man Elder had always been a little fearful of Xiao Hua. Seeing that Xiao Hua was so amiable, he felt relieved and hurriedly replied.
Xiao Hua asked with interest, "Why don't you know about the Twelve Solar Terms of Spring and Autumn and Summer?"
"I don't know either!" The Wasp Man Elder's reply was very straightforward. "We humans spend our lives cleaving through waves and thorns in search of food. When would we have the time to ask why?"
"No, no …" The Wasp Man Elder shook his head slightly and said in a low voice, "It's not that you don't know. It's that you've forgotten. The humans here are different from us. You rely on hunting for food in the sea to survive. Although you also have Spring and Summer, the Spring and Summer seasons are not frozen. You don't even plant seeds. How would you know what the east wind is and what the earthworms are? "
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