Chapter 692 Cangjie
Time flies. When Shennong was about to compile the medical classics in his mind, Bai Fu, the ancestor of the talisman art, came to the human race with Bai Zhen's order and began to look for the disciple who was destined to be with him among the human race!
However, who exactly is destined to be with Bai Fu can only be found by Bai Fu himself. Although Bai Fu is a little confused about Bai Zhen's inexplicable edict, adhering to his trust in Bai Zhen, he resolutely came to the human race and began to travel among the human race, looking for his destined person!
When Bai Fu was traveling among the human race, he also took the opportunity to spread the art of talismans among the human race. Bai Fu was very clear that his art of talismans had no effect on those top-level powerful beings, and might even be a little useless, but its effect on the human race was definitely second only to the way of immortals. After all, the lower limit of the art of talismans was so low that even mortals who had just embarked on the path of cultivation could draw them. At most, the power of the talismans drawn would be much smaller.
What's more, if those inductive talismans are drawn successfully, even mortals without any cultivation can use them for self-protection!
In addition, although high-level talismans are difficult to draw, as long as the talisman is drawn successfully, even an ordinary cultivator who has just started practicing can use the talisman to exert strength far beyond his own. For the children of those powerful ones, talismans are a must-have good thing at home!
As Bai Fu continued to spread the art of talismans among the human race, Bai Fu felt a blessing from the human race on himself. Not only did it greatly improve Bai Fu's cultivation speed, but it also made it easier for him to find the destined person that Bai Zhen mentioned!
Under the guidance of the destiny of the human race, Bai Fu met a child who was drawing on the ground with a branch all day. The moment he saw this child, Bai Fu knew that this child was the destined person that Bai Zhen had told him about!
Through communicating with the child, Bai Fu also understood that the child was scribbling all day long and actually wanted to create his own characters for human beings!
The human race has lived in the wilderness for so many years, but up to now, the human race still needs to pass on things orally or by knotting ropes to record!
Word of mouth can easily lead to distortion of the content of inheritance due to various reasons during the process of transmission, thus causing problems in the inheritance! If the things being passed down are just ordinary things, it would be fine and would not cause much loss. However, if it is like the medical canon that Shennong is compiling, if there is an error in the process of transmission, the result would be that countless human beings would perish because of taking the wrong medicine!
The knotted rope record method is even worse. The spiritual energy in the place where humans live now is thin, and the straw ropes used for recording are made of the most common weeds. Over the years, the ropes will rot, and the things recorded with the ropes will naturally have problems!
Besides, the straw rope records make use of the knots on the straw ropes. In the process of growing up, many people's habits will change to a certain extent. If you use straw ropes to remember things when you are a child, it is very likely that when you grow up, due to changes in habits, you will translate one thing into another thing!
In addition to these two points, straw rope records have certain limitations. There is no unified standard in the prehistoric world today, which means that the same number of knots represents different things. It is for this reason that straw rope records can basically only be circulated among direct relatives, and outsiders can basically not understand the contents recorded on the straw rope!
As for borrowing the characters of other races, after thinking about it, I decided to forget it. For example, the most widely circulated demon script in the prehistoric world today is quite easy to identify for the cultivators of the human race, but for those mortals who have no cultivation, it is like a ghost drawing!
It was precisely because of the urgent need of the human race for writing that Cangjie, the ancestor of writing who created characters for the human race, came into being! As for the reason why Bai Fu and Cangjie were destined to each other, it was actually very simple. As the ancestor of talismans, Bai Fu specifically referred to the acquired characters and innate Taoist characters created by various races when he created talismans. It was also for this reason that his research on Taoist characters was the most in-depth in the entire prehistoric world!
