Chapter 693: Shennong's Herbal Classic
If Cangjie wanted to create his own writing system for human beings, he had to use the existing writing systems in the ancient times as a reference. Otherwise, no one would know whether Cangjie could create a writing system unique to human beings before his death just by relying on his own imagination. Therefore, it was very necessary to have a teacher who was good at various Taoist texts and had strong financial resources!
After knowing that his teacher was one of the few great minds, including the demon master Kunpeng, who had studied various Taoist texts, Cangjie wholeheartedly worshipped Bai Fu as his teacher!
After Bai Fu knew about Cangjie's determination to create characters for human beings, he had no intention of stopping him. However, in order to prevent Cangjie from dying without creating characters due to insufficient cultivation, Bai Fu, like Zhen Yuanzi, used elixirs and spiritual fruits to increase Cangjie's strength to the Golden Immortal!
Cangjie was a little uncomfortable with his cultivation level at the Golden Immortal Realm, but he also understood that Bai Fu did this for his own good, fearing that he would die without paying attention. After all, the concept of time between the immortal species and the short-lived species is very different!
After Cangjie had mastered most of the cultivation, Bai Fu did not waste any more time and directly began to explain to Cangjie the relevant knowledge of various Taoist texts!
Perhaps it was because of Cangjie's extraordinary talent. Except for the innate Taoist texts that could not be understood due to insufficient cultivation, he basically read the rest of the Taoist texts in one go, and was able to apply what he had learned to other situations!
After Bai Fu told Cangjie all the existing acquired Taoist texts in the ancient times, he stopped teaching Cangjie. After all, if Bai Fu continued to explain to Cangjie, it might cause irreversible impact on Cangjie's creation of characters!
Cangjie also expressed his understanding of Bai Fu's choice. After all, as the saying goes, those who learn from me live, and those who imitate me die. If he was Bai Fu's successor in the art of talismans, it would not be a big deal even if he was influenced by Bai Fu's habits. However, he was creating characters for the human race. If he really accepted Bai Fu's ideas in their entirety, then what he created would be characters or talismans?
After digesting and absorbing all the knowledge of acquired Taoist writing, Cangjie did not stay in the tribe where he was born and raised. After all, staying in the tribe and working in isolation would not be conducive to his creation of writing!
As Cangjie continued to travel among the human race, the number of characters he created increased. After Cangjie traveled around the entire human race, all of the three thousand humanities he created for the human race had come to the world!
In order to make the characters he created as perfect as possible, Cangjie polished the three thousand humanities for nearly a thousand years before deciding to let humanities be born!
At this time, Shennong had recorded in detail all the medicinal materials he could find in the pharmacopoeia. The moment the pharmacopoeia was completely formed, it was given the name "Shennong's Herbal Classic" by Heaven!
Shennong also felt that his merits had been fulfilled the moment the pharmacopoeia "Shennong's Herbal Classic" was formed. Now, as long as he spreads "Shennong's Herbal Classic" throughout the human race, eliminates various diseases among the human race, and then finds a successor to take over, he can abdicate!
However, it is really difficult for Shennong to spread "Shennong's Herbal Classic" throughout the human race. After all, the human race today is not able to let ordinary people understand the characters. If he wants to spread "Shennong's Herbal Classic" throughout the human race, he can only rely on him to continuously train doctors for the human race, and then start to spread in all directions with Chendu as the center, so that those doctors who have graduated can continue to train the next generation!
When Shennong was about to select doctors in Chendu, he heard Cangjie swearing to humanity: "The Way of Heaven is above, the Way of Earth is above, and the Way of Man is above. I, Cangjie, have created three thousand humanities for the human race by drawing on the existing Tao texts of the prehistoric world and combining them with the characteristics of the human race. I hope that the Way of Heaven, the Way of Earth, and the Way of Man will learn from them!"
As soon as Cang Jie finished his oath, he took the humanistic pen, the treasure that Bai Zhen had prepared for him, and wrote in the air in order: "Heaven, Earth, Man, God, Ghost..."
