Du Fei said, “Come on, these monkeys may be a bit tough, but they know next to nothing about cultivation. They can’t hurt us.”
Despite running his mouth, Du Fei still had the earth qi jade at the ready. Disapproving was one thing, but when it came to Li Mo voicing his opinion, it was best taken into account.
Li Mo walked to a cage and beckoned.
A small girl around six years of age was inside, filthy and scared. Li Mo’s gesture only worked to make her huddle in a corner of the cage.
“Don’t be scared, come on out.”
Li Mo smiled and the girl only came out after a long period of indecision.
Li Mo placed his hand on her head and searched her memories.
A minute later, he drew it back.
The girl had a pitiful amount of memories, not knowing what civilization was even like.
With her mind stunted and shut to new ideas, it wasn’t wrong calling her a savage. Perhaps saying she was a dog wasn’t that improper either.
With how the girl rubbed on Li Mo’s hand, it was no different from a puppy crying out for attention.
Li Mo sighed, “There’s no sign of civilization in her memories, only how to react to commands like a dog. I fear that this applies to every human on this planet…”
How could intelligence be present when every generation had no civilization to pass on to speak of? They were no different from wild animals.
The girl suddenly got to her feet, propping on him for support, then raised her hand to Li Mo’s face, sporting an innocent smile.
Li Mo was stunned.
The girl’s mind was stunted, but the groundwork was still there, somewhere…
Humans were hailed as the most intelligent and ingenious race, after all!
Li Mo pressed a blue glowing finger on the girl’s head.
“Awaken!”
Li Mo was awakening the girl just as he did to the panda.
The flood of basic memories left her staring blankly.
Language, history, traditions, civilization…
“Warrior monkey Yi Yijiu, wielding the blood of the ancestor, please return and kill these foolish dogs!”
“Warrior monkey Yi Yijiu, wielding the blood of the ancestor, please return and kill these foolish dogs!”
“Warrior monkey Yi Yijiu, wielding the blood of the ancestor, please return and kill these foolish dogs!”
The kneeling monkeys wailed out their heart wrenching pain.
The girl parted her lips. Even though Li Mo gave her the common sense and the natural behavior of a human, it would take some time for her to grow into being one.
Li Mo never stopped the flow of spiritual qi, making the girl glow in a blue light.
This planet wasn’t a dump like Earth, filled with spiritual qi instead. Adding to that Li Mo developing her Foundation, the effect was outstanding.
Whoosh~
The girl released a dense spiritual qi, her power having jumped on the second level!
“Fortunately, even if the mind is reduced to that of a beast, the humanity’s trait still works…”
Li Mo looked pleased as the girl absorbed the spiritual qi around them naturally.
“Thank…”
The girl uttered a single word, then ran away like a dog. But only for a moment. She straightening her spine and used only her legs. Then she soon fell to running on four again, only to get right back up, this time running on two legs.
The girl ran out of the village, ignoring the bowing monkeys, and vanished among the trees.
“Is this the start of all humans in thick spiritual qi environment?” Li Mo sighed.
Once Foundation was achieved, they would rise to the second level on the spot. This was humanity’s universal gift.
Li Mo went to a large monkey. It jumped him with claws and fangs at the ready, but Li Mo’s finger turned it harmless. Then he began searching its memories.
They didn’t understand civilization and had limited ingenuity, but it had a mark in its bloodline passed down from ancient times.
Humans inherited culture and teachings through words and works. While other races, like these monkeys, they inherited knowledge through their bloodline.
Just as Li Mo suspected, the ancestor of these monkeys was indeed the Sage Spirit Monkey. And because millions of years ago, their ancestor did enslaved humans as well, they reared them as dogs as well.
Not all monkeys received the inheritance of the Sage Spirit Monkey. Every few thousands of years, there were one or two monkeys with enriched bloodline, capable of receiving Sage Spirit Monkey’s legacy and trait. And when they awakened Sage Spirit Monkey’s blood, their power, along with their trait, would make them second to none.
The statues all monkeys bowed to were of one such monkey who’s trait was awakened.
In this monkey’s mind, Yi Yijiu was overwhelmingly powerful. But there was one other race on this planet that surpassed even the Sage Spirit Monkey’s descendants, thunderbirds.
The thunderbird controlled lightning and wielded devastating power. Before the ancestor’s descendant, Yi Yijiu, was born among the monkeys, thunderbirds had been oppressing them for over two millennia. But Yi Yijiu came and banished the thunderbirds to the cold North. Until two thousand years ago, the thunderbirds never dared return to the wilderness.
But Yi Yijiu left the planet a century ago. Some said he was searching for an immortal art to live forever.
The monkeys lived in the forest, in tribes big or small, numbering in the hundreds of thousand at the time. And now that Yi Yijiu was gone, the strongest monkey, their chief, was Liang Yier(T/N: lit. two hundred million and two). He ruled over millions.
Liang Yier also inherited Sage Spirit Monkey’s bloodline, albeit diluted, a tenth of his ancestor’s. While Yi Yijiu wielded half, a true power to be reckoned with.
There was more, Yi Yijiu was revered as the strongest and the protector god of monkeys. While Liang Yier was infatuated with pretty female monkey. He even ordered to have every tribe send him at least a hundred female monkeys a year. This order had brought the monkey race to collapse.
This very tribe of monkeys they were in had refused Liang Yier’s order.
“Warrior monkey Yi Yijiu, wielding the blood of the ancestor, please return and kill these foolish dogs!”
The monkeys were still calling out.
Du Fei couldn’t take it anymore and kicked one.
“You’re the dogs! You’re entire family are dogs!
Weird shouts were coming from beyond the village, then the girl came running back. Following her were men running on all four, without a stitch on them…
