Chapter 174: Born from the Soil or Grown on Trees?

On a sunny and gentle afternoon, in a valley with beautiful scenery, cooking smoke was drifting away from above the valley. After the residents in the valley had eaten their fill, the women began to tidy up the cooking utensils quickly, while the men, as usual, lay on the sunny ground in the valley, enjoying the warm afternoon sun.

Today was rare good weather. The small tribe in the valley had already stored this year’s winter food, so these men who had been busy for most of the year were also very relaxed.

Once the men relaxed, their chatting would definitely turn into wild boasting, but the topic of conversation today was a bit different.

Lu Meng bit on a grass root, placed his hands behind his head, narrowed his eyes to look at the two warm suns in the sky, one golden and one green, and said slowly, “I say, Lu Ya, my boy will be an adult after this winter, and he needs to find someone to settle down with. I am very satisfied with your girl. How about we become in-laws?”

Lu Ya had a daughter named Lu Yi, who was very smart and had a spiritual air about her. She looked fair and clean, very delicate, simply not like someone who could be raised in this mountain valley. Her appearance was like a princess from a large tribe outside the valley. The boys in the valley often fought secretly over her, a small fight every day and a big fight every three days, almost turning the place upside down.

Watching Lu Yi grow up year by year, she would also be an adult after the New Year. In the valley, every family raised a few sturdy boys, and they all looked forward eagerly to marrying this pretty girl into their homes.

Lu Ya had seen a lot of marriage proposals. He did not speak, but just chuckled, humming a tune indistinctly, looking extremely proud.

That Lu Ya did not respond here did not mean that others had no objections. Although the people in the valley were actually one big family, and if you traced it back eighteen generations, they were all brothers, but brothers still settle accounts clearly, let alone the big matters of their children.

A burly man beside Lu Ya immediately shouted in dissatisfaction, “How can this matter be so hasty? Lu Yi grew up under everyone’s watch. What a good girl she is. Her lifelong matter should depend on her own will. No one should try to pull strings through the elders.”

This burly man was named Lu Tian, and he was the strongest in the valley. Once he spoke, the others immediately fell silent.

Only Lu Meng mumbled in a low voice, “It’s just because your boy is close to Lu Yi…”

Lu Ya also spoke up at the right moment, “My wife has been dead for almost ten years. I raised Lu Yi with my own hands. This child is sensible, so I will not interfere with her marriage!”

Well, that cut off everyone’s thoughts, and only Lu Tian laughed out loud.

This carefree valley was named Green Valley. Not many people lived inside, just over a thousand, and they all had the surname Lu. In the small valley, gossip traveled fast; as long as something happened, it could spread throughout the entire valley in five minutes.

As a result, the topic of these leisurely men in the afternoon quickly reached the ears of everyone in Green Valley, naturally including the center of the topic, Lu Yi’s ears, but she just smiled and did not take it to heart.

Speaking of this Lu Yi, she was indeed pretty, with a face as white as jade, eyebrows curved like a new moon, a nose that was straight yet round, and lips like pearls, red and crystal clear. One really wondered how the rough and bold Lu Ya and his wife could have given birth to such an appearance.

But if it were just this pretty appearance, it would not be enough to catch the eyes of these men in the valley who ran around in dangerous places all year round to hunt for meat for the valley.

For example, Lu Ran’s daughter, Lu Ru, who lived in the east of the valley, was actually no less beautiful than Lu Yi in terms of looks alone.

However, in this primitive tribe, simple beauty was only for admiration. If a boy really married her into the family, in less than ten years, the hard life in the valley would immediately wear away the beauty brought by youth!

Therefore, beauty was not the first standard for the men who held leadership power in the valley to choose a spouse, and the same was true for finding a wife for their sons.

The reason why Lu Yi was favored by the men in the valley was because of her wisdom that surpassed others. Simple beauty was not enough, but if it was illuminated by the spiritual light of wisdom, it was enough to bloom with the most dazzling light in the world.

Lu Ru was also beautiful, but her beauty lacked spirit. Looking at her alone, there was no difference, but standing with Lu Yi, the difference was immediately clear.

Lu Ru possessed worldly beauty, which could not withstand the wear and tear of the world at all. Time could easily strip it away.

But Lu Yi seemed to be wrapped in light, especially the spiritual light in her eyes, which was enough to see into people’s hearts at a glance. Physical beauty, on the other hand, was the most easily overlooked thing. It did not matter if it was not there, and if it was, it was just icing on the cake.

The young Lu Yi must have received the dual blessings of Mother Earth and Mother Forest. She could answer many questions for the people in the valley.

For example, why are there changes in the four seasons? Lu Yi said that this was because Mother Earth, like us, also needs to rest and recuperate in order to bloom with joyous vitality year after year.

Why does the sun rise and set every day? Lu Yi’s explanation was that the sun rotates around the earth. To demonstrate this, she made a ball to represent the sun and a flat piece of land to represent the earth, showing people the principle of the sun rising in the east and setting in the west.

This fit the observed facts, so the people in the valley believed it deeply.

Another example was the bow and arrow improved by Lu Yi. Perhaps it was not the easiest to use, but it certainly used the least strength to shoot the arrow the farthest.

She also invented bone needles to help people sew clothes. In the past, the people in the valley only wore a simple piece of animal skin. This made the people in Green Valley especially proud. Even the large tribes outside the valley did not have such comfortable and well-fitting clothes to wear.

Because of all this, Lu Yi’s reputation for wisdom was no longer limited to the valley but slowly spread throughout this area. People began to call this beautiful girl “Sage,” meaning someone who knew everything.

But no matter how the outside world praised her or deified her, this girl who had just turned sixteen this year was facing the first difficult problem in her life.

The problem was: Where exactly do humans come from!

A very simple question. Lu Yi asked the boys who always surrounded her, and the responses she got were either shaking their heads or innocently saying that their mothers said they were picked up from the other side of the mountain.

Some even said directly that like the big yellow dog raised at home, they just ran out of their mother’s belly!

Lu Yi listened and frowned, feeling like she was talking to a wall. Perhaps she did not express herself clearly. What she wanted to ask was: Where did humans originally come from?

This question was profound. The boys in the valley looked at her with awe. To be able to ask such a difficult question, Lu Yi was indeed the smartest person.

Lu Yi’s question did not come out of nowhere; it came from her observation of this world.

Put a seed into the soil, and it could grow into a big tree. But where did the seed come from? It came from the fruit of the tree. Then where did this initial tree come from? Was it born from the soil, or did it grow on a tree?

This was like the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg. It was a dead loop, and the principle to break through was not within it. Of course, we now know that the egg came first, and this egg was not laid by a chicken, but by the ancestor of the chicken laying a mutated egg.

Lu Yi did not have this knowledge at all. She went from trees to humans and naturally came up with the question of where humans came from.

The tribe in the valley had an ancient legend that humans were created by Deities. Deities grew human fruits on trees, and when they fell to the ground, they immediately became humans who could run and jump.

Of course, this legend could not solve Lu Yi’s question, because Lu Yi just asked why we don’t see people falling from trees now? The tribal elder immediately shut his mouth in embarrassment. How would he know such a thing? He had heard this story from his grandfather.

Little Lu Yi sat in her Tree House, frowning and thinking hard about this problem, almost becoming obsessed…

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How does that saying go? Right! It says that as long as a human starts thinking, God will laugh.

Lin Lei did not know if the real God would laugh, but he did laugh, but this laughter did not have the slightest hint of mockery. Instead, it was somewhat affectionate.

“Lenna, look, these people you called reed stalks back then are actually starting to pursue the question of their own origin.”

The reason Lenna called these people reed stalks was that these people were incredibly weak, with a physical Energy Level not exceeding 2.0, which was completely incomparable with the residents of her former Forbidden Domain.

She listened to Lin Lei’s words and also watched with interest the beautiful planet called Yiduo that Lin Lei pointed to, looking at the little girl who hugged her legs and rested her exquisite chin on her knees.

After watching for a while, she said, “What can she gain from such wild thinking?”

Lin Lei laughed and said, “No, there will definitely be gains. This smart girl is good at connecting life phenomena with empty concepts. I think soon, she will find her answer. I am looking forward to this answer to see if she can guess correctly.”

Lenna rolled her eyes at Lin Lei, expressing her disdain for the lazy method he proposed back then of directly condensing intelligent life individuals from big trees.

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Don’t look at the two of them looking like they were doing nothing all the time. In fact, what they were doing to promote the development of the Life Planet they created was improving their own strength.

In this mixed Forbidden Domain, every time an independent Will was born, the fluctuation produced would instantly spread throughout the entire Starry Sky Forbidden Domain and slightly expand the Forbidden Domain by a sliver.

And the more powerful this independent Will was, the greater the impact it brought, and the more benefits it brought to the improvement of Lin Lei and Lenna’s strength, because all Will, in the end, was just a derivative of the Will of two Pan-dimensional Creatures. After the death of the flesh, the final destination of the Will was still the Pan-dimensional Creatures.

“Lenna, look, don’t you think such an exploring race is more full of vitality than those self-stagnating silver-haired elves in your Forest Forbidden Domain? Especially that girl named Lu Yi, her Will is thriving, showing a prosperous look. If we nurture her well, it will be of great benefit to us in the future.”

Lenna sighed, thinking of the trillions of subjects in her Forest Forbidden Domain. She had left, and needless to say, they were definitely all swallowed by the Blood-colored Abyss. Thinking of this, she felt a pain in her heart.

So hearing Lin Lei’s words, her mood was not high. Lenna looked somewhat gloomily at the girl named Lu Yi on planet Yiduo.

This Lu Yi was also looking at the green sun in the sky at this moment.

“You are right, Lin Lei, they have indeed made great progress. In just four thousand years, they have restored my strength to its former peak state. This little girl, I will protect her personally in the future!”

Lin Lei smiled, “That should be her honor.”