After seeing the houses of the humans, the dwarves moved out of the ground and into the houses they built themselves.
The dwarves and humans cooperated, using the coal mines the dwarves found underground and the human furnaces to extract iron from the ore.
After the discovery of iron, humanity experienced a leap forward in development. Through the superb craftsmanship of the dwarven artisans, they forged iron into all sorts of weapons and everyday utensils. This greatly improved humanity's living environment and propelled them directly into the Iron Age.
In the decades that followed, humanity entered a period of rapid expansion. Large numbers of humans left their territories to expand into surrounding lands, forming tribal alliances led by their respective chiefs.
During the expansion of the human race, the ironware invented by humans inevitably spread out, and all races on the Tianyuan Continent possessed some ironware to varying degrees.
The civilization on the Tianyuan Continent has taken a giant leap forward as a whole.
During this period, the human population expanded dramatically, and they occupied nearly half of the land in the eastern part of the Tianyuan Continent.
In the 57th year of Yuanhao's slumber, Fuxi, whose lifespan had greatly increased due to his cultivation reaching the Innate Perfection stage, was now in his prime.
At the height of his life, Fuxi did something that baffled most of humanity. He passed on his position as the common leader of all human tribes to a human named Shennong.
Speaking of Shennong, he is now widely known among the various tribes of the human race.
After Fuxi created the martial arts cultivation system, the overall strength of the human race has been continuously increasing. However, even so, as the spiritual energy between heaven and earth has become increasingly abundant in recent years, powerful ferocious beasts have also become more and more numerous.
In the process of hunting ferocious beasts, the human race inevitably suffered heavy casualties, with a large number of humans sacrificing themselves under the claws and teeth of the beasts.
Even in his youth, Shennong felt deeply saddened by the constant sacrifices of his compatriots to the claws of ferocious beasts.
After reaching adulthood, Shennong set himself a lofty goal: to find a new food source for humankind, so that his people would no longer have to sacrifice themselves in large numbers to ferocious beasts for food.
After more than a decade of continuous effort and experimentation, Shennong successfully discovered several plants. Humans could cultivate them and obtain food by harvesting their fruits.
Shennong named the plants he found the Five Grains.
The Five Grains have played a significant role in the tremendous expansion of human power over the years.
Shennong was remembered by the people of various tribes because of his great contributions to the human race.
Because of his outstanding contributions to the human race, and with the tacit approval of the tribal leaders, Shennong succeeded Fuxi without any trouble, becoming the second ruler of the human race.
After passing the leadership of the human race to Shennong, Fuxi resided in the Haotian Temple for a long time, becoming the high priest of the human race who worshipped the Haotian deity.
After becoming the new leader of the human race, Shennong was deeply saddened to find that every year, a portion of the people in the various tribes of the human race lost their lives due to illness and various poisonous insects.
Shennong thus made up his mind that, as the leader of the human race, he should do something for his people so that they would no longer suffer from the torment of illness.
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Chapter Ten Breakthrough
PS: I would like to clarify here that I made a minor revision to the previous text. In the description of Feng Yan's strength, there was a sentence that said, "His cultivation has reached the current limit of the Tianyuan Sacred Realm." I have deleted that sentence.
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In the 58th year of Yuan Hao's slumber, Feng Yan, who had been in seclusion for several years, broke through to the intermediate level of magician.
In Yuan Hao's ten-tier cultivation system, the intermediate-level mage has reached the second tier. The second tier of the Transcendent Realm is also the current upper limit of cultivation that can be accommodated in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm.
Intermediate mage is a completely different realm from novice mage. After reaching the intermediate mage level, Feng Yan can fly freely in the sky using intermediate wind magic, even without relying on the three pairs of wings on his back.
The most powerful attack spells among intermediate-level magic can even destroy a small mountain several hundred meters in size.
Feng Yan was not only the first being on the Tianyuan Continent to break through to the intermediate level of magic, but he was also the first intelligent life on the Tianyuan Continent to break through to the second level of the extraordinary realm.
Over the past few decades, the cultivation system of magic has made significant progress. Various aspects of magical knowledge have been greatly refined, and the diversity of magic has increased considerably.
Through years of exchange and learning among the winged race, mermaid race, and various sea races, they have expanded and summarized new magical attributes.
These are: Earth attribute, which can draw upon the power of the earth and possesses strong defensive capabilities; Life attribute, which possesses powerful healing and blessing effects; Light attribute, which possesses both healing and powerful offensive capabilities; and Water attribute, which, after careful study of the Life and Light attributes, was modified to possess healing abilities.
With the support of powerful magic, the Feathered Race defeated the various races in the northern part of the western continent of Tianyuan Continent, forcing them to submit to the Feathered Race's rule.
After the Feathered Clan became the overlords of the northern part of the western route, they set their sights on the Orcs.
On that occasion, the Feathered Clan directly gathered all its vassal races and launched a large-scale attack on the Orcs.
In that battle, the orcs easily repelled the winged race's attack by relying on their fighting spirit and the large number of iron weapons they obtained from the humans.
In that battle, the orcs inflicted heavy casualties on the winged mages with iron arrows infused with battle aura.
After repelling the winged race, the orcs, wary of their powerful magic, did not press their advantage. Instead, they maintained their usual standoff on the border.
The year after Feng Yan's breakthrough, the sage of the merfolk also broke through to the level of intermediate mage.
With the support of numerous mages from their ally, the Feathered Clan, the Merfolk embarked on a conquest that swept across the various marine races.
With the powerful offensive of the merfolk sages, the merfolk defeated the various sea creatures in the Western Sea.
After the various marine races submitted, the merfolk, who dominated the western islands, began to call themselves the Sea Emperors.
In the 61st year after Yuanhao fell into slumber, Fuxi of the human race finally broke through to the second level of the extraordinary realm, the realm of martial arts grandmaster.
Not long after Fuxi's breakthrough, Nuwa's cultivation also began to break through, making her the second martial arts grandmaster of the human race.
Martial artists at the Grandmaster level can levitate briefly using their abundant internal energy. A full-force strike from a Grandmaster is enough to shatter a boulder tens of meters in diameter into pieces with a single palm strike.
After both of them broke through to the Grandmaster level, Fuxi and Nuwa began to work together to deduce the "Martial Canon." With their combined efforts, they deduced the "Martial Canon" to the fourth level, enabling them to cultivate it to the realm of a Grandmaster of Martial Arts.
After Fuxi and Nuwa broke through to the level of martial arts grandmaster, Shennong finally succeeded after years of hard work.
Over the years, Shennong has entered and exited the Origin Mountain Range many times, and he has overcome all the difficulties and obstacles he encountered.
Over the years, he has repeatedly tested poisons on himself, personally chewing various herbs to experience their medicinal properties.