Legend of the Great Sage Chapter 1583 - Questions to Heaven

The Shennong tribe had the ox as their totemic figure, and everyone knew about the story of Shennong Trying the Hundred Herbs. Because he was skilled in agriculture, he was conferred the title of the divine farmer, Shennong. At the same time, he was skilled in medicine as well.

TL: Shennong is a mythological Chinese ruler.

Legends had it that Shennong’s appearance was very strange, an ox but with a human body—Li Qingshan guessed that it was probably because he used oxen as a totemic figure and wore a horned helmet. Apart from his head and four limbs, the rest of his body was transparent, which would blacken upon consuming poisonous herbs, allowing him to know immediately. In the end, because he had tried the hundred herbs, he died from accumulating too much poison.

Li Qingshan was not some great scholar in his past life, but he was still familiar with these classic stories. Holding back his sense of urgency, he asked the taotie beast face in the sky, “Brother ox is Shennong?”

The taotie beast face laughed aloud. “How’s that possible? Shennong is the first group of people created by empress Nüwa, our ancestors. It’s because they knew agriculture and medicine that humanity prospered. Afterwards, they were conferred the position as leaders, beginning the Shennong tribe.”

“The Flame Emperor is the name that belongs to the leader, both the leader of the Shennong tribe, as well as the leader of us humans!”

TL: The Flame Emperor, also known as Yandi, is a contemporary of the Yellow Emperor. You can read more about the mythological figure here.

“Brother ox is the Flame Emperor. The Flame Emperor is brother ox.”

Li Qingshan sucked in a deep breath, trying his best to digest this information, but at least he was not too far off. He was an ancestor anyway. At this moment, he felt like he had returned to his forefathers, holding his fellow comrades’ hands excitedly. He had finally found his organisation!

Originally, he thought he belonged to the side of revolutionaries. He never expected them to be the orthodoxy accor

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