Chau Island is divided into two main parts, the North Continent and the South Sea.
The North Island is where the people of Chau Chau live, they gather, fish, hunt, use leather and wood, make simple medicinal herbs, and established villages at an early age.
At one time the Chauchou grew rapidly, reaching a peak of 150,000 people, with wharves dotting the headlands and beaches of the North Continent, and roads connecting every village.
They were ambitious to conquer the sea, and put the mark of the North on every island in the sea.
The sea began to become the hunting grounds and roads of the Chauchos, their ships travelling towards the depths of the southern sea to explore the limits of the world.
However, during an Era change, the Chauju were devastated.
The new era saw a surge in the population of an animal called the sea toad. Sea toads were originally small, unassuming creatures that normally hid in shallow waters and hunted insects for food, which were highly toxic.
As their numbers grew, the toads began to come ashore to feed.
The toxins they carried killed a large number of livestock raised by the Chauju people, and poisoned and killed a succession of people who came into contact with them.
The people of Chauchow had to call back members of the maritime community to do their utmost to eradicate the toads from the northern continent.
The toads are very fertile and like to hide in the sea, so it is very difficult to eliminate them completely.
This war between the Chauchon people and the toads lasted for a long time until the next epoch, when an animal called the Weaver Bird grew so strong that they began to hunt the toads, finally curbing the toad infestation.
And after this poisonous catastrophe, the Chauvinists had been devastated.
The toad poison directly or indirectly caused the deaths of more than 30,000 people, the majority of whom were elderly people in Chauju.
The successive deaths of the elderly caused a serious break in the transmission of knowledge among the Chauchou people, and the society lost the hub and buffer connecting the old and new people, becoming extremely unstable.
In order to compete for resources, the people of different regions frequently erupted into conflicts and killings, and civilisation even went into a brief regression.
Meanwhile, the Jiaoren in the southern deep sea was rapidly growing.
Unlike the Chauchon people, who developed civilisation early on, the Jiao people maintained a beastly life for thousands of years, and their enlightenment came from eating the corpses of the Chauchon people and making use of the shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea.
The Chauju had a sea burial practice, where the dead would be loaded into small boats by the living and allowed to float into the ocean. They believed that the dead would return to the north in another way through the flow of the ocean.
The bodies of these sea burials were turned into food for the fish.
The plague of poisonous toads, which resulted in tens of thousands of Chauju corpses floating into the sea, caused the Cross People to grow wise as they ate and observed.
In the past, the Jiao people would run and hide when they encountered the Chauchow people for fear of being stabbed by their fishhooks and spears. But after eating many corpses, they became bolder – the Chauchos are not strong now.
A long time ago, the Chauju were very interested in the Crossman, because the undersea creature had a human-like form. They were curious and respectful of the Chauju people’s ships, and would trade pearls for the Chauju people’s livestock and fruits.
In their heyday, the Choshu would give the Jiaojun food and teach them how to weave with rope or rattan, displaying an air of kingship over the world.
In those days, the Jiaozi were so obedient that they would always take the initiative to greet the Josun’s ships and guide them into the safety of the sea.
But now that the Chauchonese were weakened and lacked everything, they didn’t have the same spirit they had before.
The Chauju hunted the crossers, locking them up with ropes and hooks and sending them out to sea to find pearls and coral.
The able-bodied crossers were turned into undersea collectors for the Chauchon people, the weakened crossers were used to feed their livestock, and the crossers’ corpses were turned into bait to lure more crossers out of the sea.
The anger that had been suppressed for years finally erupted at one point.
The crossers began to fight back frantically, they chiselled and sank ships, destroyed docks and dragged the Chauchou people underwater to drown. They raised a large number of sea toads and threw these poisonous creatures into the villages and settlements of the Chauchon people.
Whenever the ships of the Chauchon people entered the southern waters, they were attacked by the crossers, resulting in shipwrecks or attacks by some deep-sea monsters.
The hatred between the two communities deepened.
It was at this point that the Demoiselle finally stepped in.
This god, who ruled the world, sent out an apostle.
The apostle proclaimed an oracle of peace and co-rule between the two races, and also aborted this protracted North-South War.
After two more epochs, the hatred gradually washed away by time, and the Chauchos and the Crossers began to co-operate.
They traded with each other, and the fruits, grains, and livestock of the North were carried by ships to the maritime South in exchange for oysters, fish, sea vegetables, pearls, and coral from the sea.
The Jiao people learned simple hand weaving and leather working from the Chauchon people, and the Chauchon people learned from the Jiao people to recognise sea bearings and how to avoid dangerous waters.
The land provided livestock, fruits and vegetables, and herbs that were not available in the sea, while the sea supplied a large amount of fish, meat, and various kinds of ores that were lacking on the surface.
The sea and land entered a honeymoon period, and the [Red Coral Mirage Statue] was the witness and creation of this period.
The existence of red coral and misty mirage made it possible for the Chauchou people and the Jiaoren people to see each other across the sea, and the mirror formed by the refraction of the mirage made their mutual worlds clearly visible, which made trading and communication smoother and faster.
The northern land and the southern ocean were connected in a way that had never been seen before.
Later, the god Demoiselle Weng became the subordinate god of the dragons, and the Nine Harvest Pillars were fixed under the sea on the island of Chau.
Dragons of all shapes and sizes began to populate this world.
Their mere existence and appearance brought a series of changes and opportunities to this world. The presence of the dragons also made the people of Chau Chau and the people of Jiao more cautious and reported to each other.
This was also the most peaceful and stable time on Chau Island.
During the 6th Era, the gods and dragons suddenly departed from the Nine Harvest Pillar, which was then damaged and the fire of faith in the entire world was quickly extinguished.
The fall of the gods was without warning, but the world’s dramatic changes had come quietly.
During the 7th Era, the entire world entered the Age of Extreme Cold, with the northern lands covered and flooded with snow, headlands sprouting lines of ice, and the sea surface of the offshore regions turning into thick, solid ice. Large numbers of land animals died in the cold, and trees withered and fell.
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The largest source of food for the Chauju people became the ocean, and they cut through the ice to catch fish, while turning to the Cross People for help.
At this point, the Cross People’s long-standing resentment and ambition to conquer the land were no longer hidden, and they refused the Chauchou’s request, blockading the coastline and forbidding the Chauchou to set foot in the sea.
The trees became fewer and fewer, and the fuel for their fires quickly ran out, as the Chauchonese desperately searched for food and firewood.
But the land reserves were a drop in the bucket, and eventually the Chauju died out during this long, cold epoch.
A new epoch came, the ice melted, and the land and sea were warm and wet again.
The Crossers celebrated with each other that they had finally ended their old humiliation and wiped out the Chauchus, becoming the only civilised masters of this world.
However, the temperature continued to rise.
In Era 8, the entire island of Chau Island was plunged into extreme heat.
Reddish-green algae floated on the surface of the sea, and these algae were spread all over the waters, causing the fish in the sea to die or become sick in large numbers, and the Crossers were poisoned and infected from eating the fish.
Without medication from the Chauchos, the crossers were unable to heal themselves and their numbers continued to dwindle.
While the crossers were weakening, a fierce small cross-eating fish was born in the sea.
They are extremely survivable, eating seaweed and all kinds of poisoned fish, and can swim for a long time even with only half of their bodies left.
The cross-eating fish began to hunt the weakened crossers in groups, as their grease was tasty and provided much strength.
In this hot and bright epoch, the crossmen died and fled.
They ultimately did not survive this hard time, falling prey to the monsters of the deep, retreating into the basic best*ality of survival and reproduction.
The civilisations of the North and South, once in their prime, drew to a close in the world’s records.
