When the chief and tribe members arrived at the cave entrance with their captured prey, Hou appeared there, holding Xu Que's hand.

Hou told the chief that Xu Que was going to teach every member of the tribe how to make fire by drilling wood.

The leader was stunned for a moment, then squatted down on the ground and burst into tears.

"Our Blackrock tribe has finally reached the day when we can rise above our circumstances! I can finally face our ancestors with a clear conscience!" The chief wiped away his tears of excitement, clenched his fist, and shouted to the tribe members as if making a vow.

Upon hearing their leader's call, all the members cheered and jumped for joy, as if they had been injected with adrenaline. They spontaneously formed a circle around Xu Que, holding hands and dancing a celebratory dance.

Among the more than one hundred tribes in this land, the ability to use fire is comparable to the Second Industrial Revolution's invention of the internal combustion engine and electricity, which was of epoch-making significance.

The female leader dared not be negligent in the slightest; she greeted him with a smile and respectfully invited Xu Que into the cave.

He sat him on the throne reserved for the leader, and the leader himself massaged him, scratched his itch, and removed his lice.

With a gloomy face and full of jealousy, Hou walked up to the leader and pulled Xu Que towards him: "You don't need to do these things yourself, I can do them!"

The leader waved his hand and pulled Xu Que back: "It's alright! It doesn't matter who does it! I'm just idling around anyway!"

Seeing the tension escalating between the two, Xu Que stood up and quickly tried to smooth things over: "It's getting dark! We haven't even had dinner yet! Hou and I will go grill some meat for everyone right away!"

Hou shook off Xu Que's hand, wiped away her tears, and ran into the grove of trees opposite the cave.

Xu Que quickly caught up and found her sobbing alone behind a large, moss-covered blue stone.

Based on past life experience and intuition, only emotional resonance can solve the problem at this critical juncture.

Looking around and seeing neither the chief nor any other tribe members, Xu Que pointed at thin air and cursed, "That old woman is really too much! She has absolutely no shame! If it weren't for her age, I would have given her two big slaps!"

"Could she have scratched my itch? Could she have just randomly picked out the lice from my hair? No! Nobody could! Only my adorable hooting could!"

After realizing that Xu Que's stance was relatively clear and his attitude was fairly proper, Hou stopped crying and sobbing.

Xu Que seized the opportunity to quickly distract her: "Look! There's a dead tree branch over there, as thick as a bowl. Carrying it back will be more than enough for a barbecue tonight!"

Xu Que, carrying the withered tree branches, walked out of the grove amidst the expectant gazes of everyone in the tribe.

When the tribe members saw the two carrying the tree, they all rushed forward to help.

The chief used a blunt knife made from a bone fragment to skin the goat.

The other members of the tribe had already helped prepare the straw for starting a fire.

Xu Que took out a boning knife, chopped the meat into chunks, and grilled them on a wooden grill about the thickness of a finger.

Hou sprinkled the seasonings on Xu Que as he flipped the grill.

The entire tribe is a thriving place filled with mutual help and love.

The leader leaned closer to Hou, took her hand, and said apologetically, "I really didn't know Xu Que was your taboo! I only have boundless respect for him! I absolutely have no improper thoughts whatsoever! Look at me, I'm already so old, there's no way I could steal your boyfriend!"

Hou smiled at the leader, then glanced back at Xu Que: "Alright! I was overthinking it!"

During a leisurely time when the elders of the Giant Deer tribe were scratching each other's itch and picking lice after eating and drinking their fill, they discovered that smoke had been rising from a pile of weeds next to the entrance of the Black Stone tribe's cave at regular intervals.

The crowd began to discuss among themselves: "Many years ago, several members of the Black Stone tribe were burned to death by heavenly fire. With the heavenly fire appearing so frequently in the tribe lately, it's likely that very few of their members are left!"

"It would be better to burn it all! For the weakest tribes, annihilation is a relief! Rather than having their members enslaved and bullied by other tribes every day, it's better to die and end it all."

"Then we'll just take over their caves!"

"Those who are near the water get the moon first; if we don't take advantage of it, are we going to leave it for future generations to exhibit?"

"That's her! That's her! I heard there's a girl named Hou in the Blackrock Tribe. I wonder if she was burned to death by the heavenly fire! I really want to snatch her away and make her my wife!"

"Dream on! Even the second-in-command of the elders is still single! There's no way you'd get such a cushy job! But I've seen her before, she's really beautiful, a goddess-level beauty!"

In the Julu tribe, Elder Ji, a member of the council, swallowed hard: "How beautiful is it?"

The third leader of the elders stood up and gestured with his hands: "This place, this place, and this place—it's huge! It looks really impressive!"

Ji swallowed hard, feeling like a million ants were crawling all over his body: "I want to go to the Blackrock Tribe right now. Maybe there are still many people who haven't been burned to death by the heavenly fire, waiting for me to rescue them!"

"If they all perish, I'll be the first to occupy their cave, to prevent other tribes from getting there first and causing losses to my tribe!"

"I'm going too! This time I'm going to grab a bed near the cave entrance as soon as possible! Just thinking about those days living near the cave entrance, the wind blows so cold it's practically freezing to death!"

Xu Que used a boning knife to cut the roasted meat into equal pieces and distributed them to each tribe member gathered around the fire.

Hou looked up at Xu Que, who was diligently tending to the fire, and felt a surge of affection. For some reason, the more he looked at him, the more he liked him.

Xu Que glanced back at Hou, took a sip of spring water from his portable travel water bottle, ate a bite of roasted mutton, and pointed at the meat chunk in her hand, saying, "Eat it while it's hot, it won't taste good if it gets cold!"

Hearing Xu Que say that, Hou withdrew her infatuated gaze from him.

She blinked and pointed at the piece of meat in Xu Que's hand with a coquettish tone: "Can I take a bite of it?"

Xu Que handed over his drool-covered piece of meat so that Hou could take a bite.

Hou let Xu Que take a bite of the piece in her hand, and even stretched her neck to drink a mouthful of spring water from his water bottle.

Watching the couple showing affection, the chieftain was filled with emotion: "Why didn't I meet a boy like this when I was young?"

Ji and the third leader of the elders' council lay hidden behind a large blue stone surrounded by weeds, spying on the Black Stone tribe members' every move.

"My God! This is unbelievable! Look! They can actually live in peace with the Heavenly Fire!" The third leader was so shocked when he saw the Black Stone Tribe members eating meat and chatting around the fire that his eyes almost popped out of his head.

"They're not peacefully coexisting with the Heavenly Fire, they're enslaving and controlling it! They're forcing the Heavenly Fire to roast meat for them! My God! How powerful must a god be to do something against the will of the Heavenly Fire!"

"Could it be that a god has descended upon their tribe? I must go and see!" Ji crawled forward through the weeds for a while until he reached a place with a clear view.

Looking around, I saw Xu Que adding firewood to the fire.

"My God! There really is a god!"

The third leader quickly leaned closer: "How do you know?"

"Putting everything else aside, just look at his feet, which look like they've been worn down to the shape of round bricks. They're completely different from ours! Where are his toes?"

"My God! This is undoubtedly a god! It is said that throughout history, gods have liked to wrap their feet with magical materials, which look like round bricks! They usually call them shoes! Shoes can provide gods with divine power, and protect their delicate feet from being hurt by foreign objects."

"Wouldn't our spying on the gods be considered blasphemy?"

The third leader sighed: "Yes! Since things have come to this, I think we should crawl back the way we came, as a sincere repentance for blaspheming the gods!"