Chapter 176 The Frog Tribe Settles in Malachite
Under the protection of the Vine Tribe warriors, the Frog Tribe members, carrying all their belongings and the giant frog, slowly walked towards the Vine Tribe.
Because the Frog Tribe members could only walk and move relatively slowly, the Vine Tribe warriors had to slow down their mounts as well.
On the third day, they were targeted by a tribe that had just migrated from the Western Wilderness.
This is a relatively powerful tribe with a population of about three thousand, and its totem god is a giant scorpion.
They planned to plunder the warriors of the Vine Tribe along with the Frog Tribe.
"Eeyore, eyore..."
Before the scorpion tribe got close, they were discovered by the glutinous rice balls hovering in the sky, which made continuous, sharp chirping sounds.
"Not good, prepare to meet the enemy!"
Jiang Xuan, who was walking in front of the team, shouted loudly, and everyone immediately became alert and looked around nervously.
"roar!"
Yueya, who had grown very tall, let out a low growl, and a faint totem pattern of the vine tribe appeared on his forehead, and it was obvious that he was ready for battle.
“Rustle…”
There were dense noises coming from the surrounding forests, and then a red scorpion as big as a millstone came out first.
Immediately afterwards, countless large scorpions in black, red or brown came out, with their two large claws open and their poisonous tail stingers hanging upside down, looking coldly at the people from the Vine Tribe and the Frog Tribe.
“Wuwuwu…”
After the giant scorpion appeared, thousands of scorpion tribe warriors also appeared.
They made hunting sounds with their mouths and held various weapons in their hands, surrounding the people of the Vine Tribe and the Frog Tribe.
“Ka-ka-ka…”
A huge black scorpion also appeared. It was twenty or thirty meters long, and its claws could easily break a large tree. It emanated terrifying divine power.
It is the totem god of the Scorpion Tribe.
Someone from the Scorpion Tribe shouted, "Hand over everything you have, or I'll kill you all!"
“Wuwuwu…”
The warriors of the Scorpion Tribe all shouted excitedly, and the big scorpions were eager to kill people.
"Chief, what should we do?"
Everyone was in a panic. If it were only warriors from the Scorpion Tribe who came, they could still rely on the speed of their cavalry and charge out directly.
But facing the totem god of a tribe, there is no way they can defeat him.
The members of the Frog Tribe were even more panicked. Huo Meng even had a feeling of despair. They had come all the way to such a vast Western Wilderness and such a long distance, but were they going to be wiped out here today?
Huo Meng also walked to Jiang Xuan's side. Now the only one he could rely on was the Teng tribe.
Compared with other fighters, Jiang Xuan was obviously much calmer.
Because he had anticipated that this situation might occur on the road, and asked Shen Teng for a life-saving method in advance.
This life-saving method can not only save his own life, but also the lives of everyone who accompanies him.
Jiang Xuan raised his right hand high and shouted, "Don't panic, God Teng is here!"
Everyone looked at Jiang Xuan's right arm, and saw a green vine wrapped around his arm. It was not noticeable before, but now it began to emit green light.
“Buzz!”
The vines untied themselves from Jiang Xuan's right arm in circles, then rose above everyone's heads, becoming larger and larger, like a giant green dragon twisting in the air.
At the same time, in the Teng tribe far away by the Feiyu River, the divine vine on the stone mountain suddenly burst out with an extremely terrifying aura, making all living beings in the territory feel fear from the bottom of their hearts.
The sacred vine on the stone mountain creates a mysterious connection with the vines in the distance that transcends space.
In the forest far away, the Scorpion Tribe warriors who were shouting excitedly stopped shouting when they saw huge vines suddenly appear and realized that something had changed.
“Ka-ka-ka…”
Even the Giant Scorpion God stared at the huge vine and felt a lot of pressure.
"It's Fuji God. Fuji God is protecting us!"
The warriors of the Teng tribe cheered. After seeing the totem god, the fear in their hearts disappeared and they became extremely excited.
"This is the patron saint of the Vine Tribe!"
Huo Meng was also a little excited. The totem god of the Teng tribe looked very powerful and would definitely be able to protect them.
Just then, the vines in the sky moved.
It instantly straightened up, and then lashed out fiercely at the giant scorpion god.
“Bang!”
The vines were moving so fast, like a flash of green lightning. By the time the giant scorpion god could react, it had already been hit.
“Crack, crack…”
The giant scorpion god was blasted away, knocking down several large trees, and then fell heavily to the ground.
Fortunately, its shell is hard enough, otherwise it would have been seriously injured.
“Pah pah pah…”
Then, the huge vines began to twitch crazily, and large trees were snapped in half. The giant scorpions and the warriors of the scorpion tribe were beaten so hard that they screamed and howled like ghosts and wolves, and fled in all directions. Where was the majestic look from before? "Crack, crack, crack..."
The giant scorpion god climbed up. After suffering such a great loss, it was very angry. Its huge pincers kept opening and closing, trying to kill all the warriors of the Vine Tribe to vent its anger.
However, at this moment, it sensed a terrifying presence in the direction of the Vine Tribe locking onto it.
As long as it dares to kill people, that existence will definitely come and kill them directly.
The Giant Scorpion God looked at the vines in the air, then looked at the warriors of the Vine Tribe. In the end, he resisted the urge to take action and instead turned and left.
“Retreat, retreat!”
As soon as the giant scorpion god left, the leader of the scorpion tribe shouted, and those warriors and giant scorpions fled in a panic, and they were all gone in the blink of an eye.
The members of the Frog Tribe, who had just been in despair, suddenly found that the enemies had all withdrawn, and were a little at a loss for a moment.
The Frog Tribe witch looked up at the huge vine and muttered to himself, "What a powerful guardian god! Perhaps Huo Meng's choice was right..."
After witnessing the power of the totem god of the vine tribe with his own eyes, the witch of the frog tribe finally had some changes in his mind.
After the people from the Scorpion Tribe retreated, the huge vine in the sky shrank again and then wrapped around Jiang Xuan's right arm again.
Everyone looked at Jiang Xuan with even more awe, after all, even the totem god was hanging on him.
Jiang Xuan didn't expect that a vine could have such terrible power.
He realized that after devouring the totem gods of several small tribes and a large amount of flesh and blood sacrifices, the strength of the divine vine had become unfathomable, far exceeding that of ordinary totem gods of small tribes.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xuan felt more confident.
"keep going!"
Jiang Xuan took the lead riding on Crescent Moon and walked forward. The warriors of the Vine Tribe and the tribesmen of the Frog Tribe hurriedly followed, leaving behind only a forest destroyed by the divine vine.
The divine vine far away in the vine tribe also fell silent again, its light was all retracted, and a thin mist covered the stone mountain.
On the subsequent journey, Jiang Xuan and his companions did not encounter any danger. Ten days later, they successfully led the members of the Frog Tribe outside the tall vine wall of the Vine Tribe.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they returned to the territory of the Teng tribe.
The next issue is the resettlement of the frog tribe.
According to the previous agreement, the Frog Tribe can choose a place to live in the forest south of the Vine Tribe.
Of course, this residence cannot be too far away from the Teng tribe, otherwise it will be difficult to get the protection of the Teng tribe.
Huo Meng and the witch of the Frog Tribe walked in the forest south of the Teng Tribe for two days, and finally decided to settle down in the lower reaches of the Feiyu River, next to the territory of the Teng Tribe.
After choosing a location, the members of the Frog Tribe immediately began to build houses.
Because the Frog Tribe was the first subordinate tribe of the Vine Tribe, Jiang Xuan paid more attention to it.
So a group of soldiers with construction experience were sent over to help them cut down trees and build houses so that they could settle down earlier.
At the same time, Chishao also went to the new settlement of the Frog Tribe and painted the totem patterns of the Vine Tribe with mineral pigments in several conspicuous places outside their settlement.
The purpose of these totem patterns is to announce to other tribes that the Frog Tribe is under the protection of the Vine Tribe. If you want to do something to the Frog Tribe, you'd better consider whether you can withstand the wrath of the Vine Tribe.
Soon, with the help of the Vine Tribe, the Frog Tribe settled down in their new residence.
There were more prey and various edible plants near the new settlement, and the population of the frog tribe was relatively small, so they no longer had to go hungry.
Not only that, they can also go to the trading area of the Teng tribe and get what they need through trading.
Soon, the members of the Frog Tribe no longer resisted becoming a subordinate tribe because they gained tangible benefits after their tribe migrated here.
The giant frogs of the Frog Tribe have also regained an environment suitable for their survival. As long as everything develops normally, with the reproduction capacity of the giant frogs, within two years, the Frog Tribe will once again have a large number of giant frogs to help with hunting and fighting.
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In March, the weather became warmer and warmer, the plants in the forest grew rapidly, and various animals entered the breeding season.
Whether it is the members of various tribes or the tourists, they no longer have to worry about starving to death.
On March 5th, a visitor walked into the trading area of the Teng tribe, carrying a special item wrapped in some vines and leaves.
He walked straight to the shop that traded grain and salt, looked around carefully, and then placed the things on the table made of huge wood.
The grain and salt shop was managed by Dongkui. After a period of training, she became more capable.
Dongkui looked at the tightly wrapped things on the table and appeared calm because she had experienced this kind of thing many times.
Tourists are rather timid and have little ability to protect themselves.
So every time they found some items that could be used for trading, they would wrap them tightly like this to avoid being seen and snatched by others.
Dong Kui followed Jiang Xuan's request and asked politely, "Hello, can you open it and see what's inside?"
The tourist nodded nervously, looked outside again to make sure no one had come in, then opened the vines and leaves that wrapped the items layer by layer, revealing a stone about the size of a palm with beautiful green circles of markings.
These green circular spots look very much like the patterns on the tail feathers of certain birds and are very beautiful.
"How much animal meat can this stone be exchanged for?" The tourist looked at Dongkui with anticipation.
Dongkui picked up the stone and observed it carefully for a moment. She thought it was very beautiful, but she had never seen it before, so it was difficult to estimate its value.
It happened that at this time, Jiang Xuan came to inspect the trading area, and Dong Kui hurried to the door and invited Jiang Xuan in.
"What's wrong?"
Jiang Xuan walked in and first looked at the tourist, then looked at Dongkui.
Dong Kui said, "Chief, there is a beautiful stone here. This tourist wants to exchange it for animal meat, but I have never seen this kind of stone before, and I don't know if it is useful."
"Oh? Let me see."
Jiang Xuan walked to the table and picked up the beautiful green stone under the nervous gaze of the tourist.
He only took one look and couldn't look away.
"Huh? This is... Malachite!"
Jiang Xuan was surprised. He turned the stone over and over several times and became a little excited.
"Yes, this is Malachite!"
In his previous life, Jiang Xuan bought a relatively large malachite pendant, and for this purpose he also learned a lot about malachite.
The color of malachite resembles the green spots on peacock feathers, so it is called malachite.
Malachite is highly recognizable because its color and pattern are unique and difficult to mistake.
In the world of Jiang Xuan's previous life, malachite was mostly sold as an ornamental gem.
But the reason why Jiang Xuan was excited was not because of this.
In fact, malachite is relatively brittle and is not suitable for making stone tools, it can only be used as a decoration.
In primitive tribes, stones that can be made into stone tools are good stones. Stones that can only be used as ornaments are not valuable.
Jiang Xuan was so excited because malachite is actually a type of copper ore, often associated with other copper ores! In other words, as long as the origin of this malachite is found, there is a high probability that other copper ores can be found.
Jiang Xuan had long wanted to make copper ware, but had never found a copper mine.
The current situation is that after searching for a needle in a haystack, it finally came to us without any effort!
The reason for choosing copper smelting instead of iron smelting is that copper has much lower melting point and smelting requirements than iron.
For example, the melting point of copper is about one thousand degrees Celsius, while the melting point of iron is over one thousand five hundred degrees Celsius, far exceeding that of copper.
It is much easier to make copperware than ironware.
The conditions of the tribesmen were too simple, so Jiang Xuan could only choose to make simple and easy-to-operate things first, and then consider making those complex and more difficult things.
Jiang Xuan grabbed the tourist and asked excitedly, "Where did you find this thing?"
"Let me go. I don't want the meat anymore. I'll give you this stone..."
The tourist was startled, then shouted and struggled, obviously thinking that Jiang Xuan wanted to snatch the stone.
Jiang Xuan also realized that he was too excited and caused misunderstanding among the tourists.
But if he let go of this tourist now, he would definitely run away.
In desperation, Jiang Xuan had to forcefully hold him down and said, "Shut up and listen to me!"
The tourist was held down by Jiang Xuan. He struggled for a few times but couldn't break free. He could only accept his fate pessimistically.
"Don't worry, we in the Teng tribe value reputation the most, and we will never steal your things in the trading area."
"I just want to tell you that if you can lead us to find more stones like this, I will not only give you a lot of beast meat, but I will even let you join the Vine Tribe directly, so you don't have to be a tourist anymore!"
Jiang Xuan's words finally moved the tourist.
Becoming a member of the Teng tribe is a great temptation for tourists, because once joining the Teng tribe, he no longer has to live a life of wandering and uncertainty.
"Is everything you said true?" the tourist asked cautiously.
Jiang Xuan replied affirmatively: "Of course it is true. I am the leader of the Teng Tribe. As long as you lead us to find more stones like this, you can become a member of the Teng Tribe."
The tourist mustered up his courage, looked up at Jiang Xuan, and said, "Okay, I'll take you to find the stone!"
"That's right."
A smile appeared on Jiang Xuan's face, and he was expecting this tourist to bring even greater surprises.
Let’s talk about the post problem.
In recent days, I saw many posts being deleted within seconds after being published. It’s not the author’s fault, it’s the official’s fault. I can’t say the details, but these few days are special. It should be back to normal in a couple of days.
(End of this chapter)
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