The traveling team left from another river in the Pu tribe, and they also used the waterway.
This river did not have many lotus leaves, and on the rafts stood people.
Shao Xuan and Yu were on the same raft, listening to the other people telling Yu about their travels.
In the sky above the rafts, Chacha followed. Shao Xuan had already told Fan Ning about this.
At that time, Fan Ning wanted Shao Xuan to pay an extra water moon stone, but was rejected by Shao Xuan. Chacha could warn in the sky, and could reduce the chances of the Pu tribe encountering danger, with such benefits, you still want to charge? Now the business here was not developed, but these people already had the potential to be profiteers.
In the end, although Fan Ning's face was not very good, he did not insist.
Since it was a long journey, naturally it would not be a matter of one or two days, sometimes it would take up to a hundred days.
Probably because there were more human tribes in this area, it was not as dangerous as the hunting area on the other side of the river. Sometimes they would encounter some trouble from underwater, or harassment from other tribes, but overall, it was still peaceful and safe.
Because of their frequent travels, the people of the Pu tribe were very clear about which waterway was safer and which direction was less troublesome. Shao Xuan also memorized these routes in his heart, and when he was free, he would draw these on animal skin to complete the map. If one day the Yanjiao tribe on the other side of the river came back, they would need these maps.
Nearly a thousand years had passed, and the changes were very big. This place was completely different from what the ancestors had recorded.
As they moved forward, the river became wider and wider. Near the river, there would always be some traces of human activity. Listening to the people beside them, there was a small tribe not far ahead, but that small tribe did not like to interact with people from other tribes. They were also reclusive, and when they saw people from other tribes, they would avoid them, or throw stones and wooden arrows. The Pu tribe was very unhappy with this, but they would not delay the travel speed because of this.
"Be careful." The person beside them who had many years of travel experience reminded them.
On the shore in front, there were a few women wearing animal skin washing things. When they saw the raft team, they quickly dragged their things and ran. When the wooden raft team passed by, some arrows were shot from the forest on the slightly higher ground on the shore.
This kind of strength was nothing to Shao Xuan, or even to the warriors of the Yanjiao tribe. They could easily catch it and break it. However, if there were a lot of such arrows, it would be annoying.
The people of the Pu tribe used their wooden shields to block the incoming arrows. Shao Xuan used his blade to cut down the arrows.
If it was a big tribe, maybe the Pu tribe would take a step back and communicate with them. But for such a small tribe, the people of the Pu tribe were too lazy to pay attention to those eccentric people.
The speed of the rafts increased, and only after the rafts left that area did the arrows stop.
In fact, the people hiding in the bushes might not have really wanted to kill the people passing by. They were just trying to scare them. If they really wanted to kill them, they would have used a more forceful method instead of using these wooden arrows that didn't even have a sharpened head.
There were many tribes around, and the presence of the small tribes was very low. Most of the tribes only had a few hundred people, and their strength was not strong. They were born and died quickly, so the Pu tribe did not pay too much attention to them.
The people of the Pu tribe around Shao Xuan did not want to talk too much. They only cared about their own interests.
Two days later.
"In front of us is the fork. We will stay there for two days." The person next to him looked at the dark sky and said.
In front of them, the river was divided into two, forming a "Y" shape. There were many people from other tribes who were traveling to the central region. The Pu tribe knew many of them, and sometimes they would travel together to make the traveling team bigger. This way, they would have more security.
There were too many strong people in the central region. They could only use numbers to fight.
Shao Xuan looked over.
On both sides of the river, there were no mountains, no dense forests, and became flat. Here, there were many houses. There were wooden houses, and also stone houses. The architectural style was also diverse. There were oval, triangular, flat roofed wooden huts, pointed roofed thatched roofs … Just by looking at this, one could see that this was not a tribe.
Looking at the people, although the characteristics were not as obvious as the houses, people who saw them would have the same thought: These people were too mixed up, like a plate of loose sand. Every grain of sand came from different river basins, and then gathered here.
Although there were many people, but many of them looked very weak. Some were as thin as a match, some had lifeless eyes. Regardless of whether they were adults or children, they were all the same. The children were slightly better. In addition to their physical condition, some would even smile. But the adults, more often than not, were at a loss and depressed.
In the end, what happened to these people that made them like this?
"These people are?" Shao Xuan asked the people next to him who were very experienced.
"You mean them." The people of the Pu tribe glanced over, some sighed, some did not care, "They are 'wanderers'."
The 'wanderers' they spoke of were not tourists, but those who were homeless and had no place to live. They were like rootless duckweed, often moving around, doing all kinds of things to survive.
"They are people who lost their fire seed." A person of the Pu tribe next to them said.
People who lost their fire seed, no matter where they went, their life would be in darkness. Without their fire seed, where would their power come from?
"Lost their fire seed?" Shao Xuan was very curious about this statement.
"Yes, their tribe no longer exists. Their fire seed was extinguished, and they lost their source of power." The person said.
In the year Shao Xuan awakened, the shaman told them that their source of power was in their body. Under the call of the fire seed, it would gradually begin to awaken, which was the totem in their mind.
If the fire seed was extinguished, it meant that the tribe no longer existed. The totem would naturally dissipate, and the source of power in the body would naturally fall into a deep sleep, or even disappear.
No wonder those people were in such a state. The tribe was gone, the totem power was gone, and they became 'wanderers', wandering in the world, at a loss. The only thing they could do was to survive, completely dominated by survival instinct.
However, the fire seed being extinguished, this statement made Shao Xuan very surprised. He originally thought that the special flame would exist for a long time, but now it seemed that it could be extinguished. But when it was extinguished, the tribe would be gone.
According to the people of the Pu tribe, after the fire seed was extinguished, the tribe would disappear. Some people would use their own special survival skills in exchange for food. For example, coolies.
Perhaps, for the rest of their lives, they would be in such a state of wandering. Some people would abandon their beliefs, and join other tribes. Their descendants would naturally awaken the totem of other tribes under the call of the fire seed of other tribes. But if the totem power in the body was too mixed, it would be good if the awakening was successful. Even if they would be discriminated against, at least they would have a safe place to stay, and a place to belong. But if the awakening failed, they would be driven out of the tribe, and continue the wanderer life of their ancestors.
"Why don't they go hunting?" Shao Xuan asked. But after asking, Shao Xuan realized that there might be various situations. Without the totem power, hunting was too risky.
"Hunting?" Yu smiled, "Unless they have to, they won't go hunting by themselves."
Even if this place was not like the forest on the other side of the river, but in many places, it was impossible for one or two people to resist. At least a team was needed to barely survive, especially those who had been abandoned by the fire seed. Without faith and power, nine out of ten people would die.
"If both parents are not wanderers, what will happen to the offspring?" Shao Xuan asked.
"Generally speaking, many tribes do not require marriage with people within the tribe, for example, our Pu tribe. As long as the descendant accepted the guidance of the fire seed, it would be fine. However, there was only one choice, either accept the tribe's fire seed or accept the other. He could only awaken one source of power. Otherwise, if he awakened both sources of power, it would cause conflict. The people of small tribes are more inclined to marry people within the tribe, but this also has its disadvantages. If there are too few people, it is easy to cause chaos. "
The Pu tribe's experienced traveller also said that in order to increase the population of small tribes, many unimaginable promiscuity occurred, making the whole tribe a mess. The people of the Pu tribe were quite disdainful of this.
Shao Xuan thought about it. When the Yanjiao tribe was stranded in that place, there were not many people, but there were records in the hands of the shamans. According to Shao Xuan's records, the tribe's population growth was very slow, but very stable. There was no chaos like what Yu said.
When he was in the tribe, Shao Xuan felt that the Yanjiao tribe's shamans did not have an easy life. Now that he heard about the situation of other tribes, if it were not for the leadership of the Yanjiao tribe, generation after generation of shamans, it might have become like that.
In that situation, they had to face all kinds of fierce beasts in the surrounding forest. It was not easy to develop to the scale of nearly two thousand people today.
A good shaman, a good leader, was indeed very important.
The Pu tribe's traveller team came ashore one after another. Shao Xuan saw a small team of ten people quickly come over to help the Pu tribe's rafts carry things and look after the rafts on the water. There was also a person holding a whip and staring fiercely at them.
"Who are they?" Shao Xuan asked the person next to him.
"You mean them." It was the same words as before, but this time the Pu tribe's people's eyes were no longer indifferent or sighing, but with extreme contempt, heavily said, "Those are slaves!"
Shao Xuan's eyelids jumped.
At this time, Shao Xuan only heard a presumptuous laughter in front of him, the laughter was a bit harsh.
Looking up, Shao Xuan saw a man casually draped in a leopard pelt, smiling as he slowly walked over. He was tall and thin, with a pale face, unlike the tanned skin of the people around him who were busy working. His eyes were slightly squinted, and he seemed to be laughing happily. But from his eyes flashed a sharp light that told Shao Xuan that this person was not easy to get along with.
"Hahahaha! We meet again! " When that person came over, the leader of the traveller team, Fan Ning, quickly went to greet him. Fan Ning, who had always been unhappy with Shao Xuan, was now smiling like a flower, and went to talk to the other party.
"Who is that person?" Shao Xuan asked the person next to him.
This time the Pu tribe's people's voice was not so loud, slightly lowering their voice, they said, "He is the master of those slaves."
In other words, the person wearing leopard skin was a slave master.
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