Amidst the bustle and bustle, the night of the full moon arrived as scheduled.
Early the next morning.
It's just dawn.
Along with the sound of horns for hunters to wake up for training, each alliance tribe began their daily morning exercises.
Amidst the neat chants and the sound of kicking footsteps, men and women began to get out of the densely packed tents on the river beach. After briefly washing up in the river, ditch and pond, they made fires to cook, carried firewood, and prepared.
Welcome to this most lively and serious grand gathering of the year.
As the hunter training ended, a rising sun also jumped over the mountains in the east. The bright sunshine instantly filled the mountains, rivers and fields, and the entire valley was filled with smoke and joy.
However, this year's sacrificial ceremony is slightly different from before, because before it begins, a grand shaman inheritance ceremony will be held.
According to the previous arrangement, the newly converted Yu Gong and Five Ghost tribes must first accept the inheritance of the great witch and completely change their beliefs and submit to the Ba tribe before they can collectively participate in this competition in the name of the alliance tribe.
Sacrificial meetings and marriage and marriage activities.
The tribes of the two tribes have long been aware of this arrangement, and all tribesmen agree with it, without any dissatisfaction.
The Yugong clan may have been dissatisfied before, but after they saw how powerful Xu Chen was and what the Gonghuo clan saw and heard, this dissatisfaction had long since disappeared.
And after coming to the Ba tribe this time, no one from the great witch to the ordinary tribe showed any resistance.
There are even many young hunters who are participating in the marriage. They are already drooling in private and gearing up to marry into the Ba tribe and become a member of this super tribe. From now on, they will enjoy hot drinks and wear leather armor every day.
With a bronze sword hanging from his waist and a majestic wild horse under his crotch, he followed His Majesty the Witch King to gallop thousands of miles and conquer all races.
As for the Five Ghosts, they are even more submissive.
After Xu Chen helped them kill the group of demons with human faces and bird bodies occupying the Devil Valley, they had completely surrendered.
Before their death, their great witch had entrusted the scepter to Xu Chen with full authority, and hoped that Xu Chen would recognize their new heir. This actually means that the Five Ghost Tribe is no longer a separate tribe, but the Ba Tribe.
Lord, became a subordinate tribe.
The new witch of the Five Ghost Clan is still a little girl, about the same age as her twin sisters, but her personality is more withdrawn and timid. She is almost like a puppet or a rag doll, completely at the mercy of Xu Chen's arrangements. After becoming a witch, she has always followed
The old witch of the Gonghuo Clan is familiar with and learning the words and deeds of witches. She almost makes no arrangements for her own behavior on weekdays. She stays in the new settlement of the Five Ghost Clan and has almost no contact with other tribes.
This time she came with the great shaman of the Gonghuo Clan, and she also brought more than thirty young men and women. However, the Five Ghost Clan has been suffering from lead poisoning for many years, coupled with a very closed internal intermarriage, resulting in prominent genetic defects and appearance.
Most of them don't look normal.
But the good news is that although these people are ugly, their spirits and intelligence are still normal, because when they were abnormal, they were thrown into the Devil's Valley and fed to the group of ghosts when they were young, and they withered.
Xu Chen was not very optimistic about the Five Ghost Clan's marriage on Mother's Day.
Although these primitive people are barbaric and do not seem to have any aesthetic concepts, and even have a very strange concept of beauty, they have to admit that no matter what animal they are, they still have certain basic judgments about beauty and ugliness, that is, the facial features and figure must be normal and cannot have defects.
.
The Five Ghosts are almost not qualified for either of these things.
However, as time goes by, Xu Chen believes that things will gradually get better in the future.
The new group of Five Ghosts will gradually get rid of the damage caused by lead poisoning in the new environment. Coupled with the introduction of some foreign bloodlines, it is estimated that they will fully recover after breeding for two or three generations.
Therefore, Xu Chen decided to see how this marriage went. If he really got nothing, he would try to help.
After all, having the Five Ghost Clan who are loyal to the Ba Clan taking root in Gonghuo Basin is also very important for his future development.
The Thunder Clan, which has dozens of people, mainly women, children, and old people, is completely unable to shoulder this important task. What's more, the Thunder Clan doesn't even have a witch. The entire tribe is shrouded in the old witch's cloak, making it difficult to control.
convenient.
The poor people who occupied the tin mines also came with a large team of nearly two hundred people this time, but they obviously planned to focus on trading. All the people who came were adult men and women, and they brought a lot of tin in rattan baskets.
and some valuables such as gems, leather goods, animal horns, bones and teeth, and what he wanted was naturally bronze knives, axes, weapons, rock salt pottery and other items.
There is a poor shaman who is about forty years old. He is young and powerful, and he is also eloquent. Although the language is different from that of the Ba people of the Gonghuo tribe, there is no big problem in communication because there are Lapp people who translate from them.
However, there are poor tribes who belong to an independent ethnic group and have a purely neighborly relationship with the Ba tribe alliance, with an equal trading position. Therefore, their great witches are unlikely to be willing to change their beliefs and submit to the leadership of the Ba tribe's great witches. Therefore, this time they went
I came here mainly to observe, learn and trade, and had no plans of getting married.
Moreover, some poor people do not have a festival to worship the First Mother Goddess. Instead, they have a spring festival in mid-January, which is a sacrificial activity to bless the growth of all things. There are also marriages and blessings for mating and having children, expressing that human beings and all things can have the same ability in spring.
Continuously reproduce and grow, ensuring that each tribal group continues to grow.
However, Wu Gui did not know much about the Goddess Gumu, but after arriving at the Ba tribe and seeing the Gumu Temple and the statue of the Godmother God, and seeing that the Ba tribe alliance now has a huge spiritual belief of five witches, there is actually
The poor witch and all the people from the alliance tribes who came with him all became excited and frightened.
The strength displayed by the Ba Alliance has far exceeded their expectations.
Whether it is the number of witches, well-trained hunters, the population, various houses, farmland, weapons, horses, equipment, pottery, rock salt, linen, copperware, etc., everything they see and hear is far beyond their imagination.
, apart from the urgent desire, there is only a sense of shame.
Especially the mysterious Temple of the Mother of God, when you see it, you have an urge to kneel down and worship.
But their identities force them to maintain their independence so as not to displease the gods they believe in.
Therefore, since the arrival of the Ba tribe, this ethnic group, which does not belong to the Ba tribe alliance, has been a marginalized group wandering outside the circle.
The great shaman of the Ba ethnic group took several witches to discuss and arrange the sacrificial activities, while the shaman of the poor tribe could only observe but could not speak.
In the transactions and exchanges of all tribes, the Ba tribe and the Gonghuo tribe are the center. The Yu Gong tribe and the Five Ghost tribe are in a supporting position. The poor tribe can only watch the fun and cannot participate in any activities.
Can't join the discussion topic.
Because in the eyes of the Gonghuo Tribe of the Ba Tribe and even the Five Ghost Tribes of the Yu Gong Tribe, they are all cared for and protected by the same deity. However, the Youqiu Tribe is a heretic, and his deity does not belong to him, so he will naturally suffer
to rejection.
As for the plight of the poor, Xu Chen saw it but didn't care.
In fact, he also wanted to make the poor people surrender sincerely without any bloodshed.
But he doesn't force it. After all, he only needs to ensure that the poor can provide tin stably and on time. With tin as a trading channel, other transactions and transactions will naturally increase and will gradually be integrated in the future.
As for the inheritance of the great witch, he doesn't want to force it at the moment.
Because he had just annexed the Yu Gong Clan and the Five Ghost Clan, the entire Ba Clan Alliance has increased its population by nearly 30%. He still needs to wait for him to arrange these tribes and slowly keep up with the pace of the Ba Clan's development before starting the third round.
expansion.
And by then, the poor and the Cicha tribe will be the first targets.
As for the large river basin further downstream with mammoth elephants and the tribes further to the west and north, the order of conquest has to be postponed even further, in his opinion, at least years later.
Therefore, this time on Mother's Day, some tribes joined as friendly tribes and did not participate in the sacrifice activities of Mother's Day.
After breakfast, accompanied by several deep and melodious horn sounds, I saw a large group of people coming out of the Ba ethnic compound.
There were five horses in front, with five young men sitting on their backs, holding flags and blowing horns to lead the way.
One of them had a dragon-tooth scimitar hanging from his waist, and his cloak was fluttering in the wind. He was none other than His Majesty the Witch King, who was very familiar to everyone.
Next to him was a slightly burly, pudgy boy, holding a golden horn in his hand and blowing it one after another.
The other three young men all held high a brand new flag, a royal flag, a blue dragon flag, and a snake flag of the Ba tribe.
Behind the five people, there is a team of five great witches headed by a little witch, all riding on horses. In addition to the hunter leading the horse in the front, there are twenty young women in white dresses behind them.
Behind them, a group of officers including Feng, Mo, Ju, Gao and other officers of the Ba tribe, led by Mu Ba and A Mu, were riding horses with a neat team, kicking and stamping to defend the surroundings. The whole scene looked very impressive.
Spectacular.
"Wulaiga!"
Amidst the shouting, the river beach instantly became excited and noisy, and people from each tribe quickly returned to their tribal positions, excitedly waiting for the upcoming inheritance ceremony.
The men and women from each tribe of the Gonghuo Alliance and the Ba Tribe Alliance took the initiative to line up and stand behind their own clan flags. Except for being a little excited, they all seemed relatively quiet and in good order.
However, the Yu Gong clan and the Youqing clan had no such concept of organization at all. They crowded forward in a swarm, and the scene seemed a bit noisy and chaotic. However, this situation was quickly pushed back by the hunter team that maintained order, and there was noisy for a long time.