Qingye panicked for a moment, but she quickly adjusted herself.
Qingye took off the animal skin bag tied around his waist, opened the mouth of the bag, took out a red fruit from it, and handed it to Jiang Xuan gently.
"What's this?"
Jiang Xuan took the fruit, looked at it carefully, and asked curiously.
"This is the fruit of the beheaded grass. I got it when I was hunting in the black water swamp. Eating it can increase my strength."
"You saved Shi Ya, this fruit is for you."
As soon as Qingye explained this, Jiang Xuan understood.
Beheaded grass should also be a kind of magical plant. After eating it, it can enhance a person's strength.
Different magical plant fruits can enhance various abilities of warriors.
Such as strength, speed, vision, hearing, etc.
Because of this, the fruits of magical plants are very precious to warriors, and many people even risk their lives to pick them.
Aoba's ability to offer this power-enhancing fruit as a thank you gift shows his sincerity.
Jiang Xuan declined: "It's just a small effort for me to save Shi Ya. I can't take such a precious thing."
But Qingye said stubbornly: "Please accept it, the Crocodile Tribe must repay kindness."
Jiang Xuan was not a mother-in-law person either. When he saw Qingye being so insistent, he accepted it. After all, there was no point in pushing him around.
When Qingye saw Jiang Xuan accept the fruit, a relaxed smile appeared on his face again.
"Chief Xuan, can you tell me about your Vine Tribe?"
Qingye is very curious about the Vine Tribe. If they can cultivate a young and powerful leader like Jiang Xuan, what will the Vine Tribe look like?
"sure."
Jiang Xuan thought for a while, and then selectively introduced the situation of the Vine Tribe to Qingye, including the trading area in the Vine Tribe, various domesticated birds and animals, as well as planting, fishing, etc.
Regarding the rapid growth of the Vine Tribe in the past few years and the continuous breakthroughs of Shen Teng, Jiang Xuan did not mention a word, because publicizing these things would not be of any benefit to the Vine Tribe.
Outside, the moonlight was like water, and the chirping of insects and the calls of nocturnal birds sounded from time to time.
In the room, with the firelight swaying, Jiang Xuan and Qingye chatted a lot about the Vine Tribe and the central part of the Southern Wilderness. The two chatted happily.
It wasn't until late at night that Qingye got up and said to Jiang Xuan: "It's getting late, I should go back to sleep."
"Okay, be careful on the road."
Qingye lit a torch, turned around and walked out.
When she walked to the door, she suddenly remembered something, so she turned back to Jiang Xuan and asked: "We are going hunting in Blackwater Lake tomorrow. Are you interested in going together?"
Jiang Xuandao: "If I go, Tangyuan will definitely go with me."
"That purple fierce bird? No problem. Blackwater Lake is very dangerous. With it in the sky as a warning, we will be safer."
Qingye doesn't know what glutinous rice balls are, but she knows that the purple fierce bird is very powerful and smart, and it can play a certain role in the past.
"Okay, then I will go with you tomorrow morning and bring glutinous rice balls."
"Then it's settled. Go to bed early and we'll set off at dawn tomorrow."
After Qingye finished speaking, he happily held the torch and went downstairs, returning to his residence.
After Qingye left, Jiang Xuan closed the door of the stilted building, returned to the fire pit, took out the fruit that Qingye gave him that can increase his strength when eaten, looked at it carefully for a moment, and then put it away again.
Fruits like this can greatly improve low-strength warriors, but for powerful warriors like Jiang Xuan, even if they eat them, their strength will not increase much.
In this case, I'd better keep it for now, maybe I'll need it later.
Jiang Xuan put away his things, then lay on the bed covered with reed poles and animal skins, and fell asleep soon after.
When he fell asleep, the divine vine on his arm gave off a brief and weak light, but soon dimmed again.
The next day, just after dawn, Jiang Xuan woke up on time.
He packed up his personal belongings and weapons, and used plant ashes to cover the burning firewood in the fire pit. This method could prevent fires and also allowed the wood to simmer in the plant ashes, so that the fire could be retained for about a day.
Jiang Xuan closed the door and went down to the stilted building.
He washed his face by a shallow stream and cleaned his teeth with the animal hair toothbrush and specially ground salt powder he brought with him.
If people from other tribes knew that he used salt to clean his teeth, they would beat their chests and scold him for being a prodigal.
Because salt is too precious to tribal people.
After washing up, Jiang Xuan walked towards the place where the crocodile tribe hunting team gathered.
The place was already bustling with people, and with Jiang Xuan's extraordinary hearing, he found it easily.
Because they wanted to enter Blackwater, the Crocodile Tribe gathered about a thousand warriors, and they were all relatively strong, and most of them were warriors of two colors or above.
"Chief Xuan, here!"
Among the crowd, Qingye saw Jiang Xuan at a glance and waved to him.
Jiang Xuan immediately walked to Qingye's side.
Qingye took out a piece of bone tied with a rope from his animal skin bag and gave it to Jiang Xuan, saying: "I asked the witch for this. It has the totem pattern of our crocodile tribe on it. As long as you hang it on your waist,
Go up and the crocodile won't attack you."
Jiang Xuan took the bone fragment and found that the totem pattern on it seemed to contain a mysterious power. The eyes of the crocodile pattern were open, and just by looking at it, he felt a kind of soul-stirring fear.
Witches can always come up with some weird things.
Jiang Xuan didn't pay much attention and directly tied the bone fragment to his belt.
There is a vine from the divine vine wrapped around his arm. Even if this piece of bone has some weirdness, it will be suppressed by the divine vine.
"Set off!"
The leader Cimu shouted, and then all the Crocodile tribe warriors took their belongings and walked outside.
Cimu obviously knew that Jiang Xuan would go with them, and he turned to Jiang Xuan and smiled kindly.
More than a thousand people walked along the largest stream in the tribe, in the opposite direction to the fence.
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Along the way, many large crocodiles entered the water and followed everyone forward.
Qingye looked around and said to Jiang Xuan: "Where is your purple fierce bird? Can it follow you?"
Jiang Xuan smiled and said: "Don't worry, it will definitely follow you soon."
Jiang Xuan took out a bone whistle and blew several times into the sky.
"Hey..."
In the forest in the distance, a sharp bird call sounded, and then a huge purple vicious bird flew into the sky.
Jiang Xuan blew the bone whistle a few more times, and Tang Yuan immediately locked onto his position, but instead of flying directly over the Crocodile Tribe, he circled around the edge of the Crocodile Tribe's territory and followed him from a distance.
Because Jiang Xuan specifically told it not to fly directly over the crocodile tribe. This is to respect the crocodile tribe and to protect itself.
If you fly directly over the Crocodile Tribe, if the Totem God of the Crocodile Tribe becomes angry, you will be in big trouble.
Qingye looked at the purple ferocious bird in the sky, his eyes filled with excitement. The tribesmen liked this ferocious creature.
The warriors of the tribe were moving very fast, and soon they passed through the territory of the crocodile tribe and came to a large river bend.
In the river bend, countless large crocodiles are resting here, some floating in the water, and some lying on the shore, scanning the surroundings with cold eyes from time to time.
"Leader Xuan, come here quickly."
Qingye stood next to a large crocodile that was more than ten meters long and called Jiang Xuan over.
The creatures in this world are all very large, and so are these crocodiles. Jiang Xuan even saw a few large crocodiles that were fifty or sixty meters long, which were truly behemoths.
Qingye was the first to sit on the back of the big crocodile, and then Jiang Xuan also waded over and sat on the back of the big crocodile.
The skin of this large crocodile is blue-gray, and its back is uneven, just like a cobblestone road.
The leader of the crocodile tribe rode the largest crocodile and set off first with a dozen warriors.
Other large crocodiles carrying crocodile tribe warriors followed closely behind.
"Xiaoqing, we are leaving too!"
Qingye patted the big crocodile, and the big crocodile flicked its tail and slowly swam forward to keep up with the large army.
"Its name is Xiao Qing?"
Jiang Xuan pointed at the big crocodile in astonishment.
"Yes, my name is Qingye, and his name is Xiaoqing. We grew up together. Is there any problem?"
"No... no problem..."
Jiang Xuan just thought of a snake spirit also named "Xiao Qing".
Xiaoqing swam very smoothly, unlike some crocodiles who like to sink their whole body underwater, but always kept their back slightly above the water.
In this way, people sitting on it can be more comfortable.
From this point of view, Xiaoqing obviously knows how to take care of people's feelings better than other crocodiles.
Hundreds of large crocodiles swam out of the river bend and swam into the extremely wide river with great momentum.
In the sky, Tangyuan locked onto Jiang Xuan's position and followed him flying leisurely, sometimes even going to the mountain peak ahead to rest for a while.
For glutinous rice balls, those crocodiles in the water swim too slowly.
Along the way, whether they were water animals or various large fish, they all avoided such a huge group of crocodiles.
The crocodiles swam on the water for a whole day, but they had not yet arrived at Blackwater. Before the sun set, they rested on a river beach for the night.
This river beach is very wide, and there are many traces of fires and some simple wooden sheds on it.
Apparently, warriors from the Crocodile Tribe often used this place as an overnight camp.
After the big crocodile came ashore, the leader Cimu asked some of the soldiers to hunt and some to collect dry firewood and light a bonfire.
After sending the soldiers ashore, the big crocodiles re-entered the water. They also needed to look for food to fill their stomachs and replenish their physical strength.
Although Jiang Xuan is a guest, he cannot always get something for nothing and eat the hard-fought prey of the Crocodile Tribe warriors.
Therefore, he took the initiative to go hunting in the mountains. Qingye was more familiar with the nearby terrain and was responsible for guiding Jiang Xuan.
Jiang Xuan is a five-color warrior, and hunting is relatively easy for him.
After the two entered the mountain, Jiang Xuan tracked the traces of two large prey. After finding the prey, he severely wounded the prey with a short spear, then beat it to death with his bare hands and carried it back to the camp.
After returning to the campfire, Jiang Xuan first carried a piece of prey to Ci Mu, the leader of the crocodile tribe, as a gift to him.
"Hahaha, Chief Xuan, you are too polite."
Cimu was very happy. Although he did not lack this prey, Jiang Xuan gave him this prey, which made him feel valued and respected.
"Chief Cimu, it's just a prey. Take it. I heard that Blackwater Lake is very dangerous, and I'm not familiar with it. I'll have to ask Leader Cimu to take care of it when the time comes."
"Hahaha, no problem. Don't worry, Chief Xuan. When we get to Blackwater Lake, just follow us."
Jiang Xuan chatted with Cimu for a few more words, and then returned to the wooden shed where Qingye was.
The prey that Jiang Xuan hunted weighed over a thousand kilograms per head, and he and Qingye would definitely not be able to finish it all.
Jiang Xuan skinned and decomposed the prey, cleaned it, and then used a bronze knife disguised with paint to cut the meat into strips and gave it to the surrounding crocodile tribe warriors.
As a result, the Crocodile Tribe warriors' favorability towards Jiang Xuan skyrocketed. Everyone praised his generosity, and their impression of the Vine Tribe also improved.
Finally, Jiang Xuan gave part of the meat to the crocodile named "Xiao Qing".
Qingye witnessed a series of Jiang Xuan's actions with her own eyes, and her eyes were filled with brilliance, and she had an even greater liking for Jiang Xuan.
After all, compared with other rude tribesmen, it is obviously much more pleasant to get along and chat with Jiang Xuan, not to mention that he is powerful and far superior to his peers.
Of course, there are so many warriors in the Crocodile Tribe, and even though Jiang Xuan is so generous, there are still some people who can't stand him.
These people are the ones who like Qingye.
Qingye is a rather special girl in the crocodile tribe.
Her fighting talent is very high and her strength is very strong. Among her peers, the strongest people are only about the same as her, and no one is stronger than her.
However, Qingye is a person with a relatively high spirit. The man she likes must be stronger than her, otherwise she will not like him at all.
Therefore, those warriors who wanted to pursue Aoba were ruthlessly rejected by her.
Some of the people who struggled so hard were even beaten up by Qingye.
Even so, there are still many soldiers who have thoughts about Aoba, but they just don't dare to show it like before.
It would be fine if everyone couldn't get it, but now, Qingye obviously has a crush on Jiang Xuan, and the two of them were talking and laughing, which deeply hurt these people.
They were naturally very unhappy with Jiang Xuan, and even wanted to find an opportunity to make Jiang Xuan look bad and destroy Qingye's good impression of him.
"Isn't it just a five-color warrior? What's so great about it!"
"Yes, he is still a leader. The leader of our crocodile tribe is a seven-color warrior!"
"When we get to Blackwater Lake, I want him to look good!"
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These people were discussing in low voices, wanting to give Jiang Xuan some color.
However, when they discovered that Qingye was actually grilling Jiang Xuan, they were so jealous that they went crazy and hated Jiang Xuan even more.
Jiang Xuan's six senses were very keen. When he felt the hostile eyes, he immediately looked over there. When he found a few young warriors from the Crocodile Tribe, he gave them a friendly smile.
When the soldiers saw his smiling face, they felt even more uncomfortable, but they did not dare to show hostility directly. They could only turn their heads and keep their anger in their hearts, which was quite uncomfortable.
Jiang Xuan didn't care either. Even if it was a knife coin, many people didn't like it, let alone him.
It is enough to ensure that most people in the Crocodile Tribe have a favorable impression of him and the Vine Tribe.
Qingye also glanced over there following Jiang Xuan's gaze, and saw that they were several warriors who had pursued her before, so he didn't pay attention.
To put it bluntly, the more they behave like this, the less Qingye will look down on them.