The crocodile tribe shaman looked at the colorful crocodile pottery figurine with almost obsession. This kind of ultra-era handicraft brought him an indescribable shock.
The Crocodile Tribe uses crocodiles as their totem and has extremely deep feelings for crocodiles. It would be difficult for any member of the Crocodile Tribe to refuse a lifelike colorful crocodile pottery figurine as a gift.
Cimu first asked someone to find a good animal skin and spread it on the ground, and then carefully placed the crocodile pottery figurine on it.
Cimu excitedly held Jingjie's hand and said: "This gift is too precious. Go back and thank your leader and shaman for me. The Crocodile Tribe and the Vine Tribe will always be the best friends!"
Jingjie said with a smile: "I will definitely bring the words of Leader Cimu."
Later, Nepeta asked his soldiers to open other rattan baskets, revealing various precious gifts.
Among them are various pottery engraved with crocodile patterns, golden bronze knives and coins, as well as white insect wax, sugar and other things.
Although these gifts are not as stunning as the colorful crocodile pottery figurines, they are still relatively rare and valuable.
After Cimu and Crocodile Tribe shamans accepted these gifts, they felt more favorable toward the Vine Tribe and even felt embarrassed because they had received too many precious gifts.
At this time, Jingjie took the opportunity to tell the story about the warriors from the Vine Tribe, Mountain Turtle Tribe and Frog Tribe going to the central hinterland. Cimu and the Crocodile Tribe shamans directly agreed without any hesitation.
Although there are many people borrowing the passage this time, in the eyes of Cimu and the crocodile tribe wizard, these people cannot pose a threat to the crocodile tribe. With the crocodile god around, unless the totem god of the Teng tribe comes in person, no matter how many warriors come, they will be nothing more.
Just give me some meat.
This is the confidence of a large tribe with a totem god!
Nepeta and Stone Loach looked at each other and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the Crocodile Tribe occupies the most important waterway. If they are unwilling to use the channel, things will become very difficult.
Moreover, with the experience of successfully crossing the road for the first time, it will be easier to borrow the road next time, and the crocodile tribe will be less defensive.
The two had to admire Jiang Xuan's foresight. If Jiang Xuan had not established a good relationship with the Crocodile Tribe and asked them to bring these precious gifts, it would have been impossible to have such a smooth passage.
I would like to ask, which large tribe is willing to easily open its territory to allow large numbers of people from other tribes to pass through?
After the gifts were handed over and the matter of borrowing the passage was settled, Cimu immediately asked someone to arrange a banquet and warmly entertained Jing Jie and others.
Even the warriors from the Vine Tribe who were in charge of doing business were treated very well. Some warriors who were attracted by the girls from the Crocodile Tribe were even allowed to spend the night in a stilted building, enjoying delicious food and beauties at the same time, which was quite comfortable.
However, everyone was happy, but one person was very unhappy, and that was Hei Jia.
Because Qingye likes Jiang Xuan and rejects him, Heijia doesn't like the entire Teng tribe and even hates it.
Especially when Cimu asked him to entertain the warriors of the Teng tribe, this dissatisfaction accumulated more and more.
However, the leader and the shaman had a very good impression of the Vine Tribe, or in other words, most of the Crocodile Tribe warriors had a very good impression of the Vine Tribe. Heijia had no excuse to get angry, so he could only suppress this dissatisfaction deep in his heart, but the more he got
The suppression became more and more uncomfortable, and he was about to explode with anger.
After finally enduring the dinner, the leader Cimu chatted with Jing Jie, Shi Loach and others, and accidentally mentioned that the warriors of the two tribes should have a competition to cheer up the fun. Hei Jia felt that he had finally found an opportunity.
Heijia immediately stood up and said to Cimu: "Chief, let me learn the hunting skills of the Teng tribe warriors."
Cimu laughed and nodded, because Heijia is the strongest warrior of the younger generation of the Crocodile Tribe, and it would be perfect for him to compete with the people of the Vine Tribe.
"Okay, but you are a five-color warrior. For the sake of fairness, you can only compare with the five-color warriors of the Vine tribe."
After Cimu finished speaking, he looked at Jing Jie and Shi Loach with a smile, because among the Teng tribe warriors present, they were the only two warriors of five colors.
Hei Jia already had a target. He pointed at Shi Loach and said, "I see that the leader of Shi Loach is always carrying a bow and arrows. He must be very good at archery. I happen to be an archer in the hunting team. How about we compete?"
Shi Loach frowned slightly. He was calm by nature and not the kind of person who liked to show off. He didn't like this kind of competition in public.
However, at this moment, Jing Jie came over and whispered: "Chief Shi Loach, show your strength properly, otherwise people will look down on the Qing Teng tribe."
Hearing these words, Shi Loach finally nodded, because the importance of the Vine Tribe in his heart was too heavy, and he would never allow others to underestimate him.
"Okay, I'll compete with you."
After hearing Shi Loach's reply, Heijia was overjoyed and immediately said: "It's too narrow here. Come on, let's go downstairs to compete."
The members of the Crocodile Tribe immediately swarmed down and ran down, and everyone looked very excited.
Nepeta and Stone Loach looked at each other and led the warriors of the Vine Tribe downstairs.
When Cimu went downstairs, he thought about it for a moment, then deliberately took out a bow from the wall before going downstairs.
After arriving downstairs, word spread quickly that the leader of the Vine Tribe's hunting team was competing with Hei Jia to test their archery skills. Soon, the entire Crocodile Tribe was excited, and countless people rushed here.
Everyone wants to watch the fun.
By the time Heijia found a venue for the competition, the crowd of onlookers had already reached three levels inside and three levels outside, completely surrounding the venue. Many people even climbed onto nearby stilted buildings and trees.
Before going on stage, Cimu found an opportunity to give Heijia the bow he had just taken.
"Since we are going to test archery skills, how can we do it without a good bow? This bow was used by me before. The materials and craftsmanship are quite good. I give it to you now. Don't embarrass the tribe when we compete later."
The black armor took the bow and said confidently: "Don't worry, leader, I will definitely win!"
Ci Mu felt that Hei Jia was a little overconfident, but considering that his archery skills were indeed top-notch among the crocodile tribe, he didn't say anything more. After all, there was a competition coming soon, so Hei Jia's confidence could not be dampened.
Soon, Hei Jia and Shi Loach appeared on the stage surrounded by everyone, each standing on one side.
As the leader of the crocodile tribe, Cimu presided over this competition without hesitation.
After the two of them prepared their bows and arrows, Cimu pointed to a small tree about the thickness of a wrist dozens of meters away and said, "Have you seen that small tree? Each person shoots five arrows. Whoever hits the tree trunk with more arrows will get the most arrows."
Even if who wins, which of you will come first?"
Heijia shouted without hesitation: "I'll come first!"
After Heijia finished speaking, he immediately concentrated and held his breath, raised his bow and nocked an arrow, temporarily ignoring the noisy crowd around him, and only had eyes for the small tree.
"call out!"
Soon, Heijia shot the first arrow, and saw the arrow with tail feathers flying towards the small tree with a sound of breaking through the air. Finally, with a "dong" sound, it accurately hit the trunk of the small tree.
"good!"
The onlookers from the Crocodile Tribe shouted excitedly, and Heijia's precise first arrow greatly boosted their morale.
Heijia also had a smile on his face. He looked at Shi Loach provocatively, trying to see Shi Loach's panic or even be convinced.
However, Shi Loach's expression was extremely calm and he didn't even look at him.
This made Hei Jia a little angry. He thought Shi Loach must be pretending to be calm.
Hei Jia once again raised his bow and nocked an arrow, and with full confidence, he shot an arrow at the small tree. Every time an arrow hit, it would definitely cause a burst of cheers from the crocodile tribe members.
Hei Jia did have some skills. He shot five arrows in a row, and none of them missed. They all hit the trunk of the small tree.
This made the people of the Crocodile Tribe even more excited. Even Cimu smiled and nodded, obviously very satisfied with the strength shown by Hei Jia.
"Chief Stone Loach, it's your turn."
After the black armor finished shooting, he looked at Shi Loach provocatively, with a proud look on his face.
Shi Loach didn't pay attention, his expression remained calm and his hands remained steady.
He looked at the small tree, took off the horn bow, then opened the bow and set the arrow as usual, just like he had done countless times, simply drew the bow, and then shot the arrow at the target.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom..."
The stone loach shot five arrows almost without stopping. The movements obviously did not look very fast, but they were smooth as if they were performing arts, which was pleasing to the eye.
"Do, do, do, do, do..."
Five arrows flew toward the small tree one after another, and then concentrated on the middle of the trunk. The landing point was much better than what the black armor could control.
The cheers of the Crocodile Tribe people suddenly stopped, and everyone looked at Shi Loach as if they had seen a ghost.
Almost all the tribesmen are expert hunters, and because of this, they know very well how difficult it is for five arrows to land in the same position without any deviation.
The smile on Heijia's face also froze. After a moment of stiffness, he rushed towards the small tree like crazy and took a close look at the arrows on the trunk.
After getting closer, Heijia could clearly see that although the five arrows he fired had all hit the tree trunk, their positions were messy. One arrow even landed on the edge of the tree trunk and almost missed.
The five arrows shot by the stone loach all landed in the same position. The five arrows were distributed in a plum blossom shape, very regular and neat, without any deviation.
Comparing the two, Hei Jia's face turned pale, he staggered a few steps and almost fell to the ground.
At this moment, his pride was shattered, and for the first time, he deeply realized what it means to have someone outside the world and a sky outside the world.