The daily necessities of the barbarian tribes are all processed from local materials, such as hemp silk and kudzu silk as thread and cloth, sewing animal skins into clothes and mattresses, cutting bamboo and wood to make utensils, as well as stone tools, bone tools, pottery tools and metal tools. In that place and in that era, the concepts of "tool" and "instrument" are different, and not everything can be called "instrument". "Vessel" represents preciousness and rarity, and even symbolizes some mysterious strength.

Hard stone can be processed into a variety of cutting and chopping tools, while pottery is fired in a special way with special clay. As for metal artifacts, it is difficult for ordinary tribes to obtain, and ordinary people cannot process them at all.

All kinds of metals are made by quenching the essence of earth and minerals, and those monks with high realms can condense the essence of physical properties from ores and obtain metals with powerful mana and incredible magical powers. Therefore, the utensils of metal casting and forging are called "tools", and they need to use magical forces to appear.

As far away as Wakayama knew, far away from the mountains, in the vast plains densely populated, in those majestic and prosperous countries, there were masters who taught the public how to set up furnaces to smelt metal, and there was no need to borrow the magical power of monks. But doing so requires a huge collection of manpower and material resources, and a larger number of people working to support these people. This is unimaginable for the tribes in the wilderness, even if it is as strong as the Qingshui clan in the past, it is impossible to organize the clansmen to mine and metallurgy.

There are two main sources of metal artifacts in the deep mountain tribes, one is brought by the traders who have traveled a long way from outside the mountains to enter the Qingshui clan's walled city, and the other is that the advanced cultivators have refined them from the ore with supernatural powers. Among the tribes in this area, there are almost very few people who use mana to refine metal, and in the past, they used to exchange a little for something else in the Qingshui clan's walled city.

A very large part of those rare metal artifacts was given by the mountain gods. The mountain god once told the tribes in the area what ores were in the mountains, and if they found them on the way to hunting or gathering, they could take some back to the village, and then the priests would place them on the altar and worship the mountain god in a specific ceremony. When the mountain gods are in a good mood, they may use their great powers to process some metal artifacts for them.

Of course, the Qingshui clan got the most, and the tribes mainly went to the Qingshui clan's walled city to exchange. All the items that can be called "utensils" are treasures in the eyes of the clansmen, and they will be carefully kept and passed down from generation to generation. And now that the mountain god is silent, the Qingshui clan has been destroyed, and this source of metal artifacts has also been broken.

In fact, with the power of mountains and water, they are already monks of the Five Realms, and their magical power can of course be able to refine different metals from various ores. However, the spells they practice are not good at this, and it takes a lot of energy to do so, and even half the effort, so they rarely do it in normal times.

However, in the past few years, Wakayama has also made a move, and the few weapons used by the tribe that are made of stainless steel arrows and shuttle tips have been damaged from time to time, and Wakayama has placed them on the altar as usual to worship and pray to the mountain god. These arrow clusters and shuttle tips have indeed been repaired, and the clansmen still think that it is the mountain god who has appeared, but in fact, it is Ruoshan who is secretly casting a spell.

Poultry () animal muscles and bones are a very special material, which can be both tools and tools. If ordinary muscles and bones are condensed with supernatural mana, they are of little significance, but some of the three realm demon birds such as the White Feather Gu Eagles hunted today are already natural artifacts. It makes the best bowstrings and cords, and the bones make the sharpest weapons, and are tough and infragile. Killing this demon bird is also a big gain for this tribe.

The main wing bone of the White Feather Gu Eagle, which is equivalent to the upper arm bone of a human, is the toughest bone of this demon bird, and it can be used as a weapon directly. As long as the force is enough, it can smash boulders with a dance. The pan gourd bit the top of the wing bone, although it was not bitten or bitten through, but left four shallow tooth marks, which cannot be an ordinary dog's ability.

When Ruoshan saw these tooth marks, he asked in surprise, "You treated Pan Gu's wounds today, and its dog teeth were not broken, right?"

Ruoshui replied, "Its teeth don't have anything at all, but a cut in its shoulder." ”

Ruoshan took the wing bone and rubbed it for a long time, then pulled out a knife and slashed it lightly a few times, leaving no trace. He narrowed his eyes and said, "During the day, we are still talking about whether Pan Gu is expected to become a psychic beast. It seems that it is really not an ordinary dog, it has been gifted with supernatural powers, and it is about to open its minds. ”

Ruoshui muttered: "The psychic years of the fowl () beast are often very long, and if it is lucky enough, it may even enter the four realms and transform into a human form. But with your and my longevity, I don't know if we can see this day, and I don't know if this dog's fate can wait until this day?"

Wakayama: "I wish we could see it, and it could wait." ”

Ruoshui thought for a while, and then reminded: "I can see the action of Pan Gu very clearly during the day, although it is not the opponent of the Three Realms Demon Bird, and it can't even be said to have entered the initial realm, but it has opened its talent and supernatural powers, as long as it is trained well, ordinary wolves, bears, tigers and leopards and other fierce beasts are no longer its opponents." The clansmen can take it with them when they go out hunting, and it is a very good guardian beast. ”

Ruoshan looked at the wing bone in his hand and smiled: "It may not be appropriate to say that it is trained, it is better to teach it like other clansmen, it does not regard itself as a dog at all." What the people are doing, it will learn to do, but it must be taught not to cause trouble outside. ”

By this time, the stalk of grass that had been used as a wick had burned out, and the night was dark. Ruoshui finally got up to say goodbye, and Ruoshan Youyou asked, "Ah Shui, do you really want to leave?"

Ruoshui stood still in front of the stone house, leaving only Ruoshan's slender back, she replied lightly: "I didn't leave, I am still in the clan." ”

Wakayama: "It's been so many years that I've lit the lamp for the first time. Thou hast come into my house, but thou hast not stayed until the dawn. ”

Ruoshui: "There are some things I have already said back then, as long as you can do it! I have been waiting for the day when you can do it." After saying that, she walked out of the house and disappeared into the night, and Ruoshan let out a long sigh in the darkness.

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The tiger baby dreamed that night, probably because of what the mountain master said, although he couldn't understand it, he was very impressed. The child only vaguely understood one of the points, which was the explanation of "metaphors" - for example, some of the stones looked like eggs. Then he dreamed of a stone that looked like an egg, and then the stone cracked like an egg, and a chick popped out, and then the chick grew into a giant bird that soared into the sky.

Dreams are often chaotic and incoherent, and often absurd. Then the tiger baby dreamed of many stones like eggs, as if he could reach out and grasp them in the air, just like the strange bird he saw during the day. Although these are fragments of dreams, the tiger baby remembers them very clearly, and she has not forgotten them at all after waking up.

That night, Huwa also had another very strange dream, on a beautiful mountain, he saw a wonderful figure. He had never seen such a scene before, it did not belong to this wild mountain at all, but he saw it in his dreams. The scene in the dream is very ethereal but very complete, whether it is the landscape style or the figure style, the feeling of the tiger baby is so beautiful.

Such a young child may not know what beauty is, but he naturally feels that this is the beauty he admires, with an indescribable yearning and longing. The dream is so ethereal, and when she wakes up, she only leaves a vague impression, and the tiger baby can't recall it clearly. But in the dream, he inexplicably had a feeling that he had or would have a very special relationship with that person.

When did the so-called life begin? It has two beginnings, it can be said to be the first time of a person, and it can also be said to be the time when a person first leaves a memory. When an adult recalls the past, what is the earliest memory that can be traced? This is the beginning of his life experience.

The age at which people begin to remember is three or four years old, and the experience of earlier years is something that the average person cannot remember when he becomes an adult. For example, when Wakayama recalls his own life, the earliest scene in his memory is to follow the previous patriarch to worship the mountain god in front of the altar in the center of the village.

At this moment, the tiger baby has not realized that what he experienced today is the beginning of his life memory. After many years, the earliest thing he could remember was the light he saw at night, the words he heard from the mountain master, and then he had that dream again at night. In particular, the dream, which was very vague at the time, recurred in his childhood and into his youth.

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The next day, when the rooster crowed, Pan Gu still jumped up from the ground and rushed out of the house to see the excitement, it seemed to have forgotten that it still had injuries on its body, but its upright steps were a little shaky, and it was obviously still a little dizzy. The tiger baby got up and shouted, "Pan Gu, be careful, you have to hide today!"

The strange bird that appeared yesterday already made him feel the unknown danger. Not only the tiger baby and Pan Gu, all the clansmen hid well in the hidden corners, maybe yesterday's luck was too good, there was not a single bird of prey pounced in the early hours of this morning, and everyone waited in vain for a long time.

But happily, today the clan shared the meat of the strange bird. The strange bird was very large, and the meat was carefully cut into many slices, and everyone was very happy. These bird meat were sacrificed to the mountain god yesterday, as if they had been refined by some kind of divine power, and they were still fresh after a whole day, and the soup and meat tasted particularly delicious after cooking.

Soon after eating the meat, almost everyone can feel a hot current rising from the lower abdomen, and the whole body is warm, and there is a restless force that makes people energetic, as if they have endless energy. Ruoshan immediately ordered to organize the clansmen to go out to work, doing the heaviest physical work in ordinary times, in order to vent this energy, in fact, it is also to dissolve the medicinal power in the demon poultry meat.

If the water once said that this meat is a great tonic, of course it means something else. This kind of demon poultry meat can replenish vitality and strengthen muscles and bones, but the medicinal properties are too strong and cannot be eaten directly by the clansmen. Yesterday, she secretly cast a spell to deal with it, and she will eat it today to absorb and digest.

The adults began their daily work again, leaving the village with screaming children running around the ground. The children were very lively and energetic today, and if it weren't for a few elders to take care of them, maybe some of them would have been injured. On this day, an unexpected thing happened in the village - the dog went crazy.

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