"Calling me trash? Who has such accurate judgment?!"
Jia Chao followed the sound and found that it was the rock crocodile.
He looked at the crocodile in confusion and found that it was not a living creature at all.
He looked closely and found that the person speaking was actually the pile of things on the crocodile's head.
Seeing his appearance, Nushi already understood that he was really awakened.
"That is the messenger of the ancestor of the sacred beast Flame Dragon - Bai Zu."
Only then did Jia Chao recognize that the thing coiled above the head of the rock crocodile was a large centipede, and he immediately took a few steps back.
Although he had seen many strange animals in this world, he still couldn't help but get goosebumps when he saw this centipede.
There is no way, this thing is too scary.
Jia Chao looked at the stubborn stone and said to him:
"Uncle Nushi, you and Senior Baizu take a rest in the small courtyard first. I'll go out to find Huo Ba and catch two fish and bring them back to eat!"
After saying this, Jia Chao invited Nashi to the bamboo courtyard, and moved out two log blocks for Nashi to sit down.
He originally just wanted to move a log pile, but he scratched his head and felt that he couldn't neglect the centipede.
The stool has been moved out, and whether it sits or not is not your business.
After a while, a bonfire was lit, with two arm-long silver carps roasted on it.
There was a clay pot on top of the earthen stove used for cooking, and a fish was stewed in the clay pot.
When Huo Wa came back, she didn't help with the cooking. Instead, she started playing with the centipede.
Centipede summoned a native and fought with Huo Wa inextricably. When Jia Chao saw this scene, he said it was too magical.
When he first came to this world, he thought that if Huo Wa, a weak woman, could survive in the mountains, he would definitely be able to do the same.
It was only after he saw those strange animals in the forest that he realized there was a gap between people.
Especially the flying squirrel, who played him to death every time.
Thinking of this, Jia Chao shook his head and continued grilling the fish.
When Nushi saw Jia Chao busy going back and forth, he didn't say anything. He just watched him carefully using those strange objects.
He had never seen a straw hut, but he could at least understand that it was used to keep out wind and rain. He had never seen a mud stove, but he could still tell that it was used for making fire.
But the pottery pot, the pottery pot next to it, and the bowls and chopsticks all made him feel incredible.
Not long after, Jia Chao brought a large bowl of fish soup to the wooden pillar in front of Nushi.
"Conditions are limited. Uncle Nushi, you eat first. I'll get a table later!"
Nian Shi nodded and took the chopsticks from Jia Chao's hand.
Next came the teaching time. Jia Chao spent a lot of effort to get Nushi to learn how to use chopsticks to catch fish and at the same time taught him how to eat fish.
Nushi, who finally learned to eat fish, was all smiles. After all, for an old man, making fish soup is really friendly.
"Ah Chao, can you give me one of your clay pots?" Nushi asked Jia Chao while taking something out of the animal skin bag on his waist.
Jia Chao watched him take out a small bag and open the layers of leaves, which contained some yellow-brown powder.
Nushi poured some of the powder into the bowl and stirred it with chopsticks.
Jia Chao immediately realized that there was something in this old magician’s animal skin bag!
He immediately went to Nushi and stretched out his fingers to pick up a little powder, then licked it with his tongue.
A little bitter, slightly salty, it’s salt!
Jia Chao's eyes suddenly lit up, and his eyes looking at Nushi were filled with greed.
"Uncle Stubborn Stone, where did you get this thing?"
Nushi was slightly stunned by this series of actions. He was still thinking about his pot, but he made up his own mind first!
"This... is a secret of the tribe, I can't tell you casually!"
After hearing this, Jia Chao sat back on his stool, then raised a finger on his right hand and made a fist with his left hand:
"One clay pot, one fist, so many of these things!"
Stubborn stone: "..."
He was very confused. The clay pot was too easy to use.
If the elderly and children in the tribe could use clay pots, the pain caused by toothlessness would be much less.
But the thing in his hand is indeed a secret.
In fact, this thing is not very scarce, but the cave where it is produced is in the back mountain. On weekdays, he can't get in at all, so he can get it from the animals on the mountain.
He looked around for a moment, and suddenly remembered that he was in the back mountain at the moment, so he slapped his thigh suddenly.
"I'll tell you where to dig this, and you tell me how to make this clay pot of yours!"
Jia Chao: "..."
This old man is quite smart!
Not only does he want to be full, he also wants to be full!
After hesitating for a moment, Jia Chao nodded and said to Nashi: "Okay!"
So he pulled the stubborn stone around the yard and mainly explained the process of making pottery in a clay stove.
But Nushi couldn't understand that. After Jia Chao finished speaking, he didn't even understand how to make a clay stove, and he couldn't tell the difference between clay and ordinary soil.
Finally, Nushi held Jia Chao's hand and shouted:
"That's enough! Two-handed clay pot, I'll tell you the location of the cave!"
Jia Chao was stunned when he heard this, raised his left and right hands and shook them:
"so much?"
Stubborn stone nodded.
Jia Chao also nodded.
In this way, Jia Chao's first business deal in this world was concluded.
Nushi informed Jia Chao of the location of the salt-producing cave and explained to him that he must first obtain Yanlong's permission to enter the cave.
At this time, Huo Wa and Centipede were almost done playing. She punched the natives summoned by Centipede. This operation made Jia Chao shake his head again.
Jia Chao tied the roasted fish with branches and placed it on a wooden pillar and gave it to Centipede. He also gave Huowa a bowl of fish soup.
The centipede was not polite and climbed directly onto the grilled fish. In just a moment, it gnawed the grilled fish until no bones were left.
After eating the grilled fish, Centipede fell in love with the fish soup in Huo Wa's bowl.
Upon seeing this, Jia Chao immediately poured a bowl of fish soup for Centipede, while he sat next to him with an obedient expression and watched Centipede's reaction.
The centipede finished the fish soup in just a few mouthfuls, and there was no bone left in the stewed fish in the bowl.
"This fish soup is not as delicious as grilled fish!" Centipede commented after eating and wiping it clean.
Jia Chao immediately said: "Well, it was originally delicious, but it's a pity that one ingredient is missing!"
Centipede: "What material?"
Jia Chao: "From here, walk in the direction of the rising sun. There is a tree with white flowers. There is a cave next to the tree. There is a yellow-brown stone in the cave.
Take that stone and use my ancestral skills to refine a kind of snow-white powder. Sprinkling some when grilling or stewing meat will make it especially fragrant! "
Centipede: "???"
When Jia Chao saw Centipede not expressing his position, he began to worry that the other party knew the value of salt.
He was about to say something more, but he heard Centipede say to him:
"What you said is too complicated. Let's go this way. Find what you want by yourself. I'll tell my brothers not to stop you!"
Jia Chao: "Ah?!"
Happiness came so suddenly, it was so easy to get the permission to collect freely!
"Then thank you, senior Baizu. Next time I make something delicious, I will definitely invite senior over to taste it as soon as possible!"
Centipede: "Don't call me Senior, Senior, call me the Second King!"
Jia Chao: "..."
Why do you feel like you are on the Shituoling Mountains?
Could these beasts be monsters?
"Okay, Second King!"
After the centipede had eaten and drank enough, it disappeared into the soil on the ground without continuing to fight with Jia Chao.
When Jia Chao saw this, he raised his eyes and met Nian Shi's eyes. Nian Shi saw shock in Jia Chao's eyes, and Jia Chao saw disdain in Nian Shi's eyes.
"Leaving?" Jia Chao asked.
Nushi spread his hands and said nothing.
"Let's go!" Huo Wa said from the side.
"Oh!" Jia Chao nodded and stopped talking.
After being quiet for half a minute, Nushi looked up at Jia Chao and asked:
"What do you do next?"
Jia Chao: "Huh?"
Stubborn Stone: "You used the rune stone and became the beast whisperer of the tribe. Now do you want to return to the tribe and become the chief or continue to stay here?"
Jia Chao: "Why should I stay here when I can be the chief?"
Stubborn Stone: "Because you are weak now! If you go out like this, Big Bear will definitely challenge you!"
After hearing this, Jia Chao half-closed his eyes and searched for information about the Big Bear Chief in his mind, only to find that the man was a being who could fight a bear hand-to-hand.
"Huowa, who is better, you or Chief Big Bear?"
Huo Wa: "I can't beat him, but I can outrun him!"
"Oh!" Jia Chao lowered his head and thought for half a second, then slapped his thigh and said, "I'm not the chief, I'll just stay in the back mountain!"
Stubborn stone sighed lightly, then spread his palms and said:
"Then give me the rune stone!"
Jia Chao: "Huh? The rune stone is broken."
Stubborn Stone: "Just give it to me, and I'll take care of the rest!"
Jia Chao had no choice but to pick out the cracked gray-white stone from the corner of the hut and hand it to Nushi.
Nushi took the stone, looked at it carefully, and then said to Jia Chao:
"I can guarantee that Chief Big Bear will not come to trouble you before Qiu Shou. Before that, you must fully understand the inheritance of the Beast Whisperer!"
Jia Chao: "Huh?"
inherited? What inheritance?
He grabbed Nushi who was about to leave and asked him:
"What do you mean by the inheritance of the Beast Whisperer? How should I understand it?"
Nushi looked at Jia Chao in shock and asked him:
"Aren't you able to talk to spiritual beasts? Why don't you know what the inheritance of the Beast Whisperer is?"
Jia Chao spread his hands and said, "I didn't know anything after I woke up, but I could suddenly understand what the beast was saying!"
Stubborn stone: "..."
He didn't believe what Jia Chao said, because all spirit speakers will inherit the knowledge of the elemental spirits in the rune stones when they awaken.
So he asked Jia Chao several questions one after another, and finally found that he really didn't know anything.
"Okay! Looks like I have to tell you something!"
Nushi began to popularize some basic knowledge to Jia Chao. Through his explanation, Jia Chao finally understood some concepts.
First of all, there are spiritual beasts. Beasts that have developed spiritual intelligence are called spiritual beasts. Even humans are also a type of spiritual beasts.
For ordinary beasts, there is only a very low probability of a spiritual beast appearing in a group. Once they become spiritual beasts, they will become king-like existences.
Human beings are different. The descendants of Homo sapiens are all intelligent, so they are called the leader of all spirits.
The second is the elemental spirit beast. When the spirit beast opens its spiritual intelligence, it may comprehend the power of the elements.
Spirit beasts that have comprehended the power of elements have the ability to control elements. Once a tribe possesses attribute spirit beasts, this tribe will rise.
As for the beast whisperer, it is a person or a spirit beast who can make a contract with a spirit beast. The spirit beast contracted by the contract is called a "contract beast".
The Beast Whisperer can only be awakened through the use of rune stones, and the chance of successful awakening depends on the awakener's affinity with the elemental spirits.
"So the squirrel on the mountain and the centipede just now are both elemental beasts?" Jia Chao immediately asked Nushi with a ready-made example.
Stubborn stone nodded.
"Then I am an animal whisperer now. Can I make a contract with that squirrel?"
Stubborn stone shook his head.
Jia Chao: "Why?"
Stubborn Stone: "You are too weak. Most beast whisperers can only contract ordinary beasts, and then hunt with the contracted beast, making it gradually stronger until it opens its intelligence."
Jia Chao: "What if the contracted beast doesn't understand the power of the elements when it activates its spiritual intelligence?"
"Generally speaking, if the power of the beast whisperer is strong enough, the contracted beast will definitely become an elemental spirit beast." Stubborn stone rubbed the damaged rune stone in his hand and added:
"Of course there are failures, but there are also ways to remedy them."
Jia Chao: "Huh?"
