Chapter 504 - Visitors From Three Tribes
Chapter 504
Visitors From Three Tribes
Shao Xuan chose several kinds of fearsome beast blood carefully to be used for forging.
To him, it was counter-intuitive to use beast blood to process ore but at this point, there were too many things that didn’t make sense in this world.
According to the Gongjia ancestors, they must first remove impurities within the ore, then carefully control the flames while observing the steam emitted from the melting ore. It would turn from black to yellow-white, then green as the temperature within the melting pot increased, then finally green-white. When all the ore had melted and only green steam was left, beast blood was added along with the shaping process.
Shao Xuan experimented with many different types of beast blood. He made a very small mould for this purpose so casting would use very little metal. These were just experiments- they still had little metal so he could not be too wasteful.
It was too bad that the results were abysmal. The Gongjia ancestors added beast blood to strengthen the metal, yet Shao Xuan’s products ended up more brittle and chipped.
The hunt party had brought back many types of fearsome beasts but none of them gave the wanted effect not even a little. Either the method was wrong or the blood source was still wrong.
Years ago, the process for the Gongjia family to discover this secret must have been extremely difficult. Either that or they were just too lucky.
“I know… because of what happened in the desert, you all must be angry. That was definitely our fault, I was not careful enough,” said Qiu Gu.
“You know it’s your fault, yet it took you so long to come? Where have you been during the past two years? Have you been robbing the desert?” Duo Kang crossed his legs, staring down at the three with his chin up. He did not give them any dignity at all.
Perhaps the people of the old haunt were not good with words. They used to be isolated from the rest of the world, mostly communicating with only their own tribesmen. They all had boundaries they couldn’t cross if they fought among themselves or the shaman would be upset. After arriving at the old haunt, they started to meet more people during trades. However, they were still the same because they mostly stayed in the forest.
Duo Kang and the rest were different. They used to often fight with their neighbour, Taihe tribe, probably as often as once every three days. During hunts, they would be even more vicious, directly insulting each other if they got mad. They were even more casual talking to other tribes, saying whatever they wanted.
Duo Kang and the rest were already told about what happened, so he couldn’t help but mock them when he heard what Qiu Gu said.
He did not like how these people faked politeness. In the past, after seeing Taihe tribesmen so often, they thought Taihe people were annoying. Now they kinda missed Taihe. No matter what, Taihe was better than these people, right?
Duo Kang looked up and stared out of the window, then spaced out.
Huang Ye and the other two furrowed their brows when they heard Duo Kang.
The matter of the bronze wares was no longer a secret. Since the slave masters had escaped out of the desert, naturally some information had spread too. Especially trading points where traders from all places gathered, both real and false information spread like wildfire. No matter what, everyone had already known about the seven major tribes taking the slave masters in.
Of course, to the tribes, it did not matter. On the contrary, it proved that the seven tribes were strong enough to trap the slave masters, especially the ones who were usually arrogant. The other tribes still respected the seven tribes for doing it.
Huang Ye and the rest thought the same, yet Duo Kang’s words did not sit well with them. It sounded too much like he was insulting them. Was this person jealous?