Chapter 32 Lu Heng's Sense of Crisis

After getting Lu Heng's permission, the Xifeng tribe settled down outside Hanyu Mountain.

For a nomadic tribe like them, it is not difficult to build a village in a new environment.

After selecting an open and flat address, they took down the tents on the back of the spiral turtle and built a camp on the spot. As for the wooden stake fences surrounding the settlement, the Xifeng tribe did not need them.

They were not afraid of wild beasts or demons, so they did not need to learn to build defense measures like ordinary villages. If a wild beast mistakenly entered the camp, it would save the trouble of going into the mountains to hunt.

The naturally strong Li people, even if a three-year-old child was left in the wilderness, would not be in danger as long as they did not encounter real demons. Ordinary wild beasts could not pose a threat to the Li people.

After the camp was built, the Xifeng tribe began to reclaim the nearby barren mountains, build fences for raising livestock, and build a new home in an orderly manner.

However, their act of reclaiming the barren mountains puzzled the villagers of Shuisheng Village. The plain area outside Hanyu Mountain, the land suitable for reclamation into rice fields has been reclaimed by Shuisheng Village.

But this group of Li people did not seem to intend to reclaim wasteland on the plains that were convenient for water diversion and irrigation. Instead, they reclaimed wasteland on the mountains with dense forests and weeds.

This... Such fields, apart from growing some vegetables, cannot grow rice at all!

The residents of Shuisheng Village were very puzzled.

But soon, their confusion was solved.

Because after the Li people finished reclaiming the wasteland, they sent people to visit Shuisheng Village and sent many vegetables and fruits grown by the Li people themselves.

Those vegetables and fruits were easy to say, and there was not much difference between them and those grown by the villagers of Shuisheng Village. But the two foods that the Li people used as staple food were new things that the villagers of Shuisheng Village had never seen before.

The first one looked like a yellow mallet with densely packed yellow grains on it. The Li people called it yellow rice. They peeled this yellow rice, beat it into pieces, and then steamed it and ate it as a staple food, just like the people of Shuisheng Village ate rice.

And the other new thing, the Li people called it ground potato. The round one is said to be dug out from the ground, so it is covered with mud. It can be steamed or fried. It tastes strange, but not bad. It's just that the villagers of Shuisheng Village have never eaten anything like it.

According to the Li people, these two things are different from rice. They don't need water for irrigation, and they can be planted even in barren mountains and wild ridges.

So the villagers of Shuisheng Village knew why the Li people reclaimed the barren mountains. The crops planted by these Li people are different from the rice they planted.

Some people in the village were very interested in these two things, so they tentatively asked how to plant them. Originally, it was just a casual question, and there was no high hope. What if this was a secret of the Li people?

But I didn't expect that this group of Li people were very enthusiastic and had no intention of hiding anything. They carefully and seriously taught the villagers how to plant these two crops and the precautions. They even agreed to come to the village in person in the spring of next year to teach the villagers who were willing to learn to plant such crops.

The enthusiasm of the Li people surprised the villagers. However, when the Li people left, the villagers went to ask the village chief and found out that this group of Li people had always been like this.

Every time they migrated to a new place, they would teach the locals how to grow yellow rice and sweet potatoes, and they would also enthusiastically provide seedlings. They were very happy to pass on their own crops.

However, the old village chief did not say that every time the Li people migrated away, the land they left behind would be given to the local residents.

He didn't want everyone to know about such an important thing.

This group of Li people reclaimed so much wasteland and taught the villagers how to grow yellow rice and sweet potatoes. After they left, Shuisheng Village could continue to use those wastelands.

So many unowned lands are a big business.

The village chief planned to go back and visit the old Li priest alone to talk about the future ownership of these lands...

And the next day after sending the crops, the Li people set up a small market in the wilderness outside Shuisheng Village to exchange farm tools and kitchen utensils with the residents of Shuisheng Village.

These Li people used their own brand new ironware to replace the villagers' ironware that had been used for many years and was already broken.

And the ironware they cast was all well-made and of excellent quality. Even if they exchanged new for new, the villagers of Shuisheng Village would make a lot of money, not to mention that they were exchanging old for new now.

The villagers didn't know what these foreigners were up to, but no one refused such a good thing, and they all rushed to the market to exchange for brand new ironware.

After the market was over, the image of these Li people from outside the mountains had changed in the hearts of the villagers. They were simply good people who did not ask for anything in return!

The original estrangement and suspicion had now disappeared. The villagers warmly welcomed these Li people, wishing they could stay here for a few more years.

And on the day the market ended, Lu Heng also woke up from underground and ended this time of retreat.

He vaguely felt the bustle in the mountains in recent days. But the Li people only moved around the periphery of the mountain range and did not enter the forest, so there was not much movement and Lu Heng was not disturbed. Lu Heng then concentrated on cultivation and ignored external affairs.

Now that he had come out from underground and stood on the top of Hanyu Mountain overlooking the area, the scene outside the mountain stunned Lu Heng.

This... there are so many people from the Xifeng tribe?

In his field of vision, there were a total of five living camps built with tents in the periphery of Hanyu Mountain Range. The scale of each camp was not small, with at least more than a thousand people.

After careful observation, Lu Heng discovered that all the Li people were full of vigor and strength. Not to mention the adults, even the three or five-year-old children were so full of vigor and strength that even the tigers and leopards in the mountains would be in trouble.

Children who could carry hundreds of pounds of rocks and smash them around to play, and jump several meters high... Where did these Li people come from? They were completely different species from the villagers of Shuisheng Village outside the mountain!

Although when he saw the old priest, Lu Heng knew that there were masters in the so-called Li Xifeng tribe.

A race that could migrate around in this wild world where wild beasts and monsters were rampant must be strong.

But no matter what, this was too powerful...

The more Lu Heng observed the movements of the Li people, the more frightened he became.

There was suddenly such a group of powerful neighbors in the mountains, and Lu Heng felt some pressure for no reason.

He looked up at the huge vortex cloud above his head and pondered. In the past, he had been busy cultivating and trying to transform into a human as soon as possible, but he had not studied the means of attack.

After all, Hanyu Mountain is remote and rarely visited by people, so there is no need to worry about encountering monsters or fighting. Even if he encountered monsters, Lu Heng would not be very worried with the power of thunder in his body and the cloud of punishment above his head.

But now there are so many terrible Li people in Hanyu Mountain... No, I have to study something new.

Otherwise, if these Li people have bad intentions and rush into the mountain to cut down the mountain and destroy the temple one day, wouldn't it be difficult for me to even resist?

Thinking of this, Lu Heng's eyes became more serious.

Sure enough, I still have to study some powerful self-defense methods...