Mecha Era, Punch the Stars

Li Yi quickly found traces of the soup and oranges.

Its location... has actually expanded to the East China Sea, where it sits quietly in the largest tribal temple by the sea.

Inside the temple, more than twenty canine youths whose faces were becoming increasingly human-like stood to one side, listening to Ju's words.

As Li Yi observed and reviewed the situation, he immediately understood what changes had occurred over the past ten years.

"So that's how it is. They really did follow the path of merging first and then splitting up."

Li Yi had anticipated this.

At that time, Ju and Tang went to West Orange Hill, found the few remaining elders of the tribe, and exchanged technologies with the rest of West Orange Hill, spreading the more varieties of seeds they had obtained there.

After exchanges among the four tribes, they were impressed by the military strength of the Eastern Wilderness tribe and decided to send young men there to learn from them.

Tang originally intended to incite some conflict, but thanks to Ju's good reputation, the four major tribes and the Eastern Wilderness tribe suppressed any minor frictions.

The first exchange went smoothly without any unexpected incidents.

Ju Yili suppressed all the problems. After receiving the first batch of fresh troops, the Donghuang tribe retained most of the young and strong thanks to its better food and production systems, and also updated the Donghuang tribe's housing construction system.

Only a few young and strong men, with their hearts set on serving their original tribe, decided to take more seeds back with them after learning the extraordinary food cultivation techniques of the Eastern Wilderness tribe.

These techniques are the field rotation method and the cultivation methods for various special types of seeds that the Donghuang tribe gradually developed from slash-and-burn agriculture.

Unbeknownst to Ju, in order to prevent the core technology from being leaked, Tang secretly sent people to hunt down these young men, but two of them escaped.

One of these two was named Gun, who was strong and talented. Through long-term consumption of extraordinary food and training, he awakened the ability to control water.

Another one was named Gong. He was skilled at making all kinds of ingenious tools. Although he was a little thin, he was protected by Gun because of his good relationship with him and survived.

The two were, after all, the fifth generation of young and strong members of the tribe. They had only been born into the four major tribes and did not have a deep affection for the separated Eastern Wilderness tribe.

If Tang hadn't sent people to hunt them down, they might not have done anything.

But this created enmity, and they harbored the idea that they would one day lead troops to get revenge.

Gun, in particular, although he awakened the ability to control water, his personality did not become gentle as a result; instead, he became even more irritable.

He was originally a bit neurotic and easily angered. This time, being hunted down, he felt that he had seen the true face of the Eastern Wilderness tribe and believed that those who had defected deserved to die.

They returned to the four tribes with technology and more seeds, and were treated well.

Thus, with the promotion of the technology learned by Gun and Gong, the four tribes also began a new pioneering campaign, continuing to expand west of Xijuqiu, discovering more fertile mountains, and gradually multiplying into a larger population.

Thanks to Gun and Gong for bringing back more planting techniques, they gradually became the new generation of leaders of the tribe and actively promoted the integration of the four tribes, thoroughly opening up and broadening the communication channels between the four tribes.

Originally, the distances between the four tribes were not far. The distance between Zhongxin's Dashan tribe and Donghu and Nanjuqiu was no more than 20 li, which was difficult to walk but not enough to interfere with their daily communication.

Meanwhile, among the new generation, there was another person named Lun. He observed the round sun and the way a round wooden stake rolled on the ground, invented the wooden wheel, and tried to apply it to the transportation of everyday goods.

Gong noticed the invention of the wheel and was greatly shocked. He found the wheel and had an in-depth discussion with it, eventually working together to invent a more ingenious single-wheeled cart and a four-wheeled cart that could be pulled by human power. To avoid making this four-wheeled cart appear cumbersome, they made the wheels partially hollow, and they named it Xuanyuan.

The invention of the Xuanyuan chariot greatly improved their transportation efficiency.

With the gradual improvement of the dog-people's strength and average physical strength, the efficiency of communication and integration among the four tribes became increasingly higher.

Finally, in the tenth year after Gun's return, with a large number of new generations born in the four tribes, the roads between the four tribes became wider and wider, and the new generation built more houses along the way after getting married.

The four tribes had become a large tribal community centered on the mountains, expanding in an irregular fan shape, thus completing the process of differentiation and re-integration.

The Youchao clan grew stronger once again.

During this process of great integration, their population also increased significantly again.

Previously, concerns about childbirth due to insufficient territory and inadequate risk resistance were no longer present, leading to a surge in births. He worked during the day and spent his nights with his wife.

The population has peaked again and doubled to over six thousand, making it the undisputed overlord of the surrounding area. Even ordinary giant creatures dare not invade it at will, and it is thriving.

The change occurred the following year when Gun believed he had completed the unification of the four tribes, accumulated enough strength, and was preparing to launch a revenge attack.

However, although Gun had become very prestigious at the time due to the great achievement of the integration of the four tribes, it was not a simple matter to launch a war rashly.

So he first mobilized a group of his trusted confidants, leading a team of about a hundred young men to explore the situation of the Eastern Wilderness tribes.

The straight-line distance between the Donghuang tribe and the Youchao clan is more than 300 li. In addition, the mountains and roads along the way are steep and the dense forests are difficult to pass through. Therefore, they have had virtually no communication in the past ten years.

Of course, this was also because Ju was getting older and could no longer promote communication, so he had to hand things over to Tang.

Tang is three years younger than Ju, but Ju had tried many kinds of plants in his early years in order to cultivate citrus fruit, and had been poisoned by many plants.

Although he recovered later, his lifespan was eventually shortened. When he was over sixty years old, he gradually became weak and completely lost his energy.

Tachibana's son, Teng, was not taken with him before he started his pioneering work and remained in one of the four tribes. As a result, their relationship gradually faded.

None of Ju's other sons were particularly successful.

Therefore, the power of the Eastern Wilderness tribe was basically handed over to the young and vigorous Tang.

Tang himself was too lazy to play with those tribes, and he didn't expect that the four major tribes had already passed the period of decline and started to develop.

Therefore, he was always obsessed with exploring eastward, wanting to see where the limits of the east were and what the world was really like.

Among them, his third son, Qi, found a road leading to the sea and completed its pioneering work, leading people to cut through the mountains and forests and open up a dense forest road that was more than a thousand miles long.

Qi led his able-bodied men to stay and live on the coast of the East China Sea, where they gradually multiplied.

They discovered more abundant seafood and extraordinary foods along the coast, awakening even more diverse and unique abilities in their people. (End of Chapter)