Chapter 87.2 - Pottery Pot (2/2)

These people were gaining weight at a speed almost visible to the naked eye.

They were very grateful to the Big Bear Tribe, but were also puzzled about why the Big Bear Tribe was playing with mud and burning it with fire.

They had been burning it when they arrived, and in the end, only created some debris. Wouldn’t it be basically the same this time?

They really didn’t know what the people of the Big Bear Tribe were actually trying to do…

Everyone was curious, and at this time the fire finally extinguished, and the temperature in the fire pit started decreasing.

Xiong Ye was the first to jump into the ‘fire pit’.

He had seen Zhou Ji put the little bear inside, and he wanted to know how it had turned out…

Xiong Ye was hoping that the little bear hadn’t been ruined by the firing process.

After he jumped in, he immediately wanted to go and look for the little bear, but it was a little too hot…

“Be careful.” Zhou Ji reminded him. But even as the words left his mouth, he saw Xiong Ye turn into a brown bear.

Xiong Ye who had turned into a brown bear was no longer afraid of the heat and soon carried out the pottery that had been placed inside.

He brought out the little bear, his expression full of surprised delight––the little bear hadn’t broken!

Zhou Ji had known early on that the little bear hadn’t shattered. Having sculpted it with his spiritual powers, how could it shatter?

As for the rest… Zhou Ji instructed, “Take out the rest.”

Xiong Ye nodded and brought out a complete pot.

After that, he took out a complete bowl, plate, and some other containers.

These things were very thin, and other than the pot that was quite thick, everything else was very light and particularly smooth.

Xiong Ye had polished stone wares before, and he had been very careful when he worked with the stone, but even then, he would be unable to make a pot this good!

Before when Zhou Ji had wanted to make pottery, Xiong Ye hadn’t really understood why. He didn’t know what pottery looked like, but now… Xiong Ye looked at the pots and pans in front of him and felt a little excited.

These things looked great!

“These things are ours. Bring them back.” Zhou Ji pointed to the things he had made. When he had made these things, he had declared that whatever he made would be his personal possessions.

“Zhou Ji, you really live up to being beloved by the Beast God! The pot that you made actually didn’t break!” The priest was also very excited.

Zhou Ji: “……”

“With the pot that you’ve made, some of the other pottery that was fired was also successful!” The priest continued. He looked in surprise at the other whole products that had been made.

The first two times they had fired pottery, other than creating some things that the people of the tribe could use as decoration, it had resulted in no other achievements. However, this time was different.

This time, other than the ones Zhou Ji had made, there was also another complete pottery pot, two pottery bowls, and a jar.

These pottery pieces were so rough that the difference between those and the ones made by Zhou Ji could be seen by the naked eye. Even so, this was pottery!

The priest knew how precious this pottery was when he picked it up and felt its weight for himself.

Stone tools weren’t easy to use, especially when it came to stone pots since they used a lot of firewood every time in order to heat up whatever was held inside. But the pot he had now…

The priest ordered, “These things… place them in my cave first!”

Xiong He asked, “You only need a pot, right?”

“This open one is for you.” The priest said.

After everyone finished ‘splitting up’ the goods, everyone brought their own things back to their caves.

Zhou Ji began to cook stir-fried vegetables.

There had been an abundance of vegetables in the tribe recently, so he fried up a few different types.

Before when he was using the stone pot to stir fry things, it had felt very unwieldy and sometimes, it had felt like he was boiling things more than frying them. If he was even the slightest bit careless, the vegetables would be overcooked, or they would remain undercooked no matter what he did.

But it was different now.

Although using this pottery pot to cook still wasn’t as good as using an iron pot, it was still countless times better than using a stone pot. Zhou Ji made several very large dishes.

Zhou Ji finished cooking several vegetable dishes in one go, then used some hulled barley to make barley rice.

Barley could be boiled like rice. The grains that were cooked this way were very chewy and fragrant, but also a little hard and definitely incomparable to rice.

However, when there was no rice to eat, it was still nice to have a bowl of barley.

It had been a long time since Zhou Ji had eaten like this. Now that he had ‘rice’ along with some properly stir-fried vegetables… His appetite seemed limitless.

As for the priest… The first thing the priest did when he returned to his cave was to try and fry up some meat with chili peppers in his new pot.

His skills weren’t good, but the meat he used was smoked meat that had already been pre-seasoned, and he didn’t go as far as to overfry anything. While he was cooking, he also discovered how much easier it was to use this pottery pot.

The priest who had never used an iron pot before felt that this was the best pot ever.

Only Xiong He…

When tribal chief Xiong He returned home, he intended to use the new pot to boil some meat to eat, so he left some water in the pot and set it over the fire to boil. As a result, the water boiled away, and the pot got burnt, resulting in the entire pottery pot cracking in the middle.

Xiong He: “……”

Xiong He’s woman saw the situation and picked up half of the cracked pottery pot, setting it on her head and asking Xiong He, “Do you think I look good like this?”

Xiong He: “Yes.” He placed the other half of the pot on his head, thought about it, then took it down and began to grind it.

While Xiong Ye and Zhou Ji were eating in their cave that night, Zhu Zhan was still in a bit of a trance.

The Big Bear Tribe had managed to create pottery so soon!

They could ignore the ones that the priest had taken away, but the pottery that Zhou Ji had made himself was really made perfectly!

Not only could that kind of pottery be used to trade for dinosaurs, it could even be used to trade for territory!

“I’ve decided!” Zhu Zhan suddenly said.

“What did you decide?” Zhu Zhan’s subordinates asked him.

Zhu Zhan: “I want to join the Big Bear Tribe!”

He used to be the young chief of the Giant Pig Tribe, but he hadn’t held such a position for a long time now. He also didn’t want to go back and become the tribal chief anymore, either.

He felt that it would be more beneficial to join the Big Bear Tribe.

His father didn’t have much pottery, but if he continued to work for the Big Bear Tribe, he would definitely be able to obtain pottery!

The more Zhu Zhan thought about it, the more he felt that this was a good idea.

One of Zhu Zhan’s men spoke up, “I thought we joined the Big Bear Tribe a long time ago. Didn’t we?” Didn’t they go hunting with them every day?

Zhu Zhan: “……”

At the same time, Xiong Qi, Xiong Bai, and some others had all climbed into the fire pit where the pottery was fired.

They were a little embarrassed when they encountered each other inside, so they each found a place to lie down on their own. When they did so… They suddenly discovered that there was someone else nearby.

“This is the place where the Beast God gave us artifacts… Are you here to receive some of that glory, too?” The priest’s voice sounded through the fire pit.

Xiong Bai: Priest, you were cooking in your cave not long ago, but now you’re here… your old body is really able to move very fast!