Chapter 700 - Long Time No See (2/2)

Many Taihe tribesmen were shocked when they saw these. They thought that the other continent was less developed compared to them, and they even heard that many tribes were still using the ancient fire seed. According to some rumours, they were still using stone weapons. Now they knew those rumours were not at all true.

“This……” You Yu gestured at the green axe in Duo Kang’s hands, “Is this metal?”

Duo Kang was excited. He had been waiting for this moment to show off in front of his old neighbours. He turned the axe in his hands and held onto the handle tightly as he slammed it down onto a rock beside them.

Bang!

With a loud clashing sound, a deep gash remained on the giant stone.

You Yu’s mouth gaped as he looked at the axe in Duo Kang’s hands and then to the stone that had been hacked. He took a few large strides over and tested the hardness of the stone. He smashed his own axe down on the same rock a few times and cursed. He looked at Duo Kang and his eyes widened in disbelief. “This was the weapon you guys mentioned in the letter?”

“That’s correct!” Duo Kang said proudly. “We call it the new green bronze. The Grand Elder Shao Xuan named it.”

They didn’t want to talk too much about it in the letter, so they only briefly mentioned it. They told them not to worry about weapons because the Flaming Horn tribe had high-quality metal weapons that surpassed the other metals.

Before this, the Taihe tribe had doubts about what they read in the letter. After all, the Flaming Horn tribe wasn’t too talented in forging and agriculture. Their techniques were limited, but who would’ve thought! They were all true!

“Haha. there’s so much more that will leave you impressed. Once we get there, you’ll see what I’m talking about,” Duo Kang was excited to see how the Taihe tribe would react if they saw them now.

The Flaming Horn tribe was not at all the same as before. The Taihe tribe never imagined that they would become like this.

“Right, you guys actually built your own city?” You Yu was very interested in this.

“Something like that. Zheng Luo also suggested that we call it a city like the slave masters. We call it the Flaming River City!”

“Flaming River? Really? Nice! Nice! Nice!” the Taihe tribe’s chief, You Yu said “nice” three times in a row.

Duo Kang was stunned. “Why are you so excited?”

We named the river after ourselves and then named the trading point after the river. Why is this guy so excited?!

“Flaming River, Flaming River. There’s a ‘River’ in this name! Sounds very cordial! Nice!” You Yu tapped on Duo Kang a few times as a friendly gesture.

He seemed to be thinking, ‘How considerate of you, brother! You even named the place after us!’

[Note: The character for river in chinese is 河 (He), which is the same character for the He in Taihe (泰河 ) tribe]

Duo Kang, “…You’re overthinking it. It’s an actual river.”

It wasn’t snowing too heavily on this side of the sea. Only a section of the water near the coast was covered with a thin layer of ice.

Even though the snow wasn’t strong, the winds were, and they weren’t just blowing from one direction.

Days passed by one after another. Most of the people in the Taihe tribe had recovered and were all helping with the work every day. This was also for their own benefit.

They prepared food, medicine, new ships, and all they had to do now was wait for a good time to depart.