The Bird Tribe was a very interesting tribe.
The Bird Tribe people believed their ancestors were birds and beasts, and that they were born with greater speed and more slender legs than people of other tribes.
When Xu Yi and Ji Buwang first discovered the Bird Tribe, the Bird Tribe people were hunting.
Their hunting method was not like the Black Tiger Tribe's use of stone tools to kill wild beasts, but rather to wear down the wild beasts' stamina through long-distance pursuits, and then use nets woven from vines to capture them.
The tree nets they wove were strong and durable, with small mesh openings that ordinary birds and beasts could not escape from, let alone large beasts.
So when a wild boar covered in thorns fell into the tree net, it struggled in vain for over half an hour before being knocked unconscious and taken away by the Bird Tribe people.
Getting closer, Xu Yi discovered more differences between the Bird Tribe and the Black Tiger Tribe.
The Black Tiger Tribe people liked to use animal hides for clothing and animal teeth for decoration, while the Bird Tribe people preferred to decorate their clothing with the feathers of various birds and beasts, and also painted vibrant patterns on their faces.
So from a distance, the Bird Tribe people looked like vividly colored birds and beasts.
Xu Yi and Ji Buwang followed behind the Bird Tribe people and arrived at the Bird Tribe.
Just as Xu Yi and Ji Buwang were discussing how to approach the Bird Tribe's shaman, they were discovered.
And the one who discovered them was the Bird Tribe's shaman.
The Bird Tribe shaman possessed shamanic power that allowed him to easily see everything within a radius of several miles.
Xu Yi and Ji Buwang, hidden in the trees outside the Bird Tribe, could not escape the shaman's eyes.
Since they were discovered, Xu Yi and Ji Buwang no longer thought about diplomacy first and then force; they directly used force to negotiate with the Bird Tribe people.
The tree nets, which the Bird Tribe people prided themselves on, were like paper in the eyes of Xu Yi and Ji Buwang, tearing with a single pull.
As for the weapons the others later produced, they posed no threat to Xu Yi and Ji Buwang.
The one-sided battle concluded almost in the blink of an eye.
The Bird Tribe shaman watched as Xu Yi and Ji Buwang defeated tribe warriors one by one, his body trembling, his weathered face filled with suppressed rage.
"Outlanders, what do you want!"
The shaman's first sentence stunned Xu Yi and Ji Buwang, who then showed signs of wild joy.
The Bird Tribe shaman could actually tell they were outlanders.
The implication of this made their hearts beat a little faster.
Xu Yi stepped forward, "We mean no harm, we just want to find our way home."
The shaman looked at his tribesmen who had fallen behind them but still had the strength to shout, and felt a slight sense of relief.
He was silent for a moment, then turned and said, "Follow me."
Xu Yi and Ji Buwang immediately followed.
The Bird Tribe shaman appeared to be around the same age as the Black Tiger Tribe shaman, with silver-white hair braided into a soft little pigtail that hung down his back.
His pace was not fast, and Xu Yi and Ji Buwang, feeling anxious, did not urge him.
The two followed the shaman to his wooden house.
The shaman's expression was not very pleasant, but perhaps out of fear of the difference in strength, he did not say much more, but instead took a beast-skin scroll from the top of an ancient wooden rack.
He threw the scroll to Xu Yi and said coldly, "Take this to the Royal City, there should be something you want there."
The Royal City?
Xu Yi slowly opened it. The scroll depicted a simple map.
And at the center of the map, a place marked with a crown symbol was particularly conspicuous.
"This is the Royal City?" Xu Yi pointed at the crown.
"Yes."
Xu Yi put away the map and was about to ask more questions when she heard Ji Buwang ask, "What is that?"
Xu Yi followed Ji Buwang's gaze, and her pupils suddenly contracted. Her feet involuntarily took two steps forward.
The shaman looked at the beast-skin scroll that had not yet been put away on the table. After hesitating, he decided to tell the truth.
"This is my medicinal book."
Tribe people seemed to be born warriors, possessing the ferocity of tigers, the strength of bears, and the speed of leopards, but they lacked some intelligence.
More accurately, all their thoughts were focused on how to hunt wild beasts, and they couldn't spare any for other things.
Therefore, the number of literate people in each tribe was small, with most of them being the shaman and the chief.
For the continuation of the tribe, the shaman also bore the responsibility of recording history. Whenever he discovered a new herb or beast, he would record it.
When the next shaman inherited, they could learn the knowledge that shamans needed to understand more quickly through the records of their predecessors.
The Bird Tribe had recently discovered a peculiar herb, so the shaman had just been recording it.
What surprised Xu Yi and Ji Buwang was not the lifelike herbs on the beast-skin scroll, but a line of large characters below the herbs.
Ma Wei Cao (Plantain grass).
These three characters were exactly the same as the characters on the Jiuzhou Continent.
It should be known that the Beast King Continent and the Jiuzhou Continent were two unrelated continents.
However, the people living in two regions not only had similar pronunciations but also the same written language. This could not be a coincidence at all.
"Ma Wei Cao, you wrote Ma Wei Cao."
Xu Yi looked into the shaman's eyes and said word for word.
A moment of panic flashed in the shaman's eyes, and then he quickly regained his composure.
He did not deny it.
Instead, he acquiesced.
Xu Yi, who had originally planned to take the beast-skin scroll and immediately head to the Royal City, abandoned the idea.
She exchanged a look with Ji Buwang, understanding the meaning in his eyes.
Xu Yi turned to close the door, while Ji Buwang grabbed a beast-bone ornament from the shaman's table, rubbed it between his fingers, and gently crushed it.
This silent deterrence also made the shaman understand their intentions.
It was too late for him to regret not putting away the beast-skin scroll.
He sighed dejectedly, "Ask whatever you want."
"How did you know we were outlanders?"
The first question asked by Ji Buwang made Xu Yi silently praise her in her heart.
This was also the question she wanted to know.
"Your attire, your skin color, and the aura you exude all tell me so."
The existence of outlanders was as conspicuous as a wild rabbit standing on a grassland.
The shaman recognized their identity the moment he saw them.
It should be said that anyone who knew of the existence of outlanders would recognize them upon seeing them.
"Have you seen other outlanders?" Xu Yi pressed.
The shaman gently shook his head, "No."
Before Xu Yi could ask further questions, he continued, "I have seen beast-skin scrolls related to outlanders in the Royal City, and the Royal City favors your kind of attire, though it is not as ornate and exquisite as yours."
The Bird Tribe shaman and the Black Tiger Tribe shaman had many differences.
The biggest difference was that the Black Tiger Tribe shaman had never left the Black Tiger Tribe's settlement, while the Bird Tribe shaman had traveled to many places.
And the place that left the deepest impression on him was the Royal City.