Chapter 532: The Great Chief 50
According to Yan Shuangshuang, there are many small tribes of dozens of people around the Power Tribe. These small tribes often disappear for various reasons each year; in any case, their lives aren't going well.
Once their own tribe has absolute power and plants high-yield sweet potatoes, they can recruit these struggling small tribes. Not all small tribes have their own deity to believe in like the Power Tribe, and then fall from great tribes to small ones.
Small tribes without a deity are likely to join other great tribes, but in these times it's hard for tribes to even feed themselves, so they typically won't accept small tribes with no combat power to add a burden.
Yan Shuangshuang's initiative to integrate small tribes is groundbreaking for this world, but the prerequisite is that both the Power Tribe and the Lanshan Tribe must first master formidable strength.
Although people in primitive society are simple and sincere, once they have enough to eat and wear, they might develop unwelcome thoughts. At that time, they would need martial suppression.
Yan Shuangshuang's vision is quite optimistic, but who knew they'd be stuck at the first hurdle of enhancing everyone's Combat Power. Watching the warriors sprawled on the ground again, Yan Shuangshuang couldn't understand it. These people have decent combat abilities, so why can't they use the Warrior Power? She's explained it so clearly, yet they still don't grasp it, like their brains are dead!
Frustrated, Yan Shuangshuang had to use her final tactic, directly leading the people out to engage in actual combat. However, she didn't dare to take everyone at once but opted to take half, while the other half stayed in the cave awaiting the next rotation.
To ensure safety, Yan Shuangshuang also brought along the Earth King Beast. The Earth King Beast, still eager for the prairie grass, happily clambered up to accompany Yan Shuangshuang without her having to coax it much.
Since the prairie was far away, to travel quickly, everyone climbed onto the Earth King Beast's back, carefully settling into the gaps between its back spikes.
With the prospect of fresh grass to eat, the Earth King Beast unusually picked up its pace to a trot this time, and everyone experienced firsthand what lightning speed felt like.
When they reached the prairie, and the Earth King Beast gleefully pushed aside the slowly melting snow to graze on the grass, Yan Shuangshuang led the Hunting Team, who were shaken and disoriented from the ride, to climb down.
The group stood to the side to recover, each person's hair, after the Earth King Beast's wild ride, sticking up like exploded dandelion heads!
The variously wind-blown hairstyles gave them the unmistakable look of punk delinquents, except for Yan Shuangshuang, who avoided such styling by keeping her hair tied with a beast-skin band.
Yan Shuangshuang rubbed her upset stomach, taking several deep breaths to quell her discomfort, while the Hunting Team also took a long break to recover.
Seeing everyone had recovered, Yan Shuangshuang led the Hunting Team to search for prey. She had to admit, this time she had discovered the knack; her decision to lead the group out to fight while comprehending Warrior Power was quite effective.
In actual combat, everyone who had initially been unable to find the knack quickly mastered it, learning how to detail the use of Warrior Power. Consequently, the warriors' combat lethality increased dramatically.
Warriors who initially showed little difference from regular Hunting Team members without tapping into their power suddenly became formidable, spurring some originally strong teammates in the Hunting Team to awaken their Warrior Powers!
Though they weren't as high-level warriors as Yan Shuangshuang, having a few more warriors in a tribe was thrilling. The close timing and number of these awakenings prompted Yu, Zhi, and Yun, the three Great Witches, to hold a small ceremony to thank the Heavenly God for the blessing.
With these warrior awakenings, Yan Shuangshuang felt she had grasped some of the knack for warrior awakening rules. She noticed that every warrior's awakening occurred when they most ardently desired strength.
For example, she awakened because she wanted the power to save her father; for others, it was envy of other warriors' powers and the desire to possess such strength.
Including the method Tie Heben had mentioned to her about force awakening through urgency during a hunt, ultimately it boils down to a desire for power so that the prey wouldn't escape. Yan Shuangshuang concluded that the prerequisites for becoming a warrior, besides having a fit physique, were the psychological desire for strength.
After Yan Shuangshuang shared this analysis, the Hunting Team members became excited immediately, realizing that in such a perilous world, none of them wouldn't want to obtain power.
But after so many years, everyone assumed that acquiring Warrior Power was difficult and elusive, leading many who considered themselves physically unqualified to lose hope of becoming warriors.
Now, hearing that as long as their bodies were fit, and they had a fierce desire to gain power, they could become warriors ignited the previously hidden desire for power within everyone.
Those with decent physical conditions immediately began intense training, and within just ten days, eight more individuals became warriors.
The success of these individuals convinced those who hadn't yet become warriors that they could indeed succeed. Each person threw themselves into a regimen of eating and training, hoping to improve their physique to a warrior's level in a single day.
Once ordinary people in the tribe became warriors, Yan Shuangshuang rotated and took them out to hunt, practicing the mastery of Warrior Power. The warriors' ferocity sharply increased, and now from the deep forest to the prairie, all areas became hunting grounds for the tribal Hunting Team.
Prey like the Giant Horned Beast, once a daunting task requiring at least a dozen Hunting Team members to tackle, could now be hunted with ease by just three or four warriors, ensuring their combat force remained unscathed.
The tribe no longer worried about meat; after a Hunting Team outing, they brought back enough food to last ten days. Even more exciting for the tribe was the successful planting of sweet potatoes as the weather warmed.
Following Yan Shuangshuang's methods for seedling cultivation, they cleared a large plot near the cave on the plains, planting sweet potatoes even in the valleys where they found wild yams.