LSLFBW: Chapter 91

Qi Bai looked at the fragmented translucent crystals on the animal skin and asked in confusion, “Is this water?”

Lang Ze nodded. “This is made from five types of divine trees, such as pomelo, serpent camphor…”

“Wait a minute.” Qi Bai covered his ears. “No, why did you say all of this?”

Lang Ze casually placed one of the pieces on his palm and rubbed it vigorously. “Didn’t you tell me everything about your tribe?”

“But the people from my tribe aren’t here. They can’t control me.”

Lang Ze’s eyes were indifferent. “Everyone in my tribe has become a slave. No one cares about me anymore.”

Qi Bai secretly glanced at Lang Ze and said quickly, “I didn’t mean that.”

The corners of Lang Ze’s mouth curved up slightly. “It doesn’t matter. This isn’t something that can’t be said.”

“These skills were originally only passed down among tribe leaders. Once the tribe leader and his successor die at the same time, there is no way to pass them on.” He looked at the divine tree water in his hand. Then he turned to look at Qi Bai. “This is very unreasonable. Perhaps what you did is right.”

Qi Bai was puzzled as he asked, “What did I do?”

The setting sun drew a few golden lines on the ground of the bamboo pavilion, which just passed through Qi Bai’s profile and formed a halo on his hair.

“Pass the wisdom to everyone in the tribe.” Lang Ze stared at the dazzling light. “If every member of the tribe had a bone knife used for fighting, perhaps we wouldn’t have laughed at that time.”

Qi Bai disagreed. “The demise of a tribe must have many reasons. You can’t use this to take all the responsibility on yourself.”

Lang Ze paused slightly. “Yes.”

Qi Bai reached out and poked the thing in Lang Ze’s hand. His eyes widened instantly. “This is too magical!”

Qi Bai looked at the originally hard crystal that gradually softened in Lang Ze’s hands. Finally, it could even be kneaded like dough. He thought that this thing would become very soft.

In fact, it wasn’t. Qi Bai’s fingers touched it, and it moved, but he couldn’t press his finger any deeper.

It was as if it could absorb the beastmen’s power and turn it into toughness.

No wonder why it was called the water of the sacred trees. It was too mysterious.

Qi Bai now knew the secret of the bird bones and certainly wouldn’t tell anyone about this. Still, Qi Bai didn’t care about this matter and instead asked, “What is this thing going to look like?”

“Once it becomes as soft as water, you can wrap the bird bones in it. After a day, the outermost layer of the bird bones can be polished.”

“The outermost layer?” Qi Bai frowned. “Then if we want to grind this bone into thin pieces, won’t we need to do it several times?”

“Five or six times is enough.”

Qi Bai was shocked. “This is too complicated. This is much more troublesome than tempering iron…”

Qi Bai just tried it himself. Based on his current strength, he was simply unable to knead the water from the sacred trees. This was really not a job that ordinary people could help with.

“What is iron?”

Qi Bai ran back to the cave and took out stones of different colors that they had picked up from a nearby mountain when looking for limestone.

“Red stones like this might contain iron. If we put them into the pottery kiln and calcine them, the iron inside might be burned out. The iron can also be made into various shapes and made into weapons and utensils.”

Lang Ze hadn’t expected that these stones could be used to make weapons, and couldn’t help feeling curious. “It sounds interesting.”

Qi Bai put the stone aside. “Tools made of iron alone are definitely not as tough as bird bones. It also takes time to make them. We don’t have time right now in the tribe. It won’t be too late to study these things when we have some free time in the winter.”

Seeing that he couldn’t help Lang Ze in any way, Qi Bai simply went back to the cave and moved out all the animal skins he had accumulated.

Before he knew it, Qi Bai discovered that he had accumulated quite a lot of animal skins.

Some of these were distributed by the tribe, some were rewards given to him by the tribe, and some were naturally prey he hunted himself.

The sizes and qualities varied, but there were nearly 30 pieces in total. This definitely made him a wealthy person in the tribe.

Qi Bai frowned as he unfolded them and hung them on the rack. In winter, they were short of supplies and couldn’t collect enough materials. Therefore, Qi Bai followed the example of others and fermented several pieces of animal skins in the ground with wood ash.

The effect was obvious. It was fine if he didn’t touch the leather normally, but a stench spread as soon as he turned it over.

Qi Bai hoped to dry out the odor. Of course, experience told him that it was almost impossible to dry out the odor.

In short, the last few pieces of animal skins definitely weren’t suitable for personal use.

Qi Bai pulled out a piece of skin from the bottom.

This piece of skin was made using the tanning method taught to him by Lang Ze. It had no odor. More importantly, this piece of animal skin was relatively thin and it was just right for wearing it now.

Qi Bai used a sharp bone knife to gently scrape off the brown fur on the skin. Finally, he got a smooth piece of animal skin.

“This animal skin coat is different from what we are wearing now,” Lang Ze stated.

Qi Bai nodded. “Yes, I want to make two short-sleeved shirts.”

Qi Bai actually felt a bit stuffy these days. The animal skin clothes they were wearing were made in winter to keep warm.

Not only did it tightly wrap around people, but the thick fur was enough to make people sweat.

However, compared to the heavy animal skin clothes in winter, Qi Bai’s method now was much simpler. He cut two pieces of clothing and two short sleeves. Then he sewed them together with a bone needle.

Qi Bai specially reserved the size. The wide animal skin clothes were much more breathable and soft than the previous ones.

Qi Bai made two more pairs of trousers. One was a pair of shorts for daily wear in the tribe, and the other was a pair of long trousers for wearing when going out.

The trouser legs were tied with animal skin ropes and could be tightened at any time to prevent mosquitoes from biting.

As for the shorts, they were only slightly longer than the animal skin skirt made from his own fur, but they were very important to Qi Bai. After all, he never wanted to live the days where he was afraid to take big steps and was always worried about exposing something.

Finally, Qi Bai made himself a pair of straw sandals out of hay.

Qi Bai felt relaxed all over when changing into this outfit.

He ran to Lang Ze, who was still struggling with the water of the sacred trees. He asked, “How is it? Not bad, right?”

Lang Ze nodded. “It looks good.’

Qi Bai turned his gaze to the small bamboo house beside him. Chuan Chuan, who was lying on the ground, sneezed.

At dawn the next day, Qi Bai and Lang Ze took their stone knives and carried rattan baskets on their backs as they walked towards the sheepfold.

Qi Bai was a bit excited along the way, and kept muttering, “Four-eared sheep are just like beastmen. They also feel hot in summer and can’t take off their clothes. They naturally need us to help them!”

After being locked up in the shack, the four-eared sheep were really noisy for a few days. The chaotic noises inside and the sound of grumpy sheep banging against the wall could be heard just outside the shack.

However, the beastmen wouldn’t tolerate their temper. Therefore, they would go into the shack every morning to do some simple cleaning. If they found a four-eared sheep had hit itself to death, they would directly drag it back to the tribe.

This meat was kept as a food reserve for the tribe, but it was more beneficial for the tribe to keep it now when both prey and feed were plentiful.

However, even if it died in the shack, the meat wouldn’t be wasted. It was better than letting it fall into the hands of the red birds.

Qi Bai and Lang Ze looked inside through the air vent. The remaining four-eared sheep had already become used to life in the shack. They knew to go to the place where water was provided to fill their stomachs at regular intervals.

At this time, the leader sheep leisurely occupied the trough and ate the fresh food delivered in the morning.

Qi Bai narrowed his eyes. “That’s it!”

Lang Ze nodded. “Okay.”

The moment Lang Ze finished speaking, he opened the wooden door of the shack.

Suddenly, sunlight shone brightly in the shack. Before the sheep could react that the one coming today wasn’t the usual big hedgehog, a figure entered the shack.

Fortunately, this leader sheep was big enough and always ate alone. This made it an easy target.

Lang Ze clamped the two horns of the leader sheep and pulled outward when the leader sheep attacked angrily.

The moment the man and the sheep stepped out of the shack, Qi Bai immediately closed the wooden door and bolted it.

A few milk-producing ewes in the shack just casually shook their tails. They didn’t make a fuss and were sent back after a while.

The leader sheep obviously didn’t think so. After they reached the wide valley, the leader sheep became even more aggressive and seemed to want to have a big battle with Lang Ze.

Then the next second, Lang Ze knocked him to the ground and pressed on his horns so that he couldn’t get up.

“Baa!”

The sound of the leader sheep startled Ci Yi, who was halfway up the mountain. He quickly went down the hillside into the valley.

Qi Bai smiled. “Ci Yi, you came just in time. Come on, help us hold it down.”

Seeing the postures of Lang Ze and QI Bai, Ci Yi asked uncertainty, “Priest Yang Luo said that the leader sheep can’t be eaten now.”

Qi Bai raised the stone knife in his hand. “We aren’t eating it. We are just shaving its wool.”

Qi Bai heard before that even skilled workers could scratch the sheep’s skin when shearing the wool. So what he brought today was a stone knife that wasn’t particularly sharp.

However, it was because the stone knife wasn’t sharp that it became much more difficult to shave the wool neatly.

Qi Bai threw the last piece of wool into the rattan basket. “Okay, that’s it.”

Ci Yi looked at the leader sheep and couldn’t help feeling some sympathy.

He saw that the originally thick wool on the sheep’s body had become uneven. In some places, pink skin could be seen under the fur, and there was a thick patch in some places. This was really horrible.

For the beastmen who had always been very careful about their fur, this was simply a disguised form of mental torture.

Qi Bai coughed lightly. “Oh, they don’t know what is beautiful and what is ugly. So let it be. I will practice more and definitely get better in the future.”

He opened the door of the shed and threw in the sheep, who didn’t know it had shrunk by half. Ci Yi asked timidly, “Can this fur grow back?”

“Of course!”

Qi Bai touched his chin. He thought that the fur of beastmen was different from ordinary beasts. “Do you think the fur of beastmen can grow again after being shaved?”

Lang Ze and Ci Yi took a step back at the same time.