[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-became-the-chief-of-a-primitive-village":3,"chapter-i-became-the-chief-of-a-primitive-village-i-became-the-chief-of-a-primitive-village-chapter-976":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I Became The Chief of A Primitive Village",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1382489,1830,"Chapter 976: Gene Conversion","i-became-the-chief-of-a-primitive-village-chapter-976",976,"\u003Cp>After finishing breakfast, Su Bai continued busying himself with his own matters. The ‘four great inventions’ had been thoroughly implemented within the Flame Dragon Tribe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First came papermaking, followed by gunpowder, and finally printing and the compass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The compass was not difficult. The main material was Magnetic Stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The principle was mounting a magnetic needle on an axis. The magnetic needle could rotate freely under the influence of the planet’s natural magnetic field and maintain position tangent to the magnetic meridian direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The north pole of the magnetic needle pointed towards the north magnetic pole. They would primarily utilise this property to distinguish direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The appearance of a compass allowed people to shift from relying on celestial bodies for direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back on Earth, the compass was commonly used for navigation, surveying, travel and military purposes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Bai intended this to help the Warriors and other personnel better identify the Tribe’s direction when venturing out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, sometimes Human intuition could be wrong, and tracks in the forest were very easily destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shaman, what is this thing?\" Yu Ying asked curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m performing Gene Conversion,\" Su Bai said, looking with satisfaction at the bottles and jars on the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shaman, what is Gene Conversion? And why do you need so many seeds?\" Yu Ying flicked her pink fox tail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many various kinds of seeds were placed on the table: wheat seeds, rice seeds, and seeds from various fruits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For instance, this Green Sour Berry is rather sour, isn’t it?\" Su Bai first picked up a Green Sour Berry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, sour enough to make our face change when eating it,\" Yu Ying nodded without hesitation. She even revealed a slightly disgusted expression. For no other reason than this Green Sour Berry was extremely sour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this was only for her. There were still many people who enjoyed eating very sour things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And this orange is rather sweet, isn’t it? Moreover, it’s a bit too sweet,\" Su Bai picked up an orange from the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This orange had grown from seeds he’d obtained from the System, cultivated and produced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Probably due to geographical environmental factors, combined with issues regarding the System-provided seeds. Oranges grown from System-provided seeds were exceptionally sweet; the kind of sweet that was almost throat-choking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was not particularly to Su Bai’s liking, because eating just one or two segments made that sweetness rather unbearable, particularly hard in the throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, for other people in the Tribe, it was fine. They rarely ate fruit this sweet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, they ate them whole with the peel. The pungent taste of the orange peel neutralised the sweetness, so they accepted them quite readily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, this orange is a bit sweet. It can only be made into preserved fruit,\" Yu Ying still nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Ying had quite liked eating oranges initially, but after production increased, the quantity also grew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes eating too many would feel cloying, mainly because the sugar content was truly too high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tribe had begun introducing preserved foods under Su Bai’s guidance with various foods pickled in jars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just meat, but also some vegetables pickled in jars, and finally various preserved fruits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So if we combined these two, wouldn’t the oranges produced no longer be that sweet?\" Su Bai smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to use this step-by-step explanation method to help the other party understand more quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I see. This is indeed a very good method, but surely this is not possible?\" Yu Ying certainly thought combining the flavours of two fruits would be good, but this was rather difficult to implement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Silly girl, you’ve forgotten I can use my Shaman Technique.\" Su Bai’s lips curved slightly upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had obtained a Skill some time ago: Extraction and Conversion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But due to having many matters requiring attention, he had not specifically focused on this Skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just recently there had not been that many matters, plus with the rainy season’s arrival, work could temporarily be set aside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mainly it was seeing oranges on the table during breakfast that reminded him to use this Skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh right, the Shaman did mention something about that Shaman Technique before.\" Yu Ying scratched the back of her head awkwardly, muttering, \"The Shaman knows so many Shaman Techniques, I didn’t recall it immediately.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s fine, you go about your business first.\" Su Bai’s tone was particularly gentle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shaman, if there’s anything you need, you can come find me,\" Yu Ying nodded happily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Bai flexed his fingers, preparing to begin implementing Extraction and Conversion. Many seeds were still placed on the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which meant there was still much to experiment with. Not just oranges and Green Sour Berries, even wheat required solutions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Bai’s idea was to combine wheat with Wolf Tail Grass. Wolf Tail Grass had particularly large grain clusters, even larger than ordinary wheat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the advantages of Wolf Tail Grass could be converted to wheat, then wheat would also produce large grain clusters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides this, rice was the same. All three required experimentation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, vegetables were not spared either. Some plants were not afraid of insects at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except for when the snow season arrived, their leaves remained tender green at all times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were no pest phenomena whatsoever. In the primitive era, there were no pesticides or insect repellents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Bai could only make improvements in this aspect. In any case, not using Extraction and Conversion would be wasteful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He extended both hands. One hand placed on the orange, the other on the Green Sour Berry, and began casting Extraction and Conversion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beams of sapphire blue light emanated from his palms, after which the two fruits each separated out a small chain of sapphire blue light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two sapphire blue light chains slowly combined together, like two strands of rope twisting together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire process lasted a full minute. Only when the sapphire blue light slowly dissipated did Su Bai withdraw his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He picked up the Green Sour Berry and orange, weighing them, discovering both were indeed slightly different in weight from their original mass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s test the flavour first to see if it succeeded,\" Su Bai peeled the orange skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He placed a segment in his mouth, chewed several times and nodded with satisfaction. Clearly, the experiment had succeeded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Bai set the Green Sour Berry aside without testing its flavour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Extraction and Conversion meant extracting the advantages of one thing and converting them to another thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Bai had already extracted the Green Sour Berry’s sourness. The orange’s sweetness had not been extracted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, the current Green Sour Berry was still the same as before. There was no need to test it.\u003C\u002Fp>",1106,"2026-06-05T22:27:04.797Z",1,"novelbin.me","893dcefd046251387fdc1d20c0b54d6ebf4d3069b915579f6a19c2a189bbb459","i-became-the-chief-of-a-primitive-village-chapter-791","i-became-the-chief-of-a-primitive-village-chapter-790",983,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-became-the-chief-of-a-primitive-village-cover.jpg"]