Chapter 1648: The Giants of the Kuafu Tribe

Chiyou had already been showing off his skills within the Jiuli, and after obtaining the sea salt production technology from Baifeng last year, he had already prepared to begin large-scale salt drying to supply all the tribes under his management, allowing them to grow strong while also increasing their trust in him as their Leader.

However, it was a pity that their location was too far north, and the winter temperatures were too low, making it completely impossible to perform salt-drying work, so this matter was shelved until the weather warmed up, at which point he arranged for people to attempt to dry salt.

And when the envoys sent by Xuanyuan arrived, the first batch of sea salt they had dried was delivered into Chiyou's hands just in time; seeing the snow-white salt, Chiyou was naturally extremely excited, and he felt that reaching a friendly alliance with Huaxia was quite necessary, to the point that he could even slow down or abandon attacking the Suiren clan for this, because the Suiren clan now also looked like a good ally of Huaxia, and there was no need for him to become enemies with Huaxia.

By comparison, attacking the Xuanyuan Tribe was the best way for their Jiuli to expand; the Xuanyuan Tribe could not bring too many benefits to their Jiuli, and added to the fact that the scope of trade was quite limited, based on what the War God had seen in Huaxia, Huaxia was extremely wealthy and had no shortage of food at all, so as long as their Jiuli maintained a good relationship with Huaxia, then trading for food from Huaxia would be no problem at all.

But it just so happened that the envoys from the Xuanyuan Tribe arrived, and Chiyou even wanted to just kill these envoys; there was no need for them to maintain this trading relationship with the Xuanyuan Tribe.

But fortunately, the person delivering the message said the full words: "Tribal Chief, he said he was sent by their Tribal Chief and the King of Huaxia together!"

Hearing the two words "Huaxia," Chiyou finally put away his murderous intent and hurriedly called people over to question them, to see what the situation was and why Huaxia would also send envoys together with the alliance; couldn't the Jiuli bypass the Xuanyuan Tribe to communicate with Huaxia?

Calling over this group of envoys who had become extremely thin due to the long journey and hunger, Chiyou asked directly: "Who sent you, Huaxia or the Xuanyuan Tribe, and what did you come here to do?"

The lead envoy stood out and said very politely: "Tribal Chief Chiyou, we were sent jointly by our Tribal Chief and the King of Huaxia. The purpose of this visit is because our two tribes wish to discuss the matter of an alliance with your Jiuli, and our Tribal Chief and the King of Huaxia are already on their way, preparing to come in person to talk with you."

"To avoid you misunderstanding that we are prepared to attack you, we were sent ahead of time to tell you first, so you can also prepare and see if you want to negotiate peace."

"Alliance? What alliance?"

The envoy replied: "It is a joint alliance of our three tribes, mainly to avoid the occurrence of war. The specific content is something that needs to be explained to you by our Tribal Chief and the King of Huaxia after they arrive; we are only here to deliver the message in advance."

Chiyou was completely confused and did not know what this was all about, but since they had already sent envoys ahead, he would prepare to negotiate this matter together, so he first had people take these few envoys away, at least to let them eat something, so that when the people from Huaxia and the Xuanyuan Tribe arrived, they wouldn't say he had mistreated their envoys.

Baifeng and Xuanyuan had long since entered the territory of the Jiuli, and according to what the guide said, they were not far from the Dayeze where Chiyou was located, but Baifeng had truly never heard of where this Dayeze was; in his era, the Dayeze had likely already disappeared.

However, Baifeng could be certain that he should have already arrived at the North China Plain, because he was familiar with the terrain and landforms here, but there were indeed many swamps and wetlands here, which was completely different from several thousand years later.

Baifeng was still quite looking forward to Chiyou; Chiyou was the God of War and could be considered the ancestor of the military school, and his personal martial strength was also extremely formidable. After seeing Xingtian, Baifeng really wanted to see these super-humans of this era again—of course, there was also his panda; no matter how big a panda was, it would be hard to use as a mount, right? Unless it was a polar bear that had come south all the way from Siberia, unless Chiyou was not as big as he had imagined.

However, when they approached the place where Chiyou was, they were surrounded by Soldiers of the Jiuli, but once they inquired and learned that they were Xuanyuan and Baifeng, they changed their attitude and appeared very enthusiastic, especially toward Huaxia; this led Xuanyuan to reasonably guess that Huaxia must have given Chiyou something incredible, or was conducting some kind of trade, otherwise, it would be impossible to receive such good treatment.

And Baifeng was only surprised by the composition of these Soldiers, because their appearances looked different; there were obvious regional differences, and there were giants with heights all over two meters. If there were one, Baifeng wouldn't think anything of it, but the problem was that there were several in their team.

Upon asking, he learned that they were the so-called Kuafu giant tribe, who originally lived in the south, but because they were under the jurisdiction of the Jiuli, they naturally had to send some Soldiers to be driven by Chiyou, and these Kuafu people were indeed excellent Soldiers and looked very intimidating.

Baifeng guessed that it should still be a matter of race, just like the land of windmills in Europe; they were also a nation of giants, with both men and women generally over one meter nine in height. The dwarves in the fairy tale Snow White were even one meter eight, so the existence of the Kuafu tribe was not that abrupt.

Baifeng also associated this with the idea that the so-called "two deaths of Kuafu" was likely the first Leader of the Kuafu taking his tribesmen to fight Xuanyuan at Zhilu, only to lose, with the Tribal Chief being killed by Yinglong and the remaining tribesmen fleeing and being driven to the north.

As a result, they encountered a once-in-a-millennium drought in the north and began to flee westward, which was where the sun went. Along the way, the Yellow River and the Wei River dried up, and the new Kuafu Tribal Chief died on the road, which was the so-called "staff."

The remaining few Kuafu giants also gradually starved to death or fled because they had no leader, no food, and no water, and they disappeared from this land; there was no longer a giant tribe.

However, in this era, such a tragic event should not happen again—no, it should be said that as long as they could reach an agreement with Chiyou, the Kuafu tribe would not perish, but their massive height might gradually return to the average level over the course of several thousand years.

But it had to be said that these Kuafu giants looked truly impressive; if he could assemble such an army of giants, Baifeng would be overjoyed. These people were indeed very handsome, and the team was imposing; if they could put on the Armor of Huaxia, he felt they could go and fight a big bear one-on-one.