Chapter 1649: The Giant Panda

Baifeng and his party arrived at Dayeze smoothly and also met Chiyou. To Baifeng, Chiyou did not feel as outrageous as Xingtian. Chiyou's appearance was just that of a sturdy man, not the feeling of a human-shaped weapon, but his combat power was not low at all. Even in his prime, Baifeng would not have been confident he could win, and now that his muscles had long since slackened, Baifeng was even less confident in being able to go one-on-one with Chiyou.

However, now, the identity of Huaxia was not that of a Soldier, and the same went for Chiyou; they represented hundreds of thousands of people, conducting a three-party talk.

The first time Chiyou saw Baifeng, he was quite happy, and the War Lord and the others who were familiar with Baifeng were even happier, because in their eyes, Baifeng was a Sage who had to be treated well.

What's more, Huaxia had hardly asked for anything, only wanting some useless water Grass and some useless grass roots, yet they gave the Jiuli the method for making salt and also told them of a place where they could obtain endless food. Therefore, the people of the Jiuli naturally had a good attitude toward Baifeng. Of course, one must also add the identity of in-laws; although it was unintentionally brought about, the two sides could indeed be considered to have a marriage alliance relationship.

Baifeng still had one point of curiosity: where exactly was that Iron-Eating Beast? Chatting along the way, the topic was finally mentioned. After arriving at Chiyou's residence, Baifeng also saw the so-called Iron-Eating Beast, and it was indeed a panda.

It was just that this place was so remote, already far from the Qinling Mountains, and had even passed the Taihangshan, yet he had not expected there to be pandas. That was enough to show that the panda's previous range of survival was actually very broad. By later generations, due to humans and changes in the Nature climate, the giant panda's survival range had been compressed to the area of the Qinling and Bashan, only found in the three provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Sichuan.

And Chiyou even said, "The original one, I raised for many, many years. It's a pity it was too old. Once, after it left for a long time, it came back. I originally thought it had died outside, but I didn't expect it to actually come back, and then it gave birth to this one. This is actually the second Iron-Eating Beast I've raised; the first Iron-Eating Beast died of old age a few years ago."

Although that giant panda looked simple and honest, Baifeng did not dare to touch it easily. After all, its wild nature had likely not yet been worn away, and perhaps only people like Chiyou could be relatively close to it.

But it was true; the lifespan of a bear in Nature is considered decent, not too short, but it will definitely die of old age. A domesticated one lives even longer than one in the wild; otherwise, I'm afraid this giant panda wouldn't even be seen.

The current Jiuli were still relatively barbaric, just relatively powerful. Fortunately, the War Lord and the others had long since been to Huaxia and knew what Huaxia looked like, so they had carried out some modifications to the Jiuli, making the Jiuli look slightly better. Furthermore, in order to make Baifeng and his group more comfortable in the Jiuli, they had specifically made tables and chairs in advance; although rough, they were usable.

The ceramic and Glass vessels Baifeng gave them were all used as Ritual Vessels, so they would not be brought out when entertaining guests, and they still used Pottery.

However, they also followed the etiquette of Huaxia and had long since prepared a sumptuous banquet. All kinds of roasted meat and some early-ripening fruits were all laid out, and there was even honey, which was served on the table as a drink. It could be said that they attached great importance to this talk.

After everyone was seated, Chiyou asked for details: "Just now hearing you speak, you want to form an alliance with us, the three of us forming an alliance together, what is this for? Are there any formidable enemies? The greatest in this world is the Shennong Clan, right? But it wouldn't go so far as to make the three of us unite, right? And what Fengbo and Yushi said, the Shennong Clan is now not as good as before, and you are also attacking the Shennong Clan. Could it be that you can't defeat them?"

Baifeng shook his head: "No, no, Chiyou, this time we came, not for war, but so that there will no longer be war."

"Baifeng, how do you say that?"

"Chiyou, we have already taken down the Shennong Clan with Xuanyuan. The Shennong Clan has already been divided by our two tribes. There is no longer a Shennong Clan in the world.

There is also the Suiren Clan; I didn't tell you before, but now I can say it. The Suiren Clan has already joined our Huaxia on its own. Therefore, now in this world, there are only three great tribes: your Jiuli, and our two tribes.

There are no other tribes left to conquer, only some small tribes. If you want to expand territory and increase population, unless our three tribes go to war with each other—but the strength of our three tribes is about the same, and we are all considered good friends, trading with each other, which is beneficial to everyone. War is the worst choice.

Therefore, our two tribes have reached a consensus: starting this year, we will divide our two tribes' territories clearly from beginning to end, without any doubts. In the future, we will only trade and help each other, but we cannot attack each other.

You are the same; we are all neighbors. There are only three tribes in this world, and no one can avoid it. If our two tribes attack each other, we will worry about whether you are waiting for us to be weakened by the fighting before coming to attack us, and we are also afraid of which two tribes might unite to attack the third party.

Therefore, since we worry about and guard against each other, why not just have the three families unite? Let's be allies, never attack each other again, trade with each other, and help each other, so that our people can be full and can be warm."

Chiyou's expression changed slightly. He was a bit displeased because Huaxia and Xuanyuan had come together, and now they were talking about two tribes uniting to attack one—wasn't this threatening their Jiuli? And was this kind of statement sincere, or was it a Trap set for their Jiuli?

Seeing Chiyou's expression change slightly, Baifeng explained the theory of the three-legged tripod to Chiyou once more, which could be considered as having explained all the pros and cons clearly.

At the same time, he also told Chiyou about what kind of scene it would be after their three tribes united in the future, what kind of things they were prepared to do, and what kind of cooperation they would carry out.

Anyway, after explaining all kinds of settings, Chiyou was quite moved. Coupled with the intentions and attitudes shown by Baifeng and Xuanyuan, Chiyou was moved. He felt that uniting was indeed beneficial to the Jiuli, especially since Baifeng was willing to give the Jiuli the complete salt-making method, and he was also prepared to use grain to trade for salt with the Jiuli.

For salt made using the method taught by Baifeng, Huaxia was still willing to buy it back with grain; Chiyou really couldn't think of a reason not to cooperate.

However, the three had a slight disagreement regarding the location for signing the cooperation.

Baifeng and Xuanyuan's meaning was that as long as they could go through the complete process and report to the Heaven God to bear witness, then there would be no problem. But Chiyou was different; Chiyou believed that such a great alliance oath must be sworn upon great mountains and great rivers; only then would it be effective.

In order to achieve the goal, Baifeng and Xuanyuan had to agree to Chiyou's idea, and Chiyou set the target at Taihang, a great mountain closest to the Jiuli, Huaxia, and the three tribes of Xuanyuan. Such a great mountain standing between the three tribes was the good place to make the alliance.