Chapter 967: Kuafu

While Baoxi was heading toward the Suiren Clan, the Fengbo Tribe had already stepped into the territory of the Jiuli Alliance, and the people they were now facing were the Kuafu Tribe, a race of giants known for being tall and burly.

The Kuafu Tribe also belonged to the Jiuli Alliance; in fact, toward the later stages of the war, among Chiyou's eighty-one brothers—that is, the eighty-one tribes—Fengbo, Yushi, and Kuafu became the three largest, serving as the superior Leaders for those smaller tribes.

The Kuafu Tribe currently controlled over a dozen smaller tribes, as the combat power of the Kuafu was truly astonishing; in terms of physique and combat strength, every single person in their tribe could be mentioned in the same breath as Chiyou.

But the problem was that their intelligence could not compare to Chiyou's, which was why they were ruled by him; furthermore, because of their tall stature and relatively brutal methods, the Kuafu were once considered a Cannibal Tribe, but in reality, they did not eat people—it was just a case of hearsay, perhaps one way for people to avoid this dangerous tribe.

Feilian had naturally heard of the great name of the Kuafu clan, so when he stepped onto the territory of the Kuafu, he was still extremely panicked in his heart, even though Pengtu had clearly explained that the Kuafu did not eat people and were also members of the Jiuli Alliance; since everyone was brothers, how could they possibly harm the Fengbo Tribe?

Pengtu even specifically brought the people of the Fengbo Tribe to the settlement of the Kuafu clan, effectively introducing both sides to get to know each other, while also obtaining food supplies from the Kuafu Tribe, as their journey here had truly been a bit difficult; food for tens of thousands of people was really not easy to find.

Looking at the crocodiles hanging in the territory of the Kuafu Tribe, Feilian was also extremely shocked in his heart; just what kind of formidable tribe could it be that took crocodiles as their staple food?

Soon he saw it: the entire Kuafu Tribe, regardless of gender, were all extremely tall, and even those who were not yet adults, or rather, the young people whose flesh had not yet grown sturdy, were all thin and tall, showing a very obvious gap compared to their Fengbo Tribe.

If Baifeng were to see this, he would think that if these people were placed in the future, they would likely all be good prospects for playing basketball; 1.8 meters would look malnourished, 1.9 meters would be considered a normal height, and those over two meters would be a common sight.

Such a race does indeed exist; in some ruins within the country, many extremely tall human skeletons have been unearthed, and ruins from thousands of years ago prove that people in the past were not short, and such a living race exists in the Netherlands in Europe, where their heights are all above 1.8 meters, and they even intervene specifically through medicine to prevent them from growing too tall.

But in this era, being too tall, while very intimidating and clearly allowing one to possess greater strength to capture prey, also meant that maintaining such a tall body required more food than people of average stature.

Furthermore, the infants were large in size, and the probability of dystocia was also very high.

Therefore, the current scale of the Kuafu Tribe was not exaggeratedly large; it was just the scale that a normal medium-to-large tribe should have.

But why did the Kuafu suddenly disappear in mythology, not continuing to extend backward like the Yan, Huang, and Chiyou, even though Fengbo and Yushi were both subdued by Xuanyuan?

Baifeng did not know the reason for this; in his view, all mythology was merely an exaggerated description of some event.

Just like Kuafu chasing the sun—why couldn't it be that a long-term drought caused the entire tribe to migrate incessantly? And one person drinking dry the water of a great river—why couldn't it be that the river had ceased to flow due to a severe drought? The Yellow River has ceased to flow more than once.

Kuafu died and his peach staff turned into Denglin; that could simply be that the Tribal Chief, who used the peach staff as a symbol of tribal power, died there, and his own tribesmen also died there, which was the complete extinction of the entire Kuafu Tribe.

The death of Kuafu is a subject worth studying in history; it is about exploring the truth of history from mythology, and there are far too many people searching for the truth of this matter.

But the current Kuafu Tribe was still extremely prosperous, and the Tribal Chief of the Kuafu Tribe was naturally named Kuafu; he had not seen Pengtu for a long time, so this sudden meeting made Kuafu very happy.

Pengtu greeted Kuafu without any fear, and Kuafu also happily stepped forward and lifted Pengtu directly up: "Aiya hahahahaha, Pengtu, it's been too long, it's been too long, you've gotten thin again."

Pengtu hurriedly patted Kuafu's arm: "Alright, put me down quickly; I went to do a big thing on behalf of the Tribal Chief, and I've suffered quite a bit on this journey."

Kuafu slowly placed Pengtu on the ground, then looked at Feilian and pointed at him to ask Pengtu: "Who is he? Is this the thing you went to do this time?"

Looking at Kuafu, who was a head taller than him—standing next to him, he could only reach the man's shoulder—Feilian was truly a bit afraid.

Fortunately, Pengtu hurriedly introduced: "This is Fengbo, he comes from the Shennong Clan; now the Shennong Clan is in complete chaos, and to preserve the tribe and avoid fighting with their own clansmen, Fengbo came to join our Jiuli; I went to receive them as the envoy of the Tribal Chief."

Upon hearing the introduction, Kuafu's eyes lit up, and he wanted to repeat his old trick and lift Fengbo, but Fengbo stepped back in advance and did not let Kuafu succeed.

Kuafu was not embarrassed at all and was even very happy: "I know of Fengbo, and Yushi too, once the great generals of the Shennong Clan, the most important Great Shamans; I didn't expect them to be able to join our Jiuli; this is good luck for our tribe."

Pengtu also hurriedly said: "Exactly, obtaining the Fengbo Tribe is a great thing, but Kuafu, we have been traveling for too long and haven't had a few full meals; you must let us have a good meal now."

Kuafu confidently patted his chest: "Hey, rest assured, I can definitely let you eat your fill; today one of our warriors even caught a dragon bigger than me, we'll eat that today, it just depends on whether you can finish it!"

"Good, good, you arrange it." Pengtu indicated that the guest follows the host's arrangements.

And currently, except for Huaxia and the Xuanyuan Tribe, everyone still called crocodiles 'dragons', or 'tu', or Tuolong; tribes like Kuafu would not be like the Xuanyuan Tribe, who, because they did a large amount of trade with Huaxia, followed Huaxia's naming convention—why should they suddenly change what they had been calling Tuolong for so many years to 'crocodile'?

Moreover, the so-called letting everyone eat their fill was merely letting these Tribal Chiefs and Leaders eat their fill; the ordinary tribesmen could not possibly eat their fill, and no one would even care about them.