No, it's something even better than a stone bowl. Stone bowls are very difficult to make; it takes the elderly many days to polish and finish just one.
Moreover, it is very heavy. Children who are not yet awakened and the elderly will feel pain in their hands if they hold it for a long time.
The "stone bowls" made by the priests were very light and easy to make.
All you need to do is play with mud and then put it in the fire to burn.
Shen Nong held the cooled gray pottery jar, gently tapped its body, and couldn't help but smile as she listened to the dull sound it made.
He was initially a little embarrassed about messing with the system, but as it turns out, feeling guilty towards the system will only lead to misfortune.
He doesn't hesitate to take advantage of others when they're trying to scam him, so now the system is just a tool for him to exploit bugs and traps.
Hu Xiao was holding the leaves of the giant tree, which contained the salt stones in front of Shen Nong's cave.
He put down all 100 pounds of salt stones. "Priest, they're all here."
Shen Nong held the stone in her hand, wanting to smash the large piece of salt into smaller pieces. After smashing it once, she lifted it up again to continue smashing, but she ended up lifting nothing.
The salt stone had already been smashed to pieces by the boy beside him with a single punch.
Shen Nong, relieved, put down the stone and let Ze continue to crush the other salt stones.
Upon hearing this, Ze punched a piece of salt on the animal hide and smashed it with a speed like playing whack-a-mole.
The people of the Wood Tribe didn't know why the priest would crush the perfectly good salt stones into powder, making them too difficult to lick.
They didn't ask Shen Nong either, since it was still edible even if it was broken up.
Moreover, the salt stone priest did not say that it was to be distributed to the tribe, so it should be that the priest kept it in his own cave.
The things in the priest's cave belong to the priests; they wouldn't have any other thoughts about them.
Shen Nong put some of the broken salt stones into a ceramic jar, filled the jar with water, and put it on a fire to heat it. "Now I'll teach you a way to make salt stones as white as snow."
The people of the Wood Tribe were somewhat astonished; the salt rocks had turned like snow.
How could rock salt possibly turn into something like snow?
However, the priests had already taught them to make fire from wood and to turn fire and mud into jars.
They wouldn't believe it if others said so, but if a priest said it, the salt would surely turn into snowflakes.
As the water slowly boiled, the salt stone dissolved. Shen Nong continued to add salt until the newly added salt could no longer dissolve, reaching a saturated state.
Then let it sit and wait for the water to evaporate. White crystals begin to condense on the inner wall of the jar, and as the water evaporates, more and more salt crystals form.
In the end, a whole jar of brine was reduced to only one-third fine salt.
"Salt...stone...salt stone...snow..."
"It really...it really turned into snowflakes!"
The people of the Mu tribe who witnessed the process were still in disbelief. The salt, which looked like snowflakes, was truly beautiful!
Tiger Roar was always there whenever he went to the Salt Department to exchange salt. He said with absolute certainty, "The Salt Department doesn't have this kind of salt; only our Wood Tribe has it."
Looking at the pure white salt, Tu Dong asked with a delighted expression, "Does that mean our Mu tribe can sell salt from now on?"
Hu Xiao also wanted to sell salt, but after thinking about it, he said, "But we don't have many salt rocks to turn into snowflakes."
Shen Nong gave them a suggestion: "You can buy a lot of salt rocks from the salt department, turn them into snowflake salt, and then sell the snowflake salt at a higher price. This way you can get more things in return."
After I finished speaking, a system notification appeared.
[Ding, system notification: The Wood Tribe has been detected to possess the "Purifying Fine Salt" skill. Reward: 3000 Infrastructure Points.]
[Ding, system notification: Task Two completed, reward 9000 infrastructure points. Please check.]
[Task 3: Our motto is to be invincible! Let's set a small goal first: train five level 7 orc warriors!]
[Reward: 250,000 Infrastructure Points.]
A level 7 orc warrior needs 50,000 base points. If the system doesn't draw any, then this quest is just too difficult.
After accepting the mission, Shen Nong retrieved the Bloodstone from the system's inventory.
Pick out five of the more skilled hunters from the hunting party and have them come over to test their skill levels.
Apart from Tiger Roar, who is a level 3 orc warrior, the other four are level 2 orc warriors.
If it weren't for the late hour, Shen Nong would have almost missed the glow of the bloodstone.
Although Shen Nong was not clear about the specific requirements for the orcs to level up, he knew that leveling up was definitely not easy.
He himself is a superhuman, and the time span of each level is very difficult.
Don't be afraid when you encounter difficulties; first, extort money from the system.
Adhering to this truth of life, Shen Nong called out to the system, "It's time to show your sincerity."
The system dared not speak out, and besides, it could also get a commission if Shen Nong could complete the task quickly.
However, it didn't dare to open the back door too obviously, so it said, "Consider it a replacement for your newbie gift pack. The original price of the Marrow Cleansing Pill was 100,000 base points, but now it's 1,000 base points."
Then a promotional poster for the Marrow Cleansing Pill popped up on the screen: "Marrow Cleansing Pill, cleanses the marrow and tendons, turns a useless person into a genius, a spiritual medicine of the cultivation world. Not 100,000, not 10,000, now only 1,000, bring home a spiritual medicine of the immortal realm!"
Shen Nong stared blankly at the promotional poster with its garish red and green color scheme and constantly zooming in and out of the text. He was worried that the system might get infected with a virus someday.
"How about a discount?"
The system froze for a moment again. Hearing those three words now made its code malfunction; it was startled. If it could, the system really wanted to write a program that would prevent Shen Nong from uttering those three words.
This is already a rock-bottom price. If it weren't for the newbie gift pack, you could buy a mere scent for 1000 base points.
Shen Nong said "Oh," and just when the system thought it had successfully persuaded Shen Nong, it heard Shen Nong say, "No discount is fine, you can buy one get one free."
The system was rife with messy, disorganized code, which infuriated me.
Why don't you just rob it!
"May I?"
"Of course not!" However, the system also knew that if it didn't bleed a little today, Shen Nong wouldn't let it off the hook, so the system started to soften its stance, "Buy nine, get one free."
Shen Nong's infrastructure points are just enough to buy nine Marrow Cleansing Pills, and the extra one will make it a perfect total.
The moment the system regressed, Shen Nong knew this guy still had a way to rip her off: "Buy three, get one free."
The system, which had been thoroughly outmaneuvered by Shen Nong in the bargaining game, no longer wanted to waste its energy in a desperate struggle, and it agreed to Shen Nong's demands.
Shen Nong clicked her tongue, it seemed there was still some profit to be made.
I should have insisted on the buy-one-get-one-free offer.
Shen Nong achieved a one-sided friendly cooperation through the system's unification of the system, while the system felt utterly betrayed.
It was filled with deep doubt that, as a highly intelligent being, it could not outmaneuver a mere human in the matter of bargaining!
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Although the system only requires five level-seven orc warriors, Shen Nong wants to speed things up, expand the tribe on a small scale, and be able to protect what they have created.
Therefore, Shen Nong selected a total of ten people: five for the hunting team, four for the guard team, and one for the other.
As his personal bodyguard, being strong alone wouldn't suffice.
Shen Nong summoned the ten people to his cave. Not wanting to waste time, Shen Nong got straight to the point: "I think you all know that the orc warriors in the tribe are too low-level, so they have no way to protect the tribe."
The orcs certainly knew, otherwise they wouldn't have been starving and unable to hunt for food, nor would they have been chased all over the mountains by cannibals...
Tiger Roar has always disliked feeling stifled. In the past, he couldn't advance in rank on his own because there were no priests to guide him each autumn.
Now they have priests, so the situation is different.
So he said earnestly to Shen Nong, "Priest, don't worry, we will train hard and we will definitely advance."
The others nodded in agreement, their attitude serious and genuine.
Shen Nong was satisfied with their attitude and said, "Open your hands."
After the beastmen did as instructed, Shen Nong had the system place the Marrow Cleansing Pill in their palms.
"What! What is this?!"
"I don't know, it just appeared out of nowhere!"
Apart from Ze, all the other orcs exclaimed in surprise that the priest had asked the beast god to send them divine medicine.
He looked at Shen Nong without saying a word, his eyes filled with reverence for her alone.
Shen Nong noticed this unique gaze.
Everyone's reverence for him was based on the Beast God, except for the young man.
Interestingly, he finally met a primitive man who wasn't superstitious.
"Eat it. This will make your bodies better and help you advance faster."
Shen Nong didn't explain in detail, he only reminded you: "However, you will feel a lot of pain right after you eat it. It's like your bones are being broken and your meridians are being torn. Once you get through this, the pain will gradually disappear."
He glanced at the ten people one by one, "If you don't have the confidence to endure this pain, say it now, and what you hold will disappear on its own."
Although the ten people didn't quite understand what meridians were, they knew how painful it was to have broken bones.
However, none of the ten men retreated because of this; orc warriors do not back down because of pain!
After listening to the story, Ze was the first to swallow the Marrow Cleansing Pill.
Then there's Tiger Roar, the most powerful orc warrior in the Wood Tribe hunting team. How could he possibly lose to a brat from the Ze Tribe!
In the end, all ten people took the Marrow Cleansing Pill, and none of them chose to withdraw.
Shen Nong smiled and said, "Go back and rest. Come find me again when the pain subsides."
"Yes, priest."
After the other nine people left, one person remained in the cave.
The Wood Tribe had nowhere else to choose from, so he needed to build his own thatched hut.
However, there was no time to build it now, so Shen Nong told him to stay at her place for one night and wait until the effects of the medicine wore off.
Shen Nong looked at the boy and pointed to the animal hide on the ground, "You can sleep here."
In the evening, the men, women, and children of the Wood Tribe sat around the fire, their eyes fixed on their priest roasting meat.
After the earthenware pot was made, Shen Nong used it to render animal fat and extract animal oil.