As If Sprinkling Salt

He stood up and looked at the grassland where the weeds had almost grown to his knees. Without a word, Zhou Xu activated his 'Eye of Insight' again!

Lately, Zhou Xu had been feeling more and more that the 'Eye of Insight' was a truly useful ability.

Whenever he encountered something he couldn't figure out, using 'Eye of Insight' was always the right move!

Once his vision opened up, everything became clear. Zhou Xu quickly discovered that many skeletons and scattered broken walls were submerged among these weeds.

[These broken walls should be from some buildings. These primitive people nowadays couldn't possibly have made them.]

[According to their legends, this world should have had an era ruled by the Old Gods before. But then the Old Gods all died, and that era was destroyed?]

It was known that those so-called Old Gods possessed Extraordinary power.

To be able to cause the death of these Old Gods and the destruction of an era, there must have been a terrifying war that broke out on this land!

[In other words, these stone walls and these skeletons are very likely remnants from the previous era.]

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu's spirits immediately lifted.

The Transmigrators before him didn't have the 'Eye of Insight'. Some things he could discover, they might not have been able to.

He had Zhou Chongshan and the others carry the skeletons they found along the way. After all, he had now obtained the True Word of 'Skeleton Control' and needed a reserve of skeletons.

During this process, his gaze passed through the weeds swaying in the wind. With the enhancement of the 'Eye of Insight', Zhou Xu quickly spotted a faint glimmer deep within the grassland.

[Found it!]

Without hesitation, he locked onto the direction and hurried over. Pushing aside the weeds, he found that faint glimmer buried beneath thick dust.

"Come over and help."

Receiving the order, Zhou Chongshan and Da Shi didn't waste any time and quickly got to work.

After digging out about six to seven centimeters of soil, a corner of the stone wall appeared before him.

"Dig it out."

Da Shi didn't know what their chief was planning to do yet, but Zhou Chongshan and the others did. After all, they had experienced similar things before, which made them dig with even more effort.

The corner of the stone wall weighed at least seventy to eighty jin. Coupled with being buried deep in the ground, digging it out truly took a lot of effort.

Gaining a full view, Zhou Xu examined it up and down. He could basically confirm that this should have been a Stone Tablet before. Its material and style were different from those broken walls, but for some reason, only a corner remained.

Under his 'Eye of Insight', he could see a character on this corner of the Stone Tablet that was so faint it was almost invisible.

And that faint glimmer was emanating from this character.

Without hesitation, Zhou Xu quickly absorbed it.

Just like before, a new True Word character appeared in his mind. The meaning represented by this character was...

[Soldier!]

As before, a single character couldn't produce any substantial effect.

But these individual characters did give him some ideas.

[If I collect enough of these characters, can I combine them to obtain corresponding True Words?]

[Even for the True Words I already possess, can I break down each character and recombine them?]

As this thought flashed through his mind, Zhou Xu felt his heart race. Just now, he seemed to have gained infinite possibilities!

This grassland was still quite vast. Glancing at the sky, Zhou Xu clearly had no intention of returning home just yet.

The discovery of this one True Word character made him even more convinced that there should be many more good things buried in this grassland.

Heaven rewards the diligent.

Using the power of the 'Eye of Insight' to improve his exploration efficiency, and with his careful investigation, he indeed found a second True Word character on another piece of broken Stone Tablet.

[Grant!]

Meanwhile, the sun had already begun to set slowly. It was not safe on the grassland after dark.

To avoid any unnecessary trouble, Zhou Xu, who had collected a pile of skeletons and harvested two True Word characters, returned home contentedly.

He definitely didn't have time to rush back to the Salt Lake Tribe today.

So, he planned to spend the night at the Black Moon Tribe.

In fact, he had already made this decision from the beginning. Before heading to this grassland, he had already signaled a tribe member to return to the Salt Lake Tribe to deliver this message.

A person's journey is fast. Calculating the time, they should have arrived long ago.

Returning to the Black Moon Tribe, inside the tribal camp, the Black Moon Tribe members who had recently submitted to him were now looking at him, their new chief, with eager eyes.

Clearly, they dared not make any rash moves before their new chief returned to give orders.

"Alright, let's start a fire and cook now."

The Black Moon Tribe's dinner was largely as Zhou Xu had expected.

Each person would receive about a bowl of fish soup and half a grilled fish.

To be honest, apart from the meal of eating spider legs, the tribe's food was completely superior to that of their Salt Lake Tribe.

This should be the natural advantage of being backed by a freshwater lake and having access to fish resources.

Of course, they also had something the other party didn't: salt.

Just a little salt for seasoning was enough to transform their grilled fish and fish soup into something entirely different!

For the members of the Black Moon Tribe, who had never tried seasonings before, the concept of seasoning was enough to completely shatter their worldview.

After all, to them, the fish soup and grilled fish were already incredibly delicious.

Thinking back to the first time they drank the fish soup and ate the grilled fish, Da Shi could have sworn he thought he could eat it forever without getting tired of it!

Until today, when he tasted the fish soup and grilled fish prepared by their new chief.

A single bite completely overturned his previous vow.

Just like their new chief's casual sprinkling of salt, it effortlessly crushed the food their old chief had given them.

At this moment, the members of the Black Moon Tribe, including Da Shi, felt as if they had been stripped of all their language abilities. They didn't know what to say or how to describe their current feelings. The only thing they could do was bury their heads and eat!

They weren't sure if it was their imagination, but after finishing their meal, they felt like their entire state had improved.

And this was certainly not their imagination.

The reason they felt this way was due to the replenishment of salt.

Salt wasn't only found in 'salt' itself. Under normal circumstances, the food they ate also contained some biological salt, which primitive humans absorbed to maintain their bodily functions.

But just like eating, 'not being hungry' and 'being full' were two different things.

The amount of biological salt provided by their usual food was naturally incomparable to the salt crystals Zhou Xu had directly sprinkled.

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