Standing up and looking at the field of grass that had almost grown to his knees, Zhou Xu activated Eye of Insight once again without a word!
Lately, Zhou Xu had increasingly felt that Eye of Insight was truly a useful ability.
Whenever he was faced with a dilemma, activating Eye of Insight directly was always the right choice!
Once his vision opened up, everything became clear. Zhou Xu soon discovered that quite a few skeletons and scattered fragments of broken walls were buried beneath the weeds.
[These broken walls should have come from some kind of building. No matter how he looked at them, the primitive people of today couldn't possibly have made them.]
[According to their legends, before this world, there should have been an era ruled by the Old Gods. But later, all the Old Gods died, and that era collapsed as well?]
One had to know that those so-called Old Gods possessed extraordinary powers.
For the Old Gods to die and an entire era to collapse, a truly terrifying war must have once broken out on this land!
[In other words, these stone walls and skeletons might very well have been left behind from the previous era.]
At that thought, Zhou Xu immediately found himself brimming with energy.
The previous transmigrator hadn't possessed Eye of Insight. There were some things he could discover that the other person might not have been able to.
Whenever they found skeletons along the way, he had Zhou Chongshan and the others carry them. After all, he had now obtained the True Word Character for Skeleton Control, so he needed a reserve of skeletons.
During the process, his gaze passed through the weeds swaying in the wind. With the enhancement of Eye of Insight, Zhou Xu soon spotted a faint glimmer deep within the grassland.
[Found it!]
Without hesitation, Zhou Xu fixed his bearings and hurried over at a jog. After pushing aside the weeds, he saw that the faint glimmer was buried beneath a thick layer of dust.
"Come over and help."
After receiving the order, Zhou Chongshan and Da Shi immediately got to work without wasting words.
After digging through some six or seven centimeters of sand, a corner of a stone wall appeared before his eyes.
"Dig it out."
Da Shi still didn't know what their leader intended to do, but Zhou Chongshan and the others did. After all, they had experienced something similar before, which made them dig even harder.
That corner of the stone wall weighed at least seventy or eighty jin. On top of that, it was deeply buried in the soil, so digging it out truly took them quite a bit of effort.
After getting a full view of it and examining it from top to bottom, Zhou Xu could basically confirm that it had originally been a stone stele. Its material and style differed from those broken walls, but somehow, only one corner remained.
Under the observation of his Eye of Insight, he could see a character on that corner of the stele, so faint that it was almost impossible to make out.
That faint glimmer was emanating from the character.
Without hesitation, Zhou Xu quickly absorbed it.
Just as before, a new True Word Character surfaced in his mind. The meaning represented by this character was...
[Weapon!]
As before, a single character alone could not produce any substantial effect.
But these characters one after another had given him some ideas.
[If I collect enough of these characters, can I combine them to obtain the corresponding True Words?]
[Even with the True Words I already possess, can I separate their individual characters and recombine them?]
As this thought flashed through his mind, Zhou Xu felt his heart begin to race. Just now, it was as though he had gained infinite possibilities!
This grassland was still quite vast. After checking the sky, Zhou Xu clearly had no intention of turning back just yet.
The discovery of this True Word Character made him even more certain that plenty of good things should still be buried in this grassland.
Heaven never failed those who worked hard.
By using the power of Eye of Insight to improve the efficiency of his search, Zhou Xu carefully investigated the area and, sure enough, found a second True Word Character on a broken piece of stone stele elsewhere.
[Grant!]
During that time, the sun had already begun to slowly sink in the west. The grassland was anything but safe after nightfall.
To avoid unnecessary trouble, Zhou Xu picked up a pile of skeletons and, after obtaining two more True Word Characters in succession, returned home completely satisfied.
He definitely wouldn't make it back to the Salt Lake Tribe today.
So that night, he planned to spend it here at the Black Moon Tribe.
In fact, he had already made this decision from the beginning. Before setting off for the grassland, he had already signaled for a tribe member to hurry back to the Salt Lake Tribe and deliver the message.
A single person traveling at full speed should have arrived long ago by his calculations.
After returning to the Black Moon Tribe, he found that inside the tribal camp, the Black Moon Tribe members who had only recently submitted to him were now staring eagerly at their new leader.
Clearly, before their new leader returned and issued orders, they didn't dare act rashly.
"All right, from now on, start a fire and cook."
The Black Moon Tribe's dinner was more or less what Zhou Xu had expected.
Each person received roughly a bowl of fish soup and half a grilled fish.
To be honest, setting aside the meal when they had gnawed on spider legs, this tribe's food was completely superior to that of the Salt Lake Tribe.
This should have been the natural advantage of relying on a freshwater lake and possessing abundant fish resources.
Of course, they had something the other side didn't—that was salt.
With just a little salt for seasoning, their grilled fish and fish soup could be transformed into something entirely different!
To the Black Moon Tribe members, who had never tried seasoning before, this thing called seasoning was enough to completely overturn their understanding of the world.
One had to know that, to them, the fish soup and grilled fish had already been delicious enough.
Thinking back to the first time they drank fish soup and ate grilled fish, Da Shi could practically swear that he had truly believed he could eat that stuff for the rest of his life without ever getting tired of it!
Until today, when he tasted the fish soup and grilled fish cooked by their new leader.
With just one bite, it completely overturned his previous oath.
Just like the casual motion with which their new leader sprinkled salt, it effortlessly crushed the food their former leader had given them.
At that moment, the Black Moon Tribe members, Da Shi included, seemed to have lost all ability to speak. They had no idea what to say, much less how to describe what they were feeling. The only thing they could do was bury their heads and eat!
Perhaps it was their imagination, but after finishing their meal, they felt that their entire bodies were in better condition.
And of course, this wasn't an illusion.
The reason they felt this way was because they had replenished their salt.
Salt wasn't obtained only from actual salt. Under normal circumstances, the food they ate also contained some biological salts, and primitive humans maintained their bodily functions by absorbing these biological salts.
But just as eating was concerned, "not hungry" and "full" were two entirely different things.
The amount of biological salt supplied by their food in the past naturally couldn't compare with the salt crystals Zhou Xu had sprinkled directly.
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