While serving as a guiding light for Houtu, Wu Chu suddenly had a vague, unreal idea.
That hazy thought made him feel that perhaps the path he would walk in the future lay somewhere within it.
He was not sure whether this vague idea would work, but whether it succeeded or failed, it had at least given him a direction.
Thus, while Houtu reformed the tribe, Wu Chu did not take part.
As for building a city, Houtu decided to wait. The Witch Clan had always lived in tribes, combining farming, hunting, and gathering.
Back when the Witch Clan's population had grown and a single tribe held tens of thousands of people, the Witch Clan warriors had already found it extremely difficult to adapt. If they suddenly built a great city housing millions, how could the Wus adapt? Better to wait until after the reforms.
While Houtu worked hard on this, Wu Chu came beneath the Enlightenment Tree and sat there in silence, continually grasping at that hazy thought in his mind and using it as the foundation for all kinds of deductions.
Under his deductions, that vague idea gradually began to take shape.
Half a year later, the reforms in the Witch Clan tribe had achieved some results. Originally, Houtu had wanted to discuss it with the other Ancestral Witches and have everyone carry out comprehensive reforms together.
However, Wu Chu had not allowed her to do that. He had told her to first pick a tribe as a pilot project, so that any problems could be corrected promptly.
Thus, although some results had appeared over the past half year, Houtu remembered Wu Chu's warning about "crossing the river by feeling the stones" and continued verifying everything cautiously.
After all, once such a system took shape, it would not