Recaps

Jian Mo helped the Riverside Tribe improve its homes, traded with the Jintuo Tribe, and discovered that black sand from the trip contained metal. The tribe smelted the ore and forged its first knife, while cries outside disturbed Jian Mo’s sleep.

• Jian Mo gathered Snow Pearl Fruit with Wu Jiong, made fruit wine, and later discovered more fruit growing beneath the grass Jiujiu had soiled.
• Jian Mo treated Zhou Dao and the other children for indigestion after they ate raw meat, then helped the tribe repel a flock of birds attracted to the beastmen’s feces.
• Jian Mo and the tribe fired lime, used it to strengthen and insulate their houses, and fitted some homes with glass windows.
• Jian Mo joined Ban Ming’s hunting trip, then traveled with Wu Jiong and others to the Jintuo Tribe, where he treated decayed teeth and arranged for metal medical instruments.
• Jian Mo returned with baskets of black river sand, and later identified reddish-brown clumps from a failed glass firing as metal ore.
• Jian Mo persuaded the tribe’s core members to turn the smelted ore into everyday tools, and Wu Jiong agreed to build a forge.
• Jian Mo, Qing Kuo, and the tribe built a furnace and bellows, then forged and sharpened a knife that Jian Mo tested and praised.
• Jian Mo went to bed beside the giant wolf, but repeated cries outside disturbed his sleep.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong confess their feelings, strengthen ties with neighboring tribes, and help Ran Wu recover. As Min Dang’s family prepares to move to the Riverside Tribe, Jian Mo chooses a house for a hospital and makes a comfortable bed for their home.

• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong confessed their feelings, exchanged a kiss, and began sharing their sleeping mats.
• Wu Jiong and Jian Mo arranged a trade with the Jintuo Tribe, exchanging charcoal-making and furnace-building techniques for metal while keeping their glassmaking methods private.
• Jian Mo joined the tribe’s winter gathering and hunting trips, then turned Hairy-Horned Beast meat into sausages that became popular in the Riverside Tribe.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong traded sausages at the Mengshui Tribe, where Jian Mo found Ran Wu malnourished and suffering from patchy fur loss.
• Ran Wu stayed with Jian Mo and Wu Jiong, gradually regained his confidence, and joined the tribe’s purpleheart sap gathering.
• Min Dang and his family decided to move to the Riverside Tribe, where members prepared a house and supplies for them.
• Jian Mo chose a riverside house to serve as a hospital and planned its layout with the tribe.
• Jian Mo and the sub-beastmen made quilts, while Wu Jiong built a bed that Jian Mo eagerly tried out.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong brought new seasonings and flour grass back to the Riverside Tribe, where Jian Mo introduced noodles, baking, farming, and plans for new household goods. After treating two poisoned cubs from the True Scarlet Tribe, Jian Mo joined a trip to the Mengshui Tribe and began treating patients from several tribes.

• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong visited the Qin Sea Tribe, where Jian Mo learned to make broadleaf garlic seasoning from Kuang Ning and brought garlic roots and other goods home.
• Jian Mo made noodles with flour from the Qin Sea Tribe, and the taste reminded him of home as Wu Jiong comforted him.
• Jian Mo traded sausages for flour and harvested flour grass heads with Kuang Ning, then returned to the Riverside Tribe to process the seeds and bake cakes.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong introduced farming plans, cleared riverside plots with the tribe, and prepared the soil for crops.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong treated Su Yue and Wang Yue after the cubs became ill from eating mi grass, then arranged for them to recover at home.
• Jian Mo accepted stonewood from the True Scarlet Tribe as payment and traded a small metal axe for the excess logs.
• Jian Mo joined a trading trip to the Mengshui Tribe, treated its patients, and saw injured people from other tribes arrive, including someone with a broken leg.

Jian Mo and Wu Jiong developed new foods and building methods while spring brought gathering trips, visitors, and trade with neighboring tribes. The stretch ended with Tianning Tribe members arranging exchanges and asking about Jian Mo’s seasoning powder.

• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong made nut candy from malt syrup, and Jiujiu led them to Mu Chu, who had stolen its candy and was made to apologize and compensate it.
• Jian Mo made algae jelly and joined Ying Duan’s group to gather wild greens as spring began.
• Jian Mo and Qing Kuo tested cement, then Jian Mo built a kitchen with Wu Jiong and treated Sha Gu’s broken leg in exchange for stones.
• Jian Mo visited the Tianning Tribe’s pottery traders, then followed Pengxi and Duan'an to find pepper-stamen flowers and edible bugs.
• Jian Mo and Wu Jiong repaired Jiujiu’s nest, and Jian Mo cooked for the tribe using Ban Ming and A Hu’s new metal pots.
• Jian Mo led the tribe in dyeing and printing cloth, and neighboring tribes traded for the patterned fabric.
• Jian Mo joined Ban Ming and A Hu to gather Violent-Violent Bird eggs, escaped the returning flock, and caught fish and shrimp in a stream.
• Jian Mo shared out the eggs and cooked shrimp as Tianning Tribe members arranged to exchange pottery techniques and asked Huan Yu about trading for seasoning powder.