CHAPTER 579: CHAPTER 556: GRAND LEADER 74

The people of this world already know not to marry close relatives, so unless there is no blood relationship within the same tribe, marriages will not occur. However, the uniqueness of primitive society results in almost everyone within the tribe being related by blood.

Just like Da Shi and Feicao, they belong to the same tribe yet have no blood relation; such cases are extremely rare. If it weren’t for the Lanshan Tribe frequently participating in the Red Flower Festival and incorporating external bloodlines, the Power Tribe and the Lanshan Tribe wouldn’t dare engage in long-term alliances.

Previously, apart from matchmaking with the Helie Tribe, young men and women of the Lanshan Tribe found their partners at the Red Flower Festival. This ensured not everyone within the tribe had blood relations.

Of course, there are also cases at the Red Flower Festival where one doesn’t find a partner and instead has a one-night affair, which would be great if a child resulted from it.

In the moral bottom line of primitive society, there is nothing about remaining faithful; premarital births, and no concept of infidelity. Both men and women who fancy each other have casual relations and then have a child, which is quite normal.

It is even considered advantageous for women attending the Red Flower Festival to conceive and increase the tribe’s population, which would be a joyful occasion for the entire tribe.

Of course, if a man and woman fancy each other like Da Shi and Feicao, or Shuangshuang’s parents, they hold a torch festival declaring to the entire tribe their desire to spend their lives together, and that’s an exception.

Going to the Red Flower Festival does not have as high requirements as going to the Mutual Market, but not every tribe can attend. Primarily, young men and women going are the main hunting personnel in the tribe.

To attend the Red Flower Festival, the tribe must ensure that after these people leave, there is enough food reserve within the tribe to prevent starvation.

Safety is also a concern; the tribe needs people to ensure safety, and food must be prepared for those who travel to the Red Flower Festival. The festival has a fixed duration, and there’s no time to hunt on the way, so sufficient food must be prepared.

In the past, the Power Tribe lacked the ability to attend the Red Flower Festival, relying only on intermarriage with the Lanshan Tribe. Fortunately, the Lanshan Tribe was willing to intermarry with the Power Tribe. Not being able to attend the Red Flower Festival is indeed one reason small tribes face extinction.

A tribe without the means to seek wives or husbands has to resort to internal marriages, leading to inbreeding, an increase in malformed or intellectually disabled children, and although there are some wise and normal ones, they are too few to sustain the tribe’s development.

The Yanhuang Tribe now naturally has enough qualifications to attend the Red Flower Festival. As it is composed of several tribes from different regions, internal marriages are entirely stress-free.

Therefore, Shuangshuang decided to lead the tribe members to the Red Flower Festival, not to find a partner but to assert the presence of the Yanhuang Tribe.

Currently, the Yanhuang Tribe has over three thousand people; certainly, not everyone will go. So Shuangshuang plans to bring three hundred people this time. Given the Warrior Power of the Yanhuang Tribe now, it’s enough for half of them to be warriors to traverse the outside world.

Even when encountering terrifying enemies like the Sky Wolf Fierce Beast, there’s no need to fear. Relying on the strength of the Yanhuang Tribe’s cultivated warriors, with sharp Scale Armor Knife and Backstabbing Spear, even facing several Sky Wolf Fierce Beasts simultaneously is not a problem.

The Red Flower Festival’s location is not too far from the Yanhuang Tribe. Those who have been to the Red Flower Festival, like Mang Mountain, are very familiar with the route. Led by Mang Mountain, everyone progresses together, and it took them less than five days to reach the festival’s venue.

The festival is called Red Flower Festival because when it’s held annually, the nearby areas are filled with blooming red flowers, which is where the name comes from.

When Shuangshuang and her group arrived at the venue, many tribes had already gathered. There are no caves at the Red Flower Festival; everyone resides in tents.

The security of the Red Flower Festival is managed by several Super Tribes responsible for organizing the event. Upon arrival, Shuangshuang saw several teams of patrolling warriors, similar in numbers and ratio to those she encountered at the Mutual Market.

The tents at the festival are also prepared by the Super Tribes hosting the event. Each tent is identical and relatively well-crafted, with tribes dividing their areas based on tent needs.

However, unlike the free caves at the Mutual Market, tents here require a fee of twenty jerky pieces to occupy. Of course, after paying the jerky, tents can be used until the end of the festival without further charge.

The tents are spacious enough that around ten people can comfortably fit in each. Of course, if squeezed, about thirty people can also inhabit a tent.

Many medium-sized tribes opt for thirty people per tent to save jerky when possible. But the Yanhuang Tribe, now quite affluent, saw Shuangshuang rent thirty tents directly, with ten people per tent in comfort.

It happened that right next to the Yanhuang Tribe’s tents was the Chun Tribe of Hagen, whom Shuangshuang knew from the Mutual Market. Upon seeing Hagen, Shuangshuang was slightly surprised, not expecting to meet Hagen here with such fate.

And Hagen was even more surprised upon seeing Shuangshuang, realizing that Shuangshuang, who was just a warrior before, had now become a Second-level Warrior!

Hagen could ascertain Shuangshuang was a Second-level Warrior because Hagen himself had become a Second-level Warrior and could sense Shuangshuang’s energy as that of a Second-level Warrior’s.

The fact that Shuangshuang became a Second-level Warrior greatly shocked Hagen. Hagen became one because he was on the verge for a long time, only recently overcoming it. But he distinctly remembered Shuangshuang’s energy the last time, far from the Second-level Warrior.

Yet, within such a short period, Shuangshuang had become a Second-level Warrior! Hagen never knew reaching Second-level Warrior could be so feasible; how old is Shuangshuang that she’s already one!

Such rapid growth in Warrior Power Level, Hagen had only seen in God-favored individuals of the Super Great Tribes.

Those favored by God have warrior-strength unmatched, with wisdom far exceeding that of a Great Witch wise man of the tribe, and are considered the tribe’s baby.

However, Divine Favored individuals are incredibly rare and hard to come by. Any tribe lucky enough to acquire a Divine Favored individual, no matter how weak, tends to ascend to a Great Tribe. If a Great Tribe gains one, it’s destined to become a Super Tribe.