Chapter 243: Obsessed with sex, their will becomes focused

Chapter 243: Obsessed with sex, their will becomes focused

Two or three days after the ritual, the entire Green Sparrow Tribe was immersed in a mysterious atmosphere tinged with an inexplicable aura.

The drum received great attention from the people of the Green Sparrow Tribe. It was carefully placed in front of the totem pole and enjoyed the same treatment as the feathered crown and bone staff.

After the ritual, people became more enthusiastic about making bows, arrows, and slings.

Every day, as requested by the Divine Child, they would spend some time practicing with slings or arrows outside.

However, the arrows' target was no longer a makeshift wooden stake but a roughly woven rope about half a meter in diameter, tightly coiled in circles.

Han Cheng had painted a black circle using black charcoal at the center of this coiled grass rope target.

Initially, hitting the target would elicit cheers from the crowd, but as people became more adept with the bow and arrow, hitting the target became more commonplace and lost its novelty.

Only someone like Third Senior Brother, who could shoot an arrow into the black center of the target from sixty meters away, could still impress the crowd.

When someone went to retrieve the arrow, they were surprised by its power. Not only had it pierced the grass target, but it had also lodged itself into the wooden post behind the target!

After pulling out the arrow, the person was astonished to find that this arrow was different from the ones they were familiar with.Thi/s chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.co/m

Instead of a wooden tip sharpened by fire, this arrow had a sharp bone tip polished to a fine point.

It could penetrate the grass target and embed itself into the wood behind it!

As they marveled at this, a realization dawned on them: they could attach bone tips to their arrows, too!

This discovery prompted many to inquire about making bone arrowheads from Third Senior Brother.

Naturally, Third Senior Brother was happy to share, and he took out the remaining arrows to show everyone and explain the process of making bone arrowheads.

The idea of adding bone arrowheads to the arrows had been conceived several days earlier.

Han Cheng quietly observed all of the Third Senior Brother's actions without interference.

For the Green Sparrow Tribe to thrive and grow, it couldn't rely solely on him. Cultivating talent, among other things, was also essential.

Otherwise, they might end up like the Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period, with talents dwindling and Zhuge Liang's departure leading to their downfall, a truly disheartening outcome.

Seeing Third Senior Brother spin around the bones and then start to select them, Han Cheng couldn't help but smile.

Under Han Cheng's instructions, a sling practice area was set up at a distance from the archery practice area.

This area was off-limits to outsiders because of the whirling slings and flying stones, making it highly dangerous.

In light of Han Cheng's glorious feat of smashing a patch of tiles with a single shot, the sling practice area was far from houses and readily accessible areas.

Second Senior Brother, who had been quite battered from using the sling to smash a rabbit a few days ago, noticed an unusual reaction in the archery area.

After watching for a while, he didn't pay much attention and skillfully loaded a stone into the sling, swung it around his arm a couple of times in the air, and then quickly let go. The stone flew out of the net and smashed into the straw target, knocking it down

Every day, the Green Sparrow Tribe allowed men and women to practice with bows and slings. The traditional gender roles of men working outside and women inside the tribe did not apply here.

Relying solely on men couldn't guarantee the tribe's safety in the face of major threats.

In today's Green Sparrow Tribe, there were many more women than men, and they indeed carried half of the tribe's burden.

On sunnier and slightly warmer days, the Divine Child would have everyone practice using these two new weapons by aiming at the straw figures and odd-shaped straw animals outside the perimeter, which were almost invisible under the snow cover.

When setting up these straw figures and objects made of straw, the people would be highly cautious, constantly checking a small sign standing a short distance away from the wall.

These inconspicuous signs bore an abstract skull drawn in charcoal with two crossed bones beneath it.

This was the Divine Child's creation, meant to remind the people of the Green Sparrow Tribe that on the side of the wooden sign facing the wall lay the dangerously obscured "stick array," covered almost entirely by snow