It was obviously not easy to raise a Floating-Space Tower of his own, so Feng Chou didn't want to rush into the arcane research that he didn't know how long it would last. He planned to do something that he had wanted to do for a long time, but he didn't have the time to do it.
That's right, Feng Chou planned to find a sample on this primitive archipelago to study the formation and characteristics of divinity.
Even if he couldn't get rid of the State of Reincarnation and couldn't pursue godhood as his goal, divinity was definitely an object worth studying. This kind of thing definitely involved the most important rules of the world.
Feng Chou stayed in the New Lordship Of Pedro for a while until the new immigrants were arranged, the new development plan was personally approved by him, and the new home of the green dragon Elsera was built. Only then did he leave the New Pedro Island alone.
Feng Chou had already chosen the target of his research. It was a large tribe of thousands of people on a medium-sized island of about 100,000 square kilometers in the middle of the archipelago.
This tribe was the target that Feng Chou had chosen when he inspected the archipelago more than ten years ago.
More than ten years, for modern people, was a period of time that was enough to completely disconnect people from society. But for a tribe that mainly hunted and gathered, supplemented by primitive and simple farming, there was almost no change. At most, children would become young people, and young people would become middle-aged people. But the tribe was still the same tribe, the totem was still the same totem, the prey was still the same prey, and the enemies were still the same enemies …
The tribe's name in the indigenous language was "Kandiwana," which roughly translated to Lakeside Hunters.
Lakeside Hunters, as the name implied, this tribe was located next to a big lake.
This tribe was located in the central plain of this medium-sized island, north of a lake that was thousands of square kilometers.
A large part of the lake was sunken here, and the Lakeside Hunters' tribe was located on this peninsula that protruded into the lake.
The hunters of the Lakeside Hunters' tribe usually hunted along the lakeside in canoes in groups of more than a dozen people. Their hunts would last for several days to half a month. If they took a long time, they would use the sea salt they carried to marinate the prey. If the time was short, they would bring back fresh prey.
It was this hunting habit of combining land and water together with the rich ecological environment of the lakeside that allowed this hunting tribe to feed over five thousand people.
Of course, the harvest from hunting was only a small part of the tribe's food source. Their main source of food was actually a crop they called "rice".
This kind of rice plant was somewhat similar to the corn on Earth, but this kind of plant didn't have a stick. Instead, it had a foot-long "rice ear" growing from the top of the rice ear. The rice ear had a long strip of "rice" that was even bigger than a corn kernel.
This kind of "rice" had a rough texture. The hunters by the lake liked to grind the "rice" into powder, mix it with the meat of the prey, and cook it on copper coins. They called this food "saba". In their culture, saba was a very high-class food, and only real hunters were qualified to enjoy it.
The civilians, women, and children in the tribe could only eat 'Nuba', which was made from pure rice flour.
"Rice" was the same as corn on Earth. It was very labor-intensive. After two seasons of "rice", a piece of land would become very barren.
The way the Kandivana people did it was to abandon a piece of land after two seasons of "rice". Then, they would burn a new piece of land in the forest and continue to plant it.
Hunter Island – let's call it that for now – had a typical island climate. It would rain every two to three days. Therefore, the burning of the land by the Kandivana people would not cause a large-scale fire.
In the culture of the Kandivana people, hunters were powerful and noble. Therefore, the men in the tribe would train hard in order to become real hunters. In this tribe, the people responsible for burning the land and planting the land were mainly slaves, as well as some of the weak tribesmen who could not become hunters.
That's right, the Kandivana people had evolved into a slave society. In addition to hunting wild beasts, they would also hunt other human tribes.
The Kandivana tribe had a primitive shaman inheritance and a rough warrior inheritance.
Sometimes, primitive did not mean weak. Sometimes, it was the opposite.
Because there were no gods, the primitive shamans could directly collect and use the power of faith of the tribe. They could even control the souls of the strong warriors of the tribe who had died.
The primitive shamans could use the power of faith to refine the souls of the strong warriors of the tribe into 'heroic souls'.
The existence of heroic souls was very similar to that of ghosts. However, ghosts combined negative energy, while heroic souls combined the power of faith.
According to the different totems of the tribe, the abilities of the heroic souls were different. Some were strong, and some were weak. However, as incorporeal creatures similar to ghosts, they were very difficult to deal with. They were much more difficult to deal with than when they were alive.
Heroic souls usually slept in the temple of the tribe. Sometimes, they could sleep in the totem of the primitive shaman. When summoned, they would wake up and fight for the shaman who summoned them.
Like ghosts, heroic souls would lose their memories and self-awareness. They would only be left with the obsession to protect the tribe and obedience to the shaman who created them.
In addition to creating heroic souls, the primitive shaman could also cast some spells. As for the type of spells, it was related to the inheritance of the shaman and the type of totem they believed in.
Compared to the primitive shaman, the inheritance of the warriors of Kandivana was a little rough, but it was still remarkable.
The inheritance of the warriors of Kandivana was actually the inheritance of the hunters. The reason why Feng Chou did not call them 'hunters' was because the Kandivana hunters did not have the ability to cast spells. It was very different from the inheritance of the hunters that was popular in the wilderness of the mainland.
The warriors of Kandivana were the type that had both strength and agility. They were good at fighting in the jungle, and they were good at using javelins and spears. Their fighting skills were simple and fierce.
The weakness of the warriors of Kandivana was that they did not master the power of Heideggar, nor did they master the training techniques of barbarians.
The strongest warrior of the Kandivana tribe was a primitive shaman around level 17 called Karimke. He was the 'prophet' of the tribe.
The 'prophet' was the title of the spiritual leader of the Kandivana tribe. At the same time, he was the true ruler of the tribe.
Karimke controlled the great temple of the Kandivana tribe. He had five high-grade shamans and more than forty middle-grade shamans under him. He also controlled a temple armed force, which included four master-level 'hunters', more than thirty high-grade 'hunters', and hundreds of middle-grade 'hunters'.
However, this was not the true power of Karimke. The real power of this prophet was the dozens of 'heroic souls' he controlled.