I'm involved in poverty alleviation in a primitive tribe.

The Flame Bird Witch was absolutely furious. Anyone who was about to escape but was caught and brought back would be in a bad mood.

He angrily rebuked Jiang Ning: "They're not battle pets? You clearly came here riding on the back of the Xuan Shui Yan Turtle, do you think I'm blind? Or are these Savage Bone Beasts so weak that they'd stoop to listening to a Xuanwu?"

Jiang Ning was puzzled, and no one believed her when she told the truth: "You're a Xuanwu, after all. Why don't you just take a look and see if they have battle pet contracts?"

The Flame Bird Witch was speechless at her words. He really hadn't noticed before, and now that he saw it, he was even angrier!

Who would have thought that the savage beast would obey without a contract!

How did she do it?

We're both Xuanwu (a type of sorcerer), so why can't I be one?

Jiang Ning was too lazy to waste any more words with him. She waved her hand, ordering her men to paralyze and tie them up: "Bumblebee Witch, Iron-Eating Beast Witch, these two and their people are now yours. You can deal with them as you see fit. But there's one thing: you can take their lives, but cannibalism and cannibalism by beasts are absolutely unacceptable here."

"Yes!"

The bumblebee witch's knife finally came in handy. She walked step by step toward her enemy, the faces of her people appearing in her mind one by one.

After confirming with the Iron-Eating Beast Witch several times that the tribesmen still living in the Flame Bird Tribe and Stone Python Tribe posed no threat to them, Jiang Ning felt reassured and sent Lian Xin with a team to follow the Iron-Eating Beast Warriors to deal with the remaining people.

He wandered around the Iron-Eating Beast tribe's settlement, looking for an Iron-Eating Beast cub to pet. The adult Iron-Eating Beasts looked rather imposing, and he was likely to get beaten up if he went up to pet one rashly.

Hongyue leaned closer, hesitant, wanting to say something but ultimately not saying it.

Fearing he might suffocate, Jiang Ning asked, "Do you have something to say to me?"

Hongyue finally said, "Witch... I thought... I thought you would leave them behind, just like the Clam Tribe."

Jiang Ning looked directly into Hongyue's eyes, just as Tianlang Wu had instructed her before. She then earnestly began to instruct Hongyue: "Hongyue, you are the hunting captain, and you will be the chief of the tribe in the future. You must remember one thing: you don't need too many tools to show mercy. As long as they are effective, one is enough. Moreover, even in the Clam Tribe, I only show mercy to those who did not lay a hand on us. The hunting team that did lay a hand on us back then is long gone, as you know."

Hongyue's expression hardened, and she lowered her head, saying, "Yes! I understand!"

Jiang Ning continued, "Moreover, the Clam Tribe is different from the Flame Bird and Stone Python Tribes. At least the Clam Witch is wholeheartedly for the sake of her people, and she can correct her mistakes in time when she knows they are wrong, so she can be considered loyal. But the Flame Bird Witch and the Stone Python Witch are full of scheming, ruthless to enemies, and ruthless to her own people. If I keep such people by my side, I'm afraid that one day I will be bitten by them."

Hongyue was completely convinced: "It's fortunate that you didn't accept them. The thought of them eating people makes me feel sick all over."

Seeing that he understood, Jiang Ning waved her hand and said, "Go on, go do your thing. I'm not in any danger here."

Without waiting for Hongyue's response, he looked around for something and left on his own.

Hongyue had no choice but to return to the hunting team and help deal with the Flame Birds. The Flame Bird warriors were surrounded by the angry Iron-Eating Beastmen and Bumblebee Warriors, leaving no chance for the Jiang tribe members.

A metal-eating beast hurriedly passed by, carrying a firebird in its mouth. As Hongyue watched its retreating figure, her expression grew increasingly strange, as if she had remembered something.

Hongfeng nudged his shoulder: "Captain, what are you looking at?"

Although Hongfeng is no longer in the hunting team, Hongyue, as the captain of the hunting team and in charge of all the warriors in the tribe, still calls him captain.

Hongyue looked around, but Jiang Ning had wandered off somewhere and was nowhere to be seen.

He thought for a moment, then leaned close to Hongfeng's ear. Hongfeng had never seen the usually dignified Hongyue with such an expression before, so she immediately perked up her gossipy little ears and listened intently.

Hongyue said, "Do you remember that time we took a sorcerer who was still a disciple of the sorcerer to the trade fair?"

Hongfeng nodded. Of course she remembered. Wu had only been there once.

Hongyue continued, "While you were busy exchanging animal skin garments, I was strolling around the trading area with the shaman. The shaman asked me something back then."

Hongfeng was getting really anxious. Couldn't this person just finish what they were saying in one breath?

If this were Huo Yun, she would have punched him twice right now. But this was Hong Yue, so she patiently asked, "What is it?"

Hongyue glanced at her and said, "She asked me if there was a tribe near the Bamboo Tribe that kept black and white bears that liked to eat bamboo."

Hongfeng suddenly realized, and looked at the iron-eating beasts around her: "Black and white bears? Is this what the shaman was talking about?"

Hongyue frowned: "I think this should be it, but the black and white bear that the witch said likes to eat bamboo, and the bumblebee witch said that the iron-eating beast likes to eat iron fruit."

Hongfeng, always eager for chaos, said, "Who cares? We'll find out if they like bamboo once we take them back. Hehe, it's just a pity that the purple bamboo has only just recovered."

Ye Ya, a warrior from the Bamboo Tribe, was passing by carrying the stone python when she overheard the conversation. She only caught the last sentence and asked curiously, "Hongfeng, what happened to Zizhu?"

Hongfeng quickly helped her carry it, saying, "Hey, I was just saying your purple bamboo has only just recovered, I wonder when we'll be able to eat bamboo shoots again. Where are you taking this?"

Ye Ya didn't think too much about it and laughed, "The witch said that bamboo shoots can be eaten in the spring. Spring bamboo shoots are so tender! They grow fast and plentiful! Everyone will be able to eat them then!"

The two walked away, and Hongyue shook his head as he watched their backs. For some reason, he had a premonition that the Bamboo Tribe was in trouble.

Jiang Ning finally saw the Iron-Eating Beast cubs; it turned out that they had all been hidden in the cave by the Iron-Eating Beast Witch.

Their cave is very large; I guess their entire tribe sleeps together.

The room was filled with all sorts of strange smells. Jiang Ning held her breath and searched patiently.

There were many winding side paths inside the cave. Since it was someone else's territory, and it was dark inside, and Jiang Ning wasn't familiar with the terrain, she didn't continue going in.

As the Flame Bird Witch and Flame Bird Warrior were tied up, the ordinary people hiding in the cave also grabbed their weapons and rushed out, intending to slash a few times.

Once these people left, the cubs and wounded members of the bumblebee tribe hidden behind them were exposed. With so many wounded, Jiang Ning couldn't appear indifferent.

She went out and beckoned the bumblebee witch to come and see her people. The wounds on these people had been carefully treated by the iron-eating beast witch. Although some were missing limbs, they were still alive.