Chapter 1402: Chapter 1399: Building the Altar
The Clan Leader smiled awkwardly, but still looked at Ji Nuan with eyes full of anticipation.
Ji Nuan nodded with a smile: "In a moment, we’ll first build a sacred platform. I need to report to Lord Beast God about welcoming you as members of our tribe. You also need to swear in front of His Lordship to be loyal to the tribe, to not do things that harm the tribe and its people, and to not speak words that harm the tribe and its people."
When Ji Nuan said these words again, her expression was very serious.
The Clan Leader nodded frantically: "We will definitely build the sacred platform as soon as possible, but... Shaman Ji Nuan, we’ve never seen a sacred platform before, could we ask your Guardian Orcs to teach us."
Ji Nuan glanced at the orcs behind her: "Of course, but first you need to gather enough wood."
The Clan Leader frowned with some difficulty: "Shaman, if we need wood to build it, it won’t be possible to finish building it today.
The places with trees are a bit far away. Even if we find materials today, I’m afraid it won’t be until tomorrow that we can build the sacred platform."
Ji Nuan nodded, she indeed hadn’t thought of this earlier; it’s all plains here, and even if there are some trees, they are not many.
"That’s fine, you take some of the tribespeople and prepare the wood first, while the rest of the tribespeople will stay with us and prepare the green clay bricks needed for constructing houses.
The females will gather Sticky Grass, and we’ll strive to have a batch of houses built right after the ceremony.
We’ll have the tribespeople live together in them, and there’s also a matter concerning the safety of the tribe, which requires a lot of green clay bricks."
Black cattle and horses are rampant during the cold season, and without tall, sturdy walls, it’s really hard to fend them off.
The orcs who helped to fire the green clay bricks yesterday already know the procedure, so they’ll be responsible for firing them, supervised by Xiu Yan.
"Shaman, what will we do?"
Several orcs followed behind Ji Nuan, their hands transforming into sharp claws, very sharp indeed.
Ji Nuan held a wooden stick in her hand, drawing a few rectangles on the ground, then turned to the orcs: "You use your claws to dig out the earth inside the lines I drew."
She handed them several sticks of equal length: "The depth should be the same as this stick, but remember, it must be level."
Although the orcs didn’t know why the shaman called them to dig, they still squatted down diligently and earnestly started digging.
Once they finished digging the pits, Ji Nuan had them bring the green clay from the riverbank to fill them, smoothing it out, then drying it for a while, before placing dry grass and shrubs on top to fire it.
These green clay slabs were meant for making the kang, as this place was far from the mountains.
And the Clan Leader had also mentioned before that the orcs near the mountains all belonged to the Blackstone Tribe, no other tribe’s orcs were allowed to approach.
So, even though making kang slabs from green clay was relatively complicated, it had to be done.
After the midday meal the next day, the orcs busied themselves for a while longer, finally completing the sacred platform.
The orcs brought back a lot of food, including a black cow head to use as an offering for the ceremony to Lord Beast God.
Ji Nuan held a ceremony for the tribespeople of this tribe to join the Watson Tribe.
Even after the ceremony, the Clan Leader and orcs were still lost in ecstatic joy, unable to snap back to reality.
They had become the people of the Shaman.