This Is My Primitive Tribe-Chapter 59 - 55: Such a Big Tortoise

After bringing the Earth Armor Beast back to the tribe, it attracted a crowd of onlookers because these creatures usually stay in underground caves. Although they exist in large numbers, they are very difficult to capture.

Even the Old Witch couldn’t help but come over for a few more glances because the Earth Armor Beast is a species unique to the Southern Wilderness, and he’d never seen one in the Eastern Wilderness.

Jiang Xuan temporarily placed this Earth Armor Beast at the foot of Stone Mountain, next to the new altar.

This is a sacrificial offering to the Vine God, and Jiang Xuan believed that under the watchful eye of the Vine God, it wouldn’t be able to escape.

In the following two days, they went into the mountains again and caught an adult Big Horned Sheep using traps, along with a few smaller prey.

This Big Horned Sheep was larger in size than the Earth Armor Beast, weighing over five hundred pounds. If Jiang Xuan and the others hadn’t eaten the fruits of the Whip Tree, which gave them incredible strength, it wouldn’t have been easy to bring it back alive.

At this point, the offerings for the ceremony were almost fully prepared.

The Big Horned Sheep, Earth Armor Beast, Seven-Colored Pheasant, Five-Colored Duck, and large bamboo rats were all to be selected for the best ones to be used for the sacrifice.

"We still need one big fish."

Jiang Xuan planned to catch a big fish by the river, with that the offerings would be basically complete.

A real big fish is usually found in deep water areas, and they have immense strength in the water, making them very hard to catch.

After careful consideration, Jiang Xuan decided to use fishing to catch a big fish.

Setting up a trap for fishing hardly catches a real big fish, and casting nets is a bad idea without a boat or a good fishing net.

Only fishing can allow the hook and bait to be thrown into the deepwater directly to catch a big fish.

Jiang Xuan got straight to work, immediately starting to prepare the fishing gear for catching the big fish.

First, a fishing rod strong enough, requiring it to be thick and big and tough, so that it could withstand the force of the big fish pulling.

This wasn’t difficult for Jiang Xuan; chopping down an arm-thick Purple Blood Tree would do.

The Purple Blood Tree was exceptionally tough, and Jiang Xuan had previously used it to make a Bone Spear, which was very practical.

Secondly, he needed to prepare a strong fishing line and a big fishhook.

As for the fishing line, Jiang Xuan chose a rope woven from beast hide, which was very tough, wear-resistant, and not easy to break.

For the fishhook, he found a hard beast bone with a barbed shape, carefully polished it, ensuring the tip was sharp enough, and the end could be firmly tied with a beast hide rope.

As for the float, Jiang Xuan bundled together some dry reeds to serve as a float.

Finally, he got a few thick worms from Da Jiao, which he stored in a lidded vine basket.

These preparations took him most of the day.

By the afternoon, Jiang Xuan, accompanied by Chi Shao, Gou Teng, and others, arrived at a slow-flowing river bay to prepare for fishing for the big fish.

"First, put on the bait."

Jiang Xuan threaded a worm as thick as an arm onto the massive beast bone fishhook.

The worm’s head was cut off, killing it completely to prevent it from struggling, ensuring the scent would be more intense when placed in the water.

Afterward, holding the three-meter-long Purple Blood Tree fishing rod in one hand and the large hook in the other, Jiang Xuan swung the ten-meter-long beast hide rope and forcefully tossed the baited hook into the river.

"Splash!"

The hook sank into the deep water, quickly going down, and if not for the reed float, the rope would have submerged as well.

"Alright, now we just need to wait patiently."

Jiang Xuan sat down on a large cobblestone by the river.

Fishing requires a lot of patience. Impatience is futile because whether the fish takes the bait is up to the fish, not the people.

Gou Teng curiously asked, "Chief, can this really pull up a big fish?"

Fishing was a method the tribe hadn’t used before for catching fish, so everyone was unsure if it would work.

"The principle is the same, you can think of this as a kind of fishing trap."

"Look, when we use rope traps to catch big birds, it also involves a stick, a rope, bait, and a triggering stick, right?"

"Fishing is the same, just replacing the noose with a fishhook."

"When the big fish sees the bait and swallows the hook, the sharp hook will pierce its body, hooking it so it can’t escape."

"When the big fish struggles, it’ll pull the fishing line, and the reed float on the water will move with it."

"At that point, we just need to use the fishing rod to exhaust the fish’s energy and then pull it up."

With the analogy of traps, Gou Teng and Chi Shao quickly understood what fishing was all about. In essence, it was just a different kind of fishing trap.

"Alright, don’t talk while fishing, or you’ll scare the fish away."

Jiang Xuan stopped talking, and the others began waiting patiently as well.

As qualified hunters of the tribe, patience waiting during a hunt was a basic requirement, and everyone had no problem with that.

The fish in this river had likely never been caught by anyone, and their numbers were astonishingly high.

Not long after Jiang Xuan cast his line, the reed fish float on the surface began to move.

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Jiang Xuan immediately perked up, gripping the sturdy fishing rod with both hands, and intently watched the water’s surface.

"Splash, splash..."

Soon, the fishing line made of beast hides was pulled taut, and the reed float bobbed up and down as the big fish desperately dragged it into the water.

Jiang Xuan felt the immense power transmitted through the fishing rod. He quickly stood up, a look of excitement on his face.

"Splash, splash..."

A quick-moving black shadow appeared in the water, moving back and forth with the beast hide rope, and the enormous force was even bending the Purple Blood Tree fishing rod.

"Help me!"

After being dragged a few steps forward, Jiang Xuan’s expression finally changed, and he immediately called for help.

It was important to know that he was almost at the level of a two-color Warrior, his strength several times that of ordinary tribe members.

If even he couldn’t stand firm, one could imagine the power and size of the fish in the water.

Chi Shao, Gou Teng, and others immediately came over, together grabbing the thick Purple Blood Tree fishing rod, fighting against the big fish in the water.

Gradually, the big fish started floating up; it was oval in shape, looking like a ball.

"What kind of fish is this?"

Jiang Xuan was puzzled, but everyone knew little about fish in the water, and no one could answer him.

After a tug-of-war, there were eventually more people on the shore with more strength, and the strange fish in the water swam slower and slower and started floating to the surface.

"Pull, pull it up!"

Jiang Xuan and the others together pulled the strange fish into the shallow water, and after a bit of effort, they finally dragged it to shore, revealing its true appearance to all.

"Wow, what a big turtle!"

Jiang Xuan exclaimed with surprise; he never expected to catch a giant turtle when trying to catch a big fish.

This giant turtle’s back was over two meters long, resembling a large round table, roughly estimated to weigh at least several hundred pounds, truly a gigantic turtle.

"This thing is called a turtle, huh?"

"It looks so weird; look, it has four legs."

"Yeah, and how does it live in the water with those legs? It’s so strange."

"Its mouth is so big, but why can’t we see any sharp teeth?"

Everyone was very excited, inspecting this peculiar aquatic creature while chattering away.

"Perfect sacrificial offering!"

"Let’s build a frame to carry it back!"

In good spirits, Jiang Xuan gave the order, and everyone got busy building a frame. Then they hoisted the giant turtle onto it, secured it, and carried it back to the tribe along the newly cleared road.