#1069 - Chapter 1069: The Right Path, Dung Mantis Tribe

In his final days as the leader of the Nata tribe, the boy was filled with remorse.

He felt ashamed of devising the locust egg strategy to attack the enemy.

This led to all the tribesmen using years of hard work to make up for the mistakes he had made.

Before his death, he said:

"The old chief was right. Straying from the righteous path will lead to corruption. One mistake can burden the entire tribe. This is true for the Sea Ghost Tribe, and it's true for the Nata Tribe."

He told the younger generations that although the righteous path in the world is full of hardships, the light of righteousness will eventually dispel all darkness and lead the Nata tribe to glory.

He also told the tribe that after his death, the five-wife system could be abolished.

The Nata tribe must walk the righteous path.

He also wrote down everything he had learned in his life into a book to guide future generations and prevent them from repeating the mistakes of their predecessors.

He named this book "The Scripture of the Righteous Path."

Of course, the righteous path he spoke of was not the same as the righteous path understood by the old chief.

The most fundamental difference was that the righteous path as the old chief saw it was to do everything in a reasonable way at all times.

But the righteous path that the boy elaborated on was to achieve reasonable results in everything one did. One is method-oriented, and the other is result-oriented.

The boy died, and the Nata tribe had to continue to multiply.

Two hundred years passed, and time came to July 1447 BC in the Blue Star Calendar, Nata Era.

In the past two hundred years, Mengka had successively released many batches of humans.

This led to extremely uneven development among different tribes and regions on the Pangu Continent.

The Nata tribe was the most advanced tribe in civilization, while some places were still in the primitive tribal stage.

During this period, people's activity radius was still very small, so the frequency of conflicts between different tribes was not high.

The evolution of the entire human race was still quite slow.

In this year, a tribe called the Dung Beetle Tribe in the north migrated to the area north of the Nata tribe.

This Dung Beetle Tribe mastered a wonderful ability: taming dung beetles.

These dung beetles looked a bit like scarabs, but they were much larger. Adult dung beetles could reach a height of 1.5 meters and a length of nearly 5 meters.

This size is about the same as a car.

They don't roll dung balls, but feed on plant stems and leaves, belonging to herbivorous insects.

After taming them, the Dung Beetle Tribe mainly used them as labor and mounts.

Dung beetles have hard shells that are difficult to pierce even with ordinary bronze swords. This allowed them to play a huge role in combat.

Basically, they could win wherever they went.

This led to them not having a fixed territory all along, relying on plundering other tribes to obtain living materials.

The Nata tribe is now a large tribal alliance, and the leader of the alliance has jurisdiction over more than one hundred tribes of all sizes.

After the Dung Beetle Tribe arrived, they soon clashed with a small tribe in the northern Nata tribe.

However, this Nata tribe was quickly defeated because of its poor combat effectiveness.

Most of the tribesmen were captured, and only a small number of people escaped and came to the tribal alliance to report the news.

After learning the news, the leader of the Nata Alliance immediately assembled warriors and prepared to go north to meet the enemy.

At this time, an old man advised:

"The Dung Beetle Tribe has huge dung beetles as helpers, and it may be difficult to win in a head-on confrontation."

Moreover, he had already divined through the Great Prophecy that this battle would result in the loss of a large number of warriors.

The alliance leader did not dare to be careless and hurriedly asked for advice on how to deal with it.

The old man said:

"The Warrior Mask can be used for support from the side."

The so-called Warrior Mask is a bronze mask that can be worn by Nata warriors who have awakened mind control to gain enhanced power.

However, this method has side effects.

Excessive use of mind control can greatly shorten the caster's lifespan.

Of course, there must always be sacrifices in war. It is worthwhile to exchange the smallest sacrifice for victory.

The Nata leader followed the old man's advice and selected warriors in the tribe who were willing to wear the Warrior Mask.

Soon, he found ten people.

So, these ten warriors set off with the army.

Twenty days later, the two sides met by a river bank.

The Dung Beetle Tribe was relatively irritable. After discovering the Nata tribe's army, they immediately launched a charge.

Although the dung beetles look bulky, they are quite stable and agile when running.

Under normal circumstances, these dung beetles would directly break up the enemy's formation like tanks. Then, the battle would end quickly.

But now that there are warriors wearing bronze masks, the situation is very different.

The ten warriors activated mind control at the same time.

The ten dung beetles running in front were actually controlled and immediately turned around to attack the other dung beetles.