To future generations, such conflicts were civil wars between their ancestors, but to contemporaries of this era, every clan or tribe was an independent entity with its own tribute spirit and totem, and the chiefs held absolute power over their people.

The Yan Tribe was already one of the most powerful in the Wei River basin. If they continued to develop at this rate, they would one day be powerful enough to conquer all of the human tribes in the area and even the banks of the Yellow River at large.

So although the Yan Tribe had yet to start a war, neighboring tribes had formed an alliance to harass them.

Some things, however, couldn’t be changed.

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