Chapter 122 (1/2)

Chapter 122 - Seven Mile Cave

Walking into the narrow tight , on both sides of the solid steep stone faces, rocks thrusted out interht hit into it

And looking at the rock walls surroundings, water droplets were still dripping at most places, tiny water pools formed where the water floere the heaviest On the top and bottom of the rock walls, at the dark areas, quite a nu a slightly da to the air

Ghost Li and Xiao Bai ed to turn out of this unknown nuain

This day, the sun had just risen, different from the hazy weather for the past few days, it instead seemed to be rather sunny

After just walking out froht, Ghost Li and Xiao Bai squinted their eyes instinctively, felt that the sunlight strea down fro down on them

After a while their eyes adjusted, fro sounds of activities slowly became distinct

Both of them looked ahead, the scene opened up abruptly before them, surrounded by mountains, a flat fertile and open land appeared before them

Rows of buildings and blocks of houses rich with Miao people’s distinctive style rose steeply frohtly joined together And there was even a s down from the dense h A lot of the Miao houses were built on both sides of the brook

And above the water, looking froes and all were unalike, one was a wooden bridge and the ether and laid horizontally across the banks, that becae

As for the other tere e stones, crude and solid, placed flat at where the water surface was narrower and then using thick heavy stone slabs to stack on top of it, it beca a bridge in the southern border

But the last stone bridge was instead e pier, it was an arch bridge, each stone tightly pressed together, suspended across the brook, clearly it had the Central Plains distinctive architecture, to see it here, it was really puzzling

Ghost Li saw it all and was surprised but nothing was shown on his face He and Xiao Bai continued to walk forward, the crowd gradually thickened and became even more lively Most of loud chatter around theibberish and could not understand a single word

Xiao Bai walked beside him and looked around, many of the Miao people also turned to look at them, because their faces were unfalances but did not show any hostile expressions After walking for a while, she quietly spoke to Ghost Li, “Seemed like the southern border in these few years has indeed became very much peaceful”

Ghost Li was surprised, asked puzzledly, “What is it?”

Xiao Bai said, “When I cailance and on the alert when they saw outsiders, like they were facing a great enemy At that time, rivalry between the five tribes’ were violent and cruel and fights broke out frequently a the tribes, if outsiders dared to come to this Seven Mile Cave and without any skills to protect the at the situation today, I guessed the fights must have reduced much over the past few years”

Ghost Li nodded slightly and looked around him, by now they had already walked into the centre of the Miao people, this broad path was on one side of the brook, htly joined houses of the Miao people were on one side while the other side was the clear river water, withthe shores

At a quick glance,wood, its architecture greatly different from the Central Plains, squarish, si at the houses’ corners, es, the more ferocious the animals were, the more commonly they were seen, probably it was the Miao people’s custom, to display the bravery of the owner of the house

Both sides of the path had stalls set up by Miao people peddling their goods but most of the stuffs ild animals’ furs, raw meat and only further ahead in the centre were one or two stalls selling ss

Xiao Bai srade stuffs and the prices are very cheap, if you want to get, buy some here, it is very worth it”

Ghost Li’s lips twitched but he did not speak, continued to walk straight ahead He sloalked to the river bank and looked down, the water was extremely clear, from the banks, even the rocks at the river beds could also be seen, the nu in the water were even innumerable

At a distance, a bird sees it landed onto the water, raised its head and looked around, and then contentedly closed its wings and ently on the water surface

The living creatures of Heaven and Earth, in this place, unusually harmoniously

Xiao Bai slowly caone over to her shoulder, curiously stuck out its head and peered down into the brook

“What do we do now?” Ghost Li indifferently asked

Xiao Bai contemplated for a while, said, “Well to say the o, if at that time that person did not have our level of cultivation then most likely he had already passed ae better first find the whereabouts of the person”

Ghost Li silently nodded, said, “Where is he?”

Xiao Bai ser, said, “There”

Ghost Li looked up, suddenly was taken aback Where Xiao Bai had pointed was an area deep inside the Miao habitation, built halfway up the h up from the ordinary Miao houses

Ghost Li frowned and quietly said, “Altar”

Xiao Bai sht”

Ghost Li did not speak but in his heart, he felt slightly alar but the fact that the altar in southern border had a special significant

He had frequently visited the southern border for the past years, although he was preoccupied and wholeheartedly searching for the mysterious black shaman tribe and therefore did not pay much attention to the southern border custos, he was still aware

At the southern border land, Zhuang, Miao, Tu, Li and GaoShan these five tribes, controlled different areas and maybe because each tribes were different and so each had different beliefs,deities and religions but within the different tribes, they all had a specific place to worshi+p their deities and ancestors and that was the altar

The altar ah status, to the majority of the tribes people, most of the times when the shareat mysterious deity, there wasn’t any difference In the past when the wars a the five tribes were at their peaks, it was the same before each battle, to first consult the shaman in the altar and explain the situation to the deity, until the deity -- alsopermission, the tribe leader then could launch a fresh near

As such it could be seen, the altar and the shaman in it, what kind of status they had in southern border!

And to what he knew, those shaman had always seldom receive outsiders

Ghost Li after re silent for a while, turned and spoke to Xiao Bai, “That is Miao people’s altar, the person that you mentioned, don’t tell me…”

Xiao Bai sht, three hundred years ago, what I saw here, was that the great sha that Miao person whose one soul and three mortal forms had been absorbed by the mountain spirit evil demon”

The great Miao shaman…

Ghost Li’s lips twitched again, if to say that the shaman in the altar had revered position in the southern border tribes, then as being thethe deity decree personally each time, the shaman could be also be said as the deity in the common people’s eyes