Chapter 519 - Entry Without Exit (2/2)

Compared to the others, the tribe people from Hui tribe had a better relations.h.i.+p with Flaming Horn so they didn’t feel as pressured as the other tribes.

Shao Xuan finished his discussions with the smiths before heading to meet the people from the seven tribes that were in the newly built houses far from the forest.

Shao Xuan let someone bring him to where the Hui tribespeople were resting. When he got there, he saw an eagle pecking at its feathers.

The size of the bird was larger than Cha Cha but something about it felt familiar to Shao Xuan.

The eagle noticed Shao Xuan getting closer to it. With a turn of a head, it was obvious it still remembered Shao Xuan. Its first reaction was to fluff its feathers up to intimidate him. Its neck looked significantly larger and it even screeched threateningly at him.

“Oh, it’s you, the loser,” said Shao Xuan calmly.

That sentence had the eagle even madder. It’s glare at Shao Xuan intensified and it made a few deep scars on the floor with its mighty claws.

“Why? The truth is the truth, isn’t it Shan Dao?” continued Shao Xuan.

This was the eagle that Shao Xuan met when he was fighting with the Di Shan tribe in the gra.s.slands. It was severely beaten by Cha Cha.

Hence, Shao Xuan was not wrong when he called it a loser.

At that time the great mountain eagle wasn’t this big, it was around the same size as Cha Cha. This significant change wasn’t natural, it probably went to Eagle Mountain to undergo this change.

The tribespeople in the house quickly walked out as soon as they heard the sounds outside. Some recognized Shao Xuan, like Shan Dao’s caretaker.

“So it is the Grand Elder Shao Xuan,” said Gu La with a smile. From his conversations with the members of Flaming Horn, he found out that Shao Xuan had become the Grand Elder of the tribe. From their respectful tone, he knew this wasn’t a case of nepotism.

“So it is Hunter Leader Gu La.” Shao Xuan recognized the leader of this expedition.

“Grand Elder Shao Xuan, anything we can help you with?” Gu La was excited to see a familiar face. He wanted to chat more but he felt anxious when he remembered something.

“I heard that when Cha Cha went to the Hui tribe two years ago it left with a few of your eagles?” Shao Xuan skipped the small talk and asked.

Gu La’s worry was gone in a flash and said, “That’s true, they went to Eagle Mountain together. Some great mountain eagles in our land also went there but…”

He felt Shao Xuan’s store on him. He stopped and continued, “The one from your tribe entered but never made it out.”

“Entered the mountain and never made it out?” asked Shao Xuan.

Gu La nodded, “That was what Dao Shan told us.”

According to great mountain eagle tradition, only those that succeed transforming can leave the mountain, those that fail fall from it. Shao Xuan heard about this before and that was why the people from the Hui tribe couldn’t speak about it comfortably.

Those that went, excluding Cha Cha all came back safe, how could the tribespeople of Flaming Horn not have anything to say about it?

Shao Xuan was silent for a while and asked Dao Shan a few questions with Du La helping with the translation. Shao Xuan could understand Cha Cha but had no idea what the great mountain eagle was trying to convey.

Shao Xuan wanted to find out more about the trip to Eagle Mountain but it seemed to touch on a lot of the great mountain eagle’s secrets. Dao Shan avoided a lot of questions which even Gu La didn’t have the answers to. It didn’t answer anything about how to reach the mountain, what happened on the way there, what it saw.

With no answers to his questions, he could only change his strategy.

“How was Cha Cha’s spirit when it left the mountain?” asked Shao Xuan.

“… Very good,” said Gu La. Good enough to grab a stone and use it to smash other eagles.

“Was it injured?”

“Yes but not severe. The others were injured too.”

“Did it rush into the mountain itself?”

“Yes.”

…

After those questions, Shao Xuan was in even more confusion. How long has it been since Cha Cha went to the mountain before it went back again? Some mature great mountain eagles don’t go back for twenty or thirty years after their first trip. They may not get results and the risk was huge. What was that bird thinking? Did it want to kill itself at Eagle Mountain?

That would be very out of character for the eagle.

Shao Xuan couldn’t understand why Cha Cha went to Eagle Mountain and he couldn’t go there himself to search for it because he forgot the road to the mountain after coming here.

After thanking Gu La, Shao Xuan headed towards the newly done fields while in deep thought.

He stopped to a sudden jolt. He felt two familiar auras that were nearby. It wasn’t someone from Flaming Horn or the tribes that came by.

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