3 Liang Tribe. (1/2)
Wildbourne was a small village that was owned by the Liang tribe. All the houses in the village were made out of a mixture of wood and mud, as the Liang tribe was too poor to afford the proper equipment to process the rocks around the area. Since it was a tribe located in the Cloud Wilderness, it was at constant risk of getting attacked by Demonic beasts.
The Demonic Beasts were a constant threat, but they were also an opportunity. Whenever someone in the village came of age, they would have to venture into the wilderness and try to tame a Demonic beast, taking it as their companion. Those that failed to tame a Demonic beast would become normal citizens, while those that managed to tame a Demonic beast were taken in as warriors and protectors of the tribe.
Another opportunity that the Demonic beasts presented were their strong bodies. If they managed to kill a Demonic beast, they could eat its flesh and drink its blood, absorbing the abundant energy within. Absorbing this energy would make it easier for them to open their dantian as well as engraving their runes.
At the very edge of the village, a small and thin child was resting with his back against a tree. Despite being thin and small, the child had sharp eyebrows that resembled swords. He had short hair that was a brilliant azure in color, and deep black eyes that captivated anyone who looked at them for too long. He was clad in simple brown cotton clothing.
”Brother Yang, it is almost time for the affinity ceremony, so it is time to head to the village square.”
Another child clad in cotton clothing came running up to the child that was resting against the tree. The child ran up and reminded the resting child, but he did not step within ten meters of the resting child, seemingly afraid of getting closer.
Within the village, everyone knew about Li Yang. Li Yang's parents died not long after Li Yang turned six, so everyone expected him to die early on. But he did not, no matter how bad the weather got, no matter how broken down his house got, no matter how little food he was given, Li Yang never seemed to be affected.
Everyone in the village knew Li Yang as a very kind and cheerful child, a faint smile always visible at the corners of his lips. But they also knew that he was a very strange child. His eyes were simply far too deep, far too inscrutable. No matter how hard they tried, they were simply incapable of reading him.
Because of this, some of the children and adults in the village were slightly scared of Li Yang. He was simply far too calm. Even when his parents had died, Li Yang had not shed a tear. He had simply buried their bodies and kneeled by their graves for three days. After the three days were up, he knocked his head against the ground nine times. After that, he never spoke of them again.
”Ah? Alright, I'll be there.”
Hearing the child shout at him, Li Yang tilted his head towards the child. He stood up and brushed off the dust from his clothing, walking over to the child as he spoke. Whenever Li Yang took a step closer, the child would take one step back, making sure to keep his distance.
Li Yang did not mind the actions of this child, nor did he mind how some of the others in the village did the same. When Li Yang was born, while he did not have all the memories of his past life, he had some spread memories about his past life. These memories were also the reason why he had not been sad after his parents in this life had died. To him, they were only the parents of this body, they could never become his actual parents. The three days of kneeling and the nine kowtows had been him paying his respects for birthing this body, as well as severing his ties with them.
His sight had never been on this village, it had always been on a much grander scale. He was just waiting for the right time to leave the village. Li Yang did not know much about this world, the fact that he had been reborn into a small village located in a remote wilderness did not help this fact.