114 Little Lao (1/2)
”So you tell me that this is a place where blood flows as regularly as water?” Hei Gou asked with a slight smile on his lips. He looked around, but no matter where he looked, all he saw was mortal animals and empty prairie.
”We want to avoid humans,” Xue Wei reminded him, and Hei Gou just nodded his head absentmindedly.
”I know, but I have heard famous stories about the Flowing Blood Prairies and how it is so dangerous to enter it – that only a select few make it out alive – but we have been traveling for a full day, and we have not even encountered a single person.”
”I don't think that people are traveling alone here in the prairie,” Xue Wei said hesitatingly. ”I think they move in groups of hunters together; hunters that hunt Fierce Beasts, other humans, and Primordial Beasts.”
”If we encounter such a group, I fear that we might be in serious trouble, so for now let us be grateful that we have not encountered anyone.”
”That's true,” Hei Gou agreed, but secretly he was curious about these tribesmen that lived in the prairie.
”This is my first time leaving the Heping Kingdom,” he commented after a bit of time. ”I wonder how different the world is outside of this small kingdom. Do you think these people look the same as you, someone from Heping Kingdom?
”Maybe they are taller, more muscular, or perhaps their skin is different?”
Hei Gou was excited, and Xue Wei just snickered. ”I read a book on the people of the tribes here, once. The tribesmen look the same as us, though they are likely to be more muscular since this area is even more of a dog-eat-dog world than the rest of the continent.”
”Oh, they look the same as everyone else?” Hei Gou was disappointed. ”I thought I would get to see someone who looked different. Maybe I will see that when we travel further into the continent.”
”I think everyone on this continent more or less looks the same,” Xue Wei said with uncertainty as he remembered the books he had read before. None of them had stated anything about different bodies or skin colors.
”On this plane there are other continents besides ours, too,” Xue Wei continued. ”I don't know much about the other continents, though. They were just briefly explained in the books, but there was nothing on the environments, the races living there, or even where they were located.”
Xue Wei sighed. He had been very obsessed with the other continents when he had been reading the books in Xiao Lei's library. However, no matter how much he read, he could not find anything related to these things no matter how much he digged.
”I haven't really ever read a book,” Hei Gou said with slight embarrassment. ”I was busy playing with the other cubs when I was a child, and as I grew up, our play turned into fighting practice. Then I became old enough to cultivate, and all my energy went into that.”
”I did know about our continent and the things in it, but I never really imagined that there would be more continents out there. Did you call it a plane? What is a plane?”
Xue Wei smiled, ”I just call it a plane because I imagine the world as one big plane. I don't know much about the outside world; everything I know is hints and explanations in books I have read in the past, but they never explained much. I still think that if you want to see other races, then the other continents are your best shot.”
”I also wonder what the other continents are like,” Xue Wei sighed. ”Are there fights between Primordial Beasts and humans there as well? Are there other races that we have never seen before? Are there other cultivation methods? What are they like?”
”I read a legend once,” Xue Wei continued about what he had read while they were walking. Hei Gou listened intently. Even though they were deep in conversation about the other continents, neither of them allowed for their taut bodies to relax, and Xue Wei had his spiritual energy spread to its limits, observing everything that was happening around them.
”The legend said that there was a time when all the continents were one piece of land.” Xue Wei began. ”Beasts and humans were created by the creator, and they lived side by side in the world. They would fight one another occasionally, but neither held the upper hand.”
”Then peerless Emperors and Saints appeared. War broke out, and the fighting was so intense that the piece of land was cleaved into thousands of pieces, creating continents all over the plane.”
”That is the most I have managed to learn about the other continents. As to whether or not it is accurate, I do not know,” Xue Wei said with a sigh. ”I do not know if the Saint-ranked experts are capable of cleaving the world apart and causing it to shatter into thousands of pieces of land, but I'm guessing that since someone was strong enough to create a world, there has to be someone with a cultivation base strong enough to do so.”
Hei Gou was breathless as he listened to Xue Wei; his eyes were glistening, and his head was nodding like a chicken eating grains.
”We will go to the other continents at some point!” he exclaimed. Xue Wei laughed. ”Of course we will,” he replied.
”On this continent, we are hunted by the Heping Kingdom. No matter where we go, we will be seen as a troublesome pair; a human and a Primordial Beast together is simply the same as asking for trouble. Maybe things are different on the other continents. We will see,” Xue Wei grinned.
”But first we have a lot of things that we need to do here on this continent of ours. We have a lot of grudges that need to be repaid, and we have a few favors to pay back as well.”
Hei Gou nodded his head, and his eyes turned slightly red from the excitement that he carried within.
”Anyway, how are you feeling?” Xue Wei finally asked after a bit of time. He had been observing Hei Gou, and he was surprised to see that the blood essence was restoring itself at an unprecedented speed. He had never imagined that it would be this simple for Hei Gou to restore his blood essence, but it seemed that he was going against nature.
”I am feeling great!” Hei Gou grinned and flashed a fanged smile to Xue Wei. ”The mutation seriously changed my body for good. Even the blood essence that should take me a year to recover has almost recovered in a week's time. I still need around thirty percent, but that's about it. In another week, I will be completely healed.”