241 Eyes (1/2)
The three-eyed person narrowed his three eyes and looked at Xue Wei with undisguised suspicion.
He then moved closer to Xue Wei and started to circle around him, looking at him from every single angle.
”Your clothes are rather foreign. I cannot recognize the material,” he said with a nod of his head. ”The style is different, and the armor is also quite different.”
”Your strength is passable, definitely not a strength that you should have been able to achieve with only two eyes at your tender age.”
”Where are you from?”
The man had examined him and came to the conclusion that Xue Wei was not lying; he was indeed a stranger to their continent and the three-eyed man could not help but feel curious about the outside world.
”We come from the continent of Chang'an,” Xue Wei answered honestly. He doubted that his name would resound all the way from the continent of Chang'an to this continent, but he was still not sure about where they were.
”Chang'an?” The man looked puzzled and seemed to contemplate for some time. ”I have never heard about that continent before. Can't be a very big or important one,” he concluded, leaving Xue Wei and the others coughing. One thing was to think it, but to say it directly, was this not a bit too rude?
”Come with me,” the man said and waved for them to follow him. With a look at each other, the four of them quickly nodded their heads. No words were spoken, all of them felt that they could follow this man, for now. They felt no hostility from him so following him seemed like a safe choice.
The three-eyed young man led them across the plain. He moved as fast as them, but a look at him told them that his Qi level was rather low, at most around the Heavenly Warrior rank. This was puzzling.
Still, in half an hour, the group arrived at a rather sizeable camp. It seemed to be housing around a thousand people. As to whether or not they were all experts, Xue Wei did not know. He had no knowledge about this continent so he dared not even make any mindless guesses.
There were other three-eyed cultivators standing guard at the camp, and Xue Wei even saw a four-eyed cultivator walk inside. The guards were extremely polite, to the point of being submissive, towards this individual.
”Wait here,” the guard said as he entered the camp. Their group was quickly noticed by others and many looked at them. For some reason, they all showed looks of disdain towards their group of four. It was clear that they were being looked down upon.
”There are so many eyes,” Hei Gou said with a low voice, and the other three nodded their heads. It was indeed confusing to see people with this many eyes. Was this really the Demon Phoenix Continent?
They were all puzzled and realized that they had been told nothing about the continent they were to enter, only that the Vermilion Bird Clan existed here.
Did they also have more eyes than normal?
While the four of them were in deep thought about the many-eyed people, confused about where they might have ended up, the guard that had led them there returned, this time with an elderly man who had four eyes.
The man was being treated extremely respectfully by everyone on his way over, so Xue Wei understood that he had a high standing.
He stopped in front of Xue Wei and his friends. His eyes swept over them and although there was a slight sense of superiority in his eyes, he did not show direct disdain for them.
”I hear you are from the Chang'an Continent?” he asked. Xue Wei nodded his head and answered, ”Yes, we hail from the Continent of Chang'an. Could you, sir, perhaps tell us where this is?”
”This is Yan Dalu.” the man said, causing Xue Wei to be completely confused. ”Yan Dalu?” he asked. ”Not the Demon Phoenix Continent?”
The four-eyed elder snickered when he heard this.He shook his head. ”I am afraid that if you were going for the Demon Phoenix Continent, then you will be disappointed. This continent is called Yan Dalu.”
”Yan Dalu is not far from the Demon Phoenix Continent, but it takes around a year to travel across the sea. Not to mention that you would have to cross the entire continent first. Also, your strength is not bad, but compared to the strength needed at the Demon Phoenix Continent, it is definitely insufficient.”
”I think you should praise the lucky star that you arrived here and not on the Demon Phoenix Continent. Had you arrived there, you would have been in for a lot of trouble.”
”It was not a lucky star that brought us here, but Lan,” Xue Wei muttered, but his voice was so low that no one heard him. The four-eyed elder continued talking unabated. It was clear that he was feeling excitement because of these people who came from outside the continent.
”Yan Dalu is quite different from most of the other continents,” he began. ”First, let me tell you a bit about the history of the world from way before it became a continent. Around ten thousand years ago, it was possible to have mixed races. Many different halfbreeds and mutations were produced, no one really cared about what race you were: as long as there was love, there would be a way.”
”The ancestors of Yan Dalu were such figures. They were a mixture between Golden-Crowned Five-Eyed Lions and humans. The Golden-Crowned Five-Eyed Lion is now an extinct race, but they were a Primordial Beast. The king of all Primordial Beasts, even.”