Chapter 79 – Fire Lance (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

When Shao Xuan came down from that tree, he was immediately surrounded by the others, for all of them had heard Ta’s words.

“Is this the seedling of the Green Thief?” Tuo had sparkling eyes, and stared still at the young bud in Shao Xuan’s hand, which was smaller than his finger.

“Is that eatable?”

Keke pushed the others in front of him away. As he was about to reach out his hands to take that young bud from Shao Xuan, he was stopped by Ta, who blocked him with his arm.

“Let me have a look at it.” Said Ta.

Seeing that Ta was here, Shao Xuan passed the bean-sprout-like young bud to him. As for Keke’s earlier question about whether it was eatable…Shao Xuan guessed that the answer might be positive.

It did not feel particularly special when you held it in your hands, but Ta assumed that it was the seedling of the Green Thief.

“How did you know that there was this seedling there, Ah-Xuan? Did you see anything earlier?” asked Ta.

They just witnessed Shao Xuan walking straight towards that tree as if he knew it was there. Then he climbed up the tree and pulled the seedling out directly.

“Earlier?” Shao Xuan rubbed his head, and acted as if he was recalling hard, “Someone might have told me that there’s something over there earlier. So I went for it.”

“But you looked back then, what did you see?” Ta stared at Shao Xuan’s eyes as he asked.

Shao Xuan did not try to avoid Ta’s sight, but continued, “I felt that someone was calling my name, so I looked back.”

Calling your name?

Who called you?

The ancestors?

Almost all of them were thinking the same thing.

“Aside from this one, are there any other similar seedlings?” asked Ta again.

Shao Xuan frowned a little, looking bewildered as well as embarrassed.

“You should just think about it calmly.” Ta said gently.

Shao Xuan lowered his head, as if trying very hard to search his memories. But in fact, he was only faking it. The vision of the Green Thieves had already disappeared, but he had a vague impression about which trees had the seedlings in them.

If it was old Ke who was asking, Shao Xuan would have given a detailed explanation. However, it was Ta, so Shao Xuan did not plan to tell the truth. Since everybody assumed that he was blessed by the ancestors, he decided to let the ancestors take all the credits, so as to save himself from finding more excuses.

After thinking for about two minutes, Shao Xuan pointed at some trees nearby.

Not all the trees that pointed out by Shao Xuan had seedlings, but warriors were very careful when searching all the trees. They were almost searching it inch by inch.

Shao Xuan could not tell the exact location of the other buds, for he had only paid extra attention to the one, so he only knew the precise location of that bud.

“Hey, I’ve found one!!” Ah-Suo shouted out cheerfully. He would very much like to swallow the seedling he had at hand immediately. In fact, he would totally have done that, if Ta wasn’t staring at him.

Seeing those circumstances, Ta gave Shao Xuan the strip-shaped stone box with the headless Green Thief inside, and said, “You keep this for now, while I go and search as well. Just wait here. Do not wander around.”

“Alright, got it.”

Shao Xuan took the stone box, and rested leaning against a tree. The reason why he could see the visions should be because of the other special ability in his body. In the past, it warned him of the dangers that were about to occur. But now, he seemed to be able to see something that happened in the past. However, Shao Xuan could not control it at his will yet.

As he was resting, Shao Xuan suddenly looked at the ground beneath his feet. Something was trying to come out from below.

But the others were absolutely unaware of the coming danger. Probably because all them were in the trees and had no connection to the ground, so none of them had noticed the thing approaching fast beneath.

“Something is coming!” Shao Xuan shouted.