Chapter 111 – Qualifications to join (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

Now, the first Flame! The Soaring Flame! The totem appears!

The totem power in his body became active, even without him deliberately stimulating it. Totem patterns appeared on every totem warrior’s face.

The blue and white colors in Shao Xuan’s mind danced together with the flame.

Perhaps it was his illusion, but Shao Xuan felt that the flame in the fire pit grew higher than last year, and it was also dancing more violently, as if it was trying hard to get out.

Those standing beside the timber piles shouldn’t move willfully, so now, Shao Xuan was unable to watch the others’ facial expressions. Perhaps, the others were sharing similar thoughts, but he could not sense any abnormal situation from the Shaman’s voice. He could only have his suspicions.

At that time, everyone at the scene was already void from other thoughts. All they could see was the totem in the center above the fire pit.

It lit up the surroundings, and the whole mountaintop was covered in a layer of red.

The Shaman’s singing grew more and more sonorous.

Duh! Duh! Duh!

The drums suddenly rang in a specific rhythm, together with the sound of clacking bones and beating rocks, which meant that Shao Xuan and the others had to start dancing.

Together with the Shaman’s singing, people by the timber piles began to move around the fire pit.

The ritual dance was passed along many generations since the foundation of the tribe, and Shao Xuan had underestimated it after all.

The moves were of no difficulty at all. Nor was he feeling awkward by “washing dishes”, “digging carrots” and “waving rags” in front of so many people. The real situation was that, Shao Xuan finally learnt the essential secrets and wonders contained in the ritual dance, once he soaked himself into the moves. Gradually, he stopped feeling embarrassed at all.

The sounds of fifty people stamping on the ground and waving arms gradually unified into the surrounding percussions.

The rhythm was a little weird at first, but with the rhythm and sound created, together with the ritual dance, it became quite harmonious. The special beats and rhythm rang through the peak, one sound after another.

Shao Xuan had been practicing this ritual dance at home, repeatedly, so he had already memorized every single move. He was well aware of what move came after the other, and when he should deliver them. He did not black-out at all.

When dancing, Shao Xuan paid extra attention to do as the ancient teachings’ commanded, as Tuo had said to him. He used the special way of breathing while dancing, so as to feel the connection between him and the totem.

Soon, Shao Xuan had the feeling that he seemed to relate to everything around him.

If you must distinguish the difference…then the only difference was that the totem in his mind had blue flames at the edges, but the totem in the fire pit had no such blue edges.

The ancient teachings indicated that, one should “try his best to create a connection with the totem in the fire pit”. Shao Xuan thought that he was not connected with the totem in the fire pit completely, so he tried to stimulate his blue flames in his mind, to communicate with the totem in his mind. With the accumulation of blue flames in Shao Xuan’s mind, the whole totem in his mind suddenly grew bigger.

At the same time, the flame in the fire pit suddenly grew higher as it grew towards the sky. The body of the flame almost instantaneously doubled its original size, which scared an old experienced warrior so much, that he almost made a wrong move during the ritual dance. He had never experienced anything similar during the ritual ceremony. Fortunately, he had a silent reaction, he calmed himself down and continued the dance.

All the other things kept moving forward as usual. However, deep down in their hearts, people felt that something was not as usual, seeing the fifty performing the ritual dance.

It was like these people were no longer ritual dancers by the fire pit, waving their arms and legs. They no longer seemed to be dancing in the moment. Instead, they gave out an atmosphere that they were some prepared warriors with stone tools and spears, ready to go hunt at any moment!

Even those experienced ritual dancers sensed that this time was not as any time in the past. They felt as if their blood was boiling, and the excitement didn’t easily wear off.

The momentum of the fifty becoming one was full of a strong and fierce power, spreading out some invincible majestic spirit.

If Shao Xuan had to make a metaphor, he would say that even the moves of washing dishes would make people feel magnificent and valiant.

Without anyone noticing, the flame in the fire pit entered the second phase. Balls of flames flew out of the fire pit and drifted towards the surroundings. Since the flame grew a lot, the balls of flames flying out seemed to be bigger than usual.

With the special way of breathing, and the meditation on the perception of totem, Shao Xuan could feel balls of flame flying towards himself.

They touched him, and then he absorbed them.

Inside his body streamed some new energy, and it was brought by those flying balls of flame. They congested together along his meridians.

The totem flame in his mind grew quickly with the absorbed balls of flame.