Chapter 181 – Central Tribes (1/2)

Translated by Lesyt

Old He had said that the Flaming Horns tribe’s roots are still at the ancestral land, the flame’s veins still lie there. The totem flame has to be at the ancestral land to ignite once again. This, Shao Xuan did not really know about it, maybe the Shaman might have had some idea, but he did not say it.

No wonder the ancestors constantly longed to go back to their ancestral land, among the reasons there was still something like this.

For the wanderers that had been separated from their tribe and also for the tribe itself to regain their flourishing days, the return of the tribe was indeed really needed. Who knows how many are waiting to welcome their new lives.

The travel team would not stay long in the Feng Tribe, after all they were only passing by, this place only being their resting stop for their long journey ahead. After resting, the leaders will then call back the team and prepare to set out.

Shao Xuan left some stuff for Old He and his family, exchanging some cow or sheep’s meat for them. Old He did not want any water moonstones, his family only had two old and a young, not much battle strength. If they provoked other wanderers who coveted their stones and grew to become murderous, then that would be bad. The good thing is that Gua Er had already agreed to take care of them, letting Old He and his family be more relaxed.

Even if it’s hard, Old He wouldn’t mind it too much, because now he had hope. Maybe if he could just wait a few more years, he could bring his whole family and the wanderers living elsewhere back to their tribe. He could return to where he belongs within his lifetime, what a blissful thing that would be.

After saying farewell to Old He, Shao Xuan and the travel team left the Feng tribe.

Not long after the travel team had left, Gua Er’s father came back from his patrol. He thought of asking Gua Er how he used the wood block he dragged back that he was asking noisily for as he entered the house. If he had not used it, he planned to chop it into firewood.

Lifting up the leather curtains, he stepped into the house, but when his sight met a certain something in his house, his scalp had tightened, his hand almost swiftly taking out his knife on his waist.

But before he could make any more moves, a silhouette leaped out, letting out a sound that pierced through the lungs.

“Dad—–”

Gua Er firmly hugged onto his dad’s leg, “Dad, we already have a lot of firewood, don’t chop up my wood sculpture!”

“Wood sculpture?” Gua Er’s father was stunned for awhile before taking a clearer look around, “It really is.”

“Where did this wood sculpture come from?” Gua Er’s father put away his knife, scrutinizing the wood sculpture in front of him like something rare.

“Didn’t I tell you before already? This is something I asked from Shao Xuan, the traveller I found, to carve for me from the wood block I dragged back.” Gua Er narrated the story of how it came about, he had also mentioned about his promise to take care of Old He and his family. After he had finished speaking, he got a little worried, he hung his head down, hastily lifting his eyelids up to look at his dad, afraid a beating would come soon.

He didn’t think that his dad, who had been silent for a long while, would then say: ”If you promised, then you should just do it.”

Shao Xuan, who had already left the Feng tribe, naturally did not know the conversation between Gua Er and his dad. Him and the rest continued along another river. Upstream, this river directly went deep into the grasslands; downstream, it would join together with another river, becoming a river that would flow all the way to the central tribes.

This time there weren’t any rafts, therefore they relied on walking.

Just like what the other travellers had said, the team speedily kept on the road for a few days and they came closer to their destination.

“Just a bit further ahead, the territories belong to the central tribes.”

“Let the travel team be more alert, in front is the territory of two big tribes, don’t offend them.” Some experienced travellers advised the newcomers.

A tribe that can build itself among the central tribes cannot be considered a small tribe at all. Each and everyone of them have their own unique traits, any small tribes could definitely not compete with them. And the tribes in the central tribes, generally, they would also not take the initiative to attack the travel team.

Coming here, you would also bump into many other travellers from other lands, but now, there would not be nice greetings and calm conversations among them, everybody was cautious against another.

When passing through a few hills, a few travellers beside Shao Xuan said to him: “Look over there.”

Beside the travel team were a row of curving hills, and on the top of these hills, there were painted rocks of a tribe’s characteristic on it.