Chapter 190 – The old haun (1/2)

Edited by Ilesyt

The encounter with the Wan Shi tribe made those of the Lu tribe, who were originally talking happily, become quite silent.

After traveling with the team of the Lu tribe for some more distance, Shao Xuan said farewell to them. At this point, Yan Jiu and their team would move away from the direction of the ferocious beast mountain forest, while that was the way where Shao Xuan would go.

“It’s still not that far away from the Wan Shi tribe. You can go a bit more further with us.” Yan Jiu advised.

“No, thank you. You don’t need to worry.” Shao Xuan pointed to the sky above his head while saying.

Seeing the eagle hovering in the sky, Yan Jiu realized that Shao Xuan could indeed move on with the aid of the eagle. After all, it would be safer in the sky, as they hadn’t heard of the Wan Shi tribe having domesticated eagles.

“Anyways, you need to watch out for the Wan Shi tribe.” Yan Jiu said.

“Okay, thanks. Oh, wait.” Shao Xuan took out an engraved stone given by the Shaman, which had the drawing of the totem pattern of the Flaming Horns tribe.

Showing the engraved stone to those men on the cart, Shao Xuan said, “This is the totem of our tribe. Maybe many people don’t remember this right now, but I believe that everyone will recall it soon.”

The men on the cart looked at the totem pattern on the stone, not understanding what Shao Xuan meant with “Everyone will ‘recall it’ ”. As to the totem pattern, they were sure that they had never seen or heard of it, but to show friendship in return for Shao Xuan’s favor, they looked properly, thinking that they would probably not see him again in the future.

Noticing the expressions of those people on the cart, Shao Xuan didn’t say more but smiled. Then he put away the engraved stone, said farewell to those men of the Lu tribe and gestured to the sky, then jumped on Chacha’s back when he landed.

“Goodbye.”

Waving towards Yan Jiu and the others, Shao Xuan tapped Chacha’s head and “left”.

Seeing the figure receding in the sky, the men on the cart pulled back their gaze.

“Do you think we’ll meet Shao Xuan again in future?” Someone asked.

“I think people of the Flaming Horns tribe should be nice, at least much better than the people of the Wan Shi tribe. If the Flaming Horns tribe is not far away, we can take a trip to their tribe. But it’s a pity…”

Several people were talking about Shao Xuan and the Flaming Horns tribe. After a while, they found Yan Jiu didn’t say a word, so someone asked him, “Yan Jiu, what’s your thought?”

Yan Jiu recovered his attention and looked at the others on the cart, “My thought?” Putting his hand up and pointing to the direction where Chacha was flying, Yan Jiu said, “Don’t you think there is something wrong with that direction?”

“That direction?”

“Why would he go there?”

“Did he go the wrong way?”

“…Will we see that young man again in future?” Someone said worriedly.

That mountain forest was the only vast and dangerous land directly connected with the central area. Further outside, in the other directions out of the central area were the outer regions, where lots of small tribes were scattered. This was the only acknowledged dangerous place, where even the Wan Shi tribe seldom went inside. Everyone who entered the forest would go with companions in groups, but even so, many people still lost their lives in the forest.

“Alas.” Yan Jiu shook his head with a sigh, not speaking any more.

On the other side, Shao Xuan looked down to the ground on the back of Chacha.

He saw the team of the Wan Shi tribe, which he encountered before. After passing the group, they flew for some more time and saw the territory of the Wan Shi tribe.

Compared with the Mang tribe and the Eight Limbs tribe before, the Wan Shi tribe had more primitive and savage styles. Yet these men loved to decorate their houses with bone ornaments or stone ornaments hanging everywhere. There were many people walking around inside the tribe, and there were some livestock being kept in pens as well. But the livestock seemed nothing like they were being raised, but more as if they were robbed from other places and reared in pens. They didn’t expect to raise the livestock for long, but fed them temporarily; whenever they would like to eat the livestock, they would just kill them. Moreover, the winter seemed to be coming soon. Who knows whether it would snow or not in the winter of this place.

It looked like something had happened to the Wan Shi tribe; many teams were running around, as if looking for something

At the moment, Shao Xuan didn’t have the intention for more exchanges with them; what he most wanted to do now was to look for the old haunt of the Flaming Horns tribe, as Lao He had mentioned.

The totem flames in his mind had started rolling; the closer he got to that location, the more fiercely they moved; so active, that it was as if something over there was attracting them.

Though the Wan Shi tribe didn’t have tamed flying animals, flying above the tribe at a low altitude would definitely cause them to get attacked intensively. When flying over the Wan Shi tribe from the sky at a high altitude, Chacha also pooped and left some droppings, giving a happy cry.

Those teams of the Wan Shi tribe below, who were running about, heard the eagle cry and looked up, guarding with their bows, arrows and long spears, etc. At times, in this place, some birds would fly out of the forest and snatch their food, and even take some people away sometimes. So at the sound of the eagle cry, they would warily watch the eagle high in the sky, waiting to attack the eagle when it lowered down.

But after a while, the eagle didn’t fly lower, but they got some bird droppings instead, which fell on their heads, on top of the houses, in the animal pens, and in the storage houses, where they kept their food. Those who didn’t dodge were wiping away the bird droppings on their heads and shouting with loud curses, which didn’t do any harm to Chacha at all.

The animals in the pens were in tumult thanks to these bird droppings, running about for fear of being caught by the eagle in the sky. In their vague memory, some of their kind seemed to have been caught by this kind of birds flying down from the sky. With this sense of crisis, these enclosed animals, without care, hit the fences more violently; if not hitting the fences, they would hit the other animals by their side, most of which didn’t belong to the same kind.

One of the sheep, whose horns were cut down, was chased by bull, running about while bleating; an old cow, which was grazing, was kicked over by a horse, falling directly into the haystack. The old cow got up, snorted and started fights against the horse.

The people of the Wan Shi tribe outside had to transfer some manpower over to put down the disturbance in the animal pens.

Chacha didn’t know that his droppings along the way brought about a riot in the Wan Shi tribe. After having a pleasant crap, Chacha carried Shao Xuan and flew in the direction where Shao Xuan pointed.

Compared with places with lots of human activities, the mountain forest would make it feel more comfortable.

When he flew into the mountain forest, none of the noises from those human tribes could be heard.

The number of flying birds in the sky increased gradually.

With Shao Xuan on his back, Chacha would be limited in regards to maneuvrability, while Shao Xuan couldn’t fully display his power. Therefore, he asked Chacha to put him down. He sneaked in stealthily in the forest and took a good look at this strange but kind of familiar region.

The human civilization which he saw before faded away. Here, everything returned to the most primitive state.

No house, no cart, no clothes with elaborate designs. The cruel rule of nature came on stage again.

Standing in a tall tree, Shao Xuan saw the forest in front of him and took a deep breath. From only one breath, he could smell the agitated and dangerous factors in the air. Nevertheless, Shao Xuan was not timid at all; instead, a long-lost exciting feeling was getting stronger.