Chapter 197 – Observing the sky and praying for rain (1/2)

Edited by Ilesyt

After leaving the Rain tribe, Yang Sui spent most of the time with some traveling teams, so he became talkative and enjoyed chatting with others when he was free.

Like now, when Shao Xuan asked him, he kept talking.

Yang Sui told him where he had been, who he had met, and which tribes he had encountered after leaving the tribe. He didn’t think he needed to keep it a secret. But he wasn’t trying to show off. In many tribes, most people seldom had such a chance to travel around, and they seldom had the courage to do so. Yang Sui did so, and was still alive now.

“In fact, I haven’t become the shaman of our tribe yet. After I go back, I will finally become the shaman.” Yang Sui said proudly.

“Isn’t your tribe worried about your safety?” Shao Xuan asked.

“We have no choice. This is the rule set by our ancestors. If I die, another person will continue on. When someone succeeds and returns to the tribe, he will be qualified to be the shaman.” Yang Sui said.

Shao Xuan thought about it and asked, “If the shaman leaves the tribe and dies, will there be a successor?”

“Of course, there will.” Yang Sui felt it very strange that Shao Xuan didn’t even knew this, then he glanced at the sword in Shao Xuan’s hand. He thanked Shao Xuan for giving him a beast leg, so he said, “As long as the fire seed exists, someone will be selected as the successor. But it takes a lot of time to train him. Different tribes have different ways to select the shaman. As for the selection of the chief, if one is capable enough, he will be selected in accordance with the rules of his tribe.”

“That is to say, if the fire seed exists, everything will be OK. If not, everything is over.”

“That is right. That is why I am puzzled. Where is the fire seed of your tribe?”

“…Not here.”

“Oh.” Yang Sui knew Shao Xuan did not want to tell him more, so he no longer asked. Regarding a tribe’s secret matters, no one would tell anything to outsiders.

Thinking about Yang Sui’s words, Shao Xuan thought of the way of succession of the shaman in his tribe and sighed silently.

The incomplete fire seed in the Flaming Horns tribe was dysfunctional.

They no longer talked about the fire seed. While talking about the Flaming Horns tribe, which had been disappeared nearly a thousand years ago, Yang Sui also mentioned the Lu tribe, which was a central tribe with a long history. The success of this tribe in the central region was attributed to their talent for breeding but also to the ancestors of this tribe.

“The ancestors of the Lu tribe?” Shao Xuan did not expect that it went that far back.

“I just heard of it.” During his travels, Yang Sui gathered a lot of information.

A Yang Sui said, in terms of breeding, they were very simple skills. But even if the others learned all the skills, they couldn’t do as well as the Lu tribe. In the areas with a large population, people got most of their food through farming and breeding. Many central tribes had large areas for farming and breeding, and the areas were larger than those recorded by the ancestors of the Flaming Horns tribe.

There was no doubt that over the past thousand years, breeding and farming had developed a lot.

Shao Xuan thought that he could get an opportunity to learn breeding from the Lu tribe.

After staying in the old haunt for another two days, Shao Xuan decided to leave.

Winter was coming, and the temperature significantly dropped and he had to find someone.

“Where are you going?” Asked Yang Sui.

“The Longboat tribe.”

“Hey, so do I... I also need to go past there. I need to go back to the Rain tribe. Going through there isn’t taking a long way around for me .”

Yang Sui did not know how long it would take to find a traveling team that shared the same route with after walking out of the Ferocious Beasts Mountain Forest. Even if he found such a team, he was not sure whether it would be safe to stay with that team. And in his eyes, Shao Xuan was powerful. Moreover, he had an eagle. Therefore, it was certain that he would be much safer going with Shao Xuan. If he left on his own and met the Wan Shi tribe again, he would be killed.

Yang Sui offered to go with him, and Shao Xuan did not refuse him. He knew little about this place, and he didn’t stay here for such a long period of time as Yang Sui did. Having listened to what Yang Sui said, he believed that Yang Sui was quite familiar with the central region. With his guide, Shao Xuan could improve his map.

Shao Xuan agreed to let him come along, so Yang Sui was very happy and very excited. Looking at Chacha flying in the sky, he was looking forward to going with them and couldn’t wait. He even wanted to try sitting on the eagle’s back. When he returned, he could boast that he had ever sat on an eagle’s back!

“But...” Yang Sui looked at the sky and said, “Today it will rain until the evening. Let's wait and find a place to rest. Let’s set off tomorrow, OK? It will be sunny afterwards.”

Shao Xuan looked at the sky, and he noticed the clouds didn’t change a lot. But he still nodded his head.

Not far from the fire pit at the old haunt, there was a hole on the mountain. Although it was less spacious than a cave, they could seek shelter from the rain .

While taking shelter from the rain, Shao Xuan asked Yang Sui, “Can you gain information by observing the sky?”