Chapter 267 (1/2)

After the couple escaped the Flaming Horn tribe, they originally thought, “we cannot afford to continue to stay around the people of the tribe.” We’ll just try to go around to the area of the wanderers. However, unexpectedly, the people of the Flaming Horn tribe started a head count.

“Let’s just wait for another chance. There will always be people leaving, and that would be our chance.”

“Yeah.” The originally slender woman had blossomed quite a lot, and her facial features had also changed. So, if people were to find her, they wouldn’t think of them as “traitors” immediately. While thinking about that, the woman yelled: “Where is the thing?”

“What thing?”

“The leaf of eternal youth!”, the woman said while gritting her teeth.

This stunned the man, but he said nonchalantly, “It’s fine after the wind dies down, we’ll go back and dig it up.”

“But what if someone else gets it first……”, the worried woman said. This is a treasure that they found while hiding their belongings, down in a hole. Nobody knew which tribe the dead person was from. However, looking at the bone structure, one can deduce that it is from a very strong warrior.

The treasure was laying by the set of bones, which showed that the person seemed to have been dead for a long time, and the bamboos had already changed color. However, the leaf that it contains, was still good as new.

This was the leaf of eternal youth!

According to rumors, once this leaf enters the soil, it will stay fresh for ten thousand years. That is a really long time. The scribes of the tribes used this to write stuff to pass on to later generations. However, the ones that are left are really rare nowadays, and almost no one had seen one before.

Before, they were only rumors, but now since they were able to see the leaf they knew it was more than rumors. However, even when they saw it, they were both shocked. They were extremely surprised to be able to find such a treasure. It may even be able to make them rich. Unfortunately for them though, they weren’t able to read the ancient text inscribed on the leaf.

Because of how curious they were, and as well as not feeling secure putting it outside, they kept it a secret. They brought it along with them during the excursions with the Flaming Horn tribe but made sure to keep it well concealed.

When they entered the tribe, they shut themselves in a room to study secretly the leaf for a long time. They still couldn’t find the secret behind the leaf though. Maybe only mages and magicians could decrypt these.

“Who wants to go dig these things? Even if they break the house down, they still won’t be able to find it. Even if they did find it, would they even be able to understand what it means?”

However, unknown to the pair, Shao Xuan has already found the items a long time ago.

Unbeknownst to Shao Xuan, the gold powder on the freshly picked leaf disintegrated after he fainted. The leaf became dried up and turned yellow and proceeded to mix with the dirt on the ground.

At this moment, Shao Xuan suddenly saw a sea of knowledge, and the shape on the leaf took the form of a weird 2D shape.

What is the painting trying to depict here? Is it a totem?

No, it can’t be.

He looked at the odd, moving drawing. It is almost as if it had life in it as it was squirming.

Is it a bug? A snake? Something else?

It didn’t have eyes, nor did it have feet. It just is a simple line, but it is ceaselessly moving.

What in the world is this?

Shao Xuan doesn’t really know much about this world, and his knowledge of the history is even more scarce. Everything he knows is from what others told him, and all of it was just pure rumors, he couldn’t tell if it was true or not. He doesn’t know what the leaf that was in his hand before he fainted meant.

And he doesn’t know what the gold powder is either. He is even more confused on what the moving lines were trying to tell him..

While Shao Xuan was pondering behind the meaning of this, he noticed that within this weird shape, a faint pair of hands started to materialize. After this pair of hands appeared, the shape became much more realistic. This time, he could guess what it was.