Chapter 408 (2/2)

Gongjia Heng was getting increasingly excited but when he saw Shao Xuan fiddling with the rope and closing his eyes, he did not get upset. It must have been a tough journey for this young man to come here alone unscathed. He must be very tired now. Yet boys will be boys, he’s tired and yet he was playing with rope.

However, his smile disappeared, replaced with focus and solemn. His relaxed posture was the same but his eyes were glued to Shao Xuan’s hands.

He thought this young man was just fiddling with some rope to kill time but Gongjia Heng came from the upper-middle class in the city. He had seen a lot. This was why he knew what Shao Xuan was doing.

Divination!

Was he from the city? No, the kid said he was from the Flaming Horn tribe. On the way back from the river, when dealing with the worm, he saw Shao Xuan’s totemic patterns on his body too. He was definitely not from the city. Then why did the kid know this?

However, as he thought about the tribesmen, there had been stories of them mastering the art of divination. It was not odd that the kid knew it. However, he was so young, was he good in divination? How much of it had he mastered?

Gongjia Heng’s mind raced.

This was a kid stubborn enough to come looking for Gongjia Mountain, a kid who was adept in the art of knot divination. Maybe this kid could even find the place. No, he couldn’t! Other than Xia people, outsiders could never!

But, even if he couldn’t, he could get them closer to the truth…

The fire roared and the firewood crackled. However, Gongjia HEng was not distracted. He felt a surge of emotion.

Under Gongjia Heng’s unblinking stare, knots formed one by one on the straw rope in Shao Xuan’s hands. Although Gongjia Heng did not know how to interpret the knots, he knew that if it was a failed session, there would be no knots. Did this mean he saw something?!

Finally, Shao Xuan opened his eyes.

Gongjia Heng grew anxious, he didn’t even realise that he had burnt the meat in his hand to crisp.

“You… What did you find?” Gongjia Heng’s voice shook from anxiety.

Shao Xuan was not surprised Gongjia Heng knew what he was doing. In fact, he had done it in front of Gongjia Heng on purpose.

“That direction.” Shao Xuan pointed in a direction on the other side of the large river. “I don’t know the specifics. I just know to walk in that direction. I think you’ve been in that direction too.”

“Of course I know that’s the right direction!” he said hurriedly, “but what next? How far should I walk, what should I do when I arrive?”

Gongjia Heng knew he was walking in the right direction all along and yet he still couldn’t find Gongjia Mountain! He may look like an easygoing person on the surface but when he thought about how hard he looked for twenty years, and the uncertainty of the future… Aargh, he was panicking!

Shao Xuan scratched his nose, itchy from straw flakes. “I don’t know either, I’ll have to do another session when I arrive.” It was the truth.

Gongjia Heng had nothing to say.

The sky was darkening. Shao Xuan had to stay the night. However, he didn’t sleep in the cave or the stone house. Instead, he slept in a small treehouse. This was another resting spot built by Gongjia Heng. When there was danger, he also hid there.

That night, Shao Xuan fell asleep the moment he lay down on the bed in the treehouse. However, in the stonehouse under the tree, Gongjia Heng could not sleep. He tossed and turned on his bed.

Since he couldn’t force himself to sleep, he decided to enter the forging room.

When his mind was a mess, he would visit the forging room. Then he would aimlessly hammer on metal pieces. He wasn’t making anything, it was just to vent his emotions.

He struck. Clang!

Should he go looking for the mountain with the kid?

He struck again. Clang!

But, he still had his pride. A Xia person asking for a tribesman’s help? Face was very important to him.

He struck once again. Clang!

He hadn’t been able to find it for twenty years. Maybe this kid could help him?

Clang! Clang! Clang!