Chapter 418 (1/2)

Shao Xuan Of Flaming Horn

Last night, while Shao Xuan was asleep, he saw many people in his dream. Although he couldn’t see their faces clearly, he was sure he didn’t know any of them.

He saw someone carving words on the face of the cliff. The first person looked very defeated, carving the first line. Then, there were people who came and merely read the writings, while the rest took out their knives to carve a comment. Some looked serious, others were proud.

Other than this wall, there were other people carving words on other parts of the mountain too.

There were two carvings that had the most people visiting them. One was the discussion about forging and casting that he had read about. The other one was…

Shao Xuan approached another wall according to what he saw in his dream last night. There were many plants here, the vines were so thick they covered the entire wall.

He carefully cut off the vines to reveal the words underneath.

However, the difference was that the earliest line of words was written using some colour pigment. He didn’t know what pigment it was that could penetrate into the stone and still remain so clear after so long.

The writings were all sharp and clear. It was obvious these people were proud.

“I have observed the life and death of plants, the waters and the rocks. I have watched the skies and the lands prosper and wither. Today, I have understood the changes in the core seed. I am here to learn!”

What the guy implied was: I’m here to be a party pooper!

On the left of the sentence were a few rings drawn on the wall. The ring patterns were very complex, the distance between the centres of the rings were different. Shao Xuan liked it a lot.

While Shao Xuan did not understand the labels, he could read the words written later. One was bronze, another was tin, so the other rings represented other metals.

His heartbeat quickened as he read it. This was his first time so close to the secret of the core seed. Gongjia Heng merely talked about historical events. This was the direct truth.

So the core seed could cause changes within rocks. The people who worked with the core seed used the principals to generate ore.

According to this Yi Tribe person here, he could tell which ring an ore belonged to if you gave him a random piece. He could even tell you what ore was best for forging what wares. At the back, he signed off as ‘Yi Qu”.

This Yi Qu was from the Yi tribe, his writings gave Shao Xuan a deep understanding of how the core seed brought changes to the rocks and their final forms. Which metal was for what, the ratio of alloys for different products etc. All of them were listed out with their formulas too. However, the formulas were derived from the ring diagram and Shao Xuan couldn’t understand it for the moment.

He thought the Yi people were just famous for divination but he didn’t know they were this advanced and intelligent!

After Yi Qu, there was a reply written by a Xia person. Compared to the complicated diagrams from before, this person wrote a simple word: “Bullshit!”

This word was directly carved on the wall, very large too. It was carved deep, obvious that the person was not in a good mood. They must have been frustrated because they couldn’t understand it.

However, there was another Yi person who wrote with a similar colour pigment. After the Xia person’s comment, he wrote, “I am deeply inspired by my dear elder’s words.”

This ‘elder’ the person referred to was Yi Qu. He even wrote his ‘inspirations’, which was an upgraded version of the ring diagram. The rings were closer together and each ring was of different thicknesses. There were many lines on the diagram for more accurate calculations

After this picture, there was another line. “These are my findings. As for the Xia’s comment above, he must be uninformed, I am too embarrassed to comment on this matter!”

There was another Xia person who came to comment on the upgraded version of the formulas and diagram. Just as the other Xia person, his comment was simple: “This is all bullshit!”

They did not understand the first diagram, of course they wouldn’t understand the upgraded version of it. But this did not stop them from mocking the Yi people.