Chapter 489 (1/2)

Into The Ocean

The carriage had several problems after the shower of rocks. Before Chaoqiu and Feng City arrived, they would repair it before setting off once again.

“I refuse to believe our people will lose to them!”

Although they had witnessed Shao Xuan’s power, due to Yi Zong and Ji Lu saying that it was impossible for Flaming Horn to maintain such strength, they believed the opportunity to attack would come. Plus the desert region was in front. After that was the ocean. Their army was large, Flaming Horn would be forced into a dead end.

When they thought about it, the army, initially sulking due to their defeat, finally perked up again.

Flaming Horn had entered the semi-desert region. They did not directly use the water they carried in their flasks. Instead, they drank from cactus sap.

After a harsh winter, although many cacti died, most survived. When the ice melted, all these cacti absorbed so much water they looked swollen now.

Flaming Horn tribesmen rarely encountered such dry weather. They’d always lived in the forest with abundant water. However, they had to bear with this. They must get used to this.

Shao Xuan and the buffer team followed a distance back. They had sent several people to catch up and report what happened. That was why the tribe was not too worried about them.

There were several depressions in the ground perhaps due to past stagnant water. The soil was swill moist with weeds. All the tribesmen living here avoided Flaming Horn as much as they could, staring both cautiously and curiously. They had never seen a situation like that before. Why would such a large tribe move here? WEre they going to settle here? They already had so little resources, competition would be intense!

Days passed. Along the way, Shao Xuan saw the bird in the sky too, knowing that it was watching the Flaming Horn tribe. King City’s army must still be behind them. They wouldn’t give up this easily. At most, they would be more cautious.

Shao Xuan saw Maka tribesmen too but did not know them. He didn’t see Wanfu. These people were very guarded too so Shao Xuan did not greet them.

The tribe’s path avoided the settlements within this semi-desert region to prevent unnecessary conflict.

Temperatures rose quickly. It was very dry. When Shao Xuan saw the familiar mist, he got his tribe to quickly collect dew. They were lucky.

After passing through the mist, Shao Xuan could smell the ocean and heard waves crashing upon the shore.

A group of people stared at the ocean in awe. It was their first time seeing the ocean. The ocean was huge, much larger than what they imagined. But they couldn’t see the other side of it so how would they cross?

It was also the shamaness’ first time here. She looked out at the ocean that extended to the horizon., then told everyone to rest. She went to look for SHao Xuan.

Now, Shao Xuan and the buffer team were already with them. When he saw her, he said, “I’ll go underwater to check.”

Putting his leather pouch down, Shao Xuan waded into the water and swam to the deeper parts.

Underwater, after swimming for a bit, there was a slope. The stone tunnel was down there.

Diving below, Shao Xuan saw the rock tunnel. Inside were all sorts of seaweeds and many small fish swam above it, eating tiny organisms.

He understood that this meant there hadn’t been an air pocket in this rock tunnel in a very long time.

There was a familiar sensation of gravity here. Holding his breath, Shao Xuan sank to the stone tunnel and stood on it.

A school of fish scattered in panic after Shao Xuan landed. Shao Xuan felt the slippery seaweed under his feet but it was not the time for such observations.

Not much light from the surface reached this depth.

However, very soon, Shao Xuan noticed a flickering light.

There was a red light coming from his body.

On the four bone ornaments, every round bead was glowing red, flickering and occasionally bursting into a small flame.

The flames were not extinguished by seawater, flickering like they would on land. Then, the flames grew suddenly as if a switch had been triggered. In the beginning, they extended around Shao Xuan but soon, the flames grew towards the rock tunnel beneath his feet, then forward.

Shao Xuan was holding a fire crystal in his fist. When he needed to borrow a lot of ancestral power, he would prepare one or two crystals. Just now, he had used up one crystal against King City. Now, although he wasn’t sure what the hint in his dream was, he brought the crystals along. He couldn’t control the flames extending from his bone ornaments, they grew as if they were sentient.

A long tube of flames extended within the depths of the ocean, like a fire dragon growing along the long tunnel, filled with seaweeds. It looked like the whole tunnel was on fire. Fish avoided this place, though they watched curiously from afar.

After it extended, the flames suddenly exploded upwards.

The Flaming Horns, waiting anxiously on the shore, saw the flames extending out of the ocean.

Flames coming from within water? How was that possible?!

But they saw it with their own eyes.

Flames came out of the ocean, evolving into tall columns. Like a knife, they cut the ocean open.