Chapter 504 (1/2)

Visitors From Three Tribes

Shao Xuan chose several kinds of fearsome beast blood carefully to be used for forging.

To him, it was counter-intuitive to use beast blood to process ore but at this point, there were too many things that didn’t make sense in this world.

According to the Gongjia ancestors, they must first remove impurities within the ore, then carefully control the flames while observing the steam emitted from the melting ore. It would turn from black to yellow-white, then green as the temperature within the melting pot increased, then finally green-white. When all the ore had melted and only green steam was left, beast blood was added along with the shaping process.

Shao Xuan experimented with many different types of beast blood. He made a very small mould for this purpose so casting would use very little metal. These were just experiments- they still had little metal so he could not be too wasteful.

It was too bad that the results were abysmal. The Gongjia ancestors added beast blood to strengthen the metal, yet Shao Xuan’s products ended up more brittle and chipped.

The hunt party had brought back many types of fearsome beasts but none of them gave the wanted effect not even a little. Either the method was wrong or the blood source was still wrong.

Years ago, the process for the Gongjia family to discover this secret must have been extremely difficult. Either that or they were just too lucky.

“So it’s true, we can’t use any blood.”

When he showed the chiefs and leaders his results, they were also disappointed. However, they did not expect overly significant results. They had to take it step-by-step. It would already be extremely good news if they successfully create weapons.

Just as Shao Xuan talked to them about his experiments, several unwelcome visitors arrived.

There were fifteen people, consisting of people from the Mang, Eight Limbs and Feather tribe. These three tribes were considered major tribes in the central region.

When people talked about the eight major tribes, other than Mang, Eight Limbs and Feather, they also included Thousand Masks, Longboat (both from the central region), Hui and Tianshan (both from the grasslands). These made seven.

Although Wanshi was considered one of the eight major tribes, there was a caveat- if it weren’t for the slave masters supporting them, they would never have developed this much. They would have been destroyed by the other tribes teaming up together. There were small and medium tribes who feared Wanshi too, they were notorious for not being good people.

Everyone was just grateful that Wanshi was not in the central region where the soil was most fertile and population densest.

Flaming Horn did not know about these discussions, nor were they interested.

Shao Xuan recognised the three leaders from the three tribes- Huang Ye from Mang, Qiu Gu from Eight Limbs, Gu Zhi from Feather tribe.

These three must be here because they had been to this place and could lead the way.

Just as Shao Xuan expected, these three had been to the Lu tribe first to ask about Flaming Horn. After the Lu tribe’s Yan Jiu and his men returned, to attain satisfactory answers, these three had to shamelessly visit Flaming Horn because they did not want to go back empty-handed.

When they decided to cross the desert, they were merely visiting out of curiosity. When they arrived at the desert, they did not think this was important at all. However, they didn’t know such major changes would happen, nor did they see Shao Xuan there. Huang Ye left a letter behind and left the desert with the rest.

Afterwards, Flaming Horn basically stopped contact with the seven major tribes. Other than the Hui tribe coming to update them about Chacha, other tribes did not set foot in this place.

They had no choice this time.

When they neared the Fearsome Beast Forest, they felt the changes.

Other than Yan Jiu telling them that the Wanshi tribesmen weren’t around, they also felt something had changed.

The last time they were here, they could strongly feel the repulsion exuded from Flaming Horn’s fire seed. However, they were used to repulsion because they often travelled between the major villages. After a while, they didn’t think much of it. This time, it was different. While the repulsion effect was very faint now, they still felt very uncomfortable!

It was worse than before!

“Is this really because of the fire seed?” Huang Ye thought about what their shaman said. Was the Flaming Horn fire seed really gone?

Qiu Gu from Eight Limbs’ face was solemn, unlike his usual state. He squinted, deep in thought. “Looks like Flaming Horn has many secrets of their own.”

“We just don’t know if they’ll reveal any of them,” sighed Gu Zhi from Feather tribe.

After their previous experience, they did not let their birds out. All fifteen people arrived on the Feather tribe’s birds but they seemed unsettled after arriving here. The Feather tribesmen did their best to calm these birds down, without them, the birds would have flown away. The birds were not adapted to the local environment. Most importantly, the tribe hiding in the forest did not want visitors. The birds could sense hostility.