Chapter 517 (1/2)

Busy

After the battle that ended with shocking speed, the tribespeople of the Flaming Horn tribe still kept busy.

People were seen walking in and out of the forests near the Wanshi tribe every day. Sounds of swinging axes and grunts were heard too.

The Flaming Horn tribe planned to connect the tribes in the forest and the Wanshi tribe’s village. This was to make travel much easier.

There were many challenges in travelling before this so a road would make it much more convenient.

They got rid of the dangerous plants and beasts in the forest and cut down the trees according to their plans. They used the wood to build houses in the new village. They flattened out a path for the benefits of the wheels of their carts.

Anyone that walked past this path could see the mighty Flaming Horn warriors whacking the ground with a large hammer. Each hit that struck the ground had enough force to vibrate the whole area.

“This, pluck this out, I can’t hammer well with it!” said a sweaty warrior wielding a large hammer to his friend. He was pointed at the roots of a tree that got cut down.

“Wait, there’s a large rock here, I’ll dig this out first.”

The first warrior placed his hammer down and sat on the grass. He looked at the results of their labour for the past few days. He couldn’t help but feel proud of what they achieved. The previous lurking dangers of the forests were no longer felt. He suddenly thought of something and said to his friends, “The chief wants to exchange with the Mang tribe for some cart-pulling beasts. Do you think horses or cattle are better?”

“Horses! Horses are much faster!”

“Cattle! What’s so good about those horses? Cattle can be fast too and I heard they can plough the fields too! They also have cool horns.”

“Horses and cattle are cool but the birds from Lu tribe are not bad,”

“Pfft, those birds are only a little bigger than others, they don’t have anything special. I’m telling you, back at the other side of the ocean the tribe reared ducks. It was brought over by the Grand Elder. There were duck eggs, those eggs could cure poison! Sadly, none of those ducks made it over here with us.”

“Right, about the Grand Elder, he and I came from the same cave.” Ku thought about the past, when they haven’t found their tribe, when they didn’t realise their totemic powers. Their life at the cave at the bottom of the hill.

That got the attention of the others. They looked to their left and right to check whether anyone was near them. When the coast was clear, they asked in a low voice, “Eh, brother, how was the Grand Elder during those days. Was he very cool then?”

“In those days…”

Ku remembered the skinny boy he knew. Nobody would believe back then that this person would grow to where he was now.

“How? How can I write this?” Shao Xuan looked at the empty animal skin scroll. His pen had obvious bite marks on them now.

Shao Xuan didn’t have this habit before this but the task the shamen gave him forced this habit out of him.

Destroying Wanshi tribe’s fire seed in half a day was a huge accomplishment that made the shaman extremely happy. It was something that needed to be recorded for the generations to come. This was a shining point in the history of the Flaming Horn tribe.

The extinguishing of the fire seed was an important part of the story but the shaman wouldn’t be able to write that part so Shao Xuan had to do it himself.

That’s where the problem is, Shao Xuan had no idea how to do it.

The way he accomplished it was a natural body reaction to him, it was like a dream. He only came to his senses when it was extinguished. His memories of the event were murky.

At that time, no matter how hard Shao Xuan tried to think, he couldn’t remember any of the important moments.

That was the first point.

Secondly, he was writing this for the future generations of the Flaming Horn tribe, he needed to have a tone befitting for a Grand Elder. Their ancestors wrote the most important events in animal skin with clear descriptions. The main points were highlighted with special words they used. This was deemed the most serious way of writing which Shao Xuan had to follow.

Only, there was a significant difference with the vocabulary Shao Xuan used and the vocabulary the others used.

With a long sigh, Shao Xuan turned to Gui Ze that was seated across the table. As the next shamaness in line, Gui Ze had many tasks too. She was already done with three animal scrolls.