Chapter 684 The King Worm’s Return to His Mountain (1/2)

On the other side, Cha Cha had already brought Shao Xuan down onto the riverbank. After they descended, they noticed that the king stoneworm was still following tightly behind them, so they didn’t stay there. They lifted off once again and set off for the forest.

The king stoneworm finally hesitated for a moment after it reached the other side, but not long after, it continued to chase after Shao Xuan. The long stone bridge that extended across the Flaming River and continued to lengthen as the king worm moved. A road of stone trailed behind as it moved.

Along the riverbank, trees, flowers, and grass in the area all turned into a greyish-white colour. After it landed on the shore, the stone worm king worm moved the same way as before, the way it was accustomed to travel on land.

The rumbling noises continued, but it didn’t turn around even once to glance at the long bridge behind it. It did not care at all about the terrifying damage it had done to its surroundings. Perhaps this was insignificant to it. It was merely following Shao Xuan’s tracks.

The patrolling soldiers who were hiding in the forest at the Flaming Horn headquarters also saw the worm leave. They only heaved a sigh of relief after he had left. They were all terrified when they saw what happened to the surface of the river.

“They left?”

“Yes. It already left with our Grand Elder. It probably won’t turn back.”

“What was that on the river’s surface, the thing that the stone worm king worm made?”

“That…. It’s probably a bridge? I heard the Grand Elder and other people mention it, but the Grand Elder said our ability was limited, so we never built one,” someone said.

“So we have a bridge now? That one?” another person pointed on the greyish-white bridge on the surface of the Flaming River.

“Probably. Should we try walking across it?”

“Let’s not. We should wait till the Grand Elder and chief are back,” Wei tried to stop the people who were trying to go there.

“Hey, leader, look over there! Someone’s coming!” the person behind Wei shouted while pointing at the other shore.

Wei looked over. There were indeed people who stepped onto the long greyish-white bridge.

“It looks like hunt leader Duo Kang. Oh! Hunt leader Ta is there too! Elder Zheng Luo and the chief are all there!”

The king stoneworm hesitated at a location while it was crossing the river, so where it hesitated, the stone bridge was slightly wider.

Gui He stepped on the hardened grass beneath him. The petrified grass here was a little harder than the ones in the forest. He could still hear a crisp cracking sound when he stepped on the ones in the forest, but here, the stones were harder to crush and it required more strength to break apart even a single tuft.

“Should we go take a look?” Zheng Luo suggested.

“We can try?” Ta was a little expectant as well.

“Then let’s go.” Gui He was the current chief, so he walked in front and led the team across the stone bridge.

Even the king stoneworm could travel steadily across this bridge. Their combined weight was lighter than the king stoneworm, so they reckoned there wouldn’t be a problem.

Gui He, Zheng Luo, Duo Kang, and Ta stepped onto the newly formed bridge. Behind them, Duo Kang also led a team of Flaming Horn warriors across. To them, this was an entirely new experience.

After Gui He stepped on the bridge, he tried to put some more pressure on his toes to test the quality of the bridge. It was much harder than he anticipated.

It was hard and very sturdy. If it could hold the weight of a king stoneworm, it wouldn’t easily be trampled broken.

After the first step, the second and third step felt much easier. At first, they were all nervous and doubtful, but after they walked for about ten metres, they became much more relaxed.

It works!

They could actually walk on water!

The people who were on the stone bridge felt the sturdy stone bridge underneath them, and also the waves that were lapping from both sides. They inhaled deeply. Water splattered onto them as the waves came into contact with the bridge from both sides. The waves washed away a layer of powdered stone that trailed behind the stone worm.

The stone powder was the dust that the king stoneworm dragged along as it squirmed across the river. Its body was not at all suffering from petrification. Thus, as the waves splashed, the powder mixed in with the stones.

The faces of the people who were walking across were splashed with greyish-white mud brightened. They just wiped away the mud and let laughter take over them.

To the Flaming Horns, this bridge made their lives more convenient. After all, there were still problems ships could not solve, and they didn’t have enough giant mountain eagles to carry things across. Even if they did, it wouldn’t be as convenient. Now that they had a long bridge that extended across the river, then all their work would become so much easier. They could transport items across the river any time they wished between the trading point and their headquarters. They no longer had to care about anything that stood in their way.

With both sides of the Flaming River connected, people who couldn’t embark on ships across the Flaming River could now easily come across from the other side.