Chapter 685 The Giant Bridge of the Flaming River (1/2)

Most of the other fearsome beasts had departed because the king worm returned. For now, most of them wouldn’t stay close to the area, so Shao Xuan wouldn’t encounter any problems here.

Not long after the king worm returned to his cave, the worst had passed. Everything returned to its initial peaceful state. No one saw the king worm leave its cave again.

Shao Xuan could feel the king worm’s presence under the mountain. He could also tell that it was feeling quite well. Its emotions were still the same as before, free from unpredictable fluctuations, but Shao Xuan could guess that he was quite excited to be back.

Was he really lost?

A fool with no sense of direction. It couldn’t even tell the direction and didn’t know how to return to its cave, so it could only follow its gut feeling. Who would’ve thought that he would run so far away! How foolish! Even though this worm was so stupid, its mere strength was enough to scare away countless humans and beasts. If Shao Xuan didn’t lead it back to its cave, it would’ve caused quite a big trouble in the area. It didn’t care which area would suffer from its petrification. It only stayed wherever it felt like staying. With its IQ, it wouldn’t consider too many factors and it didn’t have many complicated thoughts.

It was purely because of this that people could not predict what this worm would do if it decided to act recklessly.

But the good thing was, everything was over.

The leader bat that was staying at the Flaming Horn headquarters probably also returned to his cave.

Shao Xuan suddenly felt a burning curiosity as he recalled the newly built bridge across the Flaming River.

A bridge! One that was over hundreds of metres long!

He wondered if the bridge met the standards of his expectations.

As he thought about this, he couldn’t wait any longer. His body recovered after he finished eating the fearsome beast meat. Watching the colourful clouds appear in the sky, Shao Xuan stood up and put out the pile of fire. He cleaned up his traces and prepared to return.

On his way back, he met Duo Kang and the others who followed him over.

After the bridge was built, Duo Kang brought a group of people and followed Shao Xuan’s tracks. They thought Shao Xuan needed help, so they went to help, but Shao Xuan was already finished with the business.

“The king stoneworm already returned?” Duo Kang asked.

“He returned to his cave. He probably won’t come out anymore unless there is another disaster,” Shao Xuan said.

Everyone finally felt at ease when they found out that the king beast was no longer a threat to their tribe in the meantime.

Duo Kang told Shao Xuan about how they crossed the bridge.

“It actually works! We all walked across that, erm… bridge, yes. We walked across that bridge. It didn’t sink downward at all and was as sturdy as land!” Duo Kang spoke enthusiastically. The bridges he knew were all made from giant pieces of wood. Back when they were on the other side of the sea, there was also a bridge made from a giant tree trunk on the human-made river in the outer region of their tribe.

But now, seeing this bridge, he finally understood that a “bridge” could mean something even bigger!

So, a bridge could actually look like this!

It turns out a bridge could actually be built across such a long distance!

This was a breakthrough in their thinking. Back in the days of the disaster, when the tribes came over here on wooden rafts, Shao Xuan had also mentioned about building a bridge, but not everyone agreed to his idea. They thought that it was unnecessary and impossible, but now it actually became a reality. They just didn’t use any manpower to build it. Instead, they leveraged the strength of the king stoneworm.

Duo Kang couldn’t help feeling proud of their achievement. This bridge belonged to the Flaming Horn tribe!

Duo Kang thought the same way as the other foreign tribe members. The bridge belonged to the Flaming Horn tribe because Shao Xuan was the reason behind the formation of this bridge. So if anyone dared to take over their property, they would fight to protect it.

Does the central region have such a long bridge? Do the proud slave masters on the other side of the sea have such a long bridge?

No! None of them!

Only the Flaming Horns!

Up till now, this was the longest bridge that existed!

“Did you see those people’s reactions? Their eyes were so wide and they’re still surrounding the bridge. They don’t even want to leave. All of them want to walk across it,” Duo Kang spoke a smile that reached his ears.

Shao Xuan was also happy when he heard this. Indeed, many people would think of building ships when they saw a river. Rarely would they ever think of building a bridge across the river, not to mention how wide the Flaming River was?

But this time they succeeded!

However, they shouldn’t be excited so soon. They were still unsure how sturdy this bridge was and whether it could still stand strong against the strong currents of the Flaming River. They still needed time to make sure.

After Shao Xuan returned to the tribe, he also brought back news of the king stoneworm returning to his cave. This also marked the end of this crisis.

Everyone was excited at the Flaming River Trading Point. The people who were guarding the trading point were waiting for people to take over for the next shift. They couldn’t wait to see the “bridge” that the king beast created.

“Miracle! What a miracle!” Yi Si exclaimed as he observed the miraculous stone bridge in front of him.

Grasshopper was still feeling tense. The sharp spikes on his back were all still erect. Even though the king beast had left, some of the beast’s energy was still left on the bridge, so even if it didn’t affect most of the other people, it affected Grasshopper severely because fearsome beast blood flowed through his veins. Even the slightest bit of the king beast’s energy would make him nervous.

More and more people crowded around the stone bridge. They only stopped coming over to satisfy their curiosity after Gui He sent soldiers here to surround the area.

However, even if they couldn’t walk across the bridge, the people who were watching gained a general understanding of the bridge just by watching the Flaming Horns walk on it.