Chapter 721 - The Dominant Flame (1/2)
Chapter 721
The Dominant Flame
After Shao Xuan finished speaking, He Bian looked over at him as if he was a complete idiot.
Of course, they had thought about swallowing a fire seed whole before, but the Di Fish had been the dominant one and had been swallowing their fire seed slowly. So many years had passed since then, and they still couldn’t wholly devour their fire seed. Now he was suggesting for the Di Mountain tribe to swallow the Di Fish’s fire seed? How long would that take?
“What I’m suggesting is not exactly like what you might be thinking,” Shao Xuan explained. “Of course I know that engulfing a fire seed whole takes a long time, but what I mean is you guys can take the part of the fire seed that belongs to you, put it inside your bodies, and use it to battle the Di Fish’s fire seed slowly.”
“Put it inside our bodies?” He Bian couldn’t understand what Shao Xuan was saying.
Even Dian Dian, who was playing with the fish, looked curiously at Shao Xuan.
Gui Ze understood what Shao Xuan meant. “That’s right. There’s a way, but it’s not completely safe, though a lot more effective than the idea you guys mentioned.”
“According to what I heard from you guys, there are two fire seeds in the fire pond in your tribe. These two fire seeds are bound and mixed, and many Di Mountain people cannot tell them apart. Seeing how the Di Fish’s fire seed could get to this form today, they only succeeded by gaining extra energy from swallowing the Di Mountain tribe’s fire seed. Their part of the fire seed already has the Di Mountain fire seed’s energy. Even if you can’t sense it, I’m sure understand what I’m saying. However, even though it’s hard to notice, these are still two different fire seeds. You guys can still utilise the part that the Di Fish didn’t swallow, or choose to let the Di Fish swallow it whole.”
When Shao Xuan noticed that He Bian and Dian Dian were both listening carefully, he continued, “The reason these two fire seeds could mix and mingle was the fire pond. If you guys want to migrate, you guys can’t make the decision alone. Both the Di Mountain tribe and the Di Fish have to agree before you guys are allowed to migrate. The Di Fish definitely won’t agree to this, so this means there was no way for you guys to move your fire seed. Instead of battling them, why not merge the part of the fire seed that belongs to your tribe with your bodies? That way, the Di Fish can no longer take it away from you. Plus, even if the fire seed was weak and incomplete, totemic warriors with merged fire seeds are much stronger than those without.”
“Merge the fire seed with our bodies?”
This concept was too new to He Bian and Dian Dian. They would never have thought about this.
“You guys can probably sense that the Flaming Horn tribe doesn’t have an ancient fire seed,” Shao Xuan said.
He Bian had only just noticed this fact. For the past few days, he had been worrying about their tribe and Dian Dian and didn’t have the time to mind anything else. It was also partially because their tribe rarely interacted with any other tribes, doing their best to avoid people on their way up the Flaming River. Naturally, they forgot what the repulsion from other fire seeds felt like.
As for Dian Dian, even though she had been trained as the next shamaness, she lacked experience and never experienced any strong repulsion from other tribes’ fire seeds.
Her knowledge was limited to the theories that the shaman taught her. Now that Shao Xuan mentioned it, she recalled learning about this before.
“Ancient fire seed?” Dian Dian caught onto this phrase. This was the first time she heard this phrase.
“Yes, the fire seed in your fire pond at the Di Mountain tribe is an ancient fire seed. Now, in the Flaming Horn tribe, we don’t have this ancient fire seed.”
“How is that possible?!” He Bian’s world-view was refreshed once again. In just one day, his perception had changed several times.
“Nothing is impossible. Blood and fire come from the same origin, and many tribes on this continent have already merged their ancient fire seed. All the larger tribes have already merged with their fire seed, and the middle to smaller sized tribes are also following in our footsteps. You guys don’t talk to any other tribes and live so far away, so you naturally won’t know about this. But this is already old news. If you don’t believe me, you can try asking the people at the Flaming River Trading Point. It’s just on the other side of the stone bridge. It’s a large trading market we built and many people from all over the continent come here on expedition trips to trade,” Shao Xuan said.
He Bian’s jaw dropped. He was speechless and didn’t know how to react, but he knew that this Grand Elder wasn’t lying.
The Di tribe never liked socialising and lived in a remote area, so most people in their area probably didn’t know about the merged fire seeds too.
It was rare for Dian Dian to show any signs of excitement, but now, she was suddenly curious. “Are you sure it can be merged?”
If they couldn’t remove their part from the fire seed, why not just merge the part that still belonged to them with their bodies? Now that they thought about it, it wasn’t impossible.
Perhaps the solution the shaman told them about really exists?
After some contemplation, Dian Dian pushed herself up from the side of the stone fish tank. He Bian pushed her down. Pleading was his job. She didn’t have to do it.
Without waiting for Shao Xuan to respond, He Bian fell to his knees and bowed to Shao Xuan. “Please help our tribe, Grand Elder!”
Before this, He Bian had already told Gui He that if they needed anything from the Di Mountain tribe, they would try their best to give it to them, even if it meant diving into the sea to search for rare pearls and jewels.
“Get up, let me finish my sentence,” Shao Xuan said helplessly.
“Oh.” He Bian stayed on his knees and knelt beside the stone fish tank. He waited expectantly for Shao Xuan to finish his sentence. He was waiting to plead again after Shao Xuan finished what he was going to say. If the Flaming Horns could help them, who cared about the embarrassment? So what if they would lose face? These were all small matters to him.
“What I wanted to say was, your tribe is an exceptional case. Something unpredictable might happen during the merging process, and even if your tribe was like other tribes, the act of merging fire seeds itself was risky enough,” Shao Xuan went on and told them about the tribes that had failed to merge their fire seeds.