Chapter 787 - You Can’t Watch (2/2)

“You might sense a force affecting our readings now. While we can’t conduct readings for anything else, we can still predict the Yi family’s movements. There will be war in three days,” said Yi Cong.

Something was affecting their readings? Shao Xuan had not noticed, he had just done a reading on the mountain to check on the hunt team. Although it was a little more difficult than usual, his reading was still successful.

Of course, Shao Xuan kept this to himself.

During these three days, Yi Cong only talked briefly about Yi Xiang and the life-or-death battle coming soon. Then, he and Yi Qi turned their full focus on battle preparations.

This was a good place, perhaps because it was near Eagle Mountain, there were not many threatening fearsome beasts nearby and eagles rarely rested at the foot of the mountain. That was why Yi Cong and Yi Qi did not leave with Mu Yao. Even if they had three days, there was no way to get out of the forest so soon to find a better place. They decided to fight the battle here.

The battle had come too quickly. They were still planning to look for better forging materials with the Mu family to fight the desert threats. However, the battle came too suddenly so they did not need to catch the star butterfly larvae because there was no need. Even if they caught the larvae and made the weapons, the battle would have ended by then.

Yi Cong and Yi Qi said three days but in reality, on the second day both of their faces darkened. Having their slaves stand guard around them, they took out their prepared trays, jades and golden sand.

Just like conducting a reading, they put the jades in a specific order in the tray and scattered sand on top. Every time they moved the jades, the sand would change.

Shao Xuan watched Yi Cong and Yi Qi, who had seemed to forget about the world. Their eyes were glued to the changes in the sand on the tray as if that was the world.

They were not afraid of Shao Xuan watching either. Shao Xuan was not a Yi family member, even if he were unexpectedly talented, this outsider would not be able to access the dimensions they could.

Access to the inaccessible was the reason why the Yi family felt better than everyone.

Within the tray, the golden sands moved despite the still air, first moving in one direction, then another. The jades seemed to create invisible forces to push the sands around. The hands moving the jade seemed to move very slowly, even stopping, yet at the same time moving so fast that the hands were just afterimages while the jade and sand moved on their own!

Changes were happening quickly.

Energy ripples intensified. The slaves around stepped backwards, then again, and again… distancing themselves because of the oppression from the two suddenly powerful auras.

Whoosh—

An orange-red flame mixed with white light erupted suddenly in an arc before Yi Qi, forming an arc of fire. On the outside, there was a fireball mostly consisting of orange-red flames while the bottom was white. The flames were as tall as a man. On the other side of the arc, Yi Qi sat with three shadows behind him, flickering along with the flames. One fireball, but three shadows?!

Fire seed flames!

The fireball was the fire seed’s flames, the one that was merged with the Yi people’s bodies!

The fire seed that appeared, and the arc, plus three resulting shadows coincidentally formed the Yi family totem! This was the Yi family – previously the Yi tribe- totem!

Shao Xuan had seen the Yi family totem in King City, though the aristocrats no longer called them totems but sigils. Carriages, shops, mansions all bore totems. However, Shao Xuan never knew that the Yi family totem presented itself this way!

Yi Cong was a little slower but the same situation occurred.

Shao Xuan finally knew why they needed three days. The battle was coming in three days and as long as the Yi people were in this condition, Shao Xuan would be unable to attack them easily. The influence of their fire seed was present as protection, just like how a fire pond could protect a tribe. The power of the fire seed was a sort of protection, and the Yi family had just turned this protection up to the maximum, stronger than what Shao Xuan felt on another Flaming Horn’s body!

It was still bearable far away but as long as he came within ten steps of them, he would feel a strong repulsion with every step. This was why their slaves kept retreating back because they could not stand close. At the same time, Yi Cong and Yi Qi were sitting very closely, hence their auras overlapped and intensified.

The battle definitely would not last just one or two days. The three-day condition they offered was probably just an excuse to stall time, not wanting to waste energy before the battle. They first had to negotiate with Shao Xuan, then once they entered battle mode, the fire seed’s ‘shield’ would be activated.

“You think I can’t harm you just because of the fire seed?” Shao Xuan laughed. Both of them probably knew he would not force an attack during a moment like that anyway. The Yi family fighting Yi Xiang was actually a good thing to the Flaming Horns. Flaming Horn did not like both parties that much anyway.

Furthermore, Yi Cong had probably analysed Shao Xuan’s modus operandi anyway. He was only calm because he felt Shao Xuan was unlikely to attack now.

However, he did not know that Shao Xuan was not afraid of the fire seed’s repulsion and could withstand the oppression coming from both people. But Shao Xuan did not plan to kill them now.

Looking at the two people wrapped in flames, Shao Xuan went to look for another spot. He got Chacha to watch their surroundings, then took out a straw rope.

You said I can’t watch the battle?

I wouldn’t know without trying.