Chapter 788 - 8 Rope Knots (1/2)

Chapter 788

8 Rope Knots

Shao Xuan had been watching Yi Qi and Yi Cong from beginning to end. After sitting down, Shao Xuan recalled them in detail.

Divination was quite similar to a shaman’s chanting. Take knot divination for an example, every knot, even down to the detail of the knot, was the same as a line of chant but not every person would be able to replicate it. That was because a shaman’s chant and a knot reading, or other divination methods, all required totemic power.

Totemic power was a kind of power from the fire seed. A fire seed did not just consist of totemic power, there were other kinds like the power of inheritance, etc.

A shaman’s chant requires a unique type of power of inheritance, while divination requires another type.

The Yi family used a power unique to their lineage, part of the Yi family seed. Shao Xuan, on the other hand, used the other kind of power in his body unrelated to the Flaming Horn’s fire seed. This special power allowed Shao Xuan to bypass the repulsion from foreign fire seeds, as well as perform tasks impossible to the average human- just like performing Yi knot divination or turning rocks into water moon stones. These were all because of this unique power.

Right now, Shao Xuan planned to try again to see if he could enter the dimension they say he couldn’t see. The Yi family battle should be interesting, he was curious how they fought and who would appear. At this point, Shao Xuan still had not met the main founder of Rock Hill City- the Yi Xiang they called ‘The Unlucky One’.

It did not matter how old Yi Xiang was one thousand years ago. After a millennium, the other main founder, Mu Han, was already dead. The Yi family members who forced Yi Xiang to leave were no longer alive either, yet here he was, still tormenting the Yi family. Right now, he finally could act upon the King City Yi family. Their ancestors are gone, but these descendants are still around, no? One thousand years isn’t too late for revenge.

Yi Si once told Shao Xuan that if ‘The Unlucky One’ decided to truly attack the Yi family, he would be doing so with the objective of exterminating the entire clan. He would not show mercy.

Shao Xuan wanted to see for himself how powerful this Yi Xiang was. It was too bad regular people could not watch.

Clearing his mind, Shoa Xuan held the straw rope in his hand and recalled the actions that Yi Cong and Yi Qi took, repeating them in his mind, remembering every detail, every finger, every grain of sand clear in his mind. A pair of hands appeared in his consciousness.

When Shao Xuan received the inheritance of the knot divination skill from the Thousand Year Leaf, he had learned the language of knots from this pair of hands.

At this moment, the two hands were holding a straw rope. As Shao Xuan looped his memory of Yi Qi’s movements, the pair of hands started to move.

The rope twisted quickly between their fingers. Shao Xuan watched them with full attention but the knotting process was too complicated and could not catch up. That was why he stopped knotting his own rope and focused on memorising each knot.

They were more complicated than the knots he usually made, partially because the hands were too fast. The first knot was finished within a breath’s moment.

When the first knot was complete, something like a burning chant scripture appeared in Shao Xuan’s consciousness. The text burned orange-red flames with white bottoms, similar to the Yi family’s fire seed clouds. When the pair of hands disappeared in his mind, the burning text disappeared too.

He slowly recalled the hands’ movements and started to meddle with his own rope.Although he did not know which member of the Yi family created that knot divination vision, it was just incredible!

Those hands were like a translator translating the language of jades, sand and tray into knots!

As he recalled the hands, he slowed down to analyse every part and tie the knot on his own. The rope in his fingers slowly knotted, though much slowly than the hands in his subconscious.

Wrong!

He made a minor mistake in one of the details and the knotting failed. Nothing happened to the rope in his hands. It was not because divination was not possible here but due to the mistake. It was similar to the situation he was in when he first started learning.

Snapping the messy, knotted rope in two, he pulled out a new piece of rope to practise. Recalling the pair of hands once again, he followed suit.

Still wrong!

Another accident. As long as one of the procedures was wrong, the knot would not be complete.

Again.

Looping Yi Cong and Yi Qi’s actions in his mind, then watching the two hands, he slowed down the memories to imitate them.

Wrong, again!

…

Again!