Chapter 795 - The Soul of Eagle Mountain (1/2)
Chapter 795
The Soul of Eagle Mountain
Since Chacha did not want to answer, Shao Xuan did not ask again.
Shao Xuan had learned from the Hui tribe that the giant mountain eagles held many secrets and never brought people to Eagle Mountain. Shao Xuan’s trip to Eagle Mountain was extremely rare, only because Shao Xuan raised Chacha since he was an eaglet and that was Cahcha’s first time to Eagle Mountain. If he were another eagle, a human might not be allowed in.
Even if humans found Eagle Mountain, they might not be able to scale up to the icy peak or fly together with the eagles to the true Eagle Mountain, just like what Shao Xuan did. The tall and long mountain range was an obstacle. The true Eagle Mountain was where all the eagles flew towards after the mist of the icy plains cleared. It was taller than this mountain range, its foot and peak both obscured. No one knew what was at the bottom of Eagle Mountain.
However, the obstacles and distance would not be a problem if he could explore through his consciousness in that special dark realm.
After some rest and recuperation, he had some food and looked at Yi Qi and Yi Cong. Their totem had brightened a little but nothing obvious.
Shao Xuan decided to go check out what he suspected to be the eagles’ ancestors.
With his first success, he managed to enter the dark realm once again, straight in front of the blue fiery figures. He tried to count them but the numbers were shocking.
Many!
Too many!
Thousands, maybe more than ten thousand, maybe more.
Although there was still life force in these blue fiery figures, they were different from beings that were truly alive- similar to the Bone Reading Beast that the Yi family used. Of course, merely similar in certain aspects. These gigantic figures displayed different life force intensities, having stronger life force like aggregated fire seeds, i.e. the way the Yi family aggregated a hundred people together. The number of animal figures here was unknown. They were like matchsticks contributing to an ancient, burning bonfire.
The soul of eagle mountain!
A thought popped into his mind.
He studied each beast’s individual shape but they were all stacked too tightly together. While they could not be distinguished from each other, Shao Xuan could still make out an approximate shape.
Indeed. They were different from the modern giant eagles but more similar to the pterosaur he found in the ice.
Chacha did not want to tell him Eagle Mountain’s secrets but he had already guessed that these giants might be the secret hidden within. The ancestors of the giant mountain eagles were the prehistoric giant beasts! They once ruled the world!
Perhaps that pterosaur would be familiar with them.
A long time ago, when the Flaming Horn was still trapped by the edgeless large river and isolated from the world, Shao Xuan heard the shaman mention that the giant mountain eagles had their own faith. They were tough to tame and did not accept foreign fire seeds. This might be the giant mountain eagle’s ‘faith’ then, since generations of eagles would fly here every year, from young eaglets to dying old birds. They came here to be completely reborn, just like how totemic warriors awakened their totemic powers, or levelled up. These changes could be due to the stacking of these blue figures.
The stacking of the blue figures had formed a ‘fire pond’ for the giant mountain eagle clan, it was the true core of Eagle Mountain!
When he first saw the pterosaur, Shao Xuan once wondered, where did all those giants at the top of the food chain go?
There were records of them in ancient ancestral texts but they were all from prehistoric times so there was limited information. Many tribes had similar stories, though told from a primitive fire seed’s perspective. Legends told that a long time ago, when humans were still prey, the fire seed gave humans power when they were weak. Fire seeds were the reason why humans thrived.
No one knew what happened but based on what Shao Xuan knew, he confirmed that the fire seed had changed the world- it did not just change humans, even other living beings transformed across time. Perhaps humans were just the smartest, to have comprehended using fire seeds to their advantage first.
The soul of Eagle Mountain was evidence. And Eagle Mountain was not the only place of its kind in the world!
No one knew where the other places would be hidden. The world was huge. In a relative sense, only a corner of this patch of forest was understood. Humans had not explored the rest of the world yet but Shao Xuan had a feeling more of these places would be found.
Just a feeling.
His brain started to hurt due to fatigue and he left the dark realm.
When he opened his eyes, he felt a surge in fire seed energy. He looked at Yi Cong and Yi Qi. Their brightened totemic fires were changing, sometimes dimming and other times brightening.
It has begun!
Changes like that could only mean that both parties are already fighting!
Shao Xuan rested as he observed their flames. He wanted to wait until their flames weakened, that would mean their battle was ending and Shao Xuan could go check out the situation.