Chapter 805 - A Life For A Life (2/2)

Duo Kang fidgeted with his fingers, thinking about how he should treat this prisoner. But something was wrong. If Shao Xuan brought him back alive, it would not be to kill him.

Indeed, Gui He only sent people to bring Yi Cong to be locked up in a cave along with his cave instead of sentencing them to death.

They proceeded to the mountain peak. There, only the most important people of the Flaming Horn tribe gathered.

“Ah Xuan, tell us what you think,” said Gui He.

Only the Elders, chief, shaman and major hunt leader were present. Shao Xuan explained the situation, though he did not mention the mysterious power in his body, only emphasizing on borrowing their ancestral power, then explained why he brought Yi Cong back alive.

Yi Cong was the only one left from the group of King City people who entered the forest. Shao Xuan wanted to get more information from him. First, Shao Xuan wanted to learn more about the Yi family’s dark realm- though unfortunately, Yi Cong did not want to speak much about it; second, did the worm blood have other secrets? Especially related to weapon forgery?

“What?! The worm blood can be used to make better weapons?!” Duo Kang could no longer sit still after listening to Shao Xuan.

“Just a guess, I have not proven it.” Shao Xuan took out two worm skin pouches.

“We’ll try! We’ll try! Today!”

Not just Duo Kang, the others were excited too. The green-face fanged beast had given them a taste of good weapons. They looked forward to having even better weapons.

“Wait wait, Ah Xuan, you haven’t finished your sentence. What about the third point?” asked Gui Ze.

The group, already excited by the worm blood, suppressed their excitement to look at Shao Xuan, waiting for him to finish.

“The third point affects Flaming Horn the most.” Shao Xuan paused, then said, “I brought Yi Cong safely back mainly because he gave me several conditions. He said he’s willing to spend the remainder of his life helping Flaming Horn expand.”

“What’s our expansion got to do with him? How will he help us? Can that bicep lift a rock or carry wood? Or will he get his slaves to substitute himself?” Duo Kang was upset.

“No, he can!”

Gui Ze and the two retired shamans leaned forward, understanding what Shao Xuan meant. Other people might not but they were sensitive to these.

“What are you referring to?” Everyone in the room looked at Gui Ze and the two elders.

“They say, the Yi family can predict the future based on observations of the world!” said Gui Ze.

Gui He’s brows were knitted, then his eyes widened.”You mean, he can tell us what to build where, and we can avoid mishaps in advance?”

“That’s right!”

The Flaming Horns were quite traumatised by natural disasters at this point.

Their tribe separated a thousand years ago because of natural disaster, causing the tribe to split in half. Forget about Zheng Luo’s branch– this branch of the tribe lived one thousand years isolated from the world! All their skills were almost lost and they progressed backwards!

Even though they found a way to cross the river and finally returned to the old haunt and welcomed Zheng Luo’s branch back, taking in wanderers, when they were prepared to thrive once again, another disaster came. If they were not prepared, they would have probably suffered as their ancestors did.

If they could predict disasters before they happened, that would be great!

The number of large-scale migrations they had to pull off in a few years was traumatising enough.

The tribesmen revered Mother Nature.

“Can a Yi member be trusted?” Duo Kang was still suspicious. How could they trust a person from another tribe? And this was the Yi family.

“A Yi person’s promise is likely to be kept,” said Zheng Luo. “If he swore on his Yi family totem, then Yi Cong is likely to keep his promise.”

“If that is the case, then keeping him alive is fine.” Duo Kang did not insist on killing him, the tribe was more important.

“The problem is, he doesn’t actually want to be alive,” said Shao Xuan.

“What?!”

Shao Xuan’s words were confusing. If Yi Cong was not making a promise on behalf of himself, then who?

“He wants a life for a life. As for whose life, he did not mention. He just wanted to talk to us after we discussed among ourselves.” Shao Xuan repeated what YI Cong told him.

A life for a life?

Who did he want to save?

After a long discussion at the peak of the mountain, they finally adjourned.

Shao Xuan went down the mountain to visit the trading point, mainly to check on the expansion.

Due to Shao Xuan’s disappearance, the construction had not progressed very quickly.

“Hey! Shao Xuan!”

He had just arrived when Yi Si called for him. He had been waiting here because he could not enter the Flaming Horn headquarters.

“I heard you brought a few prisoners back? Who did you capture?”