Chapter 842 - The Distant Past (2/2)

Where is ‘past’? What is the ‘future’?

Although he did not know what Yi Xiang intended when he said this, Shao Xuan still thought about it. He felt like he would discover something if he could peer into the past and future somehow.

He looked down at the completed straw rope in his hand, grinned, then sat on the ground to make knots.

Everything around him gradually faded, the white replaced by darkness. When everything turned dark, he once again saw countless light dots like stars in the night sky. It was the world of consciousness.

Shao Xuan did not know what these light dots were. He stood watching the star-like dots surrounding him like a river of stars.

The twinkling dots aggregated into an immense force, its magnificence could be felt.

The darkness was now replaced by light, becoming blurry, then his murky surroundings finally became clear again.

He was no longer in that dark world surrounded by light dots. What he saw was a world of colour.

Golden grass like the ones he saw surrounded him but it was no longer the small clump he saw.

He turned to see two eggs as tall as himself lying on the grass. Not far away was a wall surrounding himself also made of grass.

Was he in a… nest?

In the next moment, his observations confirmed his guess. Forget about the eggs, there were several giant bird-like beasts pecking and chasing each other near him. They were different from birds, closer to the pterodactyl than the modern bird. However, it did not have wings or feathers.

As he pondered, he realised his field of vision was changing, and as if he was lifted into the air, he left the ground and his field of vision widened.

This is a forest, an ancient forest with trees as tall as the sky.

Suddenly, the fierce beasts with no feathers ran hysterically, shaking the ground as every branch trembled.

An even bigger, ferocious giant beast stomped through the place, its jaws dripping with blood. There was a struggling animal in its mouth, it was about less than a third of its size.

Shao Xuan could recognise it, he had pulled these giant beasts out of the ground after all. Although it was a different one from the beasts he enslaved, they were of a similar kind.

His field of vision zoomed out. Further away, there were giant beasts that did not exist in the modern era. Beasts with giant bone plates on their backs, bone armour on their heads, tails like spiked clubs, necks as long as snakes… all the animals he previously summoned appeared before him.

Shao Xuan even saw figures slipping through the grass stealthily. Although he could not see them, Shao Xuan knew that those must be humans, though in this era, humans were just one of the animals on the lower part of the food chain. The way they ran frantically from a beast that was not even the largest of them all was an indicator of their tough lives. Flaming Horns would have hunted this giant beast down already.

Shao Xuan understood now. He was looking at the past, from a long time ago when the fire seed did not exist.

Although he could not truly touch anything, he could feel the humid warm climate here. Giant creepers climbed up the trees, which were also covered in moist moss. Unknown insects flew past Shao Xuan, including gigantic mosquitoes similar to the giant dragonfly he once rode.

Passing through the dense forest and over a mountain, he saw a flock of giant birds. No, not birds!

As they spread their featherless wings, Shao Xuan recognised them as the animal he saw from the ice! But these beasts did not have long tails.

The largest ones were almost similar in size to the largest giant eagle at Eagle Mountain!

In the air, a figure with a protruding crown on its head swooped past, crying out. On land, all its mates who were crawling in search of food or feeding suddenly gave up their prey, or held their prey in their mouths, extended their giant wings, then took off. The leader then led the entire group far away.

More and more flying figures took off, some flying from the mountain, others from the forest or the ocean surface. They gathered in the sky, blocking out the sunlight. Some smaller flocks of flying animals also took off behind them.

This was not an event involving a single species, but many, many flocks!

Like a long headless dragon, the larger animals flew in front, then the animals flying behind became smaller and smaller. Those smaller ones who flew too fast would be killed by the larger ones in front.

At the end of the formation, Shoa Xuan saw a familiar figure. The group of animals flying at the tip were identical to the pterosaur he picked up from the ice1

The formation of multiple species took off from land and flew towards the open ocean.

They flew for a long time, leaving the land far behind themselves. Blue ocean could be seen in all directions. The unit in front descended slightly, maintaining a moderate distance between themselves and the ocean surface. The flying giants with protruding crowns let out a strange cry from their hard throats. In the beginning, only the leader cried but very soon, the entire flock cried. Every group started to cry in a cacophony of different voices. While it seemed random, upon closer observation, they seemed to be crying in the same rhythm.