Chapter 519 - Entry Without Exit
With the news of the intruder, tensions were rising in the Flaming Horn tribe. The excitement from the victory faded.
They defeated Wanshi and were famous now. They got the attention of others so they shouldn’t relax, especially now.
“The road is complete, someone went over with their cart and said it was fine.”
“Ten beast enclosures done outside, should we continue?”
“The field is done, we gave some to the travellers as planned and the rest is ours to use…”
In a stone house, two shamans, two chiefs, three hunt leaders and many team leaders were gathered here to discuss the progress of things. Of course, the Grand Elder wasn’t excluded.
“So it is Hunter Leader Gu La.” Shao Xuan recognized the leader of this expedition.
“Grand Elder Shao Xuan, anything we can help you with?” Gu La was excited to see a familiar face. He wanted to chat more but he felt anxious when he remembered something.
“I heard that when Cha Cha went to the Hui tribe two years ago it left with a few of your eagles?” Shao Xuan skipped the small talk and asked.
Gu La’s worry was gone in a flash and said, “That’s true, they went to Eagle Mountain together. Some great mountain eagles in our land also went there but…”
He felt Shao Xuan’s store on him. He stopped and continued, “The one from your tribe entered but never made it out.”
“Entered the mountain and never made it out?” asked Shao Xuan.
Gu La nodded, “That was what Dao Shan told us.”
According to great mountain eagle tradition, only those that succeed transforming can leave the mountain, those that fail fall from it. Shao Xuan heard about this before and that was why the people from the Hui tribe couldn’t speak about it comfortably.
Those that went, excluding Cha Cha all came back safe, how could the tribespeople of Flaming Horn not have anything to say about it?
Shao Xuan was silent for a while and asked Dao Shan a few questions with Du La helping with the translation. Shao Xuan could understand Cha Cha but had no idea what the great mountain eagle was trying to convey.
Shao Xuan wanted to find out more about the trip to Eagle Mountain but it seemed to touch on a lot of the great mountain eagle’s secrets. Dao Shan avoided a lot of questions which even Gu La didn’t have the answers to. It didn’t answer anything about how to reach the mountain, what happened on the way there, what it saw.
With no answers to his questions, he could only change his strategy.
“How was Cha Cha’s spirit when it left the mountain?” asked Shao Xuan.
“… Very good,” said Gu La. Good enough to grab a stone and use it to smash other eagles.
“Was it injured?”
“Yes but not severe. The others were injured too.”
“Did it rush into the mountain itself?”
“Yes.”
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After those questions, Shao Xuan was in even more confusion. How long has it been since Cha Cha went to the mountain before it went back again? Some mature great mountain eagles don’t go back for twenty or thirty years after their first trip. They may not get results and the risk was huge. What was that bird thinking? Did it want to kill itself at Eagle Mountain?
That would be very out of character for the eagle.
Shao Xuan couldn’t understand why Cha Cha went to Eagle Mountain and he couldn’t go there himself to search for it because he forgot the road to the mountain after coming here.
After thanking Gu La, Shao Xuan headed towards the newly done fields while in deep thought.
He stopped to a sudden jolt. He felt two familiar auras that were nearby. It wasn’t someone from Flaming Horn or the tribes that came by.