Chapter 190
Chapter 190 – The old haunt
Translated by Lesyt Team
Edited by Ilesyt
The encounter with the Wan Shi tribe made those of the Lu tribe, who were originally talking happily, become quite silent.
After traveling with the team of the Lu tribe for some more distance, Shao Xuan said farewell to them. At this point, Yan Jiu and their team would move away from the direction of the ferocious beast mountain forest, while that was the way where Shao Xuan would go.
“It’s still not that far away from the Wan Shi tribe. You can go a bit more further with us.” Yan Jiu advised.
“No, thank you. You don’t need to worry.” Shao Xuan pointed to the sky above his head while saying.
Seeing the eagle hovering in the sky, Yan Jiu realized that Shao Xuan could indeed move on with the aid of the eagle. After all, it would be safer in the sky, as they hadn’t heard of the Wan Shi tribe having domesticated eagles.
From jumping down from the tree to walking through the forest. Almost from the first step into this forest, Shao Xuan had already adjusted himself to his best state.
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If Qu Ce from the Mang tribe and Xu from the Eight Limbs tribe saw Shao Xuan now, they would not believe what they saw. After all, what impressed them from Shao Xuan was a straightforward, savage and violent style, while now Shao Xuan looked completely different.
He was nimble, fast and covert, without any unnecessary presence exposed outside, as if already integrating into this forest.
In the forest, there were lots of wild animals as well as ferocious beasts. Many times, Shao Xuan slipped past those ferocious beasts. He was alone here; if not to hunt for food, he wouldn’t bother those ferocious predators, as he had to save his strength to search the target.
His strength should only be used for the necessary situation. To survive in the forest, you had to use the least effort to get the best result and saving the remaining strength to preserve your life.
A vine was approaching Shao Xuan from behind noiselessly; even the rustling sound of friction was too small to be heard. On top of the vine was something like a bud, which opened suddenly like a big mouth with sharp teeth and bit at Shao Xuan’s leg when near him.
A knife flitted through the “big mouth” on top of the vine. From the opening of the cut on the vine, some dark green juice flowed out and then the vine pulled back quickly.
Shao Xuan didn’t look much at that vine, as he had seen many plants of the like in the hunting area before.
The old haunt was just around the corner.
Shao Xuan had already felt the excitement of the totem flames in his mind.
One huge rock caught Shao Xuan’s attention.
The rock stood there, which seemed inharmonious with the surroundings. It was covered by some thick moss and various residual decayed leaves.
Scouting the surroundings and finding no dangerous objects, Shao Xuan approached carefully and shaved that thick layer of moss with the stone knife. The areas scraped away on the surface of the rock had some deep grooves.
Shao Xuan scraped another large area of moss and simply cleaned the rock, in order to see the grooves on the rock more clearly.
On the surface of the rock were carved some drawings, which were the characteristic patterns of the ‘Flaming Horns’ and some other characters.
Probably because of some reasons in the past, some areas on the rock were damaged; many dents couldn’t connect each other; only the two largest characters that could be seen clearly was “Flaming Horns” while the other smaller characters were hardly identified.
After the removal of the thick moss and the residual decay, “Flaming Horns” was eventually brought to light again.
Just like the hill rock paintings of the Eight Limbs tribe, these huge rocks also played the part as landmarks, telling everyone who came here that this was the territory of the Flaming Horns tribe.
Apart from the huge rock, Shao Xuan also found several other rocks of the like in different sizes and different quality: some looked like they were cut open in half, while others were mostly buried under the earth.
Lao He mentioned that the roots of the Flaming Horns tribe still existed here.
Before coming here, Shao Xuan didn’t know or feel the existence of the roots. But now, entering this region, Shao Xuan felt as if was being attracted over there by a beckoning force.
Having come here for the first time, but Shao Xuan had a familiar feeling somehow. He knew that it was the flame and the totem pattern.
Following the beckoning force, Shao Xuan headed over there with a quick pace. During the process, Shao Xuan also found one phenomenon.
It seemed that the closer to the center of that region he got, the fewer ferocious beasts would show up.
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Maybe just as Lao He mentioned that the roots of the Flaming Horns still existed, those roots also had some effect of the flame to the wild animals and ferocious beasts. But the effect was not as obvious the flame back home.
Without the distraction of more ferocious beasts, Shao Xuan moved forward more quickly.
Getting closer to that direction, Shao Xuan found more life traces of the tribe.
For example, houses and some towering stone columns, etc.
As a long time had passed by, some had lost their previous shapes. Moreover, the changes of the terrain caused even more damages. Because there were no human beings and very few ferocious beasts, it was almost covered by all kinds of plants in this region. In comparison with the growing situation of those plants in the forest, the plants here grew calmly and were not overgrown, or at least did not fully cover this region.
The tops of the collapsed houses had become the habitats of plants and micro-organisms. Shao Xuan had to scrape the above layer to see the real look below. Wooden things had already decayed. The only things left were some stone-made items as well as some pottery remains dug out from some places.
Entering this region, Shao Xuan stopped scraping or digging, but just took a good look at this region which had no human activity for nearly a thousand years.
Some stone houses fell down to the ground, while others were half on the ground and the other half in water. A stream flowed by, polishing those stones shaped like tiles.
Without tall trees as shelters, that high and thick stone column looked extremely eye-catching.
But the stone column had already been intertwined and covered by green vines. Shao Xuan pulled off all the vines with immense efforts while being careful not to damage the stone column.
With the vines pulled off, the carvings on the stone column also appeared. Compared with those huge rocks like boundary monuments that he saw before, the patterns on this stone column were better kept and clearer.
There were also some records with characters of the ‘Flaming Horns’, as well as drawings, which Shao Xuan could hardly read.
Were these used as a sundial or for sacrifices?
Probably for sundial Shao Xuan thought, as sacrifices were usually held nearby the fireplace. The place where the fireplace was located should be the one Shao Xuan was looking for.
The sun set gradually, with the dusk shining on this region of ruins, which added a desolate feeling of history.
Standing on the high stone column, Shao Xuan fixed his eyes to the distance. Far away, beneath that reddening sky were curving mountains and forests.
No matter how much it had flourished, it was just a weed-ridden land of ruin at the moment.
With a long sigh, Shao Xuan jumped down from the stone column and walked to another place.
There was nothing special there, but it was relatively flat with some small plants growing and some flowers scattered in between on the surface.
Walking around there in a circle, Shao Xuan came to the center and stopped, lowering his body and putting his hands on the earth.
He felt that there seemed to be something underneath the earth, surging and flowing.