Chapter 187
Chapter 187 – Flaming Horns, Shao Xuan
Translated by Lesyt Team
Edited by Ilesyt
Having spoken with the team leader of the Eight Limbs tribe, Huang Ye turned his head and was about to say something to Qu Ce when his eyes fell on Shao Xuan, who stood by Qu Ce’s side, especially looking at Shao Xuan’s clothes made of animal skin with its many bald spots. Huang Ye kept his eyes on him for two more seconds and frowned with discontent, thinking why Qu Ce would know someone from the small tribes.
At this thought, Huang Ye glanced at Shao Xuan again and found nothing special except for the clothes of the same style as the “small tribes”. He was more certain in his mind that this boy was no more than an inexperienced and ignorant nobody as he saw Shao Xuan stare at the clothes of the totem warriors from both the Mang tribe and the Eight Limbs tribe.
No longer looking at Shao Xuan, Huang Ye looked around and took his people away when he didn’t find anything useful.
The people of the Eight Limbs tribe didn’t pay much attention to Shao Xuan either, as they were packing up their things with the intention to leave.
“Xiao Xu, let’s go.” Someone from the Eight Limbs tribe said to the lady in white, who was standing at the side with the white-haired spider in her arms.
No matter in the Mang tribe or the Eight Limbs tribe, many kids in the tribes would be ingrained with teachings. Those instructors would tell them a few stories, some of which were true while others were polished and fictitious. The story of the Flaming Horns tribe was one of them.
It was said that once in the past, the Flaming Horns tribe was one of the well-known large tribes in the central area, at the same level as the Mang tribe, the Eight Limbs tribe and the Thousand Masks tribe. But this tribe had an extremely savage manner. The shamans in the tribe knew nothing, the leaders were strong-headed and the people of the tribe were stupid and ignorant, arrogant and sell-willed with great strength. Eventually, natural disasters befell on the tribe. The shaman and the leader of the tribe lent a ready ear to the rumours, which led the tribe to split up and go in different ways separately. Afterwards, that tribe died out. Since then, there had been one less strong tribe in the central area.
Not only had Qu Ce and Xu received these teaching. Before this, they both also thought that way. But now, what’s the story of that man calling himself “Flaming Horns, Shao Xuan”?
The totem tattoos on that young man when he was killing people were clearly seen, nothing like those of an extinct tribe. Moreover, he was at least an intermediate totem warrior, not losing to Qu Ce, who had just entered the team of intermediate totem warriors.
That brutal and forceful manner was exactly what they heard of, but “stupid and ignorant”?
That was not the case. That young man even deceived those four robbers.
The truth of that story that was used as a negative example by the two tribes seemed to be not as what they had thought. When they were young, their instructors told the story of the Flaming Horns with a sigh, that if the Flaming Horns tribe still existed, the situation in the central area would not necessarily be as it was now.
At the thought of this, Qu Ce no longer talked with Xu. He had to hurry back to tell everyone, and ask about what the true Flaming Horns tribe was exactly like. Putting aside whether they were smart or not, just that power could not be overlooked.
What should they do if the Flaming Horns tribe still exists or if the Flaming Horns tribe returns?
After Qu Ce left hastily, Xu also hurried back to the tribe and told the others.
Several seniors of the Mang tribe were still worrying about whether it was “Dao” that entered the Mang Wood. While they were discussing, Qu Ce ran over and told them the story of Shao Xuan.
The attention of those people, who wanted to rebuke Qu Ce from the discontent of his brashness just now, was pulled away.
“Flaming Horns, Shao Xuan?”
“Is it really that tribe?”
“Impossible. Isn’t it said that the Flaming Horns tribe had died out?”
All of them talked about this at once. From the discussion, they still didn’t have a specific image or identification about what the Flaming Horns tribe was like on earth. But they were still surprised.
The leader called Qu Ce over for details and then dismissed all of them. Afterwards, he went with the shaman to a solemn stone house, where the things of the ancestors of the Mang tribe were stored.
They arrived at the place where the scrolls were kept and opened the lid of one big bamboo box at the corner. Inside the box were some scrolls with shaft rods made of special bamboo.
At the bottom of the bamboo box were those scrolls which would never be read for hundreds of years.
The shaman of the Mang tribe took out one scroll at the corner of the bottom. Even the special bamboo and the animal skins would discolor and spread an ancient smell after a long time.
When the scroll was opened, what jumped into sight was a drawing of two horns surrounded by flames.
“The Flaming Horns tribe……”
The next day the Mang tribe sent someone to look for that travel team in the cave, only to find that the team left early in the morning.