The man standing on the branch was wearing animal skin without fur. It was a skin that had been treated more carefully. The stripes on the animal skin looked very similar to the forest. Dark green and light green intertwined. If he hid his breath in the forest, it would be very difficult to be discovered.
This kind of clothing was not a special case. When the temperature was a little warmer, Shao Xuan had seen many people wearing this kind of animal skin. The most special thing about the man on the branch was the mask on his face.
At first glance, it looked like they were wearing masks with patterns on them. However, in reality, the masks were part of their facial bones. As for the patterns on the masks, they were totem patterns that appeared due to their totem power.
An invisible murderous aura spread. The surrounding birds that were pecking at the carrion also rushed to flap their wings and leave.
There were many birds gathered in the pile of corpses. When these birds flew up at the same time, it was like opening a black curtain. The figure on the other side was also faintly discernible.
Yu swallowed his saliva and clenched his stone knife. The tip of the knife unconsciously pointed in that direction, guarding against the person who appeared. When did the person appear? He did not notice at all!
At the same time, a human figure jumped down from a high place and split open the black curtain formed by the scavenger birds with lightning speed. He went straight for Chi and slashed down with his saber.
There was no superfluous movement. It was just one knife. But this knife made Yu feel as if there were tens of thousands of knives chopping down on his head. The power from this knife came in an instant. It seemed that no matter where he hid, this stone knife would chase after him.
Yu's expression froze. His body seemed to be in a quagmire. He wanted to struggle, but his body did not listen to him. He struggled and wanted to escape, but it was already impossible!
At this moment, Yu regretted. He was very regretful.
Why did he come here? Couldn't he just leave with the deer? Before leaving the tribe, what did his grandfather say? Don't be too curious. If you find something strange, you should leave far away!
Yu smelled the clearest scent of death in his life. Perhaps in the next moment, he would be like those people in the pile of corpses. He would be chopped in half and thrown here to become food for the scavenger birds hovering in the sky.
Suddenly, a hand grabbed his shoulder and quickly dragged him back. A very sharp stone knife appeared above his head and blocked the knife that was coming down on his head. The two sides collided without any fancy moves. At the place where they collided, fine fragments of the stone knife flew everywhere.
Under the saber Qi from both sides, Chi's heart pounded wildly. He felt as if he had just survived a calamity. However, he also knew that now was not the time to think about it. If it were not for Shao Xuan, he would have ended up like those people in the pile of corpses. Standing here, he could not help, so he quickly moved back a few steps to make more space for Shao Xuan.
Although the other side's momentum was very strong, Yu was stunned by this sudden momentum and could not react immediately. However, Shao Xuan was a hunter who often fought with those ferocious beasts in the forest. He had also faced ferocious beasts that were good at hiding and attacking. Naturally, he could cope with it.
He held the handle of the stone knife with one hand, and after the other hand got rid of Yu, he used his palm to support the back of the knife. Holding the knife with both hands, he blocked the opponent's sudden attack.
If it was an ordinary stone knife, it would probably be broken in an instant. However, the knife in Shao Xuan's hand was given to him by the Shaman. It was also one of the stone tools that he brought back from the king stoneworm's territory when he found his ancestors. Before he left the tribe, the Shaman asked someone to polish it and give it to Shao Xuan.
When he left the tribe, among the knives he took, except for the teeth knife that Old Ke had polished again, this was the only one he took. The teeth knife had been damaged and polished several times, so it had shrunk a lot. However, this stone knife was a little bigger. When he fought with others, Shao Xuan always used this knife.
The moment he blocked the knife, Shao Xuan felt a strong saber Qi pass through the stone knife and hit his arms. However, Shao Xuan was not afraid. With the totemic pattern on his arms, he pushed the opponent away.
The man who was pushed away quickly retreated until he reached the tree where he had been standing. He stared at Shao Xuan, his eyes showing confusion and surprise under the mask.
When Yu was thinking about whether to take out the stinger from the animal skin bag, the masked man quickly left and did not attack them again.
After carefully sensing the surroundings, Yu let out a long sigh of relief.
From the opponent's sudden attack to Shao Xuan blocking the opponent, the moment of silence, the two sides separated and the opponent left, all of this happened in the time of a breath.
Yu thought that if he could master how to use the frog poison, he would have the ability to protect himself. Now it seemed that he was still too inexperienced. Many times, when there was absolute power, there was no time for him to use poison.
Yu could still clearly remember that when the knife came down on his head, he had nowhere to run. It was as if all the blood in his body had been frozen.
"Scared me to death!" Yu breathed heavily. He did not mind the rotten smell here. Even if it was worse, it was still better than death.
"Thank you, Shao Xuan. If not for you, I would be like those people." Yu said. He did not expect that Shao Xuan would be so powerful. He thought that this person who appeared with the Drumming tribe was just an unknown tribesman. He did not expect that although he was younger than him, his strength was stronger than him. No wonder before they left, his grandfather told him to follow Shao Xuan, but not the other Pu tribe people. It seemed that the old man had already seen who was strong and who was weak. Sure enough, in terms of eyesight, he was not as good as the old man at home.
"Let's leave quickly." Shao Xuan looked at the scavenger birds flying down and said.
"Yes, yes, let's leave quickly." Yu turned and ran. After running a few steps, he turned and ran towards the place where the deer was.
The poison on the arrows from the blowpipe was too strong. The deer was still lying there.
Yu did not care about killing the deer. He dragged the deer and left. He just wanted to leave this place filled with the smell of death. No wonder those people in the traveling team would quickly avoid the tribal war. They would really be implicated.
When he finally saw the team resting on the shore and met people moving around, Yu slowed down his pace. At this time, he remembered his doubts and looked at Shao Xuan. "Say, which tribe did that person come from? The other side is very strong. "
Shao Xuan thought about the other side's mask and said, "Thousand Faces."
According to Shao Xuan's knowledge, there was only one tribe like this. It was also the first tribe that Shao Xuan had seen. It was recorded in the animal skin scroll passed down by the ancestors of the Yanjiao tribe – the Thousand Faces tribe.
According to the records of the ancestors, after the totem warriors in this tribe awakened, they would form a mask with their own characteristics. That kind of mask was actually the special bone structure of the face when using the totem power, covering the whole face.
Everyone in the Thousand Faces tribe wore different masks. Even if they looked the same, there would be some small differences. It was like there were no two identical leaves in the world.
In the Thousand Faces tribe, some people's masks were very ferocious, like evil spirits. Some people's masks were very ordinary, or looked very peaceful. Some wore smiles, some wore anger. There were thousands of people, and thousands of different masks. This was the Thousand Faces tribe.
The totem pattern of the Thousand Faces tribe was a strange mask. Shao Xuan had seen it on the wall of a cave near the mountain foot of the Yanjiao tribe. Behind the wall of the cave, the pattern of a human face mask was the totem symbol of the Thousand Faces tribe.
"Thousand Faces?" Hearing this term, Yu didn't react for a moment. But after thinking for a while, he recalled some things. His face was full of shock. "The 'Thousand Faces' tribe?!"
The Thousand Faces tribe was too far away for the Pu tribe who had always lived in the border areas. But Yu had heard many people talk about the Thousand Faces tribe. Although it was just some rumors, and many of them were exaggerated, it was undeniable that the Thousand Faces tribe was a powerful tribe.
"How did those people who were killed offend the Thousand Faces tribe? I remember that on the map they drew, the Thousand Faces tribe was still a bit far from here. If there wasn't a big matter, they wouldn't come here. "Yu guessed that this tribal war was actually a one-sided massacre.
"Who knows." Shao Xuan said absent-mindedly.
To be remembered by the ancestors of the Yanjiao tribe, and to be drawn on the wall, a tribe had to be at the same level as the Yanjiao tribe. If the difference in strength was too great, the ancestors wouldn't have had such an attitude.
Since Yu said that the Thousand Faces tribe was a powerful tribe here, and had always been very famous, then, was the Yanjiao tribe at the same level as the Thousand Faces tribe in the past?
Now Shao Xuan still didn't know. Nearly a thousand years had passed. Some tribes had died out, and new ones had appeared. The prosperous ones had declined, and the declining ones had died. There were also tribes that grew from weak to strong, and tribes like the Thousand Faces tribe had always been powerful. It was just that no one remembered the Yanjiao tribe.
This was really a sad thing. If the ancestors of the tribe who had passed away knew about this, it was not known whether they would cry and crawl out of the fire pit.
Not long after Shao Xuan and Yu returned to the traveling team, the people who had been sent out by the leaders to inquire about the situation also came back.
"I heard that the tribe that was slaughtered robbed the fire crystals of the Thousand Faces tribe. They also killed a few children of the Thousand Faces tribe who were alone. They were chased to their nest, and the whole tribe was slaughtered. Even the fire seed was completely extinguished."
"Tut, how dare they provoke the Thousand Faces tribe?"
"That's right. Aren't they looking for death? When we meet people from big tribes, even if they are children, we don't dare to offend them. "
Probably, those people thought that they could do it secretly, but they didn't expect that it would bring about a disaster. Or maybe, they had thought about it, but greed always made them risk their lives.
Listening to the discussion around him, Shao Xuan had a different feeling. Many people didn't dare to provoke a powerful tribe, even if they were children with weak fighting abilities. After all, things like today were rare. Most people had the same idea as the travelers.
This was the influence of a big tribe. Just by hearing its name and seeing its totem, people were afraid.
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