Seeing the Wan Shi tribe, the people of the Lu tribe, who had been talking excitedly, quieted down.
Shao Xuan didn't say goodbye to the Lu tribe's caravan until they had traveled some distance. Here, Yan Jiu's caravan was heading away from the Ferocious Beast Mountain Forest, while Shao Xuan was heading there.
"It's not far from the Wan Shi tribe. You can follow us a little further." Yan Jiu suggested.
"No, you don't have to worry." Shao Xuan pointed to the sky above.
Seeing the eagle hovering in the sky, Yan Jiu remembered that Shao Xuan could use the eagle. After all, they had never heard that the Wan Shi tribe had domesticated eagles, so the sky was safer.
"Anyway, be careful of the Wan Shi tribe." Yan Jiu said.
"Okay, thank you. Oh, right!" Shao Xuan took out a stone card, which was the one the Shaman gave him, with the totem of the Yanjiao tribe painted on it.
Showing the stone card to the people of the Lu tribe, Shao Xuan said, "This is the totem of our tribe. Maybe many people don't know it now, but I believe that soon, everyone will remember it."
The people in the car looked at the totem on the stone card, but didn't notice that Shao Xuan said "everyone will remember it". They were sure that they had never seen or heard of this totem, but in order to show their friendliness, and for the sake of Shao Xuan's help, they still looked at it, thinking that they probably wouldn't see it again.
Noticing the expressions of the people in the car, Shao Xuan didn't say much, just smiled, and then put away the stone card. He said goodbye to the people of the Lu tribe, made a gesture to the sky, and jumped on Chacha's back after it landed.
"Goodbye!"
Waving to Yan Jiu and the others, Shao Xuan patted Chacha's head, "Let's go!"
Looking at the figure flying away in the sky, the people in the car looked away.
"Do you think we'll see Shao Xuan again in the future?" someone asked.
"I think the people of the Yanjiao tribe should be good, at least much better than the people of the Wan Shi tribe. If the Yanjiao tribe is not too far away, we can go to their tribe. What a pity …"
They were talking about Shao Xuan and the Yanjiao tribe. After a while, they realized that Yan Jiu hadn't said anything, so someone asked, "Yan Jiu, tell us what you think."
Yan Jiu came back to his senses and looked at the others in the car. "What do I think?" Yan Jiu pointed at the direction where Chacha was flying and said, "Don't you think there's something wrong with that direction?"
"That direction? Ahhh!! "
Just now, he only thought about the "Flaming Horns tribe" and their tribe's totem that Shao Xuan had mentioned several times. Now that he thought about it, he found that the direction Chacha was flying in was the direction of the Wan Shi tribe and the Ferocious Beasts Mountain Forest.
"Why would he go there?"
"Did he go in the wrong direction?"
"… Will we see him again in the future?" someone asked worriedly.
The Ferocious Beasts Forest was the only vast and dangerous place that directly bordered the central area. In other directions, after going out of the central area, there were many small tribes in the peripheral area. Only this area was recognized as a dangerous place. Even the people of the Wan Shi tribe rarely went inside. Everyone who entered the forest was traveling with others in groups. Even so, there were still many people who lost their lives in the forest. No one wanted to live there.
It was said that the Ferocious Beasts Forest used to be a little far from here, but later it expanded towards the central area.
"Alas!" Yan Jiu sighed, shook his head and stopped talking.
On the other side, Shao Xuan sat on Chacha's back, looking down at the ground.
He saw the team of the Wan Shi tribe that he had met before. After flying for a while, he saw the dwelling place of the Wan Shi tribe.
Compared with the Mang tribe and the Eight Limbs tribe, the style of the Wan Shi tribe was more primitive and barbaric. But these people loved to decorate, so bone ornaments and stone ornaments were hung everywhere in the house. There were many people moving around in the tribe, and there were also some livestock. But they didn't seem to be farmed, but more like they were robbed from other places and then kept in captivity. They didn't expect to grow up, but just kept temporarily. When they wanted to eat, they would directly kill them. Moreover, winter seemed to be coming.
But he didn't know whether it would snow here in winter. Shao Xuan thought.
He didn't know what had happened in the Wan Shi tribe. Many teams were running around, as if they were looking for something.
Shao Xuan didn't intend to communicate with them for the time being. What he wanted to do most now was to see the old place of the Yanjiao tribe that Old He had mentioned.
The totem flame in his mind had begun to surge. The closer he got to the place, the more violent and active it became, as if there was something there that was attracting it.
Although the Wan Shi tribe didn't domesticate flying beasts, if they flew over the tribe at a low altitude, they would definitely be attacked intensively. Chacha flew over the Wan Shi tribe from high up in the sky. When it flew, it excreted some excrement and cried out happily.
Below, the teams of the Wan Shi tribe, who were running around looking for someone, heard the eagle's cry. They looked up and took out bows and spears to guard against it. Sometimes some birds would run out of the forest and take away their food, and sometimes people. So, when they heard the eagle cry, they looked at the eagle in the sky vigilantly. They just waited for the eagle to fly lower and then attacked.
But after waiting for a while, the eagle didn't fly lower, but some bird excrement. Bird excrement fell on their heads, on their houses, and in the animal pens where the food was kept. Those who couldn't avoid it wiped the bird excrement on their heads and shouted loudly, but they couldn't hurt the initiator at all.
The animals in the animal pens became restless because of the bird excrement. They ran around, afraid that the eagle in the sky would take them away. In their vague memories, some of their kind seemed to have been caught by this kind of bird that fell from the sky. Driven by the sense of crisis, these animals, who were not well cared for, became anxious. They hit the fence more fiercely. If they couldn't hit the fence, they hit other animals around them. Anyway, many of them were not of the same kind.
A sheep with its horns cut off was being chased around by a cow. It was running and screaming. An old cow that was grazing on grass was kicked by a horse behind it. It fell directly into a haystack. It got up and started a fight with the horse angrily.
The people of the Wan Shi tribe outside had to send people to suppress the disturbance in the animal pens.
Chacha didn't know that the bird excrement it took along the way had caused a disturbance in the Wan Shi tribe. After having a good time, it carried Shao Xuan and flew in the direction pointed by Shao Xuan.
Compared with the place where people were active, the forest in front of it made it feel more comfortable.
When it flew into the forest, the noise of the human tribes disappeared.
There were more and more birds in the sky.
If Shao Xuan was on Chacha's back, Chacha's flexibility would be limited, and Shao Xuan's strength could not be exerted. Therefore, he let Chacha put him down and sneaked in the forest. He took the opportunity to have a good look at this strange yet familiar place.
The human civilization he had seen before was gradually fading away. Here, everything returned to the most primitive state.
There were no houses, no caravans, no finely woven clothes. The cruel rules of nature played out again.
Shao Xuan stood on a high tree, looking at the forest in front of him, and took a deep breath. Just by taking a breath, he could smell the restlessness and danger in the air. However, he was not afraid at all. On the contrary, a long-lost excitement grew stronger.
Jumping down from the tree and walking through the forest, Shao Xuan did not need a transition period. Almost as soon as he stepped into the forest, Shao Xuan had already adjusted himself to the best state.
If Qu Ce of the Mang tribe and Xu of the Eight Limbs tribe saw Shao Xuan now, they would find it hard to believe. After all, what left a deep impression on them was Shao Xuan's undisguised barbaric and violent style. But now, it was completely different.
Nimble, swift, and hidden, like those ferocious beasts that were good at surprise attacks, cunning and dangerous. There was no extra breath exposed, as if he had already blended into the forest.
There were many wild beasts and ferocious beasts in the forest. There were several times when Shao Xuan brushed past those ferocious beasts. Here, he was alone. When there was no hunting, he did not want to provoke those ferocious predators. He had to save his strength to find his target.
Every bit of strength was used in the right place. To survive in the forest, one had to use the least amount of strength to get the best result, and save the rest to save one's life.
A vine quietly approached Shao Xuan from behind. Even the rustling sound of friction could not be heard. When it approached Shao Xuan, a bud-like thing at the top of the vine suddenly opened, like a big mouth with sharp teeth, and bit at Shao Xuan's leg.
With a flash of the knife, the "big mouth" at the top of the vine was cut off. Some dark green juice flowed out of the cut, and then the vine quickly shrank back.
Shao Xuan did not pay much attention to the vine. He had seen many plants like this in the hunting ground before.
He was almost there.
Shao Xuan already felt the totem flame in his mind becoming excited.
A huge rock attracted Shao Xuan's attention.
The huge rock stood there, and it did not seem to fit in with the surrounding environment. The huge rock was covered with thick moss and all kinds of rotten leaves. If one did not look carefully, one would not be able to tell that it was a rock.
After checking the surroundings and finding no dangerous objects, Shao Xuan approached it carefully, and scraped off the thick layer of moss with his stone knife. There were some deep dents on the surface of the rock.
He scraped off a large piece of moss, and did a simple cleaning, so that the dents on the rock could be seen more clearly.
On the surface of the huge rock, there were some paintings, a very Yanjiao style flame double-horns pattern, and some words.
Probably for some reason, some parts of the rock were worn down, and many dents could not be connected. Only the two biggest words were "Yanjiao", and the other smaller words were hard to recognize.
"Yanjiao", after removing the thick layer of moss and rotten materials, finally saw the light of day again.
Just like the rock paintings of the Eight Limbs tribe, these huge rocks also served as boundary markers, telling everyone who came here that this was the territory of the Yanjiao tribe.
Besides that huge rock, Shao Xuan found several other similar huge rocks, of different sizes, and with different degrees of wear. Some looked like they had been cut in half, while others were mostly buried in the ground.
Old He said that the roots of the Yanjiao tribe were still here.
Before coming here, Shao Xuan did not know, nor could he feel. But now, as soon as he stepped into this area, Shao Xuan felt that there was a kind of attraction there, attracting him.
It was the first time that Shao Xuan came here, but he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity. Shao Xuan understood that it was because of the fire seed and the totem.
Following the attraction, Shao Xuan quickly approached that area, and in the process, Shao Xuan also found a phenomenon.
It seemed that the closer he got to the central area, the fewer ferocious beasts he saw.
Perhaps, as Old He said, the roots of the Yanjiao tribe were still here. So, just like the fire seed deterred wild beasts and ferocious beasts, it also had a certain effect here, but it was not as obvious as the fire seed.
Without more ferocious beasts to disturb him, Shao Xuan moved forward a little faster.
The closer he went, the more traces of the tribe Shao Xuan could find.
For example, houses, some towering stone pillars, etc.
Because too many years had passed, some of them had lost their original shape, and with the change of the terrain, they were seriously damaged.
There were no people, and ferocious beasts rarely came here, so this place was almost covered by all kinds of plants. But compared to those in the forest, the plants here were a little better. They were not too luxuriant, at least they would not be completely covered by the plants.
The collapsed houses had long become the habitat of plants and microorganisms. Shao Xuan had to scrape off a layer to see the real traces below. The wooden things had long decayed, leaving behind only some stone. In some places, the remains of some pottery could be dug out.
Shao Xuan walked in this place, no longer scraping and digging. He just looked at this area that had been uninhabited for nearly a thousand years.
Some stone houses had collapsed on the ground, while others were half on the ground and half in the water. A stream flowed by, washing away the stones that looked like tiles.
Without the tall trees to block it, the tall and thick stone pillar was very conspicuous.
However, the stone pillar had been covered by green vines. Shao Xuan spent some effort to pull off all the vines, and he had to be careful not to damage the stone pillar.
After the vines were pulled off, the carvings on the stone pillar were also revealed. Compared to the boundary stele-like boulders he had seen before, the carvings on this stone pillar were better preserved and clearer.
There were patterns of the flaming horns, some written records, and some drawings that Shao Xuan could not understand.
Was this used for sundials? Or for sacrifice?
Probably for sundials? Shao Xuan thought that the sacrifice was usually near the fire pit, and the place where the fire pit was should be the place Shao Xuan was looking for.
The sun gradually set, and the afterglow shone on the ruins, adding a sense of desolation to the history.
Shao Xuan stood on the tall stone pillar and looked into the distance. Under the red sky in the distance, there were undulating mountains and woodlands.
No matter how glorious it had been, now it was just a remnant of overgrown weeds.
With a long sigh, Shao Xuan came down from the stone pillar and walked towards a place.
There was nothing special about that place. It was slightly flat, and there were some plants that were not tall growing on it. Little flowers were scattered among them.
After walking around the place, he came to the center and stopped. Shao Xuan squatted down and put his hands on the ground.
He felt that there seemed to be something moving and flowing below.
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