The leader of the Taihe tribe was stunned for a moment, but he quickly realized what 'it's him' meant.
The clear fruit!
The person who stole their clear fruit was the young man in the Yanjiao team carrying a pile of prey!
"Stop!" The leader of the Taihe tribe roared and took two big steps towards Shao Xuan. He was so agitated that the veins on his neck bulged.
When the Taihe people moved, Duo Kang moved too. He turned and blocked their path. "What, you want to steal the prey?"
The Yanjiao people all stopped and looked at the Taihe tribe. It looked like they were waiting for Duo Kang's order and they would immediately throw down their prey and start fighting.
The Taihe tribe: "…"
The leader of the Taihe tribe tried to control himself but this was not the time to fight. He suppressed his anger and pointed at Shao Xuan. He asked Duo Kang, who was blocking his path, "Who is he?!"
As Yanjiao's neighbors, the Taihe tribe did not know Yanjiao very well but they knew a lot about Yanjiao. They would compare people and events to each other. For example, Yanjiao's outstanding young warriors like Tao Zheng, Zhui, Wu Zhan, etc. The Taihe tribe knew about them but Shao Xuan, the young man who stole their things, they had no impression of him at all.
Duo Kang already knew why the Taihe tribesmen reacted this way. He snorted, "It's none of your business!"
Then, Duo Kang called his team and left, leaving the Taihe tribe to sulk.
They were not as good as him and their things were stolen. They could only admit defeat. But that person …
The leader of the Taihe tribe decided to talk to their chief about this when they got back. They did not expect Yanjiao to be hiding someone!
On the other side, Shao Xuan had already learned about the clear fruit from Guang Yi.
"So that's the clear fruit." It had been some time since the incident. After finding the tribe, Shao Xuan put all his attention on the tribe and completely forgot that he had snatched the Clear Fruit from others. Sometimes he would think about it, but soon he would be delayed by other things. Moreover, when they were in the tribe, the chief and the others never asked Shao Xuan to take out the fruit. They just put it aside and forgot about it.
"I left it at home. I'll bring it to you when we get back," Shao Xuan said.
"Ah, there's no need. Since you got it, it's yours." Duo Kang quickly waved his hand.
Guang Yi had the same idea.
"I don't have much use for it. It would be more effective to distribute it to the warriors in the tribe." After knowing the effects of the Clear Fruit, Shao Xuan didn't plan to keep all of them for himself. He decided to distribute them when he got back.
The hunting team was warmly welcomed by the tribesmen.
On the artificial river outside, a ten-meter-wide bridge made of thick tree trunks had been lowered. Some people came over to help carry the prey.
Everyone was very happy when they heard that the hunt was fruitful.
After moving the bone beast up the mountain, Shao Xuan gave the nest of tapirs he caught to Zhao Ming and his brother's house. After all, when he first arrived, he stayed at their house for a night.
When he heard that Shao Xuan gave them a nest of food, Zhao Ming didn't even bother to wipe the mud off his body. He ran home to take a look.
There was an elder at the foot of the mountain who knew more about tapirs. He told Zhao Ming to raise the nest of tapirs and eat them when they were big enough. It didn't cost much anyway. If there wasn't a mother around, the baby tapirs might not be able to survive. But with a mother around, it was much easier.
"They eat young twigs, young leaves and fruits. Oh, and by the river in front of the tribe. They also eat the grass that grows near the water." An auntie who had tried raising tapirs before shared her experience with Zhao Ming.
Shao Xuan helped build a circle before he was called up the mountain. The hunting team had to split the prey and the shamaness wanted to talk to him about something.
Shao Xuan also shared some of the bone beast with Shao Xuan's team since they helped carry it. When Shao Xuan couldn't take care of it, they were the ones who kept an eye on the unconscious beast.
After splitting the prey, Shao Xuan didn't go back immediately. Instead, he went to the shamaness.
It was much quieter in front of the shamaness' gate. No matter how happy the warriors were, they would lower their voices when they passed by, worried that they'd disturb the shamaness.
"You're here." The shamaness glanced at Shao Xuan and put down the animal skin scroll. She waved, gesturing for Shao Xuan to follow her into the house.
There were no windows in the room that was used to store things. If they wanted to see clearly, they would have to light a torch.
But the shamaness didn't light a fire. She went straight to a table with a box on it.
The shamaness came out with the box and handed it to Shao Xuan. "Take these."
Shao Xuan recognized the box. He opened it and saw three Elder's bone ornaments.
"All for me?" Shao Xuan was shocked.
"Yes." The shamaness nodded and sighed. "The ancestors would be more willing to give them to you."
On the day of the welcoming ceremony, the three bone ornaments did light up. But after the ceremony, they dimmed again. They weren't as dim as before, but they couldn't compare to the one Shao Xuan was wearing.
Ever since Yanjiao's two tribes separated, the bone ornaments never lit up again. There were no more Elders in the tribe. Shao Xuan was an exception.
Seeing Shao Xuan hesitate, the shamaness said, "If the two tribes reunite in the future and a new Elder appears, it won't be too late to take them out."
"No, I'm worried about losing them." Shao Xuan said.
The shamaness' face twitched. She said in a low voice, "Then wear them!"
"Can't I leave them at home?"
"No!"
Seeing that Shao Xuan still wanted to say something, the shamaness stomped her cane. "Wear them now!"
"Okay."
There was a protrusion on the back of each bone ornament. There was a hole in the protrusion for a rope.
Shao Xuan took off the bone ornament necklace he was wearing, untied the rope, and strung the other three on. Then he tied the rope and put it back on.
The difference was obvious when the four of them were put together. Compared to the one Shao Xuan always wore, the ball in the middle was much dimmer. However, after Shao Xuan put the necklace back on, the shamaness noticed that the ball in the middle of the three bone ornaments was brightening at a speed visible to the naked eye, until it was the same as the previous one.
Seeing this, the shamaness felt relieved. Sure enough, she had to put the bone ornaments in Shao Xuan's hands.
Wearing the four bone ornaments, Shao Xuan came out from the shamaness' place. He picked some of the game he had hunted and asked someone to help him cook meat soup.
There was no big pot, so Shao Xuan went to take out the big stone pot that had always been in the tribe's warehouse. It was made by the ancestors of the tribe when they came here. Sometimes, when the tribe held large-scale celebrations, they would take out the big stone pot and cook a big pot for everyone to share.
The first day, they cooked on the mountain, the second day on the mountainside, and the third day at the foot of the mountain. They cooked for three days in a row. Shao Xuan hunted so much game that he couldn't finish it all by himself. Besides, he originally wanted to hunt more to share with everyone.
As for the clear fruit, after Shao Xuan cut it open, he found about twenty small seeds inside.
He took half of it to the chief as a gift from Shao Xuan to the tribe. The other half was kept by Shao Xuan. If anyone needed it in the future, they could exchange it with Shao Xuan.
After settling those matters, Shao Xuan finally had some free time. He returned to the house and took out the three stones he brought back from the dry riverbed to study them.
On the table next to the window, Shao Xuan washed the three stones and placed them in a well-lit area. He carefully examined them and scraped them with a knife. The hardness was similar to the stone he got from Mute Crocodile.
The quality and colour of the stones were very similar, but he still couldn't tell if they were the same as the Drumming tribe's water moon stones. After all, there was no Drumming tribe here, so these stones couldn't have become water moon stones, right?
There was no other way.
Shao Xuan let out a long sigh. He turned one of the stones in his hand and recalled the harvest of water moon stones when he was in the Drumming tribe. Speaking of which, the reason why the water moon stones could be successfully transformed was because of the fire seed.
As he was thinking, Shao Xuan's expression suddenly froze. He immediately gathered his thoughts and observed the changes in his mind.
In his mind, the totemic flame was still there, but the 'shell' covering it was different. It was flashing.
The light shield outside the fire seed flashed. Every time it flashed, it became brighter. At the same time, Shao Xuan could feel a thin thread extending out from the shell.
The thread traveled along Shao Xuan's arm to his palm, then to the stone.
Rustle rustle rustle —
It was like the sound of fine particles falling. It was the same sound that Shao Xuan had heard when he was at the Water Moon Channel of the Drumming tribe.
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