It was naturally a good idea to draw the trouble away instead of confronting it head-on. However, the prerequisite was that the trouble had to be really far away from here.
Using one person as bait to lure the king beast away, while the rest stayed put. Could it be that Yanjiao wanted to sacrifice one person to protect the rest?
Wu He guessed as he watched the situation below.
At the same time, Shao Xuan, who was circling the forest, had no time to pay attention to anything else. He was only focused on the king stoneworm behind him.
He circled the forest, and the king stoneworm followed him. However, it was only heading in Shao Xuan's direction. Even if there was a mountain in front of it, it would not go around it. It would go straight through it!
Wherever the king stoneworm walked, it left behind a stone path with obvious wrinkles on the ground. The trees around the stone path all turned grey, and the caves it passed through left behind a straight tunnel. Just like how the king stoneworm could move freely in its nest, here, the mountain rocks were as easy as a wild beast stepping on the grass. Moreover, when it passed through the entire mountain, the sound it made when it moved through the mountain was much quieter than when it moved on the ground.
Shao Xuan had been paying attention to the fire seed energy emitted by the king stoneworm, as well as the fire seed energy waves on its body. This allowed him to guess the king stoneworm's emotions. He realized that the king stoneworm's emotions were not very strong. It could even be said that it was monotonous. Other than happiness and excitement, he could not sense anything else.
Shao Xuan did not know if it was because his ability was limited, or because the king stoneworm's emotions were not rich to begin with. He believed the latter.
If the king stoneworm's emotions were not rich, it would not be a good thing. In that case, Shao Xuan would not be able to sense clearly what it wanted, what it wanted to do, and what its goal was. Shao Xuan could only try and guess.
Fortunately, at least until now, the king stoneworm had not shown any hostility to Shao Xuan. In fact, there was even a hint of friendliness in its happiness.
This did not mean that the king stoneworm would not attack Shao Xuan, but it might treat Shao Xuan as one of its own, just like how the bat leader treated Shao Xuan as one of its own.
The difference was that the bat leader didn't attack Shao Xuan, but the king stoneworm didn't know how to control its power. If the distance between Shao Xuan and the king stoneworm got closer, Shao Xuan's fate would be obvious. He would be turned into a stone forest.
Zheng Luo and Guigou saw this and guessed that Shao Xuan wanted to lure the king stoneworm away. But how far did he have to lure it away? How was Shao Xuan going to get rid of the king stoneworm?
"There's still Chacha." Guigou looked up at the sky. Seeing that Chacha was following them, he felt relieved.
"That's good, that's good." Zheng Luo was relieved. As long as the king stoneworm was lured away, Chacha could bring Shao Xuan back. The king stoneworm couldn't fly anyway, so what if it was powerful?
After thinking it through, Gui He first took out a strip of cloth and wrote a few simple words on the cloth with a bamboo tube of paint that he carried with him. Then, he called the snow-white falcon over and had it bring the cloth to the trading point.
A white figure flew out from the forest with a piece of cloth tied to its leg. It flew straight towards the trading point without looking at the long-winged bird in the sky.
Duo Kang and the others were waiting anxiously at the trading point. They didn't see Shao Xuan and the rest for a long time, nor did they see any signs of the king beast. They could only walk around in circles, not in the mood to sit down and wait.
Finally, seeing the white falcon flying over, Ao, who was lying down and resting, got up and untied the cloth tied to the falcon's leg.
"What did it say?" Duo Kang and Ta hurried over.
"Guigou wrote it. He said that Xuan has lured the king beast away," Ao said.
"Lured away?" Duo Kang was confused. Was a king beast that easy to lure away? If it was that easy, why were they so afraid of the king beast?
Back at the salt flats, the salt beast acted based on its own preferences and emotions. It didn't care about anything else. The king stoneworm shouldn't have been that easy to lure away either.
But since it was Shao Xuan who did it, it was possible.
"It's a good thing if it's lured away," Ta said. He didn't want to fight the king stoneworm because he knew what it was capable of. Without absolute power, fighting a king beast would be a waste of their tribe's manpower. The result might not even be satisfactory.
Soon, the news that Yanjiao's Grand Elder had lured the king beast away spread throughout the trading point. Of course, there weren't many people in the trading point. They were all gathered in a few places, so it was reasonable that the news spread quickly.
"They lured the king beast away?!"
The Yanjiao people were jubilant.
On the other hand, the people who stayed were disappointed. They were prepared to die. They were just talking nonsense with the Yanjiao people, saying that if the king beast returned, they would help. But now, they couldn't see it?
What was the point of staying?
Their lives were bleak!
"No, I have to leave!" Someone suddenly rushed out of the crowd.
The patrol team, who had relaxed after hearing the good news, didn't pay attention and let the person rush out. Even though the three main gates of the trading point were closed, the outer walls of the trading point couldn't stop people who were good at climbing and jumping. The patrol team couldn't leave just because of one person. They couldn't just leave like that. Even though the news from the Flaming River Castle said that the Grand Elder had lured the king beast away, they didn't have any other orders, so they couldn't just leave like that.
Other than that person, a few more people left. The rest wanted to leave too. They wanted to see the king beast, but they were beaten up. At a time like this, the Flaming Horns did not want to cause more trouble because of these few people.
Duo Kang also frowned when he heard the news. He was also worried that the people who ran out would interfere with Shao Xuan's plan. So, he led a team to chase after them. If they interfered with Shao Xuan's plan to lure the king beast away, they would be killed immediately.
"Master, did the king beast really leave?" Grasshopper looked anxiously in one direction and asked carefully.
"If he really lured the king beast far away, wouldn't you feel it? Not yet. "Yi Si looked at the spikes on Grasshopper's back that ran along her spine.
When Grasshopper was scared, the spikes on his back would stick out. Although he had retracted them a little, the spikes on his spine were still standing straight.
Qing Fu's brain wasn't very bright, but the beast blood flowing in his body made him more sensitive to danger. Even if his brain didn't realize it, the instinct of a beast that was deeply embedded in his bones existed like a conditioned reflex.
Grasshopper touched the spikes on his back and responded slowly, "Oh." Others might only be afraid of the king beast, but he was terrified of its aura. He almost peed his pants.
On the other side, Shao Xuan did plan to lure the king stoneworm away. The fact that the king stoneworm was following behind him confirmed some of his guesses. But where was he going to lure the king stoneworm now?
Leading it upstream?
Or should it be directed downstream?
Or Central?
If he lured it to Central, he would probably make Yanjiao hate him. After all, many people knew about this and it wasn't wise to hide it.
Logically speaking, it was best to lure it to a place with fewer people. There weren't as many tribes upstream as there were downstream. The Rain tribe was just a little upstream from Yanjiao. If he lured it upstream, he would have to avoid the Rain tribe and the other tribes that Shao Xuan knew lived upstream. If it was just the Rain tribe and the other tribes, it would be easy.
As he was thinking, Shao Xuan saw a river in front of him. This river was a branch of the Flaming River. It wasn't very big. During the driest times, he could see two large green rocks on the riverbed. But now, there was still a lot of water and the rocks were nowhere to be seen.
Shao Xuan wanted to walk along the river, but after thinking about it, he gave up. Instead, he kicked down a tree that was as thick as three people and threw the trunk into the river.
He gathered strength in his legs and his body shot out. When he landed on the surface of the water, he stepped on the tree trunk again and jumped to the other side of the river.
This river wasn't very wide in this area. The riverbed was only about ten meters wide. With Shao Xuan's ability and the help of the tree trunk, he could easily cross it.
But the king stoneworm behind him couldn't do the same. Shao Xuan knew that it could easily crush rocks and trees, but what about the river?
Should he cross it directly or burrow under the riverbed?
After running for a while, Shao Xuan turned around and looked behind him.
The king stoneworm had followed him to the riverside and stopped. It looked at the water, then raised its head slightly to look at Shao Xuan. It was probably thinking about how to cross the river.
Shao Xuan didn't sense any big changes in the king stoneworm's emotions. Perhaps this little problem was nothing to it.
Just as Shao Xuan was guessing how it was going to cross the river, the king stoneworm moved. It didn't burrow into the ground but continued to walk towards Shao Xuan, as if the river didn't exist.
Crack crack crack —
The sound of water freezing could be heard.
Shao Xuan saw that as the king stoneworm approached, the water in the river froze as if it was frozen, spreading outwards from where it was closest to the king stoneworm. What was different from the frozen river was that the water in that area was the same as the forest, turning into a grayish-white color!
The water had turned into stone!
Without changing its wriggling posture, the king stoneworm continued to walk as if it was walking on flat ground. However, under the king stoneworm's body, as it moved forward, a stone path was laid out on the surface of the water. It was like a moving train with a track laid out in front of it. It only needed to keep moving forward.
Taking a deep breath, Shao Xuan looked at the king stoneworm that was about to cross the river. He turned around and continued running. This time, he made a U-turn and returned to the riverside. Then, using the same method, he jumped over the river with the help of the tree trunk.
The king stoneworm behind him also used the same method to cross the river, forming a stone path on the river surface.
An idea suddenly popped into Shao Xuan's head.
Thus, the group of people who were chasing after the king stared at Shao Xuan, who was originally running away from the Flaming River, returning with the king beast!
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