When Shao Xuan arrived, there were already quite a few people gathered there. He looked at the trading point and saw that some of the people who hadn't come out were standing on the rooftops, craning their necks to look out. Some of them even lowered their heads from time to time to talk to their friends. After all, things that fell from the sky were always mysterious and gave people endless imagination.
"The Great Elder is here!" someone from Yanjiao shouted.
Wu He and the others had seen Shao Xuan come over, and with their previous experience, they hesitated and chose the latter. When Shao Xuan came over, he even raised his head to look at them. Wu He felt a chill run down his spine.
Chacha was playing in the forest, so there was no one in the trading point that could threaten Wu He and the others. If they hadn't seen Shao Xuan, Wu He and the others might have tried, but they still remembered Shao Xuan's slap. So, when Shao Xuan arrived, Wu He didn't need to say anything. The long-winged birds quickly flew up and away from the crater.
When they saw Shao Xuan, the people surrounding the crater made way for him.
Shao Xuan also saw the people from Taihe. They were people who stayed in the trading point to familiarize themselves with the environment. Because of the sudden situation, they came to help block the people. In fact, they couldn't see what was inside and were curious, but at a time like this, it was better to help an old friend.
Where the Crystal Core landed, the ground was compressed at the moment of impact. Stone and soil flew everywhere, forming a crater. The surrounding vegetation looked like it had been burned. Some of it was charred black, and there was a lot of stone and soil on it.
"Shao Xuan, what is this?" Duo Kang stared at it curiously.
"Of course it's good stuff," Shao Xuan said.
Shao Xuan's voice wasn't loud, but it wasn't too soft either. Those with good hearing could hear what Shao Xuan said. Among them, there were quite a few people from other tribes. When Shao Xuan asked the question, they all perked up their ears to listen. Shao Xuan's answer was the same as what they had expected. They couldn't help but think deeper and deeper.
Shao Xuan glanced around and didn't say anything else. He had been in a hurry to get here and didn't bring any tools with him. He asked the people around him for a knife or spear to use first.
The ground here wasn't too soft, and the Crystal Core wasn't too deep. Shao Xuan quickly dug it out.
Perhaps it was because it had been blown up by the explosion in the forging room and then smashed down here again, but the shape of the crystal core was different from when it was first knocked out of the crystal. It was not as long, and its shape was irregular.
Other than the shape, the most obvious change was its appearance. The messy crystals that were originally attached to it had disappeared. There were some patterns on the black Crystal Core that reflected a metallic silver light under Yang Guang's gaze.
Because the Crystal Core wasn't too big, Shao Xuan asked someone for a beast skin bag after the temperature dropped. He put the strange Crystal Core inside. He didn't bring the Crystal Core back to the headquarters. Instead, Shao Xuan walked into the Flaming River Castle in the center of the trading point under everyone's watchful eyes. So many people had seen it anyway. It would be more suspicious if he tried to hide it.
After Shao Xuan walked into the Flaming River Castle, the people outside couldn't know what was going on inside. They couldn't enter the Flaming River Castle, so they could only talk about it.
"I think it must be a rare item! Didn't you see Yanjiao's Grand Elder come personally? " Those who had been in the trading point for a long time felt that their judgments were close to the truth.
"Nonsense, of course it's a rare item from the sky. Unfortunately, I've never seen anything from the sky other than bird poop in my entire life." Some people in the expedition team sighed at their bad luck. Everyone else had found a treasure, but their expedition team had been traveling for so many years and visited so many places. They hadn't seen any treasures, but they had always encountered trouble. Comparisons were odious. "I don't know why Yanjiao's luck is so good. Could it be that Yanjiao chose this place because they thought there would be good things here?"
"I'm not interested in anything else. I just want to know what that thing from the sky looks like and what it's used for."
"I don't know. I'll go ask around. I think someone saw it before. It's a rock!"
Everyone in the trading point had their own guesses. Some people wanted to take out more resources to trade with Yanjiao for that thing from the sky. Unfortunately, Yanjiao didn't lack those resources at all.
Want to snatch it? Yanjiao's territory was guarded by many people. Plus, more and more people from the Flaming River area were leaning towards Yanjiao. They were worried that they wouldn't have a chance to show their loyalty. If someone really wanted to make a move, someone else might jump out before Yanjiao could do anything. Plus, there was an unfamiliar Taihe tribe this year. It would be even more difficult for them to make a move here.
"Yi Si, what do you think?" Wu He asked Yi Si when he returned listlessly.
Although Yi Si didn't know anything about divination, his predictions were sometimes quite accurate. If Wu He had listened to him last time, he wouldn't have been locked up for so long by Yanjiao.
"I only know of two things that come from the sky. One is the fire seed, but that's just a legend. I don't know if it's true or not. The other is the core seed, but those things are controlled by the people in the Royal City," Wu He said. "But the thing in Yanjiao's hands doesn't belong to either of them. That's strange."
Yi Si had been thinking. He could only make accurate judgements based on things he had seen before. However, he had never seen anything that fell from the sky. The only thing he was sure of was what Wu He said. It wasn't the fire seed or the core seed.
"Forget it. I still have a lot of things to settle." Because many people in the trading area were not good at math, and because of the frequent transactions, the volume of transactions had been increasing. This gave Yi Si a chance to survive. As for Yanjiao's discovery of the meteorite, he didn't think it was that mysterious after all.
Wu He saw that Yi Si didn't want to talk about it, so he left angrily and went to find other people to gossip.
At the same time, inside the Flaming River Castle, Duo Kang and Zheng Luo were already surrounding Shao Xuan's black stone, marveling at it. Aside from the natural disaster, this was the first time they saw something like this. Could it really be some kind of treasure?
Duo Kang even went over to pick up the stone for a closer look.
"It's so heavy." Duo Kang was surprised by the weight on his hand. It wasn't that he couldn't carry it. After all, this stone was only so big. It couldn't be that heavy. He only said it was heavy in comparison to other stones.
Duo Kang tossed the stone and exclaimed, "Things from the sky are really different!"
"What can it be used for?" Zheng Luo looked at Shao Xuan, puzzled.
"I want to see if I can use it to make weapons. What are the characteristics of the weapons I make?" Shao Xuan said.
"That's it?" Zheng Luo agreed with the idea of making weapons, but this stone was too small. Was it enough? Moreover, although he didn't know much about forging, he knew that there would be a lot of trouble in the process of forging weapons. He also lacked experience. The charcoal, the temperature of the furnace, and so on needed to be tried again and again. No one knew which conditions were the best.
Testing meant that they would need more of this stone. What could they do with this amount of raw material?
"Who said there's only one?" Shao Xuan smiled.
Hearing this, Duo Kang's eyes lit up. "Could there be other stones from the sky today?"
"You really think this is a divine object from the sky?" Shao Xuan told them about the crystal core and the forging room.
Zheng Luo and Duo Kang were stunned for a moment, then laughed. So that's why! If Shao Xuan didn't explain, they really would have thought it came from the sky.
Tribesmen always respected the heavens, so of course they would look at things that came from the sky differently. But they didn't expect the truth to be like this. The people outside would never have thought that this stone would land in such a way. It was actually a mistake.
However, they didn't plan to explain this misunderstanding. Zheng Luo and Shao Xuan had the same idea. They would just let people think that Yanjiao got a new stone from the sky. This would cover up the stone's true origin. They didn't want people to know about the secret of the core seed anyway.
"That's great!"
Of course, forging had to be done. So many people saw Shao Xuan carry the stone into the Flaming River Castle and come out empty-handed, so they knew that the stone was left in the Flaming River Castle.
Two days later.
When the people at the trading point passed by the Flaming River Castle, they heard clanking sounds. It wasn't the sound of a stone being struck.
Metal weapons?
Metal weapons weren't rare anymore. Anyone with a bit of knowledge would know.
Curious people also leaned over to listen. Could it be that the Yanjiao people were going to use that stone to forge weapons? Those who thought they understood the Yanjiao people's intentions shared their speculations with others.
But in reality, the Flaming River Castle was just a smokescreen. The real focus was still in the forging room at Yanjiao's headquarters.
The destroyed forging room had been rebuilt, and even more crystal cores had been hammered out. After the previous furnace explosion, everyone was even more cautious this time.
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