After safely leaving the sand dune and the battlefield, the warriors of the Black Fire tribe led Lu Chen and Atsu into the depths of the Wilderness.
Along the way, the atmosphere of the entire team was very stiff. Every time, there would be malicious gazes directed at Lu Chen, as if they wanted to devour this weak human.
Lu Chen was relatively calm about this. Perhaps he was just hiding his true thoughts in his heart. However, Ah-Tu's reaction was much more direct. He was very sensitive to the hostile gazes around him. Every time someone looked at him, he would grit his teeth and stare back angrily. He looked like he was about to devour someone.
Strangely, despite Atsu's ferocious demeanor, the barbarian warriors were not angry at all. They looked at Lu Chen with disgust, but when they saw Atsu, their expressions changed. Most of them were actually appreciative. Some even pointed at Atsu and nodded, praising the ferocity of this Black Wolf. It could be considered as the best demon beast in the Wilderness. It was a pity that the heavens were blind, and such a good beast had been taken in by a piece of trash.
While saying such contemptuous words and glancing at the disdainful gazes, everyone revealed a look of regret and pain. This caused Lu Chen to be speechless as he quietly observed the situation around him, and at the same time secretly pondering how to escape.
After walking for about two hours, the Black Fire tribe's team rested in a boxwood forest unique to the Wilderness.
This type of boxwood had a very strange appearance. At first glance, it looked very haggard, and the branches were also bare. At most, there were a few yellow leaves, and it looked like it was about to wither. But in fact, this kind of tree could survive in this desolate Wilderness for thousands of years with this pitiful appearance.
During this break, Huo Yan and Lu Chen had a conversation. Huo Yan asked about Lu Chen's background, and Lu Chen asked about where they were taking him.
Huo Yan was probably not used to conversing with Lu Chen in such a polite manner, especially since Lu Chen did not answer him honestly. Instead, he asked many questions in return.
There were a few times when Lu Chen clearly felt that the burly and fierce barbarian had the urge to go berserk, roar, and punch and kick to increase his power. Judging from the way the surrounding barbarian warriors quietly retreated, Lu Chen's feeling seemed to be right.
But for some unknown reason, Huo Yan, this seemingly violent and ferocious barbarian, actually managed to suppress his violent temper in this first formal conversation with Lu Chen. Not only did he not touch a single hair on Lu Chen's head, he even answered all of Lu Chen's questions.
From this, Lu Chen learned that the Black Fire Tribe was indeed a great tribe with a glorious history.
In the vast wasteland of the Southern Border, among the countless barbarian tribes, only seven of the strongest tribes had ever produced a supreme expert like the Shaman. Without exception, all of them had mastered the most powerful source of power in the Southern Barbarian witchcraft.
And the Black Fire Tribe was one of them.
The Shaman that once appeared in the Black Fire Tribe was respectfully called the Fire Shaman.
When Lu Chen heard the words "Fire Shaman", his heart was filled with an indescribable feeling of absurdity. It was as if he suddenly saw fate smiling evilly at him. However, his many years as a shadow allowed him to hide this strange and indescribable feeling in his heart, not revealing it.
And when Huo Yan asked him about his origins, Lu Chen did not hesitate too much. He very naturally and smoothly told the barbarian leader that he was adventuring in the Disorienting Lands a few days ago, and accidentally found a dilapidated village in the depths of the Disorienting Lands. Of course, there was a barbarian village inside, and he coincidentally obtained the Vulcan's Staff at that time.
When Lu Chen said this, he also recalled the layout of the village to Huo Yan, as well as some of the totems and patterns that he remembered being drawn all over the village.
When he heard this, Huo Yan was so excited that he could not help but stand up. Not only him, but the surrounding warriors also gathered around, their faces filled with disbelief. Some of them were so excited that their bodies were trembling slightly.
Unfortunately, Lu Chen did not give these barbarian warriors too much hope. He very definitely told them that everyone in the village had died. And in a moment of compassion, he took care of and fed the dying old shaman a few mouthfuls of water. The old shaman gave him half a wooden staff and said that it was called the Vulcan's Staff. He asked him to bring it back to the Southern Wilderness and return it to the Vulcan.
Halfway through his speech, Huo Yan and the surrounding barbarian warriors of the Black Fire Tribe were so excited that they could not control themselves. The original suspicion on their faces had disappeared in an instant.
When they heard Lu Chen's words, especially when they heard that the old shaman still struggled to urge Lu Chen to bring the Vulcan's Staff back to the Wilderness, the warriors of the Black Fire Tribe all burst into tears. Some growled, some roared, some wailed, and some even pounded their chests, kneeled on the ground, banging their heads on the ground. They did not even realize that they were bleeding. The onlookers were all trembling, as if they had committed a grave mistake and could not control themselves.
Among the crowd, even Huo Yan, who seemed to be the calmest and most composed, had tears in his eyes. His body trembled as he slowly turned to face the north. Looking at the endless land and the vast sky, he knelt on the ground with a thud and pounded his hands on the ground. He mumbled incomprehensibly, choking with sobs.
Looking at the large group of barbarian warriors who were behaving strangely and weeping, Lu Chen was once again speechless.
Although he did not know the history of the Black Fire Tribe, but from the looks of it, it was clear that the small barbarian village that was destroyed was inextricably linked to the Black Fire Tribe. As for why these barbarians were so agitated, he did not know.
After a long while, the surrounding barbarian warriors slowly returned to normal. But many of them still had expressions of sadness and pain on their faces, and their eyes were red. But to be honest, with the ferocious appearance of the barbarians, at this moment, they did not look sad at all. Instead, they looked even more ferocious, like beasts with red eyes after being angered.
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After this torment, not only Huo Yan, but even the barbarian warriors who originally hated Lu Chen looked at Lu Chen with much friendlier eyes. There was no longer so much hostility, as if the distance between them had suddenly been shortened.
But compared to the other simple-minded Black Fire Tribe warriors, Huo Yan, the leader, was obviously more intelligent. In his excitement, he still remembered to ask Lu Chen, "For thousands of years, no human has been able to cross the Land of Chaos to reach the Southern Wilderness. So, how did you get here?"
This question was not easy to answer. He definitely could not tell the truth. That seed was Lu Chen's biggest secret. Therefore, Lu Chen could only make up a story. He only said that after burying the old priest, he left the village. Not long after, he was chased by ferocious beasts and fell into the terrifying Dragon River. In the middle of it, he encountered an even more ferocious and unimaginably terrifying giant beast in the river, and was knocked unconscious.
He thought that he would definitely die, but before he fainted, he vaguely felt that half of the Fire God's Staff suddenly lit up, and a mysterious light enveloped his whole body. After that, he did not know …
When he woke up, he was already in the Southern Wilderness. What happened next was that he accidentally saw the battle between the four tribes …
There were many flaws in this story, but to the Black Fire Tribe, it was surprisingly effective. They almost immediately believed it without a doubt. With Huo Yan as the leader, the barbarian warriors immediately knelt down, and then made a strange but solemn salute to the sky, loudly praising the supreme glory and power of the Fire God.
Lu Chen stood at the side and silently looked at this tribe that believed in the Fire God. Suddenly, he thought of the fanatics of the Three Realms Demonic Cult that he had seen in the vast land of the Divine Land.
Although the races were different and the things that they believed in were completely different, at this moment, in Lu Chen's mind, their figures actually overlapped.
In this life, Lu Chen had never believed in any gods. If he did not have such an unwavering belief, he would have long collapsed in the Demonic Cult. At this moment, he naturally had no respect for the so-called Fire God. He just subconsciously felt that it was a little strange. At the same time … since he came to the Southern Wilderness, it seemed that everything was too coincidental.
After getting the Fire God's Staff, he encountered a tribe that had the inheritance of the Black Fire Tribe?
If it were not for his strong will, if it were someone else, they might really suspect that all this was arranged by that god.
For the rest of the journey, many warriors of the Black Fire Tribe were much more polite to Lu Chen. They no longer looked at him with hostility. Instead, they often looked at him with reverence.
Lu Chen knew why, because he often saw the barbarian warriors looking at the Fire God's Staff in his hand with the same kind of gaze.
That should be the artifact that belonged to the Fire God, right?
Huo Yan once asked him to check the Fire God's Staff, and Lu Chen gave it to him. Huo Yan took it carefully, and after rubbing it repeatedly, it could be seen that he wanted to use his own power to activate the Fire God's Staff, so that it would show the powerful Black Fire God's miracle.
But unfortunately, the Fire God seemed to ignore him, and the Fire God's Staff did not respond.
At this moment, Huo Yan seemed to have suddenly become smarter. He actually shamelessly called all the warriors of the Black Fire Tribe together and tried it out one by one.
The Black Fire Tribe was the tribe that admired the Fire God the most. They were the direct descendants of the Fire God's power, so there would definitely be people that were favored by the Fire God!
No one said anything about this. However, in this subtle atmosphere, if there really was someone who was favored by the Fire God, that human seemed to be dispensable after completing the mission of returning the Fire God …
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