Chapter 191: The Land of Tinder
The sun set on the other side of the distant mountains, and the light in the mountains and forests gradually decreased.
It's a lot darker around.
Shao Xuan didn't pay attention to the passage of time at the moment, and he didn't even pay attention to whether there was danger around him, he had a feeling that it seemed that it was safe here, and there would be no sneak attacks by those dangerous plants, nor would there be fierce predators coming.
All the attention is in the ground under the palm of your hand.
Feeling a little warmth from below, along the palm of the hand, along the arm, all the way up, converged into the totem in his mind, stimulating the flames on the totem to roll continuously.
The evening breeze blew, and the wind seemed to carry something different from usual.
The surroundings began to fall silent, and the original birds and insects, the beasts in the jungle, the sound of the water flowing in the stream, and so on, all faded away.
Whew――
Whew――
Like the sound of flames beating in the wind.
But around, there is not a little spark, and even because of the setting of the sun, night falls, this unrecognizable land of ruins has been shrouded in darkness.
Shao Xuan kept staring at his palms close to the ground, without moving at all, he felt that under the palms, it was getting warmer and warmer, as if something was spreading underground and about to break out of the ground.
A little fire shines through the fingers, especially in the night when it has become dark.
Soon, more firelight appeared from under Shao Xuan's palm, and from the little spark at the beginning, it became bigger and bigger, and Shao Xuan's palms couldn't cover it.
When the flame under his palm became larger, it divided into six branches, and gradually spread in six directions, and the flames did not rise, but stretched out in their respective directions like magma. It stretched all the way into the woods, where Shao Xuan couldn't see.
Retracting his hand and standing up, Shao Xuan looked at the six branches that extended from the same point.
This is what Lao Hao's ancestors said about the "root" of the Yanjiao tribe? The central point where the six branches converge is where the original fire was located?
Just thinking about it. Shao Xuan suddenly felt that something was wrong, and he seemed to have fallen into such an uncontrollable but special state again.
Look at the foot, the ground that should have been full of flowers and dirt has turned into stones, the size and placement of this stone is very familiar, as if standing in the fire pit of the Yanjiao tribe.
Hearth?!
Shao Xuan raised his eyes and looked elsewhere.
The original ruins are gone, replaced by them. It is not a clear image, densely packed with people standing not far away, and the stone houses behind the crowd that are much taller than people, just like the original painting on the cave murals in the Yanjiao tribe near the foot of the mountain, compared to the houses of most tribes, these stone houses are much larger, taller, and much grander......
There are also carved stone statues, manned. There are also beasts, and some of them are still like warriors killing fierce beasts.
In the close distance, there were some people standing, in a similar arrangement to what Shao Xuan had seen with his own eyes during the tribal sacrifice, there were also warriors who served as sacrificial dances, and there were also those erected pillars and sacrifices. The difference is that closer to the fire pond, there are still six people standing, Shao Xuan can't see their specific appearances clearly, only vague figures. Their decoration is more "ornate" than that of the warriors of the sacrificial dance. It is more complicated to wear ornaments hanging from your head and body.
A figure stepped into the fire and walked towards Shao Xuan.
Shao Xuan knew that this was not really for himself, this person's purpose should be the fire burning in his place. And this person should be a witch from the Yanjiao tribe back then.
These are all characters who can be called "ancestors", if the people of the tribe on the other side of the river see such a scene, they will probably have to kneel again, right?
Shao Xuan stood there, quietly looking at the figures around him.
The witch walked up to the fire and didn't know what he had put down, then he stepped back, withdrew from the fire, stood by the fire and began to raise his arms, presumably chanting.
The surroundings seem to be brighter.
Shao Xuan looked around him, and the rapidly rising flames wrapped him, and the surroundings were illuminated more brightly because of the sudden flames, and the crowd standing not far away was also illuminated, but Shao Xuan still couldn't see clearly, and could only see a general figure, men and women, old, small, and some accompanying hounds that were probably engraved on the side.
Everyone was looking in the direction of the fire, no matter which way Shao Xuan looked, even if he couldn't see the expressions of those figures clearly, he could feel that they were all looking here.
Lift your feet and walk out of the center, out of the area covered by the firelight.
Shao Xuan is like a bystander, looking at the figures around him, they have not changed in any way because of Shao Xuan's movement, because the two exist at different points in time, these are also reproductions of the past scenes, just like when Shao Xuan followed the advance team into the green space, he saw the scene of the green thief walking at night.
The crowd standing around knelt down and bowed reverently in the direction of the fire.
The surroundings were covered in a layer of fire.
Turning around, Shao Xuan looked in the direction of the fire pond, the rolling flames were even higher than what he had seen when he participated in the sacrifice in the Yanjiao tribe, and the flames were much more violent, and the surrounding sky seemed to be burned, all of which were dyed with fire, which was extremely magnificent.
Huotang Sanyan, this is only the first Yan, it has already reached the same journey, if it is the third Yan, what will happen?
Back then, when I saw the flame of the fire rising for the first time in the Yanjiao tribe, I thought it was incredibly magnificent, but now, when I saw the scene in front of me, I knew what the real flame was, just like the picture once drawn on a certain animal skin scroll.
Just when Shao Xuan was standing by the fire pond in the hometown of the Yanjiao tribe, looking at those images that had passed for nearly a thousand years, on the other side of the river far away from the middle.
At this time, there are not many people in the Yanjiao tribe who will go out, and there is already a large area of darkness near the foot of the mountain, and the night swallows are also flying around actively, staring at each family, waiting for who will come out, and then rush up to attack it.
The further up the hill there became, the more the fires were burning, and some of the warriors were burning fires in their homes, maybe they were getting food, maybe they were just lighting the fire, and they were talking around the fire.
At the top of the mountain, Wu sensed something, and didn't take his crutches, so the wind walked out of the stone house and headed towards the fire pit. The warriors who were originally guarding the fire pit wanted to inform Wu and the leader of the fire pit about the movement, but they didn't want to. Wu has already come.
Looking at the scene in the firepit, Wu seemed stunned, and stood there with a moment of blankness in his mind.
In the fire, the fire, which used to be only a little bigger than a bean, is now jumping violently. Then it soared, rolled up, and spread throughout the fire.
It was not the time of the sacrifice, there were no ceremonies, and even the witches did not do anything, but the fire in the fire pit was burning as it was during the sacrifice after the winter every year.
Or it ignited on its own!and, the rolling flames. It's even stronger than the flames that are lit at the annual festival!
"This ...... This is the leader of the ......" who rushed over after receiving the report, and was equally stunned when he saw the scene in the fire pit.
The words of the leader Ao made Wu react from the blank state just now, he was just too excited and forgot to react.
"He's here! He's found! Ah Xuan, he's found Yanjiao's hometown!"
The witch knelt on the ground and bowed in the direction of the fire.
In the hearts of the tribesmen, he has always been a high-demeanor witch, a handful of age. Kneeling on the ground and crying like a mess, while present. But no one laughs. They knelt on the ground with Wu, and although they didn't quite understand what it meant, they had a faint thought in their hearts that made them extremely excited.
Shao Xuan has been away from the tribe for a while, since the end of the rainy season. Now that winter is approaching, no one knows whether Shao Xuan will be able to cross the river safely, or what he will encounter after passing safely. After all, it was just a young fighter.
Although everyone has fantasies, and hopes that Shao Xuan can find something over there, but everyone feels uneasy in their hearts, after all, there are too many dangers in the river, and there must be more dangers and troubles on the other side of the river, Shao Xuan alone, can he solve it?
And now, the flame in the fire pond, coupled with what Wu just said, told everyone on the top of the mountain that Shao Xuan not only crossed the river safely, but also found the hometown of the tribe!
Several old people who rushed over were also so excited that they didn't know what to say.
The people below the mountain also noticed the changes on the mountain, the flames were too obvious, and the night swallows around them, who were still flying around arrogantly just now, were now far away, just like during the annual sacrifice, they were afraid.
Lao Ke walked out of the door, looked at the fire pit on the top of the mountain, and said to Caesar next to him, "That was caused by Ah Xuan, right?"
Caesar stared at the top of the hill and looked at Old Gram, and his nose made a snorting sound, as if he was responding to Old Gram's words.
It's not just the obvious changes in the Yanjiao tribe, even on this side of the river, whether it's in the middle or the edge of the area, there are many people who are changing.
Yan Shuo went out to hunt a beast that was not too big in the mountains today, and after his strength increased, although the totem pattern was still faint many times, it was much better than before, and sometimes he could hunt some beasts back to his wife and children.
At this time, Yan Shuo's family was eating barbecue around the fire and talking, and when they noticed something, Yan Shuo looked at his arm, and the originally faint totem pattern actually appeared by itself, and the lines were darker and clearer than before.
didn't say anything, he just clenched his fists tightly, and then smiled at his wife and children, the fire reflected in his eyes brightly: "I think what we have been looking forward to is coming soon." ”
On the steppe.
Lao Hao was burning a fire at home, dealing with some herbs dug up today, and was busy working, when he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and did not alarm his wife, who was already asleep, he added some firewood to the fire, and hurriedly got up to fetch a basin of water, and by the light of the fire, looked at the image reflected in the basin.
He saw that there were some lines on his face, the color was not too dark, because the light was too dark, and he couldn't see clearly, but he knew what it was, it was exactly the same as the lines on his father's face back then!
That power is real, not the illusory and unpredictable feeling of the past.
It is stored in its own body, in every piece of flesh and blood. Flowing.
A wide riverside.
Wooden boats several meters high and even more than ten meters high are docked on the shore, and these boats are already considered luxurious compared to the boats of other tribes.
And not far from these big ships, some tattered boats were docked in a dense other place, and these small boats looked pitiful compared to the big ones.
On the shore next to the boat, some of the tourists gathered, who had to work until late every day to come back, and then they all gathered here to light a big fire and get some food to eat.
Now, too, they laughed, they were good compared to those who had nowhere to go and endure hunger every day, even if their days were not very comfortable.
As they were talking, the people around the fire were stunned as if they had seen something unbelievable.
There was no talk and laughter, and a few people who were eating food shirtless, who were slightly taller than the others, sensed the strange situation around them, and were about to ask, but they saw that everyone was pointing at themselves and others, one by one, as if someone had choked their necks, and they didn't say a complete sentence for a long time.
However, when they looked at their naked upper body along the place pointed by everyone, they were also shocked, their hands trembled, and even the stone rice bowl that was usually very precious to who grabbed and fought with whom they fell, and half a bowl of broth was spilled on the ground.
But now, no one is paying attention to the scraps.
Figure ...... Totem pattern ......"
I don't know who spoke first, but like a torch, it detonated a barrel of oil.
Totem pattern!
Although these totem patterns did not last long, this night was destined to make some people lose sleep, and also caused some people's psychology to change drastically.
It's just that Shao Xuan, who caused this qiē but didn't know it, stood by the fire pond in the hometown of the Yanjiao tribe, watching those scenes disappear, and all of them were restored to their original appearance in ruins, without tall stone houses, no stone statues, no dense crowds, no witches, everyone back then was no longer there, the fire pond was not the same as it was, and the six extended branches were also gone.
Shao Xuan let out a long sigh.
"The glory of the past is gone!"
The scene was illusory, only he could see it, but when Shao Xuan saw the situation on the grass around him, his pupils shrank.
The six pulse-like places that stretched out of the tinder, and the flowers and plants that had grown on them all disappeared, leaving only the bare ground.
It seems that it is not all illusory, the six branches of the fire just now have really appeared.
And, in the Wanshi tribe, which is not too far from the fierce beast mountain forest.
"There is a movement in the mountains and forests, although the feeling is not clear, but I have a feeling that there will be the biggest threat to the Wanshi Tribe!"
The leader of the Wanshi tribe, who was standing next to Wu, looked fiercely in the direction of the mountain forest and ordered the people who called over.
"Go and prepare, tomorrow with the Ten Thousand Stone Beasts, into the mountains and forests!" (To be continued......)
ps: There are no two more. R1292