In the dense mountain forest, the big trees that cover the sky do not experience the depression of winter at all, and the vigorous and powerful branches are stretching out every moment.

The past winter did not affect the vegetation here, and the surrounding area is still full of life.

This place is not within the territory of the Yanjiao tribe, nor is it on any of the hunting routes of Yanjiao, and no other voices can be heard around, only the chirping of birds and beasts.

Yi Ce looked at a small dirt slope protruding from the ground in front of him, more than twenty years had passed, and the stones placed there had been covered with mud and flowers, and he couldn't see what it looked like when it was first laid down.

This is where Yi Ce's father Yi Cong is buried.

"It's time. ”

Yi Ce touched a jade stone hanging from his neck, this was one of the jade stones that Yi Cong had used for divination, except for the jade left for Yi Ce, the other jade had been buried underground with Yi Cong.

Looking at the sky, Yi Ce turned to leave.

After about half an hour, Yi Ce came to a standstill, and soon, he heard a voice from the depths of the mountain forest.

The voice came from far and near, towards the direction where Yi Ce was.

Click-Click-Boom-

Amid the human voices, there was also the sound of trees being smashed.

A wolf, taller than a man, rushed towards him like a gust of wind, and on the back of the wolf was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl dressed in a hunting suit and painted with tribal patterns on her face.

Without looking at the fierce beast rushing straight towards him, Yi Ce showed a smile on his face, and raised his hand to say hello to the girl on the wolf's back.

But before he could speak, the figure on the wolf's back flickered, and the next moment, Yi Ce was grabbed by the collar and dumped on the wolf's back.

"Shao Duo, are the hunting teams back?" Yi Ce grabbed the wolf fur and asked.

Shao Duo is the second child of Shao Xuan and Gui Ze.

Shao Duo has an older brother who is two years older than her, Shao Cheng, who went to Eagle Mountain Changchang to see at this time, but he hasn't returned yet, so he didn't participate in this hunt.

Shao Duo also has a younger brother who is three years younger than her, Shao Xu. It's just that Shao Xu doesn't have much interest in hunting, in comparison, he prefers to follow Gui Ze to study medicinal herbs, and then tinker with some other novel things, such as explosives.

Hearing Yi Ce's inquiry, Shao Duo replied briefly, "It's all back." ”

"This hunt ......"

Yi Ce still had to ask about the harvest of the hunting team, so he listened to Shao Duo in front of him: "Don't talk nonsense, put down the pig in the back!"

Yi Ce looked behind him, and there was another figure approaching not far away, and at the same time, he could hear the sound of some branches being broken. Even if the obstruction of the trees made Yi Ce unable to see the figure behind him clearly, he could tell who was chasing after him by listening to the movement. The four fangs of the beast, and the boy of Uncle Spear's family.

Yi Ce grabbed the fur on the wolf's back with one hand, swept the bushes passing by with the other, and then threw the thing he was holding in his hand somewhere on the ground seemingly randomly.

A fanged, four-tusked boar-like beast rampaged through the woods, riding a boy in a hunting suit on its back.

Without the shelter of the woods, the distance between the two sides is not too far, the young man can see the wolf and the man in front of him, and he is about to catch up, but the young man saw Yi Ce on the back of the wolf, and when he saw Yi Ce, he turned his head and smiled at himself, and suddenly sighed in his heart, and before he could shout "be careful", he heard a strange cry from the four teeth, and the hooves slipped, and the whole beast fell to the ground.

The boy on the beast's back reacted quickly, raised his arm to hook a branch, and turned over and jumped onto the tree.

"Shao Duo! Yi Ce, you wait for Lao Tzu!"

How did Siya's usually steady hooves step on a slippery fruit?

Even if you step on a pile of fruit, you may not easily slip even if you step on a pile of fruits, unless you step on it accurately at the key position where the hoof is exerting force at that time.

Instead, I stepped on it just now.

This kind of thing has happened many times, and no one else can do it except Yi Ce...... Maybe the Great Elder is also one. However, the Great Elder would not pay attention to these juniors.

The fallen four teeth got up and smacked on the ground, and took the berries on the ground to spill their air. This level of slipping and falling is just an itch for it, not a, and this behavior is pure venting.

"Stop kicking, chase after it!"

The young man turned over and rode on the back of the beast, signaling the four teeth not to waste time stepping on the fruit, and to hurry up to catch up, he wanted to compete with Shao Duo to see who was the first to reach the tribe.

During this period, several boys and girls of the same age, wearing hunting clothes and equipment, rode fierce beasts such as dire cranes and cave lions, and when they saw a man and a beast falling in front of them, they ran by gloating and laughing.

Shao Duo, who had already run away, rode Caesar, ignoring the angry scolding behind him, it was the other party who used the means first, and Caesar still had many traces of berries on his body, and as soon as the pulp dried, the wolf hair was clumped.

Shao Duo rode Caesar all the way back to the tribe's mountain, and after throwing Yi Ce on the top of the mountain, he went to the stream to brush Caesar's bristles.

Yi Ce, who was thrown on the top of the mountain, tidied up his clothes and walked into the stone house in front of him. This is where Yanjiao Great Elder Shao Xuan works.

When Yi Ce entered, Shao Xuan was writing a scroll of animal skins. Shao Xuan, who is already a husband and father, has not changed much in appearance, but it feels more calm, as if the restlessness set off in other parts of the tribe will naturally precipitate in front of Shao Xuan.

The Yanjiao people, as well as the other warlike tribesmen who joined the alliance in the Yanhe River Valley, always like to compete and compare when they meet a strong person, but since Yi Ce can remember, he has rarely seen those people compare with Shao Xuan, even the leader of the Water Tiger tribe who roars like thunder and disagrees is as quiet as a chicken in front of Shao Xuan.

After Yi Ce entered the house, he obediently sat aside and waited, looking out the window, not curious about what was written on the animal skin scroll. This kind of animal skin scroll needs the power of inheritance to record, and it cannot be easily disturbed, so what Yi Ce did was wait quietly.

Ten minutes later, Shao Xuan carefully rolled up the animal skin that he had written, and then looked at Yi Ce.

"You've already decided to go over?" asked Shao Xuan.

"Yes. Yi Ce got up and saluted respectfully to Shao Xuan.

Although Shao Xuan did not officially accept Yi Ce as an apprentice, Yi Ce learned a lot of things from Shao Xuan, and Yi Ce has always treated each other as a teacher.

"After a while, when the chirp comes back, I will go to the desert, will you go with me, or will you cross the sea with the longboat people as originally planned?" asked Shao Xuan. He received a letter from the desert yesterday, written by Shi Shu, the lord of Yanling City, himself, and a whole scroll of animal skins was complaining to Shao Xuan about Sapphire's evil deeds in the desert: What about not interfering with each other?

When Yi Xiang left, Yanling reined in a lot and gave in a lot, Shi Shu personally went out of the desert to negotiate with Shao Xuan and signed a contract with Yanjiao. Flamehorn is the only tribe that can take a shortcut through the desert to the other continent, and it is indeed much more convenient to take a long detour from the dangerous sea. As for the other tribesmen in the Yan River Valley, unless there is Shao Xuan's proof of connection, don't think about passing through the desert safely.

This time, the newly upgraded sapphire smashed the field of the rock tomb on the desert and occupied an oasis belonging to the rock tomb, which was a military important place for the rock tomb to suppress the scattered forces on the edge of the desert, how could it be so easy to give up?

Therefore, the people of Yanling are in a hurry.

Beat?

It's not that they can't fight, although Yi Xiang is gone, some of the secret weapons left by Yi Xiang can still be used, but they don't dare to fight, it's Shao Xuan's worm in Yanjiao, and they don't want to fight Shao Xuan yet.

So this time, Shi Shu hurriedly wrote a letter and asked Shao Xuan to mediate, otherwise a war between humans and insects would be staged in the desert.

Shao Xuan promised to go over. said that it was mediation, but in fact, he just went to see the current state of Sapphire and whether he had suffered any losses.

Yi Ce also decided to take a trip to another continent and go to the Yi family's headquarters in Wangcheng. Back then, Yi Cong sent him to Yanjiao so that he could live better, and the Yi family was in chaos at that time, and many people who stayed in the headquarters became cannon fodder. Now that the Yi family is in power, it is no longer the same group back then, Yi Ce still has relatives left in the Yi family, and he wants to go over and take a look.

Yi Ce's divination ability is not under Yi Cong, as Yi Cong foresaw, Yi Ce's talent is extremely high, and Yi Ce can naturally predict that most of those relatives are still alive, including his biological mother, but the situation is not good.

Since Yi Ce was going to the other side, it was easier to walk from the desert, so Shao Xuan asked him if he needed to go along. If Yi Ce wanted to go from the desert, following Shao Xuan would naturally save trouble, after all, the people of Yanling looked at Shao Xuan's face, not the Yi family's bloodline.

"No, I'm still going to travel with the longboat's fleet as planned. Yi Ce replied.

Shao Xuan nodded, "It's okay." After three days, the people of the longboat will come to carry the timber, and you will leave with them. ”

"Yes!"

Yi Ce listened to Shao Xuan talk about the situation in Wangcheng again before coming out of the stone house.

Descend the mountain and follow the stone bridge over the Yan River to the trading area.

The Yanhe Trading Area, also known as "Yanhe City", is the largest trading area on the continent.

After the fusion of the fire, the forces in various parts of the continent were reshuffled, and some people from different tribes followed the example of another continent to form a new tribe.

The traveling teams from all over the mainland, whether they have been here or not, have definitely heard of the name of "Yanhe City", this trading area, concentrated items from different tribes and different continents, it is rumored that there is nothing that cannot be bought here, as long as you pay enough money, even if you can't buy what you want at that time, you can find someone to ask for useful information.

Yi Ce often saw a long-distance procession from another continent in the trading area, both caravans and organizations, and whenever those people heard Yi Ce's name, their expressions would be subtle.

The surname "Yi" is basically only used by the Yi family, and Yi Ce's Yi family identity is not a secret here, but not many people know which branch of the Yi family he belongs to.

People from the other continent have long lost their awe of the Yi family, and the glory of the Yi family has long passed, and they are no longer big nobles. The nobility whose influence in the royal city was second only to that of the royal family Ji family declined. It's a pity, ridiculous.

In the past, Yi Ce heard about the Yi family from others, but now, he has to go to see it himself.

Yi Ce told Yi Si about his plan to go back.

Yi Ce was brought up by Yi Si, he knew when he was very young that he was not from Yanjiao, he was the same Yi family as Yi Si, but Yi Si had left the Yi family, but he Yi Ce did not, Yi Cong also told Yi Si before his death, hoping that Yi Ce would return to Yi's house after he grew up and had the ability to protect himself.

"The day has finally come. Yi Si looked at the face in front of him, which was seven points similar to Yi Cong, and sighed.

The Yi family has declined over the years, and the people in power are not reliable, anyway, he feels that the Yi family is now in a puddle of muddy water, black smoke and miasma, and those who fled because of the Yi family's civil war back then did not want to go back, and they couldn't please it if they went back anyway.

However, thinking of Yi Ce's ability, Yi Si relaxed a little. Yi Ce, but he grew up in Yanjiao, although Yi Ce has the blood of the Yi family in his body, but in his personality, he has some Yanjiao style, but he usually hides it better. Moreover, Yi Ce is also half of Shao Xuan's student, even if he can't learn all the skills from Shao Xuan, he won't lose to the miscellaneous things of the Yi family now.

Yes, Yi Si said that those who are now in power in the Yi family are man-made miscellaneous pieces. The once glorious Yi family is like firewood that is about to burn out, leaving only some poor sparks, which can be extinguished by a wind and rain.

Yi Cong once said before his death that Yi Ce is the key to the rebirth of the Yi family, and Yi Si also looks forward to it.

Three days later, a fleet of the Longboat tribe came to Yanjiao to transport firewood.

The fleet consisted of thirty ships, twenty of which were used to transport materials, and the other ten were arranged separately, such as carrying long-distance teams.

Some of the teams disembarked from the boat and headed for the Yanhe trading area, while others came out of the trading area and headed for the boat.

Yi Ce took his eight slaves and followed the procession on board.

In the boarding procession, a younger person looked curiously at a few slaves beside Yi Ce, leaned over and asked, "Hey, brother, are you a slave owner? ”

Yi Ce showed a friendly smile at the other party, "Hello, my name is Yi Ce, Yanhe Yi Ce." ”

Born in Wangcheng and grew up in Yanhe. (To be continued.) )