Chapter 789: A Traitor Among Us?
After successfully tying the eight rope knots, Shao Xuan practiced several more times before starting to combine the eight ropes.
When Shao Xuan was practicing knotting at the foot of the mountain range next to Eagle Mountain, farther away, on the other side of the sea, where Wangcheng Yi's house was located, there was also a serious atmosphere.
After so many years of development, the Yi family has also branched out into many branches, among which the main branch is the main line of the Yi family, which belongs to the vein in power, and at this time, the people in the main line of the Yi family are almost all closed.
There were quite a few people standing around the courtyard wall of the Yi family, all of them were slaves and branch members of the Yi family, and other than that, no one else wanted to get closer.
The street in the royal city that measured divination has become empty since three days ago, and the caravans and trading teams that traveled far away came here to want to Bu Yibu's recent fortune or predict something else, but they didn't expect to pounce, and they didn't dare to go directly to the Yi family to find someone, people with a little brain can see that something is wrong, even if they are curious, they are just looking at the Yi family's mansion from a distance.
In fact, not only the caravans and expeditions that came all the way to the royal city, but even the Yi family, there were also some young people who did not know the details and the state of affairs, and after being assigned tasks, they looked around curiously from time to time, and the people of their branch actually rarely came to the main house of the Yi family, and this time, all the people of the Yi family were dispatched.
"Dad, why is everyone so nervous? What do those people in the main line want to do? I heard that they are going to fight with others? Who are they fighting against?" a young man from the Yi family asked his father beside him.
If it was in the past, when his father heard someone mentioning the main line, he would definitely say something sour about it, and the people of the main line usually shouted and drank to the people of their branch line, but they didn't have a good attitude, but they didn't dare to vent the accumulated resentment, so they talked about it in private. But at this time, the young man's father frowned, with a deep worry in his eyes, heard his son's question, raised his eyes and swept down, lowered his voice and said sternly: "Shut up!
Hearing his father's attitude, the young man was so nervous that he swallowed his saliva, knowing that this time was different from the past, and the situation was probably quite serious, but since his father didn't want to say more to him, he didn't dare to ask more, his eyes stared around, and whispered: "Yes!" After speaking, he closed his mouth tightly and stopped making a sound.
In a large courtyard in the center of the Yi family, there are nearly a hundred people concentrated, these are all people from the main line, and they are all quite powerful in the main line, and a third of them are called masters in the royal city. No matter how arrogant they are on weekdays and how they pretend to be forced outside, here, they all sit honestly in their place like good students.
Whether it was the people sitting on the mats on the ground in the center of the courtyard, or the other main veins standing around, they all waited silently, and it was this kind of waiting that made the atmosphere more and more solemn, and this almost breathless sense of depression could be felt by people outside the Yi family.
The sky is getting a little darker than it had just been.
Suddenly, the sound of footsteps came from far to near, fast but not in a hurry or eagerness.
As soon as they heard the sound of footsteps, some people who were still in the courtyard suddenly settled down.
There are eight people who have come over, and the three people standing at the front are all old men with gray hair or all white, this is the elder of the Yi family who usually does not ask about the world, and he is the real elder of the Yi family with high seniority and strength, and he will only come forward when it is really important to survive.
Behind the three old men is the head of the Yi family, in the opinion of the tribesmen, that is, a figure like a leader. Such a person usually says nothing in the Yi family, and few people dare to refute him in person, but now, he is only the fourth, the three old men in front, one is his grandmother, and the other two are also very senior people, when one of the old men called him, he also bowed slightly and respectfully walked over to listen.
"Haven't you all together?" asked an old man with cloudy white eyes, without looking at the courtyard. Although he can't see, it doesn't affect his perception of things in the outside world, and sometimes, he sees more things than ordinary people.
"Most of them have arrived, only some of them who have been out on a mission have not been able to make it back, Yi Cong and Yi Qi are still on another continent at this time, but they should be ready. The head of the Yi family replied.
"Hmm. "The old man only didn't get angry because of this, anyway, people who are on a mission can also participate in the war.
"Please!" said the gray-haired old woman standing beside the head of the Yi family.
Under the nodding of the other two old men, the head of the Yi family said loudly: "Please!"
This is what the Yi family must do every time there is a big event, the so-called divination, is to take out the precious thing left by the ancestors, that is a tortoise shell, the back armor is carved with some orange and red words and lines, the text is not a universal text, but only the Yi family can understand the runes, and the lines faintly constitute the totem of the Yi family. The ventral carapace, on the other hand, is white, without any patterns or etchings.
Inside the tortoiseshell, the space between the dorsal carapace and the abdominal carapace is filled with some cut and polished bones, a total of eight pieces, and the shapes are also different.
"Who's turn this time?" asked an old man.
The gray-haired old woman turned the cane in her hand, "I was in charge of the last clan meeting, and this time, it's time to change it." ”
The old man, with cloudy eyes, didn't say much, stepped forward, held up the tortoise shell on the stage with both hands, and then returned to his place and sat down. On the ground in the center of the courtyard, the three frontmost mats belong to the three of them.
After Yi Yan sat down, he stretched out his right hand and attached it to the back armor of the tortoise shell, the tortoise shell was larger than his palm, and he couldn't grasp it at all if he grasped it normally, but now, the tortoise shell seemed to be attached to Yi Yan's palm, close to the palm. When the palm of the hand was raised forward, not only did the tortoise shell not fall, but the bone fragment in the tortoise shell did not fall from the big gap, but continued to beat in the tortoise shell.
The firelight appeared, and in front of Yi Yan, an arc-shaped fire path appeared, a red and white fire ball rose on the other side of the arc-shaped fire path, and behind Yi Yan, three long shadows were pulled out.
Yi Yan stretched out the hand attached to the tortoise shell towards the fire ball in front of him, and when the tortoise shell approached the fire ball, the bone fragments in the tortoise shell beat more intensely, and the sound became more and more rapid.
"Click-"
The cracking sound pressed over the bone fragments inside the tortoiseshell. On the ventral carapace of the tortoiseshell, some orange-red cracks appeared.
When the cracking sound stopped, Yi Yan withdrew his hand and looked at the crack on the belly of the tortoiseshell, he lost the vision of a normal person, but it did not affect him to see the crack on the tortoiseshell. The more he looked, the more serious the expression on Yi Yan's face became, and the melancholy in his eyes became stronger.
Yi Yan handed the tortoise shell to the other two old men and looked at it, their expressions were not much better than Yi Yan's.
"It seems that the Yi family will usher in a tough battle. Yi Yan said.
In fact, the results shown on the crack are even worse than what Yi Yan said, not a bitter battle, but a battle to the death! It's just that there is a glimmer of life in death, but that glimmer of life is full of variables.
The three old men knew it in their hearts, but they couldn't tell the results on the tortoiseshell now, and they were worried that it would shake people's hearts before the war.
With a faint sigh, Yi Yan said loudly, "Prepare for war!"
A powerful wave of power, as if suddenly set off by the waves, pulled up from this spacious courtyard, and the people standing around the courtyard did not dare to come out.
The orange-red aura visible to the naked eye filled the surroundings and rolled up, and the vision as seen by the naked eye seemed to be distorted.
Whoa-
Inside the tortoise shell, the bone fragments hit the tortoise shell and made a rapid sound, and the courtyard seemed to block out all the sounds, the sound of insects, leaves, and human breathing, everything disappeared, and the sound of the bone fragments became the only sound in the courtyard.
Whoa-
The sound of bone fragments grew more and more rapid until it stopped suddenly.
"Open!"
From where Yi Yan was, it was as if there was an ancient giant beast that suddenly opened its pitch-black mouth and devoured everything in the courtyard, and the surrounding buildings, people, flowers and trees all disappeared, leaving only a void.
Of course, these were only seen by the hundred or so people sitting in the courtyard, and the people standing on the edge of the courtyard saw nothing major in their field of vision, except for a big totem in the courtyard and the powerful momentum fluctuations brought by the red arrogance.
In the void, everyone's figure became blurred, and only a fiery human figure could be roughly seen, and even the outline became blurred from time to time, and the face could not be seen clearly.
Yi Yan could feel that the person they were waiting for would soon appear, and the person who was predicted to be "ominous" to the Yi family a thousand years ago would soon appear in front of them.
Soon, in the void not far from them, several figures appeared one after another, and they were the people who the Yi family had not been able to rush back from outside.
In another place, with the appearance of the Yi family totem, two figures appeared there.
"Yi Qi, Yi Cong?" someone in the Yi family recognized them, even if they couldn't see their faces, but their breath was recognized.
How things are going over there, the people of the Yi family didn't ask Yi Qi and Yi Cong, and now, except for the upcoming war, nothing else matters. Why waste time asking about things that aren't important?
After getting together, the three elders of the Yi family let everyone adapt first, and some newcomers would feel uncomfortable, so they appeared here in advance.
After waiting for a while, Yi Yan's eyebrows fluttered violently, and he looked at a place in the void.
Not only Yi Yan, but the other two old men also looked over there, with obvious defense.
The others who followed behind were stunned, could there be anyone coming from there?
The head of the Yi family was also thinking hard at this time, he couldn't think of anyone else who was out on a mission but didn't show up here, even if there were, it would have been a little late, according to this time, it should have been a few days apart? The people of the Yi family would not make such a mistake. Excluding these, the people who appear now are their enemies this time?
"Knotted rope?!" Yi Yan couldn't hide his surprise in his words.
People who are not in the Yi family's headquarters, what method they use to enter here, with their ability, can be seen. At this time, the fluctuations over there are not the common techniques of the Yi family, but the method of knotting ropes that has disappeared for a long time, and he is not familiar with the knotting rope divination, but he knows a little bit, and he can guess what kind of technique it is according to the fluctuations over there.
The rest of the Yi family was also surprised.
Isn't there no one tied to the Yi family's knotted rope for a long time? Why is it here now? No, there is another person, Yi Xiang also knows how to knotted ropes, that is to say, the person who is about to appear over there, even if it is not Yi Xiang, is likely to be related to Yi Xiang!
The knotted rope is a kind of grass.
Together with Bujia and Bu Gu, Xiaocao was known as the three strongest divination of the Yi family, and "divination" originally came from them. It is rumored that the ancestors of the grass lineage used to know what they wanted to know by picking the grass leaves on the mountain. It's a pity that time is in a hurry, how many years have passed, the original complicated grass vein, in the end, only a knot rope is left to support, other systems have already evolved, more or less added other material assistance, some also absorb the elements of Bu Jia and Bu Bone, to create other new methods, and the knot rope is also considered to be the most conservative and stubborn and unreasonable system, at the same time, it is also the poorest system, because the knot rope is a system, there is no concept of money, there is no material pursuit, no matter how much money people who do not like the eye, they will not help, so that they are gradually excluded, , down, down.
The last master of the knotted rope system died thousands of years ago, and what made many people in the Yi family grit their teeth was that the master of the knotted rope system accepted an apprentice before he died, and that master only accepted one apprentice in his life, and that person was the thorn stuck in the throat of the Yi family - Yi Xiang.
When Yi Xiang left that year, he also took away the inheritance of the knotted rope left by the master. Since then, the Yi family has no orthodox knotted rope divination. The knotted rope divination disappeared, but it did not have much impact on the Yi family, and the descendants of the Yi family created more powerful divination methods.
Knowing that the other party came over through the knotting method, the first thing that came to everyone's mind was, "There is a traitor?!"
"Yi Qi, Yi Cong, who were you with before you came?" Yi Yan asked suddenly.
Yi Qi and Yi Cong were stunned by Yi Yan's questioning, and they didn't understand why Yi Yan asked this, could it be that Yi Yan was suspicious of the two of them? Suspect them of rebellion? It's not right, although Yi Yan's questioning voice was stern, it was not aimed at the two of them, this is not the tone of treating traitors.
Several people flashed in Yi Qi's mind, and finally there was Shao Xuan's figure, but he resolutely denied it. It's definitely not that tribesman, and it's impossible for the tribesmen to master the things at the core of their Yi family.
Yi Cong was also thinking about it in his mind, and the first thing that flashed in his mind was the words "Yanjiao Shao Xuan", but he didn't believe it, so he didn't know how to answer for a while.
Soon, the fluctuations over there became more and more obvious, and there was even a fire, which indicated that a figure would soon appear there, but unlike the Yi family, there was no totem of the Yi family there.
Before Yi Cong and Yi Qi appeared, there would be a Yi family totem composed of tinder flames at their feet. If there is no totem of the Yi family, what does it mean? The other party is not even the Yi family!
Yi Xiang is also a member of the Yi family, and there is blood from the Yi family on his body, so there will be no such situation, so who is the person who came?
A guess in Yi Cong's heart suddenly increased to eighty percent, "Shao Xuan, is it Shao Xuan from the Yanjiao Tribe!?"
What the?!
Tribalmen?!
Or are you from the Flamehorn Tribe?!
Even the three figures led by them were suddenly shocked, and if they could see the expressions on their faces, they would definitely be full of shock and disbelief.
If it weren't for Yi Cong, if it weren't for Yi Cong, someone else in the Yi family would have been trained a long time ago, but Yi Cong, a genius of the younger generation, is not a person who talks nonsense on weekdays, and he will not speculate at will.
When everyone in the Yi family was shocked or disbelieved, the fire in that place became bigger and bigger, different from the color of the Yi family's fire flame, but red, but there was still no totem.
The firelight finally condensed into a figure, which was very vague, much more vague than anyone in the Yi family, and even seemed to be able to disperse at any time.
"This breath ......" Yi Qi looked over there, as if he was shocked by a sullen bell, "Yanjiao...... Shao Xuan!" (To be continued.) )