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Capítulo 2: Bone Text

Under the prayers of the chief and a few Elders, all of the males revealed solemn expressions on their faces as they conducted worship. Many women and children also quickly rushed over, silently praying that the relatives who were about to gohunting would come back safely.

The mountain range was simply too dangerous. It was a completely different world outside once oneleft the protection of the village and the willow tree; it was one filled with terrifying birds of prey and huge beasts.

And just like that, the village’s strongest group of individuals, carrying giant bows and broadswords on their backs, set off and entered the mountain valleys, creeks and huge lakes. Momentarily after, there was a large waft of a desolate smell.

Watching as the hunting group left, the old chief Shi Yunfeng led the group of children towards the grass patch located atthe entrance of the village. He sat cross-legged and said, “Alright, you little group of monkeys need to sit down and study hard.”

The group of children immediately became distressed and all of them had dispirited expressions. They reluctantly sat down, as if they were wilted leaves.

“Grandpa chief, those bird languages and turtle writings are complicated like hobgoblin symbols. It’s too hard to learn. What is the point of studying it?”

“Exactly, it’s not as useful as the archery my father taught me!”

The group of children all had sour expressions on their faces, and they all felt conflicted.

“You group of little babies really don’t know anything. The Bone Text consists of tyrannical symbols on bones that were passed down naturally by terrifying Archaic Descendants. Embedded within aremysterious forces in which many people could not learn even if they wanted to. Even if you are just somewhat successful in learning it, who knows how many times stronger you would be compared to your parents.” The old chief criticized them for not meeting his expectations.

“Grandpa chief, demonstrate for us the power of this Bone Text.” A slightly older child spoke.

“Little guy,come here.” The chief shouted from afar.

The little guyhad just finished chasing after the five-colored sparrow, and was currently putting a lot of energy into pulling a big yellow dog’s tail. Turning his head in confusion, he released his grip and ran over while shaking his buttocks. Opening his big bright eyes, he said, “Yiya Yiya, Grandpa chief what do you need?”

“I want you to use the things I taught you from the Bone Text.” Shi Yunfeng said.

“Okay.” The little guywas very obedient, and stretched out his two little hands. He closed his mouth, and his entire body was constantly using energy, causinghis little face to become red.

With aWengsound, his palms emitted a bright light, and a strange character emerged. It looked like it was made out of casted metal, and it possessed a metallic luster. Soon after, it appeared on his other hand as well.

The little guywalked up a few steps, and lifted up a boulder that was taller than him.

“So powerful!” Exclaimed the group of children. This was thelittle guy who was a bit older than one. How could he possibly lift up such a big rock?

“Little guy,did you use all of the strength you got from drinking milk?” The older kids all teased him.

“Yiya,yes, I used up all my strength.” The little guydropped the stone and sat his butt down on the floor and smiled without a hint of worry. He was extremely pure, and quickly, the characters faded from his palms.

“Grandpa chief, is this the power from that mysterious Bone Text that you studied for more than ten years?” The group of children’s eyes were all shining, and their previous lack of interest no longer existed.

“Don’t get too excited, this can only be considered the basics. Compared to the Heavenly Bone Text that appeared in legends, it is still too far off.” The old man nodded, then shook his head.

“Can Grandpa chief tell us about the outside world?” The group of children had hopeful expressions.

Everyone within the village knew that when the chief was younger, he left with roughly a dozen individuals for the distant mother earth’s limits and explored the outer world.

However ten years ago, only two managed to come back while drenched in blood. One of the two died soon after, and only Shi Yunfeng was able to survive.

He spent these past years studying the Bone Text, and from time to time he would test it out on the strong individuals within the village. These kids all knew clearly that when their parents, who were like tigers and dragons, were called over, they would all make howls and shouts that made hearts tremble within the stone courtyard. This made these children feel worried, yetat the same time admiration.

Only in recent years had the old chief’s research gradually begunto lessen, no longer frightening the village’s residents. Moreover, that little guywho drank the milk of wild beasts was raised by him, and he becamehis best research candidate.

“The outside world…” The old man began to reminisce. After being spellbound with regret, he said, “The world is too big. It’s vast and boundless. Just from one region to the next would cover millions of li 1. No one really knows how vast it was, as a person walking on foot would not completely cover a single region in their lifetime; it is simply boundless and desolate. Different regions’ residents would find it extremely difficult to contact and communicate with each other because it is simplytoo dangerous. The land has too many different tyrannical beast species, and they areall formidable and mysterious. Regardless of whetherit wasa tribe of several hundred thousand or a magnificent and enormous city, there was still a chance that they would be destroyed overnight by some ancient species. Of course, there were still humans who were unimaginably powerful and comparable to that of Archaic Descendants. They possessed matchless divine power, and these humans were the most gifted ones amongst the human race.

The group of children all felt reverence within their hearts, and at the same time, they felt a sense of yearning as they were all curious about the outside world. Someone asked, “Within this land, are there any earthly gems or legendary elixirs that could enable one to undergo rebirth? Also, the human race’s strongest geniuses, how strong are they exactly?”

The old man laughed and said, “If you want to know, then you must first become strong.”

“If we can master the Bone Text’s mysterious power, would we be able to explorethe regions under the sky?” Some of the children began to reveal their yearning.

Shi Yunfeng petted a child’s head before saying, “Not mentioning other regions, anyone able to travel across half of this regioncanalready be considered incredible!”

All of the children were dumbstruck.

“All I can do is guide you towards the correct path,however,where you end up in the end will depend on you. The things I have taughtyou should not be inferior to the things taught to children of similar ages in the outside world.” When the old man finished what he was saying, his eyes revealed a different light, and he rubbed the exotic jade bone in his bosom.

The group of children who sat in a circle around the old chief finally concentrated and began to focus on the lecture. Only at noon did they finally disperse.

“It’s too hard. Chief actually said that it required a few years for the Bone Text to slightly enter one’s body. In addition, most people won’t eversucceed at it.”

“But that pea-sizedlittle guyactually did it.”

The little guyinnocently blinked his eyes, and then once again began to pull at the tail of that big yellow dog, and the big yellow dog began to bark innocently.

The sun began to set in the west, and under the sunset’s afterglow, the entire Stone Village was infected with a faint golden sheet of brilliance. In the distance, various apes and lions cried out, and a large number of stone houses at this moment were like divine ancient temples, holy and peaceful.

Roughly a dozen people gathered at the horizon, and their shadows were being stretched out by the setting sun. Their bodies’ outlines appeared golden within the sunset glow, making them appear incomparably tall and powerful. They were eachdragging the head of an enormous and ferocious beast as they returned from their bountiful journeys.

“They’re back!” The village’s women and children who stood at the village entrance waiting for a long time burst out in cheers, and the uneasiness and fear within their hearts vanished at once. They shouted in a loud voice.

“Father and the others returned safe and sound!”

“Heavens! To come back with so much prey. This time we reaped a rare and great harvest!”

The hunt this time was extremely successful, and the dozen grown men all returned with their good harvest. Within the prey was the enormous body of a Dragon Horned Elephant, which was a beast with excessive meat similar to that of a cow. Furthermore, the buckets were filled with thick and thin Flying Pythons…

The old folk within the village all had shocked expressions on their faces. These beings were normally very hard to deal with, and some of them were even called fierce beasts. For so many of them to be hunted today and covered in blood, it was simply too unexpected.

Take for example that Dragon Horned Elephant. The elephant’s body was like that of metal, and it was difficult for even iron spears to pierce through. The pair of Dragon Horns were sharp like knives, easily splitting apartboulders. For that one-legged Kui beast, if it managed to make its way up close, it could shock people straight to death. As for those Flying Pythons born with enormous wings, they were known as mountain killers. They would leave the mountain tops and abruptly dive down tokill, causing them to be extremely terrifying.

Within the prey were some beings that were even more formidable, such as the scarlet bodied Two-Headed Flame Rhinoceros, which was an impure blooded mythical creature… these were all genuine fierce beasts. If they happened to meet one of them, they would normally take long detours to avoid them, and yet they were able to hunt them today, completely defying common sense.

“This time we really wereextremely lucky to return from such a rewarding journey without a single casualty,” laughed Shi Linghu, the leader of the hunting group,as he explained to the chief and villagers. During these past few nights, there were many supreme enormous beasts passing through the mountains, moving the earth and shaking the mountains. They trampled everything to death, and harmed many mountain beasts. During these past few days, manyfierce beasts were hurt, and those heavily injured beasts were pursued and hunted by them, becoming easy prey. These were all tyrannical creatures that the village men would normally run away from.

“The enormous footprints within the mountains were similar to those of humans, but they were simply too huge, with each of them nearly 100 meters long!”

“That large?!” Exclaimed the village members. This really was shocking news.

Even the Elders who heard this could not help but draw in a breath of cold air. They were increasingly realizing that something happened within the mountain range abyss thatended up attracting the Archaic Descendants around the large desolate areas.

In any case, it was a one-time plentiful harvest, and everyone was full of happiness. Stone Village was filled with the sound of children’s laughter and the atmosphere was joyful.

Chief Shi Yunfeng brought the group of people to the willow tree and brought the dozen dead enormous beasts to the stone platform that was clearly a large altar.


Capítulo 3: Guardian Spirit

The sacrificial platform was made from layers of huge rocks. It was quite wide, and its establishment neighbored the old and broken willow tree. Upon it lied a small mountain of fierce beasts.

Sanguine beast blood dyed the large stone platform scarlet as it trickled along the engravings on the face of the stone. A brilliant red shone on the tough and long beasts’ fur, and cold light flickering on their scales malevolent horns as well. It was a horrifying scene that shook one’s heart, and there was a bitter desolate air assaulting everyone’s nostrils.

Under the guidance of the old Chief, Stone Village’s residents all gathered to pray and request for the Willow Tree’s protection. This was a solemn event of offering sacrifices, as well as a type of usual practice. This was carried out each time a hunt ended.

The scorched black tree’s body stayed just as quiet as before, as if it didn’t react in the slightest. It never used the offerings as always, but some of the village residents knew that it actually had a spirit!

Finally, the sacrificial procedures were finished. The villagers all released a large breath of air and once again happily smiled. They began to move the bodies of those fierce beasts in preparation of draining their blood and cutting them up.

“Many years have passed already, yet the guardian spirit hasn’t moved once after our offerings. Do we still need to offer sacrifices every time?” A youngster murmured in a low voice.

“You stinky brat, what kind of garbage are you spouting!” His father’s bronze eyes opened wide, and lifted his huge palm-leaf hands to beat him.

The old Chief gestured with his hands and stopped him from doing so. In a soft voice, he said, “We have offered sacrifices towards this guardian spirit, and it has provided for us. Only by remembering it sincerely within our hearts and treating it piously would it guard, bless and protect our village.”

The youngster’s face was completely red and he hurriedly replied, “Chief, it’s not that my heart is not sincere. It’s just that I think that the guardian spirit does not really need all of these offerings, as it has never moved or utilized them.”

“As long as your intent is good then that’s enough.” Shi Yunfeng patted his shoulders, and carefully explained.

The guardian spirit was also called the ‘Spirit of Sacrifice’. It was an abbreviation for the tribe’s ‘Spirit of Sacrifice and Support’. It protected the village, and it intimidated the great desolate area’s vicious beasts, keeping them away.

The village’s Elder still remembered that this same guardian spirit was not quite the same tens of years ago. There was instead a rather strange rock, and each time, the offerings would quickly lose more than half its blood essence from its absorption.

One day deep into the night, however, the old willow came, and that block of stone decided to go far away, and everything completely changed after that.

Thinking back to that rainy night, the old chief felt slightly distracted. That was when he was still a young youth, and at that time saw for himself that shocking and frightening scene.

During that late night, lightning flashed and thunder roared, and the heavy rainstorm was majestic. The rainstorm was violent till its utmost limits, and the mountains were heavily battered by the thunder and lightning. The mountain torrent seemed like an ocean, and vicious beasts were running away frantically like the tides; the scene was terrifying.

And right at that time, a large willow tree broke through the boundary of the heavens and appeared within the clouds. It bathed in the sea of thunder, and allowed the lighting from the mountains to course through itself. Tens of thousands of willow branches formed strips of burning divine chains and pierced into the heavens as if it was battling something

In the end, the great willow tree snapped apart. Its entire body was charred black, and was reduced to its current size as it fell down and too root within Stone Village. The lightning disappeared at that time, and the torrential downpour backed off as well. That night, the stone that the villagers previously sacrificed and received supplies from departed.

Every time he recalled this scene, the old chief would always feel his heart tremble. The old willow tree was not created from a random root within the mountains, but rather descended from the heavens. The reason it was damaged was due to the endless seas of thunder, and within the village, not many people knew about this.

In its first ten years, its entire body was scorched black and didn’t have a single hint of life force. It appeared as if it was completely dead, and only ten years ago did it finally show a single tender green branch. Since then, it has yet to undergo another change.

‘Stinky brats, you all should be careful. We rarely reap such good harvests of vicious beasts. Their blood essence, muscles, vessels as well as parts of their bones are all extraordinarily precious, so don’t waste their precious properties.” The old chief warned.

The villagers in their prime chopped with silver knives. While they were disassembling the giant creatures, there were sonorous sounds as sparks flew everywhere from hitting the giant creatures’ shockingly hard skeletons.

Someone had prepared a large jar long in advance to collect the special blood essence from within the beast’s body. This was a refined blood medicine, extremely rare and precious.

Among this pile of beast corpses, the most precious one was the Pi Xiu1. Although it was just a descendant and was quite far from a pure-blooded Pi Xiu King, it still possessed a portion of the true blood that had astonishing value.

It has already been two years since they last caught a mythical beast type like the Pi Xiu, as they were excessively savage and large. As single swipe from their claws would easily take the life of a strong individual, making them simply too horrifying to handle.

One could say that the harvest this time was so luxurious it made them speechless.

“Wu, the true blood flowing from the Two-Headed Flame Rhinoceros’s horn really is quite extraordinary. It’s not inferior to the Pi Xiu at all!” An older grandpa personally used his knife to remove the rhinoceros horn from the flesh. It was as tough as metal and stone, and from that area dripped out a gush of scarlet-red true blood, making the carcass look like it was releasing fiery light.

Suddenly, the blood unexpectedly changed into a clump of red radiance, and a palm-length Two-Headed Flame Rhinoceros appeared before everyone’s eyes. Its entire body was scarlet red, and it was vivid and lifelike as it let out an angry roar.

“Good stuff. This true blood’s medicinal qualities are extremely strong, and are not inferior to those of mythical beasts!” The old grandpa who held the knife laughed heartily, and quickly utilized that jar to collect that rhinoceros blood before firmly closing the jar cover.

“Chief, this Dragon Horned Elephant’s horn is also good stuff. When we found it, it was already close to dying. Otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to handle it.” A youth spoke.

Shi Yunfeng nodded and said, “It really is quite a rare sight. The dragon horn growing on its head has already matured. Once it is carefully extracted, it can be used as a precious medicine that can repair bones.”

“The one-legged demon beast’s leg has really tough and durable strips of muscles. Even axes cannot chop through it.”

“This is all good stuff. You stinky youngsters need to be careful, don’t let the precious blood from the Flying Python’s two wings go to waste!”

The villagers were all happy, and their faces were full of smiles.

Only the children withdrew their necks before quickly disappearing. They knew that the majority of these blood and bone medicines would be used on their bodies, causing them to once again need to ‘suffer’.

Only after an entire half day passed did the precious treasure growing from the fierce beasts’ bodies get plucked clean. The Chief as well as several other elders nodded their heads in satisfaction before collecting the jars and storing them.

“There is so much prey. In a little while, we should preserve a portion, and afterwards smoke them and make it into meat jerky.” Some of the experienced elders were saying.

With the fierce beasts piled up like a small mountain, the villagers could not finish it even after many days. If they simply allowed it to rot, then it would be too much of a waste. For the villages that have faced food shortages, there was no way they would permit that.

The women from each of the households came up to divide the meat. All of them had sincere smiles on their faces, since previously they felt anxious with all the men outside. Now that they all returned peacefully and with such a luxurious harvest, it was truly one of heaven’s best gifts.

Smoke rose in spirals from the households’ chimneys, and after half an hour, the fragrant smell of meat began to spread. The households’ iron pots had almost finished stewing the meat chunks until they were soft, and the children couldn’t wait any longer. In addition, the beast meat roasting atop the bonfires were also beginning to develop a golden and oily luster, and as the oil dripped onto the fire, sputtering noises were created. Those sturdy men all could not hold themselves back any longer, and began to tear off strips of meat. With big appetites, they bit into the meat, releasing a mouthful of juices.

“Small child, this is Pi Xiu meat. Eating a lot of it will give you big strength. It’s truly a rare type of meat.”

“Stinky youngster, eat more, this is meat from the Two-Headed Flame Rhinoceros. Eating more of it can help your skin and bone become tough like iron, so stop eating that useless Tree Pig meat.”

All types of different fierce beasts made up the villagers’ rich evening meal. The enticing meat fragrance wafted through the streets, drawing in the appetites of the residents as waves of merry laughter rang throughout the festive village.


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