Chronicles of Primordial Wars - Chapter 284.2

Chapter 284.2

Lei didn’t turn his head to look at it . It seemed he was listening to something carefully . He turned back, took two steps forward and jumped up . Lei tensed the muscles on his arms, half of which was covered by the Flaming Horn totem . He swung the stone sword and cut it vigorously at one place .

Bang!

The hard earthy ground exploded and under the cover of the flying clods and the rising sand and dust, something quickly leaped out .

Shao Xuan stared at the creature that had rushed out .

Pangolin?

No, the scute of that creature looked much thicker than pangolins’, and its body was much longer, nearly two meters long . Its body color was sandy yellow, similar to the color of the earth . While that creature didn’t move slowly because of that hard scute, on the contrary, they were very agile .

The creature had been trying to run away or drill into the ground, but Lei and Tuo didn’t give it the chance . Under Lei’s and Tuo’s joint action, it was chopped off within three seconds despite its struggle .

They didn’t stay outside for a long time . Lei dragged the creature and took time to peel . Though it was the first time to see such a creature, they encountered something similar before . It was not rusty for them to peel it off, so they disposed of it immediately, not expecting to get extra water to clean it . Lei carried it toward the house and today their food was due . The hard scute was left to wear as armor, only if disposing of it simply .

They wanted to catch one more, but it was a pity that even if there still had some more, all the creatures under the ground would avoid the place near their house because of their loud actions . So they couldn’t but wait patiently .

Lei’s and Tuo’s actions attracted others’ attention . The people who had rested in the houses opened their windows or doors to see what had just happened outside .

Shao Xuan didn’t take action just now, in order to guard against others, not just including the people of the traveling team . There were also some people of the Rain tribe nearby . Not everyone in the Rain tribe was friendly to them . Just now someone wanted to grab it, but when they saw Shao Xuan staring at them, they gave up the idea .

After Shao Xuan and others entered the room, other people withdrew their eyesight .

“People of the Flaming Horn tribe are really…” Said someone in the room .

For really how? Everyone thought differently .

Shao Xuan and the other two ignited the fire in the house and began to roast the beast meat . Although the meat was unpalatable and a lot of sand was attached to it, it was much better than the hard flatbread .

Having some meat, Shao Xuan planned to go out for a while .

Lei and Tuo had known that Shao Xuan was acquainted with the current Shaman of Rain tribe, so they didn’t say much and started to have a rest after eating . They thought they could catch another one or two beasts after their sleep .

Against the wind and sand, Shao Xuan went to the hill yesterday he had been .

Yang Sui was still staying in the wooden house, holding an oxtail in his hand . He had probably come early in the morning, as a layer of dust had fallen on his body .

“Why do you need oxtail to pray for rain?” Asked Shao Xuan when he entered .

Hearing what Shao Xuan asked, Yang Sui came back to earth . He waved the oxtail in his hand . He told everything, it’s not a serious secret .  

“It’s said that in the ancient time when the ancestors prayed for rain, they sacrificed stones . And those stones were special, which were called ‘rain stones’ . You can find some if you dig in the nearby mountains . They are black and cold even on hot days . The rain stones we use to pray for rain are as high as a man . When we pray for rain, the oxtail will be the whip to lash the rain stone . ”

“The rain will come like that?” Asked Shao Xuan .

“A sacrifice dance is also necessary, but that is not important . Whipping the stone to pray for rain is indeed the earliest mean . But later, I don’t know when the way to pray for rain has changed . The ancestors said that there is the older spirit of ancestors behind rain stones, which is the protector of good weather, farming and harvest in the tribe, and is able to eliminate diseases and disasters . Therefore, everyone began to fear rain stones . In order to protect the prosperity of the tribe, we no longer whip rain stone . Otherwise, we believe we will suffer disasters and those who whip rain stones will not live longer . ”

When Yang Sui said these things, his tone was a little bit ironic . It was not because he did not respect his ancestors, but he was only skeptical about some things, which normal people did not dare to doubt and would not think too much about . Only people who knew it well would get to the bottom .

As for the statement that those who whipped rain stones did not live long, it was probably because the task of praying for rain consumed too much energy and shamans had to sacrifice some for it . Those who were weak would probably be exhausted after praying for rain . Moreover, as what Yang Sui said, praying for rain was getting harder and harder and shamans naturally had to bear great psychological burden as the Rain tribe had burned shamans to death before . Under both physical and psychological pressure, shamans who had to pray for rain had never been relaxed . If a shaman was weak, praying for rain once must consume all his physical strength .

“Since you don’t have to pray for rain by whipping rain stone with oxtail now, why are you still practicing with oxtail?” Shao Xuan pointed to the oxtail in Yang Sui’s hand .

“It’s used to ask for ancestors’ and the Rain God’s forgiveness . We offer up the oxtail to atone for our crimes . ” Yang Sui swayed the oxtail casually, and his eyes were full of sarcasm, “I’ve heard that there was a shaman who was whipped by the Rain God after praying for rain . ”

Shao Xuan was shocked .

So, the way to pray for rain had been changed from the concept that “If you don’t rain, I’ll whip you” to “ask for rain and ask for punishment” . Were people in the Rain tribe playing whipping and SM games with the Rain God? But there was no rain even after the shaman was whipped