Enemy
The bonfire in Gold Black Mountain was blazing hot. Thousands of gigantic Fire Crows were floating above the mountain with their wings opened, and ceaselessly cawing.
The dragon-skin drums were being beaten by the warriors. Vigorous and powerful drumbeats were heard widely for about hundreds of miles away throughout the jungle.
The decennial Fire Crow Clan’s Ancestral Worship Ceremony was carrying on. Ji Kui was guiding people into the Ancestral Temple to bring their offerings to the ancestors one after another. The souls of the ancestors had been awakened and were enjoying those offerings. If they were satisfied with the offerings, they would bestow ‘gifts’ to the chosen people.
The lava lake, created during the fight between Ji Xia and Ji Shu, had already cooled down. Two ‘sludges’ wriggled slowly across the congealed lava lake with their black, sticky sludge-like bodies.
The rough and hard rocks were quickly softened and turned into the soil by the ‘sludges’. Thick mud unceasingly welled out of the ground and spread to the surrounding areas.
Tens of Treemen were slowly swaying their towering bodies and sowing plenty of seeds into the soil. With their power, these seeds would soon sprout and grow up, this piece of damaged jungle would quickly turn green again. These Treemen had made an agreement with the Fire Crow Clan, which meant that they were under the clan’s protection and were also working for the clan.
However, all of these had nothing to do with Ji Hao.
Ji Hao was sitting in his family house, sadly staring at Ji Xia and Qing Fu, who were lying on the bed side by side.
Both of them were in a coma and had fever. Their faces were red and their breaths were scorching hot. The room had been turned into a stove by the hot air breathed out through their mouths; even the soil in the yard had dried up.
Ji Tu, one of the greatest Maguspriests in the Fire Crow Clan was sitting beside Ji Xia and Qing Fu with his legs crossed. He continuously put different herbs inside their mouths; in the meanwhile, he gestured and whispered a magic spell. With his gestures and spell, the herbs in Qing Fu and Ji Xia’s mouths quickly transformed into liquid and were swallowed by them. Once the herb-liquid had flowed into Ji Xia and Qing Fu’s stomachs, their breaths had cooled down a bit.
“Suiren Cane...the legendary ancient demigod’s inherited magic treasure” After a while, Ji Xia and Qing Fu’s body temperature had barely returned to normal. Ji Tu stopped the gestures and the spell, started to rub a herb stick, frowned and let out a sigh.
“Suirenshi was a legendary demigod...He had lived too..too long ago. Us old Maguspriests who are responsible for the historical inheritance...we have only heard about his name...” Ji Tu looked at Ji Hao and said slowly. “As far as we know, Suirenshi had mainly lived in the legendary central plains, never heard about that he had been in the South...His Magic cane showed up here...in the Southern Wasteland...It’s unexpected...”
“My Abba, Amma...their injuries...Will they be fine?” Ji Hao interrupted Ji Tu’s talk, asked him what he cared about the most at the moment.
“It’s hard...very hard...very hard...” Ji Tu shook his head and said. “We have no idea how powerful the Suirenshi was...even if Ji Shu has only brought a tiny little bit of its power out...the damage...is not something that we could endure...”
Ji Tu helplessly glanced at Qing Fu and Ji Xia, thought for a while and continued: “The Shamisen fire is still burning them from the inside...Either they withstand the fire with their own internal power then wake up, or find a powerful Divine Magus who is good at fire-related sorceries to pull the Shamisen fire away from their bodies...I...I could only cool them down temporarily with drugs and spells to keep them alive...barely...”
Ji Tu seriously looked at Ji Hao in the eyes and continued: “But...to resist the fire with drugs...Hao, you have learned about drug-making from us for years...you should know that this can only keep them alive for...only for now...in fact, the fire is still ceaselessly consuming their...life force.”
“So they will eventually burn to death?” Ji Hao stared at Ji Tu and asked.
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