Chronicles Of Primordial War

Flaming Horn Tribe Snow Festival

This was Shao Xuan’s first trip to the mountaintop.

In the tribe, people with higher position would also live higher near the top.

As they were closer to the mountaintop, Shao Xuan realized that the kids around, and those warriors leading their way ahead, including Ge, had lost their casualty as they went and became much more serious and reserved.

When Shao Xuan and his companions arrived, there were already a lot of people gathered around the fire pit. People living in mountain foot district stood relatively far from the fire pit. In fact, they were standing according to their living positions. The higher they lived in the mountain, the nearer they stood to the fire pit. Luckily, even though they stood far from the center, the spot they stood on was a high terrain, so one could also barely see the situation by the fire pit.

"How many people did the tribe have in total?" In the past he was not sure, but now, Shao Xuan had an estimation.

Today’s ceremony required all people in the tribe to attend. You had to come even if you were ill in bed, or had trouble walking. Shao Xuan calculated roughly and found out that the population of the tribe should be no less than a thousand, probably around one thousand and five hundred.

Over a thousand people did not seem to be very much in Shao Xuan’s eyes, but since he came to the tribe, it was his first time seeing so many people, so it was a lively day for him.

On the mountaintop, there was an empty ground, in the center of which there was a crater. And in the center of the crater, there was a flame swaying in the wind. The fire pit.

This was also Shao Xuan’s first time to see the tribe’s fire pit, which was not even close to the image he had in mind.

Shao Xuan had questioned why the tribe’s fire pit would be located at the mountaintop. After all, it was the coldest place in the whole mountain. What’s more, there was already a well-developed fire maker. Why bother to keep a fire pit? Everyone spoke with extreme reverence when they talked about the fire pit. And the way they looked at the mountaintop was with unshakable devotion.

He had heard from people in the tribe, that the fire pit was connected with the tribe’s prosperity. As for how they were connected, Shao Xuan had never heard a word. Now, he may find an answer with his own eyes.

The big empty space on the mountaintop was enough for everyone in the tribe to stand on.

The crater had a radius of four or five meters, but the flame burning in the middle was just like normal candlelight. It was not bright, and it seemed like it could easily be blown out by the wind. Also, inside the fire pit, Shao Xuan did not see any wood or anything burnable. Under the flame, there were no combustion-supporting materials. This was an eternal fire in the fire pit.

Around the fire pit, there a circle of man-height thick timber piles. A stone bowl was placed on top of every timber pile. Fresh meat, fruits and bird eggs were piled up in every stone bowl as sacrificial offerings.

Beside the timber piles there were crowds of people standing there. From the discussion around, Shao Xuan learnt that those were the strongest warriors from different hunting teams. Some of them were still young, while the others were middle-aged. In total there were fifty warriors.

Their faces were painted with the same lines as those on Ge’s face. However, what differed was that the totem on their face was no longer in a single dark color. White and red was mixed up in those lines, and they were dressed up in a grander style. Someone wore a pair of giant antlers on his head, which were much bigger in size than any of the antlers Shao Xuan had seen others wearing. They nearly covered the warrior’s body inside.