Chapter 1516 - 454: The Birth of the Shaman

Chapter 1516: Chapter 454: The Birth of the Shaman

Chapter 454 [The Birth of XX]

Torchlight flickers, revealing a human face.

Its brow bone is higher, and the face shape seems slightly different from modern humans.

The Stone Tree quietly observes the face that approaches in a cave.

The face shows curiosity, and after the torch flickers twice, the person reaches out to touch the Stone Tree.

This time, the Stone Tree did not immediately transmit any consciousness, but kept quiet and silent. After countless failed communication attempts over unknown millennia, it seems to have lost interest in interacting with these "creatures."

The cave becomes lively.

These humans live in the cave, both men and women, old and young.

They wear animal skins and carry tools crafted from stone, knives, and clubs. They know how to make fire and collect animal teeth as ornaments.

They regarded the Stone Tree as an extremely peculiar thing because, in their eyes, it appeared very strange.

The Stone Tree, over a meter tall, indeed had a unique shape, like a dwarfed tree carved from stone—a craft beyond primitive humans.

Hence, they showed great curiosity and appreciation for such a Stone Tree.

There were always people trying to touch this thing.

The Stone Tree did not particularly enjoy these people’s touches.

Yet it attempted again, releasing a communication consciousness when touched by the primitives.

As expected, no result.

The Stone Tree then simply ignored them.

The cave grows lively; these primitives reside here, cutting meat, fighting, playing, with children crying, and at night, men and women mate...

Every day, the men would carry spears or clubs made from stone to hunt, sometimes returning with prey, sometimes empty-handed, and occasionally, with fewer people.

Life went on like this.

Until one day, a group of wild outsiders invaded, storming into the cave.

The outsiders were massacring the cave’s primitives; the outsiders, mostly male, had the advantage of numbers.

People in the cave ran, screamed, some fell pierced by stone spears. Children were trampled, women dragged to corners...

The resistance of the cave people was shattered, eventually abandoning their fight.

An outsider discovered the Stone Tree, shouting loudly, calling his companions to gather and yell.

A blood-soaked savage approached, presumably the leader, reaching out to touch the Stone Tree.

The Stone Tree did not react.

This fellow squatted before the Stone Tree for a while, seemingly figuring something out.

He picked up a stick and smashed it against the Stone Tree.

Chen Yan thought, perhaps he believed this Stone Tree was some Sacred Object or totem of the cave tribe and wanted to destroy it.

The stick shattered upon impact, yet the Stone Tree remained unscathed.

Simultaneously, it released its first sense of "hostility" since gaining consciousness!

The consciousness of a World-Origin Object is so vast and majestic!

When the hostile consciousness was unleashed, it was a sweeping scene!

The outsiders standing in the cave, including the leader who tried to smash the Stone Tree, suddenly fell silently, their consciousness shattered into pieces!

Not only the outsiders, but the cave’s original people were affected too.

During its first hostile release, the Stone Tree showed an attack stance, yet did not know control, nor how to distinguish friend from foe.

This attack attempt killed nearly all "people" in the cave.

After a while, a few figures cautiously rose from the corners.

These were four original cave-dwelling primitives, the only survivors.

Upon seeing everyone in the cave dead, whether their tribe or outsiders, these individuals were terrified.

Someone screamed crazily, then ran off.

Yet one person suddenly calmed down, crawled before the Stone Tree, stared for a while, mumbling something indistinguishable.

Then, he turned to his remaining two companions, loudly proclaiming.

Chen Yan normally wouldn’t understand this primitive language.

But as the will of the world-origin, clearly, it transcends language itself for consciousness exchange.

Thus, when "watching," Chen Yanting understood the primitive’s words to his companions.

He said: The stone harbors a god who punished those disrespectful to it!

Others asked, how do you know?

The man confidently replied: The god inside the stone told me, I can speak with it!

This was, of course, a lie, but the Stone Tree did not care about his deceit.

After a brief silence, this man led his remaining two companions to bow before the Stone Tree in reverence.

From this moment, the "God Stick" was born.

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The first person to claim he could talk to the stone’s god became the God Stick.

He began instructing his companions on tasks.

Telling them to clean the cave, remove the bodies.