Chapter 2 - Shi Li (2/2)
Shi Li’s thoughts suddenly cleared up, and he looked down the mountain.
The Beast God had blessed him and given him the opportunity to start over. What should he do?
After just one round of running, Shi Li had basically figured out where on the timeline he was—he had reached adulthood not long ago and hadn’t mated with Xiong Ye yet.
In his previous life, after he and Xiong Ye became mates, several powerful dinosaurs had come near the tribe. The current chief, Xiong Ye’s uncle, had died in the battle against those dinosaurs, and Xiong Ye had become the chief of the tribe.
Later, their tribe was attacked by other tribes, and they were driven out of the valley. He and Xiong Ye had led the remaining survivors from their tribe and had begun their life of nomadic wandering.
That period of wandering had been very arduous, and it was not until he and Xiong Ye had accidentally discovered a set of cultivation methods hidden in a cave that they finally saw some hope.
He and Xiong Ye cultivated and fought as they travelled, getting stronger and stronger, until they finally became Beast Kings together.
They had only been in their fifties.
Later, after being coronated by the High Priest of the Beast God Temple, they were given a vast stretch of forest in which their clan could thrive happily, and the other tribes who lived in the forest had to pay tribute to them.
In his youth, that kind of life had been beyond his imagination.
By the time of his death, he had already been a Beast King for fifty years, but he hadn’t been happy. In the final reckoning, the reason for that was all because of Xiong Ye.
When he was a child, he had almost starved to death. It was Xiong Ye who had saved him, and it had been Xiong Ye who had asked the tribe to let him, his mother, and his younger brother who had been wandering around aimlessly take shelter with the tribe.
Afterwards, Xiong Ye continued to help him a lot, so he and Xiong Ye became mates with the Beast God as witness.
They would always be tied together.
Therefore, even though he became the Beast King, he was unlike the other Beast Kings who were surrounded by many beauties, and he couldn’t even have children of his own.
It wasn’t until later, after Xiong Ye’s death, that he finally lived the life he wanted to live. But by then, he had already been old, and his strength did not match up to his expectations…
In this life…
Shi Li took a deep breath.
He didn’t want to be tied to Xiong Ye anymore.
This tribe knew nothing about the outside world, but he knew how vast and boundless the sky was outside, and he also knew how to become stronger.
He would become the strongest!
In addition, he also wanted to try everything he hadn’t had a chance to try before, and wanted to have a few children of his own.
Shi Li thought about a lot, and his stomach rumbled.
It had been a long time since he’d ever felt hungry… Shi Li turned into his animal form and ran towards his cave.
Although everything in front of him was already very strange and new, he could still remember his own scent and was able to find his own place.
Very quickly, Shi Li reached his own cave and let out a deep lion roar, immediately squeezing in as soon as Yang Ying opened the door.
Yang Ying was a little dissatisfied, “Why did you turn into a lion? Little Su will be scared.”
Shi Li kept his back to Yang Ying as he changed back into his human form and quickly got dressed.
Yang Ying continued, “Xiong Ye came by just now. He’s too stingy. It was such a small Lesothosaurus, and he unexpectedly only gave me half. There are three of us, while there’s just one of him.”
Shi Li frowned in annoyance. In fact, he couldn’t remember his own mother very clearly anymore.
In his previous life, his mother had died when their tribe was attacked by other tribes, and he had missed her very much over the years. Yet now, when he saw that the other party was so concerned about such a tiny little Lesothosaurus, he felt a bit ashamed.
It had been many years since he’d eaten something like this!
“Elder brother, I saw Xiong Ye giving Zhou meat! Is he going to do something that’ll disrespect you?!” At this point, Shi Li’s younger brother, Yang Su, also spoke up.
Yang Su was thirteen years old and had already awakened.
What kind of animal a person would awaken was related to their own physical condition, the animal form their parents had taken, and the animal forms of the people around them, as well as what they had eaten prior to their awakening.
The powerful people that Shi Li met later on would try to feed their children dinosaur meat filled with powerful energy while they were still young in order to ensure that they would awaken into powerful animals.
He had been able to awaken as a lion because prior to him, his younger brother, and his mother leaving their previous tribe, they had lived a good life, and his family had always had enough to eat.
However, it was different for his younger brother. His younger brother had often gone hungry during the years before he had awakened. He hadn’t been able to eat dinosaur more than a few times a year, and so he had finally awoken a very weak sheep form, like their mother.
In his previous life, Yang Su survived the tribal catastrophe and had always lived with him. Although he would occasionally bring him some trouble, the feelings between the two brothers had always been good.
In those years, Yang Su really liked to speak ill of Xiong Ye.
Shi Li knew that this was a bad habit of his and didn’t believe his words. He just spent a moment to recall who ‘Zhou’ was, and after he remembered, he said, “Yang Su, stop talking nonsense! Xiong Ye and Zhou have nothing to do with each other. You don’t need to worry about this!”
Shi Li actually had some impression of this person named Zhou.
He was nothing but a piece of waste in the tribe, but this waste not only had a mother who raised him to adulthood, he also had a particularly powerful father.
He remembered that in a few months, Zhou’s father would come to find Zhou, and Zhou would leave the tribe with his father.
At the time, he had been unable to express the envy he felt for Zhou, because Zhou’s father had been a Beast King with his own territory.
Of course, he no longer felt that envy now.
A few years after Zhou left with his father, his father, that powerful Beast King, died, and there was no more news regarding Zhou after that… Presumably, he had died without his father’s protection.
Shi Li didn’t take Zhou or even Zhou’s father seriously, but he also knew that he was still very weak right now and could not afford to become enemies with Zhou.
“You only know how to speak up for Xiong Ye!” Yang Su spoke unhappily.
Yang Ying also spoke up, “You’re looking down on us for having no ability, and don’t want to take care of us now that you have a promising future, right?”
Shi Li was a little annoyed, “You guys should relax. I won’t leave you.”
Yang Ying was relieved after she heard Shi Li’s words, “Li, we can only rely on you… You can’t leave us behind.”
Shi Li nodded. This was his mother and younger brother; of course he wouldn’t leave them behind.
In this life, he must not let his mother die early… It hadn’t been easy on her either. He’ll definitely let her live a good life!
While Shi Li was thinking this, he noticed the Lesothosaurus half that Yang Ying had cooked.
Yang Ying’s cooking skills were poor, and looking at her meals made people lose their appetite, but he was really hungry at the moment.
Shi Li ate the Lesothosaurus in a few bites, then said, “I’m going to sleep. Don’t make any noise and wake me up.” He wanted to start cultivating earlier!
Yang Ying and Yang Su nodded one after the other.
xiin: i realized that shi li never washed the bird poop off his head before he went to sleepjuu: … yeah that’s pretty gross