Chapter 33 - Misunderstanding (2/2)

“Zhou Ji!” Xiong Ye called out, “What are you doing?”

After running all this way, the ‘clothing’ that Zhou Ji had made using leaves had already broken apart. He had planned to make a new set when he discovered that Xiong Ye had arrived, which resulted in the current scene. “I accidentally ripped up my clothing today and wanted to make new clothing with these leaves.”

Now that Zhou Ji had mentioned it, Xiong Ye finally noticed that Zhou Ji’s hides, which had always been wrapped around him tightly, were all gone. He had only tied a large leaf around his waist with a vine in a similar way to the animal hide skirts they wore.

This was the first time Xiong Ye had a good look at Zhou Ji’s body, and he discovered that Zhou Ji’s body was as pale as his face.

Not only that… Zhou Ji actually had muscles!

Zhou Ji was really good looking! Xiong Ye sighed with feeling, then felt that it wasn’t too surprising for Zhou Ji to have muscles-Zhou Ji’s physical strength wasn’t bad at all. It was just unfortunate that he hadn’t awakened an animal form and was therefore weaker than other people.

Such a pity… Xiong Ye felt a little sympathetic towards Zhou Ji, then noticed that Zhou Ji had some small wounds on his arms and legs. He was shocked, “You got hurt?”

He anxiously rushed towards Zhou Ji, then took hold of Zhou Ji’s arm to take a closer look and saw dozens of fine wounds on his arm. They were especially obvious against his pale skin.

Speaking of which… How come he felt that Zhou Ji had become paler again?

Xiong Ye quickly threw the thought of ‘Zhou Ji was paler’ to the back of his mind and focused completely on the wounds, “Did you run somewhere far away? How did you get hurt?”

“I didn’t run far, but I was unlucky and encountered some plants that had sharp leaves and ended up with some cuts.” Zhou Ji explained.

Xiong Ye didn’t suspect anything. Those wounds were very small and indeed looked like wounds left behind by scratches from leaves, “You have to be more careful in the future! Your skin is so thin!”

Zhou Ji smiled and agreed.

His skin was actually very thick and especially after turning into his animal form, he definitely hadn’t been scratched by plants and trees. Those wounds had been left by that huge millipede.

Only, the wounds that had originally been quite large became much smaller after he returned to human form.

In fact, although his mammoth animal form was a little ugly, it was actually quite useful…

“I’ll help you put some medicine on it when we get back.” Xiong Ye said.

Zhou Ji nodded. He liked that Xiong Ye was concerned about him. It was just very unfortunate that the gift he had originally intended to give to Xiong Ye had ended up being swallowed down by himself instead.

Zhou Ji sighed in his heart, then suddenly realized that something was wrong…

After he had eaten the fruit, he had fled very quickly and focused on using the energy in his body to heal his wounds and restore his plant and spiritual powers that had been used up in the process of maturing the plant.

At the time, he had only felt that the energy in his body seemed to be inexhaustible, but now that he had stopped and wasn’t making use of it anymore…

His abilities and spiritual strength had all been fully restored, and he no longer needed to consume more energy, but there was still an extremely, extremely large amount of energy left in his body! There was really a little too much, and it was starting to run rampant within his body!

Zhou Ji opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Xiong Ye was still concernedly inspecting the wounds on Zhou Ji’s legs when he was splashed on the head by the blood Zhou Ji spat out.

“Zhou Ji, what’s wrong?” Xiong Ye was shocked, “Are you alright?”

“I’m fine.” Zhou Ji closed his eyes and focused all his spiritual powers on his body as he began to try and properly absorb the energy into his body.

This energy was too overbearing; if he didn’t absorb it, his current body would end up being overtaxed by the energy!

A rare, natural treasure like this was indeed difficult to obtain.

However, now that things had reached this point, Zhou Ji was very glad that the one to eat this fruit hadn’t been Xiong Ye.

Although he appeared weak, he knew very clearly that his body was actually much stronger than Xiong Ye’s. If the one who had eaten the fruit was Xiong Ye, he would probably be endlessly vomiting up blood by now.

Using his spiritual strength to help Xiong Ye absorb energy was much more difficult than using his spiritual strength to absorb energy for himself.

Zhou Ji had no attention to spare for anything else and focused completely on absorbing the energy.

Xiong Ye was incredibly worried by now. Zhou Ji said that he was ‘fine’, but he had his eyes closed and wasn’t moving at all… Zhou Ji hadn’t suffered some internal injury, right? Why else would he suddenly spit up blood?

How would Xiong Ye still have time to worry about the small wounds on Zhou Ji’s arms and legs at this point? He picked up Zhou Ji and ran back to the tribe.

Xiong Ye ran very quickly. Very soon, he had already returned back to the tribe with Zhou Ji in his arms and rushed straight to the priest’s cave.

The warriors who had been in the same hunting team as him were currently dealing with the prey they had taken down. They were surprised to see Xiong Ye come back with Zhou Ji in his arms, “What happened to Zhou Ji?”

“Why is Xiong Ye carrying Zhou Ji back?”

“Did Zhou Ji get injured?”

“Zhou Ji’s body looks fine. Where did he get hurt?”

……

At first, everyone suspected that Zhou Ji had been injured. Then, someone suddenly said, “When they came over here just now, I smelled the scent of blood on Xiong Ye’s body, as well as Zhou Ji’s scent.” The scent of Zhou Ji on Xiong Ye’s body was very intense, and even the smell of blood couldn’t cover it up!

The people of the tribe: “……”

Almost all of the tribespeople had awakened an animal form. Some of them had particularly good noses, and some had very good eyesight. Now…

“Did Xiong Ye and Zhou Ji, in the wilderness… Cough!”

“Probably, Xiong Ye smells like Zhou Ji.”

“Zhou Ji had some minor wounds on his arms and legs. Was it from when he was on the ground… scratches from the grass and leaves?”

“Zhou Ji usually wraps a lot of animal hides around him every day, but he only has one leaf around his waist today…”

“Was his clothing torn off by Xiong Ye?”

……

The people of the tribe almost immediately confirmed one thing-Xiong Ye and Zhou Ji had most likely been ‘fighting’ outside.

Most likely, it had been very intense.

Otherwise, why would they come back looking like this?

As for Zhou Ji being carried back by Xiong Ye… Xiong Ye’s strength was so great, so perhaps he wasn’t careful enough and accidentally hurt Zhou Ji…

During this discussion, there was even a woman who spoke with envy, “I wonder what it feels like to be with Xiong Ye… It’s probably very pleasurable?”

One of the men immediately spoke up, “In fact, I’m also very amazing! Do you want to give it a try with me?”

The people of the tribe laughed and joked around as they went back to work.

That was when the team that had caught the millipede returned to the tribe.

Xiong He was delighted when he saw the tribe’s harvest today. “You guys caught a lot of prey… Where’s Xiong Ye?”

When they heard Xiong He asking about Xiong Ye, someone immediately spoke up, “Chief, Xiong Ye injured Zhou Ji and brought Zhou Ji to find the priest.” When that person explained, he raised his eyebrows and shifted his gaze. His meaning couldn’t get any clearer.

Not to mention, the people around them also rushed up to vividly describe the scene that had just taken place.

Shi Li, who had returned back to the tribe with everyone and intended to go wash up after putting down his things, heard everything clearly and felt like he had suddenly been struck by lightning, “What did you guys say?”