Chapter 42 - Xiang Tian (1/2)

Ch42 - Xiang Tian

The first time Zhou Ji had come here, he had thought that the trees here were extraordinarily tall and could practically blot out the sun.

Now, however… These trees didn’t seem to be so tall in his eyes.

As for that huge millipede that had originally seemed very, very, big to him…

Last time, even though Zhou Ji had changed into his animal form, that millipede had still seemed huge and very long. Now… He felt that this millipede resembled a bug.

He felt like he would step on it and squash it if he wasn’t careful.

With that in mind, Zhou Ji immediately took a step backwards and knocked down several trees. Not only that, the millipede raised its upper body and stared at him for a while, then suddenly turned around and ran away at an incredible speed.

In the blink of an eye, it had already burrowed into the fallen leaves and disappeared.

He had previously thought that the knotted millipede’s IQ was very low, but now that didn’t seem to be the case. At the very least, it knew to run away when it couldn’t win.

Zhou Ji took a step forward, intending to accustom himself to his current body. As a result, that single step of his just happened to land on top of the stone crevice, and the entire stone crevice collapsed under his weight.

Zhou Ji: “……”

He felt a little sorry for the knotted millipede. Not only had he taken its fruit, he had gone so far as to crush its home…

Only, his animal form…

Zhou Ji had already learned that his animal form was very large a while back. His tusks were three meters long, and he was over four meters tall from the shoulder. He was probably considered very big even amongst other mammoths and had weighed at least ten tons.

And now… He felt he was many times bigger than he had originally been, and might even weigh over a hundred tons.

Now that he was like this, he guessed that he probably didn’t need to be scared of any dinosaur and could completely crush them based on his body’s size alone. And while Xiong Ye’s animal form had seemed very big to him when he was in human form, the brown bear seemed really, really small to him now.

It was completely possible for him to hold Xiong Ye in the palm of his hand.

Fine, he didn’t have hands right now. He only had elephant legs.

Zhou Ji was rather helpless as he looked at his own animal form before changing back into his human form.

Previously, he already felt that he couldn’t reveal his animal form in front of the other tribespeople, but now it was even more impossible.

The tribe’s little valley would probably be trampled into pieces by him if he turned into his animal form there.

After Zhou Ji changed back into his human form, he discovered that the original fairytale-like pool and its surroundings were now a complete mess. There were also several huge footprints maring the ground here and there.

However, nature was very resilient. Not only was there no pollution here, there was also a water source, so everything here would grow back vibrantly again sooner or later.

Although Zhou Ji felt that way, he still produced a vine and tossed it out, clearing up the mess he left behind. While he was doing this, he also grew some flowers and plants.

The cave that had been inside the stone crevice had been trampled, but a trickle of water still flowed out. The giant trees that had been destroyed hadn’t been regrown, but the large elephant footprints had been swept away, and flowers and grass grew in the spots where they’d been.

Zhou Ji glanced around, then turned around to leave.

This place was very beautiful. He could bring Xiong Ye here to play in the future.

Zhou Ji’s trip took a total of less than three hours altogether.

Someone in the tribe had seen him go out and seeing that he returned so soon, they thought he had just gone for a walk around the tribe and ignored the matter after seeing that he had come back.

Zhou Ji went back to the cave, lay down on his own bed, and began to eat heartily.

Over the past few days, the priest had followed and stuck so close to him like a shadow, so he hadn’t had time to eat in secret. He could make up for it today.

Zhou Ji continued eating non-stop for a good few hours.

He now had plenty of energy in his body and actually would be fine even if he didn’t eat anything, but if he really did start eating, he would feel that it wasn’t enough no matter how much he had.

Beastmen’s food intake was related to their animal forms. Normally, the larger their animal form’s food intake, the larger the beastman’s food intake would be. As for him…

Zhou Ji recalled that one of the reasons why mammoths had become extinct on Earth was because they hadn’t had enough to eat.

Fortunately, he had his plant abilities.

While he was thinking, Zhou Ji stuffed another fruit into his mouth, setting aside a few for Xiong Ye as he did so.

The hunting team didn’t return until evening. Xiong Ye returned along with them, “Zhou Ji, I’m back! There was another bumper harvest today!”

“You’re really amazing.” Zhou Ji praised.

Xiong Ye felt rather proud when he heard this. He also handed over two bird eggs to Zhou Ji, “I brought back two bird eggs for you to eat.”

“I picked and brought back some fruit for you.” Zhou Ji laughed, then added, “Let’s go and wash up by the river.”

Zhou Ji and Xiong Ye would go and wash up together every night.

The weather wasn’t very warm yet, and the people of the tribe were quite adverse to bathing, but Zhou Ji loved cleanliness, and Xiong Ye went out to hunt almost every day… So the two of them went to wash up daily.