Chapter 116 - Powering Up (1/2)

Ch116 - Powering Up

Xiong Ye was anxious, and consequently the speed at which he built the raft was very fast. It wasn’t long before the raft was complete.

He pushed the raft out into the sea, intending to go out and start searching.

Xiong Qi and the others all spoke up, “Chief, I’m going too.”

“I’ll go with you.”

“Me too.”

Xiong Ye refused them all. “No, you guys stay here.”

“I’ll go with you.” Zhu Zhan said. Those low level Beast Warriors would be useless if they encountered danger, but he might be of help to Xiong Ye if they encountered danger.

“Thanks.” Xiong Ye also acknowledged this point and immediately thanked him for his help. He then went over to One-Eyed Wolf and dislocated the joints on both her arms and legs––after he and Zhu Zhan left, the strongest person left here would be One-Eyed Wolf. He wanted to prevent this person from doing anything bad.

One-Eyed Wolf had her joints dislocated and started to curse loudly. Seeing this, Xiong Ye had someone gag her mouth and tie her up.

One-Eyed Wolf: “……”

Xiong Ye and Zhu Zhan boarded the raft together and started to paddle.

Neither of them had rowed a boat before and weren’t very skilled at it. At first, they were only able to turn the raft around and around while remaining in the same place, but after trying it a few times, Xiong Ye learned how to do it and they finally started moving the raft forward.

Waves came and splashed up onto the raft, but it could at least remain floating on the water… Xiong Ye and Zhu Zhan were each on one side of the raft, working hard to move the raft.

Xiong Ye didn’t say a single word during this time. Zhu Zhan wasn’t very accustomed to this silence, “Xiong Ye, don’t worry. The Sea God of the Beach Tribe hasn’t returned, which means that Zhou Ji won.”

“Yes, he won.” Xiong Ye agreed, then took a deep breath and looked at Zhu Zhan.

One-Eyed Wolf had spoken many provocative things earlier. Xiong Ye was worried that Zhu Zhan would start to dislike Zhou Ji, so he said, “There must be a reason for why Zhou Ji hasn’t helped you. I think that there’s something wrong with him when he turns into his animal form. Perhaps this kind of powerful strength is beyond his control.”

Now that Xiong Ye had mentioned this, Zhu Zhan also felt that this made sense.

To speak of nothing else, just taking into account the time when the Giant Tiger Tribe was utterly destroyed as an example…

At the time, Zhou Ji could have secretly killed all of the people of the Giant Tiger Tribe. If he had done so, they would probably have never discovered this matter at all. Yet, what had happened in the end? Zhou Ji had caused such a large disturbance, and not only had he destroyed the Giant Tiger Tribe, he had also killed a lot of dinosaurs and wrecked a whole stretch of forest.

He could ignore Zhou Ji killing all the dinosaurs, but what was the point in wrecking a forest? This was obviously a little strange. And his means back then had really been too cruel and too crazy…

“I know. There must be a reason for why he’s like this.” Zhu Zhan said, “Don’t concern yourself over One-Eyed Wolf’s words. It was Zhou Ji who insisted on coming with the salt team this time, and he secretly followed us when we went to attack the Giant Tiger Tribe before… It must be because he cares about you.”

Xiong Ye nodded, then suddenly asked Zhu Zhan, “Is it true that you can go back on your vows after becoming mates?”

Zhu Zhan: “I’m not clear about this, but on the Beastman Continent, there is no such thing as being unable to separate.”

Xiong Ye: “I see.”

Zhu Zhan noticed that his expression was a little strange, and suddenly thought about how Xiong Ye hadn’t even known how men and men slept together. He and Zhou Ji… could it be that they really had problems between them?

However, he couldn’t even solve his own troubles. How could he have time to worry about other people’s relationship problems?

In fact, he had accompanied Xiong Ye to come out and look for Zhou Ji for a reason––Zhou Ji was so powerful that he wanted Zhou Ji to send him across the river.

He had something to request of Zhou Ji, so even if he was unhappy in his heart, he wouldn’t be like One-Eyed Wolf and offend Xiong Ye and Zhou Ji.

.The raft soon ventured deeper into the sea, but the sea in front of them was so vast that they had no idea about where to start to look for someone.

He hoped that Zhou Ji was alright. If Zhou Ji was fine, he might be able to send him across the river, but if something had happened to him… he would have to fight his way across on his own.

Xiong Ye stopped shouting and rowed forward with Zhu Zhan. After they travelled a bit further, Xiong Ye started shouting again.

But they still didn’t receive any response.

The sky slowly brightened, but there was still nothing.

At first, Xiong Ye had still been able to remain calm, but he gradually started to grow restless.

Zhou Ji was very strong, but the person who had come to fight them last night was also very strong. That person’s animal form was so big…

“Let’s go back first?” Zhu Zhan proposed.

Xiong Ye didn’t want to go back. He kept feeling like he would be able to find Zhou Ji if he searched for just a little bit longer, but as the sun rose up in the sky and shone down on the blue sea, it was very clear that there was nothing there.

Moreover, they were now far away from the coast. If they continued on, they might not be able to see the shore and could end up lost in the vast sea…

“Zhou Ji is so strong. Perhaps he’s already gone back.” Zhu Zhan suggested.

“Let’s go back.” Xiong Ye finally made a decision.

They started rowing back together. When they finally came close to the shore, they noticed a column of smoke billowing from the beach further down the coastline.

By the time Xiong Ye and Zhu Zhan set out to sea to look for him, Zhou Ji had already recovered somewhat.

He certainly couldn’t just continue to float around at sea now that he had recovered.

Xiong Ye must be very worried given that he had gone out into the sea to fight against the whale. He needed to get back as soon as possible so that Xiong Ye wouldn’t keep worrying.

With that in mind, Zhou Ji looked towards Hai Feng, “Which direction leads back to the shore?”

Zhou Ji basically couldn’t distinguish between north, south, east, or west while in the sea. Even if he spread out his spiritual powers, the surroundings were the same everywhere… He had no idea which direction the shore was in.

However, even if he was clueless, the Hai Feng who had spent so long in the sea definitely knew which direction the shore was. He was tied up and couldn’t move, but he used his head to point in a certain direction, “The coast is that way.”

After pointing out the direction, he looked on as Zhou Ji, who had wrapped some kelp around his own body at some point in time, started running along the surface of the sea.

Energy gathered around Zhou Ji’s body, allowing Zhou Ji to move forward swiftly, while also ensuring that he didn’t sink into the water.

That was possible?! Hai Feng was somewhat surprised as he saw how Zhou Ji traveled. He was still pondering the different ways that energy could be used when he was tugged along.

Previously, Zhou Ji had tied him up severely with kelp. Now, he held a strand of kelp and dragged him along as he ran.

This feeling of being dragged along was horrible, but Hai Feng had no way to resist and could only try to adapt to all of this in order to preserve his life.

Hai Feng closed his eyes and allowed himself to ‘glide’ along the water. He always felt that the wounds on his head kept growing more and more painful from the seawater that sluiced over him.

Zhou Ji had already recovered a lot. It didn’t take long before he arrived at the shore with Hai Feng in tow. He then helplessly discovered that they were quite far away from the Beach Tribe.

Zhou Ji could only carry Hai Feng with him and run towards the Beach Tribe.

After running for a while, Zhou Ji suddenly became a little afraid to continue on.