Chapter 116 - Powering Up (2/2)

He had lied to Xiong Ye. Was Xiong Ye very unhappy with him now?

This was all Hai Feng’s fault!

Zhou Ji tossed Hai Feng onto the ground and said abruptly, “I will let you go, but you have to do as I say in the future.”

“Why?” Hai Feng demanded.

“Because you can’t win against me.” Zhou Ji said. He used some of the spiritual powers and energy that he had recovered to pressure Hai Feng.

“I’ll do as you say, I’ll definitely do as you say!” Hai Feng immediately agreed. He didn’t want to die, so he could only choose to give in.

“Good.” Zhou Ji continued, “Since that’s the case, remember my words. We both suffered losses when we fought against each other before. Also… After fighting with me, you felt that it was wrong to proclaim yourself as the Sea God. It offended the Beast God, so you now want to repent and will obey me in the future.”

“Alright.” Hai Feng agreed, then asked, “What do you want to do?”

Zhou Ji wanted to portray himself as weak and pitiful, but he didn’t plan to tell all this to Hai Feng.

After tossing Hai Feng down on the beach, Zhou Ji went and brought back some wood, then rubbed two sticks against each other to light a fire.

The fire started burning and produced a lot of smoke. It should be visible to the people of the Beach Tribe off in the distance.

After completing all this, Zhou Ji went back to where Hai Feng was and used his energy to heal the wounds on Hai Feng’s face.

Once the wounds on this person’s face were healed, Zhou Ji finally discovered that this person was already quite old. He appeared to be fifty or sixty years old, and he had a particularly loyal and honest looking face.

“How miraculous.” Hai Feng discovered that the wounds on his face had disappeared and felt a burst of wonder. He no longer had any thoughts of resistance.

The person in front of him was much stronger than he was.

After beating him half to death, this person was still able to go on and kill a sea behemoth at the same level as a Beast King. Hai Feng knew that he wouldn’t be able to win against him no matter how hard he fought and could only do as he said.

“Don’t say any nonsense when I’m talking later.” Zhou Ji said, giving Hai Feng a threatening glare.

Hai Feng nodded, then watched on as Zhou Ji lay down right by the fire. He looked… a little weak and frail?

Hai Feng: “……” What exactly was this man trying to do?!

Hai Feng didn’t know what Zhou Ji was trying to do, but he also didn’t dare to run away. Well, fine, he couldn’t escape even if he wanted to.

He had left his tribe at the age of ten and had lived in the water in his animal form for most of his life. He didn’t know much about the world of beastmen, which left him quite confused at this moment.

The flames were very warm, but Hai Feng didn’t find it comfortable. Instead, he wanted to move away––he felt very uncomfortable when he was dry.

Hai Feng was thinking about how uncomfortable he felt when Zhou Ji suddenly spoke up, “Add some wood to the fire.”

“My body is…” Hai Feng wanted to say that he was still wrapped up in kelp, but he then discovered that the kelp that surrounded him had broken into pieces.

He clamored around with his injured body in order to add wood to the fire. It was very miserable, but Zhou Ji even added, “Wrap a piece of kelp around your body. Don’t go around naked.”

Hai Feng, who had lived nude for so many years in the sea, could only find a piece of kelp to cover himself up with.

The fire had been burning for over an hour by the time Xiong Ye and Zhu Zhan led people over to find them.

Xiong Ye had immediately thought of the signal smoke that Zhou Ji had once told him about as soon as he saw the smoke on the distant shore while at sea. He felt that Zhou Ji should be where the smoke was!

With this in mind, he started rowing faster. They first arrived at the shore, and then he called over the people of the Big Bear Tribe to go and find Zhou Ji together.

They ran very fast, and arrived at the place in the sand where the fire was lit soon after. After that, it only took them a glance to see the pale faced, miserable looking Zhou Ji.

“Zhou Ji! Zhou Ji, are you alright?” Xiong Ye’s expression was full of worry. He couldn’t remember a single one of the jumbled thoughts that previously occupied his head, and could only hope that Zhou Ji was alright.

“I’m fine.” Zhou Ji said.

He was really alright. He was just a little tired, and… the sea beast’s crystal core hadn’t been fully absorbed yet and was still providing him with some support.

“It’s great that you’re fine.” Xiong Ye picked up Zhou Ji, whose skin was covered in tiny grains of salt from the dried up sea water, and embraced him in his arms.

Xiong Ye’s attention was all focused on Zhou Ji, but Zhu Zhan noticed Hai Feng’s existence. “Who are you?”

Hai Feng glanced at Zhou Ji and didn’t dare answer––Zhou Ji had told him not to speak carelessly!

“Cough, cough… He’s the Sea God of the Beach Tribe. His name is Hai Feng.” Zhou Ji introduced. “The Beast God showed us a miracle while we were fighting. He now knows that he was wrong and no longer dares to call himself the Sea God. He’s decided to believe in the Beast God.”

Zhou Ji was speaking nonsense. He didn’t even believe in the Beast God.

Hai Feng heard Zhou Ji’s words and immediately agreed, “Exactly!”

Zhu Zhan was pleasantly surprised when he heard this.

Based on Zhou Ji’s strength, it would be a simple matter to send him across the river, but there seemed to be problems with Zhou Ji’s body… However, this Hai Feng seemed to be fine!

If he could get this man to protect him as he crossed the river…

“Xiong Ye, I’m sorry. I lied to you before…” Zhou Ji looked at Xiong Ye, “Only, I can’t casually make a move against others…”

Zhou Ji was purposely acting pitiful so that Xiong Ye would forgive him, but he didn’t plan to go overboard. However, he hadn’t expected that at this moment, the energy in his body would go berzerk, forcing him to be unable to hold back from spitting out a mouthful of blood.

A Beast King level crystal core wasn’t easy to absorb since there was too much energy contained within. Not only that… he didn’t know if it was because he had constantly been cultivating in addition to the crystal core that he had eaten this time to ‘support’ himself, but changes actually started to take place in his own crystal core.

The color of the purple crystal core inside his body grew even deeper and darker. Finally, it seemed that it was slowly turning black.

He was… going to power up again.

It turned out that there was another level beyond Beast King?

Beastmen didn’t suffer much when they powered up, but it was different for Zhou Ji. Not only did he spit out a mouthful of blood, but because there was too much energy within his body, and because a lot of the energy didn’t belong to him, beads of blood even started to form on his skin.

He soon turned into a bloody person.

In fact, nobody would eat the crystal core of a mutant beast that they had killed. The energy might reject the beastman’s own energy if it was eaten directly, and it was possible for beastmen to lose their lives that way. It was even worse when they ate a crystal core from a mutant beast that was at the same level of strength as they were.

Only, Zhou Ji hadn’t known about any of this.

However, he knew how to cultivate and knew how to absorb energy that didn’t belong to him. For better or worse, he wouldn’t suffer any serious consequences, but his situation would be the same as it had been when he absorbed that Beast God Fruit where there was too much energy inside him all of a sudden. The energy would go crazy within his body, destroying it from within.

“Zhou Ji!” Xiong Ye was frightened by this situation.

Hai Feng: “……” It was clear that there was nothing wrong with this Zhou Ji! He was even threatening him just a while ago!

So, Zhou Ji was acting, right? His act was so realistic!