Chapter 140 - Preparing To Depart (1/2)

Of course, the Rhinoceros Beast King certainly wouldn’t join the Big Bear Tribe.

However, the Big Bear Tribe had saved his son, so he felt a lot of goodwill towards the Big Bear Tribe. He solemnly thanked Zhou Ji.

Zhou Ji nodded casually and continued to eat.

Seeing this, the Rhinoceros Beast King couldn’t help himself anymore either––he decided to go and find himself something to eat. He was exhausted and starving from running around trying to find his son.

The Rhinoceros Beast King went out for a bit and came back soon after with a dinosaur. This dinosaur’s meat was his son’s favorite.

“Baobei, Father brought you back a delicious dinosaur!” The Rhinoceros Beast King said.

However, Xi Baobei glanced at him, then looked back over at the other people again––someone was making egg fried rice for him!

They first heated the oil, then put in some slices of meat, stir-frying it for a while before adding a dinosaur egg and frying it too. The rice came last, and… Not just Xi Baobei, even the Rhinoceros Beast King wanted to eat it after watching the process.

This Big Bear Tribe seemed to be a very rich tribe.

Otherwise… Would anyone put so much effort into studying how to make such troublesome food if they had difficulty simply filling up their stomachs?

“I heard that you guys are from the seaside? Do you live very far away from us?” The Rhinoceros Beast King asked Zhou Ji. “I haven’t heard of the Big Bear Tribe before.”

“We’re actually from the wild forest.” Zhou Ji said.

The Rhinoceros Beast King’s eyes opened wide in amazement. “That’s impossible.”

Ordinary beastmen on the Beastman Continent might not know about the wild forest, but as a Beast King, he had actually gone there before and knew that the quality of life of the people there was really poor.

Although the Beast God Temple was a little annoying in some ways, their priests did actually know a lot and could make the lives of ordinary beastmen better. However, there were no priests in the tribes of the wild forest.

“The world is very big.” Zhou Ji replied.

The Rhinoceros Beast King didn’t speak anymore. This world was indeed very big. Although he had been to many places, it was impossible for him to have gone everywhere. Perhaps there were also rich tribes in the wild forest?

At the very least, this Big Bear Tribe was both rich and powerful.

While the Rhinoceros Beast King was thinking about this, Xi Baobei came over to him holding a bowl and spoon. He scooped up a bite of egg fried rice and said, “Father, I’ll give you some food to eat.”

After sharing a bite with his father, the rest was his. Nobody could steal it from him!

“Baobei, why didn’t you give any to your grandfather?” Hai Feng felt a little sour.

“Grandfather has some!” Xi Baobei said.

Hai Feng held a bowl that was larger than Xi Baobei’s, smiled happily, and started eating with big gulps.

After killing the dinosaur he had hunted and roasting it to eat, the Rhinoceros Beast King suddenly felt that he shouldn’t have gone to eat that egg fried rice.

If he hadn’t eaten it, he wouldn’t have ended up disdaining his own roasted meat!

The Rhinoceros Beast King was very tired. After eating, he found a place to rest and went to sleep. As for Zhou Ji, he also went back to his own house to rest as well.

He also took the opportunity to take a look at his own strength.

The crystal core in his body had turned thoroughly black, and there was a lot more energy contained within it than before. His current level of strength was above that of a Beast King, and his animal form was probably larger than it had been before, but he hadn’t changed into his animal form yet to confirm.

Zhou Ji rested in the house for a while, and Xiong Ye eventually came over too, sitting next to Zhou Ji to cultivate quietly.

It was late in the evening by the time the two of them finished their cultivation.

Xiong Ye asked, “Zhou Ji, are you going to cook outside?”

Zhou Ji replied, “No need. I’ll just cook inside the house.”

Xiong Ye heard this and started a fire inside. He then asked, “What are we eating tonight?”

“Salted meat with bamboo shoots and rice.” Zhou Ji said.

Xiong Ye immediately started to look forward to it. He had eaten salted meat with bamboo shoots last year and remembered that it was very tasty. It was great that he could eat it again now!

Zhou Ji discovered that the pace of life in this era was really unprecedentedly slow.

But it made sense when he thought about it. Travel was done by walking, and communication by roaring, so there was a limit to how fast they could go no matter how much they wanted to speed things up.

Therefore, he also made food slowly when he cooked, spending several hours on a meal. To him, this time seemed to be nothing at all.