Chapter 123 – The secret engraving technique (2/2)

As for the secret technique of engraving…only the Shaman of the tribe was able to do that, for it required the power of inheritance.

The Shaman had told Shao Xuan when he was reading the ancient volumes that if Shao Xuan wanted to try, he would find all the related ancient volumes. After all, based on the current situation, Caesar had met all the requirements to be engraved.

“The secret technique of engraving is very complicated, and can not be mastered in a short period of time.”

Was what the Shaman had said when Shao Xuan left.

In fact, Shao Xuan completely understood the Shaman’s meaning. He didn’t want Shao Xuan to rush into this. If he tried to do the engraving without fully understanding and mastering the technique, not only would the engraving fail, Caesar might even die from it. It had been said on the Shaman volume that there was a success rate in doing the engraving. Only half of the hounds would survive.

The risk could not be ignored.

Even the Shaman had never tried the secret technique of engraving. After all, there was no animal in the tribe on which the Shaman could test on.

Shao Xuan needed to think carefully about what to do. He would be the one to make the choice and the decision. Which meant that the Shaman wouldn’t interfere with it.

Since there was such a high risk, of course Shao Xuan won’t rush into anything. He would first completely understand and master every step of the way.

Looking at Caesar, who was yawning beside his feet, Shao Xuan sighed deeply inside. Caesar was just a wild beast and was still far from being a ferocious beast. In the forest, he could not compete with an alpha wolf, which was determined by nature, not Caesar himself. It would take a long time for him to transform from a normal animal into a ferocious beast. Just like those bats in the cave, every ferocious beast turned into one when it stepped on thousands of the other animals’ corpses.

Under such an environment, normal animals wouldn’t be able to survive long in the forests. Even people in the tribe must try hard to improve themselves.

No matter human or animal, they were all trying hard to improve and climb up on nature’s pyramid. For each and every step on the way, they left behind thousands of bodies.

“Well, I’ll just make baby steps first.” Shao Xuan whispered to himself as he stared at this lazy yawning wolf.

Everyday, Shao Xuan would read the ancient volumes at the Shaman’s place, and then copy them on his new animal skin rolls. He worked on them with full concentration, and circulated his power of inheritance accordingly as practice.

The Shaman also kept his promise, and found out all the related volumes about engraving and hounds.

Aside from when he was out in a hunting mission, Shao Xuan would continue his copy work while he was in the tribe.

In Shao Xuan’s room, there were already over ten animal skin rolls that he had finished. That was his hard work of all those days.

While Shao Xuan was copying those ancient volumes, many people in the tribe came to him.

Since people in the tribe started to think about keeping their own wolves, some people from the hunting teams would come to consult Shao Xuan after a hunting mission.

For example, Mo-er was here to talk to Shao Xuan.

He wanted to ask about ways to train and keep an animal. Since everyone else had absolutely no experience in keeping an animal at home. It seemed easy, but in fact, it was not. Many people were not able to keep the animals alive, and they would just eat the meat if their pets died.

Shao Xuan looked at the whelp that Mo-er held in his hand, and lifted his eyebrows.

“A cave lion?”

That was something very difficult to find. The cave lion was very fierce and savage. Most cave lion would grow into ferocious beasts. Even wolf packs dared not to mess with them. However, he had no idea what the whelp would be like.

According to Mo-er, they found a group of cave bears fighting against cave lions, and the cave lions lost. Almost every whelp of the cave lions were bitten to death, except for this little one. Mo-er brought it back, he wanted to keep it for himself.

Shao Xuan literally had no experience in keeping a cave lion at home. Since the very beginning, he kept Caesar like a dog. However, Caesar still had his wild side. The lucky thing was that, in the end, Caesar managed to keep his wild nature under control. As for Mo-er’s cave lion… All Shao Xuan could do was to share some basic do’s and don’t’s with him. Later on, it would be completely up to Mo-er.

One must pay full attention to it if you wanted to keep some fierce animal, and not let them go out of control. If any abnormal circumstances came up, people in the tribe would put it down first.

Even though it was not easy keeping an animal, many people wanted to try.

Not only Mo-er, many other warriors brought back wolf cubs during the later hunting missions. Altogether, they brought back some other animals as well.

Some warriors were so excited keeping an animal at first, but later on, their pets finally became meat and ended up in their bellies. However, some of the warriors held on to their original goal, among which, most of them were young warriors like Mo-er.

During wintertime, Shao Xuan demonstrated the flying ability of flying birds like Chacha. In the beginning of this new year, he made Caesar step into the front, and hence was recognized by everyone in the tribe. By doing that, he made the young warriors in the tribe find new ways to do things.

Now, Shao Xuan was the first and only one that kept an animal and had gained the Shaman’s recognition. So every time when people brought back something, they would delightfully come to Shao Xuan and chat about it.

Especially Mao. When the others were focusing on wolves, tigers, leopards, and lions, that lad brought back a baby boar! It was totally understandable that warriors in the tribe worshiped ferocious carnivores, but a wild boar…