Chapter 135 – The Only Exception (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

After the first teamwork, the following teamwork went smoothly. At the same time, these young warriors became more cautious.

Shao Xuan did not join them, sometimes he let Caesar go with them but did not give him any other orders.

“Are you ignoring Caesar?” Lang Ga was curious and asked him. Since the hunt of the huge bear, Shao Xuan had let Caesar take actions freely.

“I am developing his independence. Caesar is very smart, and sometimes, too much attention doesn’t help.” Said Shao Xuan.

“Don’t you often tell them to develop their beasts’ dependence? Why do you mention independence now?”

“We should adopt different ways to solve problems.” Shao Xuan replied.

Lang Ga did not understand it and gave up thinking about it. Then he went to have a look at what they were hunting.

Standing in the tree, Shao Xuan looked at the narrow stream in front of the tree. Some fallen leaves and small sticks were floating on the stream.

The ancient people observed the fallen leaves and gained the idea to make a boat. They found the wood floating on the water, so they knew how to make a boat.

In fact, it was not as difficult to build a boat as Shao Xuan had imagined. What he needed was just a trunk.

In the forest, there were many sturdy trees, and a trunk could be changed into a canoe.

But he still needed to carefully select a suitable tree type.

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Their beasts did not draw the attention of those high-level ferocious beasts in the woods that occupied some places as their respective territories. For them, they were just a few small beasts, so they did not pay any attention to them.

Mai led his hunting group, as well as a few beasts, travelling smoothly from the first location to the third, in spite of some small troubles. For the hunting group, this was a novel trip.

A cry was suddenly heard.

An eagle was screaming in the air.

Shao Xuan looked up and Chacha intended to fly to other places.

When they reached the third location, they had already spent two thirds of the hunting time, so the hunting group would not go any further. Moreover, they knew nothing about the terrain and species there. So in general, they would stay here for a few days, and then turn around and go back.

However, it seemed that Chacha wanted to continue flying further. If Shao Xuan had not been here, it would have flown away.

In the sky, Chacha’s unique flying routine told Shao Xuan that he wanted to go there. From the first location to the third, Chacha had manifested his strong desire to fly in that direction.

“Uncle Mai, do you know what that place is?” Shao Xuan pointed in the direction Chacha wanted to fly at, and asked.

“Severing Land?”

“Maybe.” Mai replied with uncertainty. He really could not remember much of it, he had just heard some old warriors say they couldn’t go there when he was young.

Since the ancestors stopped here and did not move forward, they had their reasons. Because of their trust in the ancestors, each group leader stopped here, and would not continue to onward. Even if they went further, they did not go in that direction.

“Don’t go there.” Mai stared at Shao Xuan, and asked him to make a promise.

Shao Xuan paused for a moment, then he nodded and said, “OK, I understand. We won’t go there.”

Hearing Shao Xuan’s promise, Mai finally smiled, looked at the sky, waved to Shao Xuan, and said, “It is time to go back.”

Shao Xuan whistled, and then made a gesture to Chacha, who was flying in the air.

Another cry was heard.

Chacha was unwilling to return, so he circled the original place, before finally following Shao Xuan back to the third holdout. Due to his bad mood, it fought with an unknown bird on the way and was defeated. The unknown bird only suffered slight injury, but Chacha was badly hurt, and was even stripped of some feathers.

He was feeling even worse.

Shao Xuan was comforting him, while applying a drug to his wounds.

“When I go back, I will ask the Shaman what that place is. If we can go there, I will take you there.”

As the day to return was approaching, those who went hunting with their beasts began to feel worried. Although they thought their beasts had a good performance, which did not fight, or cause any big trouble to the group, and also helped with hunting a lot of prey, but only the animal skin roll written by Shao Xuan would be read by the Shaman.

Lei was particularly worried, because he had had a conflict with Shao Xuan. He was afraid that Shao Xuan still remembered their conflict. It occurred to him that when he got angry, following the others’ behavior, Lei dragged out a ferocious beast. This ferocious beasts level was not high, but it was the only ferocious beast caught by him and Meng. Until now, if he went hunting alone, he could only catch a beast.

Shao Xuan looked at the prey in front of him and did not know what to say for a long time.