Chapter 145 – The Guy Came Back (1/2)

Translated by Sunyancai

It is to be said that although Chacha had not changed as much like the other older giant eagles, he had benefited a lot from this travel, with his body size increasing clearly, and his flying speed improving greatly. He could fly easily, even while carrying a man and some heavy items on his back.

After flying down from the mountain, Shao Xuan was unable to see the figures of the other giant eagles. It was time for each one to leave and go to their homes.

They would not fight each other until the day they reached their region. At that time, they might recall something like, “Oh, it’s you. We were in the same batch enterring the eagle mountain.”

Maybe they would never meet each other again their whole life.

Thanks to this travel, Shao Xuan saw the legendary eagle mountain, the so-called sacred land for the giant eagles, and their enormous changes after transforming, and also got some rare treatures. More importantly, it was the first time that he had seen an item from an external tribe.

So it was indeed a worthwhile trip.

Though Chacha grew bigger and flew faster, it was inevitable to get into trouble without the protection of a larger giant eagle. So it took them more time on the return journey.

Nevertheless, Shao Xuan got much joy from the battles on the way home. When he stayed in the ice field on the mountaintop, he spent most of the time sitting there quietly and absorbing the energy of the ice. For a while, he could run about, before the arrival of a new batch of giant eagles. With the increasing giant eagles in the ice field, he dared not to move around.

During the days in the ice region, Shao Xuan even found that the totem pattern on his arm had extended to his elbow unwittingly. On the way back, he took the opportunity to fight with ferocious beasts. Of course, he was not that arrogant to challenge those stronger than him. Except for unexpected enemies, every opponent was selected through cautious analysis by Shao Xuan for fighting practice.

Shao Xuan was injured by them many times, and even encountered fatal attacks from those ferocious beasts that were adept in hiding. All this hadn’t happened on their way to the eagle mountain. It should be contributed to the protection of the experienced giant eagle. Otherwise Shao Xuan and the tiny giant mountain eagle, Chacha, might have been eaten by the ferocious beasts and turned into their dung.

It was far beyond Shao Xuan’s expectation how dangerous the mountain forests actually were. In retrospect, it was indeed a bold and reckless decision to leave the tribe with Chacha before.

Alertness needed to be developed by experiencing dangerous battles over and over again. Instinct would be gradually weakened by long-term stability and peace, and could only be regained by experiencing a bloody battle again.

After feeding on ice for nearly a year, Shao Xuan nearly broke into tears when eating hot beast meat roasted with fire again, as did Chacha. He was quite ferocious when biting and pecking the meat, as if somebody had been vying for it.

After calculating the days, Shao Xuan guessed that it might be winter when they returned to the tribe.

“Do you miss Old Ke, Caesar, and the other peolpe in the tribe?” Shao Xuan tapped Chacha, who was tearing the meat, and asked.

Chacha suddenly stopped and seemed to be recalling. Then he let out a cry and continued tearing the meat more fiercely, even spilling blood in a large area.

Shao Xuan speculated that he must have thought of the beasts which had been successfully branded and intended to beat them up when arriving at the tribe.

At the sight of the familiar “Severing Land”, Shao Xuan and Chacha became eager to return to the tribe, but they still stayed prudent and alert in case of danger.

They travelled past the land of thorns and arrived at the third hunting area, where they didn’t meet the hunting group. The group must have already returned. According to the traces left in the cave, it could be inferred that the group just left here 3 or 4 days before. Despite the perilous hunting area, this finding made Shao Xuan and Chacha feel inexplicably relieved.

Shao Xuan and Chacha rested for one night in the cave and set off again the next day.

They had once thought the huge mountain separating the first and second hunting area unscalable, but they changed their mind after having seen the mountain range beside the eagle mountain.

They chose to climb the mountain directly instead of walking through the passage.

After flying through the layers of cloud, they encountered the familiar freezing mist.

“Come on, we are conquering it!”

“Jiao~~”

When standing at the top of the mountain, Shao Xuan didn’t suffer the chest tightness or shudder at the extremely low temperature here. It seemed that all this became easier to adapt to.

“ Let’s go home.” Said Shao Xuan.

Chacha pushed off the ground vigorously with his claws and flapped his wings to fly.

The situation in the tribe was as follows.

This year’s hunting activity had finished. Everyone was busy preparing their roofs for the coming winter. The Shaman said that they had to seize the time, because the winter would come tomorrow.

Standing on Caesar’s back with one leg, Old Ke was reinforcing some parts of the window.

After hammering for a while, Old Ke stopped to heave a sigh and descended from Caesar’s back. He casually threw the stone hammer to the ground and then sat down, staring at the distance in a trance.

“Caesar, when do you think Ah-Xuan will come back? Winter is coming.” Old Ke asked in a whisper.