Chapter 547 (2/2)

Now that things were calmer, Shao Xuan had time to take a closer look at the green-faced fanged beast.

After being used as a meteor hammer for a while, the beast’s eyes were still bright and clear but there was an anger in those eyes too. Hot air was constantly exhaled through its nose, water vapour as hot as steam wilted the grass directly beneath it.

When Shao Xuan was carrying it over, he noticed its rather high body temperature. Was this a trait of the green-faced fanged beast?

After closer inspection, Shao Xuan noticed the round stomach it had was slightly smaller now.

With a few tugs at the thread tying the beast, Shao Xuan confirmed that the beast was indeed “skinnier” now. It had only been an hour since it was freed from the cave, how did such a big change happen? If it had been this size when it rushed into the cave, it probably wouldn’t be stuck there.

It felt that the thread was slightly looser now and struggled harder to free itself so Shao Xuan hurriedly went to tighten the knots.

Other than that, there was a cut on its face. It probably was made by the two robbers but it was no larger than his finger and not a lot of blood was coming out from it.

A drop of green blood dripped out from the beast’s struggle.

The droplet slowly fell to the ground as if it was a feather. It didn’t seem to behave like a water droplet or blood.

Shao Xuan walked over to some grass that had blood on them. On the blades of grass, each droplet had tiny gas bubbles forming around the droplets. As soon as the gas bubbles formed, the blood seemed to evaporate vigorously, leaving no trace of it behind. The larger the gas bubbles, the quicker the blood evaporated.

Shao Xuan flipped over the leaf. If he hadn’t seen the blood drip onto the leaf, he wouldn't have believed it was once there.

Shao Xuan wondered before that why only the blood of certain species was used to construct weapons. Why didn’t the others use it?

He even tested with some beasts they hunted back but it seemed that there were specific traits of the blood that made them favourable to the weapon-making process.

The beast was rather light but Shao Xuan didn’t expect its blood to be this light too. Within a few breaths, all the blood evaporated.

The beast was still panting heavily, the plants all around it smothered by the hot steam coming out from its nose. Its body was ever decreasing in size, the round shape it had was no longer there. The cut on its face had a scab on it now. It seemed to heal pretty quickly.

Shao Xuan stood guard at the side, tightening the thread from time to time.

He was careful to avoid the fangs of the beast the whole time. He saw what it could do to human flesh and it was much worse than he thought. He had cold sweat thinking out how reckless he was when he grabbed it before. He couldn’t imagine what kind of injury he would have if it impaled him.

That explained the state of the carcass he saw a few days back. Those fangs the beast had was definitely its most powerful weapon, before even taking its frightening speed and highly flexible body into consideration.

This beast was surely the most dangerous thing in the forest. Shao Xuan was really lucky for it to get stuck in a cave. That was the only reason he could have caught it.

When the beast was half of its original size, Shao Xuan once again tightened the thread and carried it back.

After walking for a while, Shao Xuan noticed some people from the Hui tribe.

There was an eagle soaring in the sky as if it was searching for something.

Shao Xuan whistled to catch its attention.

The people looked relieved to see Shao Xuan. Mai and Luo rushed towards him when they heard the whistle.

They encountered some conflict with the Rock Hill City people and one of the tribesmen and an eagle got injured so they headed back. The rest continued to search for Shao Xuan.

“Xiang Chen got injured so Duo Kang sent him to the cave,” Mai reported the situation they faced to Shao Xuan.

“Is he alright?” asked Shao Xuan.

“Nothing to worry about. He should be fine after two days of rest, and this is..?” Mai pointed to the green-faced fanged beast with anticipation in his eyes.