Chapter 617 Cutting Up Meat With A Green Blade (2/2)

In front of the Longboat tribe seating area, Ao’s skillful performance continued to grow fancier, his movements swifter, and his momentum grew much stronger than before.

Even those who were farther away felt his murderous intent, not to mention the people of the Longboat tribe who were sitting that close.

The faces of the Longboat tribesmen couldn’t stop twitching. Even if Ao’s murderous energy was not targeted at them, the momentum coming from him could not prevent any murderous energy from spreading. They felt shivers go down their spine, and goosebumps began to spread across their skin.

Some people wanted to avert their attention and not be affected by Ao’s movements, but when they set their eyes on the other plate, they realised that the chunks of meat that were sliced out from the other plate were all complete chunks of muscle!

Broad and complete muscles of the animal were sliced out one after another. Even the tightest type of muscles and the circular types of muscles that were the hardest to cut out were sliced out clean off the bones. He ensured that each muscle was cut out as a complete piece.

Seeing this, the people’s faces twitched even more severely than before.

It was true that the Flaming Horn tribe were showing off their skills, but they were not just cutting meat. They were making sure not even a single piece of flesh stayed on the bones!

Cutting the exterior of the meat was a simple task, but making sure it was clean off the bones was not easy.

If he didn’t have any knowledge about the fierce beast, how could he perfectly cut it up?

When everyone’s attention was focused on the meat that was perfectly cut clean off the bones, a thought came into Mu Fa’s mind. The chief of the Longboat tribe was closest to Ao at the time.

There’s something strange about the spearhead!

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Pieces of meat continued to fall incessantly on the stone plate, creating a sound similar to rainfall. It finally came to a halt.

At this moment, the dead beast that was on the plate before was now only a clean skeleton, and the chopped pieces of meat were piled onto the other stone plate. Every muscle of the beast was cut up perfectly.

Ta and others who were holding their plates set their plates on beside where the Longboat tribe sat. That space was purposely left unoccupied for the stone plates.

It was finally over.

They could hear the sound of the entire group’s exhale in relief.

Bro, you’re just cutting meat! Did you have to make it so scary? I’ve got freaking goosebumps now!

You think I don’t know you’re enjoying yourself underneath that poker face!

This group of Flaming Horn people are just trying to show off, right?! They’re just trying to brag about how familiar they were with each piece of meat right? Or were they just showing off their spearing skills?

Alright. While the guests were upset, they were still quite shocked. Especially the momentum they felt from Ao when he was piercing the meat. Some of them even held their breath. It was like an enactment of a hunt. The precision and mastery in cutting! If they didn’t eat beast meat often, how could they have done such a proficient job?

They even eat fearsome beast meat often?! Wish we had that too! Perhaps this was the right way to enjoy the meat of fearsome beasts?

Ao looked over at the people from the Longboat tribe whose facial expressions were changing by the second. He waved his hand behind him and said, “Next!”

Ao was quite proud that he could perform at a feast of this scale. His stern face began to relax and the sides of his mouth curved upwards irresistibly. To show off during the Flaming River Banquet was Ao’s idea.

Didn’t they need to provide meat on the banquet? Well, I’ll give you meat, and I’ll be generous too. This was a banquet to show off our wealth and social status. Stinginess could only make us lose face. We have to be generous! Though Ao could’ve been a little too violent with his performance.

And as to how Ao learned a skill like this…. Well who didn’t have a little story?

Back in the years when Ao was still a kid, the Flaming Horn tribe were still stuck on this side of the great river. They lived apart from the rest of the world and because there wasn’t much entertainment in the tribe, he would either practice basic hunting techniques, learn how to polish and create stone tools, or chit-chat with a group of younger boys.

Ao had no interest in these matters. Every day, the activity he looked forward to doing was cutting up the large pieces of cooked beast meat into smaller pieces after it was taken out of the meat soup. If the prey was a smaller one, they would just put the entire thing in and he would be in charge of dissecting the meat.

After Ao awakened his totemic power, he participated in more of these activities. This was because he became stronger after his awakening and this task became much easier than before. Whenever he felt tired, he would increase the difficulty of his task and he would start practicing different cutting styles. These ranged from cutting it into thin slices, small chunks, and later to complete pieces of muscles. Skills were trained in the most boring of times when people were looking for something fun to do.

Fearsome beasts that were active in the forest often didn’t have too much fat. Especially the ones that were fast and fierce. Their muscles were so tight that after their meat was cooked, their flesh could be pulled off one after another. Ao loved to carve pieces in their complete form, and the only tool he needed to make that was a normal spear.

This was Ao’s personal entertainment. He also liked to show off his skill in front of other people. In the Flaming Horn tribe, even if there were others with the same hobby, no one could win him in slicing up meat. This was why every time when many people had meat together, Ao would show off his skill. And it was no different today, on the Flaming River Grand Feast.

He loved it most when people really wanted him to stop but still had to watch him perform till the end with a forced expression. Ha! He could even show off twenty-three times! How exciting!

Those people from smaller tribes who were seated all the way in the back began to worry. Seeing Ao’s movements, they wondered what it would feel like when Ao came over to cut the meat in front of them. How would they feel? Would they be frightened?

When they thought about it, even their appetite was lost.

They knew that they had to pay a price to eat the Flaming Horn tribe’s meat.

But, compared to those medium-small tribes that had their eyes on Ao’s cutting technique, the chiefs of the few major tribes all focused their attention on the spear in Ao’s hands.

A green spearhead?

Was it metal?

Why were there metal weapons with such an unusual colour?

They had also taken a lot of different metal weapons from the hands of the slave masters who escaped from the desert. They found dark golden ones, light golden ones, white ones, red ones, but none were green!

Wasn’t gold the most typical colour out of all for metal weapons?

Because metal had always been regarded as a treasure, they took great care of it and ensured there were no rust, and they had never come across any metal weapons that were painted, so when they saw the green spearhead on Ao’s spear, many of them in the crowd began to have different thoughts.

Especially the one who was closest to Ao at the time, the chief of the Longboat tribe, Mu Fa. Even though Ao had already left with Ta, but in his ear he could still remember clearly the sound made by the spear when Ao swung it across the air. The spearhead cut through the air with a clear and crisp sound. It was shocking and brought fear to people’s hearts.

It was the sound of metal, yet it was different from the metal weapons they had.