After the first cooperation, the next few hunts went much smoother. At the same time, these young warriors became more cautious.
Shao Xuan didn't join them. Sometimes, he even let Caesar go with them. He didn't give Caesar more instructions.
"You don't care about Caesar anymore?" Lang Ga was very curious. Since the giant bear, Shao Xuan had let Caesar move freely for several hunts.
"I'm training it to be independent. Caesar is very smart. Sometimes, it can even help Yang Guang and the others." Shao Xuan said.
"Didn't you always tell them to be dependent on each other? Why are you talking about 'independence' now? "
"The specific situation needs to be analyzed. Different methods have to be used at different times." Shao Xuan answered.
Since he couldn't understand, Lang Ga decided to stop thinking about it. He went to see what the other beasts were hunting.
Shao Xuan stood on a tree and looked at a small stream in front of the tree. There were falling leaves and some broken twigs on the stream.
The ancient people thought the fallen leaves were boats, and when they saw the black wood floating on it, they knew it was a boat.
In fact, a boat was not as hard to make as Shao Xuan thought. A tree was enough.
In the forest, there were many thick trees. A section of the tree trunk could be made into a canoe.
However, the material of the tree still needed to be checked.
…
The appearance of these beasts in the forest didn't attract the attention of the high-level ferocious beasts in their own territories. For them, these were just a few small beasts. They didn't care about them.
Mai led the hunting team and these beasts from the first stronghold to the third. Although there were many small troubles along the way, the overall journey was quite smooth. For the members of the hunting group, this was also a novel hunting trip.
Jiao —
An eagle's cry came from the sky.
Shao Xuan looked up. Chacha wanted to fly to another place.
When they arrived at the hunting ground of the third stronghold, two thirds of the hunting time had passed. The hunting team wouldn't go far. Moreover, if they went further, they wouldn't be familiar with the terrain and species composition. Therefore, under normal circumstances, they would stay here for a few days, and then turn around and go back.
However, Chacha seemed to want to keep flying forward. If it weren't for Shao Xuan, it would have flown away long ago.
In the sky, Chacha had already told Shao Xuan with its unique flight path that it wanted to go there. Chacha showed its strong desire to go in that direction when it came to the third stronghold.
"Uncle Mai, do you know where it is?" Shao Xuan asked, pointing at the direction Chacha wanted to fly to.
Mai thought for a while and shook his head. "I think I heard the old warriors mention it a long time ago. I can't remember. I only know that it's not a place we can go. I think it's called … the Severing Land."
"Chacha land?"
"Yes." Mai answered vaguely. He really couldn't remember. But when he was young, he heard other old warriors talking about it, saying that they couldn't go there.
Since the ancestors stopped here and didn't go further, they must have their reasons. Out of their complete trust in their ancestors, every leader of the hunting group would not go any further after they arrived at this place. Even if they wanted to expand, they wouldn't go in that direction.
"Don't go there." Mai stared at Shao Xuan. He needed Shao Xuan's promise.
After a pause, Shao Xuan nodded, "Okay, I know. I won't go there."
Mai finally smiled when he heard Shao Xuan's promise. He looked at the sky and waved to Shao Xuan, "Time to go back."
Shao Xuan whistled, and then made a gesture to Chacha in the sky.
Jiao — —
Chacha screamed unwillingly. It flew around the same place for a few more times, and then followed Shao Xuan back to the cave of the third stronghold. Because of its bad mood, it fought with an unknown bird on the way back. Unfortunately, the bird was more skillful. It only suffered a few scratches from Chacha, while Chacha was not only injured, but also bald.
Mai felt even worse.
Shao Xuan comforted it while applying medicine to Chacha.
"When we go back, I'll ask the Shaman what's over there. If it's okay, I'll take you there."
As the return day was approaching, the hunters began to feel anxious. Although they felt that their beasts did a good job this time, they didn't fight, didn't cause any trouble to the hunting team, and even helped them to hunt a lot of prey. However, in the end, the only thing that was presented to the Shaman was the animal skin roll in Shao Xuan's hand.
Especially Lei, he had a conflict with Shao Xuan before, so he was worried that Shao Xuan would hold a grudge against him. Thinking of what other people did when he was angry, Lei dragged out a ferocious beast. This ferocious beast's level was not high, but it was the only ferocious beast that he and Meng had caught. In Meng's current situation, he could only catch wild beasts by himself.
Shao Xuan looked at the prey in front of him and didn't know what to say for a long time.
Was this blatant bribery!?
He had a lot of thoughts.
Not only Lei, but the others also dragged their prey to Shao Xuan when they saw what Lei did.
Guang's phorusrhacos walked to Shao Xuan, shook its neck twice, and then lowered its head and spat out a piece of undigested bone in front of Shao Xuan.
Shao Xuan: "…"
Seeing that Shao Xuan's expression was not very good, Yang Guang and his sister hurried to pull the phorusrhacos away.
Shao Xuan didn't record these bribes in the animal skin roll, but when he returned to the tribe and reported to the Shaman, he said that these beasts were the reward for this trip.
The Shaman didn't care about this. He took the animal skin roll handed to him by Shao Xuan and studied it for three days.
Lei, Mao, Yang Guang and his sister didn't know that Shao Xuan also recorded some pictures in the form of Wu Roll when he was recording. And these pictures were the scenes of these beasts hunting prey with their unique hunting methods.
The advantages and disadvantages, as well as the temperament of these beasts, could be clearly seen from the recorded words and the Shaman's drawings. Shao Xuan didn't need to say much.
After the first time, the Shaman didn't make a decision immediately.
Later, the Shaman arranged several times to let these beasts stay in the same hunting group, but they didn't stay in Mai's hunting group, but changed their hunting routes one by one.
Shao Xuan also followed the Shaman's instructions one by one. He was lucky enough to walk around the hunting routes of other hunting groups, and had a general understanding of the distribution of species on each hunting group's hunting routes.
After each hunting trip, Shao Xuan also drew a more specific map. On this map, roughly where there were wild beasts, ferocious beasts, where there were more herbs, where there were huge trees, etc., were all marked. Shao Xuan didn't tell anyone except the Shaman, even Old Ke didn't know.
Several times when Shao Xuan went to other hunting groups, he took Caesar and Chacha with him. After following the hunting routes of other hunting groups to the third location, Chacha showed a strong yearning for a certain direction again, and wanted to fly in that direction. But for the other times, it didn't do so.
Shao Xuan asked the Shaman why this happened, but the Shaman didn't give a definite answer. He said that he would read the Wu Roll records left by his ancestors to see if there were any detailed records.
Before the situation was clear, Shao Xuan wouldn't take Chacha to that place easily. Who knew what would be there? Could they come back safely?
Because the Shaman had talked with Lei and Mao, who had raised wild beasts, they tried their best to hunt as much food as possible before the winter.
This winter, the Shaman engraved the beasts one by one, except for Caesar and Chacha. During the engraving process, the Shaman called Shao Xuan over, and planned to let Shao Xuan do it if he couldn't hold on. Gui Ze, as the next Shaman, was also called over to watch.
The engraving site was right next to the fire pit. In order to ensure enough spiritual power during the engraving process, Shao Xuan was responsible for throwing Fire Crystals into the fire pit.
It was snowing heavily, but there was no snowflake around, not even a drop of melted rain. Compared to other places on the mountain, the fire pit next to the fire pit was like a big heater.
Shao Xuan threw a Fire Crystal into the fire pit, and watched the red energy floating towards the Shaman and himself. As for Gui Ze, she hadn't awakened, so she couldn't absorb the energy of the Fire Crystal.
"Let's start." The Shaman said.
The first one to be brought over was Lei's beast named "Meng". The people who brought Meng left quickly, and Lei couldn't stay here, so they waited in another stone house.
At the top of the mountain, there were only the Shaman, Shao Xuan, and Gui Ze by the fire pit.
The Shaman sat on the animal skin blanket, looking at the wild beast that was a little taller than him, and reached out his hand.
The familiar two-horned flame totem appeared in the Shaman's palm, and the blue totem gradually took shape, but it took longer than Shao Xuan. When the totem was completely formed, the Shaman was sweating profusely. Fortunately, the energy of the Fire Crystal could be replenished quickly.
This time, the Shaman didn't have to guard against the surrounding dangers like Shao Xuan did that night. He was very safe here.
The process was similar to what Shao Xuan did, but after the totem was formed, it took longer to imprint it. Fortunately, the totem didn't disperse when the last bit was imprinted, and this step was completed.
At the moment when the totem was completed, the Shaman was exhausted and fell down. If Shao Xuan didn't react quickly and caught him, the Shaman would have fallen directly on the stone beside the fire pit.
After the first totem, the Shaman found that he could only hold on to one totem. It would take a longer time to imprint all seven beasts. After one totem, he had to rest for a few days before he could imprint the next one.
When the last totem was imprinted, almost half of the winter had passed.
According to the ancient scroll, the success rate of imprinting the accompanying hunting dogs was only half. The Shaman was prepared, but he didn't expect that all seven beasts would be successfully imprinted! Although there were four times when the totem was almost scattered, it quickly condensed in the end and the totem was imprinted.
The seven beasts were also in good condition.
In one winter, the seven beasts imprinted by the Shaman all grew up. However, they didn't change as much as Caesar did. Just like what was recorded in the animal skin scroll passed down by the ancestors, after the totem was imprinted, it was a gradual process that was relatively slow.
At the same time, compared to the seven beasts who were getting better and better, Chacha was listless all day long.
For Chacha, who was usually full of energy, this was a very rare situation. Was it because it was the only exception among the nine beasts in the tribe?
However, the Shaman said that Chacha couldn't imprint. It wasn't that he didn't want to, but that he couldn't. Shao Xuan tried once, but he couldn't do it.
The Shaman also said that Chacha was a real Giant Mountain Eagle, and Giant Mountain Eagles had their own beliefs.
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