Brownstone Mountain, a hill on the westernmost side of the Flamestone Mountains.
The back mountain of Brownstone Mountain and the seven consecutive mountains nearby are the forbidden areas of the Yanshi Tribe.
The people of the Yanshi Tribe can only move around in the front mountain of Brownstone Mountain, and their camp is on the mountainside of the front mountain.
There is a huge cave here, which is where the tribesmen live at night. Outside the cave is a protruding platform.
The platform is nine feet long and five feet wide, and can accommodate hundreds of people. There is a bonfire in the center of the platform. As long as it is not windy or raining, this bonfire will always burn.
At this moment, two women were sitting next to the bonfire, one was Huo Wa and the other was a woman named Atu.
Ah Tu is nearly fifty years old, which is considered old in today's world.
She looked nervously at the young Huo Wa, but Huo Wa's eyes fell on the three people at the edge of the platform.
There were Jia Chao, Nashi and Xia Yun. At this moment, Nashi was looking at the rabbit emerging from the bamboo basket with a look of helplessness on his face.
Jia Chao put a clay pot in the bamboo basket, and the rabbit was in the clay pot.
Nushi thought Jia Chao would stew the rabbit and eat it, but he didn't expect that the rabbit was the contracted beast Huo Wa said.
He grabbed Jia Chao's short hair and shook his head, and asked him with a look of hatred and bitterness:
"Ah Chao! Why don't you discuss such a big matter with me?"
Jia Chao looked at the old man in front of him speechlessly, completely unaware of the seriousness of the problem.
"Didn't you say that as long as I have a contracted beast, I can become the chief? As for whether the contracted beast is a rabbit or something else, is that important?"
Stubborn stone nodded fiercely, "Yes! It's very important!"
Seeing Jia Chao and Nian Shi acting like this, Xia Yun, who was leaning on the saber-toothed tiger, chuckled.
"Grandpa Nushi, didn't Ah Chao's awakening happen under your guidance?"
Nushi looked at Xia Yun and shook his head speechlessly.
Xia Yun was quite surprised when she saw this. She looked at Jia Chao and said:
"Then Chao, didn't you receive the inheritance from the rune stone when you awakened?"
Jia Chao spread his hands and said, "No, I just felt a suction that almost sucked my soul in!"
As soon as he said these words, there was no reaction on Stubborn's face, but Xia Yun looked at him with wide eyes, and even reached out to touch the beast spirit seal on his chest.
"What's wrong, Ayun?" Nangshi saw that Xia Yun's expression was a little strange, and looked up at her and asked.
Xia Yun shook his head and said nothing, his starry eyes flashing continuously.
Upon seeing this, Nian Shi did not continue to ask further questions. He sighed and said to Jia Chao:
"Achao, ask yourself if Ayun's initial contracted beast is important to you!"
When Jia Chao heard this, he turned to look at Xia Yun blankly. Upon seeing this, Xia Yun put away his surprised expression, sat down again and began to explain to Jia Chao.
Jia Chao listened for a long time and finally summarized the knowledge points explained by Xia Yun.
It turns out that each Beast Whisperer can have many contracted beasts, depending on the size of the Beast Whisperer's [Sea of Souls].
Generally speaking, the size of the Beast Whisperer's Sea of Souls and the Beast Spirit Seal correspond to each other. The more powerful the Beast Whisperer, the larger the Beast Spirit Seal.
For most newly awakened beast whisperers, the soul power in the sea of souls can only allow the beast whisperer to own one contract beast, and this contract beast is the initial contract beast.
Whether the initial contract beast is strong or not determines the efficiency of the Beast Whisperer's hunting. The higher the hunting efficiency, the faster the Beast Whisperer grows.
Therefore, most beast whisperers will choose some beasts with strong attack power as contract beasts, especially beasts such as tigers, leopards, and wolves.
These beasts can capture prey on their own, and the Beast Whisperer only needs to obtain the soul power of the prey through [Spirit Sacrifice] to grow rapidly.
After listening to Xia Yun's explanation, Jia Chao couldn't help but look serious.
Others' contracted beasts are lions and tigers, and my own contracted beast is a rabbit.
Lions and tigers can defeat monsters and upgrade themselves, which is equivalent to being able to hang up and gain experience points.
And what can your rabbit do? Can eating grass increase experience?
He suddenly felt that his whole body was not in good condition. If this was a proper account in the game, it would be completely useless!
Moreover, my beast spirit seal is just that big now, and I can’t even find another contracted beast.
So he sat up straight, glanced at the rabbit beside him, and asked Xia Yun seriously:
"Xia Yun, can the initial contract beast be replaced?"
Xia Yun shook his head and nodded again.
"Generally speaking, it cannot be changed, because changing the contracted beast will cause the beast whisperer to lose some of its origin.
However, there are also those who encounter the best contract beast and choose to lose some of their origins to replace the initial contract beast. "
Jia Chao understood a little bit after hearing this. The so-called origin is the upper limit of soul power. This upper limit usually determines the upper limit of the growth of an animal whisperer.
Generally speaking, it is not cost-effective to sacrifice the origin to replace the contract beast, because as long as it grows up, you can get a new contract beast.
But if the contract beast is strong enough, you can consider this path.
Jia Chao thought for a while and decided to make do with it first and wait until he met a more powerful contracted beast.
At this time, Xia Yun suddenly asked him again: "By the way, what contract did you and Tutu make, Chao?"
Jia Chao: "..."
Are there many kinds of contracts?
"The kind that mixes my blood with its blood and drinks each other."
As soon as he said these words, Xia Yun and Nian Shi couldn't sit still at the same time.
Xia Yun had a rather wonderful look on his face, while Nushi kept sighing.
"What's wrong?" Jia Chao asked, scratching his head.
"You start hunting hard from tomorrow!" Xia Yun exhaled leisurely, and took out a white stone from the animal skin bag on his waist, "Here is this for you, polish it into a sharp spear tip!"
Jia Chao took the stone and looked at Xia Yun blankly.
"The contract you made with Tutu is called the [flesh and blood contract], and it is the most powerful type of animal language contract.
The two parties who have entered into a flesh-and-blood contract cannot terminate the contract unless one of them dies, and the death of one of them will cause the other party to lose most of its origin! "
When Jia Chao heard this, he was stunned on the spot. He was thinking about changing his pet just now, but now he was beaten to death on the spot.
"Then I will be tied to this dog and rabbit for the rest of my life?"
Xia Yun: "That's why I ask you to hunt hard and strive to become stronger as soon as possible, so that you can collect another contracted beast as soon as possible!"
Jia Chao: "..."
Looking at the calm rabbit next to him, his mood felt like he had fallen into an ice cellar at the moment.
But he quickly thought of the squirrels and centipedes in the back mountain, and some light returned to his eyes.
"Xia Yun, didn't you say that the contracted beast still has a chance to awaken the power of the elements when it activates its spiritual intelligence? Aren't the spiritual beasts that have awakened the power of the elements also very powerful?"
Xia Yun nodded and said: "Yes! But your rabbit is already a spiritual beast. It does not have the power to awaken the elements."
"Ah?!" Jia Chao exclaimed, turning to look at Xia Yun, "How do you know?"
Xia Yun pointed to the saber-toothed tiger beside him and said:
"My Darkfang told me, and before you made a contract with Rabbit, it could already talk to you, right? Beast whisperers can't talk to beasts that haven't opened their minds!"
Jia Chao was completely confused by these words. He looked at the rabbit fiercely and asked it: "Hey! Rabbit! Is what Xia Yun said true?"
I only heard Rabbit's ruffian-like tone ringing in my mind:
"Yeah, so what? It was you who asked Huoba to force me to be your contracted beast."
"Ah! You liar!" Jia Chao jumped up from the ground and shouted at Huo Wa, "Huo Wa! Prepare firewood! Let's eat roast rabbit tonight!"
Hearing his call, Huo Wa, who was staring at Atu with big eyes, immediately stood up and responded, and came to the three of them in a few breaths.
At this time, Nushi also stood up. He put his hand on the frustrated Jia Chao's back and patted him:
"Okay, stop making trouble! We will announce the change of chief in front of everyone later!
It doesn't matter whether the contracted beast is strong or not, and whether it has awakened the power of the elements. As long as you are a beast whisperer and have a contract beast, you are now the most powerful in the tribe. "
Nushi's words made Jia Chao calm down a little.
He thought for a moment, and the two skills he now possessed were enough to convince the public.
Although the contract beast is just a rabbit, after using the soul link, it can have a high agility and speed bonus, and its strength has also been greatly improved. It is still no problem to beat ordinary people.
As for soul power healing, it can solve most injuries, which is considered a magical skill in this backward world.
Thinking of this, he stopped making trouble and sat back down again.
Jia Chao spent the whole day talking with Nian Shi and Xia Yun. He learned more about Baimu Grassland and various wild beasts.
As the setting sun stretched people's shadows longer and longer on the ground, the hunting and gathering teams finally returned to their tribes.
When people saw the three Jia Chao sitting on the edge of the platform, they all looked surprised.
Many people deliberately came over to take a look at Jia Chao to confirm that the young chief who was carried to the Forest of the Dead was really alive.
More people were asking the tribe members who stayed in the tribe about what had happened in the tribe and why Chief A Chao Shao and Huo Wa had returned to the tribe.
When everyone arrived, Chief Big Bear walked out of the cave with the support of Shou Monkey and Brown Mountain.
People looked at his right leg wrapped in a large ball of black mud, and the voices of discussion became more and more noisy.
Arriving at the bonfire in the center of the platform, Chief Big Bear pushed away the two people who were supporting him, raised his hand and pressed it down, and everyone suddenly became silent.
Seeing this, Jia Chao, Nian Shi and others also moved towards the center of the platform.
When people saw them coming, they consciously moved out of the way. Jia Chao and Nang Shi followed this path to the campfire and stood there, looking at Chief Big Bear in silence as well.
Chief Big Bear looked at the two of them without saying anything, but turned his attention to Xia Yun who was outside the crowd.
Upon seeing this, Xia Yun knew that what Chief Big Bear was going to say next was about matters within the Yanshi Tribe.
So she jumped on the back of the saber-toothed tiger, patted the spiritual beast called Dark Fang and said loudly to the stubborn stone:
"Grandpa Nushi, it's time for me to go back and report my life to the high priest!" She looked at Jia Chao again, "Achao, you have to come to our tribe as soon as possible to participate in the trial!"
Jia Chao nodded to her, while Nian Shi waved to her, "Ayun, say hello to your father for me!"
Xia Yun nodded and drove Anya to run down the mountain road, and disappeared within a few breaths.
Seeing Xia Yun leave, everyone turned back to look at Chief Big Bear.
At this time, Chief Big Bear grinned and shouted:
"Come here, arrest Ah Chao and Nashi!"
Hearing his roar, everyone in the hunting team immediately surrounded Jia Chao and Nang Shi with weapons.
Before Jia Chao and Nian Shi could react, they only heard an "ah" sound from the crowd.
Everyone looked towards the sound, only to find that it was Hongya who had been stabbed in the stomach with a spear.
When the tribesman next to Hongya named Bai Yuan saw this, he immediately took a spear to protect Hongya.
"What are you doing!" Nushi looked at Chief Big Bear angrily.
At this time, Chief Big Bear laughed loudly and said, "What do you think we are going to do?"
Nian Shi: "Aren't you afraid of the guardian sacred beast? Ah Chao is the person chosen by the ancestor of Yanlong!"
