Ch138 – Father
As a Beast King, the Rhinoceros Beast King’s traveling speed was very fast. Making his way alone, it only took him a few days to return to the Giant Rhinoceros Tribe’s territory.
His son Xi An had already been missing for a long time, and the people of the Giant Rhinoceros Tribe didn’t know where he’d gone, but they had found the stretch of forest that had been crushed by Hai Feng and brought back several meat patties from there.
Based on the things left beside the meat patties, the meat patties should have previously been one of the groups of people in the tribe who had gone out to look for Xi An, but they didn’t know who had been crazy enough to flatten all of them into meat patties.
As for Xi An, they didn’t know what had happened to him…
The tribal chief of the Giant Rhinoceros Tribe immediately told the Rhinoceros Beast King everything he knew when he saw him.
The Giant Rhinoceros Tribe’s expressions turned ugly. He went to the small tribe near the Giant Rhinoceros Tribe and then heard from the people of the Grass Tribe that the Big Bear Tribe had been passing through at the time.
Although it had been some time ago, there were a lot of people in the Big Bear Tribe, and they had left a lot of tracks. According to those tracks… The meat patties had been created by the people of the Big Bear Tribe, and Xi An might be in their hands. Or perhaps he was already…
The Rhinoceros Beast King arranged for people to continue searching around the Giant Rhinoceros Tribe, but he himself followed the tracks left by the Big Bear Tribe and began to chase after the Big Bear Tribe.
The Rhinoceros Beast King ran the entire way and finally arrived at the Giant Pig tribe after one afternoon of traveling.
The Giant Pig Tribe had a large stretch of farmland. At this time, the people of the Giant Pig Tribe were tossing the excrement tainted soil that they had cleaned out of their own tribe into the field and plowing it over again.
This was something that Zhu Zhan had told them to do. Although they didn’t know why they needed to do it this way, they were willing to follow his orders.
Zhu Zhan had said that when they went to participate in the Beast God Sacrifice in a few days, they would select some of the best performers from the tribe to bring with them… Everyone was fighting for this opportunity.
And in order to get this chance, they naturally had to work hard to perform well.
“If I can follow the Beast Kings to participate in the Beast God Sacrifice, I will definitely serve them well. Perhaps I’ll be able to join the Big Bear Tribe then!”
“Even if I can’t join the Big Bear Tribe, just being close to the Beast Kings is something I never even dared to dream of!”
“Apart from the Sea Beast King, the other two Beast Kings are so young. The people from the wild forest are so powerful!”
These people were chatting as they farmed, but suddenly, a red-eyed middle-aged man appeared in front of them.
“Which tribe are you from?” The Rhinoceros Beast King asked.
He had come here to ask because it was obvious that a large tribe lived here.
“We belong to the Giant Pig Tribe.” The Giant Pig Tribe’s people replied.
“Have you seen a tribe called the Big Bear Tribe?” The Rhinoceros Beast King asked.
“You’re here to find people from the Big Bear Tribe? They’re in our tribe.” The person from the Giant Pig Tribe replied. He wanted to ask who this person in front of him was, but he didn’t have a chance to speak before the Rhinoceros Beast King disappeared.
“Who was that person?” The people of the Giant Pig Tribe were puzzled. “He’s so fast!”
“That speed… He was gone in the blink of an eye! Even the tribal chief can’t do this, right?” Someone next to him asked.
These people looked at each other and suddenly thought of a possibility. “Say, could this be another Beast King?”
Another Beast King? That was really possible!
This person was coming to find the Big Bear Tribe, so… did that mean the Big Bear Tribe had four Beast Kings?
The people of the Big Bear Tribe were really amazing!
The Rhinoceros Beast King didn’t know what these people were thinking. At this moment, he was contemplating some bad possibilities with dread in his mind.
His youngest son had been very smart when he was born, but he had gotten sick with a fever when he was about four or five years old…
The child had nearly died at the time. He had spent a lot of effort in order to keep him alive, but the child had become a bit silly from then on.
For the past ten years, he had spent a lot of time and effort on this silly child. He felt that in order for this child to be able to live well, he would need to have sufficient power, so he had constantly been looking for a Beast God Fruit for him.
Yet as a result, he hadn’t found a Beast God Fruit yet, but his child had disappeared!
The Rhinoceros Beast King felt that his own child was most likely dead.
The people of this Big Bear Tribe were so fierce that they would flatten people into meat patties. How likely was it that they would look after his silly son who couldn’t do anything on his own?
If they had planned to take good care of his son… Then they should have taken his son back to the Giant Rhinoceros Tribe instead of acting like a group of people who were running for their lives and pushing on with their journey.
His son was most likely dead!
The Rhinoceros Beast King thought of this and charged at the Giant Pig Tribe in grief.
As a result, he hadn’t gone far when he ran into Hai Feng, who was bringing back a dinosaur.
Both of their footsteps stilled for a moment when they met, and then they both realized one thing–the other person was a Beast King!
The Rhinoceros Beast King had never seen the Beast King in front of him before. He also knew the Giant Pig Tribe didn’t have any Beast Kings. Since that was the case, then was this Beast King from the Big Bear Tribe?
He had learned about the Big Bear Tribe’s situation from the tribal chief of the Grass Tribe. The tribal chief had said that the Big Bear Tribe had a Beast King, but he hadn’t believed it at the time. Now, however, he was willing to acknowledge that it had been true.
“Did you kill my son?” The Rhinoceros Beast King asked him directly.
“Who knows who your son is?” Hai Feng replied.
The Rhinoceros Beast King had constantly been worried ever since he learned that something had happened to his son, and now that he was faced with the careless and casual Hai Feng, he immediately burst out in a rage. “Return my son to me!”
The Rhinoceros Beast King pounced straight at Hai Feng.
Since the Beast King in front of him had charged at him without any further conversation, did that mean that he was from the Beast God Temple? Hai Feng tossed aside the dinosaur and went to fight the Rhinoceros Beast King.
The Rhinoceros Beast King’s animal form was large, but he wasn’t very suited for attacking–his slender head was too small, with a long, thin neck and he lacked sharp fangs in his mouth.
In the past, when he had used his animal form to go up against other types of Beast Kings, those people hadn’t been able to do anything against him, but because they were too small, he hadn’t been able to attack them either.
So, at present, the Rhinoceros Beast King hadn’t switched to his animal form against Hai Feng and had been using his human form to fight.
Although the Rhinoceros Beast King liked to turn into his animal form to chew on grass, he had grown up in the Giant Rhinoceros Tribe and had married and had children like other beastmen. He spent most of his time in human form and also sparred with other Beast Kings in human form after he became a Beast King. If nothing else, he as very good at fighting in human form.
It was different for Hai Feng. He had spent most of his life living in his animal form and used his human form very rarely. His combat experience using his human form was limited to when he had thrown the people of the Giant Pig Tribe and sent them flying.
Hai Feng was beaten into retreat. He had originally wanted to run towards Zhou Ji and Xiong Ye, but when he thought of how Zhou Ji wouldn’t be happy if he accidentally knocked down his house, he could only run away while shouting, “Zhou Ji, help!”
Zhou Ji, who was making egg fried rice, had actually already discovered the Rhinoceros Beast King’s arrival. However, he could only act as a mascot… Zhou Ji looked towards Xiong Ye, “Hai Feng encountered some trouble. Go and take a look.”
Xiong Ye rushed out immediately.
At this time, Hai Feng had already arrived just outside the Giant Pig Tribe’s settlement. The people of the Giant Pig Tribe in the area had already run away, and were watching curiously from the side as Hai Feng fought with the Rhinoceros Beast King.
“That person is chasing after Lord Hai to fight. Is he a Beast King too?”
“It seems that Lord Hai can’t win…”
“They all say that Lord Hai can’t be compared with Lord Xiong and Lord Zhou. I didn’t believe it before, but now I do…”
The people of the Giant Pig Tribe had talked secretly about it amongst them before… They had always felt that Hai Feng was very powerful, but unexpectedly, it wasn’t the case…
The Rhinoceros Beast King had the upper hand, but couldn’t do much to Hai Feng anytime soon. Additionally, he had been very tense for the past several days and was at the limits of his endurance…
He turned directly into his animal form, intending to use his animal form to crush the other party.
When he shifted into his animal form, Hai Feng realized what he intended to do and didn’t hesitate to turn into his animal form, either–although his animal type wasn’t suited for combat on land, he was big and would definitely be able to crush the other party!
As for what happened next… Xiong Ye and Zhou Ji should be coming to save him!
During a moment like this, Hai Feng even thought up a wonderful way to fight–he could suddenly turn into his animal form to press people down, then turn back into his human form to attack, then turn back into his animal form to press them down…
If he repeated that cycle, wouldn’t even a Beast King end up crushed to death by him?
After all, he was so big!
Hai Feng thought of this and turned into a blue whale. At the same time, he also noticed his opponent’s animal form–it was quite large, and he seemed to be familiar with it?
Forget it, fighting was the most important thing right now!
Hai Feng directly pressed his opponent down.
The Rhinoceros Beast King was pressed into the ground, forming a huge pit in the earth. Although he wasn’t seriously hurt due to his strength, his entire person was left a little dazed.
When some people became Beast Kings, their body size would increase tenfold, but their animal forms would still be smaller than his when he’d been nothing but a junior level Beast Warrior–when he had become a junior level Beast King, his animal form already weighed twenty tons!
In the Beastman Continent, if he said he was the second largest, nobody would dare to say they were the largest.
The giant rhinoceros had always been the biggest beasts of this land. There were only a few people in the Elephant Tribe who might perhaps be comparable to them.
However, the Elephant Tribe’s Beast King was a dwarf elephant and was far smaller than he was.
All along, the Rhinoceros Beast King had been proud of his size and felt that he was the biggest.
But now… What had he encountered?
He met someone whose… size was several times bigger than his!
What the hell was this!
The Rhinoceros Beast King, who had just been crushed down into the dirt, began to doubt life.
At this time, Hai Feng turned back into his human form.
Just when the Rhinoceros Beast King heaved a sigh of relief, Hai Feng jumped back up in the air and turned into his animal form again, pressing down towards him…
The Rhinoceros Beast King was crushed to the point where he almost wanted to spit out blood.
He suddenly realized that turning into his animal form to fight against the other party had been a stupid thing to do.
The Rhinoceros Beast King roared and decided to turn back into his human form–he became smaller and hid in the pit he had just created with his body, making it so that the other party couldn’t crush him!
With that thought in mind, the Rhinoceros Beast King turned back into his human form. And then, he ended up hearing his son’s voice, “Grandfather is so big! Grandfather’s amazing!”
The Rhinoceros Beast King couldn’t quite process what was going on. He then realized that the person who had been crushing him down had turned back into his human form and was now laughing loudly, “Of course grandfather is amazing! Haha!” Hai Feng, who had just developed a new method of fighting in his animal form on land, was in an extremely good mood.
“Baobei!” At this time, the Rhinoceros Beast King couldn’t help but call out. He had just noticed his son, who was clapping to one side as he watched the bustle.
He had been beaten, yet his son was clapping his hands nearby. That was bad enough, but what had his son called the man in front of him? Grandfather?
He remembered his father passing away a long time ago! Where the hell had this grandfather come from?!
“Father.” Xi Baobei was very delighted to see his father, then said, “Father, isn’t grandfather very big?”
Rhinoceros Beast King: “……”
Hai Feng: “……”
Xiong Ye: “……”
All of them had extremely strange expressions on their faces. The people of the Giant Pig Tribe who had been shocked speechless after seeing Hai Feng’s animal form finally found their voices at this time, “Lord Hai is too amazing! I never thought that his animal form would actually be so big!”
“Hai Feng wasn’t at a disadvantage at all. It was just that he didn’t want to break something by accident, right?”
“What winning or losing are you guys talking about, they are father and son, and are just playing around!”
“Lord Hai is really powerful. His son also turned out to be a Beast King!”
The people of the Giant Pig Tribe heard Xi Baobei’s words and quickly accepted the ‘fact’ that the person that Hai Feng had been fighting with was actually Hai Feng’s son.
The two of them had started fighting… Perhaps it was a way for father and son to express their feelings for each other after a long separation?
Only Zhu Yan, who had taken advantage of the chaos and run out behind Xi Baobei and heard Hai Feng calling for help, found the situation somewhat unacceptable.
Wasn’t this person who was fighting against Hai Feng actually the Rhinoceros Beast King?
Hai Feng was actually the Rhinoceros Beast King’s father?
Hadn’t he come from the wild forest?
Xi Baobei was clueless about the strange thoughts of everyone around him. He continued, “Father, you’re not the biggest. Grandfather is the biggest.”
The Rhinoceros Beast King was incredibly happy to find that his son was still alive. His eyes were full of tears, but with Xi Baobei’s words…
The tears that were just about to fall were choked back, “Baobei, what nonsense are you talking about… Your grandfather died a long time ago.”
“I have another one now.” Xi Baobei said.
Rhinoceros Beast King: “……” Not only had he been beaten by this person, his son actually acknowledged this person as his grandfather. What was this?!
Hai Feng on the other hand, laughed loudly, “I didn’t expect you to be my grandson’s father. We’re all one family and wouldn’t have known each other if we didn’t fight!”
The Rhinoceros Beast King didn’t want to be in the same family as Hai Feng.
However, his son was still alive and well.. He didn’t want to fight against him, and… he didn’t know how to win.
Getting smashed wasn’t a good feeling. What was more, if this person went crazy and smashed his son as well as him, what could he do?
“Baobei, how have you been? Did you get hurt?” The Rhinoceros Beast King hurriedly went to check on his son.
His son looked to be fine, and other than being slightly darker than before, there was nothing wrong with him at all. The Rhinoceros Beast King was finally relieved, and Xi Baobei also said, “I didn’t get hurt. I’m just hungry.”
He finished speaking, then looked at Hai Feng and repeated, “Grandfather, I’m hungry.”
“Your grandfather will go get you something to eat right away!” Hai Feng said. He looked proudly at the Rhinoceros Beast King–Baobei actually went to him when he wanted something to eat. That meant that he was fonder of him than he was of the Rhinoceros Beast King, how great was that!
Hai Feng wrapped his animal hide around himself, picked up Xi Baobei, and prepared to leave. Seeing this situation, the Rhinoceros Beast King quickly followed after them.
Xiong Ye, who had originally come out to help Hai Feng fight, carried Zhu Yan and followed as well–this tribal chief of the Giant Pig Tribe wasn’t behaved at all!
By the time Hai Feng led Xi Baobei towards the place where they were staying, Zhou Ji had already finished making a pot of egg fried rice and was filling up a bowl of it for himself.
Hai Feng couldn’t help but say, “Zhou Ji, you’re really calm.” A Beast King had showed up at their door, but Zhou Ji was still cooking egg fried rice!
“Mm.” Zhou Ji said. He picked up the bowl and began to eat.
“Grandpa, I want to eat fried rice. “The rhino baby looked at the Zhou Ji’s bowl of egg fried rice and drooled.
“Grandfather will have someone make you some!” Hai Feng said. Some people in the Big Bear Tribe had already learned how to use animal oil to make egg fried rice. If he gave them some incentives, they would definitely be willing to make some for him.
“Alright.” Xi Baobei nodded obediently.
The Rhinoceros Beast King, who had followed over, had a different reaction to this scene. He was someone who had been a Beast King for a long time, so he immediately went to Zhou Ji and said, “My son wants to eat your food. Give it to me.”
Hai Feng instantly burst out laughing.
Zhou Ji was left a little speechless. “You were just beaten in a fight. Do you want to get beaten up again?”
Juurensha: Ahhh Rhino Beast King, you’ve inadvertently adopted a father…