Chapter Fifty-Four: Black Rock

  "Alas, let's just say that when the car reaches the mountain, there will be a road. What's the use of worrying now? After all, we've met before, and even though you're beyond saving, I'll still do my best for the sake of our shared intelligent life."

  Chen Xu muttered to himself for a while, then looked at the half-closed eyes of Sword Toothed Tiger again, but saw a hint of ease in the faint gaze, and shook his head immediately. He took over the Vajra dagger and began to dig into the abdomen of Sword Toothed Tiger.

  Anyway, it's a dead horse being treated as a live one. Chen Xu first dug out all the rotten flesh around the wound until the blood flowing out was red before stopping. Then, he lit a torch and began to cauterize the terrifying wound on the Sword Toothed Tiger's abdomen.

  In this process, the saber-toothed tiger only slightly trembled its paw, seemingly without any extreme reaction.

  This made Chen Xu, who was always on guard against the tiger's counterattack, let out a big sigh of relief. At the same time, he increased his strength and started to do it freely, as if roasting food, thoroughly burning the wound. Before that, he really feared that the tiger would suddenly give him a slap in the face, and then he would die unjustly.

  As the wound continued to emit a faint smell of roasted meat, he finally stopped. After everything was ready, Chen Xu ordered the ape man to take over some herbal medicine prepared by the old ape man and use stones to mash it into a paste. He then applied it to the sword-toothed tiger's abdomen, covering up that terrifying wound.

  After this bout of chaotic treatment, the saber-toothed tiger not only failed to recover but also completely closed its eyelids, which originally still had some gaps.

  It seems that what little anger was left had completely disappeared under Chen Xu's nonsense.

  "Hey, buddy, don't blame me if you die. I warned you beforehand, treating a dead horse as if it's alive. It's obvious that you're not a living horse. Considering we're both intelligent beings, I won't make things difficult for you either. How about this? I'll let you keep your tiger skin, and that way, I'll be doing you a favor!"

  After finishing the experiment, Chen Xuan admired his handiwork for a while and saw that the saber-toothed tiger didn't even have any breath left. He couldn't help but break out in cold sweat as he knew that the tiger's quick death was at least 80% his responsibility.

  It's just that this is the Stone Age, no one comes after him, and he himself doesn't dare to admit it.

  But this way, Chen Xu would not dare to come and peel the tiger skin of the saber-toothed tiger. As for the tiger meat of the saber-toothed tiger, due to the previous black and green toxic liquid infiltration, it was a free gift, and he wouldn't want it either.

  He muttered a few words to himself, calming his mind, and then Chen Xuan found a spot with good sunlight and ordered the apes to carry the saber-toothed tiger over and put it there.

  Also fearing that its body would be torn open by other beasts, Chen Xu decided to do a good deed from start to finish, and ordered the crowd of apes to find some stones and wild grass to cover up the massive body of the saber-toothed tiger.

  With this done, everything was ready and the expedition continued on its way to the Black Rock tribe.

  It wasn't until Chen Xu and the others left that, in a pile of grass where the saber-toothed tiger was buried, a plant similar to dogtail grass began to seep out some milky white liquid from its broken stem.

  These, under the catalysis of gravity, gradually gathered together, eventually condensed into a drop of liquid, falling from the plant's rhizome, passing through the gap, and landing on the wound of the saber-toothed tiger that was covered with medicinal herbs.

  As the liquid dripped down, a faint mist of smoke slowly rose from the congealed medicinal herbs. Under the shroud of the mist, the Sword Toothed Tiger's body, which had been motionless until then, suddenly trembled slightly.

  Inside its body, the silver energy that had originally locked up its vitality and was ready to control all the territory suddenly paused, and then, in the midst of the vast silver energy, yellow spots slowly began to emerge.

  The golden energy compressed to the extreme in the body of the Tyrant King Sword Tooth Tiger suddenly trembled, sensing the abnormality of its opponent, and instantly went crazy with counterattacks.

  For a moment, two faint halos appeared on the body of the golden saber-toothed tiger, presenting gold and silver colors, enveloping its entire body in them, filled with a dreamy feeling.

  Gradually, the silver glow retreated, and the golden light took over. At the boundary where they met, a color different from gold and silver suddenly appeared, and a pure white color, like the king's seal on his forehead, quietly emerged.

  All of this was naturally unknown to Chen Xu, and if he had known, he might have immediately returned to give the old tiger another blow, thoroughly sending it underground.

  Sympathy can only be possessed when one is an absolute strong person. To say it, the Tyrant Sword Toothed Tiger, even if it's a wise species, isn't human.

  Don't mention a wise old tiger, even if it's a wise human being who comes to rescue him, Chen Xu is still undecided whether he will be saved or not.

  It can be said that the reason he spent half a day's work was actually just psychological pride, and since the sword-toothed tiger could look up to him so highly, as a human being who is the spirit of all things, he naturally had his own pride in his heart and would not do anything that would lose face, especially when this sword-toothed tiger was about to die.

  If he knew that Jian Chi Hu had recovered, he probably wouldn't think this way!

  No matter what, in a coincidence, everything happened quietly, and in the end, it was unknown whether Chen Xuan was killed by the saber-toothed tiger or he killed the saber-toothed tiger.

  "Good grief! Previously, I couldn't see a single person, now suddenly a whole bunch of them pop out at once. Looking at this situation, this trip is not going well!"

  Chen Xu stared blankly at the suddenly appearing encirclement around him, then looked at the cave in front of him which was originally empty, and saw the apes that had suddenly appeared, unable to help but mutter to himself.

  One of them pulled out the black rock ape from behind, Chen Xu pushed it forward, and at this time, it was the turn of the guide to play its role.

  With his presence, things would be much easier; otherwise, when he saw the Blackrock Clan, his life would have been gone.

  As expected, as soon as the Black Rock Ape-man appeared, the surrounding ape-men warriors holding stone tools suddenly became noisy and excited.

  The black rock ape is also greeting everywhere, and it seems that he himself did not lie. His status in the Black Rock tribe is not low, and he may be one of the few apes in the ruling class.

  The black rock ape and the surrounding apes chattered a few words, pointing at Chen Xiang and his group who were surrounded, quickly explaining something in a series of chirps.

  Soon, the black rock warriors surrounding them relaxed and put down all the weapons in their hands, but they did not intend to disperse the encirclement.

  It seems that in this Blackrock clan, although this ape man is not small in size, he is still far from the dominant position.

  Having seen all this, Chen Xu's eyes rolled around and he ordered the troops behind him to put down their weapons in hand, not to act rashly, and to follow his command.

  And he himself had taken into his hands the silver horn that almost took the life of the sword-toothed tiger, turning it over and over as if preparing for something.

  Before long, the black rock ape emerged from a cave, followed by another group of apes behind him.

  "What a formidable ape-man, is this the leadership of the Blackrock Clan?"

  He stood the silver corner beside him, Chen Xu stared tightly at a group of apemen walking in, his eyes starting from the black rock ape man, then moving to the others behind him, after passing several apemen who were even more muscular than super apeman, he finally stopped at an apeman with bird feathers on his head.

  Without needing anyone else's introduction, he recognized the identity of this ape at first glance. Presumably, he was indeed the leader of Blackrock.

  Because Chen Xu saw the constantly flashing sparks of wisdom in his eyes, this spark of wisdom, in this Stone Age, so far, Chen Xu has only seen it in the eyes of that saber-toothed tiger.

  But now that the tyrannical Sword-toothed Tiger seems to be dead, only this Blackrock Chieftain is left before me.

  "Grandma's, being able to command such a large tribe, the chief is indeed not a simple person, but I don't know if he has inherited the crystal?"

  His heart skipped a beat as Chen Xu knew his previous plan had fallen through. This group of apes wasn't stupid, and to achieve his original goal, he might need to go through more twists and turns.

  His gaze involuntarily shifted to the neck of the black rock leader, wanting to see if the golden crystal still existed, but due to the ape-man's long body hair, even with his sharp eyesight, he couldn't make out anything.

  Just then, the black rock warriors who were staring around dispersed and opened up a path. The leader of the Black Rock clan followed by the Black Rock Ape-men and accompanied by powerful warriors walked over.

  While Chen Xu was observing him, the leader who had already been explained by Hei Yan Yuan Ren also began to observe Chen Xu, with a strange look in his eyes, as if he couldn't believe that such an ape could actually hard-press the overlord of the forest.

  "The great Fire God, this is the great Black Rock leader. I have already told the great leader about the matter of trade, but the leader wants to take a look at those exquisite ceramics first!"

  It was Black Rock Ape who spoke first.

  "Of course it can!"

  The corner of his mouth twitched, Chen Xu waved his hand, gesturing to the apes behind him to take out those packages wrapped in ceramics, opening one of them and revealing the ceramics inside.

  "Great Blackrock leader, this is indeed a gift from the Fire God, now can we discuss the terms of our trade?"

  Suddenly seeing these ceramics, and hearing the description of the Black Rock Ape People, the leader of the Black Rock tribe revealed a look of excitement for the first time, ignoring Chen Xu's words, and directly bent down to pick up a ceramic bowl, gently rubbing the ceramic wall with his hand, the joyful color in his eyes becoming more and more intense.

  Although Hei Yan previously described Chen Xu as if he were a god, after seeing the real person, Hei Yan's leader didn't think he was that powerful. Moreover, this group of travelers who had come from afar were already surrounded by the elite warriors of their tribe, so he paid even less attention to Chen Xu.

  Facing the attitude of the Black Rock leader, Chen Xu had long been prepared in his heart. He slightly gestured backwards, and the super gorilla that was always ready behind him pulled back the several packages of pottery between the gorillas.

  Taking advantage of the opponent's momentary distraction, seven or eight apemen then pulled out the stone tools they were carrying and aimed at these fragile pottery pieces, as if to smash them to pieces at any moment.