CHAPTER 511: CHAPTER 502: THE GREAT CHIEF 20

After a month of training, Ben and Tie began to introduce weighing exercises to intensify Yan Shuangshuang’s training. This time, the training was even more grueling. Just when Yan Shuangshuang was starting to adapt to the intensity, she found herself crawling on the ground, unable to get up again.

Throughout this entire hot season, Yan Shuangshuang was subjected to such high-intensity training. The weather was maddeningly hot, and coupled with such intense physical activity, the experience was indescribably excruciating.

However, the progress was remarkably evident. At least now, Yan Shuangshuang could keep up with the Hunting Team for a large part of the run, leap to a height of seven to eight meters, and most importantly, her strength had improved. Previously, she could only lift things weighing about twenty pounds, but now she could lift stones that weighed over a hundred pounds.

Yet, Yan Shuangshuang was still very young, and Ben and Tie had gone easy on her during training. However, Yan Shuangshuang felt that her father and Ben’s so-called moderate training would cripple a person without the people of this world’s extraordinary physique accompanying them.

Now that the hot season had passed, the twelve suns in the sky had finally become eleven, and the temperatures noticeably dropped. Walking under the sun no longer felt like being in an oven. After training, Yan Shuangshuang began to join the Hunting Team for hunts.

When Yan Shuangshuang left with the Hunting Team, two small children in the tribe, even younger than Yan Shuangshuang, hugged the large tree at the cave entrance, their eyes wistfully watching Yan Shuangshuang’s back. Their envy was palpable.

For these children still in their protection phase, it was not allowed to go too far outside the cave. Although hunting represented danger, it also meant abundant food. They didn’t want to play; they envied the opportunity to obtain food and satisfy their hunger.

Although everyone had enough to eat during this time, the memory of hunger was too long and too profound, so these two children couldn’t help but worry about whether they’d have enough food.

This time, Yan Shuangshuang went out with the Hunting Team for more than just a day. She officially participated in the hunt, requiring her to stay outside, and this time, the Hunting Team didn’t wait for her to catch up but moved quickly instead.

Ben and Tie had only one request for Yan Shuangshuang regarding her participation in the Hunting Team: protect herself and keep up with the team without falling behind. There were no other requirements.

Yan Shuangshuang also didn’t intend to stubbornly insist on hunting alongside them. She understood that she was still very weak. Her main task at this stage was to ensure her safe return with the Hunting Team and take care of herself without causing trouble for others.

However, Yan Shuangshuang did not do nothing. While the Hunting Team was busy hunting and couldn’t do anything else, Yan Shuangshuang was responsible for finding wild vegetables and picking any Flaming Grass she encountered to bring back. As for the Immortal Leaves, there were several Immortal Trees near the cave.

The Immortal Tree was extremely large; even just one tree was enough for the people of the Power Tribe. So, the picking of Immortal Leaves and the production of Immortal Tofu were all tasks left for the women staying behind in the cave to handle.

The Hunting Team did not go out to hunt every day. After a hunt, the team would have a short resting period, which included Yan Shuangshuang.

Because Yan Shuangshuang’s current training involved more training amidst hunting, alternating physical training in combat, when the Hunting Team rested, Yan Shuangshuang only performed basic training and had nothing else to do.

Having been a sickly child for so long and finally gaining a healthy body, Yan Shuangshuang couldn’t sit still. So when she had nothing to do, she would pester Yu. Because Yu liked Yan Shuangshuang, Yan Shuangshuang had been fortunate to be taught this world’s writing and language by Yu.

Now that Yan Shuangshuang had become the Divine Favored, Yu even allowed her to view the Power Tribe’s most closely guarded tribal books.

The tribal books were made of Beast Skin, with writing ink made from the giant squid ink sac, ensuring long-term preservation without fading.

When Yan Shuangshuang read the tribal books, she treated them like novels. However, the information in the tribal books was real, and recently, Yan Shuangshuang discovered a piece of information that particularly intrigued her.

The tribal books recorded that when the Power Tribe was flourishing, they once exchanged with outside tribes for a type of red stone called Fire Stone.

After being burned by fire, this Fire Stone could easily be crushed into powder, and this powder could be used for tanning fur.

What moved Yan Shuangshuang the most was the record that fur tanned with Fire Stone powder became smooth and supple, insect-proof, and incredibly warm, making it ideal for making winter clothes.

With the White Stone Fruit Forest’s presence, the tribe’s winter food wouldn’t be in short supply, so there’s no fear of starvation. Without hunting, the worst scenario is reduced meat consumption. However, apart from hunger, the greatest threat during winter is actually the cold!

The winter in these parts froze water into ice, and while no one died during the hot season, during each cold season, one or two people in the tribe would fall sick or even die. There were no elderly people in the current Power Tribe because unforeseen circumstances claimed lives before old age.

Though adults were more resilient, some inevitably fell sick due to the cold, and getting sick during winter was a matter of life and death.

Adults were better off with stronger resistance and solid physical constitution, coupled with Witch Doctor Yu’s care ensuring survival. However, children, with much less resistance compared to adults, couldn’t withstand it. Even with Yu’s witch power treatment, one or two children always died each cold season.

The reason why there were only three children in the Power Tribe, including Yan Shuangshuang, was because each winter claimed the lives of children!

Of course, adults weren’t completely safe either. When illness struck severely without adequate warmth protection, they could die even after treatment by Yu.

The reason Yan Shuangshuang wanted to find the Fire Stone was for the warmth during the cold season. The people of the Power Tribe were already too few; the population must not decrease further. Moreover, it shouldn’t just not decrease; ideally, it should even increase. A Great Tribe must have a sufficient population.

Initially, Yan Shuangshuang, although aware of the Fire Stone’s existence, hadn’t planned to seek it. Some things only existed in specific regions, and the tribal books noted that the tribe exchanging Fire Stone with the Power Tribe was very far away. Who knew if the Fire Stone was that tribe’s specialty?

What truly motivated Yan Shuangshuang to pursue this idea was the gift from the Earth King Beast. Ever since it presented its scales to Yan Shuangshuang as a gift last time, every time she encountered the Earth King Beast, it would bring various odds and ends for her.

Lately, whenever Yan Shuangshuang saw the Earth King Beast, she would help pluck some tender leaves and Big Leaf Grass to feed it.