CHAPTER 513: CHAPTER 504: THE GREAT CHIEF 22

The sharpness of the Earth King Beast’s scales combined with Yan Shuangshuang’s strength, just like that, she directly chopped off the wild boar’s neck bone. In the instant that the blood sprayed out, Yan Shuangshuang had already jumped off the wild boar’s back, avoiding the outcome of being splattered with blood.

A Hunting Team Member who was assisting from the side ran over, holding a bamboo tube to collect the gushing wild boar blood. Once the blood was mostly collected, someone else sprinkled a powdery substance onto the wound on the wild boar’s neck.

After sprinkling the wild boar’s wound, the powder was further sprinkled onto the ground. This powder had a strong spicy smell, perfectly covering the stench of blood, thus preventing other predators from smelling the blood and causing trouble for everyone.

As for collecting pig blood, the tribesmen used to do it to drink the blood, to absorb the salt within, ensuring they had strength and wouldn’t fall ill.

Nowadays, it’s for Yan Shuangshuang’s newly invented delicacy, blood tofu. Those bamboo tubes were already filled with a bit of salt water, and once the blood was collected, they sealed them with wooden lids, shook them vigorously, and hung them at their waists. When they returned, the bamboo tube was split open revealing the fully solidified blood tofu inside.

Once the prey was handled, everyone moved to a different spot, nibbling on jerky and drinking water, taking a break in the meantime.

During the meal, Ben and Tie took the time to guide Yan Shuangshuang on hunting theory. At the end, Ben patted Yan Shuangshuang’s shoulder, smiling, "Shuangshuang, your progress is really fast, you’re practically a born hunter. When your father and I were your age, we weren’t as skilled, we were still being protected by adults inside caves, and here you are handling such large prey with ease!"

Tie, hearing Ben’s praise for his daughter, laughed heartily with pride, "My Shuangshuang is a Divine Favored, of course, she is more skilled than us. Soon Shuangshuang will become even stronger, becoming a formidable warrior, leading our Power Tribe to prosperity once again!"

Yan Shuangshuang was red-faced from Tie’s unabashed self-praise, especially with Ben and other members of the Hunting Team frequently nodding in agreement, making Yan Shuangshuang’s cheeks even redder. It’s quite shameless to brag about one’s own child, indeed.

However, Yan Shuangshuang’s combat power was indeed incredibly strong, especially considering Yan Shuangshuang was a girl. Whether one likes to admit it or not, women’s physical ability and strength are generally a step behind men’s, that’s why female members in the Hunting Team were rarely seen.

Even though this time the Hunting Team included female members, previously, there hadn’t been any women entering the Hunting Team for more than a decade.

This wasn’t discrimination against women, rather, women’s physical fitness truly didn’t meet the standard. If one’s combat power was below par, naturally, they couldn’t join the Hunting Team, which is very dangerous. Going in with inadequate abilities means either holding others back or courting death.

Women’s survival rate in this era is extremely low, and due to longer lifespans, human fertility is also very low, so every woman is precious, and tribes dare not easily let women take risks.

However, one thing that makes Yan Shuangshuang feel these primitive society men are more admirable than those chauvinistic men of modern society is this: when a woman’s skills reach a certain level, these primitive society men would never tell you, as a woman, you should be at home cooking, taking care of men, being protected by men, listening to them, and not venturing out or joining the Hunting Team like a man, suppressing and stunting your growth.

Nor would there be men feeling their self-esteem hurt if a woman is stronger than them, showing displeasure. In this world, everyone worships the strong, and even if you’re a woman, if you’re powerful, men will worship you just the same. There’s absolutely no discrimination because of gender.

Just like how there are female members in the Hunting Team, they joined purely based on ability. Once they joined, there’s no special treatment, nor any gender discrimination. Just like Yan Shuangshuang becoming a Divine Favored, no one questioned her because of her female identity, and she was instantly given a high status without any dissatisfaction.

Of course, training Yan Shuangshuang doesn’t include any privileges because she’s a girl. In fact, because she’s a Divine Favored, her training is even harsher.

Hence, the reason there are few women in the Hunting Team isn’t because the men of this era discriminate against women, but rather because women’s physical fitness is indeed lagging behind men significantly.

Yet, women have one thing they can outperform men in, which is endurance. Like running, men are kings in short distances, but in long distances, women reign. Yan Shuangshuang relies on her female endurance, training to reach physical limits, to swiftly elevate her combat power to this level.

It’s also because her current body remains healthy despite intensive training, so Yan Shuangshuang dares to push herself to such extremes.

After eating, Tie carried the wild boar Yan Shuangshuang had taken down, and everyone decided to move on to find new prey. One semi-grown wild boar wasn’t worthwhile enough for the Hunting Team to finish their task; the creature they would be seeking next was the main focus of this hunt.

As they moved, Yan Shuangshuang felt uncomfortable with her hands greasy from holding jerky. Conveniently, she saw a river ahead, with a wide surface and water that appeared clear. Truth is, in this pollution-free world, finding an unclear water body isn’t easy.

When Yan Shuangshuang saw this river, she wanted to go and wash her hands. Who would have thought, before she could walk over, her Father Tie stopped her; he, as her father, knew his daughter liked cleanliness without a doubt.

Seeing Yan Shuangshuang watching her greasy hands, Tie knew immediately what she was thinking. Upon seeing the river, without further thought, Tie reached out to grab Yan Shuangshuang, and sure enough, stopped her from going to the river to wash her hands.

Yan Shuangshuang curiously looked up at her father, wondering why he stopped her. Tie saw her confused eyes, his face serious with a hint of fear, looking at the clear river ahead, warning Yan Shuangshuang.

"You cannot go over to this river; there are monsters in this river. No matter how skilled a man or animal, if they accidentally fall in, they instantly become bones. Even putting your hand in the river may lead to river monsters biting off your fingers. Don’t go near!"

Monsters? Yan Shuangshuang blinked, thoughtfully looking at the river surface. Hearing about monsters, her first reaction was something big, like a fish lurking in the river. But if it’s truly a big fish, it won’t nibble something and spit out bones; it’ll surely swallow it whole.

Talking about something swiftly gnawing anything to bones, on land Yan Shuangshuang first thought of army ants. Wherever army ants pass, the ground becomes barren of grass, leaving all animals as bones; even top predators dare not challenge them.