The moment the infant boy was born, Fu Bao, Shaodian Shi, and the others were stunned. They were utterly astonished, for the child looked truly unusual.
His skin was pale yellow, and a strange protrusion jutted from his forehead. His face resembled a dragon's head, his fingers and toes were like dragon claws, and his cries carried the sound of a dragon's roar.
More astonishing still, from the moment he was born, he could turn his head in every direction. His ears were longer than an ordinary person's and could swivel freely, giving him eyes that saw in every direction and ears that heard all around him.
Despite the child's strange appearance, Shaodian Shi was not at all alarmed. The other members of the Youxiong Clan also praised him one after another. The unusual signs that had accompanied the births of the two previous Human Race Co-lords had already been recorded. Fu Bao's pregnancy and delivery had been just as extraordinary as those of the two great sages before him, so everyone felt that the child was no ordinary boy and would surely be blessed with great fortune in the future.
With the birth of their beloved son, Shaodian Shi and Fu Bao were naturally overjoyed. They named him Xuanyuan, after the local region.
Like Zhenxi and Shennong before him, Xuanyuan displayed remarkable talent from birth. He did not quite measure up to those two, but he was not far behind.
Within a few months, he could walk and talk. Before he was ten, he was already helping his father handle the tribe's affairs.
Since Xuanyuan had already been identified as the future Human Race Sage, Shaodian Shi and the people of the Youxiong Clan were not especially surprised. They simply began raising and educating him as a matter of