The morning sun rose, the evening sun set, and several days quickly passed.
Although the Dinosaur People planned to launch a surprise attack on the Poison Fog Tribe, they still needed time to recover.
During those days of recovery, they cleared the battlefield.
The bodies of their own people were gathered together, and under Kangqiao's watchful gaze, the Dinosaur People cast their fallen kin into the enormous volcanic crater.
Most of the humanoid corpses from the other tribes were eaten by the Dinosaur People's blood relatives, the Primal dinosaurs.
As for the bodies of the sea beasts and Serpent monsters, the Dinosaur People collected them all.
A small portion was kept for themselves to eat, while the majority was gathered and piled before Kangqiao.
From the Dinosaur Elder's animated gestures, Kangqiao more or less understood what they meant.
After all, during his slumber, he had been fed so many times that he had lost count.
So Kangqiao naturally accepted the corpses of the Serpent monsters and sea beasts.
He breathed a little fire and roasted them.
Giant Serpent meat tasted like chicken, while Sea beast meat carried the distinctive fishy tang of seafood.
In short, they tasted genuinely good.
These Serpent monsters and sea beasts were all Giant Beast-class creatures, so they were far from small.
Their meat was satisfyingly chewy, and it suited Kangqiao's current size and appetite perfectly.
The surviving Dinosaur People did more than rest and recuperate over the following days.
They also summoned their scattered clansmen.
Yes, the Dinosaur People here were not all of them.
Across the Southern Continent, they still had their own "pastures," where some of their people were raising livestock.
However, the Dinosaur People assigned to herding or other duties were not numerous in any one place.
The Dinosaur People who trickled back came in groups as small as a few individuals and as large as several dozen.
After all, the Dinosaur People were the overlords of the Southern Continent. They had occupied the Southern Continent and wiped out weaker tribes for more than a thousand years.
As the region's most powerful Extraordinary Race, they simply did not need many people for herding and hunting.
Still, perhaps because the Southern Continent was simply too vast, in fewer than four sunrises and sunsets, the returning Dinosaur People and Primal dinosaurs had already exceeded five thousand.
Including the Dinosaur People who had originally survived, the entire tribe had barely managed to gather more than twenty thousand members.
After excluding hatchlings and juveniles, fewer than ten thousand of those twenty thousand possessed full combat strength.
Yes, the previous battle had nearly wiped out all the Dinosaur People's young and able-bodied adults.
For the Dinosaur People, this war had truly been disastrous.
After nearly ten thousand years of reproduction, their tribe had finally grown to nearly eighty thousand members, only to be almost reduced overnight to what it had once been.
As an Extraordinary Race, the Dinosaur People possessed powerful bodies and natural lifespans of three to five hundred years.
Yet the price of their powerful bodies was a flaw shared by all Extraordinary Races.
They did not reproduce and grow their populations easily.
Female Dinosaur People actually laid a fair number of eggs, two or three each year.
However, less than forty percent of those eggs survived.
What was more, nearly thirty percent of that forty percent that hatched became Primal dinosaurs.
For some unknown reason, Primal dinosaurs lacked the ability to reproduce. That was precisely why it was so difficult for the Dinosaur People to increase their numbers.
Not to mention that this was still a savage world of extraordinary beings.
Conflict was unavoidable. Clan members always died unexpectedly for one reason or another, and with conflicts large and small against other tribes, it was already no easy feat for them to multiply to nearly eighty thousand.
Fortunately, Kangqiao appeared at the final moment of crisis in this war.
Otherwise, the Dinosaur People's ten thousand years of growth would have ended there.
Because of Kangqiao's arrival, the surviving Dinosaur People had not only successfully repelled the invading tribes, but had also gained stronger bodies.
Including the juvenile Dinosaur People, if they gathered everyone capable of fighting afterward, they could truly field fifteen thousand combatants.
As for the remaining Dinosaur People, most were far too small, all hatchling-level youngsters less than two meters tall.
Over the past few days, Kangqiao had silently observed the Dinosaur People.
The Dinosaur People, meanwhile, had been secretly gazing upon him.
This was especially true of the adult Dinosaur People who had only recently returned from various places. While helping their clansmen clear the intact eggs from the collapsed caves scattered throughout the gradually cooling mountain range below, they also tried to get as close to their god as possible.
They had no ill intentions. It was entirely because of Kangqiao himself.
Over the past few days, while exploring his abilities, Kangqiao had also been conducting experiments.
He was very curious about exactly how he had caused the Dinosaur People to evolve and gain the ability to control fire.
He certainly could not casually use Flame Ripples, that shockwave-like move for clearing out mobs. This place had only just regained peace for a few days.
So Kangqiao could only try using his little stubby arms to pick up one or two Flatheads who approached him out of curiosity.
At first, when they saw hatchlings being picked up by Father God, the adult Dinosaur People were somewhat worried. They feared Kangqiao was angered by the little ones' offense and would inflict divine punishment upon them.
But the Dinosaur People soon realized they had overthought it.
The Dinosaur hatchlings picked up by Father God were quickly set back down, and after being put down, they somehow gained the ability to control fire.
This discovery thrilled the Dinosaur People beyond measure.
Thus, after discovering Father God's benevolence, more Dinosaur People who had not received the blessing of the previous miracle began deliberately or casually wandering around in front of Kangqiao.
Kangqiao welcomed them all.
After all, he found the feeling of being worshipped and cheered by others rather pleasant, and he also wanted to discover the limits of the changes he could make to the Dinosaur People.
Unfortunately, the experiment did not go very well.
From beginning to end, Kangqiao did not need to control anything at all. As long as the Dinosaur People touched the flame-like patterns on his body, the flames naturally burrowed into them.
During this process, Kangqiao's internal energy did drain away, but the amount lost was pitifully small.
In any case, Kangqiao himself felt nothing.
If he had not been able to see the tiny threads formed by the flames' intense heat winding around the Dinosaur People before slowly vanishing into their bodies, he would not have noticed it at all.
There was a limit to the energy the Dinosaur People could absorb, naturally nowhere near comparable to Kangqiao's own reserves.
Still, the Dinosaur People who absorbed that energy truly became much stronger.
Over the past few days, Kangqiao had seen quite a few Dinosaur People training their newly acquired abilities in the distance.
Flames covered their entire bodies, making them look like Little Fire Men.
Then, after unleashing everything at full force once, they quickly ran dry.
However, although they ran dry, it seemed that because their evolution had broken through some sort of limit, they could replenish enough power to release flames again simply by entering lava, without even needing to approach Kangqiao.
Seeing this, one could imagine how astonished Kangqiao was.
Weren't these basically miniature copies of me—Little Godzillas?
Well, these Dinosaur People were far more agile than Kangqiao, and much more humanoid.
How could someone like Kangqiao, whose thighs were so thick that he could not even jump, possibly compare with the Dinosaur People?
The ones most similar to Kangqiao were actually those Primal dinosaurs.
After all, the Dinosaur People's body proportions really resembled those of humans. Their height and build were simply somewhat exaggerated.
They also had dinosaur heads and thick tails behind them.
Aside from that, the Dinosaur People were the most humanoid beings Kangqiao had seen so far.
The Shark People he had seen earlier were nothing special.
Could one imagine what a fish with four limbs looked like?
They were much like the fishmen from certain fantasy works, except they looked especially ridiculous.
The Dinosaur People gaining the ability to recharge themselves was only one aspect. More importantly, after merely a few days of their brutal, relentless training—
It became visibly apparent that these Dinosaur People were growing taller.
The Dinosaur People, who had originally averaged four meters in height, now included some who had undergone a second growth spurt and approached five meters. And that was clearly not their limit.
Less than five days had passed!
If these Dinosaur People were given more time, who knew how tall they would grow?
Furthermore, the Primal dinosaurs that gained abilities might also experience considerable growth, right?
What exactly was going on?
His ability to accelerate the Dinosaur People's growth through radiation was too unscientific—too absurdly overpowered.
With such an outrageous rate of evolution, Darwin would probably leap out of his coffin if he knew about it.
Kangqiao clicked his tongue inwardly, yet at the same time, he was very curious about the limits of the Dinosaur People's physical growth.
Thus, over the past few days, Kangqiao continued evolving the Dinosaur People who had not yet evolved while secretly observing the growth of the others.
Until nearly forty sunrises and sunsets later!
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