The once-noisy Forbidden Forest suddenly fell silent. Only the leaves rustled in the wind.
The giant prophet and the King of Giants looked at each other for a long time before finally understanding why that great prophecy had said this friend would lead the giants into a new era.
Yes, a new era!
For the past several centuries, the giants had grown accustomed to the logic that eating made them stronger.
Every day, they ate, slept, then ate again. The first thing they did after waking was look for food: hand-shredded bison meat, charcoal-grilled bald orioles, honey-glazed male lions, skewered human-faced spiders... Whatever was fierce, they ate it.
There were many places in the Forbidden Forest that even other creatures dared not enter, where terrifying beings like the hundred-meter Giant Scale lurked.
Giants could not defeat them alone.
But like humanity's earliest ancestors, the giants had learned to hunt together and mastered basic coordination. They began surrounding and hunting such fierce beasts... The giants were retracing humanity's evolutionary path, only far more ferociously.
Honestly, collective hunting was much more satisfying than Gu Dong's old method of getting beaten up all the way to becoming stronger.
So the giants' way of thinking was simple: eat.
They had never considered cultivation.
On one hand, they had not really needed it before. After all, eating, eating, and more eating made them stronger.
On the other hand, one could not expect a group of giants without even a written language, who squatted together every day going "waooh," to develop some kind of cultivation inheritance.
The giant prophet was already going bald just trying to organize plant names. Asking him to come up with a cultivation method too? Better not.
But now, the friends who had traveled from afar had opened a new door for