Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 169 - 168: As Expected of Ji Liang
She really was just a cub. She might have a vast inheritance of knowledge, but she was like a miser holding the key to a treasure vault—it was all useless if she didn’t know how to use it. In the end, wasn’t she still just getting coaxed and coddled by the adults?
She was a little foodie, a paper tiger that deflated with a single poke!
Si Shuo smiled and continued eating. The males were both speechless and amused. It wasn’t that they had two cubs in the house; it was clear they’d always had three.
And it was true. Si Shuo had been inseparable from the cubs these past few days, but the most she did was tease them. The males handled everything properly, to the point that she wasn’t even needed for feedings.
It even gave her the mistaken impression that she wasn’t the Mother, but an older sister. The males were the Fathers, and they were taking care of her right along with the cubs...
While they were eating, Ji Liang and Xiao Cheng told Si Shuo all sorts of recent news they had heard.
The last vestiges of winter receded, and the spring hunt was over. Even though the weather was growing hotter by the day, the Beastmen’s activities had become more rich and varied.
"HISS HISS... During this spring hunt, the Golden Python Ni Family rounded up quite a few High level Fierce Beasts with formidable Combat Power and sent them all to the Beast Fighting Arena. The Beast Fighting Arena doesn’t just have bouts between Fierce Beasts, but also fights between Male Slaves and Fierce Beasts. The Ni Family publicly claims that the Male Slaves are all evil Beastmen found in various places, many of them ferocious Rogue Beasts... Tsk, every day it attracts lots of Beastmen who spend a fair amount of Crystal Stones on tickets to get in, and then they bet on who will win the match..."
"Right. The Beast Fighting Arena is huge. Every day, many Fierce Beasts or Male Slaves are carried out sideways, piled onto a cart, and taken to the outskirts to be buried in a pit... From far away, you can smell the thick scent of blood and hear the crowd’s frenzied cheers..."
It was the kind of activity that Beastmen, unable to suppress their instincts, loved. Anyone with a bit of spare money and time would flock there.
Si Shuo pressed her lips together. "Those Male Slaves... they can’t all be evil Beastmen, can they?"
Ji Liang nodded. "Of course not. HISS HISS. If all the Beastmen who did evil things were sent to the Beast Fighting Arena, who would dare to cause trouble anymore?
Besides, those kinds of ferocious Beastmen are usually brutal and good at hiding their tracks, making them very difficult to find and capture. Basically, more than half of those sent to the Beast Fighting Arena are victims of conspiracies, like Yin Jiang back then!"
Si Shuo’s mood sank a little. This was a very common phenomenon on the Beast World Continent. She could save Yin Jiang, but she couldn’t save all the Male Slaves in the Beast Fighting Arena.
However, she was also pragmatic. ’In every era, there’s always a dark, ugly side hidden from the light.’
’My world is small; I just want my own family to live peacefully and securely.’
It’s just that she had a vague, indescribable sense of unease. Perhaps because she was an outsider, her tolerance for such things was a bit weaker.
The males glossed over the topic and quickly switched to another. "Sister, in half a month, it will be Guangshou City’s annual Beast Soldiers and Generals Competition. The competition is meant to encourage Beast Soldiers to train diligently, increase their Combat Power Value, and gain ample combat experience. It’s also a chance for the city’s Beastmen to see the prowess of our Beast Soldiers..."
At the mention of this, Xiao Cheng was already rubbing his hands together in anticipation. "The competition is divided into individual matches and team events by Beast Soldier Camp. I hear the rewards are especially generous..."
Si Shuo’s eyes lit up slightly. ’Now this is the kind of excitement I love to see!’ "In that case, you all need to absorb Crystal Stones properly these next few days. I, uh, I replicated some Crystal Stones earlier and removed all the impurities. Your absorption of them will definitely be better than before."
Hearing that she could replicate Crystal Stones, the three males in the room were all astonished. Replicating Crystal Stones? What couldn’t she do?
Si Shuo chuckled, pulled out a cloth bag, and tossed it onto the table. The clinking sound of the Crystal Stones was sharp and musical, a sign of their superior quality!
Ji Liang opened the bag. Under the light, the multicolored Crystal Stones were translucent and sparkling, dazzlingly bright. They truly didn’t contain a single trace of impurity.
They looked at each other, seeing a mix of gravity and irrepressible joy in one another’s eyes.
Normally, the Crystal Stones they obtained from hunting Fierce Beasts mostly contained mixed and impure energy, making them difficult to absorb directly. This was also why High level Crystal Stones required a male to help transfer the energy to a female.
It was like chewing on a passion fruit full of seeds—there was very little pulp and juice to savor. You could swallow the passion fruit seeds, but the impurities in a Crystal Stone had to be filtered out.
And those were just the visible impurities. Many more were invisible, mixed in with the Spiritual Energy and very difficult to remove. That was why they had to absorb the Spiritual Energy little by little, convert it within their own bodies, and then feed it to the female.
Throughout this process, impurities would inevitably accumulate in their bodies, hindering their Cultivation. It required them to expend great effort and a lot of time to expel most of them.
By taking turns transferring Spiritual Power to Si Shuo, they were able to create a buffer for themselves. It could be said that they were all silently sacrificing their own Cultivation futures to nourish the little female’s body!
With Crystal Stones this transparent and free of impurities, when they transferred Spiritual Power to the little female in the future, they would only need to control the speed of the infusion. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
Furthermore, when such pure Spiritual Energy entered their bodies, it would be a slow but powerful process of cleansing and tempering, somewhat similar to a Bone Marrow Cleansing and Vein Cutting Pill, but without any side effects.
They looked at Si Shuo, whose face was flushed, her smile like a spring breeze in March, and the corners of her eyes tinged with crimson. Her body was in peak condition. Smiling, they each took Crystal Stones that matched their respective superpower attributes.
Besides this grand competition, there was also the Female Saint Conference, flower-viewing banquets hosted by various families, and the various Martial Arts Halls recruiting students. Everything revolved around males competing to increase their Combat Power, factions displaying their strength, and matchmaking.
They were just waiting for Si Shuo’s body to fully recover so they could go out and join in the fun at each event.
Si Shuo said with a light laugh, "Hasn’t Gong You already chosen a place to open the Martial Arts Hall?
We can take advantage of the Martial Arts Hall recruitment season to gather some students with decent talent and good, upright character. We can then offer them cultural classes, teaching them to read and write Beast Text.
Our family doesn’t lack Crystal Stones, so we can treat it as an investment in our network.
When they grow up in the future, they’ll be the roots that anchor us in Guangshou City!
Our Martial Arts Hall will be new and won’t have a reputation, but we can be a little lower on the price. A single student will pay the price of a normal Martial Arts Hall, but if they enroll with other students, they’ll enjoy a certain discount.
For example, two people signing up together get a five-percent discount. Three people get ten percent off, and four people get fifteen percent off. The maximum discount is thirty percent off!"
For the past ten days or so, they had been studying Beast Text for one Beast Hour every day. Whoever’s turn it was to rest would go to the west courtyard and teach the Three tailed Blue Fox Clan Members.
Beast Text was quite easy to learn. Every day, they learned twenty common characters of simple, medium, and slightly difficult levels. In addition to reviewing, previewing, and practicing their writing each session, everyone was making rapid progress. Each of them had already mastered around three hundred characters.
Ji Liang hissed with a laugh, "And any student who enrolls can get a free set of a brush, ink, paper, and an inkstone. That’ll build some fame for our shop."
Si Shuo couldn’t help but give him a thumbs-up. ’As expected of Ji Liang,’ she thought, ’his advertising methods are truly pervasive.’
