Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 173 - 172: The Winged Dragon Clan’s Madness
Everyone in the room fell silent, their expressions turning serious as they looked at Li Hui.
Li Hui clenched her fists, gritted her teeth, and spoke quickly in a low voice. "Chu Yi might even pick some Female Saints on the spot to bear his cubs! I haven’t told anyone else about this. I was worried about you, so I rushed over to give you a heads-up.
Whether this news is true or not, you should be prepared. I know several Female Saints who, just to be safe, have already started looking for powerful Beast Husbands with strong backgrounds among the major clans and tribes."
Everyone in the room gasped in unison. The Winged Dragon Clan was simply too arrogant!
On the Beast World Continent, Female Saints were extremely respected and revered. The Female Saints themselves had always been proud; they were the ones who chose their Beast Husbands. Only the most exceptional males would receive offers—olive branches—from multiple Female Saints.
Even then, the male would choose one Female Saint to follow. They had never heard of any male being able to choose several Female Saints at once.
Si Shuo pressed her lips together. "Is everyone just going to let the Winged Dragon Clan do as they please?"
Li Hui sighed. "The Winged Dragon Clan’s right to host the Female Saint Conference is completely legitimate. No matter what methods they used, they did indeed take first place in the recent spring hunt.
The power that wins the spring hunt has always earned the right to host the Female Saint Conference. On that point, no one can find fault with them.
Besides, they’ve kept these intentions hidden and haven’t stated them openly. Everyone can only be on guard. What else can be done?
The Winged Dragon Clan has always been cunning and tyrannical, and they’re experts at exploiting others’ weaknesses. There are very few powers in Guangshou City who can stand up to them face-to-face."
At this point, she looked at Si Shuo and couldn’t help but add, "Everyone is saying... they’re saying that you, Si Shuo, are very likely to be chosen..."
A sharp CRACK echoed from the side. It was Gong You, who was leaning on the stone doorframe. In his fury, his grip had been so tight that he’d crushed the stone.
Ji Liang clapped him on the shoulder, his own expression cold. "Because my little female took in Yin Jiang and Xiao Cheng?"
Yin Jiang is from the Eagle Clan, which is already at odds with the Winged Dragon Clan. On top of that, he was humiliated and nearly killed by Chu Ming.
The news of his ’rebirth’ was especially shocking. Even now, beastmen occasionally go to the Beast Soldier Camp to ask if it’s true.
Even if Yin Jiang had nothing to do with Chu Ming’s death, the Winged Dragon Clan would still hold a grudge against him. After all, Yin Jiang has been ’reborn,’ while Chu Ming’s whereabouts are unknown.
Back then, Chu Ming had led his men to the Dongye Forest to ambush Xiao Cheng, but he failed and was killed instead. No person was found, living or dead. Yet Xiao Cheng was perfectly fine and had even become Couple Brothers with Yin Jiang.
The Winged Dragon Clan didn’t believe Xiao Cheng was capable of killing Chu Ming, but they still treated him as an outlet for their anger.
As their Female Saint, Si Shuo naturally attracted a great deal of attention as well.
Li Hui nodded. "Besides, Si Shuo can condense Spirit Plants, she’s beautiful and sweet, and she has a lively, cheerful personality. She was already a popular candidate for this Female Saint Conference to begin with.
There are many outstanding males who haven’t had a chance to get close to Si Shuo and are just waiting to recommend themselves at the conference.
The Female Saint Conference is after the grand competition for Beast Soldiers and Generals. You should make your plans soon..."
Given the Winged Dragon Clan’s way of doing things, if Chu Ming were still around, he probably would have targeted Si Shuo too.
"Thank you, Li Hui!" Si Shuo said sincerely. This was the kind of news that people like them, who hadn’t yet fully integrated into Guangshou City, couldn’t have found out on their own.
After all, spreading such news came with the risk of offending the Winged Dragon Clan.
"Once this is all over, we’ll thank you properly!"
Li Hui quickly waved her hands. "There’s no need. I was just worried about you. Other than warning you, there’s not much else we can do to help..."
They didn’t stay for long and left soon after.
The atmosphere in the house grew heavy. Si Shuo pressed her lips together, the rims of her eyes turning slightly red with anger.
Zhi Qi stepped forward and pulled her into a tight hug. "Don’t be afraid, kitty. You have us, don’t you?
The Winged Dragon Clan are just a bunch of cowards who bully the weak and fear the strong. They only dare to target beastmen without support, relying on the fact that the other clans and tribes will mind their own business and look the other way.
Let’s talk this through properly. There are surely plenty of countermeasures we can take. We will absolutely not let it get to that point!" 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
Gong You said coldly, "The worst-case scenario is that we face them head-on. They are in the open while we are in the shadows. It’s not certain who will be begging for mercy first."
Ji Liang, however, frowned. "Hiss... The Winged Dragon Clan is too good at manipulating people. If Li Hui knows about this, then the Clan Leaders and elders of the major clans and tribes must have gotten the news as well.
But why hasn’t a single one of them spoken up to stop it?"
"Because they know the Winged Dragon Clan is just venting their anger, not trying to bring about their own destruction. They won’t touch the Female Saints under the protection of their own powers, so they’re choosing to remain indifferent spectators as usual.
Besides, the Winged Dragon Clan isn’t trying to take the Female Saints’ lives, they just want to have heirs—to borrow a Female Saint’s womb for a while. Those people are even less likely to risk the Winged Dragon Clan’s crazed retaliation by getting involved.
They can’t just let the Winged Dragon Clan Leader have no heirs and go mad, dragging all of Guangshou City into a sea of blood, can they?" Si Shuo had also figured it out. (This was an analysis from the perspective of those clans and tribes; it didn’t represent her own views!)
In the Beast World Continent, the prerequisite for Female Saints being respected, cherished, and revered to such a high degree was that their wombs had value—that they could give birth to outstanding offspring.
Now, it was just a matter of giving birth to one or two Winged Dragon cubs. It was a problem that could be ’solved,’ so no one paid it much mind.
And in the Beast World, the most worthless thing was integrity! Especially in the Central Continent, where males had even abandoned the ’marking’ ceremony.
"Right. That’s why the Winged Dragon Clan is being so blatant. They’re giving people no reason to interfere, especially since when the time comes, the Female Saints will be forced by threats to agree." Once the person herself agrees, others naturally have no need to intervene.
Si Shuo clenched her fists, took a deep breath to center her Qi in her Dantian, and made a decision. "I’m going to take a closed-door beast husband!"
This was the simplest way to break the deadlock. It was something they had discussed long ago and an unavoidable part of her long-term plans. It just had to be implemented sooner and more urgently now.
"An Iron-eating Beast?" Ji Liang raised an eyebrow. ’Another furry Couple Brother.’
Si Shuo nodded. "Yes. Although the Iron-eating Beast Clan doesn’t have many members—less than five hundred—their strength is formidable. They rank in the top three in all of Guangshou City.
I think we should give it a try!"
"Alright. I’ll spend the next few days gathering information on the Iron-eating Beast Clan members. Once you’ve recovered your strength, Little Shushu, we’ll pay them a visit," Ji Liang said with a smiling nod. Since it was inevitable that they would be adding another Couple Brother to the family, they naturally hoped he would be exceptionally powerful.
In the past twenty days, Yimei had found a Twelfth Level Beast Husband: He Shan, a Thunder Element Saber-toothed Tiger who was also a squadron leader in the Beast Soldier Camp.
The Saber-toothed Tiger Clan was the fourth-ranked power in Guangshou City based on Combat Power. Even if He Shan wasn’t a top-tier member of his clan, he still had many friends and relatives who could fully protect her.
Nevertheless, Si Shuo still had her Beast Husbands give Yimei and her partner a heads-up. It was better to be safe than sorry.
