Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 374 - 373: Let’s See If He Can Still Laugh
"Gong You will set up the Time Law, limiting each training session to..." Si Shuo’s voice trailed off.
Gong You finished her sentence with a smile. "Sweetheart, I can currently accelerate time fifteen-fold using the Time Law, so it’s best to limit each session to a Half Beast Hour."
"Right." ’A Half Beast Hour, so that’s three hours.’ "That’s the perfect amount of time. It’s a duration that Beastmen can sustain during a fight, both in terms of stamina and Spiritual Power reserves. Any longer, and the training benefits will actually start to diminish sharply."
’Okay, so Zhi Le, Xiao Cheng, and Yin Jiang will patrol the Barriers to check on the Beastmen inside. I’ll be in charge of healing, so if any Beastmen are critically injured, I can step in to save them...’
’Xu Chi’s Domain will define the space, and the Beastmen who are teleported in won’t be able to come and go as they please. We can announce to the outside world that we’ve discovered a training Secret Realm... In the meantime, we’ll get a better handle on our superpowers and figure out how to make this whole thing sound more plausible. Then, at Lady Mu Qiong’s birthday banquet, we’ll have Wei Jin announce it as their Father.’ Note: "as their Father" (由韦锦阿父说) implies Wei Jin, who is a father figure/literal father in the group, will make the announcement. This translation is contextually more accurate than "Wei Jin’s father."
"A training Secret Realm is hugely significant to any family or tribe. We can give each family a certain number of slots for their elite disciples... and in return, we’ll collect half of the resources they gather..."
The males listened intently. ’How on earth does their little female’s mind work?’
’She came up with a way for the Beastmen of the entire Beast City to deal with the Wild Beasts themselves. Their Combat Power will increase, the resources will be distributed, and the Beast Tide will be handled with complete efficiency!’
’And on top of that, our group will get tangible rewards.’
Xu Ye raised his hand. "Mother, I can fly and use Invisibility and Hidden Breath! No one will be able to find me. I can be a supervisor, too!"
Youyou frowned. ’My superpower is the Space System. It seems like apart from storing things, all I have is my own fat...’
Seeing the little guy racking his brain, his small face scrunched up, Si Shuo laughed. "In that case, Youyou will be in charge of collecting the fees. We can’t do all this for nothing. Any Beastman who enters the Domain must hand over half of their resources to be teleported back. After you collect the resources, Youyou, you can give them all to your Father."
’This is a great job!’ Youyou nodded repeatedly. "Mother, you’re so smart! No problem is too difficult for you. I have so much to learn from you!"
For a family to be harmonious, the matriarch is the most important part—she must be reasonable and know how to treat everyone fairly.
Tuanzi also raised his hand. "Mother, I want to help Father Ji Liang with the Teleportation..."
"Mother, what about me!" Yuanyuan, whose superpower was Transformation Ability, asked anxiously. The whole family was participating in this so-called "dungeon," all using Invisibility and Hidden Breath to give people the illusion of a Secret Realm.
’She has a Transformation Ability. How could she participate without showing her real self?’
Si Shuo put a hand to her forehead and thought for a moment. "Yuanyuan, you can be a supervisor too. You can turn into a Hunting Falcon... Except for Tuanzi and Youyou, all you cubs will be supervisors up in the trees. It will be a good chance to train your minds and see if you can hide perfectly right under the noses of High-level Beastmen..."
Ji Liang nodded. "Ssss... that’s right. Knowing how to hide and protect yourselves is the most important part of surviving on your own!"
Hearing their Father and Mother say this, the cubs weren’t the least bit dissatisfied. They were all fired up, glancing at each other in a silent competition. ’We’ll definitely stay hidden from start to finish!’
「Soon, it was time for Lady Mu Qiong’s birthday banquet.」
Si Shuo’s entire family, dressed in their finest, went with Wei Jin.
Beastmen didn’t generally celebrate birthdays, but they considered the age of sixty to be a great trial. To pass it meant one had the hope of living for another sixty years.
To celebrate a family member reaching sixty, any prominent household would hold a grand birthday banquet, which also served as an opportunity to find outstanding partners from good families for their younger generation.
Moreover, Lady Mu Qiong’s status in Guangshou City was exceptionally high. She was a Witch Doctor as renowned as the City Lord and the High Priest. The Beastmen she had saved were innumerable, many of them elites from the major families and tribes.
Her birthday was naturally a major event in the city. Si Shuo’s group had barely reached the city center when their path was blocked by the crowd.
"It’s not just Beastmen from our Guangshou City attending. There are also many outstanding young members from the families and tribes of nearby Beast Cities. Not many are actually allowed inside, though. Most are just here to watch the spectacle and try their luck," Wei Ce said with a smile, his arm around Si Shuo’s waist while his other held Yuanyuan.
Each of the males in the family was holding one or two cubs. The crowd was so dense they were afraid that with one lapse in attention, the cubs might be stolen or trampled.
Seeing the unconcealable curiosity on her face, Xiao Cheng found it amusing. But with all the tall males around her, she couldn’t see a thing.
He stepped forward, pushed the Youyou he was holding into Wei Ce’s arms, then grabbed Si Shuo by the waist and, with a small grunt of effort, hoisted her onto his shoulders. "Sister, when you turn sixty, we’ll throw a banquet this grand for you, too!"
Si Shuo playfully smacked his forehead. "What nonsense is that? Your sister is in the prime of her youth and beauty, and you want me to think about something forty years from now?!"
Her eyes narrowed, a wicked glint in them. ’Later, I’ll just have to show him what I look like as a sixty-year-old woman and see if he’s still smiling then.’
Xiao Cheng laughed and nuzzled her leg with his head. "Sister, no matter what you look like, you’ll always be the cutest and most beautiful to me!"
The lifespan of an ordinary female was only about sixty years. Female Saints, however, had superpowers. Combined with having many male partners to nourish them through their Beast Marks and the superpower circulating within them, those who were diligent about Cultivation could live for eighty to a hundred years, with some even reaching one hundred thirty or forty. On the other hand, if males didn’t perish from injuries sustained while hunting, they could actually live nearly twice as long as females.
In the Southern Continent, the harsh environment took such a toll on the males that the population difference between them and the females wasn’t too great. But in the Beast Cities of the Central Continent, life was more comfortable. Beastmen didn’t have to live in constant fear, they didn’t rely solely on the outside world for food, and they had achieved a degree of self-sufficiency. As a result, not only had the population ratio between males and females widened, but their lifespans also differed by several decades!
This very question flashed through the minds of the males. The happier and more content they were now, the more unbearable the thought of their little female leaving them became. The pain of having one’s heart gouged out and bones scraped clean could be no worse.
Ji Liang let out a low hiss. He held out his hand, and the two Snake Cubs, knowing just what to do, zipped over and coiled themselves around their Mother’s wrists.
He then transformed into his Beast Form and lifted Si Shuo up. "This way, your field of vision is wider. Little Shushu can see more clearly."
’It’s been a while since I’ve ridden on his big snake head.’ Si Shuo smiled and patted his head. "Ji Liang, were you just worried? Worried that I would grow old and leave this world before you all?"
Her words made Ji Liang’s body tremble slightly. "Yes," he admitted, his eyes growing warm. He spoke with determination, "I will work hard on my Cultivation, to let the Beast Mark nourish Little Shushu even more!"
"Don’t be afraid, Ji Liang. I have a Healing System superpower, you know. I’ll probably age even slower than you," Si Shuo said, patting him with a light laugh. "My Big Snake Beast is so good. We’ll be together for a lifetime. I won’t leave you, and you’re not allowed to leave me, okay?"
Ji Liang nodded emphatically.
