Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 136 - 113: Shocking! You Have to Find More Husbands to Get Stronger??
But every silver lining has a cloud. She had no desire to be carried off by random Beastmen again.
If it were those ferocious Wandering Beasts next time, she might not be so lucky.
That evening, she cooked a sumptuous feast. They all ate and drank heartily, soothing the fear and anxiety of the past few days.
After An Jin had eaten and drunk her fill, she placed her chopsticks on her stone bowl, looked up at Gu Yin, and asked eagerly, "Can I transform into a beast form and cultivate like you all?"
Gu Yin and Ling Hong both looked over at her, astonished.
They seemed to have never expected a female to ask such a question.
An Jin grew a little flustered under their astonished gazes. She lowered her head, picked up her chopsticks again, and took two more bites of the remaining rice.
"Is it really impossible?"
She looked up again and couldn’t help but mutter.
’This world is so unfair to females! Why can males transform into beast form, but females can’t?’
Gu Yin shook his head. His snake tail coiled around her, pulling her into his embrace, and he rubbed her full, round belly. "Actually, no one has ever explicitly said that females cannot transform into a beast form."
An Jin’s eyes lit up as she looked at him.
Gu Yin met her expectant gaze, and as if he couldn’t bear to disappoint her, he slowly continued, "I remember hearing a long, long time ago that a few females were supposedly able to transform into a beast form, but there are none anymore."
Ling Hong nodded as well. "I grew up in the tribe, and I’ve never seen a female who could transform."
In the subconscious of the Beastmen, females were born weak and were meant to take several male mates, get pregnant, give birth to cubs, raise their offspring, and undertake the great task of ensuring the continuation of their race.
An Jin lowered her head, her gaze losing focus as she sighed in disappointment. She had just looked up some information in her system.
In truth, when this world first began, some females and males could transform into beast form, while others could not.
However, over millions of years of natural selection, males who were unable to transform into a beast form were too weak. They couldn’t win the favor of females or hunt enough food, so most of them starved to death and naturally couldn’t leave behind enough offspring.
For the females, however, the exact opposite was true.
Because females who could transform into a beast form were no weaker than males, they could hunt and survive on their own. Thus, they didn’t need to rely on males. With their decreased need for mates, they rarely formed partnerships and therefore also failed to leave behind enough offspring.
Meanwhile, the females who couldn’t transform could only survive by depending on more, and stronger, males. Their daily lives were spent either being pregnant and giving birth, or on the path to becoming pregnant again.
As a result, they bore far more offspring.
This process of elimination, playing out over millions of years, led to the current state of the Beast World: only males can transform into a beast form, while females can only remain in their human form.
An Jin slumped onto the table, burying her face in her folded arms. Her long, thick hair, like seaweed, spilled over her shoulders. "Is there really no way for me to get stronger? I don’t want to be captured and dragged around. I have no way to protect myself at all."
Perhaps her profound disappointment and desolate mood moved Gu Yin. He pursed his lips and waited a long time before finally speaking. "Actually, there is another way..."
But he trailed off, not finishing his sentence.
An Jin was frantic with suspense.
Ling Hong picked up the conversation, his eyes fixed on her. His voice held a hint of suppressed glee. "Females can’t cultivate a beast form, but they can cultivate their spiritual power. Many Witches in the big cities are female."
"Spiritual power?"
’That was a new term.’
An Jin asked urgently, "How do you cultivate spiritual power? Can I do it?"
"Anyone can cultivate spiritual power, but it’s very difficult to make it truly powerful."
"There are only two paths to cultivating spiritual power. Either you are exceptionally talented, or you live long enough for your spiritual power to grow stronger little by little. Legends even say it can allow one to communicate with the Beast God."
"But..." 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚
Ling Hong looked at the female’s expectant face, unable to bear crushing her hopes. "Those with true talent show an outstanding aptitude for cultivation from birth. Most of them have the blood of a Witch."
"For an ordinary female to cultivate her spiritual power, the only way is to form partnerships with more, and stronger, males. Her spiritual power will then grow by a corresponding degree..."
"HISS~" Gu Yin shot Ling Hong a warning look, but surprisingly, he didn’t refute the statement. Instead, he instinctively tightened his tail around his mate.
He fell into a jealous silence.
But after this incident, Gu Yin began to wonder if, given that his own strength was insufficient, he should find more powerful males for her.
An Jin saw that their conversation was gradually shifting to what type of males they should find for her.
An Jin’s mouth twitched. She was utterly speechless. She lowered her head and started silently picking at her rice again.
She poked at the last two mouthfuls of rice in her bowl for what felt like an eternity.
’So, if I want to get stronger, I have to find more husbands?’
’The more husbands I have and the stronger they are, the stronger I’ll become?’
’This rule is certainly in line with the basic principles of the Beast World. It’s a protective measure for females, and it also encourages them to accept more single males.’
’But I could never handle that.’
’One Gu Yin is already more than I can handle. Forget a whole group of them—my body wouldn’t even be able to take a second male.’
"I don’t want to find that many males," An Jin said, finally unable to take it anymore. She put her chopsticks down on the table, interrupting their conversation.
Ling Hong’s ears drooped in disappointment.
Gu Yin, on the other hand, was overjoyed. A faint warmth appeared in his red eyes, which were usually aloof and cold. "Alright, then we won’t look. I won’t let a situation like this happen ever again."
’Of course he didn’t want to find other males for Jin. If she were even slightly intimate with another male, he would be mad with jealousy, wanting to slaughter every last one of them.’
’Living together with Jin in the tribe for a while... life had been too comfortable. It had actually dulled his innate beastly nature.’
’Gu Yin finally remembered his old, brutal ways as a Wandering Beast.’
He thought coldly to himself, ’The next time I run into any Beastmen trying to snatch her, I’ll kill every last one I see.’
