Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 381 - 380: As the Land, So the People

’Look at the charm of Xia Hua culture. The same word, "fast," but with such different meanings.’

’Trying to play the experienced driver with her?’ Si Shuo chuckled and bit back, "Xiao Cheng, haven’t you heard? A male can’t be called ’fast’..."

Xiao Cheng blinked, getting it in a second. His face flushed beet red as he stammered, "S-Sis, you know... I-I last a long time! I’m not fast at all." 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

Si Shuo hugged him, roaring with laughter. But then her expression changed, and she nipped him. "I’m hungry!"

Xiao Cheng grew shy. "You can eat me however you want, Sis..."

’This silly boy is letting his imagination run wild again.’ Si Shuo tugged his tail. "I said, I’m hungry. The cub in my belly needs to eat. Am I supposed to skin you and roast you?"

Only then did Xiao Cheng jump up, carrying Si Shuo to the outer room.

The males had long since figured out Si Shuo’s routine. The table was already laden with all sorts of food—to be precise, a seafood feast prepared by Gong You.

The cubs clung to the edge of the table, drooling as they stared at the spread of delicious food, unwilling to even blink. They only occasionally glanced toward their Mother’s sleeping cave.

"Mother!" Kunzi shouted happily when he saw the two emerge. "Father Gong You went to the sea and caught lots of yummy things. Come quick!"

Gong You placed a large bowl of deboned fish before Si Shuo and smiled. "Hungry? See which fish you like."

Si Shuo hummed in agreement. The hunger was so fierce that she finished the entire bowl of fish without even tasting it.

The cubs buried their faces in their food and ate with gusto. ’This is bliss! Mother is pregnant with a Yu Zai, and Father Gong You is so diligent about hunting. It’s all delicious fish from the sea, so many kinds we’ve never seen before, so good you wish you could chew up the bowl itself.’ The roasted fish, fried fish, braised fish, grilled fish, and so on were all prepared with the help of the males at home.

Seeing their little female and the cubs enjoying the meal, the males’ faces were also wreathed in smiles.

Gong You had chosen the food for his little female and the cubs according to his own tastes. Seeing that Si Shuo ate everything put before her, he knew he had made the right choices.

After eating and drinking her fill, Si Shuo finally remembered something. Seeing how bright it was outside, she couldn’t help but ask, "Aren’t you guys on duty today?"

Gong You smiled and rubbed her head. "We are, but it’s still nighttime. I used a Time Array and an illumination array. The area it covers isn’t that large."

Only then did Si Shuo notice a new cyan Beast Pattern on Gong You’s neck. "Gong You, did you break through to Level 13?"

Gong You tilted his neck to give her a better look, nodding with a smile. "Yes. I’d been suppressing my cultivation and holding back my breakthrough. But after spring started, I went to the Beast Soldier Camp to train and found it hard to make any progress. So just now, while I was out hunting for you all, I went ahead and advanced."

He can set up a Time Law of up to fifteen times the normal speed, with a duration of a quarter of an hour. When he left, he also set up a Time Law for himself. This way, as long as he returned from hunting within one and a half Beast Hours, their passage of time would remain synchronized.

"Sure enough, after I broke through, being in the ocean gave me some new insights, and my cultivation rose by a half step. I’m already at Peak Level 13," Gong You said, his eyes bright with joy. "Back in the Southern Continent, my cultivation wasn’t the highest, but it was still a force to be reckoned with. But after following my little female to the Central Continent, I was barely at a level where I could support the family. The psychological blow was huge. It was like going from being the head of a chicken to the tail of a phoenix."

Now that he had finally caught up a bit, he breathed a huge sigh of relief, but at the same time, he felt an even greater sense of urgency.

The Southwest Forest is full of Wild Beasts. The Level 16 attributeless crystal stone that Wei Ce found was hunted from there. And Wei Ce had only been on the fringes of the Beastman hunting grounds; he hadn’t gone deep into the forest at all.

What’s more, they all knew that Zu Nai, the Tiger Beastman from their tavern, was originally a Level 16 Beastman! They had learned from Little Hong’s Mind Reading Technique that Zu Nai’s cultivation level wasn’t even considered particularly outstanding in his homeland. Hearing this, they actually grew quite curious about the world beyond the Southwest Forest. Who wouldn’t want to become stronger and have more power to protect their little female and cubs?

As the saying goes, a region’s environment shapes its people. That place must have something special about it that allows Beastmen to break through the Level 15 cultivation barrier and advance so easily.

And this meant that just as he was starting to stand out in the Central Continent, he was about to become the tail of the phoenix all over again! His little female often said that learning has no limits, and the same was true for Cultivation.

Si Shuo laughed and threw herself into his arms, even happier than he was. "Gong You, you’re amazing..." At this, she looked up at him and asked curiously, "Gong You, in your homeland, the Far North, what’s the cultivation level of the Big Fish Beasts?"

"The highest is the Peak of Level 14," Gong You said with a smile. "I’ve only heard rumors, though. We Blue Whales have a vast range and rarely encounter them. It’s just what I’ve heard from other Beastmen."

"Is the Spiritual Energy abundant there?" His little female’s questions came one after another.

Gong You answered patiently, "It’s decent. The temperature there is frigid, so the Spiritual Energy is much more abundant than in other places. But the Far North is nothing but a boundless expanse of glaciers and sea. It has plenty of Spiritual Energy, but not enough places for practical training..."

Si Shuo nodded in understanding. ’In other words, the hardware and software of the Far North don’t match. It’s like in those cultivation novels where many elite disciples train bitterly in sects with dense Spiritual Energy to no avail and have to descend the mountain for real-world experience. It’s a process of balancing work and rest, of cultivating both internally and externally.’ Her eyes flickered, and she smiled. "Since fate has told us we can’t stay in Guangshou City permanently, let’s hand over the movable type printing technology and lead the Beastmen in farming."

We can slowly hand over the tavern, the fields, the Martial Arts Hall, the school, and the workshops. And before we’re forced to leave, why don’t we go take a look at the Far North?

With Ji Liang around, no matter where we go in the future, we can teleport there in an instant!"

She had been thinking about it all wrong. As a human, Si Shuo was more of a homebody and lacked a sense of crisis, which was why she yearned for a bustling, comfortable, and self-sufficient life like the one in Guangshou City.

But she had forgotten the dangers lurking outside the city walls. If she continued thinking this way, she would wear down the fighting spirit of her males, turning them into Fierce Beasts with their claws and fangs pulled out, left to be slaughtered by fate!

If that was the case, then they would have to live differently. They would go out, explore, gain experience while raising their cultivation, and then find the next suitable place to settle down.

Gong You’s eyes trembled. Who doesn’t feel a connection to their homeland? It was the place where he had grown up. It felt as if just by returning, he could shoulder any hardship.

Before he had his little female, he used to swim from the Far North to Nanye City every year, returning to his homeland during the rainy season.

Gong You hadn’t been back in a year, and he had never dared to hope he could return. After all, his little female’s body was too delicate to withstand the bone-chilling cold. And a lover of lively places like her was unlikely to maintain her enthusiasm for a world of monochrome white after the initial awe wore off. Even many of the Beastmen from the Far North found it dull, boring, and uninteresting, and had left their homes behind.

"But... it’s too cold there. My dear won’t be used to it," Gong You said with difficulty.