Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 80 - 79: That’s Just Too Alike

Si Shuo was used to waking up in a new place. Sure enough, during their meal, she heard the men say that Xu Lie’s Dongzhou Merchant Team would be joining the contingent from Puchang City to travel to the Central Continent together tomorrow.

She glanced at Beauty Xiao, who was eating with perfect etiquette. ’Tsk, Xiao Shisi is every bit a female of the Three-tailed Blue Fox Clan,’ she thought. ’She’s beautiful and striking, with a tall, exquisite figure. Even I, another female, can’t help but sneak a peek now and then. No wonder Mi Xing and the others lured her to Puchang City.’

If her Beast Husbands hadn’t already bonded with her, with the Beast Mark acting as a bond, she really wouldn’t dare keep Beauty Xiao so close.

With only one day left before their departure, Zhi Le and the others, just like the other Beastmen accompanying the merchant team, were busy running back and forth between their home and the workshop, making final preparations for the journey.

The Bone Marrow Cleansing and Vein Cutting Pills Si Shuo replicated yesterday had already been taken by two of Yimei’s Beast Husbands, Kouba included.

The elixir’s effects were identical to those of the ones provided by the system!

Si Shuo pulled Xu Chi into the house. After he activated the Protective Shield, she began to replicate one Life Reviving Pill and two Upgrade Pills.

The effectiveness of the Upgrade Pills had diminishing returns. A Beastman would see almost no effect after taking three of them, so unless it was a critical moment, Si Shuo didn’t plan on giving them to her Beast Husbands.

The later one took an Upgrade Pill, the greater the benefit. Going up one level from Level 8, for example, was a completely different matter than going up one level from Level 18.

Si Shuo suddenly remembered. ’I completed the Beast Tide Dungeon but I still haven’t checked the rewards.’

System: Congratulations to the host for completing the first task of the dungeon. You have received ten Thousand Miles Positioning Talisman Papers (each paper can lock onto two locations and allows for ten round-trip Teleportations). For completing the second task, you have received ten Human Skin Masks... ten Puppet Talismans... ten High-speed Talisman Papers, ten Wind and Rain Summoning Talismans, and ten Thunder Talismans!

Si Shuo raised an eyebrow in surprise. ’These Human Skin Masks really came at the perfect time.’

She fed some Spiritual Power to each of the vine plants on her body until her own was depleted. Then, she meditated to cultivate, absorbing some Spiritual Power from the air, before finally going out to spend time with Beauty Xiao.

Xiao Shisi was from the Central Continent, and she explained the situation there to Si Shuo:

"The Central Continent as we know it today—the division of power, the partitioning of land, the allocation of resources, and the power rankings of the various families and tribes—all of this was established by our ancestors through nearly a hundred years of struggle.

"The families that can establish themselves in Guangshou City are all major clans that have been entrenched in the Central Continent for hundreds of years. Our Xiao Family is only based in a Second-level Beast City a day’s journey from Guangshou City: Zhuan City...

"In Guangshou City, the highest Beastman Combat Level is Level 15, a member of the Golden Python Ni Family. The other major families also have several Level 14 powerhouses...

"Spreading out from Guangshou City as the center are the Second-level and Third-level Beast Cities. The Border City District is down at the seventh tier, and it’s full of gangs that couldn’t get into the Beast Cities and refuse to be governed..."

You could say that the closer a Beast City is to the heart of the Central Continent, the more of an impenetrable bloc it becomes, allowing no room for outside forces to get a foothold.

Even the Beastmen of Puchang City had to strive for nearly a hundred beast-years, mustering the entire city’s strength, just to gradually gain a foothold in the Central Continent. Only then could they begin to build their own power base and start acquiring land, property, and slaves!

Whether for Beastmen or modern people, the harder a place is to get into, the more desperately they’ll try to squeeze in for a look. Even if they get crushed flat in the process, just being able to set foot on that land is enough to make them feel proud and vindicated.

Fortunately, Si Shuo and her group had a manor and a two-story shop that the City Lord had gifted them. They would have to figure out the rest as they went.

After chatting for a while, the two had started calling each other sisters. Si Shuo was the elder sister, and Xiao Shisi, who was four months younger, was the little sister.

Si Shuo propped her chin on her hand and studied Xiao Shisi for a moment, then smiled and pulled her into the house, telling Xu Chi not to follow.

Xiao Shisi looked a little uneasy, standing frozen with her head nearly buried in her chest. Her bashful fidgeting was a complete mismatch for her tall, statuesque frame!

"Sit here. I’m going to give you a total makeover," Si Shuo said, pulling her down onto a stone chair. She tied up Xiao Shisi’s long blue hair, covered it with a hairnet, and fitted her with a very secure, ten-centimeter, chestnut-brown, layered wolf-cut wig from the supermarket.

The change in hairstyle and color alone made Beauty Xiao look like a completely different person. If it weren’t for her obvious curves, Si Shuo would have mistaken her for some handsome young rogue who’d just wandered in.

Si Shuo redeemed a pair of dark green colored contacts and put them in for her, then chose a Human Skin Mask with sharp, masculine features and applied it to Beauty Xiao’s face.

"Here, these are the clothes I got for you. This white cloth strip is for binding... this part... as flat as you can," Si Shuo said, her face flushing slightly as she gestured vaguely.

Xiao Shisi lowered her head, her own face filled with embarrassment.

"I’ll wait for you outside," Si Shuo said eagerly before heading out.

The moment the door closed, the previously shy and hunched Xiao Shisi straightened her back. She glanced down at her own ample chest with a look of disdain, grabbed the cloth strip, and resignedly took off her clothes, wrapping the binding tighter and tighter...

Si Shuo was happily munching on a fruit platter that Xu Chi had prepared for her. Only three to five minutes passed before the door opened. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

A handsome, refined young man with chestnut hair and dark green eyes walked out. Even though Si Shuo was mentally prepared, she was still taken aback by how good-looking he was!

"Ah, Xu Chi, do you see? Isn’t it a huge success? No one would ever connect him to Xiao Shisi, right?" Si Shuo said excitedly, grabbing Xu Chi’s arm.

Xu Chi nodded in astonishment. "If this room didn’t only have one door, I would’ve thought it was a completely different person."

Si Shuo stepped forward and linked arms with Xiao Shisi. Tilting her chin up at Xu Chi, she cleared her throat to hide a smile and began to rehearse the cover story in a serious tone: "Allow me to reintroduce you. This is my new Mermaid Beastman. Since he’s still young and hasn’t received his Beast Mark, I plan to take him to the Central Continent to get marked before we officially bond."

Xu Chi and Xiao Shisi were both stunned for a moment.

Xiao Shisi laughed, pulled her arm free, and slung it over Si Shuo’s shoulder. Her prim posture vanished, replaced by the rakish swagger of a young playboy. With a sly, charming smile, she purred, "Sister already has four Beast Husbands, so I’ll be the fifth. How about you call me Xiao Wu? The ’Wu’ is for five, after all. And it has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?"

Now it was Si Shuo’s turn to be stunned. She stammered, "Xiao Shisi, you... you’re a little too good at pretending to be a man, aren’t you?"

Xiao Shisi immediately pursed her lips and started fidgeting shyly again. "Do you like it, Sister? I was just copying my older brother. Was it too much?"

"Not at all, it’s great! Your character portrayal is spot on. A Mermaid Beastman’s job is just to be a pretty face and keep his female happy," Si Shuo said, giving her a thumbs-up.

Xiao Shisi smiled shyly, and now the handsome youth looked like a naive scholar, unversed in the ways of the world. ’She truly lives up to the reputation of the ever-changing Three-tailed Blue Fox Clan!’ Si Shuo thought.

When Zhi Le and the others got home, they were also completely fooled by Xiao Shisi’s disguise.

Si Shuo smugly showed off her handiwork. "We’ll just march right into the Central Continent with our Fourteenth Sister in tow and let Mi Xing and his cronies search the whole city for her!"