Future Beast World: Becoming A Pampered Beauty-Chapter 276 - 216: The Beast Husbands Meet

"When I finish weaving this bolt of cloth next year, I’ll make you a couple of outfits." Lou Xianyue took out a bolt of Flowing Color Shark Sha. It was a lake blue that shimmered with hints of warm orange—lively and vibrant. It would surely be perfect for a summer dress.

When Lou Xianyue was bored at the Sea Palace, besides Artifact Refining, he would weave Shark Sha to pass the time.

Sang Luo propped her chin on her hands, resting her elbows on the table to watch him weave up close.

The Deep Sea contained many unique plants with long fibers. Lou Xianyue used his Spiritual Power to crush them and extract the fibers, which he then telekinetically rolled into smooth, even threads. He then wove these threads, crossing them vertically and horizontally in a tight arrangement, to create a magnificent bolt of cloth. He then plucked a long, soft, silver-blue strand of hair from his head and used it to sew a swimming fish pattern into the corner.

To create more colors of Shark Sha, one needed specific pigment Crystal Stones. These had to be ground into a powder and mixed with water, and the Shark Sha soaked in the solution for several days. The materials and timing had to be controlled with great care; the slightest mistake would ruin all the painstaking effort.

If one wanted the cloth’s colors to be even more magnificent and variegated, each individual thread had to be dyed separately before weaving, which was even more time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Lou Xianyue loved to embroider beautiful patterns or protective runes with special powers onto the Shark Sha.

It was an extremely arduous process, and it usually took ten-odd years to produce a single bolt of beautiful Shark Sha.

The clothes Sang Luo and Little Blue Eucalyptus wore were made from Shark Sha he had woven in previous years.

Male Mermaids often learned to weave Shark Sha before they came of age. Some sold it for Crystal Stones, while others would save it for decades, gifting it to their future mates and children to be made into clothes.

The better the quality and the larger the quantity of Shark Sha a male Mermaid possessed, the more favored he was by the females... It was almost like a dowry.

"This isn’t quite how I imagined weaving. Your technique looks a bit like Artifact Refining," Sang Luo said with a chuckle.

"Mm, they share a similar principle. Clothing made from Shark Sha is, in itself, a valuable Magic Artifact."

With the beautiful woman beside him, Lou Xianyue’s mind had already drifted to her. After demonstrating the process of weaving Shark Sha for Sang Luo, he put his things away in a wardrobe and carried her back to their chambers.

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The Beast World didn’t have a custom for celebrating the new year, so Sang Luo created her own "Reunion New Year," a tradition exclusive to her family!

Every time she returned to Ice-breaking City, it was completely transformed.

A few years ago, Ice-breaking City had been just another common city on the North Continent, with a total population of only a few tens of thousands, vast and sparsely populated.

With the development over the past few years, many of the old buildings in the city had been demolished and rebuilt. The city’s area had steadily expanded, and as commerce flourished, more and more Beastmen came to live in Ice-breaking City.

Today, Ice-breaking City was definitely considered one of the most prosperous major cities on the North Continent. Its territory had expanded to four or five times its previous size, and the population had surged to between four and five hundred thousand—an almost tenfold increase...

And that wasn’t even counting the twenty-odd satellite towns under its jurisdiction.

Lan Cang’s influence had come to control almost the entire Long Hill Ice Field.

The biggest surprise upon her return this time was that the City Lord Mansion had also been rebuilt.

The new City Lord Mansion had something of a Moroccan style—grand, retro, and magnificent. It didn’t quite match Lan Cang’s usual taste, but when Sang Luo looked at it from a distance, she understood why.

The old City Lord Mansion had been built entirely of grayish-white marble, blending in almost perfectly with the icy landscape. While this was good for hiding from enemies, it also meant the Wolf Pups often got lost whenever they wandered off to play.

From afar, the new City Lord Mansion stood out like a conspicuous banner, adding a warm, bright splash of color to the vast, endless expanse of ice and snow. Even if the pups ran to a different mountaintop, they could still see it from a distance.

The City Lord Mansion’s grounds had also doubled in size. It was clear that Lan Cang had earned a lot of money from his mining and business ventures over the years.

Many new rooms had been built in the rear courtyard, all of them empty. ’Could they be for her future children?’

"Luoluo!"

Lan Cang came out to greet her with the children, holding a thick cloak in his hands. "Why did you pick this time to come back? It’s the snowy season here, too. Aren’t you cold?"

"I’m not cold. Just seeing you makes my heart feel all warm."

Lan Cang draped the cloak over her, wrapping it snugly. "You and your silver tongue."

Si Ye walked over, holding Little Zhenzhen. "That mouth of yours... you really know how to talk to anyone, don’t you? You can sweet-talk them all."

Lan Cang looked up at Si Ye and Lou Xianyue, who had come along with her. Both men were holding their respective children.

He had never met Si Ye, but he recognized Little Zhenzhen and guessed the man’s identity. "Young Master Si, I’ve heard much about you. The wind and snow are heavy out here. Please, bring the children inside. I’ve prepared some tea and snacks."

"Thank you. Just call me Si Ye." Si Ye nodded with a faint smile, then took out three Qiankun Bags and gave them to the three little Wolf Pups who had gathered around.

The Wolf Pups carefully sniffed around Si Ye. Only after confirming he carried their mother’s familiar scent did they happily accept the Qiankun Bags.

"Hello, Uncle Little Ye!" 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

"Thank you, Uncle Si!"

Si Ye rubbed the back of his neck. Just two years ago, at family banquets, he was still the one calling others "uncle." He never expected that in the span of two years, he’d become a father and an uncle himself. His generational standing had shot right up.

’These three little Wolf Pups are quite cute and well-behaved,’ he thought. ’Much more endearing than my own daughter.’

"Brother Little Stone, Brother Zhuizui, Sister Zhi Xin~"

Little Zhenzhen leaped down from his arms and ran off to play with the Wolf Pups.

Seeing the young ones roughhousing together, Lou Xianyue’s eyes softened. He rubbed the head of a very envious Blue Eucalyptus. "Once you can transform, you’ll be able to run around on land too."

"It’s fine. We’ll have Little Stone carry Little An," Sang Luo said.

Little Stone was the lankiest of the three Wolf Pups, now about the size of a full-grown husky. But judging by Lan Cang’s beast form, they would grow to be five or six meters long as adults; they were still in their cubhood.

Lou Xianyue placed Little An on Little Stone’s back. "Go on and play."

Lan Cang also ruffled Little An’s hair. "It’s been a while. Little An, you’re getting more and more handsome."

Zhi Xin nodded frantically. "He’s not just handsome, he’s beautiful! Brother Little An and Uncle Lou are both so good-looking. I like Brother Little An the best!"

Zhenzhen also hopped onto Little Stone’s back. "Hehe~ I like Brother Little An too!"

Praised by the two female pups, Little Blue Eucalyptus blushed shyly. "I have a sister, too. My sister is also very pretty."

Zhi Xin turned to look at Sang Luo. "Mother, why didn’t you bring our little sister?"

"Your sister hasn’t woken up yet. Next time I come back, I’ll definitely bring her for you all to see."

"Okay!"

The little ones happily ran off to play.

Lan Cang called for someone to prepare their rooms.

Si Ye said to him, "Don’t trouble yourself. I can take care of it."

Lou Xianyue also nodded.

They were staying for half a month and had brought quite a few personal belongings, so it was a bit inconvenient to have servants unpack for them.

Lan Cang didn’t insist on the courtesy. "Most of the rooms in the mansion are empty. Feel free to pick whichever ones you like."

Lou Xianyue and Si Ye took their luggage and went to get their rooms settled.

As usual, Lou Xianyue chose a large room in the east courtyard. It was connected to an ice river outside, whose water was melted by underground heat pipes and channeled into a pool inside the room—a feature Lan Cang had specially prepared for Little Blue Eucalyptus.

Si Ye, on the other hand, picked a room on the second floor of the central courtyard. It had good lighting, and waking up in the morning, one could look out the floor-to-ceiling window by the bed and see the magnificent view of the sun rising over the snowy mountains.