The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Chapter 51 Too Soft-Hearted
"Are you really going to the Snow Wolf Tribe again tonight? You alerted them during the day, so their vigilance will probably be heightened tonight," Bai Xi kindly reminded her.

“If that orc doesn’t intend to act according to the agreement, or even colludes with that old bastard Su Kang to set a trap, you’re likely to be in trouble if you go alone tonight.”

Ling Chengen lowered his eyes, smiled, and asked in return, "Do I look like I'm brainless?"

"So what do you think? Do you want me to go with you tonight? Ayu is injured like that, so it's definitely not okay. And that little winged dragon you brought back... it doesn't look very smart. It might hold you back at a crucial moment."

Ling Chengen was a little annoyed by his contemptuous attitude towards the little winged dragon: "The little winged dragon is enough. I'm not going to barge into their Snow Wolf tribe's lair to fight."

"Besides, Bai Qingyu is unable to go out due to her breeding season and injuries. Don't you also have to deal with the problems that arise during your breeding season?"

Bai Xi said smugly, "My breeding season ended a long time ago. Otherwise, do you think that petty A Yu would have made me come out to find you?"

“I have nothing to do with your brother. He has clearly rejected me many times, and I am a married female now. So, if you keep making jokes like this, I really will beat you up.”

Ling Chengen clenched his fist and tapped him on the back of the head.

The punch wasn't very powerful; it was just a warning.

Seeing that things were not going well, Bai Xi was afraid that the scene of being grabbed by the shoulder and thrown straight to the ground would repeat itself, so she immediately changed her mind and said, "Okay, I won't say it again."

"I hope you keep your word." Ling Chengen stopped while he was ahead, and looked at the undulating mountain range in the distance. Suddenly he asked, "How do you know so much about the Snow Wolf Tribe? My father doesn't even know about Su Kang and his two partners, or the grudges between him and Su Weihua. You really have a lot of information channels."

Bai Xi landed on the rocky beach by the Qing Shi Creek, gracefully transforming back into human form, and said, "Some of these old stories were told to me by my father. He had a wide network of connections and knew many small avian beastmen. Some of these beastmen liked to travel between tribes in their animal forms, and I often heard a lot of interesting gossip."

"I love lively atmospheres and enjoy listening to interesting stories, so I know quite a lot of inside information."

Ling Chengen rinsed the blood-stained arrow in the stream twice, then took off his bow and arrows and two bone blades: "I happen to be short of a bone blade, so I'll accept these. Please tell him thank you for me."

"Gossip Prince, you can go home now."

After Ling Chengen finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards his own cave.

Upon hearing her new nickname, Bai Xi stood there stunned for several seconds before quickly catching up: "This nickname is quite interesting, I like it."

Ling Chengen glanced at him and said meaningfully, "I hope you will always like it."

"I'm going to see Su Weihua and talk to him about Su Duo. I feel like he doesn't want to see any outsiders right now. Are you sure you still want to come with me?"

Ling Chengen stopped at the cave entrance, blocking Bai Xi, who wanted to follow him in.

This person really has no sense of boundaries. Compared to Bai Qingyu, who habitually appears very distant, the two have completely different personalities and don't really look like brothers.

Bai Xi was a head taller than Ling Chengen. Using the dim light, she glanced into the cave and was startled by a strangely frightening-looking eye, instinctively taking a half step back.

"That's Su Weihua?" Bai Xi clutched her chest, still shaken. "He looked much worse than I imagined..."

“So…” Ling Chengen turned around and gestured for him to leave, “At a time like this, shouldn’t you gracefully leave?”

Bai Xi chuckled dryly twice: "Then I won't go in, but I don't want to go back either. If I go back and see A Yu's face, I won't even be able to eat. He said you're really good at cooking, so could I mooch a meal here?"

"Yes, but bring your own food."

Bai Xi immediately nodded and said, "No problem, I'll go hunting right away. What kind of game do you like? Horned oxen? Bighorn goats? Those two kinds of meat are quite tender. But grass hog meat is also delicious?"

Ling Chengen sighed and said, "Whatever, whatever, you should just leave."

Seeing that her expression was gradually becoming impatient, Bai Xi immediately turned and left.

After seeing the person off, Ling Chengen let out a long sigh. As he entered the cave, he heard Su Weihua ask, "Is that blue crane pursuing you?"

"Do I look that desperate?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.

Su Weihua recalled Bai Xi's appearance; he was actually quite handsome, with facial features that were about 50-60% similar to Bai Qingyu's.

So Bai Xi isn't as bad as she said, is she?
Ling Chengen moved a wooden stool and sat down on the stone bed. He took out a hard-boiled egg from the small animal skin bag at his waist, peeled it slowly, and told Su Weihua the truth about Su Duo's expulsion.

Su Weihua was initially agitated, but quickly calmed down.

After Ling Chengen finished eating the boiled egg, she looked up at him and asked, "What are you thinking?"

"If you want me to find Su Duo, that's not impossible. But I can't guarantee that I'll find her, or that when I do find her, she'll still be alive."

Su Weihua took a few deep breaths to suppress the anger in her chest: "Are you confident you can cure me?"

Ling Chengen raised his right hand and said calmly, "I'm about 50% sure."

"I have never used my powers to repair damaged nerves for others before."

She only accepted her own.

In the early days of the apocalypse, she was betrayed by a teammate in a battle where the enemy outnumbered her. She was more seriously injured than Su Weihua and was abandoned in an abandoned chemical plant. She could only lie paralyzed in the corner of the underground energy supply room, unable to move at all.

Faced with the choice between waiting to die and trying to save herself, she chose the latter without hesitation. She tried to use her superpowers to reconnect her damaged nerves and bones, and survived the most difficult period by catching mutated rats for food.

Since then, she has stopped teaming up with strangers, stopped trusting people easily, and resolved to form a team that belongs only to herself.

Her personal guards were all handpicked by her, and most of them had received favors from her, so they were extremely loyal to her.

However, some people have received favors from her, but when it really matters, they still turn their backs on her.

But through repeated life-or-death crises, those who ultimately remain are reliable partners to whom she can entrust her life.

Although this screening method is somewhat clumsy and complicated, it is the most intuitive and effective.

To some extent, people are inherently selfish. Without equal contributions or the ability to offer sufficient benefits to entice others, one cannot expect them to compromise or make sacrifices for them.

As for selfless and fearless love... she has never encountered it.

Although Ling Xiao used her strength to coerce the four tribes into handing over people to her as beast husbands.

But people are not objects; they have their own will.

If she continues to be at odds with these three people, it's like placing three cannonballs next to her that could explode at any moment. She can certainly use a hardline stance to make them work for her like slaves. But just as easily, they could retaliate at any time, seizing any opportunity to tear her throat and rip flesh from her body.

The world of beastmen is one where the strong rule, and the beastmen in the northern wilderness live even more freely and tyrannically.

This means that as long as the orcs make further breakthroughs in strength, they can participate in higher-level competitions.

Bloodshed and terror can dominate the weak and the ignorant.

But when faced with coercion and exploitation, the strong will only intensify their resistance and counterattack.

The Northern Wilderness is an untouched land.

Free will grows wildly here.

Ling Chengen gazed quietly at Su Weihua, and saw an extremely strong personal will in his one dark eye.

She took out a hard-boiled egg, peeled off the shell completely, and asked, "Want some?"

"Thank you, but no need." Su Weihua tried to slowly pinch his five fingers together. The feeling of not being able to control his body was too bad. Although he didn't know what Ling Chengen meant by "nerves," he calmly replied, "A 50% chance is enough."

"If I fail, please kill me."

"Aren't you going to ask me to help you find Su Duo?"

Su Weihua took a deep breath and told Ling Chengen the truth: "Xiao Duo is not as weak and useless as you think. Thirty lashes are a bit heavy for her, but not enough to kill her."

"Moreover, she is very clever and extremely good at using weakness to disguise herself. Leaving the Snow Wolf tribe is actually a good thing for her."

“As long as she’s not injured as badly as I am, she’ll definitely survive.”

Su Weihua tried to focus on Ling Chengen's face with her uninjured eye, saying each word clearly, "She's not your responsibility. I'll find her myself. You don't need to go to the Snow Wolf Tribe tonight; it's likely a trap."

Ling Chengen asked in surprise, "Do you know anything about that forest wolf beastman named Said?"

“I don’t know him very well, but we are from the same tribe and have had some contact with each other.”

"The situation of the Quenan Forest Wolf Beastmen in the Snow Wolf Tribe is indeed not good. My father... Su Kang, he despises the Quenan Forest Wolf Clan, so the forest wolf beastmen in the tribe have to do more tiring and hard work. They were also the ones who suffered the most casualties in this war with the Stone Forest."

"In the past two years, the orcs of the Quenan Forest Wolf Clan have been leaving the tribe with their families from time to time. But according to the tribe's rules, the orcs who leave must hand over half of their belongings, and if they want to take a female with them, they need to hand over another 30% of their belongings..."

Ling Chengen exclaimed in shock, "Is your father really that heartless? He's worse than an animal!"

Su Weihua couldn't refute her words. She paused briefly before continuing, "Because of this deviation from the tribe's rules, the problem of orcs running away has arisen."

"But if an orc leaves with his family, it is generally difficult for him to escape from a skilled search party. Orcs who are caught and brought back will be subjected to severe whipping, then stripped of all their supplies, and then expelled."

"So, Saide may genuinely want to leave the Snow Wolf tribe with his family. But Su Kang is cunning and not so easily fooled. He may discover that Saide is lying and use this opportunity to trap him like a turtle in a jar."

Ling Chengen gritted his teeth: "Catch what? Is she a turtle?!"
Ling Chengen asked in confusion, "Didn't you say before that you wouldn't help me deal with the Snow Wolf Tribe? Why are you telling me so much now?"

Su Weihua blinked slightly: "What I'm telling you isn't exactly helping you deal with the Snow Wolf Tribe, is it? I'm just reminding you to avoid risks in time."

“If I don’t go, and if Saide escapes, his whole family will be completely ruined.”

Su Weihua remained silent for a long time before saying, "Your heart is softer than I thought."

"If you insist on going, let your father accompany you. Su Kang is very wary of him."

“With your father here, Su Kang wouldn’t dare to act rashly unless he wants to start another war and is prepared to exterminate the entire clan.”

Su Weihua talked too much, which aggravated the wound on her face, causing her to sweat profusely from the pain.

Ling Chengen slowly ate the boiled egg, wiped the remaining yolk from his fingertips, and suddenly asked, "If I were to beat up Su Kang, you would probably be quite happy to see it happen, right?"

Su Weihua looked at her in surprise: "Although he is no match for Ling Xiao, dealing with you... might be quite easy. He is a level twelve metal-type ability warrior, otherwise why do you think he would dare to unite with several other tribes and challenge your father?"

"Level 12?" Ling Chengen touched his earlobe and said with some regret, "Then it seems we can't beat him up today."

Su Weihua reminded her, "Last night I really tried to absorb that kind of stone with supernatural abilities."

“Su Kang accidentally discovered this method of enhancing superpowers last year, but he didn’t tell anyone else in the tribe. When spring came, his superpowers suddenly increased to level twelve, which must have been achieved using this method.”

"Absorbing this kind of stone with superpowers carries certain risks. First, you can't absorb high-level superpower stones that are far beyond your own level; second, the power obtained directly from absorption, without being tempered over time, will seem somewhat weak, meaning the actual power you can exert will not match the superpower level you are shown to be."

"I only realized this after he fought Ling Xiao."

Ling Chengen nodded slightly, taking his suggestions seriously, and said slowly, "Thank you for reminding me, I understand. Chongzhen's ability is at level six, and that Heart Stone is strictly speaking a level seven Heart Stone. He can absorb it in several sessions, so it shouldn't be a problem."

"As for the issue of the mismatch between superpowers and strength, this requires continuous training and experience accumulation. I have a lot of experience in this area."

She stood up from the wooden stump and leaned down slightly to examine the wounds on his face: "After the lizard's venom was neutralized, the wounds on your face are healing quite quickly; they've already started to scab over."

Su Weihua paused for a moment, then lowered her eyes to shield her vision, avoiding the slender collarbone, smooth and rounded shoulders and arms, and the small patch of fair chest that the animal skin skirt could not cover.

“I do feel much better. Before, my speech was not very clear because of the toxins that caused numbness, but that’s not the case today.”

Ling Chengen straightened up and said to him, "When I get back tonight, I'll try to reconnect your spine and nerves."

"It's okay to fail. You can try a few more times. The worst-case scenario is that you continue to lie here and cannot take care of yourself."

When she first examined him, she used her supernatural abilities to thoroughly probe him. Fortunately, the nerve in his lumbar spine that was injured was repairable and regenerative, although reconnection and repair were quite difficult.

"Thank you."

"I don't really like verbal thanks. Repay me when you're better."

Ling Chengen interlaced his fingers above his head, slowly stretched, and was about to find a place to rest when he suddenly heard a commotion outside.

"My lady, save me—"

(End of this chapter)