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

Chapter 67 I’m giving you face
Potato cultivation was mainly the responsibility of Yu Shaochen and Chongzhen.

The two got up very early the next day and went to check on the fields again before breakfast.

After the potatoes were planted yesterday, the sunny patch of land on the hill became bare, leaving only neat rows of black terraces.

But this morning, large patches of green shoots could be seen emerging from the fertile soil, raising their delicate little heads in the refreshing morning breeze.

Chongzhen, in a good mood, carried breakfast and sat down next to Ling Chengen, who was sleeping in late for the first time. She said, "After you finish breakfast, do you want to go take a look? I don't know why, but suddenly I saw that a whole patch of tender leaves had grown out. I actually felt a very subtle sense of accomplishment."

Ling Chengen sipped his egg drop soup, his eyelids drooping, and weakly agreed, "Then it seems you have the innate physique of a natural-born farmer!"

Chongzhen noticed a dark patch under her eyes and turned to look at her for a while: "Didn't you go to bed quite early last night? You didn't get up that early this morning either, so why are there still dark circles under your eyes?"

He and Su Weihua were both seriously injured a while ago, so she was busy all day long, but she looked energetic. Yesterday she had some free time, but unexpectedly she didn't sleep as well as before.

Ling Chengen scratched the back of his shoulder, his face extremely sour: "I suspect there are fleas on Ling Xiaoxi's bed."

She turned her body slightly to the side, letting Chongzhen see her back.

Ling Chengen wore a one-shoulder animal skin dress today, with her left shoulder and a small section of her back exposed. You could tell from her arms and face that her skin was fair, so any small flaws on her body were very noticeable.

Chongzhen looked down at the cluster of small red dots on her back, frowned slightly, and asked, "Are there any other places besides your back?"

Ling Chengen scratched the back of his neck in frustration: "They're on my arms and legs too."

Chongzhen put down her chopsticks, took her arm, and looked down to examine the red rash on her left arm: "It does look like flea bites."

"After we finish eating, let's ask the witch doctor if he has any ointment. Let's get some and apply it."

"I'll go out in a bit and get you some insect-repelling herbs. I'll clean Xiao Xi's cave inside and out this afternoon."

Ling Chengen suddenly looked up, her eyes sharp as she stared at the person opposite her. Ling Xiaoxi kept her head down, huffing and puffing as she ate her rice, not daring to look up at her at all.

Ling Xiao also came over with a bowl of rice. He noticed the rash on her arm, turned his head and glared at Ling Xiaoxi with his tiger eyes: "Ling Xiaoxi, how many times have I told you? Take a bath on time, don't be lazy, and take things out of the room to air them out often. Have you been lazy and not doing these things lately?"

Ling Xiaoxi said silently, "But I don't feel itchy at all. It's clearly because my older sister is too delicate!"

Ling Chengen gripped his chopsticks tightly, gritting his teeth as he said, "You're lazy, you've raised a nest of fleas, and now you're saying I'm delicate? Isn't it just that you're too thick-skinned?"

Ling Xiaoxi retorted confidently, though her argument was unconvincing: "So what if I'm thick-skinned? I'm tough!"

Seeing that the two sisters were about to start fighting, Ling Xiao quickly interrupted their argument and tapped Ling Xiaoxi on the head: "This time it's your own fault. You still dare to talk back? When your older sister beats you up later, I will absolutely not help you."

Ling Xiaoxi immediately backed down, saying weakly, "I'll wash it today! Okay?"

"I don't want to live with her anymore."

Ling Chengen was a little overwhelmed; she hadn't lived in a flea nest in a long time.

The thought of this made her feel like she was going crazy.

She turned to look at Yu Shaochen, who was the quietest of them all: "Your treehouse still has rooms, right? I'd like to stay here for a few days."

Yu Shaochen's eyes widened slightly, and he gently scratched his cheek with his index finger, saying hesitantly, "There is a room, but I'm using it to store my things. If my wife wants to stay here, I'll clear out my things and prepare a hammock for you in a bit."

Ling Chengen waved his hand: "No need for that trouble. I'll help you move your things in a bit. There's no need to make a hammock. I can sleep on the floor."

Yu Shaochen and Chongzhen, who seemed hesitant to speak, exchanged glances. In the end, they both swallowed the words that were on the tip of their tongues and decided to try their best to make her bed more comfortable later.

Because of a rash that was very itchy, Ling Chengen didn't eat much breakfast.

Seeing that she had eaten less than half of her usual amount, Chongzhen sighed softly and asked, "Do you know which herbs can repel insects?"

Yu Shaochen nodded: "I know. I have mugwort and mint seeds here, which can be used to promote the growth of some later. I don't have any other seeds in stock."

"Go find some rosemary later. After drying and chopping these three plants, mix them together; they have a flea-repelling effect."

"In addition, we need to find some more cedar wood, cypress leaves, and lavender..."

"Forget it, we probably can't find lavender. Lavender only blooms in June and July. Right now, we can only look for some dried lavender flowers," Yu Shaochen muttered to himself, looking down.

Chongzhen quickly finished the rice in his bowl, put down his chopsticks and said, "I know cedarwood and cypress leaves, but what does rosemary look like?"

Yu Shaochen stood up and said, "I'll go find you some samples. I saw some in the nearby woods a few days ago, but there were only a few very small ones, not enough."

Chongzhen nodded and prepared to get up to wash the dishes, but suddenly turned back and said, "Bai Qingyu should have some lavender."

Lavender is a fairly common plant. Every year in June, July and August, you can see this plant with purple flowers everywhere. It smells very fragrant and is very beautiful, so he is no stranger to it.

Yu Shaochen looked up at Chongzhen with a puzzled expression: "I don't know him."

"Then I'll go find him and exchange some." Chongzhen sighed resignedly.

Yesterday, while discussing Yao Luo's participation in the trade market with Bai Qingyu, he happened to see bunches of lavender hanging on the wall of his cave.

Perhaps Bai Qingyu simply liked the scent, or perhaps it was just to repel snakes, insects, rodents, or other unpleasant odors in the cave, which is why he stockpiled quite a lot of it.

Ling Chengen probably won't be willing to go to the Hanshan tribe anytime soon, since everyone knows what happened last night.

After Chongzhen finished washing the pots and pans, he went to find Wuzhuo.

As it turned out, Wu Zhuo wasn't home; he had gone out for training with the elders of the tribe.

Chongzhen had no choice but to go to the Hanshan tribe alone.

Before he could even cross the dense forest at the foot of the mountain, he encountered Chang Tianchen, who had a human body and a snake's tail.

Upon seeing Chang Tianchen's gloomy and sour face, his gaze immediately became wary. He kept a distance of about ten meters from him and asked with a deep frown, "You've recovered?"

"No, only part of it has been restored."

Chang Tianchen toyed with a bone blade about thirty centimeters long in his hand, and looked at Chongzhen, who was like a frightened bird, with a smile: "You don't need to be so afraid of me. I was able to recover to this point thanks to your little female."

Chongzhen looked at him with suspicion, not daring to believe his nonsense.

"You're going to the Hanshan tribe?"

Chongzhen nodded slightly: "Yes, excuse me."

He planned to bypass Chang Tianchen and continue walking forward.

But Chang Tianchen suddenly appeared in front of him, and the bone blade in his hand was placed on his shoulder without him noticing.

In that instant, every hair on Chongzhen's body stood on end, his pupils constricted, and his hands slowly began to transform into beast-like forms, ready to retaliate at any moment.

"I advise you not to move. I don't intend to kill you; I just want to ask you for a favor."

Chang Tianchen's snake tail was coiled beneath him, and his long, strong fingers gripped the hilt of the knife.

His eye sockets are deep-set, and his eyes are shaped like willow leaves. Because they are upright like snake tails, they appear to be taller than Zhong Zhen. When he lowers his eyelids to examine the other person, he naturally gives off a sharp and oppressive feeling.

Chongzhen remained vigilant, raising her eyes to quietly scrutinize him: "Is this how you usually ask for help?"

“I don’t usually ask for help.” Chang Tianchen’s lips were curved in a smile, but there was no smile in his eyes. “However, this situation is special.”

"Put the knife away, or I won't grant you any of your requests."

Chang Tianchen pressed the blade even deeper, drawing a line of blood on his collarbone: "I don't like people haggling with me."

You'd better agree.

"If you don't agree, I'll kill you in a bit and bury you somewhere. Nobody will know it was me."

Chongzhen suddenly burst out laughing and said, "You try it."

"You came here for Ling Chengen's superpowers, right?"

He wasn't afraid of Chang Tianchen, this lunatic, at all, a mocking smile playing on his lips. "You fought her like that yesterday, and now you're threatening to kill me. Do you think everyone else is stupid? Do you think she and Ling Xiao can't figure out who really killed me?"

Chang Tianchen's lips curled into a wide smile as he withdrew the bone blade and suddenly gripped the man's throat with his left hand.

Chongzhen's face flushed red instantly, and she retaliated without showing any weakness.

Although the gap in strength between him and Chang Tianchen was too great, he was by no means a lamb to be slaughtered.

The two started fighting right there in the giant pine forest.

Within minutes, Chongzhen was bound by the thick snake tail, and his body was covered in wounds.

Chang Tianchen stretched his joints and sneered, "With your pathetic skills, you think you can fight me? Did that little female find a beast mate as useless as you?"

Chongzhen turned his head and spat out the blood foam in his mouth, sneering, "You're not useless. You can't even maintain your human form now, and you still have to ask her for help."

"If you want to die, I can grant your wish."

"Even Bai Qingyu is no match for me, you don't actually think you're tougher than him, do you?"

Chang Tianchen's normally white and black pupils instantly turned into a lotus color, with strange, fine ice cracks covering both his white and black pupils, giving him an evil aura as if a demon had descended.

Chongzhen: "You and him got into another fight?"

Chang Tianchen: "You talk too much nonsense."

"How can I get your little female to treat me?"

Chongzhen said arrogantly, "You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?"

Chang Tianchen: "I see you still have some injuries, they must have just healed."

Chongzhen's expression changed drastically: "What do you want to do?"

"It's just letting you relive old wounds."

No sooner had he finished speaking than his eyes turned fierce, and he thrust the bone blade in his hand toward Chongzhen's leg.

Chongzhen was unable to break free from his snake tail. Just as the tip of the bone blade was about to pierce his thigh, a sharp arrow shot out from his right side with a sharp whooshing sound.

Chang Tianchen slightly twisted his wrist and pulled back, and the metal arrow narrowly missed hitting the surface of the bone blade, thus avoiding piercing his wrist.

The arrow's powerful force violently rammed into his right hand, breaking the bone blade before embedding itself in the trunk of a giant pine tree five meters to his right, even creating a hole the size of a bowl in the rough surface of the trunk.

With a deafening roar, the birds and beasts in the pine forest scattered and flew into the air in panic.

Ling Chengen held a longbow in his left hand, standing fifty meters away, and drew another arrow from the quiver behind him with his right hand.

He nocked the arrow and drew the bow in one swift motion.

The second arrow was aimed directly at his snake tail.

Chang Tianchen's pupils contracted slightly. He flung Chongzhen away, and the moment the snake's tail rose, it knocked the arrow down.

But the arrowhead grazed the scales on his snake's tail, producing sparks and an extremely piercing sound.

Ling Chengen drew his third arrow and shot it toward his heart without expression.

This time, she didn't hold back at all.

Chang Tianchen raised his tail again to sweep away the arrows, looking at Chongzhen, who was lying on the ground covered in dust, with a gloomy expression.

When Ling Chengen took out the fourth arrow, Chang Tianchen said, "I didn't mean to hurt him."

Ling Chengen sneered, "What you think is unimportant. You've touched my people on my Shilin territory. If I don't strip you of your scales today, I'll show you why flowers are so red!"

“Yesterday my father stopped me from killing you, and today you’ve come out to cause trouble.”

"Chang Tianchen, you think I'm being too nice to you?"

Ling Chengen glanced at Chongzhen, confirming that he only had some scratches, and said, "You go first. Now I have a legitimate reason to deal with him. If my father is planning to come, remember to stall him."

Chongzhen walked to her side, turned around and glanced at Chang Tianchen: "You are no match for him."

Ling Chengen stretched his neck, took off the bow and arrow and quiver, and casually tossed them to Chongzhen.

"He came here to fight me."

"Because I stimulated his mental domain with my superpower yesterday, causing his mental domain to expand, he was able to regain his half-human body."

"He wanted to try again to see if he could fully regain his human form."

Ling Chengen's eyes darkened as he looked at Chang Tianchen: "But I'm not that kind of person."

Before Chongzhen could say anything more, Ling Chengen suddenly disappeared from his sight and appeared in front of Chang Tianchen the next second, punching him in the temple and knocking Chang Tianchen to the ground.

Chongzhen directly experienced her combat power for the first time, and his hand holding the pine tree tightened subconsciously. He couldn't help but feel sorry for Chang Tianchen.

While human form is more convenient for doing things, it is clearly less durable than beast form.

Chongzhen has some experience in this matter.

If Ling Chengen punches you in the face, you'll be half dead, if not dead!
Chang Tianchen did not use his beast form to fight Ling Chengen, but instead maintained his human body and snake tail form, and fought Ling Chengen to a great degree.

Chongzhen hurriedly went back to fetch more people.

It was absolutely impossible to hold Ling Xiao back; he wished Ling Xiao could sprout wings and fly over.

However, by the time he returned with Ling Xiao, half of the pine forest had already been ravaged.

A large number of ancient trees, some hundreds or thousands of years old, were cut in half. Chang Tianchen was crushed under one of the trees, while Ling Chengen sat on the top of the tree trunk with one leg crossed and his cheek propped up with one hand, looking down at Chang Tianchen who was vomiting blood.

Ling Xiao breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that she only had some bruises on her face, but no missing limbs.

"You've improved very quickly." Chang Tianchen said, his eyelids drooping, his tone full of admiration.

Ling Chengen, clutching the turquoise he'd pulled from his waist, placed his left foot on his chest: "It's not that I've improved quickly."

"Yesterday I just wanted to see how far I could end up fighting you based on instinct alone."

Before coming today, she asked Yu Shaochen for some calming and qi-regulating herbs, so that she wouldn't be affected by his scent and her fighting would become more methodical.

In addition, it was also because she hadn't used the cultivation techniques provided by the system before.

This technique was learned from the system during the apocalypse.

One chapter mentions that one can use certain secret techniques to double one's combat power in a short period of time, but this inevitably comes at a price.

For the next two weeks, you must not deplete your superpowers.

When using the superpower as usual, the energy consumption is three times that of normal.

But she can afford this small price to pay.

Ling Chengen lowered his eyes disdainfully, watching the blood droplets on his calves roll onto his chest muscles. He swung his ankle nonchalantly, pressing his foot back and forth on his chest a few times. He held a twig in his left hand, pressing it against his Adam's apple, and said in a deep voice, "When you bullied Chongzhen before, you told him you had two choices."

"Now, it's my turn to give you two choices."

Enen: Did you ask me before you bullied my fox?

Zhenzhen: My wife finally loved me today, *cuddle*
Enen: Get lost~
The snake that gets stepped on: I don't mind being stepped on a few more times.

Zhenzhen: @AngryBirds, come and see who the Stray Bird is?

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