With her spatial ability to raise beast husbands, the wicked female becomes the darling of the group

Chapter 363 Illusion
"Thank you. May I ask how I should address my benefactor?"

Su Muyao said, "My name is Su Muyao, you can call me Sister Su."

Su Muyao looked at Jing Chu with expectant eyes, hoping he would call her "sister"—it would sound so nice.

But to her disappointment, Jing Chu did not call out.

Even when he was very hungry, he ate quietly, slowly, as if savoring the most delicious food in the world, or as if he was reluctant to eat it.

"Oh well, if you don't want to call out, you don't have to. You'll call out eventually."

Jingchu remained silent.

Su Muyao could tell that he was actually rather aloof and probably rarely spoke.

The rest of the time, Su Muyao spent with Jing Chu in the mountains and forests.

At first, Su Muyao was able to take out food from her spatial storage to feed Jing Chu, but later she found that she could no longer take out food from her spatial storage.

"System, what's going on? Why is the space shut down?"

The system said, "Host, this is Jing Chu's world of resentment. It is suppressed by the power of this world, and this happened more than 100,000 years ago. You cannot change it, so the space cannot be used."

Su Muyao said, "I can't just ignore him; he's still very thin and small."

“This is a primeval forest with many wild animals. If I don’t give him food, what will he eat?”

"How can he hunt like this?"

What if you get injured?

When Su Muyao saw this face, she couldn't calm down, thinking that it might be related to Wen Nanxi.

She couldn't bear to see him suffer even a little.

The system had to remind him, "Host, you need to calm down."

“I just sensed the consciousness of this world, which is that you can’t change anything. The suffering and injuries that Jingchu has endured cannot be changed much.”

Su Muyao understood this in her heart, but she couldn't do it emotionally.

Unable to get food from outside, Jingchu got hungry and had to hunt by himself.

But he was still too small and too weak. He had planned to hunt a pheasant, but he was attacked by a wild beast while hunting it.

"Jingchu, be careful."

No matter how anxious Su Muyao was, there was nothing she could do to help.

Even though Jing Chu eventually escaped, she was still severely injured and extremely weak.

Su Muyao wanted to use her wood-based abilities to help him, but she couldn't use any wood-based abilities at all.

She understood that she couldn't interfere too much.

She could only teach Jingchu how to identify and harvest medicinal herbs.

He was taught to clean and bandage his wounds and to prepare medicine.

Fortunately, these herbs were imbued with spiritual energy and were quite effective, saving Jing Chu's life from danger.

Fearing that Jing Chu might face danger again while hunting, Su Muyao began to teach him how to identify herbs, wild fruits, and vegetables, as well as how to cook with vegetables.

Jing Chu is very smart. He understands many things after Su Muyao explains them only once, without needing Su Muyao to explain them further.

"And these too, these are corn, you can boil them or grind them into cornmeal to make food..."

Jing Chu said, "These are all birdseed."

Su Muyao knew that, in the current understanding of the beastmen, these small particles of food were the food that birds and beasts loved to eat.

Moreover, for orcs, it's not even enough to fill a tooth gap.

They need to replenish their energy and strength, so they need a lot of meat.

Hunting was dangerous, so they had to find crops to eat.

"This is food; orcs can eat it too."

Su Muyao taught him how to cook corn and grind corn flour to make corn cakes and other foods.

And so, Jingchu lived a difficult life in the mountains.

Although there was food, the mountains and forests were not safe, and Jingchu would still get injured every now and then.

Su Muyao couldn't bear to see Jing Chu injured, and she felt especially heartbroken when she saw him hurt.

"Jingchu, you're bleeding again. Does it hurt a lot?" Jingchu calmly applied the herbs to the wound and said, "It doesn't hurt."

He seemed to have become numb to the pain.

Because he was whipped by his mother from a young age, this injury was nothing compared to that kind of pain.

Moreover, when he heard that gentle and worried voice, he realized that there were people who cared about him.

He could feel this warmth little by little.

"You say it doesn't hurt, but it must hurt a lot."

"Jingchu, living in the mountains isn't safe. Are there any snake-beast tribes? Could you go and live with one of them?"

Jing Chu said, "There is no snake-beastman tribe."

"How could there be no snake-beastman tribe?"

Jing Chu explained, "There are no snake beastman tribes now. I heard there used to be, but when other snake beastmen discovered such tribes, they would gather a lot of power to destroy them. Although snake beastmen are born with strong bloodlines, it is not easy for them to grow up, so most snake beastmen will hide and will not live in a tribal way."

Su Muyao sighed inwardly, not expecting that the living conditions of the snake-beastmen were so harsh at this time.

"How did your father and mother meet, and how were you born?"

Jing Chu remained silent for a while before slowly saying, "I don't know the specifics, I only know that my father saved my mother's life, and that's how they got together."

"But I know that my mother lied to my father. They killed my father and then used his inner core and body to make medicine to detoxify him and even enhance his physical strength."

Jing Chu's voice trembled as she spoke of this.

The system said, "As expected of the ancient celestial serpents, they are born with special and powerful bloodline power. In particular, if a serpent beastman has cultivated for thousands or tens of thousands of years, there is a high probability that he can form an inner core. If you eat their inner core, you will probably be immune to all poisons and can also improve your own strength."

"This sounds like a story full of conspiracy."

……

For the next few years, Jingchu lived in the mountains. Although Su Muyao knew she couldn't interfere in many things, she still tried her best to teach him a lot of skills so that he could survive in the dangerous mountains.

Jingchu is now fifteen years old, a teenager. In the past few years, he has grown up thanks to exercise and nutrition, and his height and appearance have matured.

Looking at him at this moment, Su Muyao felt as if she were seeing Wen Nanxi.

Really exactly the same.

“Jingchu, when you become stronger, you can try hunting some ancient beasts that have been around for thousands of years. They may have crystal cores on their bodies. If you swallow the crystal cores, you should be able to awaken your supernatural power.”

After a moment of silence, Jing Chu looked in Su Muyao's direction. Although he couldn't see her face clearly, he loved hearing her voice. No matter how hard or life-threatening the past few years had been, hearing her voice gave him the will to live and helped him pull through time and time again.

"Miss Su, if I become stronger, can I help you become a beastman?"

Su Muyao was taken aback. "Huh?"

"To become an orc?"

Jing Chu said softly, "I want to see what Miss Su looks like."

"I think Miss Su can live here."

Instead of feeling like it was all an illusion, it made him feel as if it were a dream.

In this world, only Miss Su would treat him well and care about him.

He was willing to give up everything he had.

Su Muyao didn't know how to answer him.

But meeting his expectant gaze, and not wanting to hurt him, she replied, "Perhaps."

"So you must live well, and become strong and powerful, so that you can protect yourself and also protect me."

"it is good."

His every word was like a promise worth a thousand pieces of gold.

Just as they were talking, suddenly many birds flew out of the surrounding mountains and forests.

Su Muyao realized something and her expression changed as she said, "There are quite a few orcs coming, and they have a murderous aura."

Jing Chu gripped the bone knife in her hand, her expression quickly becoming wary.

He sniffed the scent emanating from the distant air, his gaze hardening as his eyes instantly turned into vertical pupils, filled with a look of disgust and bloodlust. "It's them!"

　These plot points will all be used later in the story.

　　(End of this chapter)