Chapter 216 Only when the female master touches it will **
Qiao Xixi turned around in surprise and glanced at the golden eagle beast thrashing in the water. What had just happened to make it fall into the water?
She gently patted the tiger cub and whispered, "Cub, don't make a sound for a while, okay? Your mother is taking you to do something big."

Whether the tiger cub understood Qiao Xixi's words or not, it nuzzled its little head in Qiao Xixi's palm and then closed its eyes and fell fast asleep.

The moment Qiao Xixi jumped off the reef, she put on an invisibility cloak and quickly moved across the salt flats. She dared not look around carelessly, as time was limited, and focused only on running towards the target point according to the location.

The salt field was so vast that she transformed into her beast form to speed things up. Finally, just as the cloak's duration was about to expire, she ran up a large tree and hid, waiting for the cloak's silence to end.

While waiting, two male gray wolf orcs came over and sat down under the big tree.

"The city lord sent the golden eagle to deliver a message, instructing us to prepare the salt crystals we requested and send them back to Beast City within three days."

"The city government is asking for more this time than ever before. Could it be that there are other buyers?"

"I don't know. Tell those weak beasts to hurry up. If the goods aren't ready, the city lord will be angry and none of us will survive."

"Understood. They said a batch of weak beasts will be delivered tomorrow. With more manpower, we can move faster."

"Ah."

After they had rested enough and left, Josie climbed down from the tree, put on her expired cloak again, and ran deeper into the forest.

Compared to the area near the salt fields, there weren't many guard beastmen in the forest. She hadn't run far when she saw a wooden house in the forest. Judging from the location, the mermaid pearl was placed in the wooden house.

Qiao Xixi picked up a stone from the ground and smashed it hard against the door of the wooden house.

With a "bang," she jumped up into the tree to observe the situation of the cabin.

For a long time, there was no response from inside the wooden house, and it seemed that there were no orcs guarding it.

But just in case, Josie stayed in the tree for the required amount of time in the cloak before jumping down to the front of the cabin and pushing open the door.

The wooden house looked very old, with only some wooden frames inside.

Qiao Xixi opened the outermost wooden box and immediately saw a crystal-clear bead inside. The bead looked like a pearl, but its color was more translucent and lustrous.

She couldn't resist reaching out and touching the beads; they were silky smooth to the touch, and she couldn't help but linger for a while longer.

Unbeknownst to Qiao Xixi, the moment she touched the bead, Xi Jing in the rocky cave couldn't help but tremble all over. He let out a low groan, as if in pain or suppressed emotion.

In a short while, his fair skin turned crimson, and his pale blue pupils became misty. He collapsed onto the rocks, clenching his fists, "Mistress..."

After touching the pearl for a while and confirming that it was similar to what Xiya had described, Qiao Xixi put the pearl into her space.

But just as she was about to turn and leave, the wooden house beneath her feet began to move.

Qiao Xixi was startled and tried to open the door to run out, but the wooden house turned into a cage in the blink of an eye, trapping her inside. The entire wooden house was uprooted by a powerful force and hung in mid-air.

"Caught."

A series of footsteps approached, and through the gap, Qiao Xixi could see that several male orcs were running towards them.

She wondered why the mermaid pearl could be placed so casually; it turned out the other party had already set a trap!
"Hmph, we've finally caught you, you mermaid. Put down the vines."

Josie felt the wooden house descending, and the orc's figure approaching.

But when they pulled open the rattan door and opened the wooden cage door, they found that there was nothing inside.

"That's strange, why is nobody here?"

The orcs who followed did not believe it and went forward to investigate.

"How is this possible? The trap would be triggered as soon as the mermaid pearl is taken. How can there be no one here? Look for it, is the mermaid pearl still there?"

Several male orcs went forward to search and found that the box containing the mermaid pearl was empty. The orcs' expressions changed.

"It's gone! It must have been stolen!"

"But we were looking carefully just now and didn't see any orcs at all."

The lead gray wolf beast looked grim. The mermaid pearl was of no use to them, so they had left it there as bait to lure away the fleeing mermaids. Mermaids had tried to steal it before but had been caught. However, this time, they hadn't found any trace of any beastmen.

"Follow the scent and find the pearl! You must retrieve it!" "Yes, sir!"

Meanwhile, Qiao Xixi had already run towards the shore with the mermaid pearl. The moment the orcs opened the cage, she used her cloak, and because of her petite figure, she slipped right under their feet.

Qiao Xixi jumped back into the sea before her invisibility expired.

When Xiya, who had been waiting in the sea, saw Qiao Xixi return, her dim eyes brightened. She immediately controlled the water to separate the seawater from Qiao Xixi.

"Auntie, you're back."

"Yes, I've found your father's mermaid pearl. Let's go back first."

Shioya stared wide-eyed in shock. "That's wonderful!"

As soon as they sank into the sea, they discovered that the seal pups who had gone to play were also there.

When did you arrive?

"We've been here for a while now, waiting for you."

"Okay, let's go back."

When they reached their original sea area, it was already dark.

Josie took out some candy for the seal pups.

"Here, this is for you, take it and eat."

The seal pups cheered happily and ran home.

With candy in her mouth and holding Qiao Xixi's hand, Xiya felt even sweeter inside than the candy in her mouth.

She loves her life now and hopes that Aunt Xixi can stay with her forever.

Under the moonlight, they returned to the rocky cave.

It wasn't dark inside the cave at night, something Qiao Xixi only discovered later. There were many lighting beads inside this rocky cave. Xi Ya said that these beads were unique to the seabed, and they used them for lighting underwater.

"Xi Ya?"

Xi Ya happily ran to Xi Jing.

"Father, Aunt Xixi has some good news for you."

Xi Ya said that she was the one who found the mermaid pearl, and she wanted to tell Xi Jing about it herself.

Upon hearing this, Xi Jing turned her face towards Qiao Xixi.

Qiao Xixi didn't know if it was the lighting, but she felt that Xi Jing's face had an alluring light pink hue.

She walked over and said, "I found your mermaid pearl in the salt fields and brought it back."

Upon hearing this, Xi Jing was so shocked that she couldn't speak.

"Father Beast, are you so happy you can't speak? Aunt Xixi is really amazing, she went and brought back the mermaid pearl all by herself."

Xi Jing's slender fingers gradually curled up. If Qiao Xixi could see his eyes, she would not have missed the astonishment in them.

"So, you were the one who touched the mermaid pearl?"

Qiao Xixi was confused. "Yes, it's me. What's wrong?"

Xiya noticed something was wrong with her father beast. "Father beast, what's wrong?"

Xi Jing forced herself to calm down, but her mind was a complete mess.

The mermaid pearl is their life-giving pearl, and the key to their offspring. Only when the female touches it will she be aroused...


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