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

Chapter 162 Stay away from me
The weather was too hot, so after soaking in the cold water, Yuheng didn't squeeze in with Ling Chengen anymore. Instead, he lay down on another hammock and had Jiaojiao guard the cave entrance to keep watch.

After sleeping for three or four hours, he woke up and walked out of the cave.

Jiaojiao twisted the leaf and asked softly, "Why are you up instead of sleeping?"

“I’m going out to take a look.” Yuheng turned around and glanced at Ling Chengen, who was still fast asleep. “You leave a branch here to keep watch, so I can get back in time if there’s any movement.”

"You're planning to deal with those rats?" Jiaojiao deftly buried a branch in the corner, its massive body shrinking in an instant as it clung to his arm. "What are you thinking? Are you really planning to take on so many orcs by yourself?"

Yuheng stepped outside, saying to Jiaojiao, "I'm just going to check the situation first. Actually, I've been thinking about it. We've hardly encountered any active rat-clan beastmen in the Mulan Plains these past few days. Could it be due to the weather?"

"The weather? What's wrong with the weather?" Jiao Jiao didn't understand.

Yuheng pointed to the swaying treetops not far away: "It's the dry season in the Northern Wilderness recently. Besides the severe drought and water shortage, the biggest problem is that the temperature is too high after the sun comes out, it's too hot. During the day, let alone spending a long time on the plains, even spending a short time in a place without shade will result in sunburn and peeling skin..."

"The rat tribe has been entrenched in this land for so many years, they should have their own ways of dealing with it by now."

"Since daytime is not suitable for activities, they are very likely to change their lifestyle to be nocturnal."

Jiaojiao: "...What you said makes some sense!"

Yuheng raised his hand and patted her leaf: "When have I ever said anything unreasonable?"

"You're often unreasonable," Jiao Jiao muttered wistfully, secretly wishing she could strangle him with her vines. "If you hit my leaves again, I'll really get angry!"

Yu Heng said speechlessly, "You're not in pain."

Jiaojiao said arrogantly, "I am a dignified king vine, and this has nothing to do with whether I am in pain or not."

Yuheng's guess was indeed correct; the Mulan Plain was bustling with activity at night, completely unlike its lifeless appearance during the day.

Tonight is a waxing crescent moon, half of it hanging in the night sky, a deep blue. When its pale light falls on the ground, it's like a thin layer of seawater. The stars in the night sky appear especially dreamlike and distant because of the eerie blue moon. The countless stars are reflected in the lakes on the grassland that haven't dried up yet. The chirping of insects, which is inaudible during the day, rises and falls, sometimes near, sometimes far...

As Yuheng passed by a nearly dried-up puddle, the waist-high grass suddenly swayed.

A small, four-clawed snake, about two fingers long, suddenly jumped up and lunged at him.

The snake bumped into his arm and bit him hard, but failed to pierce his skin with its venomous fangs.

Yu Heng raised his hand and pinched the venomous snake hanging on his arm. With just a slight pressure from his fingertips, the snake was decapitated, and dark red blood dripped onto the ground from his long, thin, and sharp fingertips, which resembled those of a demon.

Jiaojiao said with disgust, "Couldn't you just throw that thing away? Why did you have to crush it to death?"

They are extremely vicious.

Those little things couldn't hurt him at all.

Yu Heng simply flicked the blood droplet off his fingertip, glanced casually at the swaying black shadow in the distance, and suddenly chuckled: "I don't like stupid things that provoke me."

"What about the little female?"

Yuheng continued walking forward without even looking at the road ahead, yet he was able to accurately avoid all the traps along the way.

"She is the exception."

It knows!

Jiaojiao scoffed, "After you got a partner, you always smell sour and stinky."

"The stench of being in love! I hate it."

Yuheng chuckled and said, "You can also find a partner, and they'll definitely be even more sour and stinky than me."

Jiaojiao said proudly and smugly, "I won't!"

“Our Wang Teng clan is hermaphroditic, unlike you beastmen who need to find a partner to reproduce.”

If males and females are separated, and they cannot find a mate, wouldn't they be left with no choice but to await extinction?

"If you ask me, our Wang Teng clan is what you beastmen should become in the future."

This way, we won't be troubled by the problem of a shortage of females, and we can reproduce on our own. How wonderful!
Yuheng was too lazy to argue with it about this kind of issue.

Jiaojiao has a typical plant-like mindset and cannot understand that orcs must unite males and females to reproduce, which is a obviously severely limited species instinct, and they are proud of being hermaphroditic and reproducing on their own.

"How many people are following us nearby?" Yuheng suddenly asked.

Jiaojiao examined them for a moment, then chuckled and said, "There are quite a few, more than a dozen. These rat-tribe orcs really look strange. Their human form is incomplete, they have pointed mouths and monkey-like faces, and they also have very long tails. They look significantly different from normal orcs. No wonder the orcs in the nearby tribes don't recognize them as orcs."

Yu Heng: "Whether they recognize it or not is not important. The criteria for judging a beastman are that they can master the beastman language and possess most of the characteristics of beastmen. That is enough to be recognized as a beastman. The Northern Wilderness is much more backward than the Southern Plains. Those strange races from the Southern Wilderness who have fled here may also be judged as non-beastmen, and their situation may not be better than these rat-beastmen."

Jiaojiao: "Are you talking about yourself? Your Fuqing clan is also anomalies. You don't have animal forms; instead, your true form looks more like a plant... Since you think racial discrimination in the Northern Wilderness is so severe, why do you still associate yourself with the Stone Forest tribe? Aren't you afraid of becoming anomalies in their eyes as well?"

Yu Heng took a deep breath and after a long while replied, "I don't know either."

"But I've already explained my background. Since she accepted me, there shouldn't be any problems, right?"

Jiaojiao shook the leaf, wanting to say that he was a bit naive, but then she thought of something and didn't use cruel words to shatter his expectations.

"It's one thing for Enen to know that you are from the Fuqing Clan, but she probably has no idea what kind of existence the Fuqing Clan actually is, right?"

"Why don't you try testing her again?" Jiaojiao suggested. "If she can't accept a beastman whose true form isn't an animal, you can leave in time. After all, you've only agreed to be partners, but you haven't actually formed a partnership contract."

Yuheng was also hesitant. Although he was a child born from the union of the Fuqing clan and another clan, he was a typical Fuqing clan member because his mother's bloodline was stronger. He had completed his bloodline awakening when he was young and could stably maintain his human form.

Because of the difficult situation of the Fuqing tribe, his mother had instructed him from a young age not to reveal his true form in front of anyone...

Therefore, even when his heart meridian was pierced by the crystal and his life was in danger, he never revealed his true form.

Is it really okay to test Ling Chengen with my true form?

Compared to the agile and powerful beast-like giant tiger of the mountain, his true form was too strange, and even he himself didn't like it.

Jiaojiao: "You can't keep this from her forever, can you?"

"If you two really get together, and she gets pregnant with your child, the child will most likely inherit your bloodline... What if she thinks she gave birth to a little monster?"

"Let her meet it in advance, at least she'll be mentally prepared."

Yu Heng hesitated for a long time before finally shaking his head and saying, "Let's talk about this later; it's not the right time yet."

Ling Chengen is still a long way from adulthood, at least a year or so.

Now he was actually somewhat glad that she had set the rules, as this gave him more time to prepare.

However, Jiaojiao said that he will have a child who inherits his bloodline in the future...

When Yuheng thought of this, his heart suddenly began to pound violently, but this was followed by unease and worry.

The environment in the Northern Wilderness is much harsher than in the Southern Wilderness, and the survival rate of cubs is even lower. He didn't want his own cub, who was connected to him by blood, to face an extremely harsh environment and all sorts of unpredictable dangers from birth...

At this moment, he could understand why Ling Chengen was so ambitious, wanting to expand his territory, build a safe city, seize the time to quickly increase his strength, and then eliminate those threats in the south...

She did all this simply to create a safe and stable environment, for the sake of the future. "She thinks further ahead than I do."

Yuheng suddenly stopped, looked up at the shadows of the trees in front of him, and said something unexpectedly.

"They're coming—"

She made a whistling sound to remind him, then slipped into the waist-high grass like a snake and quickly disappeared from sight.

……

When Ling Chengen woke up, it was already bright outside. As the light fell on her eyelids, she groggily opened her eyes.

Realizing he was lying inside a cave, he suddenly sprang up from the hammock, staring in astonishment at the cave entrance, before glancing slowly at the other hammock beside him.

no one.

Inside the cave, Yuheng's aura became very faint.

Therefore, she could roughly deduce that Yuheng must have left the cave several hours ago.

Ling Chengen raised his hand and touched his forehead, somewhat puzzled as to how he could be sleeping so soundly.

She glanced at the sun outside, estimated the time, and realized that she had slept for at least eight or nine hours, which was truly unbelievable to her.

After she jumped off the hammock, a slender vine wrapped around her wrist.

Ling Chengen looked down at the vines that wrapped around his hand like a wooden bracelet and asked in confusion, "Twisted vines?"

Two delicate, round leaves peeked out from where the vines met, gently brushing against the back of her hand, as if responding to her call.

Just as Ling Chengen was about to go out, he suddenly smelled a familiar scent. Stepping out of the cave, he saw the man sitting in the shade.

The young man, with his back to her, was tall and slender, with a broad back and a narrow waist. His long, smooth black hair reached the ground, with the ends falling onto the stone behind him.

Ling Chengen frowned slightly and deliberately made her footsteps louder. Only then did the person turn around and smile at her.

"Why are you here?"

Ling Chengen leaned against the cool stone wall, his arms crossed in front of him, staring coldly at Chang Tianchen.

The smile on Chang Tianchen's lips faded, and he stood up and walked towards her: "I came to find you."

"What is it? Just say it."

Chang Tianchen stood two steps away from her, watching the lines between her brows grow deeper and deeper, before finally stopping.

"I went back to Snake Mountain a while ago."

Ling Chengen was somewhat surprised, but upon further reflection, he realized there was nothing strange about it.

He was originally the young clan leader of Snake Mountain. He was expelled because of the backlash of his bloodline, which caused him to lose his mind and follow his instincts most of the time. In a state of losing control, he killed his clansmen and was eventually expelled from the country by the clan leader who controlled Snake Mountain.

However, due to the defeat of Snake Mountain, a new young chieftain needed to be handed over, and the Southern Beast Plains happened to send people to pick up this group of exiled nobles and bring them back to the royal city. Therefore, the original chieftain of Snake Mountain naturally did not hesitate to lead his people away, and Snake Mountain has been in a state of leaderlessness for the past few months.

Snake Mountain should be able to elect a new clan leader, but several outstanding individuals have left, so now it's a matter of choosing the best among the worst...

Without a powerful chieftain, it would be difficult to protect the vast Snake Mountain from invasion by several powerful neighboring tribes.

Therefore, once Chang Tianchen regained his senses, taking control of Snake Mountain would be as easy as taking candy from a baby, should he be willing to go back.

As for the old grudges of killing clansmen, they will naturally be wiped clean now that Snake Mountain is in such a precarious state.

Ling Chengen pursed his lips slightly.

Snake Mountain is not far from their Stone Forest. Chang Tianchen is quite strong and has absolute leadership over the Devouring Giant Snake clan. Therefore, Snake Mountain, with its morale low, is definitely not to be underestimated. If they continue to maintain a hostile relationship with the Stone Forest... it might be a bit tricky.

Especially during the crucial period when she wanted to conquer the Mulan Plain and build the first city in the Northern Wilderness.

"so what?"

Seeing that he only said half a sentence and then stopped completely, Ling Chengen patiently asked.

"You don't need to worry that Snake Mountain will threaten the safety of Stone Forest."

Ling Chengen looked up and scrutinized him carefully: "Just say what you want to say, don't keep pausing after every sentence."

"I have something to do. If you haven't thought of what to say, we can talk about it when we run into each other again."

Ling Chengen straightened up, preparing to walk around him and go to the stream to wash up.

As he passed by her, Chang Tianchen suddenly grabbed her wrist, but she instinctively raised her hand to dodge.

But Chang Tianchen's strength was indeed superior to hers, and his reaction speed was much faster.

He wrapped his arm around her right wrist, turned and looked down at her resistant expression, his other hand hanging by his side slowly tightening: "Can you give me some time? We do have conflicts and misunderstandings... I don't want things to continue like this, and I don't want you to treat me like an enemy."

"You can accept Bai Qingyu, you can accept Chongzhen and Su Weihua, and you can even accept Yu Shaochen who is useless, so why can't you accept me?"

Ling Chengen was amused by his words and retorted, "Is that the problem?"

"The conflict between us is not about acceptance or rejection. It's that from the very beginning, your attitude towards me has been annoying, and you've repeatedly crossed my bottom line."

Chang Tianchen's expression changed slightly, but he still managed to compose himself: "I couldn't control myself before, and I really didn't treat you as an equal. As you said, I'm arrogant and conceited, I've always looked down on the weak, and I've always been prejudiced against all females. At first, I thought you were no different from other females, just a reed that depended on others for survival. I didn't care about your thoughts and attitudes, and only acted according to my own desires and instincts..."

"But I really didn't mean to do it regarding the matter of Yin Xin Huo."

"I did not force you to agree to the contract."

The memory of that night's rebellion and break was too deeply etched in his heart.

It was precisely because of this that he realized...

My thoughts at that time were different from my initial thoughts.

If it were when they had just met, and he desperately needed a female to satisfy his physical needs, he would definitely use the most rude and forceful means to achieve his goal.

But after knowing Ling Chengen for a long time, he knew very well that she was a person with a strong attitude.

He did not regard her as a female whom he could possess and discard at will.

“Yin Xin Huo was really an accident. Give me some time, and I will definitely come up with a solution.”

Ling Chengen shook off his hand and said impatiently, "You apologize, but do you expect me to accept it?"

"Stay away from me, I'm not interested in you."

The look of disgust on Ling Chengen's face stung his eyes for a moment.

Chang Tianchen's pupils instantly turned crimson, and even began to show fine ice cracks. His humanoid ears gradually grew dreamlike ear fins, and as the ear fins opened, his aura became extremely chaotic.

Ling Chengen had already walked far away. He stood there, closed his eyes, suppressed his almost uncontrollable rationality, and then followed without hesitation.