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

Chapter 181 Qui Di Dew
Yu Heng watched with curiosity as she tensed up and was about to break down, a hint of amusement in his eyes and a slight upturn at the corners of his mouth. After enjoying Ling Chengen's flustered state, he was about to look away when he inadvertently glanced up and saw Bai Qingyu's eyes looking over at him.

Too young and habitually competitive male orc.

Yu Heng couldn't say whether she disliked or liked Bai Qingyu. Perhaps it was because she had an unusually close relationship with Bai Qingyu from the very beginning when she met Ling Chengen, so she didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the two of them being so affectionate together all the time.

As his relationship with Ling Chengen changed, he and Bai Qingyu went from being complete strangers to having a unique relationship of both competition and cooperation.

Therefore, Bai Qingyu is now only occasionally an eyesore to him.

However, Yuheng did not deliberately provoke or provoke Bai Qingyu.

In his opinion... there was really no need.

Although he was less than ten years older than Bai Qingyu, he was much more experienced and had a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between males and females.

The vast majority of females on the Beast Plains prefer a polyandrous lifestyle.

Because the number of females is small, the living environment on the Beast Plains is extremely harsh. Females clearly do not have much advantage in combat ability. Once they encounter danger, the first to die will definitely be the old, weak, sick, disabled, and females.

If a female has only one mate, she will face many dangers and troubles when her mate is away hunting for a long time in the autumn in order to survive the winter.

A female's multiple male lovers are in complete competition emotionally, but in life they form the strongest and most reliable alliances.

In an environment of scarce resources, it is already quite difficult for a male to support a female, not to mention that the female partner may become pregnant, which would make it even more difficult to support the family. However, the pressure on male beastmen would be greatly relieved after they become partners with the same female.

To put it bluntly, the orc mortality rate on the Beast Plains has never decreased in order to hunt for resources. Females have multiple partners, so even if one of their partners suddenly dies, their survival will not be a major problem.

This is the stark reality.

Yu Heng knew very well that Ling Chengen was different from the females he usually encountered; her combat and survival abilities were stronger than most adult male beastmen. Someone like her was enough to make male beastmen flock to her, and even inspire many male beastmen to consider establishing a one-on-one lifelong partnership.

Because she no longer needs much protection, she just needs an experienced person to guide her, and after she grows up... her strength will only become stronger.

However, she belongs to the Boshan Giant Tiger clan.

This race is a native beast race of the Northern Beast Plains. Unlike most beastmen who live in groups, male Thin Mountain Giant Tiger beastmen leave their original families after reaching adulthood and go to live in other places. Therefore, it is rare to see groups of Thin Mountain Giant Tigers. They are mostly solitary.

In addition, female giant tigers of the Boshan Mountain have a strong leadership position. Because most of them are quite strong, they are very casual in choosing their mates, and can even be described as somewhat promiscuous.

Basically, they'd sleep with anyone they liked, and then discard them.

Aside from pregnancy and lactation, women rarely need male involvement in their lives.

Moreover, even during the critical period of pregnancy, the female beastmen of the Thin Mountain Giant Tiger are still capable of fighting with great ferocity. They have a very low dependence on male beastmen, so their reputation regarding relationships has always been the same.

Yuheng had no prejudice against Ling Chengen. This could be seen from her attitude towards Bai Qingyu. She was more cautious and careful than other females of her kind when it came to being with her partner. Although she was also very dependent on males, she was not promiscuous.

This is extremely commendable.

Of course, this is all based on comparison.

Compared to the crane clan, who practice lifelong monogamy, she must be a notorious womanizer.

Therefore, Bai Qingyu's choice of her was destined to bring him pain.

After all, it is indeed quite difficult to go against one's racial instincts.

He was too lazy to argue with this young crane-clan beastman who was struggling with his instincts every day over such trivial matters.

As for himself...

After Yuheng withdrew his gaze, he lowered his head and slowly ate the roasted meat, letting out a soft sigh.

Perhaps because he was a bit older and had seen many cases of polyandry, he had been quite accepting of such things since childhood and did not have the idea of ​​monopolizing Ling Chengen.

Of course, it's also possible that he doesn't like Ling Chengen enough.

When it comes to the issue of finding a partner, what attracts him most is that Ling Chengen makes him feel at ease.

It was an inexplicable force that madly lured him into its clutches.

So it doesn't matter if there are multiple beastmen or just one.

None of that would affect his choice of her.

However, sometimes it's quite amusing to argue with Bai Qingyu, tease Ling Chengen, and watch her try to survive while caught in the middle.

……

Of course, if Ling Chengen knew Yu Heng's perverse thoughts, he would definitely beat him up.

She wasn't very good at handling things like serving others.

She didn't have this problem before. The three beast husbands in her house were just temporary partners with no real relationship to her. She was only closer to Bai Qingyu, so it seemed reasonable for her to be a little biased.

But Yuheng is different.

Therefore, she gradually realized that she could no longer handle her relationship in the same way as before.

However... she still had no idea what to do.

For now, we can only take it one step at a time.

Therefore, she truly admires those females who have found many partners and are still able to maintain good relationships.

In some ways, it's really impressive.

Looking to the future, they will undoubtedly be top-tier social media influencers.

She absentmindedly chewed on the rabbit meat in her mouth, then looked down at the hard-shelled fruit and took a sip of her iced drink, not wanting to divert her attention to the various expressions on the faces of the people around the campfire.

After she had finished eating and was about to get up and go out for a walk, Chang Tianchen suddenly said, "Wait a minute."

Ling Chengen had just stood up when he looked up at Chang Tianchen opposite him. His face was distorted by the high temperature of the flames, making it difficult to see his true expression.

"what's up?"

Chang Tianchen kicked Lin Jing beside him: "Give her the things."

Lin Jing was still engrossed in eating when he was kicked. He then remembered his business, quickly put down the big bone in his hand, wiped the grease on his clothes, and started rummaging through the things around his neck while holding the pendant around his neck.

Ling Chengen looked at the dark green pendant around his neck and realized that it was not an ornament, but a spatial tool.

Lin Jing pulled out a mountain of prey from his spatial storage. Chang Tianchen looked at Ling Chengen, who was sitting opposite him with a puzzled expression, and said, "These are the ones you killed last night. After you went to rest, I had Lin Jing clean up the battlefield. I found that many of the prey were in pretty good condition and hadn't been gnawed on by rats yet... so I had him collect all the edible prey and process it simply."

Looking at the mountain of beast carcasses behind him, Lin Jing couldn't help but swallow hard.

Even Lin Quan remained silent.

I used to think that the clan leader was just a love-struck fool who liked this wicked woman with a bad reputation.

But when he went with Lin Jing to clean up Ling Chengen's mess today, he realized... the clan leader was right after all.

This female should not be underestimated.

She really is different. This morning, before dawn, when he arrived there, he saw corpses and blood everywhere, and his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

The prey he killed was more than the number he had killed.

His superpower level is much higher than Ling Chengen's.

Moreover, Ling Chengen guarded this place alone last night, and didn't let a single prey cross the line.

Moreover, the prey she killed was all of very good quality.

There are generally no particularly gruesome external injuries. Small and medium-sized prey are usually killed with a single blow, while the deaths of large prey are even more bizarre. Many of them have no external injuries, yet they die inexplicably.

This should be related to her special ability. He wasn't sure what the specific ability was, but he had only heard the clan leader mention it by chance. It was an ability that had never appeared on the Beast Plains before.

Because the prey was in good condition, many of it could be taken back directly as reserve food.

Lin Jing and Lin Quan spent a day getting rid of all the unpalatable food and the rat-gnawed food, and then put away the rest after confirming that they were safe.

However… looking at the mountain of prey, Lin Jing reminded him, “This prey has been in the space for a whole day. Although the temperature in the space isn’t that high, this prey shouldn’t be stored for long. We don’t have a good solution for this problem at the moment. You’d better take these things back to the tribe and distribute them as soon as possible and eat them.”

Just then, Su Weihua mentioned that the Shilin hunting team's harvest was not good this time. These prey would definitely be useful to Shilin, a medium-sized tribe.

Ling Chengen looked at the prey and frowned, saying, "Won't these prey have been left out overnight and have picked up diseases from the beast plains?"

Chang Tianchen shook his head and said, "These ones are not; they were specially selected."

"Yuheng also confirmed it in the afternoon."

As soon as Ling Chengen lowered his head, Yu Heng nodded in confirmation of Chang Tianchen's statement.

Seeing this, Ling Chengen had no objection and raised her hand to collect the pile of prey, but Shi Ruoan stopped her, saying, "I can help you extend the preservation time."

Looking at his sickly face, Ling Chengen raised an eyebrow and said, "Your superpowers haven't fully recovered, have they?"

He had previously pushed his physical abilities to the limit, squeezing out his last bit of superpower to deliver a fatal blow to his enemy.

His bones are definitely injured, and he didn't rest last night. It seems Yuheng doesn't have the energy to treat him either, so his injuries must still be quite serious...

Shi Ruoan just smiled and said, "No, but freezing these prey consumes very little of your special ability."

This was a very simple thing for him.

However, it can help them solve the problem of food being difficult to store.

This can be considered a small way of repaying the many favors owed over the past few days.

He's still not used to owing others, so he's not stingy when he has the opportunity to help.

Ling Chengen neither approved nor disapproved of his behavior of disregarding his injuries, only saying, "You should act according to your ability. If you want to repay favors and those debts, there's no rush. Once you're healed, we won't be so polite to you."

Shi Ruoan turned around and walked to the pile of prey, nodded and said, "Thank you for reminding me, I know what I'm doing."

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand, and a large amount of cold air instantly gathered, enveloping the space within a radius of about ten meters in front of him.

Ling Chengen felt his body temperature drop suddenly, the hairs on his arms stood on end, and even the once vibrant campfire behind him seemed to be dying down.

Chang Tianchen raised his hand to control the fire, then turned around and quietly looked at Shi Ruoan's back.

It was another high-ranking warrior of a higher level than him.

Moreover, it's a mutated ice-type, which naturally counters his special ability.

Unbeknownst to him, Ling Chengen had gathered more and more high-level male combatants around him.

His goal of reconciling with her and rebuilding their relationship seems increasingly difficult to achieve.

As the cold air gathered, the prey in front of them was frozen into ice blocks in the blink of an eye, and a large amount of ice blocks were even piled up on the ground.

When Shi Ruoan stopped, her lips were pale and bloodless, but she was still in relatively good spirits.

He turned around, walked back to the stone, sat down, cracked his knuckles, and said to Ling Chengen, "These ice pieces can last for about 40 days if placed in a shady place or in a spacious area. If placed directly in the sun, in the cold dry season, they will melt into water in about half a day."

"Your space can't hold all these prey forever. You can take these ice blocks back with you, find a shady spot, dig an ice cellar, pile the ice blocks inside, and store the prey in the ice cellar."

Ling Chengen thanked him for his kindness, put away the frozen game and ice, and said to Yu Heng and Su Weihua, "Then I'll go back tonight?"

Bai Qingyu stood up and said, "I'll take you back."

……

After Ling Chengen and Bai Qingyu left, the area around the campfire became completely quiet.

Lin Jing, unable to bear the suffocating atmosphere any longer, moved closer to Yu Heng, who seemed easier to talk to, and asked curiously, "Was the one you rescued last night really a member of the North Sea royal family? Can he really survive?"

Although I didn't see Shi Panxing's injuries with my own eyes, the commotion last night was really huge.

The stench of blood was overwhelming; otherwise, it wouldn't have attracted so many ferocious beasts.

Lin Jingdu couldn't help but wonder if the flesh and blood of the sea creatures had some special effect, which was why the ferocious beasts on the Beast Plains were running towards this place like madmen.

Yu Heng looked at Lin Jing's baby face and gossipy eyes, then glanced at the silent Shi Ruoan opposite him, and said carefully, "Whether he is royalty or not, I don't know. But whether he can survive is still hard to say."

“His injuries are very serious. If we can’t find the Purple Rainbow Continuation Grass, White Bone Immortal Mushroom, Bean Vine Ice Scale, Jade Blood Fruit, and Kui Di Lu Rong, he will surely die in a month.”

Upon hearing the names of the medicinal herbs he mentioned, Lin Jing was speechless and exclaimed, "My goodness, these five herbs... none of them must be easy to find, right?"

"Putting everything else aside, just look at the Quidiro mushroom; it's absolutely impossible to find one in a month."

Kuidilurong is a saprophytic plant that grows in high-altitude forests.

This thing sounds similar to matsutake mushrooms, but it is extremely rare.

The 'Quedilou' mushroom doesn't grow above ground; the entire plant is basically buried under decaying leaves, so you have to dig it up inch by inch to find it.

Moreover, the Kuidi Lu Rong plant is a five-year-old mature plant, meaning it can only be used as medicine after it has grown for more than five years.

Because *Eriocaulon kudilu* is a medicinal plant, ordinary animals also know that it is a good thing. When they encounter it while foraging for food, they don't care whether it has grown for five years or not, and they will dig it up and eat it by the roots.

This makes it more difficult to find medicinal succulents.

"Is Kuidi Lurong in the North? It would take at least ten days to go back and forth."

"Moreover, the northern lands are at a high altitude, and orcs who are not familiar with the environment there may not be able to adapt."

"It is said that most orcs will feel dizzy and nauseous for half a month when they first go to the North."

Not to mention the other four types of heterophytes, which are also very rare.

It's really possible to gather all five medicinal herbs in a month...

Unless one is possessed by a beast god and has incredible luck.