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

Chapter 228 Gift of a Ring

Shi Ruoan's merman features were quite obvious, so she led him on a detour, avoiding crowded places, and even draped a furry cloak over him, making him look similar to the attire of those beastmen who were afraid of the cold, before leading him back to their encampment in the Stone Forest via a side path.

Once back in familiar territory, she casually handed the bamboo basket on her back to Su Weihua.

Su Weihua has become accustomed to her recent habit of going to the beach in the evenings to collect small seafood, and has already learned to skillfully handle various kinds of seafood.

While squatting by the stream cleaning the eel, Su Weihua was startled by the electric eel that had regained its strength. The eel slipped from her hand, jumped onto the grass, and swam desperately towards the stream.

A pale blue feather shot out like an arrow from the other side of the river, piercing the eel's head and pinning the agile creature to the ground.

Su Weihua looked at her fingertips, which were red and swollen from the electric shock, frowned slightly, and looked up at the other side of the stream. Bai Qingyu slowly descended from mid-air, lowered her head and used her long and sharp beak to preen the feathers on her wings before gracefully turning her head to meet his gaze.

"I just heard from the other soldiers that Enen brought back another fish?"

Su Weihua knew he was implying something, and that this fish was definitely not that fish.

But he didn't really want to respond to Su Weihua's words. He calmly grabbed the electric eel, whose life force had been completely drained, and said, "It's the sea creature she saved before."

"Shi Ruoan?" Bai Qingyu transformed back into human form, his expression subtly troubled, and muttered a complaint, "Why is he everywhere?"

Su Weihua glanced at him and reminded him, "Ling Chengen is not that kind of person."

Bai Qingyu snorted, "Of course I know she's not the kind of person who falls in love with every girl she meets."

"But there are always some shameless males who like to pester you relentlessly."

Su Weihua knew that he was implying something about the snake in the neighboring camp.

He didn't like Chang Tianchen either, but... he didn't like Bai Qingyu much either.

Although Bai Qingyu usually appears very gentle, he is actually extremely jealous and is not suitable to be Ling Chengen's husband.

But Ling Chengen favors him, and that is his advantage.

Overall, the beastly husbands around Ling Chengen, including himself, each have their own shortcomings.

But no one is perfect, and it's normal to have some flaws.

Bai Qingyu wasn't targeting him, so he didn't care about the occasional bad moods Bai Qingyu showed in private.

"If you have nothing to do, there are still a few fish in the basket..."

Su Weihua didn't want to hear what he was saying, so she grabbed the bamboo basket next to her and threw it directly in front of him.

Bai Qingyu gripped the bamboo basket with her left hand, glanced at the fish, shrimp, and crabs inside, and sighed softly.

"Why does she always like to eat things without meat?"

Even the crane-tribe beastmen, who prefer fishing and hunting, generally wouldn't touch these small fish and shrimp.

They wouldn't even look at a fish slightly larger than the palm of their hand.

In their eyes, crabs and lobsters are only slightly better than stones.

Therefore, many orcs don't even look at these seafood, and sometimes they will kick them away when they see them.

Although she said it, Bai Qingyu still squatted down, rolled up all her sleeves, and helped to process these somewhat difficult ingredients.

Bai Qingyu looked at the bread crabs and swimming crabs with broken legs in the basket, as well as a few red hairy crabs that didn't seem very energetic. After a few seconds of silence, he suddenly asked, "Among the supplies you traded with the Boman tribe this time, did you have any frozen shrimp or crabs? The larger ones?"

Su Weihua pondered for a few seconds before replying, "There was no trade of shrimp or crab products, but they did send some, and they were all quite large. Like the bonito, they were all frozen."

"Haven't you tried it before?"

Su Weihua: "She said she wanted to take it back for the cubs in the tribal shelter to try. Those cubs probably haven't eaten anything from the sea before."

Bai Qingyu used a brush made of porcupine bristles to brush several bread crabs, then looked up and asked, "Do you have any other supplies you can trade?"

Su Weihua shook her head and said, "That's all."

His supplies were mainly used to trade for bonito flakes, and the rest were mostly prey unique to the far north, such as seals and walruses, as well as furs with excellent insulation. So he basically gave away all the supplies he could exchange when he went north.

Bai Qingyu frowned and said, "I don't have any left here either."

"Should we set off tomorrow or the day after?"

Su Weihua: "The day after tomorrow, tomorrow is the fifteenth day of the opening of the sea market. The clan leader will probably give us the last day of free trading, and at the same time, we will leave time to pack our supplies and luggage. We will set off for the return journey early the day after tomorrow."

"Then let's go to Amber Bay tomorrow and see if we can get some more shrimp and crabs..."

Su Weihua looked up and suddenly said, "Isn't there a sea tribesman in the tribe now?"

Bai Qingyu looked at Su Weihua quietly for a while, then suddenly laughed and said, "Your face is really quite deceptive."

They clearly knew Shi Ruoan's predicament all along, yet they still wanted to send someone into the sea. They'll probably die in the far north.

Very insidious.

Su Weihua showed no reaction to his evaluation, only saying, "I'm just saying that we have a sea creature right here with us, not that we're sending him to his death. He can't go back to the sea, but he was once a high-ranking sea creature priest in the North Sea. We can't be without any manpower."

Bai Qingyu narrowed his eyes slightly: "..." He didn't believe that Su Weihua had no ulterior motives.

At the same time, Ling Chengen asked Shi Ruoan the same question.

She really didn't understand. Even if Shi Ruo'an had been usurped and his power was taken away, he had been a priest for so many years. Shouldn't he have some loyal subordinates? Otherwise, wouldn't he be a complete failure as a sea tribe priest?

How did I end up being chased and killed on my own turf, and even seriously injured?
Shi Ruoan took off her furry animal skin cloak and hung it on the wall next to her. She said with a gloomy expression, "They have all been captured. Some of them have been imprisoned in the ice prison at the bottom of the sea, while others have been expelled from the North Sea."

"It will take some time to get in touch with them."

Ling Chengen said speechlessly, "You and Shi Panxing really are brothers!"

Shi Ruoan knew she was complaining, so she lowered her head and didn't say anything.

Seeing this, Ling Chengen picked up the copper kettle from the grill next to the fireplace, poured a cup of ginger tea, and handed it to him: "Here, drink this, it will warm you up."

After she finished speaking, she hesitated for a few seconds and asked doubtfully, "Do the sea creatures of your North Sea region not need to ward off the cold?"

Shi Ruoan took the cup with both hands, warmed her palms with it, and said with a smile, "I don't usually try to ward off the cold, but it's okay to do it occasionally."

Seeing this, Ling Chengen put the kettle back on the shelf, turned around and got his own grill pan and brush, preparing to grill seafood later.

While preparing, she chatted with Shi Ruoan: "We'll be heading south no later than the morning after tomorrow."

"Are you planning to come with us, or find a secluded spot nearby to recover from your injuries, and then go back out to sea to scout out the situation?"

Shi Ruoan suddenly looked up at her back and asked in surprise, "Are you returning so soon?"

Ling Chengen glanced back at him and asked in confusion, "What's so strange about that? Most tribes return home after the market has been open for about fifteen days, right? We've already completed all the trade, and staying here would just be a waste of resources. We might as well head south quickly, so we can continue hunting and avoid some of the groups that want to take advantage of our situation."

Shi Ruoan lowered her head and pondered for a moment before saying, "I thought you would stay a little longer. Some of the more valuable things that Pan Xing and I collected are hidden somewhere. There are people from Hai Bola and Mei Ji patrolling that area now, so we'll need to think of a way to get them back."

Upon hearing this, Ling Chengen, gripping the brush, abruptly turned his head and asked, "Do you have a spatial container?"

“Yes.” Shi Ruoan nodded, took a ring off her finger, and handed it to Ling Chengen. “This is my spatial container. You can use it temporarily.”

Ling Chengen looked at the ring inlaid with black pearls, blinked, and did not reach out to take it.

"You only have this one spatial container, right?"

Shi Ruoan nodded: "I only carry this one with me, but I have others in my collection room. When I left the Stone Forest, Pan Xing gave me the key to his storage room, which also contained a batch of spatial containers he had crafted..."

"He originally wanted me to hand those things over to you."

Upon hearing this, Ling Chengen immediately became interested. He sat down opposite him, placed his hands on his knees, and asked, "Shi Panxing's storage room? Is it underwater?"

Shi Ruoan shook her head: "It's not underwater, but that place is quite dangerous. Also, Hypola probably knows that his treasure is located in that area, so there are a lot of guards patrolling that area."

"I was caught off guard when I got close and was surrounded and injured."

Ling Chengen was speechless: "You're supposed to be a level 17 ice-type warrior, how come you get injured so easily?"

Shi Ruoan was also a little frustrated and said helplessly, "A seventeenth-level warrior is not a god, and I am not the only seventeenth-level warrior in the sea race."

Shi Panxing is also one of them.

The Baman snake tribe also exists.

Furthermore, there is also a level 17 warrior in the Merfolk royal family.

That person was somehow bribed by Haibola, and now he's helping Haibola purge the people of the Sea Sacrifice Temple, even trying to kill him silently.

This was unexpected by Shi Ruoan. He had originally planned to contact the old man of the Merfolk royal family when he returned, hoping that he could help Shi Panxing.

As for the Sea Sacrifice Temple, he wasn't too worried.

Because the Baman Serpent Clan does not truly possess the ability to heed the prophecies of the Sea God, Haibola's current decision to allow the Baman Serpent Clan to occupy the Sea Temple is only temporary. If the Sea Temple is completely wiped out... that will truly ignite the wrath of all the sea creatures of the North Sea.

The loss of the Sea God's power signifies impending destruction for the Northern Sea.

Hypola and Meghi wanted to kill him, probably to make the sea priests imprisoned in the underwater ice prison give up completely.

Then, using his corpse and the abilities of the divine servants, they will select a new priest of the North Sea and take control of him.

In this way, the Sea Sacrifice Temple, which could rival the royal family, was completely under their control.

The entire North Sea region is their domain, controlled by their absolute authority.