Chapter – 64
As Long as There Are Enough Beasts!
“Use your tail to think! You should understand! The other six tribes will definitely want the favor of the Mother Tree as well, and the presence of the female envoy!”
Rupert’s words changed the expressions of the orcs.
At this moment, a monkey-like orc raised his hand in a sly, almost ridiculous way.
“Chief, what are we supposed to think with if we don’t have tails?”
For a moment, the serious atmosphere on the wall was broken, and the orcs burst into laughter.
Rupert lifted his foot and kicked him straight in the butt, sending him tumbling off the wall, shouting:
“Idiot! Use your butt to think!”
The orcs on the wall stifled their laughter.
Rupert turned his attention back to them.
“Alright, I’m not saying these things to make you do anything. I only hope you forget everything from the past. Whoever makes the female envoy uncomfortable in the tribe—let them be the first one I make uncomfortable!”
“Think of your female master! Your future female master! Your offspring! The Cursed Land has waited for the favor of the Mother Tree for a long time!”
“To disappoint the female envoy is to disappoint the Mother Tree!”
Among the orcs on the wall, some were married and some unmarried. Compared with the unmarried orcs, the married ones looked much more serious.
The unmarried orcs, usually playful and mischievous, also understood that if a sacredly favored female envoy resided in their tribe, it would attract countless outstanding females and males to settle there, greatly increasing their own chances of marriage.
A few handsome unmarried orcs had once caught the attention of Jiang Xi, but because this was the Cursed Land, they hadn’t succeeded in forcefully marrying her.
Now, their faces were tinged with a bit of worry.
If she decided to forcefully marry one of them, what would they do…?
Looking at their chief’s expression, they feared he would just drag them away, clean them up, and deliver them to the female envoy’s bed.
Although the sacredly favored female’s identity was enticing, they could not bear to face Jiang Xi’s face, full of poisonous expressions!
Several of them silently made up their minds.
This winter, they would stay away from the ice river.
After winter, if they hadn’t found a female master they liked, they would pack up and move to another tribe!
They absolutely would not marry that ugly female envoy!!
The other orcs didn’t know their thoughts and promised the chief in unison:
“Chief, rest assured! We will make sure the female envoy is happy!”
“The favor of the Mother Tree! The Lion Roar Tribe will not disappoint!”
“Yes!”
“Yes!”
“Absolutely no disappointment!”
“……”
Jiang Xi didn’t hear their slogans.
Because before she could sense the heartbeat of the Cursed Land, Lu Liufeng had already noticed movement on the tribal side.
His sharp eagle eyes scanned a direction.
“It’s Mu Ling! There’s a fight over there!”
Jiang Xi leaned out from her feathers, but the wind and snow were too strong to see anything. She quickly said:
“Let’s go quickly!”
Lu Liufeng replied, “Female master, hold on tight.”
Then, his eagle body tilted slightly and changed direction.
Jiang Xi almost slid off, but she wasn’t worried or scared.
She knew Lu Liufeng wouldn’t let her fall.
So all she felt was exhilaration!!!
Lu Liufeng, worried about scaring her, said, “Female master, don’t worry. I won’t let you fall.”
Jiang Xi nodded. “I know.” She reached out to touch his feathers and smiled.
Lu Liufeng’s amber eyes softened, as if smiling.
He said, “Female master, hold tight. I’m diving down.”
Jiang Xi: “Mm-hm!”
Lu Liufeng swooped down with her.
The wind and snow parted, revealing a small courtyard that looked like any other in the tribe.
The only difference was that one house had collapsed.
In the yard stood three fully beastified orcs, a lion, a tiger, and a dog-like creature—but all with black fur and red eyes.
Among the three cursed orcs, shadows flickered constantly. Whenever Mu Ling appeared for a moment, a punch would land on one of them.
The three pairs of blood-red eyes spun wildly, shrieking in anger like headless flies, trying to catch the damned fly!
But soon, all three lifted their red eyes to the sky, staring at the giant eagle—or perhaps at the female atop it.
In an instant, the same thought flashed through their minds:
“Found it… found it… found it…”
Lu Liufeng raised his wind blades and, before diving, shot back up into the sky.
A sharp eagle cry burst from him, carried far by the wind and snow.
Jiang Xi held on tightly.
When she faced the three pairs of blood-red eyes as Lu Liufeng dove, she felt an eerie sense of being hunted.
The red eyes carried a subtle hypnotic pull, tempting her to jump off.
But she quickly regained clarity.
The moment the hypnotic pull surfaced, a sudden coolness washed over her mind, and she broke free.
Moreover… it seemed like her healing ability had increased slightly?
Not just slowly recovering over time, but something had triggered a switch that made her recovery faster.
Because of her curiosity, Jiang Xi had been carefully monitoring her healing ability.
So when she transformed again, she immediately noticed the change.
A lion’s roar sounded—Huo Lun appeared.
The giant lion’s fur was no longer golden, but covered in golden scales, majestic and sacred. As it charged, it immediately knocked one of the cursed orcs away.
The golden scales shimmered with faint golden energy, cutting the cursed orc whenever it approached.
Jiang Xi noticed that her healing ability had recovered even faster.
She dismissed the effect of making eye contact with the cursed beasts and had another subtle guess.
She told Lu Liufeng:
“Lu Liufeng, join the fight—attack!!”
Lu Liufeng had been circling the sky with her, only attacking at the start.
Seeing him hesitate, Jiang Xi quickly explained:
“When you attack these cursed orcs, my spiritual recovery speeds up!!”
“Try attacking—it might be due to the marriage contract, and the feedback is reaching me!!”
Lu Liufeng’s eyes showed a hint of surprise.
He no longer hesitated and dove straight into the fight.
Each wind blade that sliced through the air caused Jiang Xi’s recovery to accelerate again.
At this rate, her healing ability, which would normally take a full day and night to fully recover, could now recover in just over ten hours.
If Yi Yuexi and Duan Si also joined, the total recovery time could be reduced to under ten hours.
If there were ten beast husbands…
It might even be possible to fully recover in an hour or just a few minutes!!
This discovery instantly lit up Jiang Xi’s eyes.
Although it couldn’t compare to absorbing crystal cores in the apocalypse, it was still an excellent recovery method.
And as long as there were enough beast husbands, she could recover while helping them heal during battle.
A team like that would be virtually unstoppable!!
