Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 401 - 400: Wearing Brocade at Night
To be able to bring a female and their cubs back to the clan was an incredibly glorious thing—the kind that inspired envy, jealousy, and hate!
It was also a sign of the female’s particular favor for that Beast Husband.
Xiao Cheng was going crazy with happiness. The wind kicked up by his swishing fox tail was so strong that Si Shuo could barely open her eyes. She could only bury her face in his chest and laugh helplessly. "Xiao Cheng, can’t you tone down your tail a bit?"
"I can’t, love. This just proves how amazing I am. A tail with this much power means I can serve you well," Xiao Cheng said with a grin.
The sudden innuendo caught her completely off guard!
"You have no idea, love. Xiao Zhao told me that our clansmen really don’t think much of me.
They say I’m just a pretty face, good for keeping you happy for a little while. With Brother Wei Ce around, they think I’m just the manual labor at home, scrubbing pots and washing dishes, my good looks fading away day by day.
They have no idea that in our family, I’m the one in charge of the shop and workshop that sells ink, brushes, paper, and inkstones. Even if the clansmen in the city know, the ones in Zhuan City still think I’m just an errand boy with no status at home. They think I’m bullied so badly that I’ll never even have cubs.
Hmph! They’re just trying to push me down because I didn’t follow the clan’s arrangements to become a Female Saint and secure benefits through marriage alliances with a few large families, aren’t they?
You dote on me, and you even gave me a Heavenly Fox cub and an Emperor Fox cub. It’s just a shame we can only be happy about it in secret and can’t let the two cubs transform for them to see." He drooped his head slightly, a gloomy look on his face.
Si Shuo understood. It was like wearing embroidered robes in the dead of night. "It’s okay. With two smart and adorable cubs, plus me spoiling you, I guarantee you’ll get to show off in front of your clansmen!
But, Xiao Cheng, why do I get the feeling your clan has a lot of drama?"
Xiao Cheng’s body stiffened for a moment, and he said in a low voice, "Love, our Three-tailed Fox Clan... well, whether male or female, we’re all quite fertile, and the cubs we have are more talented than others."
"So, we have more clansmen, and with more Beastmen come more problems. The clan is basically split into three factions. The Clan Leader, the Third Elder, and the Seventh Elder stick together. My Father is the Great Elder, and he’s on good terms with the Sixth Elder and the Ninth Elder. The remaining Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Elders all share the same views."
"The Clan Leader’s faction is more focused on benefits. They’re always trying to latch onto other powerful families or tribes. They take advantage of male cubs with the Illusionary Ability who are still naive about relationships, forcing them to become Female Saints to attract powerful and well-connected males for the clan..."
"My Father’s faction is against it. They believe that we can only break the stalemate by improving our own strength. The Second Elder’s faction is more moderate; they’re not proactive about anything..."
Si Shuo nodded in understanding. "I get it. The ones waiting to see you make a fool of yourself are from the Clan Leader’s faction, right?"
Xiao Cheng grunted in agreement. "Right after the spring hunt, the clan holds a tournament to select the clan’s Warriors. The results are used as a basis for everything from choosing mates within the clan to escorting the females to the Female Saint Conference in Guangshou City."
"Hmph, I’ll show them just how powerful I’ve become from being taken care of by you! I’ll just casually show them my Level 13 strength."
Si Shuo loved seeing Xiao Cheng’s flamboyant, show-off personality. Everyone else in her family was either reserved and secretly passionate or a total blockhead. Only this fox was so lively, perfectly filling that gap in their household.
"Alright, I’ll bring your brothers along to back you up!" she said, full of bravado.
Xiao Cheng was even more delighted. "I won’t embarrass you, love. The brothers can just watch from the side."
Not only was it prestigious to bring a female and cubs back, but having one’s Couple Brothers come along was even more impressive and a huge status symbol.
Xiao Cheng was overwhelmed with joy, kissing Si Shuo. "Love, what should I do? I feel like I love you more and more, I don’t know what to do with myself..."
Though he said that, he didn’t hold back any of his strength, using all of it to cherish her.
The males still had duties to attend to, and the family’s shops, workshops, and fields couldn’t be left unattended. So, after the males took time off to bring the cubs over and spend a day, only Zhi Zhan, Xiao Cheng, and the two fox cubs stayed behind to accompany Si Shuo.
After a night of training ended, the family set out from Guangshou City, heading in a grand procession toward Zhuan City.
Before, the cubs had always teleported with their Mother and Fathers. This was the first time they were properly watching the scenery along the way. They were so excited that they ran and skipped about, not feeling tired at all.
After leaving the city, they saw fewer and fewer Beastmen. They even went long stretches without spotting a single Flying Beast. Once the cubs’ excitement wore off and they started to feel bored, Xiao Cheng took out a Spirit Storage Talisman.
In the months after giving birth to Yu Zai, Si Shuo had drawn quite a few talismans, especially Spirit Storage Talismans. Each of the males was given a stack and was responsible for infusing them with enough of their superpower each day.
Thanks to the increase in Si Shuo’s spiritual power, her talisman-drawing abilities had also improved. A single Spirit Storage Talisman could now store an amount of Spiritual Power equivalent to a male infusing it with all of his Spiritual Power twice over.
The one Xiao Cheng took out was a talisman that Ji Liang had infused with his Teleportation Ability. He gnawed on the Spirit Storage Talisman, thinking of the path back to his clan. The sound of wind whistling past his ears and the scent of flowers and songs of birds seemed to weave into a series of flashing images, allowing him to truly "see" the way home.
When he opened his eyes, he was in the woods outside Zhuan City, and the scene from his mind was right in front of him!
Upon receiving his message, Si Shuo teleported over with the whole family.
Xiao Cheng, carrying the little female and the cubs on his back, nodded to the other males, signaling for them to follow, and charged toward the city gates.
Zhuan City was a Second-level Beast City, jointly managed by three large tribes and five large families. The Three-tailed Blue Fox Clan was one of them, and there were members of Xiao Cheng’s clan among the Beast Soldiers guarding the city.
"You are..." Seeing Xiao Cheng’s large group approaching, the guards blocked their path with spears and began their routine questioning.
"Brother Xiao Zhuang, you don’t recognize me?" Xiao Cheng said to the Little General with a smile, wagging his tail lightly.
Xiao Zhuang frowned slightly. "You’re... Xiao Zhao?"
Xiao Cheng and Xiao Zhao were brothers from the same litter and looked identical. Xiao Cheng rarely appeared in public, and when he was nearing adulthood, he had arranged to be "abducted" to escape a fate where his marriage and gender role would be controlled by others.
Everyone only recognized Xiao Zhao.
Xiao Cheng chuckled. "Brother Xiao Zhuang, you’ve mistaken me for my younger brother again. Speaking of which, the two of us almost became mates."
’Hearing this, Si Shuo’s hands started to itch. Why does he seem to have a former fiancé everywhere we go?’
Xiao Zhuang’s expression changed slightly. "Xiao Cheng?" His gaze swept past a pair of chubby, humanoid cubs on Xiao Cheng, landing on the exquisitely beautiful Si Shuo. A fiery heat ignited in the depths of his eyes.
He also saw the males behind them, each with an aura more powerful than the last, and all the pairs of beautiful and adorable cubs!
"That’s me," Xiao Cheng said with a smile. He wrapped his tail around Si Shuo, gently turning her so her back was to Xiao Zhuang. "My, my, my cubs can already achieve Transformation, and Brother Xiao Zhuang still hasn’t found a female?
"Are your standards too high, or is it that no one fancies you?"
