Raising Beast Husbands with My Space — The Villainess Becomes a Beloved Favorite-Chapter 364 - 363: Illusion

"Thank you. May I ask your name, benefactor?"

Su Muyao replied: "I’m Su Muyao. You can call me Sister Su."

Su Muyao looked at Jing Chu with anticipation, hoping he’d call her sister, as it might sound nice.

But to her disappointment, Jing Chu didn’t call her that.

Even when he’s really hungry, he eats quietly and slowly, as if savoring the best flavors in the world and reluctant to finish.

"Well, if you don’t want to call me that, that’s fine. One day you will."

Jing Chu remained silent.

Su Muyao could tell he had a rather cold nature and didn’t talk much.

In the following time, Su Muyao stayed with Jing Chu in the forested mountains.

At first, Su Muyao could take food out from her space for Jing Chu to eat, but later she found she couldn’t access food from her space anymore.

"System, what’s going on? Why is the space closed?"

The system spoke: "Host, this is Jing Chu’s Resentment World. It is suppressed by the power of this world, and since this happened over ten thousand years ago, you can’t change it, and hence the space cannot be used."

Su Muyao replied: "I can’t ignore this completely. He’s still very frail."

"This is the Primitive Forest, with many wild beasts. If I don’t get food for him, what will he eat?"

"How can he hunt in this state?"

"What if he gets injured?"

As soon as Su Muyao saw his face, she thought it might be related to Wen Nanxi and couldn’t stay calm.

She couldn’t bear to see him suffer.

The system had to remind: "Host, you need to calm down."

"I could just sense the world’s consciousness recently, and it means you can’t change much. The hardships and injuries Jing Chu goes through aren’t easily changed."

Though Su Muyao understood this logically, she couldn’t do it emotionally.

Since she couldn’t bring out food, Jing Chu, feeling hungry, had to hunt on his own.

But he was still too small and weak. He initially aimed to hunt a wild chicken, but during the hunt, he was attacked by a beast.

"Jing Chu, watch out!"

Though Su Muyao was anxious, she couldn’t help in any way.

Even though Jing Chu managed to escape eventually, he was severely wounded and very weak.

This time, Su Muyao wanted to use her Wood Element Ability to help him, but couldn’t use it at all.

She understood that she couldn’t interfere much.

She could only teach Jing Chu to identify and gather herbs.

Teach him to clean wounds, bandage them, and make medicine.

Luckily, these medicinal herbs had potent Spiritual Energy, preventing any life-threatening danger for Jing Chu.

Su Muyao feared Jing Chu might face dangers while hunting again, so she began to teach him how to identify some herbs, wild fruits, and vegetables, and how to cook with vegetables.

Jing Chu was very smart; many things only needed to be explained once by Su Muyao before he understood, requiring little further explanation.

"And then there’s this, this is corn, which can be boiled to eat or ground into cornmeal for food..."

Jing Chu said: "These are bird food."

Su Muyao understood in the current Beastman knowledge, these tiny grains were what birds loved to eat.

And for Beastmen, it wouldn’t even fill their teeth gaps.

To replenish energy and strength, they needed a lot of meat.

But hunting came with dangers, so they could only find some crops to eat.

"This is food, Beastmen can eat too."

Su Muyao taught him how to cook corn and how to grind corn into flour to make corn cakes and other foods.

Thus, Jing Chu managed to survive harshly in the forested mountains.

Even with food, the forest was unsafe, and Jing Chu continued to get injured occasionally.

Su Muyao couldn’t bear to see Jing Chu hurt, feeling especially distressed each time she saw his injuries.

"Jing Chu, you’re bleeding again, does it hurt?"

Jing Chu calmly spread herbs over his wound, saying: "No."

He seemed numb to pain.

Because he had been whipped since childhood, and compared to that, these wounds were nothing.

Moreover, upon hearing this gentle, concerned voice, he realized someone worried about him.

He could feel a bit of warmth gradually.

"How can you say it doesn’t hurt? It must be painful."

"Jing Chu, living in the forest isn’t safe. Are there any Snake Beastman Tribes you could go to live with?"

Jing Chu spoke: "There is no Snake Beastman Tribe."

"How could there be no Snake Beastman Tribe?"

Jing Chu explained: "There’s no Snake Beastman Tribe. They say there used to be, but when other Snake Beastmen find such tribes, they gather their strength and destroy the Snake Beastman Tribe. Although Snake Beastmen have a naturally strong lineage, growing up is difficult, so most hide instead of living in tribes."

Su Muyao felt a bit rueful, not expecting the living conditions of Snake Beastmen to be so harsh at this time.

"So how did your father meet your mother, and how did they have you?"

Jing Chu was silent for a while before slowly speaking: "I don’t know the specifics, only that my father saved my mother’s life, and they were together."

"But I’m aware my mother deceived my father; they killed him and used his inner core and body to make medicine to detoxify and even bolster physical prowess."

Speaking of this, Jing Chu’s voice trembled.

The system spoke: "As you’d expect from Ancient Celestial Snakes, their natural bloodline power is uniquely strong. Especially those Snake Beastmen who cultivated for thousands to tens of thousands of years, there’s a high chance they develop an inner core. Consuming their inner core likely makes one immune to a hundred poisons and can boost one’s own power."

"That sounds like a story full of conspiracy."

...

In the following years, Jing Chu lived in the forest, and while Su Muyao knew she couldn’t interfere much, she still tried to teach him various abilities to help him survive in the perilous forests.

Today, Jing Chu is fifteen, now a teenager, having grown due to the training and nourishment over these years; he’s gotten taller and his looks more pronounced.

Seeing him now, Su Muyao felt as if she were looking at Wen Nanxi.

Truly identical.

"Jing Chu, when you become stronger, you might try hunting some millennia-old beasts. They might have Crystal Cores in them. Consuming Crystal Cores might awaken your superpower."

After a brief silence, Jing Chu looked toward Su Muyao, though he couldn’t see her appearance, he loved hearing her voice. During these years, no matter how hard it was or how many times he narrowly escaped death, hearing her voice seemed to give him a will to live, bringing him through each time.

"Miss Su, if I become strong, can I help you become a Beastman?"

Su Muyao was slightly startled, "Huh?"

"Become a Beastman?"

Jing Chu softly said: "I’d like to see Miss Su’s appearance."

"I wish Miss Su could live here."

Rather than feeling it all was like an illusion, as if it were merely a dream.

In this world, only Miss Su would be kind to him, would care about him.

He’s willing to give everything he has.

Su Muyao didn’t know how to answer him.

But seeing his expectant gaze, not wanting to disappoint him, she answered: "Perhaps."

"So you need to live well and become strong, then you can protect yourself and also me."

"Alright."

His one word felt like a promise worth a thousand gold.

As they were speaking, suddenly many birds flew from the surrounding forest.

Su Muyao realized something, her expression changed and said: "Many Beastmen are coming, and there’s killing intent."

Jing Chu grasped the Bone Knife, his expression quickly becoming alert.

He sniffed the distant scent from the air, his gaze darkened, and his eyes immediately turned into vertical pupils, carrying a loathsome and bloodthirsty light, "It’s them!"