Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 254 - 253: Tragic, Truly Tragic

After Si Shuo finished replicating the Personal Bamboo Garden, she still had two-thirds of her Spiritual Power left! She replicated one more before moving on to replicating twelve Level 16 attributeless crystal stones.

With the Personal Bamboo Garden, Wei Ce could go wherever he wanted too!

Si Shuo waited for her Spiritual Power to recover a bit, then began to ponder which two types of talismans to choose this time.

The valley was their secret base, like a private back garden unknown to outsiders. Moreover, the method of entry and exit was very special. If anyone discovered it, there was no telling what kind of trouble it would cause.

Therefore, the safest and most convenient way to travel was for her to teleport with her Beast Husbands, or to use Ji Liang’s location-based Teleportation.

Although her rewards included Thousand Miles Positioning Talisman Paper, which she could also replicate, she felt that using this talisman just to travel between the valley and home was complete overkill—like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Besides, the Thousand Miles Positioning Talisman Paper could only be set for ten round-trip Teleportations between two locations. Replicating it was on par with creating other High-level Talismans, but using it for such short distances wouldn’t even utilize a tenth of its potential. It was a complete waste!

After some thought, Si Shuo asked the system for the Invisibility Talisman and the Basic Teleportation Talisman.

With the experience of learning and drawing two other talismans, Si Shuo’s spiritual power had improved again. She was confident she would be able to draw these two new types of talismans very soon!

Her morning Cultivation practice consisted of tracing the talisman patterns with her finger over and over. She only stopped when she got hungry and had Zhi Zhan take her back home.

Around noon, Wei Ce teleported back. Without saying a word, he swept her into his arms and spun her around. His joy was so palpable that even the cubs, who had their heads buried in their food, could feel it.

"Father, what?" The cubs spoke in bursts of two or three words. All the males were very good to them, so the two little ones had gotten lazy and just called everyone "Father," without adding any distinguishing names.

Wei Ce held Si Shuo tightly and said with a grin, "It’s my father! My father’s Beast Mark is back!"

Si Shuo was astonished. "Brother Ce, what on earth happened?"

"Back then, my mother couldn’t go against the clan, so she reluctantly mated with my father and gave birth to me. Our clan had prepared shops, the Bamboo Forest Mountain, and farmland to support its members, and they sincerely invited females to move in with their other Beast Husbands."

"My father was the Clan Leader, especially, so he shouldered the responsibility for the entire clan’s development and prosperity. It was impossible for him to leave."

"Then, Mother met a Black Wolf Beastman—the Wolf King of the Black Wolf Clan, no less—and wanted to take her other Beast Husbands to live with the Black Wolf Clan. Neither my father’s people nor my mother’s were happy about it." 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"My mother is soft-natured but stubborn, my father has a strong sense of duty, and the Black Wolf Beastman is proud and aloof. The three of them reached a stalemate, with no one willing to give in."

"In the end, it was my father who backed down. He took me and Mother to the Black Wolf Beast Clan, supported her bid to become the Wolf Queen, and even had a litter of wolf cubs with her."

"For my sake, Father traveled back and forth between the Black Wolf Clan’s territory and the Iron eating Beast Clan’s every day. It took a huge physical toll. Thankfully, I also had a Bamboo Forest Mountain, or he would have been worked to the bone long ago!"

"Even so, Mother was still unhappy with him. She felt that if it weren’t for him, her firstborn would have been a wolf cub. She believed my good aptitude should have belonged to a wolf cub... a future Wolf King."

"Later, my mother attended the Female Saint Conference and met a Female Saint named Yu Jing. The two of them hit it off right away."

"Sometime after that, my father got drunk one night, and his Beast Mark on my mother’s body vanished."

"Mother claimed my father had wronged her. She said that without the bond of the Beast Mark, he was unworthy to remain by her side, and she drove my father and me back here..."

As he spoke, his eyes turned red. Beside him, Xuyou was already wailing sadly, and even Xu Ye was wiping away tears. "Sad. So sad. If... if Grandpa goes back... to your mother... Youyou won’t let... little brother and sister... call him Grandpa!"

"Yeah! Your mother... she’s not worthy! She’s such a hypo—" Xu Ye added resentfully, but his mother guiltily covered his mouth.

’This inherited knowledge is really corrupting the cubs’ innocent little minds,’ she thought. ’Just look at the kind of things they’re picking up from me.’

Ji Liang’s heart was heavy as he listened. ’It’s a good thing my little female trusts me completely,’ he thought. ’With any other female, I don’t know what my fate would have been.’

Zhi Le and Gong You also pressed their lips together, not daring to even imagine something like that happening between themselves and their little female. ’It’s just too cruel.’

But Si Shuo asked nervously, "Brother Ce, your father isn’t actually thinking of using the Beast Mark to win your mother back, is he?"

Wei Ce poked her on the forehead in mock annoyance. When he saw the fair skin turn red, he felt a pang of regret and kissed the spot. "How could he? She looks down on my father. Do you think his heart is made of stone? After so many years, even the warmest heart would have grown cold."

Only then did Si Shuo nod in relief. In the Beast World Continent, a Beastman’s lifespan was linked to their cultivation. Ordinary Beastmen lived for only fifty or sixty years, while those with superpowers had a lifespan starting at eighty. The higher their superpower Level, the longer they lived.

Wei Ce’s father was only in his thirties. Sooner or later, he would advance to Level 14 and have a lifespan of one hundred and fifty years. He couldn’t possibly live out the rest of his days alone, could he? Especially now that he had his Beast Mark back.

She couldn’t resist pulling Wei Ce close to whisper in his ear, "In that case, do you think your father will... find you a new mother?"

Wei Ce’s face flushed slightly as he whispered, "I think so. Even if he doesn’t want to, the elders will push him." Imagining his father going through the same ordeal of being hounded to meet with Female Saints, Wei Ce let out an unkind, schadenfreude-filled laugh.

"Now that I have Shuo, I hope my father can find his own happiness too. He shouldn’t be tied down by the past, by me, or by the clan. Hopefully, he’ll even give me a little brother or sister or two and make things more lively."

Thinking of Yu Jing, Si Shuo frowned. "When we saw Yu Jing, she looked quite young. But based on what you said, she should be from the same generation as your father and mother."

Wei Ce scoffed. "Exactly. The Beast Marks on her body are her Secret Technique for staying forever young! Who knows, maybe when my father and mother met her, she had just finished absorbing nourishment from another Beast Mark."

"My father was stuck at Level 13 for far too long. He had to cultivate constantly just to maintain his level. If he slacked off even a little, his cultivation would become unstable, and he even risked dropping a level."

"And who knew he was supporting a thing like that the whole time!"

"Enough about her. I have something good for you," Si Shuo said, pulling out the Personal Bamboo Garden and explaining its use with a smile.

Wei Ce took the bead in amazement and, at Si Shuo’s urging, began the process of refining it.

Si Shuo stuffed some Beast Skins under her clothes, wrapping them in place with strips of cloth until her belly bulged out, making her look just like a real pregnant woman.

Knowing what his little female was planning, Ji Liang said with a smile, "I’ll stay home and hold down the fort. You all go have fun with Little Shushu. It’ll be a good chance for me to bond with the two cubs."

The family had been cooped up in the valley for ten or twenty days because of him.

Si Shuo smiled and hugged him, playfully bumping him with her new fake belly. "Then you rest up at home, Ji Liang. Let us know if anything comes up."

Ji Liang nibbled her ear. "Alright. I’ll stay right here at home and wait for my Little Shushu to come back."

They let Xu Chi know at the Martial Arts Hall, and once he returned home, Si Shuo teleported away with the whole family in tow!