Seven Cubs, Seven Fathers, Zero Days Off

Chapter 148: Chapter 148: Do You Still Want These Hands?

The warrior beside him noticed the poison was taking effect.

"Third Young Master, are you all right?"

Si Muye struggled to maintain his willpower, controlling his spiritual power.

"I’m fine. We must get down the mountain before dark."

Then, his voice turned grave as he gave his orders.

"If the poison overwhelms me on the way, knock me unconscious and carry me away. You must not, under any circumstances, allow me to force myself on any female."

He gritted his teeth.

"Even if I die from the poison, it is absolutely forbidden. Do you understand?"

’My body will be reserved for her alone.’

’I absolutely cannot be defiled by another female.’

The warriors listened and immediately replied, "Yes, sir."

.....

「Meanwhile.」

It had been a full ten days since Shen Yue left the bamboo house with her seven little cubs.

Along the way, they had encountered more and more tribes that had been ravaged by the Lizardmen.

They had rescued over a hundred Beastmen in their travels.

These Beastmen came from the Gray Wolf Tribe, the Hyena Tribe, the Mole Tribe, and various others.

If not for this journey, Shen Yue would never have known there were so many different Beast Clans on the Beast World Continent.

By now, the sky was already growing dark.

The group of over a hundred people had already escaped from Wilderness Mountain and were now camped in an open space, a day’s journey from Barbaric City.

Although Shen Yue had led these Beastmen, who had narrowly escaped death, out of Wilderness Mountain, the entire group was listless and dejected from the pain of losing their husbands and wives.

Faint sounds of crying could be heard.

When Shen Yue struck a Fire Stone and abruptly lit the pile of firewood she had gathered, the Beastmen huddled on the ground cried out in terror.

"Fire!!"

"It’s on fire! That’s fire!"

The Beastmen sitting nearby also scrambled back in fear.

Shen Yue stood up. She was wrapped tightly in cloth, and a scarf covered the lower half of her face, revealing only her star-like eyes.

"Don’t be afraid. The fire won’t burn you. Everyone, gather around here and rest for the night."

Her voice was as crisp and clear as rolling jade beads, pleasant to hear and imbued with a strength that comforted others.

Hearing her, the Beastmen, though still awestruck by the fire, remembered that Shen Yue had saved them on their journey.

She was their savior.

Almost all of them had been scratched and poisoned by the Lizardmen. Others were unconscious and on the brink of death when Shen Yue had used her medical skills to drag them back from the Ghost Gate.

Although they didn’t know this female’s name or what she looked like, most of them were willing to trust her.

So, the crowd quieted down.

Soft murmurs began to spread through the crowd.

"This female actually knows Fire Control!"

"Yeah, she’s not even afraid of fire!"

"Who is she? She knows medicine, and she has six incredibly powerful Beast Husbands!"

"I don’t know. I’ve never seen such a capable female."

Shen Yue paid no mind to the scattered whispers around her.

She walked directly to the second pile of firewood and lit it.

Instantly, the clearing brightened.

The temperature also grew a few degrees warmer.

The hundred or so Beastmen went from being terrified to slowly sitting down a few meters away from the bonfires.

Truthfully, Shen Yue had never intended to get involved. After all, she was still a fugitive, caught in a web of mysteries.

’It’s best to keep a low profile and not show off my abilities.’

But when she saw the Beastmen who had been brutalized by the Lizardmen—the mutilated bodies, the severed limbs, the scenes of bloodshed...

In the end, she had still chosen to save them.

She had even seen some Beastmen, in order to stop the Lizardmen and give their cubs a chance to live, willingly charge into the jaws of the Lizardmen, watching as they were devoured alive.

Even when torn to shreds by the Lizardmen, with only half a body left, they would still cling desperately to a Lizardman’s leg, just so their cubs could escape to safety.

These images made her heart tremble. After all, she was a mother herself.

Seeing the heart-wrenching cries of the cubs who had lost their Father and female mother reminded her of when she had fallen into the crevice, and how her own little ones had dug at the earth until their paws were raw to save her.

That was why she had saved every poisoned Beastman and child she encountered along the way.

Her thoughts shifted, and she continued toward the third pile of firewood.

Just then, Jie Ying, who had been following them, saw how much everyone admired Shen Yue and was overcome with jealousy.

’Why does this woman get to steal the spotlight?’

Throughout their journey, she had witnessed this woman’s medical skills firsthand.

All the Beastmen suffering from the heat poison had been saved by her.

That included herself. She had learned from A Qi and A Cheng that Shen Yue had saved her.

But.

Even so, she still hated her. She was the one who had stolen the Young Master’s love.

’She stole the man who was supposed to be mine.’

’Why does this woman know how to do everything? She knows medicine, she has Fire Control, and she even has six incredible men fawning over her.’

Although she didn’t know the identities of the other five men and hadn’t had a chance to speak with them, just seeing their looks and bearing was enough to make her lose sleep with jealousy.

But in order to stay with Bai Chaosi, she had to suppress her hatred for Shen Yue. Otherwise, the Young Master would surely send her away.

Now, while Bai Chaosi was away,

she walked up to Shen Yue, finally getting a chance to vent her fury.

"Don’t think you’re so great just because you know a little medicine. You’re nothing but a cunning vixen who uses tricks to seduce men."

After lighting the third fire, Shen Yue put away the Fire Stone in her hand.

She stood up and shot Jie Ying a cold, emotionless glance.

"Vixen? Are you talking about yourself?"

Jie Ying choked, only then realizing that she was, in fact, a fox.

Her seductive eyes contorted with rage.

"Who do you think you are? Don’t think that just because you bore the Young Master’s child, he’s become your Beast Husband."

"Let me tell you, with your lowly status, you’re not worthy of having him as your Beast Husband."

Shen Yue had no desire to speak with her at all.

She strode toward her tent area.

She had just taken two camping tents out of her dimensional space and had taught Mu Silin and the others how to set them up. They should have been ready by now.

But when Jie Ying saw her dismissive attitude, she grew even angrier and grabbed her by the arm.

"I’m talking to you! Are you deaf? Or are you admitting that your status is lowly, that you’re unworthy of the Young Master, so you don’t dare speak to me?"

She gripped Shen Yue’s arm tightly, preventing her from leaving, and began to recount her past with Bai Chaosi.

"Let me tell you, the Young Master and I have twenty years of history together! He once went into the bottomless Snow Cave for me, searching for a rare hundred-year-old Snow Ginseng to cure my illness. He nearly lost his life in that Snow Cave. Now you should know just how much he cares for me, right?"

Shen Yue listened to her words, her eyes narrowing slightly.

Jie Ying’s voice was neither loud nor soft, but it was exceptionally cruel.

"The bond between us is nothing a lowly, inferior female like you can compare to. He’s just temporarily infatuated with you. Once the novelty wears off and he gets tired of you, he’ll come back to me. And you? You’ll just crawl back into the deep mountains to be the lowly, inferior female you are."

After she finished, she saw that Shen Yue was just staring at the hand gripping her arm, not saying a word.

She tightened her grip, gave her a hard shove, and continued relentlessly.

"Say something! Are you angry? I’ve seen plenty of lowly females like you. Don’t think staying silent will make me let you go."

"I’m telling you, I have plenty of ways to deal with a bitch like you!"

The shove made Shen Yue stumble.

Looking at the hand gripping her arm, her voice turned cold.

"Do you still want to keep that hand?"

Jie Ying froze for a moment, then gripped even tighter.

"What do you mean?"

Shen Yue felt Jie Ying’s nails breaking the skin on her arm.

"I’ll give you three seconds. If you don’t let go, you won’t be using this hand ever again."

Jie Ying sneered, her face twisting into a hideous expression.

"What, are you trying to scare me? Just you try and hurt me..."

But the next second...

"AHH!!"

A pained shriek tore from Jie Ying’s mouth.

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