51: Chapter 51 Applying to Go Out

What is this transparent crystal? It actually lets light through.

And the temperature inside, he clearly felt it was different from outside.

And what is that glowing thing overhead? He didn't understand it at all.

The Priestess inspected her new house with satisfaction, thinking about what to put in each room and which one she and Augu should live in.

"Mother!" A Nonggu approached with a cheeky smile, "Leave a room for me, I want to live here too."

A Nonggu, who was already a Grandfather, shamelessly pleaded with his Mother with longing.

The Priestess gave a cold smile and patted his head, "What do you think?"

Her herbal medicine hadn't even moved in yet, and this cub was already eyeing her rooms; he was dreaming.

"...Mother, Mother, I'm your own cub." A Nonggu was very hurt, his usually strong character collapsing at this moment as he hugged the Priestess's leg and started to wail.

Augu's mouth twitched, and he shook his head, unable to bear the sight.

The sun shone on the grass, and Sang Qing transformed into her Beast Form, rolling around on the ground and stretching comfortably.

"Sang Qing!"

"Aah~"

Nina's cheerful voice came, accompanied by the howls of two Little Cubs. Sang Qing rolled over and sat up from the animal skin, "Hmm? Nina?"

"Ah, little Chenxi!"

Sang Qing turned into her human form and pounced toward the Little Cub in Nina's arms.

"Aunt Sang Qing." Clone also greeted Sang Qing with a smile.

"Clone, you're here too. Come in quickly." Sang Qing held Chenxi, patted Clone's little head, and led him inside.

Meng Lai and Meng Qi, who were expanding the kitchen, poked their heads out when they heard the noise. They glanced at Nina and her two cubs and then continued their work.

Nina looked at the flowers growing by the fence, a smile on her plump face, "Sang Qing, your home is getting more and more beautiful."

Tomorrow, she would also ask her mate to build her a garden like the one outside Sang Qing's house; it was so pretty.

"It's just something I put together. Sit down quickly. Why are you here today?" Sang Qing smiled, teasing the giggling Little Cub in her arms, and brought some dried meat for Cree.

"Oh, I have something to talk to you about." Nina looked back and sat down, watching Sang Qing make faces at her cub, and asked, "I really liked the fruit you sent me yesterday. Where did you pick it?"

So it was for this?

Sang Qing smiled, gently cuddling Chenxi in her arms, "That fruit wasn't picked in the forest; I grew it myself."

"Ah!!" Nina wailed, counting on her fingers and pouting with a sigh, "I was going to have Cree go to the forest to pick some for me."

That fruit was really delicious, sweet and sour.

Sang Qing pursed her lips and smiled, coaxing the Little Cub in her arms, "Do you like it? But the fruits in my vegetable garden aren't ripe yet. You'll have to wait two more days, then you can come and pick them."

It seemed tomatoes were really popular; her brother liked them too. He had finished the first batch of ripe tomatoes before she could even use them for cooking. Later, she had to strictly order him not to steal any more to save the second batch.

"Great, great! I'll trade animal skins with you then." She didn't want Sang Qing to lose out, but she really loved that fruit. It just so happened they had many animal skins at home, which she could use for the trade.

Based on what she said, was she planning to take a lot? The tomatoes in her garden could only be harvested for two more crops at most; there wouldn't be much yield.

"That won't be necessary, but I don't have many tomatoes left." Sang Qing's smile faltered, and she thought of another way, "If you like them, I have tomato seeds here. You can do what I did: find an open space in front of your house and scatter the seeds."

Better to teach someone how to fish than to give them a fish. The seeds didn't cost anything, so she'd just give them to her.

"??" Nina didn't understand the topic of planting much. After all, the fruits they ate were picked directly from the forest. It took a while for her brain to process it, "Like how the Priestess grows herbal medicine?"

That was the only thing she could think of.

Sang Qing nodded, her voice gentle, "Yes, that way you can eat tomatoes whenever you want."

"That works. I'll have Thor come and get the seeds later." Nina happily agreed. Anyway, she didn't have to worry about it; her mate at home would take full responsibility.

The Little Cub in her arms fell fast asleep. Sang Qing looked at Nina, and the two females began to chat, "Why have you lost weight lately?"

She had wanted to ask when she went to deliver things to Dainai last time, but she hadn't found the right moment.

Nina pinched the flesh on her face and said somewhat unhappily.

"The Priestess said I'm too fat and told me to eat less food, otherwise she's afraid something will happen again the next time I'm pregnant."

Even her Father and mate had started to limit her food intake; she could only eat five meals a day.

Although she was very reluctant, for the sake of her cub, she could only eat a bit less.

"The Priestess is doing it for your own good." Sang Qing patted her arm and said with a smile, "Otherwise, think about how dangerous it was when you gave birth last time."

Nina raised her eyebrows in agreement, "True."

She didn't think there was anything wrong with it, as long as she didn't starve to death.

Glancing at Meng Lai, who was hammering nails, Nina leaned closer to Sang Qing's ear, "Did you know? Dainai is preparing for Pair Bonding."

Sang Qing was confused and asked in puzzlement, "When?"

She really didn't know.

Nina took a bite of the dried meat Clone handed her, patted her cub's head, and whispered to Sang Qing, "In five more suns. Yesterday, the Priestess tested Dainai, and her fertility value is level six."

Actually, the fertility value of the females in the Flower Deer Tribe was quite high, but the females of the Flower Deer Tribe were too weak physically to withstand the stamina of the males, nor could they nurture the cubs of powerful races, so they weren't very famous in the forest.

"Yesterday? Dainai reached adulthood yesterday?" Sang Qing's expression was a bit awkward; she actually hadn't known.

She knew Dainai was going to reach adulthood in the next few days, but she didn't know the specific time.

Didn't that mean she had missed the time to celebrate with her?

"Yes!" Nina nodded heavily, not taking it seriously at all, "But not many Tribesmen went to celebrate her adulthood ceremony, just me, my Father and Mother, the Chief, and the Priestess."

But when she went out this morning, she saw many males going to give Dainai things, probably attracted by her fertility value.

Sang Qing pressed her tongue against her upper jaw; she had actually forgotten about Dainai's adulthood.

"Then her mate..." She didn't know who Dainai had chosen as her mate.

"It's Hu Yang, a warrior who just broke through to the Fourth-Tier Warrior rank."

"..." Hu what? Don't know him!

Sang Qing scratched her hair and said to Nina a bit embarrassedly, "I seem to have forgotten to give Dainai an adulthood gift."

Would it be okay to make up for it today? Thinking about her living alone in the Tribe, it was quite pitiful.

Nina waved her hand, holding Clone in her arms, her expression indifferent, "It doesn't matter. She wasn't originally a member of our Tribe anyway. If you and Meng Lai hadn't saved her, she probably would have been killed by the Gray Leopard Tribe long ago. Moreover, she has never even thanked you."

Moreover, she has never even thanked you.

It wasn't that she was being mean, but she really couldn't understand Dainai's character.

Yesterday, she was even secretly asking her about Sang Qing's situation, asking why she didn't have a fertility value.

What did that have to do with her? It was as if if Sang Qing had a fertility value, she would compete with her for males; her talk was very strange.

"She's so weak, how could she thank me?" Sang Qing shrugged indifferently.

Do a kindness and forget it. Besides, Dainai was saved by her Father, and she didn't expect her to show any gratitude.

It was enough if she lived peacefully.

Nina curled her lips, glanced at the male whose muscles were shimmering in the sunlight, swooned for a few seconds, and told Sang Qing a secret, "Then I'll tell you the truth: she's still eyeing Meng Lai."

Her? She dared to eye Meng Lai? She and Meng Lai had known each other for over ten years, and Meng Lai hadn't chosen her, so how could he choose a small, weak female?

She had even mocked Dainai for it, telling her not to have such delusions.

Meng Lai was destined to become a Fifth-Rank Warrior in the future. With her small frame, she probably wouldn't be able to handle it.

Sang Qing frowned, half-doubting, "Huh?"

Dainai was eyeing her brother? No way, she hadn't noticed anything unusual.

Her brother had never even had private contact with Dainai.

Nina glanced at Sang Qing and said seriously, "Really, I'm not lying to you."

She no longer expected to pair bond with Meng Lai, so she wouldn't tell lies.

"It's not that I don't believe you, I just find it strange." Sang Qing immediately smiled at Nina.

But thinking about it carefully, it was normal. Her brother was a Fourth-Tier Warrior less than a year after reaching adulthood. Many females in the Tribe were showing him favor, so it was only natural for Dainai to like her brother.

"It's not strange at all." Nina played with her braids and said proudly, "But I won't allow Meng Lai to like her; she's really too weak."

Sang Qing raised her eyebrows; she couldn't say for sure. What if her brother liked Dainai too?

She had no right to interfere with whom her brother liked.

Nina sat for a while and then prepared to leave. Sang Qing packed some cucumbers for her to take back.

Once Nina left, Sang Qing looked up at her brother and clicked her tongue. It was indeed time for her brother to get pair bonded.

Lying back on the animal skin, Sang Qing opened the System Mall and browsed slowly.

Yesterday, she had painfully bought two thousand catties of Spiritual Rice. Thinking that her brother was about to break through to the fifth rank, his nutrition had to keep up. Additionally, her own taste had been spoiled by the Spiritual Rice, so she placed the order.

Looking at the balance of over a thousand points, Sang Qing sighed.

This money is so easy to spend; it's gone in a flash.

She also planned to buy a multi-functional villa. If she hadn't been short on points, she would have moved into a big villa long ago.

No, she still had to set up a stall at the Market, and she also had to go to the forest to find herbal medicine, striving to get her points into the five-digit range as soon as possible.

Big villa, oh big villa, wait for me, I'll come to pamper you soon.

Right, she hadn't gone to see the Priestess yet. She didn't know how the Safe House situation was; she had to go check it out in a bit.

A few days passed, and the Chief of the Gray Leopard Tribe was still going on a rampage in the forest, seemingly determined not to stop until he found the beast that killed his cub.

The peaceful forest was turned into a mess by the Gray Leopard Tribe. After receiving news from other Tribe Chiefs, Mao Shuo took three Fourth-Tier Warriors and a group of Third-Rank Warriors out of the Tribe.

They were going to suppress the Gray Leopard Tribe; otherwise, how could the beasts live in peace?

Meng Lai followed Mao Shuo and left.

"Father, just let me go out. I really won't be in any danger." Sang Qing hugged Meng Qi's leg, her eyes teary, pleading piteously.

Meng Qi's heart was as hard as a rock, and he shook his head at his cub, "No, you can't go out."

The Chief just took the warriors out; the danger in the forest might be even greater now. He wouldn't allow it.

Sang Qing clung to his leg and wailed loudly, "No, Father."

She wanted to go out, she wanted to make money, she wanted to live in a big villa.

"Be good, Qing Qing. It's too dangerous outside." Meng Qi's heart softened for a moment, but it quickly hardened again as he refused with a serious face.

Ah, Sang Qing's eyes darted around. Then her only option was to sneak out?

Meng Qi seemed to see through her thoughts and quickly picked her up and stuffed her into the house, "Sophia, keep an eye on Qing Qing."

No, no, no!

"Wait, wait, Father, look." How could she have forgotten the Defensive Bracelet?

Sang Qing wiped away her non-existent tears and stood up, showing Meng Qi the treasure bestowed by the 'beast god' on her wrist.

"Father, look, I have a treasure given to me by the beast god. No wild beast can hurt me."

Meng Qi didn't believe it. How could there be such a magical treasure? She must be lying to him.

Sang Qing gritted her teeth and directly asked Meng Qi to attack her; otherwise, she wouldn't be able to leave the house today.

Meng Qi hesitated for a moment but still chose to attack her.

After all, the items his cub brought out were sometimes too magical and had broken his understanding many times.

Sang Qing took a few steps back, and Meng Qi transformed into his Beast Form and pounced toward her, his claws reaching for her, but the tips of his claws did not extend.

Just as his paw was about to hit her, it was as if he had hit a solid wall. Meng Qi was knocked back, his vision spinning, and he almost couldn't stand steadily.

"Father, are you okay?" Sang Qing was startled and quickly ran over to support him.

"I'm fine, I'm fine." Meng Qi shook his head, shocked and delighted. This treasure was good.

This way, he wouldn't have to worry about any beast hurting Qing Qing in the future.

But then he thought, how much did the beast god feel he owed Qing Qing to even bring out this kind of treasure?

Patting his cub's head, Meng Qi finally let her go out.

With this treasure plus Qing Qing's secret weapons, he thought the wild beasts in the forest should be afraid of her instead.

After learning she could go out alone, Sang Qing completely let herself go, wagging her tail and rushing out.

The Guard Beastman saw a black shadow flash past and disappear from his side, and he rubbed his eyes in confusion.

Azure sky, fresh air. Sang Qing wandered through the forest carrying a hoe. Whenever she saw a decent-looking plant, she would rush over to scan it.

[Scan complete. xianlong grass. Estimated price: five points. List for sale?]

So many? Sang Qing looked at the herbal medicine on the ground, her brow furrowing slightly.

"System, what is xianlong grass used for?"

She had been looking for herbal medicine for a long time, and this plant had the most points. She couldn't help but be a bit curious.

[It's a type of medicine that can revive the dead and regrow flesh on bones. It's mostly sold in High Martial Worlds and requires a specially made Alchemy Furnace. It doesn't have much effect in your world, Host.]

I see, okay. Sang Qing nodded and chose to list it.

But she had a slight doubt in her heart.

"System, why would the herbal medicine in this world be related to High Martial Worlds?"