My husband is too wild, I need to go home and find my mom.

Chapter 78 The Wisdom of the Elderly

Although there's no concept of siblings on the Beastman Continent, Beastmen born of the same mother naturally unite to care for each other. This is especially true for Feng and Bai, who are not only born of the same mother but also share the same father. As the first and strongest of their mother's offspring, Feng felt he had taken excellent care of the other cubs. He had previously assumed they wouldn't be able to transform into human form and thought he'd have to look after them for life. If Bai couldn't take human form, he'd likely die of old age around forty or fifty, while Feng, an eighth-level Beastman (before forming a mate), would easily live to eighty. He had watched the two white tigers grow up. Their father, Yang, was always busy with clan affairs, so he helped care for the cubs born to their mother. Whether he cared for them perfectly or not, at least he hadn't let them go hungry in the winter—that was the best care one could receive on the Beastman Continent. Who would have thought that Bai would be so rebellious after growing up!

When Lin Ni woke up, she found herself sleeping in Bai's arms. Seeing that she was awake, Bai lowered his head and kissed and licked her face. Lin Ni was ticklish and laughed heartily at his antics. The two of them played around on the kang (a heated brick bed) for a while before getting up to make breakfast.

Bai's cooking skills are so-so, barely edible. Lin Ni doesn't have high expectations. If it's delicious, she'll eat more; if it's not, she'll eat less. As long as it's not as hard as Feng's cooking, or burnt on the outside and raw on the inside, it's fine.

After breakfast, Linni and Bai went to the stone tablet. Sure enough, they saw several females there, some praying, others chatting. To Linni's surprise, there were also thirty to fifty wild beasts, mostly yellow-haired tigers. Seeing her astonishment, Bai whispered in her ear, "These are all females; some are not yet adults, and some are already adults..."

Linni nodded in understanding, like the female beasts in the awkward position that Bai Zhu and Bai Ji had been in before. She couldn't help but whisper in his ear, "Have any female beasts left the tribe?"

Bai shook his head: "It's very rare."

Knowing it wasn't the place to talk, Lin Ni didn't ask any more questions. She went directly to the stone tablet to pray, and slowly entered a meditative state, seeing Bai's Beast God power flowing through her body, only slightly thinner than Feng's, but even purer and brighter. Thinking of Bai beside her, she decided to tease him and began stimulating his Beast Mark. After a while, she guided his Beast God power towards Yao's Beast Mark. After five failed attempts, she succeeded on the sixth! Lin Ni felt a surge of excitement. Seeing the two forces intertwined but showing no sign of merging, unsure of their potential positive or negative effects, she stopped guiding them. However, even after stopping, the two forces didn't separate, so Lin Ni had to painstakingly separate them again. After all this, Lin Ni felt more exhausted than after fighting with her partner for half a day! She opened her eyes and saw Bai watching her with a worried expression. She couldn't help but smile at him, feeling both guilty and weak.

"Lin, are you alright?" Bai asked worriedly.

"I'm fine!" Lin Ni smiled again. "I'm just a little tired!" Then she noticed that the elderly female Yi was also watching over her. Looking around, it was almost noon, and apart from the two female beasts, all the other females had left the area under the stone tablet. Lin Ni said to Yi, "Yi, I'm sorry to have worried you."

Yi looked at her kindly and smiled: "No, I know you're a good girl. Didn't you have something to ask me? I've been waiting for you."

Linni nodded; she never dared to underestimate the wisdom of the elderly. After a moment's consideration, Linni asked, "I've heard that high-ranking females can fight alongside their partners. Is that true?"

Yi turned around, looked up at the stone tablet, and said, "Yes, it's possible. Female animals can hunt on their own, so why can't human women?"

Lin Ni agreed with this statement; women's physical strength cannot compare to men's, at least for most. However, in ancient China, women also served in the army and went to the battlefield to fight. Females could transform into female beasts—adult tigresses, of course they could hunt!

Yi glanced back at Linni, who was deep in thought, and said, "Most of the orcs' abilities are improved in battle. Only through constant fighting can their skills become more and more refined. Their Beast God Power is accumulated and upgraded through battle, food, and the presence of their mates. Your mate and you both leveled up after you became mates because your Beast God Power was strong enough. However, other females don't have such strong Beast God Power, so it's rare for them to level up immediately after becoming mates. Otherwise, the Tiger Beast Tribe wouldn't only have three level nine orcs!"

"The power of the Beast God within me." Lin Ni repeated unconsciously. She now knew that she and Yi were the only two high-level females in the Tiger Beast Tribe. Everyone said that the power of the Beast God within her was very strong, but what was the reason? She really didn't know.

Yi continued, "Females are so rare. Everyone protects them too well, and they have lost their ability to fight. There was a female who wanted to regain this ability. Mei had the potential to become a high-level female. She used to fight alongside her partner, but she was injured in battle. She was pregnant with her cubs at the time, and they are these two white tigers."

Yi glanced up at Bai before continuing, "The mutation of the white tiger may also have been caused by that accident. After giving birth to the white tiger, Mei could no longer accumulate the power of the beast god, could no longer reproduce, and could no longer advance to a higher level of female. From then on, no female dared to hunt, and no male dared to let his partner hunt."

So that's the backstory! Linni can imagine how devastating this blow must have been for Mei!

Yi waited for Lin Ni to come to her senses, then smiled and asked her, "Lin, is there anything else you want to ask?"

Linni asked, "What level is the existence above level nine?"

Yi: "I knew you'd ask that. It's a pity I became a high-level female too late, otherwise my partner could have become an even higher-level being. My partner, Ling, is too old. He said that if he were ten years younger, he could have become a Heavenly Beastman."

"A Celestial-Rank Beastman?" Bai was somewhat intrigued.

Yi nodded to him: "Level nine should be Heavenly Rank beastmen. Ling and Yang both said they could sense it, but they couldn't advance in rank. According to them, levels one to nine should be Earth Rank, and level nine and above is Heaven Rank. As for how Heaven Rank is divided, and whether there are higher ranks, we don't know."

"How do I advance to the next level?" Lin Ni asked.