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

Chapter 81 Going Hunting with Yan

Lin Ni blushed. Was Yan really that good at praising people? However, she also noticed that only the females of the Fox Beast Tribe had relatively normal skin; the females of other tribes seemed to have darker skin.

Yan took Lin Ni's hand and kissed it: "I'm going to the clan chief first, I'll come back to keep you company later."

Linni nodded: "Go ahead."

Yan turned away reluctantly, glancing at Yao out of the corner of her eye before leaving, then was stunned: Yao had reached level six in just over ten days? Had he caught up with me already? Yan was filled with self-doubt and flew away absentmindedly.

That evening, Feng went straight to the chieftain's meeting after returning home. Yan brought back very bad news: there were as many as eight cursed lands within the towering mountains. He and the other flying orcs had dealt with three smaller ones, but five remained untouched. The vampire-sucking red flowers there grew very tall, clearly indicating the powerful beasts lurking within, so they hadn't risked entering. After Yan marked the locations and handed them over to the chieftain, the chieftain then ordered the tribesmen to set out and clear them.

Yang arranged for four level-eight males from his tribe and Feng to each lead several level-seven males, splitting into five groups to travel to the five cursed lands. They would bring along the orcs residing near these cursed lands to deal with them. From then on, the responsibility of protecting the towering peaks would fall to all tribes. Based on years of experience, while burning down a cursed land would indeed cause new plants to sprout there, over time, cursed lands would continuously reappear in different locations. Their method only addressed the symptoms, not the root cause. As for a fundamental solution, they hadn't yet found one. The elders of the Tiger Beast tribe knew that the power of the Beast God's Stele was weakening. They previously believed that the Beast God had abandoned their towering peaks, but the news Yan and his group brought back from the Ten Thousand Cliffs this year indicated that cursed lands had also appeared there. Since the situation in the towering peaks wasn't unique, they were simply the first to experience the problem. They planned to gather the strongest members from all directions next spring after the cold winter to discuss this matter.

Knowing that Feng wouldn't be back for a long time, Lin Ni couldn't help but spend the night alone with him, willing to risk her life for him. However, Feng was very considerate of her, and they only made love twice before stopping. Whether Feng had learned to control his power or Lin Ni's constitution had improved after becoming a higher-level female, she didn't get injured while doing these things.

Linni hugged Feng and said, "Feng, you must be careful when you're out!"

Feng nodded: "Don't worry, I'm very strong. No one can hurt me, not even ferocious beasts!"

"Yes, I know Feng is the best!" The two hugged and talked intimately for a while, and Lin Ni really felt like her husband was going to the battlefield.

That night, Yan, Ye, Yao, and Bai stayed in the dining room—the four small caves had been used to store various items, and even the large cave was piled high with firewood, as Lin Ni would need to heat the kang (a heated brick bed) in winter, requiring a significant amount of firewood. So everyone was quietly gathering supplies. Yan, looking at Bai, who had become Lin Ni's partner and was now at level eight, felt nothing but envy and jealousy, and speechlessly asked the Beast God: "When will I be able to reach level seven?!"

The next day, when Linni woke up, she saw that only Yan was making meat soup at home; the others were not there. Yan smiled at her: "Feng has already led his team away from the tribe. He said he would definitely be back before the end of autumn. I will rest at home for two days and then set off to catch up with them. You don't need to worry."

Linnie asked, puzzled, "Are you also going to participate in the cleansing of the Cursed Land?"

Yan is only level six, which is considered a mid-level orc. Besides, flying orcs wouldn't have an advantage in the Cursed Lands, right?

Yan said apologetically, "We flying orcs guess that the remaining beasts in the Cursed Lands must be very powerful, and I, a level six orc, probably can't defeat them. But we'll go with them, which will make it much easier to gather information and pass on messages."

Linni couldn't help but sigh, "You flying orcs really have to work hard in this regard!" Then she asked, "Did Yao and the others go hunting?"

Yan nodded, then blushed and said, "I'll stay home with you today. What do you want to do later?"

Linni thought for a moment and said, "After breakfast, let's go to the Beast God Stele to pray for blessings, then go to the back mountain to catch some small animals, and see if we can find some eggs."

Yan said happily, "Lin wants to eat eggs? I'm the best at finding eggs!"

Linni was also very happy. Eggs could be kept for quite a while, and there were many ways to cook them: "Okay, let's go find some eggs!" While drinking the meat soup, Linni asked, "By the way, can we eat the meat of the ferocious beast?"

Yan shook his head: "No, some people have eaten the flesh of ferocious beasts before. The curse power contained in the flesh of ferocious beasts will conflict with the beast god power in the beastmen. If you eat a little, you will only feel a little uncomfortable. If you eat too much, the beastmen will also turn into ferocious beasts."

Linni: Is it that scary? It really is an evil third party!

After breakfast, Yan took Lin Ni to the Beast God Monument. Lin Ni saw Yi again, but she only greeted her and then offered her prayers. She had many questions, but Yi couldn't answer them for her. It seemed that strength was the only true measure of success!

Lin Ni prayed for about two hours before leaving. She first went home with Yan to retrieve the bow and ten bamboo arrows Yao had made the day before, as well as a wooden spear she had asked Yao to make for her. Then, she sat on Yan's back and went to the back mountain. She decided to improve her attack power! Not that she wanted to fight alongside Feng and the others, she was just too bored! She felt she had gained weight; her face was much rounder, and she had put on weight! So, she decided to exercise for two hours every day, running through the forest to hunt pheasants, rabbits, and other small animals, and shooting birds or high-lying fruits with her bow and arrow. Since that was the case, Yao didn't stop her and made her a wooden spear and bow and arrows as she requested.

Yan followed Lin Ni through the woods for a while, and after catching a pheasant for her, Lin Ni told him, "Yan, follow behind me and help me find the prey. Let me try it myself."

Yan looked at her suspiciously: "Lin, you're going to hunt by yourself?"

Afraid that he would object, Lin Ni hugged his arm and said coquettishly, "Yan, let me try! Anyway, I won't be in any danger if you come with me!"

Yan couldn't resist his beloved little woman's coquettishness, and nodded with a blush: "Okay, okay!"

Then, after successfully scaring away five small animals, Linni finally found a nest of wild eggs. Linni wasn't discouraged; it's normal to miss on the first day using a bow and arrow! Their lunch was mud-baked pheasant and scrambled eggs on a stone slab, which tasted quite good! Linni only ate one chicken leg, one chicken wing, and one egg; the rest went into Yan's stomach.