Done Breeding: Now I Rule the Beastworld

However, aside from the faint teeth marks, there was none of the drool Chu Liangyu had mentioned.

As He Yushu breathed a sigh of relief, his tone became a little resentful. "Female Master, you were just messing with me!"

"Well, who told you to bite me?" Chu Liangyu glanced at her wrist, which he was still holding, speaking without a hint of guilt.

In that short time, He Yushu was already able to speak, a clear sign the pain in his body had eased.

Chu Liangyu decided not to coddle him any longer and yanked her captured wrist back.

He Yushu couldn’t react in time, and his body, already weak and sore from the pain, pitched straight forward.

Before his face could hit the ground, Chu Liangyu grabbed him by the back of his collar. A white light suddenly erupted from He Yushu, enveloping both him and Chu Liangyu.

The light didn’t last long, but it was so intense that neither of them could open their eyes.

When the light gradually faded, the scene before them finally became clear.

Just like when Hu Qiumu and the others had leveled up, He Yushu had reverted to his beast form. It was just that... the picture was a little off.

Chu Liangyu was still in the same posture, holding his collar. Now that he had transformed, she found herself clutching his feathers.

With just a light squeeze on his already slender neck, she inadvertently pulled a large area of skin taut.

The feeling of his neck being constricted made him, in his Red-crowned Crane beast form, extremely uncomfortable. He could barely even breathe.

He tried to make a sound to get Chu Liangyu to let go, but his usually clear crane’s cry came out as a comical, duck-like squawk.

Chu Liangyu coughed to suppress the laugh that was about to escape and then explained, "Sorry about that. I forgot to let go."

But the Red-crowned Crane just stood there dumbly, his head sinking lower and lower, as if he wanted to bury it in the ground.

’How humiliating! So utterly humiliating!’

’My image! It’s completely ruined today, and in front of my own Female Master, too.’

’I’ve never been so embarrassed in my entire life. *Sniffle*... I can’t face anyone anymore...’

’No, no, I can’t stay here any longer. The Female Master will laugh at me.’

With that thought, He Yushu felt an urgent need to flee.

"Thank you, Female Master! It’s getting late, so I won’t disturb you any longer."

He didn’t look up as he spoke, nor did he hear what Liangyu said in reply, simply bolting out the door as fast as he could.

Chu Liangyu’s eyes curved with amusement. He Yushu had clearly put her in a good mood. After watching him leave, she glanced at the sky.

It was already completely dark outside. By now, everyone should have finished dinner.

Chu Liangyu thought for a moment and decided to set out to collect the souls now.

There were twenty-four souls waiting for her tonight. The sooner she finished, the sooner she could rest.

With that thought, a thin mist of water vapor appeared around Chu Liangyu, and soon, her figure was concealed from view.

The twenty-four people were arranged in groups of six, each group in a separate courtyard. Chu Liangyu went to them one by one.

When she entered the first courtyard, all six rooms were pitch black. They had apparently already gone to sleep.

It made sense. After being tormented like that, even the most vigilant person would be tempted to relax a little in a decent environment.

Holding the Heaven and Earth Soul Soul Card, Chu Liangyu didn’t care whether the people on the beds were truly asleep or not. She whacked each of them on the forehead three times.

After quickly dealing with them, she moved on to the next. In no time at all, she had collected the Otherworldly Souls from one courtyard into the Heaven and Earth Soul Plate.

At first, Chu Liangyu was in the mood to observe the changes in the soul card, but after whacking so many people, she grew numb to it and couldn’t be bothered to look anymore.

Twenty-four people, three smacks each, meant she had to deliver a total of seventy-two smacks!

Fortunately, the soul-collecting process didn’t consume any of her energy. Though the repeated smacking became tedious, she was fast, finishing the job in about half an hour.

After putting away the soul card, Chu Liangyu headed back to her own courtyard. She dropped her concealment upon entering.

The cool moonlight spilled down, casting her shadow on the ground. Chu Liangyu glanced at it inadvertently.

But with just that one glance, she froze, her foot hovering before the doorway.

"Hm?"

Chu Liangyu felt that her shadow looked different from usual, which was rather strange. After staring at it for a long while, she took a few more steps into the courtyard.

The strange feeling persisted. Chu Liangyu frowned, utterly bewildered.

’How could there be a problem with a shadow? Unless...’

Suddenly, Chu Liangyu looked up at the moon in the sky. With a single glance, she identified the source of the strange feeling.

The moon in the Beast World looked enormous to the naked eye, as if you could run a few steps and touch it.

Besides feeling different, the moonlight was usually as bright as day, but with towering trees blocking the view, people rarely got a good look at it.

And that was precisely what Chu Liangyu found strange. It seemed that no matter the angle, no matter if there were trees in the way, as long as you looked up, you could see the moon clearly.

What was even more interesting was that her shadow seemed to be gradually fading.

Black wings unfurled from Chu Liangyu’s back. In the blink of an eye, she flew to the top of a tree.

With an unobstructed view, Chu Liangyu could see even more clearly.

In her line of sight, the moon was shrinking at a visible rate, but just for a moment, before it returned to its original size.

Watching this, Chu Liangyu’s expression darkened as a grim suspicion formed in her mind.

’If I’m not mistaken, then there must be a problem with the World Origin, causing the world’s very operation to become abnormal.’

’If that’s the case, the early arrival of winter and the continuous heavy snow are probably related to this.’

However, the moon’s abnormality didn’t last long, and it soon returned to normal.

Chu Liangyu watched for a little longer before flying back down. But her mood didn’t improve just because the moon had gone back to normal.

Chu Liangyu was currently just an heir. Even if she wanted to intervene, it wasn’t her place. All she could do was focus on her own tasks. As for these anomalies, they would have to be dealt with later.

「Three days later.」

It was time for the young cubs to undergo their final Body Refining. After that, they would set out on their training journeys and, at the same time, spread the Body Technique.

They were just little cubs, unlike Chu Liangyu’s Beast Husbands, who had their own judgment and experience.

Chu Liangyu had to handle the arrangements personally, assigning them their destinations and travel companions.

There were so many cubs that it took Chu Liangyu a full day just to sort this out.

The only thing left was to have Xiong Jiaojiao and the others prepare some self-defense medicinal powders. Once these preparations were complete, the young cubs left the tribe in a great procession.

Except for Feng Qiwu, Xiang Qiancheng, and Yu Tu, who had not returned, all the other cubs’ Beast Fathers were in the tribe.

Therefore, some young cubs didn’t get the chance to say goodbye to their Beast Fathers.

But there was no sadness on their faces, only excitement.

"Sigh, now that the little cubs are all gone, I’m finding it a bit hard to let go."

After the cubs’ figures had completely disappeared from sight, Xiong Jiaojiao’s sigh could be heard.

Seeing her like this, Chu Liangyu didn’t offer any words of comfort. Instead, she said, "How about this: I’ll have them stay for a few more days, and you can be in charge of teaching them."