Chapter 44: Fighting for the Position of the 2nd Beast Husband

Chapter 44: Chapter 44: Fighting for the Position of the 2nd Beast Husband

Lorenzo narrowed his heterochromatic eyes for a moment. He raised his chin, suppressing an urge to sneer. Shi Lingfeng was just relying on the fact that he had arrived a few days earlier! But Lorenzo knew that Shi Lingfeng had only fled to Gu Weilan’s side because he was nearly killed in a fierce battle over his family’s inheritance! For now, no one in the Shi Family knew he had been matched to a Female Master by the Beast God System.

Therefore, when Shi Lingfeng was severely injured, his subordinates immediately sent him to Gu Weilan to escape the encirclement and suppression by his siblings and aunts. Because Shi Lingfeng had the highest talent, he was the most likely to become the next Family Head. With all his messy baggage, did he really deserve to compete with Lorenzo for favor?

Lorenzo looked at Shi Lingfeng as if looking at a dog. A male who didn’t even dare to show his face to participate in the Female Master’s joint entrance exam—as long as his family’s internal strife didn’t end, putting it bluntly, he would have to rely on the protection of the other Beast Husbands while staying with the Female Master, and might even bring danger to her. Did Shi Lingfeng have dog brains? Had he not thought of this?

Besides, how many days had everyone been matched with the Female Master? Who was he trying to fool by putting on such a deeply affectionate act? Shi Lingfeng wasn’t like Lorenzo. After all, he was the Female Master’s initiating Beast Husband. They had given their first times to each other.

Lorenzo couldn’t help but recall last night. The Female Master’s delicate whines and panting seemed to echo right in his ear, causing his ears and cheeks to flush uncontrollably. However, the moment he looked up, he saw Shi Lingfeng pestering Gu Weilan, letting her play with his ears.

Tsk... This facade of restrained tolerance was getting the Female Master all excited!

At this moment, Shi Lingfeng didn’t forget to shoot Lorenzo a glance. Lorenzo involuntarily narrowed his eyes. He felt that Shi Lingfeng had lost track of who was in charge; he had to teach him a lesson!

"Lanlan, are you already at the Sixth Rank now?" Lorenzo spoke up, interrupting Shi Lingfeng and Gu Weilan’s ear-grabbing play.

Gu Weilan turned around, looked at Lorenzo, and nodded.

Lorenzo pursed his lips, adopting an innocent and pure expression. He looked at Gu Weilan, seemingly hesitant to speak. Taking a deep breath, he finally said, "Lanlan, it’s like this. I heard that the Deserted Stars and some Resource Stars have been particularly chaotic lately... Would you consider pacifying the male Zhan Heng first? You could form a bond and perform an Engraving with him, so he can also join you on your joint exam trip."

Shi Lingfeng’s expression drastically changed. He sharply shifted his gaze from Gu Weilan, who was in his arms, to Lorenzo’s face.

"The Female Master needs ample spiritual power to use at night. Asking her to pacify Zhan Heng now... Setting aside how many times Zhan Heng needs to be pacified before he can revert to his Beastman Form, simply wasting spiritual power like this without any immediate, proportionate return is not a wise move at all," Shi Lingfeng countered instantly, his face turning cold.

Seeing Gu Weilan deep in thought, Shen Mianzhou couldn’t help but agree with Shi Lingfeng’s point of view. "Female Master, we will be departing for the joint exam location in three days. What if the male Zhan Heng, just like his younger brother, requires multiple pacifications to restore his Beastman Form?"

Gu Weilan pursed her lips. Opening her Light Brain, she pointed at a few headline news articles on the Star Wave Network. "Bai Yanli of the White Tiger Clan and Commander Rong Hua Jin of the Vermilion Bird Clan were just found on the Kh023 Star and brought back to the Central Star for treatment.

"However, I can’t shake the feeling that the academy setting the joint exam location at the Kh023 Star is a very dangerous thing.

"Perhaps they think that because the interstellar army dispatched many Beastman Warriors to the Kh023 Star to search for Commander Rong Hua Jin and Military Doctor Bai Yanli, that Deserted Star has essentially been swept clean by the soldiers and poses no more danger.

"But I don’t see it that way. Any adversary capable of inflicting near-fatal injuries on Bai Yanli and Rong Hua Jin—whether they be Star Beasts, interstellar pirates, or the Insect Clan—is no small fry. Were they really killed by Bai Yanli and Rong Hua Jin? What if they just found a place to hide on the Deserted Star?"

Lorenzo’s gaze toward Gu Weilan shifted from a purely primal desire to devour her to a profound admiration for her sharp mind. He loved her even more now!

Shi Lingfeng’s gaze toward Gu Weilan also grew more heated. He liked calm and intelligent females. A Female Master like this would definitely treat him, her Beast Husband, well due to the Shi Family’s status in the interstellar, even if she stopped liking him in the future!

Shen Mianzhou pursed his lips. He was somewhat frustrated with himself for not thinking ahead on the Female Master’s behalf! He hadn’t even considered this angle! Even if he accompanied the Female Master to the Kh023 Star for the joint exam, if they truly encountered the kind of situation she described, with his Beast Rank, he wouldn’t be able to protect her at all!

Gu Weilan took a deep breath. "Therefore, I plan to give it a try. If Zhan Heng can quickly restore his Beastman Form after I pacify him with my spiritual power, I’d prefer to have him as an additional asset. That way, I’ll feel much safer."

Moreover, Gu Weilan had a premonition that using her newly awakened Wood Talent Skill to pacify Zhan Heng would very quickly allow him to revert to his Beastman Form!

Lorenzo naturally supported this! If Gu Weilan ran low on spiritual power, she would likely seek out Shen Mianzhou for a Spiritual Sea Engraving in the end. If Gu Weilan helped pacify Zhan Heng and he successfully regained his Beastman Form, then Zhan Heng would owe Lorenzo a favor. Lorenzo shared Gu Weilan’s intuition. He also believed that with the Wood Beast Rank of her Awakened Talent Technique, pacifying Zhan Heng just once or twice would likely be enough to restore his Beastman Form.

If worse came to worst, Lorenzo would persuade the Female Master tomorrow to formally take in Shi Lingfeng as a Beast Husband first, just to boost her overall strength. In any case, given today’s situation, Lorenzo simply wanted to make Shi Lingfeng understand that he was Lanlan’s first Beast Husband. He shouldn’t try to provoke him when he lacked the strength. Since he wasn’t as strong as Lorenzo and couldn’t outsmart him either, he needed to learn his place and behave.

Ignoring the surging undercurrents among her three Beast Husbands, Gu Weilan immediately got up to look for Zhan Heng. The moment she opened the door, she saw the ink-black Little Qilin guarding the area, lying on the floor just three meters away.

She walked over, scooped up the Qilin from the floor, and turned her head to look at the three Beast Husbands who had followed her out. "If I pass out later, remember to wake me up before 3:00 PM. I have a class this afternoon."

Having made her arrangements, Gu Weilan carried Zhan Heng back to her own room and placed him on her bed. She took a deep breath and gently pressed her fingertip against the center of Zhan Heng’s forehead.

Inside Zhan Heng’s Spiritual Sea, there was a massive, pitch-black mountain, with numerous black stones scattered around its base. Strangely enough, there was also a whole patch of lush green grass growing at the foot of the mountain.

There was also a lot of black ash drifting through Zhan Heng’s Spiritual Sea. Gu Weilan didn’t overthink it and immediately mobilized the Spiritual Sea repair Talent Skill of her Wood Beast Rank. With her current Sixth Rank Beast Rank strength, the repairs on Zhan Heng’s Spiritual Sea indeed yielded significant results.

However, before Gu Weilan could even feel her spiritual power depleting, she was forcefully pushed out of Zhan Heng’s Spiritual Sea.

When she opened her eyes, she found a breathtakingly stunning face right in front of her. He reached out to embrace Gu Weilan’s waist, guiding her hands to rest flat against his chest. His voice, unused for so long, was very hoarse, yet the rich, magnetic bass was truly pleasant to the ear. "Weilan, let’s form a bond, alright?"