Chapter 187: Husband and Wife United

The young Sub-Beast of Crimson dragged his aching body to relieve himself early the next morning. The Sub-Beast named Shen suddenly loomed next to him, which caused the young Sub-Beast to be startled, urinating on his own foot.

The Crimson Sub-Beast looked at his soaked leg, then looked at Shen with a dark face:

"Motherfucker, you are asking for a beating again, right?!"

Shen coughed awkwardly, muttering softly: "I... I did not mean to."

The Crimson Sub-Beast frustratedly pulled up his pants, walking to the water spring flowing from the rock crevice to wash his foot. He finished washing his foot but still saw Shen hugging a bag, looming behind his back. The Crimson Sub-Beast put his hands on his hips, speaking:

"What is wrong with you again? What are you acting crazy for this early in the morning?"

Shen cleared his throat, pushing the leather bag in front of the Crimson Sub-Beast, speaking unnaturally: "My beastman does not want to come to your place. Inside here are six thousand primeval stones along with some materials I collected, you just accept them."

The Crimson Sub-Beast blanked out for a moment, only then gradually understanding what was going on. His expression turned cold, the warmth in his voice dropping a tone:

"You mean, because you lost the fight against me, you told your beastman to come to my place. He refused, so you are using money as a replacement?"

Shen snorted: "It is also because of your nonsense words that he is like this now. Stop dawdling, hurry up to accept it. If you do not accept it, we will go up to the arena to fight again."

The Crimson Sub-Beast stared intently at Shen, staring to the point that Shen felt slightly unnatural. Right when Shen thought it was probably to set a date to go to the arena, the Crimson Sub-Beast reached out his hand to take the money bag:

"I accept. But I want you to distinguish clearly, this money is compensation because you insulted the honor of Aaron along with Evan, not the money for selling your beastman. At our place, only slaves use money to be exchanged or bought. Your mate is not a slave!"

The Crimson Sub-Beast finished speaking, then strode away decisively, leaving Shen standing in a daze for a very long time. It was not until the sun rose high, the horn sound signaling the early hunting team had returned, that Shen moved his numb legs due to standing for a long time, slowly walking back home. Shen’s mate was injured, so the beastman did not go hunting. The man was standing drying some beast skins in front of the house.

Shen stood from afar, staring at his beastman for a long while, then slowly walked behind the man. The beastman heard the footsteps, his hands pausing slightly, then continued the work. Shen wrapped his arms, hugging the beastman, pressing his chest closely against that broad back. He choked back sobs, speaking:

"From now on, I will not go up to the arena, nor accept the challenge of anyone else..."

The beastman’s eyes stung. He turned around to hug his mate a moment later, softly uttering a ’hmm’ from his throat. Shen could hear the joy from the beastman’s heart, because the beastman’s heart was beating very fast, beating very strongly...

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"Kaelen, go!"

Sane swung his arm to wrestle a giant tiger down, exposing its vulnerable belly, simultaneously shouting loudly to his mate. Kaelen immediately leaped up, using thorny vines to tie the tiger tightly, simultaneously using a bone sword to stab fiercely into its belly. The giant tiger roared in pain, struggling continuously but was pinned down tightly by Sane. It opened its mouth but could only spew out a mouthful of black smoke.

The giant tiger convulsed for a moment, then stopped completely. Sane followed up with another punch that caved its whole head in, avoiding it feigning death to bite the two of them back.

Kaelen tiredly planted the bone sword straight into the ground. He rested one hand against an ancient tree trunk, rested the other hand on his hip, scolding loudly:

"Damn it, this tiger’s skin is as hard as a rock! My bone sword is chipped."

Sane used purple lightning to burn the wound on the tiger’s belly to coagulate the blood, speaking: "This tiger’s long fangs are quite sharp, I will grind a new sword for you later."

Kaelen nodded, stretching his body: "You make one too. I just remembered a combat method combining weapons with Divine Energy, only I do not know if this tiger fang can withstand it." He took out medicine along with bandages from the beast skin bag worn around his waist, saying: "Let me perform preliminary treatment on your wound first, otherwise it will spread later."

Sane revealed a ferocious burn wound on his arm. Kaelen looked at it, feeling his heart ache. He used Divine Energy to help Sane reduce the stinging pain, also narrowing the width of the wound, then disinfected it, applied burn ointment, finally bandaging the injury.

It was not that he did not want to heal it completely in one go, but rather he could not. The Magical Energy of the magic beasts here was very different from the magic beasts in their homeland. Once hit by an attack caused by Magical Energy, the wound would heal extremely slowly. Furthermore, if not treated in time, the wound would continuously spread.

Fortunately, his Wood-attribute Divine Energy could prevent the wound from spreading. He only needed to use medicine to bandage it. After two to three days, the wound would grow new skin.

Sane said: "Let us return to our temporary shelter first, waiting for my wound to heal completely, then we move on. I just discovered this giant tiger has an old wound caused by a sharp weapon. We have probably approached an area where beastmen go hunting."

They had left the initially peaceful forest patch to go deep inside, because the squirrels said they often met people like them deep inside. Even though they did not know if it was their clansmen, they were beastmen anyway. They had to meet those people to know where they were, then they could consider the next step.

The deeper they went inside, the more ferocious as well as powerful the magic beasts became. Initially, Sane alone was enough, then Kaelen also joined in. Now the husband and wife fighting together also struggled slightly.

Kaelen was not a weak Sub-Beast. Previously, every time he researched cultivation techniques for his clansmen, he experienced them himself first before giving them to the clansmen. Because of this, his combat techniques were completely not inferior to any Warrior. What he lacked was practical combat experience.

Indeed, nothing increased strength like actual combat. Both Sane and Kaelen achieved unimaginable benefits from fighting above their levels. Sane had advanced to level eight a few days ago. Kaelen’s physical stamina was also about to catch up with his Divine Energy.

He lacked practical experience previously, so his physical stamina only stopped at level four like an Intermediate Warrior, while his Divine Energy had reached the Saint Beast level. He was completely a little kitten who only knew how to roar loudly like a tiger but could not swat a chicken to death with one swipe.

Since falling into this strange forest, experiencing near-death battles multiple times, the exhaustion caused by the initial disharmony between Divine Energy and physical stamina had diminished. Kaelen could now use level eight Divine Energy without feeling dizzy anymore.

He believed that as long as he trained for another period, his physical stamina would definitely reach the Saint Beast level like his Divine Energy. As for Sane, he had absolutely no doubt that his man would reach the Saint Beast level even faster than himself.

In this place where one could inhale Spiritual Energy instead of eating rice, the Advanced cultivation technique he previously thought was unsuitable for Sane was now more suitable than ever. Sane jumped from level seven to level eight in just a few days. His spiritual energy was so abundant right now that he could jump to level nine immediately. Furthermore, Kaelen also sat nearby acting as a shield for Sane every time the man advanced, helping him advance as easily as eating rice as well as drinking water.

Kaelen doubted multiple times, not knowing whether his entire family was the illegitimate children of the Heavenly Dao or not. The protagonist halo was also excessively strong. If the Heavenly Dao could answer, He would gift Kaelen a friendly middle finger. You guys are only strong when you are together. Separated from each other, you guys are just a bunch of paper-bloods, one slap will immediately reduce your HP bar to zero.

Of course, the Heavenly Dao could not speak, so Kaelen just continued misunderstanding like that. When he learned the truth later on, he could only raise a friendly middle finger, sending the Heavenly Dao myriad sincere ’compliments’.

Returning to the present.

Sane placed his hand on the giant tiger’s heart after finishing bandaging the wound. He used his Divine Energy to pull the fiery red magic core inside its heart out. The magic beasts in this place were stronger than the magic beasts on the Southern Continent. The magic core’s position was also in the heart, not on the forehead. That was the reason why Kaelen did not stab its heart earlier.

Attacking a magic beast’s heart would cause the magic core inside the magic beast’s heart to riot, triggering a mutually destructive explosion. They initially did not know, so they suffered a bitter consequence. Sane almost lost an arm when using his sharp claws to stab into the heart of an Earth-attribute bear.

The two people finally grasped the combat techniques after risking their lives to test it a few times.

Sane handed the magic core to Kaelen to keep. He hoisted the giant tiger, which was twice his size, onto his shoulder. The husband and wife returned to the temporary shelter cave together. Along the way, Kaelen took the opportunity to pick a little more wild vegetables along with some fruits. Fortunately, Kaelen found a salt tree on the second day after arriving here. Besides extracting salt, the tree could also be used to make medicine.

However, extracting salt from the salt tree was more complex than from seawater or rock salt. Kaelen worked laboriously all day just to get a small tube of salt. The husband and wife had to use it sparingly. Kaelen also chopped off some old salt tree branches with many bud eyes to carry along, preparing for times when they could not find trees in the wild, so he could use Divine Energy to cultivate them.

Arriving at the cave, Sane immediately carried the tiger to a nearby water pond to process the prey. Kaelen sat right behind him, lighting a fire while simultaneously standing guard, preventing the case of a magic beast rushing over to launch a surprise attack.

Sane muttered: "This tiger’s fur skin is too hard, I do not know what to do with it right now."

Kaelen glanced backward, speaking casually: "Then shave off all the fur, taking the skin to make backpacks or armor is also good."

Sane felt this was also correct, so he threw the inner side of the tiger skin into the water for the fish to nibble, conveniently scooping up two fat fish, cleaning them to deep-fry immediately. Kaelen liked eating fish, Sane also liked eating fish, so the school of fish in this pond had decreased quite a lot in just one day.

After finishing butchering the tiger meat, Kaelen salted one half, hanging it on a rack to smoke. He brushed mushroom sauce onto the remaining half to grill, fried the two fish, then cooked a pot of wild vegetable bone soup. The eating capacity of the husband and wife increased significantly recently. Half a tiger, two fish, along with the stone pot of soup were completely wiped out in the blink of an eye.

The stone pot boiling water was bubbling violently. Sane scooped up the tiger skin, which had the excess meat and fat inside picked clean by the fish, squeezing it somewhat dry. Kaelen used a wooden dipper to scoop hot water, pouring it onto the skin. Wherever he poured, Sane shaved the fur there. The two people used kitchen ash to tan the leather after finishing shaving the fur.

Seeing Kaelen’s face smeared with kitchen ash, Sane burst into laughter. He washed his hands clean, then scooped water to wipe it off for his mate. Kaelen sighed with emotion:

"I did not expect that after just living comfortably for a few days, we have to start over from scratch again. Fortunately, I still have you beside me, otherwise I alone probably would not survive past two days in this forest."

His eyes suddenly darkened. Sane knew Kaelen was missing their children. He rubbed his mate’s head to comfort:

"We will find the children soon, do not worry too much."

Kaelen nodded heavily. He knew worrying was useless. They could only quickly improve their strength, going deeper into the forest to have hope of finding the children. He also did not know how the children were living during this time they were separated.

Initially, he only worried about Edward being all alone at the Temple. Now he worried for all four kids. He hoped the children were still safe.