Chapter 218: Words Not Matching the Heart

Ke Si furrowed his brows, looking at Yun Li with a gaze as if he had never known her, then said coldly:

"I know better than you."

Yun Li glared at him; he was clueless.

Did he ever seriously adopt a cub?

The poor cubs, before they learn to shapeshift, seem never to escape one issue: judging their sex by looking at their private parts.

Seeing Ke Si had just finished looking at the eighth and was about to go after the ninth.

Yun Li reached out and struck, "The ninth is a little female; you should stop."

"Bang"

Ke Si was hit squarely by the female, his complexion immediately darkened.

But before he could get angry, Mu Qing and Ji Xuan, who had already been eyeing him, were quick as lightning, trying to seize the cubs while he was distracted.

"Looking for death!"

Ke Si suddenly underwent Half‑Beast Transformation— a massive snake head opened its jaws, its fangs glinting with venom visible in the sunlight.

Although they knew a bite from Ke Si wouldn't be lethal, Mu Qing and Ji Xuan withdrew their hands immediately out of instinctive self‑preservation.

The two snake cubs that fell from Ke Si were each caught: Mu Qing shielded one with his tail, while the Witch Doctor silently flicked the other toward him with a tail swipe.

As for Yun Li, who had been close to Ke Si, when his snake head emerged she had seen his beast form before, but the sudden half‑beast snake head still startled her.

Before she could react, Leng Xiao behind her grabbed her and pulled her into his arms.

"Ke Si, do you want to fight?"

Leng Xiao knew his female companion wasn't that timid, but Ke Si's sudden scare would startle even A Li.

"Fight me? You think you're worthy?"

Ke Si looked at Leng Xiao with contempt; his half‑beast form lasted only briefly, and by the time Leng Xiao spoke, he had already returned to human shape.

Seeing a docile female in another male's arms, Ke Si felt an indescribable irritation.

He didn't mistake his feeling for jealousy; instead, he thought the scene made him realize more clearly that Yun Li disliked him, which is why he despised her.

"If he's unworthy, then I'll fight you myself."

As the family's First Beast Husband, Mu Qing would not stand by idly.

However, after speaking, he still received no eye contact from Ke Si, who retorted with sarcasm, "What, you want to vent your anger on your female? On what grounds should I fight you? I'm not the type to chase after your female and cling to death… a worthless kind of male."

"Ahem"

Before he could finish, the Witch Doctor, who had just picked up a cub, cut in, "Looks like you're in a bad mood today, but didn't you say you wouldn't come here before? Why are you back again?"

He almost got into a fight with Yun Li's male, which was far worse than before; at least he could still pretend in front of his own female master.

Ke Si said coldly, "The cubs are also mine; why can't I come over."

"What cubs are yours? What do they have to do with you?"

When Yun Li heard that, her anger flared instantly, and she shouted, "I'll tell you again, I gave birth to them; you have nothing to do with them."

One after another they act as if they can't understand human speech; the cubs are hers, they don't need to meddle.

"Say that again!"

Ke Si's face darkened instantly; if Mu Qing hadn't stepped in front of Yun Li, Leng Xiao might have been injured by the raging Ke Si.

"Get out of the way!"

Seeing Mu Qing block the path, Ke Si acted without hesitation.

Mu Qing's eyes hardened, yet he gave no sign of yielding and charged straight ahead.

The two Blue Rank Beastmen soon turned the courtyard into a mess.

The Priest watched the scene, brow furrowed, while the Witch Doctor, playing with a cub, smiled, "Don't worry, he wouldn't go so far over a female to cause such a climax."

The words sounded harsh to Yun Li, but the development unfolded exactly as he had said: Ke Si and Mu Qing's clash wasn't meant to be lethal.

What a hypocritical beastman.

Seeing the scars on Mu Qing's face and recalling how he was forced into beast form when she fought him before, the Witch Doctor's heart filled with darkness, thinking such males should forever be abandoned by their females.

But whether Ke Si noticed this thought, after sitting down with the other beastmen he glanced at the Witch Doctor seated at the head.

The Witch Doctor smiled at him, then adopted a serious expression, saying to the Priest beside him:

"The northern small tribes that vanished due to invading outsiders—you all should know, right? I heard the nomadic tribe that recently arrived at your tribe came from the north?"

The Priest nodded slightly, "Indeed. So you're here today to discuss this?"

Three years ago there was another outsider invasion; after that, the two tribes entered a mutual‑aid alliance.

Of course, before Yun Li turned the Market lively, their cooperation was limited to preventing outsiders from seizing Heiyan Shanmai's salt mines during the dry season.

When the Silver Eagle Tribe's Market grew, Youbuluo and Silver Eagle Tribe cooperated on salt mines, herbs, beast bones, skins, etc.; in the past year, after agreeing on long‑distance trade, beastmen from both sides occasionally entered each other's territories.

Thus, even today, when another outsider invasion occurs, the Priest isn't surprised they come to discuss it, but didn't expect them to use the pretext of fighting over Yun Li's family's cubs.

Seeming to recall something, the Priest glanced at Yun Li; the snake cubs had already gathered around their mother and father, while Leng Xiao and Ji Xuan each went: one to fetch food for the cubs, the other to Jicheng to retrieve his eagle cub.

Thus Yun Li's attention remained on the cubs; after hearing the Witch Doctor mention the invasion, she only glanced at the two at the head before returning to tend the starving snake cubs.

When the snake cubs are hungry, they don't eat their siblings, but hunger makes them ill‑tempered and they inevitably squabble.

And three of the four are venomous; a careless bite requires a Witch Doctor, otherwise Yun Li, accustomed to beast‑cub fights since childhood, wouldn't bother so much.

Anyway, they'll eventually have to fight; beating up one's own siblings from childhood ensures they won't lose when fighting other cubs later.