Chapter 63: Mu Qing

It was only that Mu Qing never fought back under Leng Xiao's hand; after Leng Xiao beat him for a while, he calmly turned his face toward his brother.

Seeing this, Leng Xiu handed the wooden basin to Yun Li, meeting Yun Li's eyes that were about to speak but held back.

He whispered a comfort to her, "It's fine, you and Mu Qing go in first."

Seeing them two fight made her feel uneasy.

After Yun Li and Mu Qing both went in, Leng Xiu finally looked at his younger brother and said, "You took good care of A Li and the cubs."

Leng Xiao let out a cold laugh and said, "A Li is my female, the cubs are also my cubs; taking good care of them is what I ought to do. As for you, you went to rescue the Witch Doctor, yet why did you come back so late?"

"It's my fault."

Leng Xiu gave no defense; whatever the reason, he forced A Li to live in fear and suffer trouble while giving birth to cubs; that is the fact.

"If you want to beat me on behalf of A Li, I won't strike back."

Leng Xiao let out a light snort, "Do you think I wouldn't?"

In his mind he recalled the day A Li gave birth, when only he, a beastman, clutched her and rushed blindly into the Silver Eagle Tribe, and how he knelt at the gate hearing A Li's cries of agony.

Leng Xiao essentially dealt a death blow to his brother, beating and cursing him as he said:

"Why do you meddle so much, why didn't you bring the Witch Doctor back earlier, do you know how dangerous the day A Li gave birth was? She shed a lot of blood, one wooden basin after another of blood couldn't even be emptied."

"And who are you trying to save? Are they more important than your own female and cubs!"

He complained that his brother was clueless; even if he wanted to rescue someone, he shouldn't have considered that A Li and the cubs were behind him, and the Tribe's beastmen didn't all obey the two brothers.

Moreover, with the clan chief among other Qing Rank Beastmen, even if he wanted to rescue people, wouldn't it be wrong to save only a few beastmen willing to follow him and wouldn't hold them back?

Insisting on taking nearly half the Tribe's beastmen, they dragged and dragged, and by the time A Li gave birth they still couldn't return in time.

If it weren't for encountering the Silver Eagle Tribe's beastmen, if A Li hadn't given birth in the Silver Eagle Tribe, Leng Xiao truly couldn't imagine whether A Li would end up as a corpse with several lives.

Not far from Yun Li's home, at a corner, a female clutched a leaf‑wrapped powder in her hand, watching Leng Xiao single‑handedly beat another male until his face was covered in blood.

She gasped, covering her mouth, afraid to bleed; unbeknownst to her, Leng Xiao seemed to sense someone watching and lifted his head to look.

Their eyes met, and Jiao Jiao's gaze retreated in terror; she had always thought that the good‑looking, affectionate Leng Xiao toward her female was an excellent male, but she didn't expect such a brutal side.

Seeing that the clingy female seemed to run away in fear, Leng Xiao suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

He thought that after this incident, it would be best if that female never came to him again, otherwise he might really lose control and lay a black hand on a female.

……

In the courtyard, after Yun Li let Mu Qing tidy her up, she began asking him about what happened after he left the Tribe.

Mu Qing recounted his experiences to Yun Li in detail, and finally said, "A Li, I might be about to breakthrough the Blue Rank."

Only after returning to the Tribe did he learn that his female had been sent out of the Tribe by Leng Xiu and Leng Xiao, and without finding her, he had no mind to think about the breakthrough, so he kept this matter buried in his heart.

"Really?"

Yun Li hadn't expected such a pleasant thing awaiting her, "Then when will you breakthrough? Can you do it at home? Or do you need to go out again? Though if you have to go out for the breakthrough, that's not impossible."

After all, you've become stronger, and I will go out with you.

She hadn't forgotten her desire to cultivate; no matter how powerful her Beast Husband became, Yun Li still wanted to have her own means of self‑protection, so that when danger arose she wouldn't be a burden.

Mu Qing, after a long absence, could never get enough of looking at her now.

He said to her in a gentle voice, "No need to go out; I can breakthrough the Blue Rank at home, but..."

"But what?"

Yun Li breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing he didn't need to go out.

After giving birth to the cubs, these past days she only had Leng Xiao by her side, watching him busily go out to hunt and then return to tend the cubs each day.

She felt reluctant at heart, but when choosing a new Beast Husband, the eager males were too many, and she inevitably became overwhelmed.

Now that Mu Qing and Leng Xiu have returned, she and Leng Xiao can finally breathe easy; of course she doesn't want him to go out again, yet he would waste a few days of sky before returning.

"But when I breakthrough the Blue Rank, I will reveal my beast form."

As soon as Mu Qing finished speaking, Yun Li's face suddenly fell, "So what? Can't I see your beast form?"

She remembered that he had said he would show it when he could hunt independently, but she hadn't learned any technique yet, and then he disappeared.

Now he still hesitates, fearing her seeing his beast form; is his beast form really that terrifying?

Mu Qing quickly denied, "Of course not, I just think you wouldn't like my beast form."

His original beast form was already huge; when coiled, it occupied more than half the courtyard, and after breaking through the Blue Rank, the whole courtyard might not fit him.

Yun Li crossed her arms over her chest and said, "You haven't even transformed for me to see, how could you know I wouldn't like it?"

Saying that, she sat on Mu Qing's thigh, "Then why don't you transform now so I can see?"

Mu Qing's face showed hesitation; seeing this, Yun Li instantly became angry.

"If I don't transform, I won't; I'm not eager for it!"

Refusing repeatedly to transform for her to see, Yun Li gradually lost patience.

She was so angry she walked away, planning to keep him off her bed for a month or two, when Mu Qing quickly embraced her from behind, soothing her:

"A Li, don't be angry, I'll transform, I'll show you, okay? Put the cubs into the house now. They're still young; I'm afraid they'll be scared if they see my beast form."

Yun Li watched several wolf cubs struggling to climb out of the wooden basin, lifted the basin, and sternly said to Mu Qing:

"You'd better do what you say."

If you dare use any other excuse to placate her, see whether she'll ignore him in the coming days.

Yun Li placed the wooden basin on the stone bed, then wrapped the rolled beastskin blanket around the basin, and this time walked out with peace of mind.

But after stepping out, she saw Mu Qing missing, and instead the courtyard now had a thick, long, dark‑green snake tail, extending along the snake body all the way to the stone wall...

Yun Li couldn't help but swallow, prepared herself mentally, then looked up toward the roof.

She saw a massive snake head protruding from the roof; Yun Li's mind spun—what kind of python was this? Its length seemed well beyond ten meters, perhaps twenty meters, or maybe even longer.