Chapter 73: Moved by Her Looks

Yun Li asked Leng Xiu, who hadn't gone out, to go get some dried firewood.

"Where are A Qing and A Xiao? Did they go out hunting again?"

By the time Leng Xiu had dragged the firewood back from who knows where, Yun Li had already turned around and brought out the food warming in the kitchen and started eating.

Having been awake for a good while without seeing Mu Qing or Leng Xiao appear before her, she knew those two must have something going on.

Otherwise, early in the morning she would absolutely hear Leng Xiao bickering with Leng Xiu, while Mu Qing sat quietly to the side sewing animal hides or doing woodwork, occasionally dragged innocently into the two brothers' "bickering."

"Mu Qing is at home. Leng Xiao went to cozy up to the beastmen in the Patrol Team. Didn't you want that kind of long-haired prey and fresh wild fruit? The beastmen in the Patrol Team are often out and about, so they should know where to find what you want."

Leng Xiu said, bringing inside all the firewood that had been stuck outside the door.

Yun Li asked while eating, "Is A Qing starting his breakthrough to Blue Rank today? Is the breakthrough dangerous?"

Leng Xiu: "It's dangerous, but he knows what he's doing. We just need to not disturb him."

Yun Li glanced at the east room beside the main house. The houses of the Silver Eagle Tribe were also stone houses, but compared to those of the Yuanbuluo, they had a neater beauty.

The Yuanbuluo used stones broken into irregular blocks, stacked little by little with clay mixed with a kind of beetle bodily fluid, and the roofs were large wooden planks layered over one another in various patterns.

The stone houses of the Silver Eagle Tribe, on the other hand, were built with large, square-cut stone blocks, and the roofs were round logs supporting wooden planks, propped up in a triangular shape.

From the outside, they were countless times better-looking than the stone houses of the Yuanbuluo, and the feeling they gave inside wasn't so oppressive either.

"How long does a breakthrough usually take?"

Yun Li still knew far too little about cultivation, so whenever she encountered something, she had to ask.

Leng Xiu stacked the firewood properly, then went to check on the four wolf cubs in the wooden tub. Perhaps because they were hungry, their cries now were all somewhat weak.

He went to the kitchen and brought out a basin of milk. Now that the little wolves could find food on their own, Leng Xiu and the others simply set it on the ground and let them eat by themselves.

Of course, the female cub had to eat her fill first before the other three male cubs got to eat.

As soon as the third cub was set beside the basin, she pawed at the basin and buried her head right in.

Seeing that she was eating and then about to climb in for a bath, Leng Xiu had no choice but to grab the third cub by the scruff of her neck — otherwise the other three brothers would be drinking their little sister's bath milk.

"It depends on the situation. Every beastman's breakthrough is different, so the time is different too.

For example, when I broke through to Qing Rank, it took me a day. When Leng Xiao broke through to Qing Rank, it took him a full five or six days.

As for Mu Qing, his breakthrough to Blue Rank this time should go very smoothly. If nothing unexpected happens, we'll see him by tonight."

Yun Li was somewhat bewildered by his judgment and said, "How can you tell the timing?"

Leng Xiu couldn't explain this clearly to her either. This sense of timing came from having gone through a breakthrough oneself, so he could feel that although Mu Qing's aura was somewhat unstable when on the verge of breakthrough, the overall impression he gave was deep and powerful.

Unlike himself back then, who had been on the verge of breakthrough while injured during a hunt, or Leng Xiao, who had been too impatient at the time and didn't even know himself that he'd suddenly reached the edge of breakthrough in his sleep.

So after thinking for a moment, he simply said briefly, "Whether a breakthrough goes smoothly depends on whether the person's aura is stable and what their state of mind is like. Given Mu Qing's strength, by all rights he should have broken through long ago, but he was probably worried about you, so he kept suppressing it and didn't break through.

Now that they've found you, breaking through to Blue Rank isn't a problem for him."

If there had been a problem, the one staying home to look after the cubs yesterday would have been Mu Qing instead of Leng Xiu.

Yun Li finally understood.

Then she thought of something else. "Do He and the others know that the Silver Eagle Tribe wants to trade them for people?"

Even though she would help, they had their own hands and feet, and the information had already been passed to them — she couldn't do everything for them.

Whether it was quickly finding a male in the Tribe to form a Mate Bond, or having their males work hard to join the Patrol Team or find a backer in the Tribe, either way it could increase their chances of staying in the Silver Eagle Tribe.

When asked about this, Leng Xiu seemed to recall something unpleasant. He furrowed his brow, gave a faint "Mm," and said nothing more.

Yun Li looked at him in surprise. "Did someone upset you?"

Or perhaps one of them, upon hearing this from Leng Xiu, didn't feel grateful as her first reaction but instead suspected that Leng Xiu was deliberately diverting trouble onto them.

Leng Xiu neither denied nor confirmed it. "They'll probably make a move in the next couple of days."

Yun Li recalled that Leng Xiu and the others had previously been subjected to females falsely throwing themselves at them, and she wondered if they would do such a thing in the Silver Eagle Tribe too.

If they ran into a male who had no favored female but still had a strong desire to form a Mate Bond with a female, that would be fine. But if they encountered one with a bad temper, or one who was as picky as Leng Xiu and the others had been back then...

"What are you thinking about?"

Yun Li had suddenly spaced out and stopped talking. Seeing that the third cub had finished eating, Leng Xiu took the other wolf cubs out one by one and set them beside the basin, then carried the third cub over.

"I was thinking that you all didn't lack females who liked you back then, so how did you end up settling on me?"

Yun Li was pulled from her reverie by his words and replied reflexively.

Leng Xiu lowered his eyes slightly, looking at how Yun Li had been nourished by them until her complexion was rosy and her figure full. He reached out and gently stroked her delicate brows and eyes. "Probably because you're good-looking."

Especially when they first met her, they had privately slapped an ugly and dirty label on her, so when they later saw her true appearance was so outstanding, it made them even less able to resist the impact her looks brought.

To put it plainly, he and Leng Xiao were moved by her looks.

Compared to Mu Qing, who only wanted to find a female who would treat him normally, they were far more despicable inside.

Yun Li tilted her head up and smiled at Leng Xiu. "Then what if I weren't this good-looking? Would you have gone and found other females in the Tribe to form a Mate Bond with?"

Leng Xiu pondered for a moment, then decided to tell the truth. "No. After all, we had observed the females in the Tribe for a long time already. So if there hadn't been a female who suited our fancy, we probably would have left the Tribe."

Yun Li gave a dissatisfied little snort. "Hmph, males!"

Sure enough, it was being moved by looks.

Even though she herself had been more or less dazzled by their looks, how could what was between them be the same thing?

Seeing the female pout and turn away, wearing a little expression that asked to be coaxed.

A glint of amusement flashed through Leng Xiu's eyes. He bent down, pressed his forehead against the female's, and chuckled softly:

"You're angry! Actually, even if you hadn't been that good-looking back then, if Leng Xiao and I had seen your beast form, we still would have gone after you.

After all, in our eyes, your beast form is far more attractive than your human form."

"Really?"

Yun Li wrapped her arms around his neck, deliberately brushing her lips against the male's lips so faintly it was barely there, and said in a gentle, tender tone, "So do you like my beast form more, or does A Xiao like my beast form more?"