Chapter 15: If Only the Earth‑Element Beast Husband Were Here

Lin Manzhi admired Xi Tao's drive; motherly love is truly great, enough to make a female's heart and actions powerful.

She gave a faint smile and sincerely blessed, "I hope you get your wish and become pregnant with a female cub soon."

Xi Tao heard this and laughed happily.

In the tribe, getting pregnant is not easy, and conceiving a female offspring is even harder; Lin Manzhi didn't mock herself when she heard she wanted to get pregnant quickly, and she truly is a good female!

She saw Lin Manzhi take off her headscarf and have empty hands, set aside what she was doing, took a small wooden knife from her Beast Skin Bag, and handed it over: "You don't have a digging knife, right? I'll lend you one; my Beast Husband made three or four for me, and I carry them."

Lin Manzhi had no tools; what she expected to be picking turned into digging.

She had planned to pick a sharp stone nearby, but now Xi Tao had an extra wooden knife, so she gratefully took it, "Thanks, you really helped me a lot."

She and Xi Tao exchanged a smile, squatted together, lowered their heads in unison, and carefully tended to the Sand-tail Grass on the ground.

Watching Xi Tao struggle to dig, she found it even harder— the soil was not sand but hard earth, and the wooden knife required great force to pierce it.

This effort, plus having to avoid damaging the Sand-tail Grass Stalk's roots, and since Lin Manzhi was a novice, she sometimes had to use her fingers to carefully scrape the soil.

Fortunately Lin Manzhi was not impatient; she was a bit slow, but she didn't break the roots, and the first Sand-tail Grass Stalk came out intact.

The intact Sand-tail Grass Stalk was sand‑colored, truly resembling a one‑year‑old ginseng, with many fine roots branching from the main stem, emitting a distinct fresh fragrance.

She carefully placed the dug‑out Sand‑tail Grass Stalk onto the headscarf spread on the ground, and Lin Manzhi, full of vigor, continued digging a second one.

Time flies when one works intently; such arduous, concentration‑requiring gathering made Lin Manzhi think of Mo Lie.

If Mo Lie's Spirit Core were unharmed, his earth ability could flip this land in minutes, making digging Sand‑tail Grass Stalks super easy!

Meanwhile, Mo Lie, whom Lin Manzhi was thinking of, had just arrived outside the massive rock; he walked across the yellow sand toward some direction, and the tip of his nose under his headscarf itched, causing him to furrow his brows slightly.

He quickened his pace, tracking a Small Exotic Beast across the yellow sand.

The Small Exotic Beast was the common type bought yesterday, only one meter tall, with short fur like dead leaves, short limbs, relying on its hind legs to run across the sand, incredibly fast—if one isn't careful it darts into sand piles.

There was no danger but it required patience.

Most importantly… the Wife Master seemed to like it a lot.

He now hunted in human form; his sense of smell and movements were not as good as in beast form.

Because of this, Mo Lie's attention was fixed on the prey, his eyes deep, muscles tense, silently aiming at the nearby Small Exotic Beast.

In a daze, he was like a poised black panther.

This scene fell into a pair of wolf eyes far away; the desert wolf, half‑buried in the sand, showed a trace of cruel cunning.

On the other side.

Lin Manzhi gradually got used to extracting Sand‑tail Grass; her strength was small so her digging speed was slow, but it turned out to be perfect for this delicate work.

She first used the wooden knife to loosen the soil around the Sand‑tail Grass Stalk, then when it was enough she used her hand to dig around the stalk, exposing the roots, and carefully, slowly cleared the surrounding soil along the roots.

Xi Tao squatted nearby; ever since she saw the black panther that saved her move to the next courtyard, she privately discussed with Beast Husband for a long time how to express thanks.

She felt the black panther emitted a terrifying aura, so Xi Tao only thought of helping Lin Manzhi more, as a repayment.

This time she brought Lin Manzhi along, already prepared for the possibility that Lin Manzhi couldn't do this work, and to not let her effort be wasted, she planned to share a few of the Sand‑tail Grass Stalks she dug.

But unexpectedly, this beautiful, seemingly delicate female learned so quickly that her digging was even better than her own—how impressive!

Unconsciously, earning Beast Coin makes her a sort of alternative Xi Tao in the tribe; now, seeing a female who works earnestly without complaint, she feels increasingly close.

Lin Manzhi is different from those females who only eat and drink relying on male beasts; she also isn't playing the good Wife Master in front of the black panther Mo Beast, she is striving to live a good life.

It's nice, the black panther doesn't know why it was driven to this barren land, but with such a good Wife Master, life won't be too hard, at least no more beating.

"Lin Manzhi, let's stop digging here for today," Xi Tao said, tired.

Lin Manzhi, also tired, nodded, "Alright."

She finished digging a Sand‑tail Grass Stalk, frowned, and looked at her hand.

Her hand, never used for work, after holding the wooden knife for a long time, felt a raw‑skin‑like pain; with mud on it, she wasn't sure if it was truly broken.

So delicate; looks like she'll need gloves next time, otherwise her hand will hurt too much to work.

She stood up, wiggled her fingers, and looked at the ground beside her.

No females had come this way for a while; after a few hours of work, there was a small pile of Sand‑tail Grass Stalks on the headscarf.

Lin Manzhi's fingers twitched, she bent down and gathered the Sand‑tail Grass Stalks together.

She recalled that her farm's warehouse still had an empty slot for a plant; time inside the warehouse is frozen, guaranteeing the freshness of the Sand‑tail Grass Stalks.

Unfortunately, with others nearby she couldn't place the Sand‑tail Grass Stalks directly into the warehouse, as that would be like disappearing in reality, exposing that she had space.

Lin Manzhi put away this convenient idea; lacking a bag to hold Beast Skin, she placed her headscarf on the ground and neatly stacked the Sand‑tail Grass Stalks together.

Seeing this, Xi Tao took a stacked Beast Skin Bag from her own Beast Skin Bag, unfolded it, and handed it to Lin Manzhi: "I'll lend you this to hold the Sand‑tail Grass Stalks; it's too sunny outside, without a headscarf the muscles can get injured easily."

Lin Manzhi felt a bit moved inside.

She had just arrived with nothing prepared; the females around her were truly kind little angels!

She took it, sincerely thanked, "Thank you so much; you taught me to identify Sand‑tail Grass Stalks, told me gathering techniques, and lent me tools. Today I owed it all to you; otherwise I couldn't have dug even one stalk."

Xi Tao laughed brightly: "It's nothing! Compared to your Beast Husband rescuing me that time, this is nothing. If you thank me, I should thank your Beast Husband too."