Chapter 168: Female Heat Period

If we liken it to cooking, mixing the essences of several medicinal liquids with the female's pheromone is not like making Western pastries with exact gram weights, because each plant's essence content also varies.

It's like adding the right amount of seasoning in Chinese cooking—you judge it yourself; if the dosage is wrong, it's not just a matter of the dish being too salty or bland and losing energy, but it will simultaneously ruin the essences extracted from several medicinal plants.

The Wushen Temple selects many outstanding females each year through exams, yet they still need to study and practice potion-making at the temple; without a year or two, it's utterly impossible to produce potions.

This is one of the reasons potions sell for such high prices.

Of course, there are always geniuses as exceptions—for example, the female lead Fang Yue Dan from the original novel, who could learn it just by watching once.

Her appearance brought a method of combining decocted Chinese medicine with potions; the male beastfolk across the continent are no longer trapped in the dilemma of scarce potions, saving countless low-bloodline males and greatly improving the overall survival of beastfolk.

Talent is something she can't envy, so Lin Manzhi has learned Huang Cai's potion‑making technique in theory, but her hands still can't do it.

Moreover, the medicinal plants are all controlled by the Wushen Temple, leaving her hardly any to practice with.

The good news is that the crops in her spiritual field are, single‑variety, comparable to potions, and she can complete the refinement of the medicinal liquid to 100%, so how could she not be able to refine medicinal liquid?

She even simplified potion making—just extracting the medicinal liquid is enough.

Lin Manzhi sat beside her worktable with four others, refining Holy Maiden Fruit medicinal liquid while her mind wandered.

The stored amount of medicinal liquid is about right; even if half is kept for Mo Lie, she now has 2000 bottles, and in a few days the cherry tomatoes at the planting base can be harvested.

It's time to sell them externally.

Several females in the room were busy extracting medicinal liquid; this fine work, after becoming familiar through repetition, turns monotonous and makes it easy to lose focus.

Du Lin turned her head to look at Lin Manzhi sitting beside her.

She saw this female using two pheromone threads to hook two Holy Maiden Fruits while extracting their essences; obviously her pheromone skill is on a different level, far above the other females in the room.

Among the females Du Lin has seen, hers is the most beautiful—her skin extremely pale, her jet‑black eyes clear as if holding countless stars, her high nose bridge leading to crimson lips; her striking beauty is enough to astonish at a glance.

Feeling the gaze upon her, Lin Manzhi lifted her eyes doubtfully to look over.

Feeling the gaze on her, Lin Manzhi raised her eyes and looked over, puzzled.

Having been caught peeking, Du Lin broke into a smile.

When Lord Lin is not busy, she comes here just like them to extract Holy Maiden Fruit medicinal liquid.

Everyone knows she is the leader's Wife Master, but in getting along, Lord Lin never acts arrogantly; she is extremely gentle, harmless, and easy to get along with, making one feel completely unafraid.

Her hand's pheromone threads continually drew the Holy Maiden Fruit medicinal liquid, and gazing at Lin Manzhi's gorgeous lips she said, "What do you use to adorn your lips? They look gorgeous—I want to try too."

The Pheromone on her hand constantly drew the Holy Maiden Fruit's elixir, and looking at Lin Manzhi's dazzling lips, she said, "What are you using to adorn your lips? They're so beautiful, I want to try it too."

Lin Manzhi instinctively raised her hand, wiped her lips with the back of her hand, then lowered her eyes doubtfully turning the flawless white back of her hand toward the others: "I didn't wipe anything off."

Lin Manzhi instinctively lifted her hand, brushed her lips with the back of it, then lowered her gaze, puzzled, and turned her flawless white hand back toward the few people, saying, "I didn't put anything on them."

Du Lin's gaze locked; the other three in the room heard the movement, turned their heads toward Lin Manzhi, and upon seeing her, all three blinked in surprise.

Xu Jingjing sized her up from head to toe: "So it's natural, then?"

Chen Xuan wore an envious expression: "No, no, no—it's not that; it looks like you just bit into prey, against white skin as beautiful as a ruby."

A few days ago, when seeing Lin Manzhi, her lip color was a lovely light pink, making the already young‑looking female appear even more youthful and maiden‑like.

Being stared at unblinkingly by several people, Lin Manzhi, who had thought it was nothing, involuntarily sat up straight behind the table.

"Probably it's too dry, causing a bit of internal heat." She paused, finding a reasonable explanation in her own understanding.

Chen Xuan looked at Lin Manzhi, bewildered: "Dryness causes internal heat??"

Lin Manzhi said with firm certainty: "Exactly, the weather here is too hot; lately I feel internal heat, so my lip color naturally becomes more vivid."

Beastfolk females are hardly different from human females in terms of race; aside from having pheromones, their appearance and strength are just as fragile, and without a special shawl to block outdoor sunlight, wandering outside for a few steps would give them heatstroke.

Here the sunlight is fiercely toxic, and the city lies deep in the desert; even if she eats food similar to modern fare each day, several consecutive days of labor in the fields would surely make her liver fire flare up, darkening her lip color.

It's fine; a little adjustment will make it all right, all right.

Gazing at Lin Manzhi's crimson lips and lustrous black eyes, the usually silent Huang Cai: "……"

As the eldest female in the room, having experienced childbirth, Huang Cai sensed that Lin Manzhi's recent changes in appearance pointed to something else being the true cause.

Huang Cai pondered, then turned and asked: "Manzhi, the female heat cycle comes after adulthood according to pregnancy value—what is your pregnancy value, have you already had it or not yet?"

Huang Cai, looking thoughtful, turned and asked, "Manzhi, regarding a female's heat period measured by the Pregnancy Value after adulthood, what is your Pregnancy Value—has it already arrived, or not yet?"

She let out an awkward laugh: "Haha, you wouldn't think I'm about to go into heat, would you…"

She laughed dryly, "Haha, you don't think I'm about to enter the heat period, do you…".

At that moment, Lin Manzhi couldn't even keep up the forced laugh.

She suddenly remembered!

In the original novel's setting, females with pheromones indeed have a so‑called heat period!

Lin Manzhi had completely forgotten this setting from the back of her mind.

Because most females here lack pheromone value, Lin Manzhi now distinguishes between those with and without pheromone value; the most straightforward difference is that females without pheromone value cannot release pheromone threads.

Females without pheromone value make up the majority of beastfolk females; their reproduction is much like humans', allowing them to conceive offspring anytime, anywhere.

However, the offspring of females without pheromone value are limited to weak bloodline clans.

Another term for pheromone value is pregnancy value, which indicates how often a heat period occurs; these females are the Wife Masters fiercely pursued by powerful males.

Only by bonding with powerful males can they leave behind strong bloodline offspring, and the heat period… increases the chances of conception.

Seeing the four joyful faces in the room, Lin Manzhi felt out of place among them.

Does she have to go through a heat period??

Thinking about this, Lin Manzhi felt lost.

The original novel's female lead transmigrated, with no detailed description of the heat period; her intimacy with the beast husband… that wasn't the point!

But I am not a transmigrator—I am a native beastfolk female in flesh and blood.

But she herself is not merely wearing one; she truly has a solid indigenous female body.