Chapter 271: She Is Angry

When Lin Manzhi was let go by him, more than half an hour had already passed, and a voice from Hua Zheng came from outside the carriage, saying the other side would not say anything.

Lin Manzhi frowned slightly at the words, finding it odd that on Lei Ting Continent, besides Cangqiong, anyone else could make a War General like Diao Ji act so loyally.

She sat by the window, heard the rain outside soften a bit, reached out to pull the window open, and peered toward the back.

At this moment, Hua Zheng outside had already walked to the rear; the Diao Ji whose life Mo Lie had deliberately spared was shackled by iron chains that twisted around his limb joints as if broken, he hung his head, silent, and was pushed by the surrounding guards to follow the rear of the convoy.

He would say nothing.

From Diao Ji's demeanor, Lin Manzhi sensed this, she withdrew her gaze, and beside her Mo Lie sat down next to the window.

Mo Lie glanced out the window, his blue eyes cold: "It doesn't matter that he won't speak; the great matter of a traitor appearing on Lei Ting Continent should at least be known to the lord Cangqiong."

Lin Manzhi heard Mo Lie's words, which matched her own thoughts, looked at him reassuringly and nodded, then ceased to waste any more careful thought on the matter.

Mo Lie ordered the Beastfolk to leave the group and go inform Cangqiong, while the main force continued on the original route, taking the captive Diao Ji toward the Mountain Classic Beast Temple.

The journey thereafter proceeded smoothly, and with a day and a half left before reaching the Mountain Classic Beast Temple, Lin Manzhi unexpectedly encountered Bao Yue near the coast.

Bao Yue had been tasked to investigate matters concerning the Wushen Temple and the Huo Mother Elixir; upon receiving a signal that Mo Lie had entered Wushen Island from Lei Ting Continent, he came to see Mo Lie and finally found him in a forest at that time.

Besides leading a hundred of his own subordinates, Bao Yue also escorted a group of male beasts wounded to varying degrees, as well as more than a dozen frail females.

These females were pallid and mournful, each guarded by several male beasts whose expressions were full of hatred, looking as if they bore a sky‑splitting grudge.

Lin Manzhi looked a few more times, as if she understood something.

The wounded that Bao Yue had brought over were first placed in the erected Exotic Beast tent; Lin Manzhi and Mo Lie, in their own tent, summoned Bao Yue.

Bao Yue entered the tent, his face bearing restrained anger; after the salute, without Mo Lie needing to ask, he swiftly recounted what he had recently discovered.

A dozen days earlier, they could not enter the Wushen Temple, so they had been separately watching over the females who had taken the Huo Mother Elixir in secret.

They intended to wait and see the condition of those females after becoming pregnant from the elixir, whether it would resemble the fate of the Rosanya tribe on the An Sen Continent.

The females did become pregnant after taking the medicine, and a Beastfolk of the canine clan reported that he smelled the scent of a pregnant female.

Bao Yue was shocked; at that time he had received orders in Ansen City to investigate the Huo Mother Elixir, and the pregnant females who had taken the elixir were already in miscarriage stage, making this the first time he saw a female just becoming pregnant from the elixir.

After discovering this, Bao Yue wrote the information on a Thin Skin Scroll, sent someone secretly to Kuangsha City, and he continued to keep watch here with his men.

Unexpectedly, while the females were in good condition, a few days earlier outside male beasts came looking for the family of a pregnant female who had taken the elixir, claiming that because the female was pregnant, they were allowed to move to a more prosperous great tribe to settle…

Bao Yue found it odd; a pregnant female needs a familiar, stable environment, so moving at this time was clearly unwise.

Although he disagreed, the pregnant females' family joyfully bid farewell to the clan chief and left the tribe with others.

Bao Yue's investigation concerned the Huo Mother Elixir, so he naturally had to covertly track them.

This is also why later he discovered that when the females were taken to a place without Beastfolk, that group suddenly turned hostile and tried to kill the entire pregnant female family.

Although Bao Yue reacted instantly to rescue, he only managed to save those eleven pregnant females and their families; other dispatched men faced the same situation, rescuing a few more females, totaling nineteen females.

Most importantly, the rescued females, when they were nearly a month pregnant, all suffered the same miscarriage as in Ansen City, and none of the offspring survived.

As Bao Yue, who has two cute offspring, thought of this, his expression turned extremely angry.

"Lord, this Huo Mother Elixir has no effect of making females pregnant!" Bao Yue's eyes blazed with anger: "On the contrary it harms the females' bodies! I truly don't know what the Wushen Temple intends by releasing such a potion!"

Even if some of the Huo Mother Elixir's components work for certain females, everything he has seen so far has been a failure!

Lin Manzhi's heart tightened.

That's too ruthless! It's basically testing drugs on lives.

She shouted angrily: "They're terrible too, what do they think females are?"

Mo Lie extended his hand, gently pulling Lin Manzhi's hand toward him; his slender fingertips intertwined with hers, the tingling of his fingers diverting some of the Little Female's anger.

Damn it, he made the Little Female angry.

He lifted his gaze, a pair of ice‑cold blue eyes sweeping over Bao Yue, and in a voice showing no emotion said: "Provide them with food, let them rest half a day, and tomorrow at dawn take them together to the Mountain Classic Beast Temple."

Bao Yue replied excitedly: "Yes!"

Hua Zheng, after hearing, was also angry, but upon hearing the lord's order, thought and reminded: "Lord, Lord Lin, this is on Lei Ting Continent; it isn't convenient for you to intervene in this matter, is it?"

Hearing that, Lin Manzhi sat in the chair looking a bit listless, lightly biting her lower lip, appearing unwilling to back down.

They would send the information to Cangqiong, arranging to meet on Wushen Island, and then bring up this matter then…

Bao Yue was startled, then realized this was not their territory.

No matter how tragic the events here, other lords have no right to interfere with affairs on another lord's continent.

Thinking of that, Bao Yue's previously excited expression turned bleak again.

"Who said I'd intervene in Lei Ting Continent's affairs?" Mo Lie's casual voice rang out: "Isn't this a matter of the Wushen Temple?"

Lin Manzhi blinked, and for a moment her expression brightened a few degrees.

Hua Zheng and Bao Yue exchanged a glance, unsure for a moment whether they should advise.

But the decision Mo Lie the lord made this time, if Cangqiong were to pursue it, fighting the Mo Lie lord who grew stronger by ingesting Ginseng Essence would probably be unwinnable.

Moreover, regarding matters tied to the Wushen Temple, if the temple issues a commission, several major lords can accept the temple's commission to handle it.

The Wushen Temple has no commission, but when a major incident occurs, the major lords also have the authority to pursue it after discovering it.

Hua Zheng and Bao Yue instantly decided there was no need to advise; in terms of force their lord is strong, and in reasoning they are justified, so what's there to fear?

Mo Lie said lightly: "Out."

Hua Zheng and Bao Yue bowed low to Mo Lie and then left; Bao Yue let out a long sigh, the anger that had been stuck in his throat finally subsiding.

Lin Manzhi withdrew her hand and stood up, intending to go to her own space to pick fresh vegetables and radishes to give those females to eat.