Chapter – 82
Speculations About the Female Master’s Body
Kang Ya hurriedly nodded.
“Yes. At first, there’s a bit of a burning sensation, but it disappears quickly and doesn’t cause any harm.”
Unlike Carter, he wasn’t scheming, so even though he noticed it, he didn’t comment—he assumed that was just how the treatment worked.
Lu Liufeng pressed his lips together, then said,
“It should be because the Black Fish was eaten and digested. After purification, the pollution flows out this way.”
“The female master can try tomorrow, but I’m not sure if it will work. You all should find a beastman to boil some water and wash yourselves.”
Lu Liufeng didn’t summon the female master himself but relayed what he had seen.
Kang Ya and Carter were fine, so Jiang Xi didn’t linger.
As she walked, she listened to Lu Liufeng talk.
There was a sense of familiarity, but she couldn’t immediately remember where she had seen this before.
Lu Liufeng quickly reminded her:
“The discharge after the pollution treatment—doesn’t it look a bit like the black substance on the female master’s skin?”
Jiang Xi paused.
Honestly, maybe because her body had grown used to it, she had never actually felt any burning sensation.
She only learned about the burning from the last time she helped Lu Liufeng tidy his psychic sea, when some impurities overflowed and he told her about it.
“Now that you mention it, it does look a little like it…”
“Could it be that my body is like this because it was polluted?”
The thought was shocking.
Mu Ling listened and suddenly recalled memories of the Misty Forest.
After hesitating for a moment, he shared what he remembered:
“When the female master was a child, it wasn’t that severe—only half of her body was black. The Holy Female and her beastmen took the female master deep into the Misty Forest, probably to treat the black spread on her body. But in the end, it wasn’t cured, and it worsened—her whole body turned black.”
Lu Liufeng looked at him, his eyes narrowing slightly.
“Misty Forest? Are you talking about the legendary ancestral forest floating in chaotic mist? The origin of all life?”
“Ancestral forest?” Mu Ling scratched his head.
“I don’t really know. There was no sunlight there, only mist everywhere. The outskirts were filled with forest wolves like me, and inside there were many dangerous creatures. I was very young, so I don’t remember much. Eventually, the Holy Female brought the female master to the deepest part, a place with many glowing vines. My beastmen and I waited outside the vines for a long time, and only after a while did she emerge with the female master.”
Jiang Xi was stunned.
She had no memory of this at all.
Lu Liufeng’s tone was complex, but he confirmed the speculation:
“If the Eagle Tribe’s records are correct, the glowing vines are the source of the Mother Tree of Life. All living things in this world, including females and beastmen, originated from the Ancestral Forest. The first females and beastmen to set foot on this continent were called the Ancestral Female and the Ancestral Beast.”
“Records say that thousands of years ago, the exits of the Ancestral Forest disappeared, and no life has come from it since.”
“The Ancestral Forest is the origin. It’s said that every beastman who comes from it possesses powerful bloodline abilities—at least enough to reach the Heavenly Rank.”
The Heavenly Rank is the limit for beastmen above the Twelfth and Earth ranks.
For a moment, Jiang Xi and Lu Liufeng both turned their eyes to Mu Ling.
Compared to the harmless pollution in their bodies, the fact that Mu Ling came from the Ancestral Forest made Jiang Xi even more curious.
“I’ve heard that because bloodline powers diluted over time, almost no Heavenly Rank beastmen remain. Even the Holy City only has three Earth Rank beastmen stationed, and it’s said that only in the distant Boundless Sea is there a surviving Heavenly Rank ancestor from thousands of years ago.”
If Mu Ling could reach Heavenly Rank, that would be incredible!
Mu Ling raised a finger, somewhat dumbfounded, pointing at himself.
“Me?”
He found it hard to believe.
“I’m not that strong…”
“I can’t even beat Horen…”
Although he didn’t want to admit it, it was the truth.
Lu Liufeng said, “You can pay attention to the remaining branch of the Wolf Tribe’s ancestral wolves. The way their bloodline talents are triggered might help you.”
He thought for a moment, then continued:
“I heard that in the Wolf-Quick Tribe, there is a branch that once carried the blood of the ancestral wolves. But because of a mistake, their bloodline was taken away, and they are forever bound to guard the Cursed Lands, unable to leave.”
“If there’s a chance in the future, you could go see the Wolf-Quick Tribe.”
Jiang Xi was ecstatic. “Then next year it’s settled!”
She was happy to see Mu Ling grow stronger.
After all, it would only benefit her, with no downsides.
Lu Liufeng’s amber eyes flickered as he acknowledged the female master’s instinctive decision to include Mu Ling in her plans.
“Then we’ll wait until the female master returns from the Great Tree Forest, and we’ll set off for the Wolf-Quick Tribe.”
“By then, the peak season for the Cursed Beast Swarms will be over.”
Mu Ling’s wolf eyes glowed. He realized that the female master’s stance toward him had loosened!
“Great! Great!”
He was thrilled and about to give a little victory speech when Yiyue Xi’s voice drifted in softly.
“Great? Great?”
It turned out they had arrived home.
Yiyue Xi was standing in the courtyard, doing… something.
Mu Ling immediately shut his mouth. “Nothing at all!”
He didn’t want Yiyue Xi to know that the female master’s attitude had softened.
Otherwise, with Yiyue Xi’s temper, he would surely stir up trouble and ruin things.
Yiyue Xi narrowed his fox-like eyes and smiled slightly at Mu Ling’s nervousness.
“Is that so?”
Mu Ling answered coldly with a short, “Yes.”
From today onward, he and Yiyue Xi would be different.
From now on, he would be the female master’s noble beastman!
Not like Yiyue Xi and the others—beastmen abandoned by the female master!
Yiyue Xi’s eyes shifted to the female master.
“Did the female master’s treatment go smoothly?”
Jiang Xi nodded.
Instinctively, she kept Mu Ling’s origin from the Ancestral Forest a secret.
After all, it was his private matter, and if he didn’t want it revealed, she wouldn’t blab.
Instead, she turned the topic back to her own body.
“We found that the black on my body is a bit like the pollution on Kang Ya and Carter.”
Yiyue Xi’s attention snapped to her.
“What?”
He was stunned, disbelief written all over his face.
“How could that be?”
“If this black on the female master’s body were really pollution, how could she have survived so consciously…?”
He paused, suddenly realizing something.
The female master, who can cure pollution, has been polluted?
Jiang Xi noticed the tense atmosphere and laughed nervously.
“Looks like in this round of battle with the pollution, I won!”
It was clearly not funny, and it only made the three beastmen’s expressions even more serious.
Because they realized another problem.
The female master was about to set out, following the ice river to find the polluted Black Fish.
If her body really was polluted…
The tribe must never find out.
