"If you are going to be my Beast Husband, you will have to use the Incubation Pod to bear cubs for me! There is a problem with my body, so I can’t carry a cub myself. But I absolutely adore them. Can you accept this?" Gu Weilan looked at Shi Lingfeng’s little wolf face.
"Of course, it’s fine if you don’t agree. Your Light Brain is broken, isn’t it? I’ll buy you a new one to replace it, and you can transfer the Star Coins to me once you receive it. After that, we can quickly get through the three dates, or I can even submit an application to cancel the match right now."
Gu Weilan spread her hands. "What do you think?"
Zhan Heng perked up the little ears behind his horns, listening closely. In fact, a Beastman in their Beast Form possessed hearing and a sense of smell dozens, even hundreds of times sharper than in their Beastman Form. They didn’t really need to listen this closely. However, Zhan Heng distinctly heard the soft padding of that bratty younger brother Xie Jing’s paws! He was certain that Xie Jing had heard those words as well! Regardless, Zhan Heng didn’t care!
The Qilin Clan had very few Beastmen. Relying on a small number of Qilin Clan members, alongside a majority of hired Foreign Race Beastmen, to guard their massive nutrient fluid corporation and numerous ingredient formulas was truly not a long-term solution. They had already lost over a dozen recipe lists because of this! It was the same for any group—the more they were coveted by outsiders, the more exceptionally united they became internally due to their small numbers. Therefore, the Qilin Clan was quite cohesive right now.
He pondered it for a moment. He could accept Gu Weilan’s proposal! Judging from her words, she might have some physical issues, but her genetics were fine. This perfectly explained why her Fertility rating fluctuated between a perfect one and a mere fraction of a point. So that was the reason.
In that case, if they used an Incubation Pod to carry the cub, as long as the Beast Husband put his heart into it, the offspring wouldn’t turn out like those of male-male Beastman couples with low Fertility, whose cubs were born with a congenital predisposition for genetic collapse. But even if such a Beastman cub were born, it wasn’t as if Zhan Heng couldn’t afford to raise it. Once he thought this through, he rested peacefully on the bed and closed his eyes.
Shi Lingfeng couldn’t help but purse his lips upon hearing Gu Weilan’s words. He looked up at her. "Female Master... can you give me a few days to consider? I’ll give you an answer in three days at the latest." Thinking he might have to find another way to get a Light Brain, he prepared to turn and leave.
To his surprise, Gu Weilan tapped on her Light Brain, selected a model, and placed an order.
"I bought you a Light Brain adapted for the Gray Wolf Clan. It will be delivered to our door in two hours. Take your time to think about it. If you don’t agree, we can part amicably." She hoped he wouldn’t try to cancel their match through various tricks while making a fool out of her, much like Xuanshuo, Ji Yanqing, and that Lorenzo Snow. That feeling was a bit insulting to a Beastman and made them very uncomfortable!
Shi Lingfeng was stunned. He had seen many females who wielded their pacification rights or financial distribution power to boss males around. Even his own biological older sister was like that. He had never met a female like Gu Weilan, who was so agreeable and willing to discuss things calmly. Could what she just said be true? Did she really need a male Beast Husband to use an Incubation Pod to bear cubs because of her physical unfitness?
Shi Lingfeng thought about it and decided to wait and see.
After finishing a table full of food prepared by Housekeeper Zhan Ci, Gu Weilan went to the backyard to absorb Star Cores and bask in the sun. The past dozen days had been blessed with beautiful, sunny weather. Therefore, she decided that starting next Monday, she would take her classes on her Light Brain while sunbathing in her own backyard!
This way, she could absorb at least an extra ten points of Light Element Energy every day! As her Beast Rank Promoted, absorbing energy from higher-rank Star Cores became noticeably slower. No wonder Beastmen generally experienced a drastic slowdown in Promoting after reaching the Fourth Rank! However, Gu Weilan still believed this was due to her poor aptitude caused by her body’s lack of nutrition.
After all, Beastmen from other wealthy families with good aptitudes could awaken their Beast Rank as early as three years old. But Gu Weiran had only awakened hers at twenty-one! And because Gu Yaoqing had awakened his Beast Rank at nineteen, Gu Mother believed he offered a better investment prospect for the family’s development.
In reality, Gu Weilan had no idea that her speed of Promoting was already considered remarkably fast by Zhan Heng and the others. It took them over a month at the very least to Promote from the Fourth Rank to the Fifth Rank! Zhan Heng had awakened his Beast Rank at age three. Xie Jing had awakened his at five! And Shi Lingfeng had awakened his at seven! Although young cubs didn’t have great control over energy flow and absorbing Star Cores, their starting points were at least fourteen years earlier than Gu Weilan’s!
Four days passed, and Gu Weilan had Promoted her Wood Beast Rank halfway through the Third Rank! She couldn’t shake the feeling that she would be in for another surprise once her Wood Beast Rank reached the Fifth Rank. Thus, when her Light Element Beast Rank hit Fifth Rank at 382/6000 and her Wood Beast Rank hit Third Rank at 501/1000, she silently calculated her current stash of Star Cores.
Zhan Ci had exchanged Gu Weilan’s two-day pacification fee of thirty million Star Coins for Star Cores. Close to half of that had been spent on Sixth-Rank Light Element Star Cores. While the Wood Element Star Cores accounted for more than the remaining half, it was only enough to cover all her needs from the Third to the Fifth Rank; she was only able to buy a dozen or so Sixth-Rank Star Cores. Looking at the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth-Rank Wood Element Star Cores, Gu Weilan’s heart ached at the expense.
A Second-Rank Star Core of common elements like Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, and Wind ranged from five thousand to ten thousand Star Coins. However, those of rare elements like Dark, Light, Thunder, and Ice ranged from twenty thousand to fifty thousand Star Coins. Third-Rank Star Cores of common elements cost between thirty thousand and sixty thousand, while the rare ones ran from eighty thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand apiece. Fourth-Rank common element Star Cores were priced at eighty thousand to one hundred and thirty thousand, with rare ones costing between one hundred and eighty thousand and four hundred thousand. Fifth-Rank common element Star Cores stood between one hundred and fifty thousand and two hundred and eighty thousand apiece, whereas rare ones fetched four hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand. Sixth-Rank common element Star Cores commanded two hundred and fifty thousand to four hundred and fifty thousand apiece, and rare ones ranged from six hundred thousand to a whopping one million each.
Therefore, looking at the Star Cores she had absorbed, Gu Weilan truly felt the sting of her spending! She currently had over two hundred million Star Coins in her Star Pay account, but once she finished learning the theoretical knowledge of Pharmacy, she still needed to buy seeds for cultivation and planting.
Interstellar medicinal herb seeds were outrageously expensive! They were at the level where a single glance made Gu Weilan want to shut her eyes in denial. She also needed to buy more Star Cores to maintain her Beast Rank Promotion. According to her preliminary calculations, filling up the two-hundred-plus square meter glass greenhouse and buying enough Star Cores to Promote meant her two hundred million Star Coins wouldn’t even be close to enough!
Thinking about it, she couldn’t help but feel a little hopeful. She wondered if there were any more males who wanted to cancel their match. Otherwise, she would have to find a team on the weekends or go solo to a Deserted Star to hunt Star Beasts! If she did that, her Promoting speed would slow down. Wouldn’t she miss out on her year-end scholarship?
That wouldn’t do! How was that any different from having a pile of unclaimed money snatched away by someone else right in front of her face? It was like carving out her heart!
Once Gu Weilan committed herself to her studies, she exhibited the innate, intense competitiveness woven into the bones of the Huaxia people—she would grind until she dropped, grind until she forgot everything else, and grind with ruthless determination! That scholarship had to be hers!
Gu Weilan stared intently at Xie Jing. "Is today really the last pacification session?"
Xie Jing was a little frightened, and his fiery red Qilin Beast cub form couldn’t help but take a step back. "Do... do you not want to do it with me anymore?"
"Hey!" Gu Weilan reached out and scooped Xie Jing up in her arms. "What kind of talk is that!"