Muqing

When Mu Qing woke up, he opened his eyes and saw a dense cosmic web. He was surrounded by red "smoke" with many silver lights flashing in it.

The scene was extremely beautiful, but Mu Qing had no intention of viewing it.

Because at this moment, two electronic sounds appeared in his mind.

[Main system, the energy in this person's body is disordered, and we cannot detect any system signals in his body.]

【Stripping energy.】

【yes.】

As an electronic sound of "begin peeling" sounded, Mu Qing felt as if his brain was being knocked open. Something was stirring in his brain. The pain made Mu Qing scream unconsciously, "Ahhhh!"

It hurts! It hurts so much!

Mu Qing wanted to raise his hand to touch it, but then he found that he couldn't move at all. The dull pain didn't dissipate at all, and then, a sharp pain came from deeper inside. It was like countless needles piercing his brain, moving quickly.

Mu Qing was in so much pain that he almost lost consciousness. He had no time to think about who had done what to him. He was soaked and looked miserable, like a ghost who had been soaked in water for many years. In order to grasp a glimmer of hope, his fingertips trembled violently, trying to activate his supernatural power to relieve his pain.

The gentle energy like the rippling water flowed to his limbs and bones. When Mu Qing felt relieved and could take a breath, the energy of the supernatural power suddenly rioted. They were no longer moving gently, but more like the sharp teeth of a beast gnawing at the veins, blood and flesh. Mu Qing regained some strength due to the supernatural power. His nails sank into the flesh and dug hard. It hurt so much that he wanted to dig out the outer flesh and pull out the veins.

The raging energy soon calmed down, completely calm. The surging power calmed down, and this feeling of powerlessness suddenly overwhelmed the pain.

Mu Qing mobilized his supernatural powers over and over again, but no matter how focused he was, his spirit core did not respond at all.

At this time, the electronic voice sounded again, "Energy stripping successful, system signal is being detected."

[System signal detected, system number: 562838; status: forced sleep. ]

[Stripping system bindings...]

As soon as he finished speaking, Mu Qing felt as if his brain was crushed by gravity, and then was sucked out by a huge suction force. At this time, Mu Qing's brain could no longer control his body. His limbs twitched, his mouth was crooked, and his eyes were squinting. Finally, after a violent tremor, Mu Qing's eyeballs bulged, and he let out a long strange cry from his throat and completely fainted.

【Stripping was successful.】

——

A month has passed since the battle of Beast City.

After learning that the Wood Tribe had really defeated the Beast City, all the tribes that were previously affiliated with the Beast City, the priests of each tribe were the first to come and surrender with their tribal crystals.

It was only at this time that Shen Nong realized that the high priest of Beast City had not formed a covenant with the various tribes before.

From the mouths of these tribal priests, Shen Nong could roughly understand how the relationship between Beast City and the various tribes was maintained before.

The Beast City is so powerful that it cannot be shaken. In addition, it controls the lifeblood of each tribe, salt. The stone house building technology, pottery, and candles that the Beast City possesses are all inseparable parts of the lives of each tribe.

More importantly, the Beast City destroyed the four major tribes at will, and they disappeared overnight. So these "small" tribes didn't dare to have any ideas.

Shen Nong did not plan to move the tribe here. The current geographical location and environment of the Mu tribe were actually much better than those of the Beast City.

However, the salt fields in Beast City can be used. Moreover, after Shen Wu's exploration, Beast City has gold and iron mines. Shen Nong also discovered that the candles in Beast City are not made of beeswax, but are made of wax insect wax from a large area of ​​ash trees in the mountains.

By making the tribes around the Beast City into subordinate tribes, we don’t have to worry about manpower, let alone worrying about things like happening to the seaside tribes again.

Shen Nong removed the slave marks on the faces of the slaves in the Beast City and let them make their own choices.

Should I stay in the Beast City and continue to work, but not as a beast slave, but as an orc living here. Or should I go with him to the Wood Tribe. Or should I find a way back to my original tribe.

There are three options, and orcs choose each option. The most orcs stay, and the least orcs return to their original tribe.

After all, so much time had passed and they could no longer find the way back to the tribe.

Ya Jiu squatted in the shade of the stone house. He never thought that the Wood Tribe, which was previously trampled under the feet of their Ze Tribe, could actually defeat the Beast City. However, their Ze Tribe had already been wiped out.

"Ya Jiu, the Ze tribe is gone. We don't need to continue looking for the divine blood. We want to stay in the Beast City." Two skinny orcs walked to the shaded area. Ya Jiu had already guessed their choice and was not surprised.

He slowly raised his head and looked at the foreheads of the two men. The place where there should have been the mark of the Ze tribe was later covered by the mark of the slaves of the Beast City. Now that the slave mark has been removed, even the previous mark of the tribe has disappeared.

I remember that winter when they came out to look for the divine blood, there were more than a dozen of them, but now there are only three left including him.

Ya Jiu stood up. Although She Lin had not said it clearly before, after thinking about it carefully, Ya Jiu could guess that the Ze of the Wood Tribe was the sacred blood of the Ze Tribe. He knew better than anyone how the Ze Tribe treated the sacred blood before.

Looking at the two orcs who were nervous and afraid that he would reject them, Ya Jiu sighed, "You two must never say that you were orcs from the Ze tribe in the future."

After saying that, Ya Jiu left without looking back. He knew he couldn't stay here.

Ze followed Shen Nong to the Beast City Gold Mine and saw a familiar person on the way. He turned his head to look, and Ya Jiu also happened to look over at this time.

The moment they looked at each other, Ya Jiu's feet seemed to be nailed to the spot, unable to move. His scalp tingled under the cold gaze, and cold sweat broke out all over his body.

Fortunately, the other party just glanced at him and didn't take him seriously. He then withdrew his gaze and left.

Ya Jiu felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted off his shoulders. His legs went limp and he fell to the ground, his heart pounding as if he was thankful to have survived the calamity.

Ze never gave extra glances to people he didn't know. His abnormal behavior aroused Shen Nong's curiosity. He turned around and found that there was no one there. He asked curiously, "Who did you see?"

"Orcs from the Ze tribe." Ze replied truthfully.

Shen Nong frowned. Wasn't the Ze tribe annihilated by the cannibals? How could they appear in the Beast City? He didn't dwell on this question too much. Thinking of Ze's previous experience in the Ze tribe, his voice became much colder. "Are you going to capture him back?"

Ze shook his head, holding Shen Nong's hand and continued to walk forward, "It was he who accidentally shouted at the entrance of the cave, giving me and my mother a chance to escape. Now, give it back to him."

Shen Nong respected the choice and was not going to interfere. After the two walked forward for a while, Shen Nong heard the voice of the system.

[Host, please check if there is any prophecy crystal stone in Beast City. It seems to be in the possession of some young master.]

"Prophecy Crystal Stone?" Shen Nong had never heard of this thing. The name didn't sound like something that could be found in the Beast World. It must be from the system mall.

[The system that was forcibly bound by the Beast City High Priest Mu Qing has been rescued. The main system consumed a lot of energy to contact its forced lock. Now the things that Mu Qing forcibly took out from the system mall must also be recycled. ]

Shen Nong understood, "Does your system not have the authority to recycle the items that have been redeemed?"

The system paused for a moment, then let out a deliberate and exaggerated laugh, "The host is really smart, he guessed it right at once."

"Okay, stop talking about these nonsense." Shen Nong didn't want to get an equivalent exchange from the system this time. He was very concerned about the memory that appeared out of thin air when he was unconscious. Especially recently, he felt that Ze was becoming more and more like the Ze that appeared in the memory...

Shen Nong replied to the system: "Tell me what those clips I saw when I was unconscious were about, and I will help you find it."

[Host, you know I don't have the authority. ]

This time Shen Nong didn't fall for the system. He said calmly, "Then let the authorized system tell me."

【All right……】

The main system seemed to care a lot about what Mu Qing got from the system mall, and actually came over in person to replace Shen Nong's system.

The main system is worthy of being the main system. It spoke without any hesitation, "I can only tell you that the fate of the entire beast world depends on you. If you die, the beast world will collapse. As for the rest, you will know after you wake up and your memory is restored."

Shen Nong asked doubtfully: "Awakening?"

[The source of your current wood energy is the luck energy of the entire beast world. The stronger this world becomes, the stronger you will become. A strong enough force can break through all shackles.]

Shen Nong understood. Now he was sure that what he saw when he was unconscious was his own memory. He was also sure that his crossing to the beast world was not random, but inevitable. His attitude towards Ze was different from others at the beginning, which was probably influenced by his past life relationship... It was not difficult to see from that memory that they loved each other very much.

Regarding Ze's current minor changes, Shen Nong asked the main system: "Has Ze recovered his memory?"

The main system replied after five seconds, "After checking, there are signs of recovery. Due to the restrictions of the world rules, as long as you do not awaken all the power of destiny, his memory will remain blocked."

Shen Nong understood that his power was slowly awakening, and his blocked memory was slowly loosening. When he fully awakened, his memory would be completely restored.

But it always feels weird when I hear the main system's description. The power of the entire world belongs to him. When he lives, the world survives. When he dies, the world collapses.

Although he was somewhat surprised by his identity when he traveled through time, Shen Nong could not think of anything else for the time being, "I am the Beast God of the Beast World?"

[It wasn’t before, it’s not now, it will be after awakening. 】

Shen Nong asked all the questions he could ask, and the main system responded to all the questions it could.

Mu Qing forcibly got the things from the system mall, and Shen Nong also spent a lot of effort to help the system find them.

These were not all in Mu Qing's residence, some of them were given to his dozen children. Those young masters were very greedy for the good things they got, and hid them very secretly.

Among them, there are two things that the system wants to retrieve the most, one of which is a crystal stone with predictive power.

It stands to reason that if something like this appeared in the beast world, the system would quickly discover that something was wrong. However, because the beastmen did not have enough power to make the crystal stone predict more accurately, it had never predicted correctly, so the system did not discover it.

This thing was dug out from the stone house of the second young master of Beast City. This person hid it quite deep, and it took him a lot of digging to get it out.

Another thing is all of Mu Qing’s children.

Shen Nong knew from the main system that no matter how similar the interstellar humans and the beast world's humans looked and how similar their structures were, interstellar humans and beast world's humans were essentially two different species. To put it simply and crudely, there was a biological and reproductive isolation between the two.

This means that Mu Qing could not have any offspring in the beast world. But now he not only has one, but he has quite a few.

The eldest son is even a divine beast warrior. Some of the other sons and daughters are either of high-level orcs or have awakened special powers. Although their levels are not high, they mainly use the spirit cores dug out from the brains of those priests and priest candidates.

These beast city young masters were more like his test subjects than Mu Qing's children. He exchanged a special-grade fertility pill from the system. As long as the pill was divided into two halves, Mu Qing would eat one half and the other half could be given to a male animal, and he could make it pregnant.

After Mu Qing had these elixirs, he began to select powerful orcs, priests or priest candidates to give birth to high-quality offspring. If the offspring were not so good, he would directly absorb all the lifespan of the child to make himself live longer.

The children who survived his careful selection would be replaced if a better one appeared.

The men and women who bore children for him were priests and priest candidates. They were all tortured after they could no longer bear children, and then had their spirit cores dug out by Mu Qing before they died. If they were orcs, their lifespans would be absorbed, but at least they would not have to go through another inhuman torture before they died.

Shen Nong knew that Mu Qing was a pervert, but he didn't expect him to be this perverted. What he didn't expect was that the system really had such a strange thing as the fertility pill.

Mu Qing's children were all taken away by the system. What the system did next was an internal secret and Shen Nong had no authority to know.

After the main system left, the system bound to Shen Nong immediately went online. After going online, it said to Shen Nong mysteriously, "Host, I just came back from the main system space. Guess what I heard there?"

Shen Nong knew that this guy couldn't hold back his words when he used this tone. However, the main system had said everything that could be said, and what the system could hear was also something that could be said. He probably knew everything, so he repeated perfunctorily: "What did you hear?"

When the system heard Shen Nong's question, it spilled out everything it heard, "That Mu Qing, his time travel is actually related to you, the host."

Shen Nong became more alert now, "Tell me in detail."

The system made a coughing sound effect, "Host, when you were born in the interstellar world, you caused fluctuations in space-time energy. It was at this time that Mu Qing was drawn into the energy, and the system that was on vacation in the interstellar world was also drawn into it."

"Your system also has vacations?" Shen Nong's emphasis was a bit off.

[Of course there will be a vacation. Each of our missions spans a long period of time, so we have a long period of rest after completing them. During this time, we can choose one of the many worlds to play in, as long as it does not change the development process of the world.]

The system said, then changed the subject, "However, the main system was afraid that there were similar ones that had been forcibly bound, but thought that the system was on vacation because it had no contact, so it recalled all of the systems on vacation. It also stipulated that every system on vacation in the future must send its location to the main system every day."

Shen Nong knew that all this was inextricably linked to him, and for a moment he felt complicated.

The system didn't know Shen Nong's emotions. Thinking of what the main system said during the handover, it said happily, "Host, the main system said that it was your keen observation that prevented you from discovering Mu Qing before the disaster. So, you can make a request, and as long as it's not excessive, the main system will do its best to help you realize it."

For a moment, Shen Nong couldn't think of any request, so he said to let it go for now.

Things in Beast City have been dealt with almost completely. Shen Nong was worried about the farmland of the Wood Tribe after such a long delay. He decided to return to the Wood Tribe early the next morning, and temporarily handed over the follow-up matters of Beast City to Lu Shuang.

At night, Shen Nong, who was already fast asleep, was strangled awake by Ze. When he opened his eyes, he saw Ze's eyes were tightly closed, his long eyelashes were wet with sweat, and his brows were furrowed as if in pain.

Shen Nong was restrained and unable to move. He could only shout Ze's name, but Ze never woke up.

When it was dawn, Ze finally woke up from the dream. Although the strength in his arms had not diminished at all, his brows had gradually relaxed.

Shen Nong stayed awake almost until dawn in the second half of the night. When Ze woke up, he looked down at Shen Nong's haggard appearance. He was stunned for a moment, and his slender and powerful fingers slid under Shen Nong's eyes. Ze's voice was a little hoarse when he woke up, "Didn't you sleep well?"

"What did you dream about?" Shen Nong yawned, hugged Ze's waist, and buried his head in Ze's chest.

Ze recalled the scene in his dream, and his body stiffened for a moment. Shen Nong noticed and said nothing. Ze held Shen Nong's back with his big hand and said in a muffled voice: "In the dream, I was the patriarch and you were the priest. We decided to become partners, but the day before the ceremony, you turned into light and disappeared before my eyes."

Shen Nong sighed softly, it seems that their past lives were quite tragic. He thought of the time when Ze mentioned becoming a partner. At that time, he inexplicably felt a sense of despair and sadness, which made him dare not easily agree to Ze.

Now that I think about it, it was probably the lingering emotions that were at work.

Now that I know the reason for my inexplicable emotions, I don't have to worry too much. It's not impossible to complete things in this life that I couldn't complete in my previous life.

Shen Nong suddenly looked up, looking at Ze with sparkling eyes, and said, "Let's be partners."

"Really?" Ze asked again uncertainly. He stared at Shen Nong intently, afraid that he was still dreaming.

Shen Nong opened his mouth and bit Ze's chest, leaving a circle of teeth marks, "Does it hurt? If it hurts, it really does."

Ze's eyes were heavy. He used his fingertips to stroke Shen Nong's rosy lips, gently pushing them inwards. The moment he lowered his head to kiss her, he whispered, "It hurts."

Originally, he was scheduled to return to the Mu tribe today, but due to Shen Nong's physical discomfort, he changed the date to tomorrow. At the same time, Shen Nong also thought about what conditions he should put forward to the system.

"You want your teacher and his wife to attend your wedding ceremony?" The system's voice broke in surprise.

Shen Nong rubbed his temples, "Listen to what I say before you get excited. I didn't ask them to come over here. Video is fine too."

The system made a "beep" sound and said helplessly, "Video doesn't work either. You are already dead in the interstellar world. According to the laws of the interstellar world, you can never let the people in the interstellar world know that you are still alive in any form. Otherwise, it will disrupt the operation of the interstellar world. In serious cases, the world may collapse."

Shen Nong lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then asked the system, "Then can I enter the dream? Let the teacher and the mistress participate in the dream. Isn't there a record in ancient books that deceased relatives sent messages in dreams? So entering the dream is possible, right?"

The system subconsciously wanted to refute, but swallowed the words back. It seemed that this was really possible. Many seniors had done this before...

[The time requirement for entering the dream is very strict. Host, you have to calculate the time of your wedding ceremony and their dreaming. You set the exact time, and I will apply for dreaming permission from the main system. ]

The companion ceremony in the animal world is actually very simple. Under the witness of the priest, the two people who become partners drip blood from their fingertips into the bloodstone.

The bloodstone dripped with the blood of the two had never been used, that is, it had not been used to detect the level of other orcs, nor had it been used to form a contract with orcs.

This bloodstone was eventually handed over to two people for safekeeping. The bloodstone connected the lifeblood of the two people. If one person lived, the other would live, and if one person died, the other would die too.

Shen Nong wanted to let his teacher and mistress see that he was still alive and well as soon as possible. Ze wanted to become a partner with Shen Nong as soon as possible. Shen Nong himself was a priest, so he did not need another priest to witness it.

Because the deep night of the interstellar space is the dusk of the beast world, in order to make the whole process appear in the dreams of the teacher and his wife, Shen Nong decided to hold the ceremony of becoming a partner at dusk.