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Chapter 356: 356 - Other wives
The divine beast tournament was one of the most famous and prestigious in the entire land of beastmen, a place where dozens of tribes gathered from the venomous snake folk to the swift cat folk and even the incomparable dragon folk.
Everyone there had a single goal: the chance to obtain the blessing of the fox folk, the rarest and most hidden of all the hundreds of folk in the land of beast men.
Obviously, this wasn’t easy to achieve.
Only a thousand young people would even have the chance to take part in the qualifying rounds of the tournament. Less than 100 would take part in the main part and, of these, only two would be champion.
These first thousand would be divided between recommended participants from the major tribes of the beast folks and the commoners, who could only rely on a random selection system.
It came as a great surprise to everyone when Tai’Ren, lord of the cat folk, announced that one of his folk’s five places had been given to his son-in-law.
That was a slot that had originally belonged to Lioran, so no one complained too much about that part.
The problem was that the seat had been offered to someone who wasn’t from the cat people.
Even with the wedding, everyone still recognized Qingyi as a young dragon and nothing more.
"Ah... they seem pretty angry..." Qingyi muttered, looking out of the window of a colossal flying ship, his eyes sweeping over the elders arguing with Tai’Ren.
Obviously, none of them had even come close to convincing his father-in-law to change his choice.
They only fell silent when Tai’Ren finally said that, if such questioning continued, he would make them fight Qingyi with their cultivations sealed.
No one had the courage to say anything else after that.
"Nyan, these old bastards don’t know what’s good for them!" Linyue climbed onto Qingyi’s lap, looking out of the window and showing her tongue to the angry elders below.
They couldn’t see her, but if they did, they would surely be spitting blood.
"Yes, They don’t," Qingyi let a small laugh escape his lips, patting Linyue on the ass to make her sit up straight.
This was the Cat Folk’s primary flying ship, a colossus of luxury produced by the most skilled shipbuilders of the five-colored pavilion, a ten-thousand-year anniversary gift that Tai’Ren had received from the Gold King himself.
Naturally, Qingyi and Linyue had their own private room, but right now, they were in the dining area, waiting until it was time to finally leave.
Closing his eyes briefly, Qingyi remembered what he had heard from the dragon people since arriving in this place.
There were less than a thousand of them in total, a tiny number compared to populations that ran into the millions, perhaps tens of millions among other tribes.
The cat folk alone numbered fifteen million, counting the capital and all the outlying cities.
Even so, the dragon people were recognized as the strongest, as were the fox people, whose numbers barely exceeded five hundred.
The reason for this was simple: they had experts from the realm of the astral body, as well as being naturally more talented and powerful than all the other peoples.
With a sigh, Qingyi looked at his own hands, covering them with black scales for a brief moment before returning them to normal.
Everyone there treated him and recognized him as a dragon, even though he considered himself human.
Lineages shouldn’t cause changes like that and from what he’d said to Ruxue, not even the dragon people here were true dragons.
They only existed in the celestial heavens.
’System... What’s happening to me?" Qingyi asked mentally.
He already knew the answer to that question, but he wanted confirmation.
[The Corruption System was created for the birth of a new Dragon God of Corruption, not just the inheritance of his bloodline.
You {access denied}]
Noting the incomplete answer, Qingyi just shook his head, stretching gently before relaxing, feeling Linyue’s warm body pressing against his.
It was going to be a relatively long journey.
"Are you anxious, my child?" Qingyi suddenly felt a gentle touch on his shoulder.
Turning his face, he saw a beautiful and elegant middle-aged woman, with long orange hair, ears and tail, just like Linyue’s.
That was Maoyue, current matriarch of the cat people, Linyue’s mother and Tai’Ren’s wife.
"Oh, I’m fine, mother-in-law, I was just thinking a bit too much, hahaha." Qingyi gave a soft smile as Maoyue sat down on the bench opposite her.
"It’s natural, I was also anxious the first time I went to visit the dragon people. They’re not exactly a very... welcoming people, hahaha," Maoyue covered her mouth with long, delicate fingers, watching Linyue, who had already fallen asleep in Qingyi’s embrace.
"I’m so happy that she’s found a man she fell in love with from the start. Things between me and Tai’Ren weren’t easy at first, but nowadays we’re too old not to love each other."
Maoyue brought her hand close to Qingyi’s face, touching his cheeks lightly.
At that moment, the handsome young man suppressed every drop of Qi from his bloodline, doing his best not to allow Maoyue to be affected even a little by it.
She was beautiful, yes.
But in the end, she was the wife of a man who respected her and the way she looked at Qingyi was like a mother looking at her son.
He would disgrace his own soul if he dared to be so disrespectful to that woman.
"Thank you, mother-in-law, she also seems to be getting on well with the... uh..."
"Other wives? Fufufu~~" Maoyue laughed elegantly. "Tai’Ren talked about this artifact of yours, it’s quite interesting. But don’t worry, it’s only natural for powerful men to gather many beauties...
Tai’Ren once had a thousand concubines when he was younger, but nowadays he barely keeps ten by his side.
Unfortunately not all of them are talented enough to accompany their husband from life to death, never forget that."
"I won’t forget it, mother-in-law." Qingyi bowed his head slightly before sighing.
That wouldn’t happen to him, not if he had the system.
In the end, if a wife of his didn’t have enough talent, he could just buy talent for them.
"Oh... it looks like we’re about to take off, I’m going to leave now." Maoyue suddenly stood up before walking away, leaving nothing but her sweet floral scent behind.
"Ah..." Qingyi finally stopped controlling his bloodline Qi, stretching slightly.
He really had to find a way to achieve total and absolute control of his passive ability over women.