jdhmnovel Chapter 160 First Show of Strength
Chapter 160 First Show of Strength
Li Miao watched Ruan Xiyue and Qi Heng's interaction with a cold eye, a sneer playing on his lips. Finding it utterly boring, he left.
Two elders also arrived from the Spirit Fox tribe. One wore a long blue linen robe, and his handsome face wore an elegant smile. A well-colored linen robe was a great indicator of a person's status and position.
On the continent of Beast Gods, most tribes couldn't even afford linen.
Those who can afford linen fabric may not be able to afford dyed linen fabric.
Especially the brighter colors, such as blue, red, yellow, and purple, are each more difficult to dye than the last.
Therefore, this male is clearly someone who, in his youth, was a male that many females vied to mate with, making him particularly eye-catching.
Middle-aged men typically exhibit mature and stable qualities, and this mature charm is irresistible to many women.
Many of the females who came to greet and watch the spectacle couldn't help but jeer and whistle at the middle-aged male of the spirit fox clan.
Ruan Xiyue looked at him with admiration for a few more seconds, while Qi Heng couldn't help but look back coldly.
Qi Heng didn't know why the clan leader made this decision. The other woman had died in childbirth, but if he were to take a partner, it would mean remarriage. How could the Holy Queen Xi Yue possibly be interested in him!
Ruan Xiyue believes that the passage of time bestows upon middle-aged men a unique charm. Their eyes hold stories, and their smiles contain profound meaning.
She looked at the other person and couldn't help but imagine what Qin Ye, Long Ze, Cong Xian, Xia Weier and Jiu Chen would be like in ten or twenty years.
Will he maintain this handsome and rugged look, or will he gradually be stained by time, his eight-pack abs disintegrating and becoming one solid piece?
Ruan Xiyue couldn't help but smile. She was thinking... if Qin Ye and the others all became ugly... she might change her mind!
[Host, your lifespan hasn't been extended to ten years yet. You're overthinking it, host!]
Ruan Xiyue's face instantly fell.
Qi Heng quickly introduced another elder to Ruan Xiyue. This elder's face showed more signs of aging than the other one.
However, it's not hard to see that he used to be handsome and refined.
When the elders leading the Treasure-Hunting Rat tribe saw the male of the Spirit Fox tribe openly embracing the Holy Female Ruan Xiyue, they immediately felt a sense of urgency.
The lion chieftain watched with a smile as the orcs from the Spirit Fox tribe entered the lion tribe, but deep down he felt a strong sense of crisis.
"Please, today is a wonderful day, everyone is gathered here. Come and sit down at my place first!" The lion chieftain, displaying the magnanimity and demeanor of a leader, invited everyone to his place to discuss matters.
Ruan Xiyue also went with them to the stone house where the Lion Clan held banquets for guests or large meetings.
The older, refined-looking man introduced himself: "My name is Dong Songlin, and I am the elder of the Spirit Fox Tribe in charge of foreign affairs negotiations. And the one opposite... is?"
The elder of the Treasure-Seeking Rat tribe quickly placed his left hand on the back of his right hand, palm facing his collarbone, in front of his chest: "My name is Lu Qixin, and I am the elder of the Treasure-Seeking Rat tribe in charge of sea salt trade. We just arrived at the Lion Clan tribe yesterday."
The lion chieftain chuckled as he introduced himself and Luo Qizhao, then turned to Ruan Xiyue: "Holy Consort Xiyue, I need no introduction. You should all have heard of her. The founder of Hope Beast City is Holy Consort Xiyue."
Ruan Xiyue sat to the left of the lion clan leader, and immediately crossed her left hand over the back of her right hand, giving everyone a slight bow.
"I originally planned to have my beastmen husbands Congxian and Jiuchen lead their teams to the newly built beast city to exchange for the previous batch of beastmen when the beastmen from the Spirit Fox Tribe arrived."
As a result, you sent 30,000 warriors from the Spirit Fox Tribe directly to help in the newly built Beast City. We are very grateful for the invaluable assistance of the warriors from the Spirit Fox Tribe. Besides the marriage alliance, do you have any other requests?" Ruan Xiyue cut to the chase.
"Qi Heng brought back the planning map of the beast city of the Holy Mother Xi Yue. We found that the beast city of the Holy Mother Xi Yue was said to be able to accommodate 30,000 beastmen. However, the city is 7,500 hectares (75 million square meters), which is not enough for 30,000 beastmen. It is more than enough to accommodate 100,000 beastmen."
"We suspect that the Holy Mother Xiyue has other plans."
Ruan Xiyue raised her eyes and looked intently at Qi Heng. Qi Heng seemed to have his thoughts read, and he was inexplicably at a loss, his eyes darting away.
Looking back on the selection ceremony for the Holy Maiden, the scene was like a rigorous examination.
The blueprints provided by others are only so big. It's like giving you a box and asking you to draw a triangle inside it. No matter how creative you are, you can only draw a triangle that fits the side length of the box. If it goes outside the box, it will be deemed unacceptable.
Therefore, the beast city she drew at that time was naturally based on the standard design of beast cities.
But in private, the situation is different.
In reality, all beast cities are actually built to be larger than planned at the selection conference; this is an unspoken "rule" between the Holy City and the various beast cities.
But no one expected that Ruan Xiyue's ambition would be so great, expanding to more than six times the original amount!
Ruan Xiyue deliberately showed Qi Heng this plan to send a signal to the Spirit Fox Tribe.
The Spirit Fox tribe eagerly awaits the birth of a Spirit Fox cub, preferably with the bloodline of the most powerful nine-tailed Spirit Fox from ancient times.
She needed some strong laborers from the Spirit Fox tribe and also wanted some of the Spirit Fox beastmen to settle down in her beast city.
But she would never allow the Beast City she had built to become a "one-man show" for the Spirit Fox Tribe.
Previously, the Treasure-Hunting Rat Tribe had invited her several times to discuss sea salt, but she had always made various excuses to decline.
Lu Qixin and the others had always thought that Li Miao was instigating Ruan Xiyue's dislike for the Treasure-Seeking Rat Tribe.
But now, he suddenly realized!
Lu Qixin couldn't help but scrutinize the seventeen-year-old Ruan Xiyue in front of him, and a shiver ran through him.
How could a seventeen-year-old female possibly come up with such a method of leveraging power and maintaining balance?
Such skillful and mature methods could only be achieved by someone with over thirty years of experience!
Looking across the entire Beast God Continent, how many of the teenage Holy Females could think of using the power of the Treasure-Seeking Rat Tribe to restrain the Spirit Fox Tribe and prevent them from acting recklessly and arbitrarily?
He didn't believe anyone else could do it!
At least, to his knowledge, he had never seen or heard of it before!
A smile played on Ruan Xiyue's lips, her clever and lively almond-shaped eyes looking at the leaders of both tribes.
"Of course, I think that although the Spirit Fox Tribe has many warriors, there should also be quite a few low-level orcs among them this time, right?"
"We'll build the inner city first. The city walls that are being built now are the inner city I'm going to create," Ruan Xiyue said with a smile, revealing her ambition.