Become the beastmen of summer, beastmen of the earth, and you will…

The mountain deer beastmen and other beastmen were caught in a dilemma as they looked at the Xia clan's houses.

They wanted to stay, but they didn't have many supplies, so they could only watch with teary eyes as the Feathered Beastmen and Honey Butterfly Beastmen moved into Xia's house. Reluctantly, they followed Jiang Yunlan, glancing back at the tall house many times, before silently going to the open space that the Xia clan had provided for them free of charge.

"This is your resting place. Once you're settled, you can wander around my clan. If you need help, just look for the orcs with red bandages tied around their arms; they will assist you." Jiang Yunlan said, taking out a red bandage and wrapping it around her left arm to show them.

The beastmen in the mountainous region suddenly understood and nodded vigorously.

Seeing that they had memorized it, Jiang Yunlan took off the red cloth strip and put it into the bag hanging on her waist. She then said, "If you encounter an item you want but don't have anything to exchange for it, you can go to the central building and accept the missions that the Xia Clan offers to foreign orcs to earn copper coins."

The clan's copper coins system had been in use for some time and had completely replaced work points. Now, all task settlements are made on the spot using copper coins.

Some orcs, not wanting to keep a lot of copper coins themselves, choose to deposit their money in the central building, managed by Xia. Of course, there's no interest; the central building now simply provides orcs with a safe place to store their money.

The beastmen of the mountain range pricked up their ears, exchanged glances, and saw the same longing in each other's eyes.

"Once we've set up our resting place, let's go to the central building to earn copper coins." A certain mountain deer orc gestured to his fellow orcs, but didn't say it aloud, fearing that orcs from other clans might overhear and rush to take the quest before them.

The group of mountain deer beastmen, who had been given a meaningful look, blinked and agreed with their tribesman's suggestion.

Unbeknownst to them, the other two clans were already secretly vying to be the first to prepare their resting place and then head to the central building.

Seeing their reaction, Jiang Yunlan felt much more at ease. During the last fruit and snow seasons, many of the tribe's beastmen were recovering from injuries, and many things had been put on hold until now.

Summer is the season when there is a labor shortage.

"Lan, I've brought my people to see the 'waterwheel' you mentioned." Cangmu Yuya finished settling his belongings at his residence and led his people over, accompanied by several Honey Butterfly Beastmen.

Jiang Yunlan responded and led the winged beastmen and the mountain deer beastmen who had somehow followed her from the farmland along the aqueduct to the riverbank.

The orcs from the mountains learned for the first time that orcs were capable of building such magnificent behemoths.

"Wow, it's so tall! Taller than some trees!" The orcs looked up, their eyes seemingly sparkling with stars.

Aoki Hagami remembered how the water from the waterwheel poured into the aqueduct could irrigate the distant fields, and couldn't help but think of the mountainous regions where plants struggled to grow. If those places lacked water rather than natural resources, the summer waterwheels and aqueducts could solve the problem.

He stared intently at the waterwheel turning with a "plop, plop" sound for a long time before finally looking away. He lowered his head and looked at Jiang Yunlan, who was still a cub.

The tiny squirrel cub and the natural surroundings above her head seemed to respond to the curiosity of the other beastmen.

"Lan, it really seems like a creature specially sent here by the Beast God." He said with a gentle gaze.

Jiang Yunlan looked up at him in confusion, tilting her head slightly to the left, and asked him in the newly heard orc language, "What is the Beast God?"

"She is the being that gave birth to nature, beastmen, and beasts; she is the mother of all living beings," said Cangmu Yuya.

It sounded somewhat like a legendary creator god. Could it be that gods exist in this world? Jiang Yunlan, curious, pressed the older winged beastman, "I wasn't sent by the Beast God. But I want to know, does the Beast God truly exist?"

“Of course, the Beast God is watching us now. He watches over all living beings forever, for we are all His offspring,” Cangmu Yuya said sincerely with a smile.

Unable to obtain any specific information about the Beast God, she continued to press for details about the Beast God's appearance, personality, likes and dislikes...

These questions were so detailed that they stumped Cangmu Yuya. He frowned in thought and slowly said, "No orc has ever seen the Beast God, but I think the Sky, the Earth, and the Ocean have seen them."

"In the beginning, there was chaos. After God created the sky, the earth, and the sea, he disappeared. So the world was ruled by the three natures that were first born from the sky, the earth, and the sea," said the Blue-Branched Crow.

The Honey Butterfly Beastman remembered what his ancestors had said and continued after the Feathered Beastman: "The three natures awakened the rest of nature, the beastmen and the beastmen. The gods saw our situation and were no longer worried about us, so they hid in the world and watched over us. Until the world faces a disaster that even nature cannot solve, He will send a savior to the world."

Jiang Yunlan listened in stunned silence, as did the beastmen from Xia and the other beastmen from the mountainous region. It was the first time they had ever heard of this.

The Feathered Beastmen and Honey Butterfly Beastmen could tell from their reactions that the Beast God still did not believe in its existence.

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe it, the Beast God is loving. He loves all living beings in the world, even if you don’t believe in His existence,” said the Feathered Beastman and the Honey Butterfly Beastman.

The two clans that believed in the existence of the Beast God did not say anything more.

After viewing the waterwheel, the group of orcs followed the Xia clan orcs back to Xia's habitat and went to the trading area to finalize the stalls their clans wanted.

Two more days passed, and the Xia clan's group, which had gone out, returned to their habitat with the orcs who had arrived at Half Moon Lake.

The orc leading the team this time was a young man from the Black Soil who had reached adulthood in his prime.

Black Soil, who had been exceptionally reliable since she was half-adult, was already capable of handling things on her own. Even though this mission to escort the Half-Moon Lake orcs was a long-term one, requiring her to repeatedly lead her people back and forth between their habitat and Half-Moon Lake, bringing back and sending away many orc clans in batches, she still promised Lan that she would complete the mission perfectly.

Perhaps because it was not long after the beast tide ended, Xia's team did not encounter any wild beasts on their way to Half Moon Lake and back to their habitat, but only some herbivores that had migrated from other places.

Grasslands became a suitable habitat for small and weak creatures.

"Lan, we're back." Kurotsuchi said as he jumped out of the car and walked up to Lan.

"Welcome back, thank you for your hard work. I and Hui Xiaoxi will take care of the rest." Jiang Yunlan nodded to her, told the newly returned tribespeople to rest well, and then turned her gaze to the group of orc clans who had come to Xia weary from their journey.

Just as she had guessed two days ago, many orc clans she had never seen before had arrived this spring.

Unseen by her, Xia's name gradually spread, radiating outwards from Crescent Lake. The surrounding orc clans, whether or not they had come to the grasslands, all knew of a powerful clan called "Xia."

The Minotaur had traded with the Xia Clan at Half-Moon Lake and was one of the orcs who proactively introduced the Xia Clan to other clans. Last spring, with Lan's help, they successfully resolved the problems that had been troubling them.

From that moment on, they became the orcs who supported Lan. Therefore, when a certain bull-orc overheard two orc clans trying to steal Xia clan's belongings, he angrily told the other orcs about it.

During this flower-nurturing period, the two orc clans, like them, arrived at Half Moon Lake early.

The thought of Black Soil refusing the two clans' request to come to Xia, and the regretful expressions on the faces of those two clan orcs, filled the minotaur beastmen with a sense of exhilaration. Who was rejected by Xia for their deal? So hard to guess, hahahaha.

"I heard from the Xia beastmen that they wiped out the beast tide during the last fruit season!" a bull-beastman said with starry eyes.

Beside them, a member of another race of orcs walking with the minotaur orcs quietly joined their conversation, saying, "You heard the Xia clan orcs talking about the planting and breeding areas, didn't you? These days, even if Xia doesn't go out to gather or hunt, he can still ensure that all the orcs in the clan have food to eat!"

The orcs couldn't help but grin foolishly as they thought about the wonderful things Lan had created with the Xia clan. They could exchange those items for resources and copper coins earned from completing quests.

Those two orc clans who wanted to steal from the Xia clan probably never expected that Xia had far more valuable items than they thought. Some orcs who weren't on good terms with them decided that after returning from the Xia clan, they would flaunt the good stuff they had obtained there.

Oh ho ho ho, these are all items produced by the Xia clan that they can't get in exchange.

The first group of orcs who came from Half Moon Lake quickly became familiar with the orcs of Xia, and were sometimes mistaken by the orcs who came to the Xia clan later for Xia's orcs.

The beastmen who were mistaken for the bull-beastmen were not angry. When the mood struck them, they would borrow red strips of cloth from their Xia clan beastman friends, tie them to their right arms, and act as guides for a period of time.

In just over ten days, the visiting beastmen had already gotten used to eating with Xia's tableware, getting used to keeping themselves clean and tidy, and getting used to going to the central building every day to see what missions had been assigned... just like every beastman in Xia's household.

As sunrise after sunrise, the beastmen, including the bull-beastmen, who were the first to arrive at the Xia clan, were about to return to their habitat.

Unlike the beastmen of the mountain range, their clan's location was far from Xia, and they needed to return early. After all, their clan was not as powerful as the unicorn clan, and they couldn't stay at Xia's clan for a few more days like the unicorns.

The group of beastmen who had come from afar really enjoyed staying in Xia and almost couldn't resist staying.

At this moment, their Xia clan orc friends stood before them, looked at them sincerely, and said, "Would you like to stay in Xia? Lan would be very willing to accept you."

The bull-beastman and the other orcs stared wide-eyed, their hearts pounding with excitement.

"You can even bring your own people over! Our Xia clan welcomes orcs of all races to become our people!" The orc from Xia smiled brightly and extended an invitation to his orc friends.

The Minotaur and the other orcs, recalling their own dilapidated dwellings and their fellow orcs who were starving and cold, were filled with longing.

They didn't want to be tempted. But... but the clan that invited them to join was the Xia clan!