Chapter 6 The Serpent Beast Husband Hates the Female Master to Death

Jiang Xi's face was covered with animal skin, and her bangs covered her forehead. When she smiled, her big eyes were bright and sparkling, which was very beautiful and made people subconsciously ignore the bad skin on the sides of her eyes.

Lu Liufeng stared blankly into the female master's eyes, and the skin behind his ears turned even redder.

The female master... were the female master's eyes always this beautiful?

He had been facing the female master's face for half a year, and he could tell what kind of ugly face was under the animal skin mask without even lifting it.

But for the first time, he had the illusion that the female master was very beautiful.

Jiang Xi certainly wanted to soak in the hot springs, but she didn't forget the important matter at hand.

"Let's go hunting and gather food first, and if we still have time, we can come back and soak in the hot springs."

"spa?"

Lu Liufeng was puzzled for a moment, but quickly accepted the description.

Hot springs seem to be a more fitting term than warm springs.

but……

Lu Liufeng looked at the female master's slender body wrapped in animal skin and couldn't help but continue to persuade her.

"Why don't you wait for me to come back here? Winter prey is cunning, and I'm worried that I won't be able to take care of you then."

Jiang Xi waved her hand, "It's nothing."

She thought he was worried that she would cause him trouble, so she said...

"You hunt your prey, I'll find my food. I'm looking for edible food that grows in the soil or on trees."

"In the soil?" Lu Liufeng was even more puzzled.

In this season, everything withers, and where can one find food other than wild animals?

"Oh, please let me look for it."

Seeing that he was still unwilling, Jiang Xi unconsciously added a touch of coquettishness to her voice.

“You can hunt nearby. I’ll just look around nearby. I won’t go too far from you and I won’t interfere with your hunting.”

Lu Liufeng had never heard such a sweet voice before, and his face turned even redder.

Jiang Xi noticed his pale face suddenly turn red and asked with some concern, "Are you alright? Why is your face so red? Is it too hot at the hot spring mountain?"

Although she didn't know much about orcs, she guessed that they probably still retained animalistic habits and preferences.

Warm-blooded, cold-blooded, and tropical animals each have their own characteristics.

She had assumed that Lu Liufeng, an eagle-clan beastman covered in feathers, disliked hot environments.

Lu Liufeng quickly lowered his head.

No, no.

"Then... let's go to the Jehol Valley, it's safer there."

Jiang Xi knew nothing about it, so she naturally agreed.

Rehe Valley is very close to Hot Spring Mountain, or rather, it is actually the same mountain, only one is a ridge and the other is a valley.

The temperature in the valley is much higher than on the ridge. There is no snow here, but instead, it is lush and green, full of life, and there are even birds and insects chirping.

Looking at the valley that resembled a tropical rainforest, Jiang Xi thought to herself, "Isn't this an excellent hunting environment? There will definitely be many animals coming here to escape the cold winter, so how could I worry about not having prey?"

But soon, she found out why.

Lu Liufeng put her on the ground and shouted towards a place covered with vines.

"Duan Si, the female is looking for something in the valley. Keep an eye on her. I'm going hunting in the snowy mountains. I'll be back soon."

Jiang Xi's mind went blank for a moment, and the corresponding memories surfaced instantly.

Duan Si, her snake-clan beast husband, a giant black python, was once the strongest fighting assassin in the Holy City's underground arena. He had already saved enough for the ransom to be freed, but on the day before he was to be redeemed, she took a liking to him and forcibly married him as her beast husband.

Therefore, Duan Si hated her intensely.

He even attacked her after the marriage. If it weren't for the backlash from the marriage contract, Jiang Xi would probably have died long ago.

A rustling sound of scales rubbing against leaves rang out, and countless gazes came from all directions.

Jiang Xi felt a chill run down her spine and froze, too afraid to move.

She didn't see Duan Si, but she saw many different kinds of pythons in the treetops and among the trees.

Huge snake heads emerged, their scarlet tongues hissing as they flicked out.

Not far away, a red python transformed into a demonic young man with a human head and a snake's body, red hair and golden eyes. He leaned against a tree trunk with his arms crossed, his thick, long snake tail hanging behind him, disappearing into the forest and out of sight.

The young man looked Jiang Xi up and down with his golden snake eyes, then spoke towards the vine-covered area, "Duan Si, your mistress has arrived."

The snake-like orcs are cold-blooded and prefer warm environments; they are forced to hibernate during the cold winter.

Compared to pure wild snakes, snake-like beastmen's powers enter a berserk state during hibernation, making them more vulnerable to death.

Therefore, most snake-type beastmen live in warm regions and avoid hibernation.

However, the snake-like orcs exiled to the cursed lands had no choice. So every winter, the snake-like orcs from the three cursed tribes of Lion's Roar, Skyward, and Python Coil would spend the winter in the Hot River Valley, not far from the Lion's Roar tribe.

The three tribes of beastmen also agreed not to enter the Hot River Valley to hunt in winter, in order to ensure that the snake-tribe beastmen in the Hot River Valley would have a food source.

However, females can enter the Jehol Valley to find food or visit their mates.

However, due to the remoteness of the Jehol Valley, apart from the Sky-bound Orcs who can reach it quickly, even the nearest Lion's Roar tribe requires a long time to reach by land.

Therefore, few females are willing to visit the snake beastmen and snake offspring in the Hot River Valley.

The snake-like orcs in the Hot River Valley come from three tribes, with the Python Tribe having the largest number.

Although the beastmen of the Python and Sky-bound tribes had never met Jiang Xi, they had heard many stories about her from the beastmen of the Lion Roar tribe.

Therefore, when they learned that this was Duan Si's mistress, the unmarried beastmen all fled at top speed.

The married orc, while envying Duan Si's queen for coming to see him, couldn't help but wonder if this heavily wrapped-up female was really as vicious and ugly as the Lion Roar tribe said.

“Lu Liufeng…”

Jiang Xi raised her eyes and looked at Lu Liufeng pleadingly, almost wanting to cry in front of him.

"I'll go with you."

Don't leave her alone in the pile of snakes...

Even though she knew that the orcs of this world could not harm females, she was still afraid when she looked at these huge and terrifying pythons!

Lu Liufeng shook his head gently but firmly.

"I spotted a wild boar a couple of days ago. It would be too dangerous to take the female with me."

He glanced at the motionless pile of vines and sighed inwardly.

It seems that Duan Si is still unwilling to meet the female master.

Lu Liufeng could see the change in the female master and wanted Duan Si to take a look in order to ease the tension between them.

Furthermore, the winters in the Cursed Lands are too harsh. If the tribe really can't hold on any longer, the Queen can come to the Hot River Valley to live.

"Don't worry, Mistress, the Rehe Valley is very safe. What you are looking for can only be found in the Rehe Valley this season."

After explaining and setting a time to pick her up, Lu Liufeng flew into the sky again.

"Lu Liufeng—"

Jiang Xi looked up and called out to him, then subconsciously took two steps after him.

But Lu Liufeng was in the sky, and she was in the valley, so she could only watch helplessly as Lu Liufeng's body grew smaller and smaller in the sky.

The young man's voice boomed down from the sky.

"My lady, Liu Feng will be back soon."

Jiang Xi was somewhat frustrated.

Perhaps it was because the first person she saw when she opened her eyes was Lu Liufeng, or perhaps it was because the young man was so good-natured that she subconsciously developed a dependence on him.

She realized she couldn't go on like this any longer.

Lu Liufeng was right. Taking her hunting wild boar was too dangerous, and with the land covered in snow, the only food she could find was in the Rehe Valley.

Jiang Xi quickly calmed down.

But the next second, her calf tightened.

The feeling of being constricted made her slowly lower her head. Two small green snakes were hissing and flicking their tongues as they crawled up her animal skin pants.

Jiang Xi's heart stopped, and she instinctively took a step back, falling onto the sand and stones with a scream.

"ah--"