"This matter depends entirely on the female's own wishes." Wu Chuan seemed helpless.

"Since you are the tribe leader, you should have absolute authority. In our Rabbit Tribe, we must obey the tribe leader's orders."

"oh?"

Wu Chuan looked at Ji Nan.

Ji Nan glanced at the rabbit orcs beside him, then looked at Wu Chuan: "As the tribe leader, you should have all the rights to manage the tribe."

"No, our Tiger Tribe shouldn't have such privileges."

Although Wu Chuan said this, his wandering eyes clearly revealed his restless heart.

Ji Nan sneered in his heart, but said: "This is not a privilege. Every tribe needs someone like this who is in charge of all aspects to ensure the stability of the tribe and the unity of the outside world.

If you can't even decide on the matter of pairing within the tribe, how can you ensure the reproduction of the tiger tribe?

As the tribe leader, you are not exercising your power so much as being responsible for the tribe, right?"

Wu Chuan's throat tightened and he swallowed. "That seems too arbitrary."

"Don't disappoint the tribe members' expectations. You should be stronger, Chief Wu Chuan."

Ji Nan said these words with great pain, with layers of sweat on his head.

Wu Chuan did take what he said to heart. He casually said a few words to Ji Nan and then left the cave.

Be stronger.

Yes, he is a patriarch, so what does it matter if he is a little stronger?

Everything, everything for the tribe...

Wu Chuan walked all the way home in a daze.

The second day.

Teng Ning went to Lin Qiu's home and delivered a message: "The tribe leader said that he hopes Lin Qiu can choose two more males in the tribe to mate with before the end of the winter season. The tribe leader said that this is an order. If she can't do it, the Tiger Tribe will no longer take her in."

"What did you say?" Ling Yun grabbed Teng Ning's collar when he heard that.

Teng Ning grabbed Ling Yun's hand and asked him to let go: "I'm just here to pass on a message. I've also tried to persuade Wu Chuan at home, but this is his decision! And..."

"what else?"

Ling Yun knew that he shouldn't vent his anger on Teng Ning. He could only clench his fists, wondering what else Teng Ning could say that would make him even angrier.

Teng Ning frowned and said, "The tribe leader said that it's inconvenient for everyone to go out in the cold season. Now that the weather is getting colder, as long as there is enough food, the males should stay at home and spend their free time with the females, trying to get them pregnant to increase the population of our tribe..."

"What's the meaning?"

"Regarding the defense line, the clan leader said we should wait until the winter season is over before we discuss it."

Ling Yun's forehead vein throbbed. "Wait until the cold season is over? What if the beast tide comes this winter? Everyone in the tribe wants to rush the work as soon as possible. As the tribe leader, doesn't he have any sense of crisis?"

"Ling Yun, don't get excited yet. I'll talk to him about this matter when I get back... Your mother also wants everyone to start the work as soon as possible. I think he might figure it out soon."

After Teng Ning finished speaking, he could see that Ling Yun was trying hard to suppress his anger.

He was about to raise his hand to pat Ling Yun's shoulder to comfort him, but was startled by Ling Yun in front of him.

Teng Ning saw Ling Yun suddenly changed into the form of an animal, and all the animal skin clothes on his body were torn to pieces on the ground. He ran towards their home like a gust of wind.

Teng Ning thought something was wrong and quickly ran home. When he got home, he heard Ling Yun inviting Wu Chuan to a duel.

"If you can't do your job as the patriarch, you can't blame others for replacing you."

"Today, you and I will go to the duel arena, life or death!"

Teng Ning ran over. Ling Yun now seemed to be carrying a sharp edge, so he didn't dare to get too close. "Ling Yun, calm down."

"Wu Chuan, come out here!"

Ling Yun seemed not to hear Teng Ning's words. He swept a big hole in the snow in front of their house with one claw. The flying ice chips accompanied by the powerful tiger roar showed his anger.

Wu Chuan stayed at home with a gloomy face.

Ling Yun's roar spread throughout the tribe, and the other males only heard it as an invitation to a duel.

Now it's covered with snow, who are they fighting for?

Everyone rushed over following the sound and saw Ling Yun's hair standing on end and his tiger eyes filled with anger.

"Ling Yun, what on earth is going on?"

"You want to duel with the clan leader? You want to become the new clan leader?"

"What happened? How did it get to the point of a duel? Ling Yun, calm down."

Ren Ge transformed into a beast and used his body to block Ling Yun. He looked at Ling Yun and said, "If you have anything to say, tell us clearly and we can solve it together."

When Song Mu rushed over, he was also confused. Everyone asked him what happened. He didn't hear the conversation between the two people at the door at home. Song Mu could only shake his head at everyone.

Wu Chuan hadn't dared to fight at first, until he heard more people gathering outside. Then he slowly walked out the door and said, "Ling Yun, are you going to make such a drastic decision? Even if you kill me today and become the tribe leader, and you set a precedent, every male in the tribe will be able to attack you, and you won't be safe!"

"Stop talking nonsense, Wu Chuan. You're forcing females and disregarding the safety of the tribe. Explain clearly in front of everyone today why you insist on forcing Lin Qiu to mate with someone else? And why did you cancel everyone's work of setting up defenses outside the tribe?"

"Ling Yun, I'm only doing this for the tribe's survival! And there's no need for us to brave the cold to do this!"

Wu Chuan stood in the yard, confronting Ling Yun across the fence.

Ling Yun knew he would say that, and sneered: "You also need to explain to me clearly, when you were surrounding the woolly beast, did you deliberately transfer me there and let me fall into the swamp?"

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

Ling Yun looked at Rong Qian, who was originally in the same group with him. "Your father asked you to point the way, right?"

Rong Qian narrowed his eyes, his facial muscles stiff but trembling uncontrollably: "Ling Yun, that's not true. No one knew there was a swamp there."

Ren Ge had wanted to interrupt when Ling Yun mentioned that the clan leader did not allow everyone to continue to deploy defenses, but Ling Yun's next words made him more and more shocked. His brain was not enough and he didn't know which one to think about first.

"No, how did it get to this point? Ling Yun, weren't you the one who rushed to the front and accidentally stepped in?" Everyone still remembered Ling Yun falling into the swamp. After all, when he came back, he taught them some self-rescue methods if they fell into the swamp.

Everyone in the crowd was looking for the males who had been in the same group with Ling Yun to surround the woolly beast. "What exactly is going on? Tell us more."

Before the males could think about it, someone asked, "Why did the clan leader want to harm Ling Yun?"

They didn't know why, maybe because Ling Yun had made great contributions to the tribe over this period of time, everyone tended to believe that what Ling Yun said was true.

"I remember that it was Rong Qian who showed us the way at first. Later, when we got closer, Rong Qian suggested we make an outflanking move, so we took two different routes."