After Pang Lai left, the people who were watching the fun around also dispersed and continued to stroll around the market.
Aunt Mei quickly walked up to Jiang Li and raised her hand to give her a hard slap.
"Hiss~" She covered her head in pain and gasped.
"Where have you been? Do you know that I have been looking for you for a long time? You just transformed into a human form not long ago, how could you run away from the bird tribe at will? What if something unexpected happens?" Aunt Mei questioned her angrily.
The original owner's inherent fear of Aunt Mei also affected her.
Jiang Li didn't dare to say a word, so he lowered his head and apologized to Aunt Mei.
"Aunt Mei, I'm sorry. I was too playful and didn't listen to you."
Aunt Mei saw Jiang Li's good attitude in admitting her fault, and the anger in her heart disappeared instantly. After looking her up and down, she found that she was not injured, and the fear in her throat finally subsided.
She sighed heavily and said to her in a helpless tone, "This is just the first time. It won't happen again."
Jiang Li raised his head and nodded wildly with a smile on his face, "Yes, sir!"
"Let's go, the clan test is about to begin, otherwise we will be late." Aunt Mei grabbed Jiang Li's wrist and strode forward.
"Test? What test?" Jiang Li was puzzled. Although he was confused, he still let Aunt Mei lead him forward.
"Today is the tribe's annual fertility test. All adult females that have transformed into human form must go for the test."
The original owner's memory came back to him, and Jiang Li remembered that the females here had to undergo fertility tests after reaching adulthood. Females with strong fertility could choose males at will, and even practice polyandry for the purpose of reproducing offspring. On the contrary, females with low fertility could only wait for males to choose them, and no matter how bad the males were, they had to accept their fate.
The more Jiang Li thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. Was this simply treating women as reproductive machines?
She was hesitating whether to escape from this test. She didn't want her happiness to be judged by this so-called test. Whether she won or lost, she didn't want to.
At this moment, a "ding" sound rang in my head again.
The system's voice sounded in her head.
"Jiang Li, you must take part in this test and get first place..."
The system's words were like a bolt from the blue.
It was really a worm in her stomach. Just as she had the thought of escaping, it appeared.
"I don't want it." Jiang Li refused decisively without any hesitation.
This made the system feel awkward. After two seconds of silence, the system said silently, "If you go and get first place, I will give you 500 experience fruits."
Five hundred experience fruits can increase spiritual power by fifty points.
Not to mention that the experience fruit is difficult to obtain, just these fifty points of spiritual power would take an ordinary orc of the bird tribe two years of practice to obtain.
Faced with such temptation from the system, Jiang Li immediately agreed.
Mingyue is in danger, and the tribes are in turmoil. Just like what happened just now, if Aunt Mei didn't show up, she probably wouldn't be able to beat Panglai even if she risked her life.
She needs to save more spiritual energy so that she can protect herself in the future.
Soon, Aunt Mei took her to the fertility test site. In the middle of the site was a dark purple crystal stone, which was the fertility stone for fertility testing.
The area was surrounded by young boys and girls, and the girls looked worried, fearing that they would not be able to rank.
The young men were dressed very handsomely and appropriately. They came here to make themselves known so that the fertile females would choose them as their husbands first.
Getting a female with strong fertility will undoubtedly bring honor to the family.
Just as this group of orcs were chattering away, an old woman with completely white hair and a hunched body slowly walked to the fertility stone with a cane in her hand.
And she is the witch of the bird tribe, the spirit lady.
"Cough cough cough, be quiet." Grandma Ling coughed a few times and knocked the ground heavily with her crutch.
After hearing the voice of Grandma Ling, the group of orcs immediately shut their mouths. In an instant, the test site became quiet and everyone blinked their big eyes and looked at Grandma Ling.
"Today is our bird tribe's annual fertility test. Only females who have reached adulthood and transformed into human form are eligible to take the test. The tester only needs to drop his or her own blood on the fertility stone. The brighter the light emitted by the fertility stone, the stronger the fertility."
As Grandma Ling spoke, she pointed to a dagger placed on the table nearby.
After she finished explaining the rules, she glanced at the group of girls with her cloudy eyes, "Who will be the first to take the test?"
The girls looked at each other, wondering who would go up first.
Just as they were discussing, a clear and soft voice suddenly came from the back of the crowd.
"I'll do it!"
Jiang Li and the girls and boys turned around and looked towards the source of the sound.
They saw a tall and slender woman walking slowly towards them. She had an oval face, long and narrow eyes, delicate makeup on her face, and a peacock feather pinned in her long curly hair.
"This is Princess He!"
Someone in the crowd exclaimed.
These words made the group of orcs excited.
Princess He?
Jiang Li thought about it carefully in his head, then looked the woman up and down, his eyes fixed on the peacock feather on her head.
Could this be the bird princess, Yanhe?
The bird royal family is different from other tribes in that they have many offspring.
There is only one princess, Yanhe.
Because the queen was jealous, the king of the bird tribe had no other women around him, and he never even accepted the females that the dukes offered as tribute.
Yanhe was very pleased with the admiring looks and flattering voices of these orcs. He straightened his back, held his head high, and walked to the fertility stone.
"Princess He." Grandma Ling picked up the dagger, held it in both hands and handed it to Yanhe.
Yan He's eyes narrowed slightly, and he took the dagger from Grandma Ling's hand without any expression.
Jiang Li felt very disdainful when he saw her being so pretentious.
She snorted and rolled her eyes in her heart. Isn't she just a princess? What's so great about that?
I saw Yanhe gently cut her fingers with a dagger, and red blood beads squeezed out from her white fingers.
She reached out and placed her hand on the fertility stone, and drops of blood dripped onto it.
One drop, two drops...
Just as the third drop fell, the fertility stone instantly lit up, showing a transparent lavender color, like crystal.
This scene not only stunned the females, but also made the males on the side very excited.
Throughout the thousands of years of bird life, there are very few that can cause such a reaction to the fertility stone.
This undoubtedly adds another layer of gilding to Yanhe's identity.
Looking at the eyes of these orcs, Yanhe's momentum increased a lot. She raised the corners of her lips and looked at them triumphantly.
Granny Ling also smiled and nodded.
The moment Yanhe left the fertility stone, all the orcs in the venue rushed to surround him, introducing themselves in a flurry, and some even made exaggerated gestures just to win Yanhe's attention.
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