A Guide to - 78

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78. A Method to Change Shape
 

The little snake slowly climbed out of the eggshell; the eggshell swayed and then overturned. He tumbled over before Shu Shu and then flicked his snake tongue out in Shu Shu’s direction again.
 
Shu Shu had a feeling of wanting to cry yet having no tears.
 
As an old hamster who had lived for a few hundred years, he always wanted children. But, what he wanted were soft, warm little hamsters and absolutely not icy cold snakes.
 
Moreover, his newborn son was already as thick as a beastman’s thumb. With this size, he now could already swallow Shu Shu’s original form in one gulp!
 
The little snake was not able to talk and just crawled toward Shu Shu. Shu Shu, watching the snake, suddenly recalled the time when he was on earth and a certain owner of his had read all kinds of educational books.
 
That female owner of his had a child, and she paid attention to parenting articles all day long. In the end, he also read them. Basically, all parenting required the parents to love their children and not to ignore them.
 
Even if this was a snake, it was also his own child. If he ignored him, he would surely feel deeply hurt!
 
If the child felt deeply hurt, he would have a psychological shadow. And if he had a psychological shadow, he might have problems . . . .
 
Shu Shu gritted his teeth and extended his hand toward the little snake. At the same time, he mentally brainwashed himself, "This isn’t a snake. This isn’t a snake. This isn’t a snake but a noble mythological animal with dragon bloodline who’s incomparably powerful and can call the wind and summon the rain and definitely don’t eat hamsters!"
 
Thinking so, Shu Shu's expression finally became a little natural, and he showed a smile to the little snake.
 
The little snake was completely unaware of the mixed up feelings about him in Shu Shu’s heart. He felt very familiar with Shu Shu, and when he saw Shu Shu extending a hand, he coiled around Shu Shu’s hand and clambered up along Shu Shu’s arm.
 
The slippery snake scales felt so terrible coming across Shu Shu’s skin. He felt like he had to restrain himself from having goose bumps and flinging the snake away. Still, this was his own child! Shu Shu endured.
 
Eyes closed, Shu Shu also got a sniff of the little snake’s scent and kiss him on the head. As a result, he had just finished this action and was at once scared stiff by the feel of a snake tongue touching his nose.
 
Fortunately, he did not need to stay stiff for too long because the little snake was quickly swept away by Edgar’s tail.
 
The child in his hands was suddenly carried away. Shu Shu promptly opened his eyes and saw Edgar’s tail sweep the little snake up, and at this moment, the little snake had already coiled his own body around Edgar’s tail. Shu Shu breathed a sigh of relief and yet was still a bit uneasy, "Edgar, be careful! Don't hurt the child!" Edgar’s strength was so big; it was unknown whether the newborn little snake would get hurt by him or not.
 
This was a beastman, not a sub-beastman baby. What were you worried about?! Shu Shu was still afraid of him, but he actually went and kissed this child’s snake form. It was simply unbearable! Edgar’s heart was gloomy, and his tail loosened, not coiling around his own child. The little snake was unconcerned though. He crawled along Edgar's body and went to Edgar's head—he was also very familiar with Edgar’s scent and knew that this too was one of his closest people.
 
Edgar had been very indulgent toward the egg, but now that it was a little beastman . . . . He, automatically, was going to use his tail to pull the little snake down from his body—only his own sub-beastman or his own little sub-beastman child was allowed to ride roughshod over his body; others had better forget about it.
 
"That’s it! Edgar, you must accompany him well and hug him often." Shu Shu stated when Edgar was going to throw the child away.
 
Edgar's tail stiffened in midair while Shu Shu spoke again, "You must make the child feel that their parents love him, that parents will never harm their children and must care about and cherish their children . . . ." He talked and talked, spitting out all the theories he had read in unceasing torrent.
 
When the child just came out, it was the best time to make him feel safe and content. Shu Shu was a little afraid that he would not be able to take care of the child and let the child down, so Edgar definitely had to treat the child better!
 
What Shu Shu said should be the ways to take care of a sub-beastman baby, right? Edgar felt a bit strange, but since it was his sub-beastman’s say-so, he naturally couldn't refute.
 
Moreover, it was better to let the little snake stick to himself than to let the little snake stick to his own sub-beastman.
 
Edgar put up with the little snake, letting him climb onto his head, and then he stared at Shu Shu while carrying the little snake on his head . . . .
 
Being stared at by two predators should make people feel very scared, yet being stared like this by a big snake and a little snake in front of him seemed to make him feel that it was a little cute?
 
Shu Shu, looking at these two snakes, suddenly had an urge to take pictures.
 
The fallen beasts also began to communicate with each other using the beast language.
 
"What a cute little snake. He looks exactly the same as his father. If I have a child, he must look like me too. At that time, I’ll carry him on the top of my head and take him to go playing."
 
"I don't want a little beastman; I want a sub-beastman baby. Soft sub-beastman’s the cutest."
 
"I don't want to have children. You who have children, give them to me to play with!"
 
"Get lost! As if I’ll give you!
 
"I already have four children before I came here . . . . I miss them very much.”
     
. . . . . .

The fallen beasts’ chats were in full swing. Bruno saw Jesse staring at the little snake and immediately felt unsatisfied somewhat. “What’re you thinking foolishly? Don't forget that we’re just beasts now!”
 
All the fallen beasts instantly quietened down, and at the same time, there were some fallen beasts who turned toward Reynolds—Shu Shu previously had called Reynolds over and said that he was going to help him restore the beast core; how was Reynolds now?
 
"I feel great." Reynolds said. The spiritual power in his body had already disappeared, but his internal injuries were much better, and he also felt that he was much younger.
 
This sub-beastman's natural ability and skill should be healing? Maybe he really had a way to cure them, allowing them to have the beast cores again . . . . Thinking so, Reynolds turned toward Shu Shu excitedly.
 
Shu Shu had put all his thoughts on the newborn little snake before. Now, after Reynolds’ gaze fell on him, he finally remembered that he still had unfinished business—he did not even have any rough idea about how to help Reynolds restore his beast core!
 
If he told Reynolds that his beast core would take several decades to recover, he did not know whether Reynolds would go crazy or not . . . . You had to know that although Jones still looked young now, but after a few more decades, he would certainly be real old!
 
Shu Shu’s mood immediately plummeted, and because his face could not conceal anything, others saw it at a glance. Upon seeing this, Reynolds’ heart suddenly gave a “thud”. . . . Could it be that this treatment was still unstable?
 
If, from the beginning, Reynolds had not known about restoring the beast core, he would not have had any notion about it. But now he already had some hope, and if this hope did not exist . . . . Reynolds' heart was in his mouth as he wrote on the ground, “What's going on? Has something happened?"
 
"Nothing. It’s just that it’ll take a very, very long time to restore your beast core." Shu Shu said.
 
“How long will it take?” Reynolds wrote again.
 
"It may take several decades." Shu Shu honestly answered, looking at Reynolds apologetically. He was full of regret as well as guilt now. He regretted speaking about this matter when they had just met, and he felt guilty for being unable to bring it to completion . . . .
 
Several decades? Reynolds immediately stiffened. He had been waiting for thirty years. If he had to wait for several more decades, he would be really old, wouldn’t he?
 
The surrounding fallen beasts also became restless. They had to wait for several decades? Their life spans as fallen beasts were shorter than the beastmen’s. After becoming fallen beasts, there were not many of them who could live for thirty years like Reynolds!
 
“Is there any other way?” Reynolds wrote on the ground.
 
Shu Shu did not know, so he could only ask the red bead, looking for answers from inside the red bead, so to speak.
 
There was a very large amount of knowledge involving all aspects of cultivation inside this red bead. Shu Shu looked for a while and found a few methods to make the daemon beasts reach the jīndān period by force.
 
Such as devouring the nèidān of other daemon beasts or the dān medicine to advance in rank. There were also a variety of back door methods, for example, one kind of method was the collection of beast servants, which could make the beasts change shape in advance.
 
These kinds of methods basically had shortcomings or simply unusable—let’s say swallowing the dān medicine, where could they get the dān medicine, ah?
 
Shu Shu looked high and low and finally decided that the collection of beast servants method was usable. A powerful cultivator could insert his own cultivation into the beasts and make the beasts change shape. If the cultivator himself was not powerful enough, he could also combine his cultivation with some treasures of heaven and earth and then make the beasts change shape.
 
And, speaking of the treasures of heaven and earth, anything with dragon bloodline, like every part of the jiāolóng’s body, could be called the treasures of heaven and earth!
 
Shu Shu glanced aside at the big snake and the little snake.

Of course, this kind of method also had some flaws.
 
The beast servants’ transformations were hastened by force, so their strength simply couldn’t compare with the strength of those who had cultivated into the jīndān period. At the same time, they also could not have the lifespan of the typical jīndān period cultivator.
 
Under such circumstances, unless someone was willing to feed them all kinds of elixirs to make them reach the yuányīng period in a short few hundred years, they would die early.
 
The beast servant was merely a way thought up by some people who wanted to give themselves servants. For those beasts who had opened their spiritual wisdom and wished to cultivate, this method was in fact a path with absolutely no return to their immortal cultivation.
 
"I thought of a method, but this method has shortcomings." Shu Shu said.
 
"What are the shortcomings?" Jones promptly asked.
 
"The life span will become shorter." Shu Shu somewhat had a guilty conscience.
 
“How short will it become?” Jones asked again.
 
"Like Reynolds, it’s estimated that he can only live for a hundred years afterwards." Shu Shu replied. If it was the typical jīndān period cultivators, they could live for a very, very long time.
 
"One hundred years of life span is called short? This guy may not be able to live for another hundred years in the first place." Jones couldn't help but say.
 
“Eh?” Shu Shu thought carefully and realized that it was indeed the case.
 
These fallen beasts originally weren’t anything like the conventional jīndān period daemons, and they did not have to become jīndān period daemons in the future either. It was fine as long as they could become humans!
 
As for using the beast servant "magic transformation" method to make these people become humans, wouldn’t it be alright as long as he did not tell them that this was a method some people did to give themselves servants?
 
"Is this method really useful?" Reynolds wrote on the ground. He already began to slowly age now, and he had to say that for him, still being able to live for another hundred years was a good thing instead of something bad!
 
"You can try." Shu Shu said.
 
Reynolds gave a bark, and his wolf claws scratched out a few words on the ground, "I’ll give it a try. Go ahead and do it!" If he could not turn into a human, he might as well regard it as dying. What was being an experiment?
 
Shu Shu’s heart loosened up, and he turned his head to look at the two “treasures of heaven and earth” that he now possessed. Then he saw that the little snake had climbed down from Edgar’s head and was crunching the eggshell.
 
The eggshell was very, very hard, but he was munching on it in an extremely effortless way and had already eaten up half of the eggshell.
 
"Hold on, don't eat it!" Shu Shu shouted. He stepped forward to grab the remaining half of the little snake's eggshell and then asked Ian, "Mother, where are the scales that fell off of Edgar after he’s injured?"
 
Although Edgar and his child were the treasures of heaven and earth, but he was reluctant to make them cut their flesh and bleed themselves. Therefore, just use the eggshell and the shed scales!
 
Seeing the little snake still staring at the eggshell impatiently, Shu Shu picked him up and put him beside Edgar. "Cultivate well, and you’ll find that this eggshell is nothing." Beastmen generally would not eat their eggshells. The little snake would eat his eggshell because it contained spiritual power, but this spiritual power was actually not much. Rather than eating the eggshell, the little snake was better off staying beside Edgar and cultivate well.
 
"What are you going to do with the scales?" Ian was rather puzzled, but he swiftly took the scales out. Chris had once used his shed scales to make jewelry for him. He too did not throw Edgar's scales away because he thought of using them to make something for Shu Shu after they were back at the capital star.
 
"I have use of them." Shu Shu said. He was going to feed them to Reynolds.
 
But, having to feed them to Reynolds . . . . Thinking about it, Shu Shu’s heart suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. Edgar was his, and now that he had to feed Edgar’s scales to others, he was really unwilling to do it.
 
Putting both the scales and the eggshell away, Shu Shu said to Reynolds, "Wait for tomorrow. I’ll give you another try."
 
Why did the trial have to wait until tomorrow? Reynolds glanced curiously at the scales in Shu Shu's hand. It was unlikely that the sub-beastman would feed him this thing, right? He had certainly never heard of someone who could restore the beast core by eating other beastmen’s scales.
 
Shu Shu obviously didn’t know Reynolds' thoughts. After he got the course of action, he went into the dugout to study.
 
Edgar was a mythological animal, and he had also been struck by lightning so many times. Although he currently had no nèidān, but his body was still a treasure, and so were his scales. If an ordinary beast could eat this treasure, it was naturally possible that his cultivation rank would advance greatly. The scales were absolutely enough as auxiliary materials used to make the beast servant, but his spiritual power might actually be insufficient.
 
Forget about it! Try it first and talk again later! Shu Shu began to cultivate.

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A Guide to - 77

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77. Giving Birth to a Natural Enemy


Shu Shu had seen the videos and photos of Edgar in his egg days that Ian had shown him, and he was aware that the egg was able to move. However, it had been a while since he had given birth to the egg, and the egg had never moved before. 
 
Now that the egg in his hands suddenly moved, it actually made Shu Shu have a feeling of not knowing what to do. His whole hands shook, nearly making the egg roll down from his hands.
 
"Be careful!" Jones immediately exclaimed. The surrounding fallen beasts also stared at Shu Shu, but they did not dare to make a sound, lest their voices were too loud and scared Shu Shu and made Shu Shu accidentally drop the egg in his hands.
 
This was currently the only egg in the entire Fallen Beast Planet! If these men had lived outside, many of them would have already had a whole bunch of children and grandchildren. Yet now, they had not seen any little beastman or sub-beastman for several years or maybe several decades . . . .
 
They were all waiting anxiously for the child in this egg to come out, okay!
 
Shu Shu did not really drop the egg after all and soon held it steady.
 
Seeing this scene, everyone simultaneously sighed with relief, and Jones even said, "Shu Shu, be more careful. The egg can move, which indicates that he can soon break the shell. During this period, you must be doubly careful." There were not many medical equipment in this place, and it would be bad if the child was born prematurely!
 
The fallen beasts, hearing Jones’ words, nodded in succession. At this moment, a huge snake head drilled out of the hole entrance.
 
Although Edgar had been staying inside the dugout, but he always paid attention to the sound of activity outside and naturally heard Jones’ words too.

The egg could move? His child could move? It went without saying that Edgar hurriedly stretched his head out, trying to take a look at the child without taking consideration of his wounds at all.
 
That was the child of him and Shu Shu!
 
Edgar suddenly appeared, and the fallen beasts outside, except Reynolds, all subconsciously stepped back.
 
In some respects, the fallen beasts were even more sensitive than the beastmen. In addition, Edgar had more or less still been able to keep himself under control in the capital star, but now his aura was clearly exposed . . . . Reynolds rapped the ground with his tail resentfully as he stared at Edgar somewhat gloomily—Chris, he was not afraid one bit; as a result, Chris' son actually made him feel threatened, which was truly upsetting to think about.
 
What made his mood even worse was that Chris’ son already had children, while he himself had never experienced a husband’s life at all . . . . Reynolds moved closer to Jones’ side and started licking Jones’ face—he could only satisfy his mouth addiction now.
 
"Are you a wolf or a dog, ah?! Slobbering my whole face all day long." Jones pushed the wolf's head away. When they had just been reunited, he indulged Reynolds' desire to get close to him, but now . . . he really couldn’t stand getting his face licked into a pool of saliva regularly.
 
"Edgar, you can move?" In the meantime, Shu Shu was pleasantly surprised when he saw Edgar. Edgar was able to move now, and he would definitely get better and better next.
 
Edgar nodded, staring at Shu Shu's face without blinking. He very much wanted to imitate Reynolds and licked Shu Shu’s face, but . . . . Edgar just flicked out his snake tongue, and Shu Shu already gave him a wide berth. Shu Shu was not afraid of Edgar's body, but he was still a bit unused to the snake tongue—he had always thought that the snakes were the most terrible when they flicked their tongues in and out because, more often than not,  they would immediately pounce on the prey after doing this!
 
However, him avoiding Edgar looked pretty bad, so Shu Shu stroked Edgar's head, "You can rest assured that I’m already less and less afraid of you. Inevitably, there’ll be one day when I’ll be completely unafraid of you!"
 
Edgar: ". . . . . ." We already had two children together; was it really fine for you to be like this?

But soon, Edgar had no time to continue feeling mixed up over this because the egg in Shu Shu’s arms moved again.
 
Lying down beside Shu Shu and watching the egg in Shu Shu’s arms roll around, Edgar vividly felt that he was about to become a father and have a child.
 
The child came so suddenly, and a lot of things happened immediately after he came. The time Edgar spent with him was really not much, but now, seeing him move and smelling his scent, Edgar nevertheless felt nice and warm.
 
This was the continuation of his bloodline, his treasure. 

Shu Shu, however, had already begun to think of those fish at this time. After placing the egg at Edgar's side, he tugged at Jones’ arms, "Jones, are we going to cook these fish for our meal?"
 
The prey on this planet was said to be quite unpalatable. So these days, what the fallen beasts gave them to eat was the food delivered by the Beastman Empire for the fallen beasts. The portion was very generous, but the taste was simply unspeakable.
 
If it was before, it was already good if Shu Shu could eat his fill, but having tasted all kinds of gourmet foods in the capital star, he then became more and more greedy.
 
Jones’ cooking skills were pretty good. He killed the fish with a knife and cut some fat from the meat sent from the capital star. Using a pot that Reynolds provided, he rendered the fat and then put the fish in to pan fry them a little. After that, he added in some water to make it into a fish soup.
 
The fish soup carried a little fishy smell because of insufficient seasoning, but Shu Shu did not mind this little detail. Eating was a joy for him, and his appetite was extremely good. After drinking the fish soup, his whole person was comfortable.
 
The fallen beasts saw this scene, and their moods also became very good. Afterwards, they once again went to see Edgar and the egg, who was guarded by Edgar.
 
After the egg had moved once, he moved more and more. He seemed to like Edgar very much and had been knocking against Edgar’s body. Edgar did not dare to move randomly; he was afraid that his own strength was too much and would hurt the egg. So he simply coiled his own body to make a circle and let the egg roll around inside the circle.
 
The egg was really so cute; they also wanted their own eggs . . . . The fallen beasts were green with envy.
 
Even Bruno, who always disliked sub-beastmen very much, coveted the egg too. If it were not for Edgar’s aura that made him a little afraid, he would like to steal and play with the egg for a while.
 
Noticing the gaze of those fallen beasts, Edgar was extremely proud of himself but also had an urge to hide the egg. This was his egg. When the egg moved for the first time, these guys saw it, yet he did not. He simply couldn’t stand it!
 
It was a pity that regardless of how he felt now, he did not have enough energy left to do anything else . . . . Forming a circle with his own body to confine the egg in one area and prevent him from rolling everywhere, Edgar continued to immerse himself in doing cultivation.
 
There was abundant spiritual power on this planet, much more than on the Gass Planet, and Edgar soon gathered a lot of spiritual power. Although he had no way to absorb and condense it for the time being, but after it entered various parts of his body, it made his body better and healthier.
 
At the same time, the lively egg encircled by him also stopped moving and then snuggled up to his side, slowly absorbing the rich spiritual power that was drawn by him from the surroundings.
 
There seemed to be a spiritual power circulating between the snake and the egg.
 
Five days later.
 
Edgar often climbed out of the dugout and stayed outside since he had left the dugout five days ago. Not only that, but he also took responsibility for taking care of the egg. Every day, he placed the egg at his side and brought him to cultivate together.
 
After constantly taking care of the egg, Edgar liked him more and more and generally felt that it was the loveliest egg in the whole world.
 
"Rowr!" "Aowu!" Today, not far from the dugout, two fallen beasts once again started fighting. After they became fallen beasts, they often felt that they had too much energy in their bodies and nowhere to release it. It was at this moment that they would feel like fighting. Everyone had long kept their calm in the face of this shocking sight, and even Shu Shu, who could not help but get constantly afraid of such ferocious beasts, had become accustomed to it.
 
Ian and Jones were sunburned before, but now they had fully recovered. In fear of getting sunburned again, Ian put on a big straw hat and was now preparing a meal together with Jones.
 
Ian boiled a big pot of meat soup and put a kind of edible vegetable into it before giving it a stir. Once he saw that the vegetable was cooked, Ian extinguished the fire under the pot, dished out the soup, and then called Shu Shu to eat. Of course, he did not forget to leave a big bowl of soup, putting it aside to cool before giving it to Edgar to eat.
 
The taste of the meat and vegetable soup was not good at all. Shu Shu ate it while also taking out some snacks and shared them with Jones and Ian. Ian, smiling, accepted his share and then asked Shu Shu, "Shu Shu, have you made any progress in helping those fallen beasts restore their beast cores?"
 
Those fallen beasts were so good to them, and a large part of the reason was because they hoped Shu Shu could help them restore their beast cores . . . . Ian was now afraid that Shu Shu could not do it and thus provoked those fallen beasts’ anger.
 
Even though Reynolds was very friendly to them, but if all the fallen beasts under his control got angry at the same time, he alone would not be able to keep them off.
 
"My spiritual power has recovered a bit. Shall I let Reynolds come and give it a try?" Shu Shu said.
 
"Alright!" Jones nodded without hesitation. Although the last time Shu Shu taught him cultivation was unsuccessful, but he still had full confidence in Shu Shu and felt that Shu Shu would definitely succeed.
 
Reynolds was quickly called to Shu Shu’s side, and at the same time, other fallen beasts also knew about it. They had long hoped for Shu Shu to find a way to help them restore their beast cores, so now they all came up and surrounded Shu Shu, watching him impatiently.
 
Shu Shu had become accustomed to being watched attentively by so many beasts. After telling Reynolds to lie face down in front of him, he urged the red bead in his body to move and then let the red bead guide his spiritual power to flow and circulate inside Reynolds’ body.
 
Reynolds closed his eyes and sensed that there was a strange yet incomparably comforting energy flowing in his body. Since being with Jones these days, his whole person was inevitably a little agitated, but after this energy flowed through him, his agitated state was fully calmed down. And the internal injuries which he had never noticed existing slowly healed with the help of this energy.
 
This kind of feeling was really too cozy. Reynolds was almost completely immersed in it, but Shu Shu retracted his hands and actually frowned.
 
At that time, he voluntarily demonstrated once, and Edgar was able to start cultivating right away, and his cultivation speed was also very, very fast. But Reynolds now . . . . Although Reynolds’ cultivation speed was faster than his, but it was much slower than Edgar’s. According to this cultivating speed, Reynolds might need several decades to be able to cultivate into the jīndān period and changed into a human form.
   
Could it be that this was the difference between a beast with a mythological animal bloodline and a beast without a mythological animal bloodline? Because this speed was really too slow!
 
It was indeed not easy for an animal that wished to cultivate into a human shape. If he did not have the red bead, this gold finger, perhaps he would have died halfway through cultivating or had to cultivate for a millennium to succeed. And these fallen beasts before his eyes were all without gold fingers.
 
Even if the spiritual power here was abundant, they might have to cultivate for a few hundred years to be able to reach the jīndān period.
 
How should he deal with this?
 
Shu Shu had a complicated expression across his whole face, but Reynolds was completely ignorant of it. After circulating the spiritual power in his body a few times according to Shu Shu's instructions, the spiritual power dispersed into his body and dissipated.
 
Completely unaware that this was not a good thing, he howled loudly, feeling carefree from head to foot.
 
The surrounding fallen beasts also sensed the feeling of excitement in Reynolds’ howl. Thinking that he had made progress, they immediately started to howl and roar too. For a moment, this piece of land was thoroughly enveloped by the beasts’ cries that rose and fell in succession.
 
As cries of all kinds and sorts were getting louder and louder, a snake tail came to attack Reynolds.
 
Reynolds was very experienced; once he saw the snake tail coming, he immediately snapped at it. But unexpectedly, that snake tail abruptly changed direction when it was about to hit him. Not only it was not bitten by him, but it also hit back and struck him on the neck.
 
The whizzing snake tail carried tremendous force and drove Reynolds to stagger a few steps. Reynolds was very much not reconciled to it, snarling and trying to pounce on the snake, but then Jones yelled, "Reynolds, stop!"
 
Reynolds stopped his action and stared at Edgar resentfully—that’s right, the snake tail was Edgar's.
 
Edgar did not go and take care of Reynolds, though. He merely fixed his gaze on the egg that was encircled by himself.
 
"The egg cracked!" Jones shouted—there was a crack on the egg surface!
 
"Isn't it said that after moving, it’ll take at least a month for him to break the shell?" Reynolds made a few low growls. It had only been five days now!
 
Every fallen beast basically knew this kind of general knowledge, so when they heard Reynolds’ words, they all looked at Edgar nervously—it should not be because their voices had been too loud they shattered the egg, right?
 
When they first came to the Fallen Beast Planet, why didn't they bring an incubator? Such an egg was scorched by the sun during the day and was frozen in the evening . . . .
 
As those fallen beasts distressedly stared at the egg that was encircled by Edgar, the egg moved again, and the crack got a little bigger.
 
Everyone felt his heart clenched, and they all quieted down, silently watching the egg.
 
"He, he is . . ." Shu Shu was very excited. He was not as alarmed as those fallen beasts; after all, he always knew that his child grew extremely fast. As for shattering and so on—his egg was very firm and would not shatter from being dropped by ordinary people, and Edgar would not let others hurt him in any case.
 
"He’s going to break the shell." Jones said and could not help but sigh ruefully—this child grew really fast!
 
How could Shu Shu still care about Reynolds once he learned that his own child was going to come out? He ran to the egg’s side and gave all his remaining spiritual power to the egg without the slightest hesitation.
 
With a cracking sound, the crack on the egg became a little bigger and then got bigger and bigger. After a while, a small hole appeared.
 
The child was going to come out! The surrounding fallen beasts all had this thought, and they were both happy and worried—this child seemed to be born prematurely; was he all right?
 
The child was of course all right; even his speed of breaking the shell was incomparably fast. Not long after, a little snake with a pair of claws poked his head out of the eggshell.
 
The little snake’s two short claws clutched at the eggshell, and there was a small piece of eggshell on his head. After poking his head out, he looked in Shu Shu’s direction and flicked his snake tongue out . . . .
 
Shu Shu subconsciously froze.
 
He, a hamster, gave birth to a snake!
 
He gave birth to his natural enemy!

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A Guide to - 76

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76. Drawing a Circle of Admirers


After Shu Shu brought the water and fruit into the dugout, he immediately fed Edgar and Ian the water. After that, he clasped the fruit and used his fingernail to cut it open.
 
Shu Shu drank a mouthful of the fruit juice, and his mouth was filled with a pure, sweet taste. He at once grinned from ear to ear, and then, holding the fruit with both hands, he came before Edgar and fed Edgar the fruit juice.
 
"Edgar, we seem to have come to the Fallen Beast Planet, and the fallen beasts here appear to be very friendly." Shu Shu babbled on as he fed Edgar. He had just said a few words when Edgar suddenly opened his eyes.
 
"Edgar!" Shu Shu was pleasantly surprised.
 
Edgar glanced at Shu Shu; his eyes somewhat recovered a bit of clarity. His body was very good, and his resilience was also quite remarkable. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to recover so quickly when he was thrown into Gass Planet by a space crack after he had self-detonated his beast core. Nevertheless, he still required energy if he wanted to recover.
 
When he first fell onto Gass Planet, he happened to fall into a river, and the bloody smell on his body drew many fish to come . . . . Those fish ate the rotting flesh on his wounds and conveniently became his meals, allowing him to recover well.
 
But this time, his injuries were more serious than the last time. Not to mention that falling into a desert was also very unbearable for him.
 
When he was in good health, it was no problem for him even if he lived in the desert, but when he was being seriously injured, he still preferred a damp environment and also required a lot of water.
 
Shu Shu had already given him a lot of water to drink and fed him plenty of fruits and nutrient fluid, but the fruits that Shu Shu usually stored up were basically only the size of a chicken egg, and a bottle of nutrient fluid was the size of a thumb. What effect could such little things bring? As a result, Edgar's recovery rate was naturally very slow.
 
This time, a large amount of water suddenly entered his throat. Only then did Edgar have the feeling of coming back to life.
 
After drinking water and reviving, he smelled the scents of many beastmen . . . . Edgar gave Shu Shu a glance before he turned to face the hole entrance—Reynolds, who had been excited for a while, was just poking his huge wolf head into the hole.
 
"What kind of beast is this? Why is he so strange?" Taking a quick look at Edgar, Reynolds gave a small whine. He was considered to be experienced and knowledgeable, but he had never seen a four-legged snake like this.
 
However, although he did not recognize Edgar's beast form, but he recognized Ian.
 
Chris’ sub-beastman actually came here too . . . . What’s the matter with Chris? He could not even protect his own sub-beastman?
 
There were two sub-beastmen in the hole in addition to a seriously injured beastman, and the space was also small . . . . The most important thing was that the scent of that strange-looking beastman inside was extremely dreadful, and his gaze was also very cold and harsh . . . . Reynolds gave another glance and then returned outside. After that, he sat upright at Jones’ side.
 
After seeing the situation inside the hole, he finally understood why Jones would roam the desert alone. The beastman in the hole was injured to that point, so they could only rely on a sub-beastman to go out and find something to eat . . . .
 
If he had not become a fallen beast, Jones definitely wouldn’t have had to suffer such grievances. Thinking so, Reynolds extended his tongue and licked Jones again.
 
Jones pursed his brows and eventually opened his eyes.
 
Seeing Jones waking up, Reynolds moved closer and licked him several times.
 
Jones, whose face was getting wet from Reynolds’ saliva, wrinkled his brows even more tightly. He felt a little uncomfortable, and the sunburned area on his face also hurt a bit . . . . But, looking at Reynolds, he simply couldn’t bear to refuse or push away the big white wolf. In the end, he just seized the fur on the big white wolf’s chin.
 
Reynolds immediately shoved his head closer, making it easier for Jones to grip his fur.
 
The surrounding fallen beasts: We didn't expect that you’re actually this kind of a boss! Didn’t you usually get mad and violent and not let people touch you?
 
Anyway, they were really envious of Reynolds . . . .
 
Bruno extended his paws and seized the mane of his partner, Jesse. As a result, Jesse gave him a backhanded slap . . . . Bruno lay on his back on the ground and suddenly had an urge to change partner.
 
To add insult to injury, Jesse also pushed Bruno away and then took out a lot of medicines from his space button and put all of them in front of Jones. Their boss' partner seemed to be a doctor? In this case, he was probably more aware of what remedies he needed, and giving him medicines could also make him not hold a grudge against Bruno.
 
The medicines that Jesse took out were all the remedies that the Beastman Empire prepared for the fallen beasts. These very common medicines were all mass goods, and many sub-beastmen could not use them . . . . Among them, there was no medicine that came in useful for Jones, but after Jones observed them, he was still pleasantly surprised—there were several kinds of medicines that were useful for the seriously injured Edgar!
 
Realizing this, Jones picked up the medicines in front of him and hurriedly entered the dugout—he already saw that he had been brought back to the place they had been staying for a time by Reynolds.
 
"Awoo!" Reynolds, watching his own sub-beastman go and leave him just like that, yowled sullenly.
 
Other fallen beasts who saw Jesse giving medicines to Jones suddenly got an idea.
 
Giving things? It’s a good idea, ah!
 
That sub-beastman said that he had a way to restore their beast cores . . . . Should they try to curry favor with him? Although they were not sure whether this matter was true or not, but maybe it was true? If it was true, they should certainly curry favor with him so they would be able to become beastmen again!
 
Many of these fallen beasts were wearing space buttons when they were exiled to the Fallen Beast Planet. As for some of them who had no space buttons . . . . Quite a lot of fallen beasts had died on this planet, and those fallen beasts had left a few things after their death, including the space buttons. Therefore, the fallen beast troops led by Reynolds could be said to have a space button each.
 
Their space buttons contained food, water, and some other stuff. Now they took them out without the slightest hesitation and began to choose the best stuff inside, planning to give them as presents for that sub-beastman.
 
Inside the hole, Jones was feeding Edgar and Ian medicines. He fed Ian a bit of antipyretic and had Shu Shu give Ian more water to drink. As for Edgar . . . . After he had identified the medicines for treating internal injuries, he gave a dose of each medicine for Edgar to eat, but he also upped the doses because Edgar’s body was big.
 
"Shu Shu, both of them have taken medicine. They’ll be all right once they’ve rested well." Jones said as he sat on the ground, feeling sore.
 
“OK!” Shu Shu nodded. After he found out that the water in his hands was already finished, he climbed out of the hole again. “Do you still have water?”
 
They had, ah. There was water everywhere now . . . . Shu Shu’s voice had just fallen when he discovered that there were all kinds of things piled up near the hole entrance. Not only water, but there were also various kinds of foods and fruits and even flowers.
 
Seeing so many things, Shu Shu opened his mouth in amazement. Then he looked up and found that not far away, a group of fallen beasts were sitting neatly and watching him with bright eyes.
 
This kind of gaze made Shu Shu feel a little strange as well as a little puzzled.
 
"These are all presents for you." Reynolds wrote.
 
Presents for him? Shu Shu was very surprised and pleased. After he adapted to the gazes of those fallen beasts, he showed a smile right away, "Thank you!"
 
The eyes of the fallen beasts were brighter. They subconsciously wanted to roar and howl loudly, but, thinking that it would scare the sub-beastman, a group of ferocious beasts actually made a series of "whimpers".
 
"This little sub-beastman is so cute."
 
"So tender, I really want to touch him!"
 
"Kara, control yourself. If you insensibly and recklessly go into estrus, we’ll definitely throw you out. People without self-control can't stay in our ranks."
 
"That’s right, we certainly mustn’t scare him!"
 
"Look into what he likes, and we’ll go get a little more."
 
. . . . . .

The fallen beasts exchanged ideas one after another. Some of them had already formed a partnership with their fellow comrades, but when they saw sub-beastmen, they still couldn't help but want to protect them.
 
"Jesse, why are you staring at that sub-beastman?!" Bruno, seeing his own partner keep staring at Shu Shu, was angry. What good was a sub-beastman? Was he as strong as him?
 
Jesse glanced at his partner and then lay down on the ground and began to lick his own hair. He only look longer at that sub-beastman because he remembered his own sub-beastman little brother, that’s all. Bruno, on the other hand, had actually kept a sub-beastman in his mouth!
 
Since Reynolds and his men came, the poor, sad life of Shu Shu et al. had instantly changed.
 
Nowadays, apart from some high-tech products, they had everything they wanted. They did not have to worry about what to eat and drink, and they also had new clothes to wear . . . . In fact, they even got some high-tech products.
 
For example, among those fallen beasts, a certain fallen beast carried a mini solar power plant, which allowed the hole that Shu Shu had dug out to be connected to electricity. After getting electricity, although they could not connect to the network, but they could pass the time with the huge amount of downloaded videos on the tablet.
 
Shu Shu had to take care of Edgar and also cultivate; he had no time to watch videos. But Ian, who had finally recovered, and Jones had time to watch them.
 
These days, the fallen beasts were the ones responsible for their food and drink, so the two sub-beastmen had nothing to do besides looking after Edgar. Otherwise, how could they have time to spare?
 
Of course, the one with most free time was Ian. As for Jones . . . . More often than not, when he watched a video, he only watched half before being taken away by Reynolds.
 
The bottom of the dugout was now covered with various kinds of wide leaves collected by the fallen beasts. They also gave Shu Shu bedding and quilts sent by the Beastman Empire. These things made Edgar able to lie down very comfortably, which greatly benefited the healing of Edgar’s wounds. There were also several fallen beasts who were good at digging holes, and they helped expanding the dugout.
 
Shu Shu stepped on the soft quilt barefoot while holding a large piece of barbecue. He came next to Edgar's head and then fed the whole barbecue to Edgar.
 
With enough medications and not having to worry about food and drink, Edgar recovered very quickly. It was just that losing the nèidān cultivated in his body turned out to be quite troublesome—he could not speak anymore.
 
Fortunately, Shu Shu had long been accustomed to a big snake that could not speak. Contrary to what one might expect, he did not stay away from Edgar or treat him like a stranger. Because Edgar was seriously injured, Shu Shu even had to move him around manually and also feed him food and water, and thus, he was getting less and less scared of Edgar’s snake form.
 
"Edgar, when will you get better, ah? It’d be great if you can recover quickly." Shu Shu took out a fruit and bit a mouthful before stuffing the rest into Edgar's mouth.
 
Edgar swallowed the whole fruit down into his stomach and rubbed against Shu Shu. He had already begun to cultivate, but his body had not recovered yet. Most of the time, he only managed to gather a little spiritual power, and then that small amount of spiritual power instantly dissipated into all his wounds. So he could only lie down for the time being.
 
But he believed that he would definitely get better soon.
 
"Shu Shu! Shu Shu, come here and see what we brought back!" Shu Shu and Edgar were just leaning on each other and talking when Jones’ voice suddenly came through from outside the dugout.
 
Jones used to be very stolid and also had some queen-like demeanor, but after acknowledging his old relationship with Reynolds, he became more and more lively, and his person had been brimming with a cheerful and lighthearted atmosphere.
 
Hearing Jones’ words and realizing that they had undoubtedly brought back something good from the outside, Shu Shu hurriedly jumped up and walked outside, abandoning Edgar entirely.
 
Edgar wriggled and then started cultivating again, a little depressed.
 
Shu Shu barely made it outside when he saw a clamshell that was much bigger than himself, and inside this clam shell . . . there were fish that were still leaping and frisking about! It was not strange for this planet to have fish, but here was the desert! Shu Shu was totally amazed.
 
"Reynolds had a few of his men go to the coast to deliver supplies, and these fish are what they brought back." Jones explained. The fallen beasts on the Fallen Beast Planet were not only the ones at Reynolds’ side. In fact, besides these fallen beasts led by Reynolds, there were also many fallen beasts who formed various living communities to live on this planet.
 
Although the Beastman Empire would send them plenty of food, but those foods were not enough for all the fallen beasts to eat their fill. Fallen beasts ate a lot after all, not to mention that their lifespans were also quite long.
 
When Reynolds arrived on the Fallen Beast Planet, all the fallen beasts of this planet basically lived near the landing point of the Beastman Empire’s spaceship, relying on the food delivered by the Beastman Empire every year to make a living. In order to be able to eat their fill, they fought each other and bullied newcomers. From time to time, violent fights broke out, to the extent that the fallen beasts often died, and the dead fallen beasts became food for other fallen beasts.
 
At that time, the number of fallen beasts on the Fallen Beast Planet was not many, not to mention that these fallen beasts really took themselves as beasts. It was at this juncture that Reynolds arrived.
 
Reynolds came here with several other fallen beasts as well as a lot of supplies. He had once been a general; in addition to having people prepare many essential things for him, Jones also prepared a lot of food for him. Because of this, all eyes were on him.
 
Reynolds smashed down all the fallen beasts who had the idea of beating him and then led these fallen beasts to go hunting to feed their stomachs to the full. He also led them to find some suitable places to live, so that they could live a stable life . . . .
 
Now, all the fallen beasts on this planet were sincerely convinced and ready to concede to Reynolds, and so the supplies delivered by the Beastman Empire every year were all left to Reynolds to receive and then distribute to various residential areas.
 
The fallen beasts in the residential areas who got the supplies would often send some gifts. These fish were given by them. The two fallen beasts who had delivered the supplies and received some fish in return walked all the way here while holding the clamshell with their mouths, which could be said to be very arduous. And now these fish were presented in front of Shu Shu.
 
"These are all for you." Reynolds wrote on the ground.
 
"No need. One’s enough for me." Shu Shu replied at once. He would feel embarrassed if he always took other people's things, but it was only proper and to be expected if he took what Edgar gave him.
 
"You eat. You have children, so you should eat more and drink some fish soup for supplement." Reynolds wrote again. All the fallen beasts at his side also nodded in unison.
 
They initially gave Shu Shu things in order to make Shu Shu help them restore their beast cores, but later they knew that Shu Shu actually had children, which thoroughly changed their way of thinking.
 
God knew how long they had not seen any little beastmen, and now this sub-beastman in front of them was carrying an egg in his arms in addition to another egg in his belly!
 
Here, they could only die without being able to have any descendants, so they had completely lost hope. But now, they finally saw new lives.
 
The mood of these fallen beasts was indescribably complicated. At this moment, they felt that even if Shu Shu could not help them restore their beast cores, they were still going to take good care of this sub-beastman!
 
They all wanted to see the child breaking the shell!
 
"Shu Shu, you take it, okay? If you feel embarrassed, let them take a look at the egg." Jones said. He could understand the mood of a group of old bachelors who wanted to see the child.
 
These days, Shu Shu had taken the egg out for these fallen beasts to see several times. These fallen beasts would not poke the egg, so he felt quite reassured.
 
Taking the egg out of the bag on his waist, Shu Shu offered it in his cupped hand for a group of beasts to see. It was at this moment that the egg suddenly moved!

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August 5, 2019

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October 20, 2018

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August 30, 2018

I'm taking a break from translating, so next chapter will be posted on Wednesday, September 12, 2018.


PS 1: I've fixed the translation of ch. 34, paragraph 7. Thanks to Jess Duckin for the correction :)

PS 2: For you who apparently didn't read my TL's notes on ch. 33, I've written there, "Since there’s no female in beastman world, . . ."