Chapter 3 Intra-family fertility testing

After Pang Lai left, the onlookers dispersed and continued to browse the market. Aunt Mei quickly walked to Jiang Li, raised her hand and gave her a hard rap on the head. ” Jiang Li winced in pain, clutching her head and gasping for breath. “Where did you run off to? Do you know how long I’ve been looking for you? You’ve only recently transformed into human form, how can you just run out of the bird tribe? What if something happens to you?” Aunt Mei questioned her angrily. The original owner’s fear of Aunt Mei also affected her. Jiang Li didn’t dare to say a word, so she lowered her head and apologized to Aunt Mei. “Aunt Mei, I’m sorry, I was just having fun and didn’t listen to you.

” Seeing Jiang Li’s sincere apology, the anger in Aunt Mei’s heart quickly subsided. She looked her up and down, finding that she wasn’t injured, and the fear that had been stuck in her throat finally settled down. She let out a heavy sigh and said to her in a helpless tone, “This is the first and last time.” Jiang Li raised her head and nodded vigorously with a smile, “Yes, ma’am!” “Let’s go, the tribe’s test is about to start, or we’ll be late.” Aunt Mei grabbed Jiang Li’s wrist and strode forward. “Test? What test?” Jiang Li was puzzled, but she still let Aunt Mei lead her forward.

“Today is the annual fertility test in the tribe, all adult females who have transformed into human form must go for the test.” The original owner’s memories flooded back, and Jiang Li remembered that all females here had to undergo a fertility assessment after adulthood. Females with strong fertility could choose any male, even for the sake of procreation, and polygamy was practiced here. Conversely, females with low fertility could only wait to be chosen by males, no matter how unworthy the male who chose them, they could only accept their fate.

 The more Jiang Li thought about it, the more wrong it felt. This was completely treating women as baby-making machines? She was hesitant about whether to escape this test, she didn’t want her happiness to be judged by this so-called test. She didn’t want to win or lose.

Just then, a “ding” sounded in her head. The system’s voice rang out from her mind. “Jiang Li, you must participate in this test, and you must win first place.” The system’s words were like a bolt from the blue. It was truly a worm in her belly, as soon as she had the thought of escaping, it appeared. “I don’t want to.” Jiang Li refused decisively, without a moment’s hesitation. This made the system swallow its words, it remained silent for two seconds before quietly saying, “If you go and win first place, I will give you five hundred experience fruits.”

Five hundred experience fruits could increase her spiritual power by fifty points. Not to mention that these experience fruits were hard to come by, just these fifty points of spiritual power would take ordinary beastmen in their bird tribe two years to obtain. Faced with such a temptation from the system, Jiang Li immediately agreed. Mingyue was fraught with danger, and the various tribes were in turmoil. Just like what had happened, if Aunt Mei hadn’t appeared in time, even if she had risked her life, she probably wouldn’t have been able to defeat Pang Lai. She needed to store more spiritual power so that she could 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, this was the fertility stone used to test fertility. Surrounding it were young men and women, the girls were worried, afraid that they wouldn’t be ranked. The boys were dressed handsomely. They came here to make themselves known, so that females with strong fertility could choose them as husbands first. Getting a female with strong fertility was also a way to bring glory to their families. While these beastmen were chattering away, an old woman with white hair and a hunched back, leaning on a cane, slowly walked to the fertility stone. She was the witch of the bird tribe, Ling Po Po.

“Cough, cough, be quiet.” Ling Po Po coughed lightly, and tapped the ground heavily with her cane. Upon hearing Ling Po Po’s voice, the beastmen immediately shut their mouths, and in an instant, the test site became silent, all of them blinking their big eyes at Ling Po Po. “Today is our bird tribe’s annual fertility test, only adult females who have transformed into human form are eligible to come up for the test. The tester only needs to drop their blood on the fertility stone, the brighter the light emitted by the fertility stone, the stronger the fertility.”

Ling Po Po said, pointing to the dagger on the table next to her. After she finished explaining the rules, her cloudy eyes swept over the group of girls, “Who will be the first to come up for the test?” The girls looked at each other, all wondering who would go first. While they were discussing, a clear, soft voice suddenly came from the back of the crowd. “I will!” Jiang Li and the young men and women turned to look at the source of the voice.

 A woman with a slender, tall figure slowly walked towards them. The woman had an oval face, long, narrow eyes, and delicate makeup on her face. Her long, curly hair was adorned with a peacock feather. “It’s Princess He!” Someone in the crowd exclaimed. These words made the beast men excited. Princess He? Jiang Li thought carefully in her head, and looked the woman up and down, her gaze fixed on the peacock feather on her head. Could this be the bird tribe princess, Yan He? The bird tribe royal family was different from other tribes with many offspring.

 There was only one princess, Yan He. Because the queen was jealous, the king of the bird tribe had no other women by his side, and even the dukes’ tribute females, the king had never accepted. Yan He enjoyed the worshiping gazes and flattering words of these beastmen, she straightened her back, raised her head and walked gracefully to the fertility stone.

 “Princess He.” Ling Po Po picked up the dagger and presented it to Yan He with both hands. Yan He’s eyes flickered slightly, she expressionlessly took the dagger from Ling Po Po’s hands. Jiang Li saw her putting on such a pretentious act, she was very disdainful. She snorted in her heart and rolled her eyes in disdain, what’s so great about being a princess?

 She saw Yan He gently cut her finger with the dagger, and bright red blood beads squeezed out of her white finger. She stretched out her hand and placed it on the fertility stone, the blood beads flowed down and dripped onto it. One drop, two drops… When the third drop fell, the fertility stone instantly lit up, emitting a transparent light purple, like a crystal. This scene stunned the females, and even more excited the males on the side. In the thousands of years of the bird tribe, there were very few who could make the fertility stone react like this.

This undoubtedly added another layer of gold to Yan He’s status. Looking at the gazes of these beastmen, Yan He’s momentum increased even more, she curled her lips and looked at them triumphantly. Ling Po Po also nodded with a smile. The moment Yan He left the fertility stone, all the beastmen in the venue scrambled to surround her, introducing their identities in a flurry of words, some even making exaggerated movements, just to get a glance from Yan He.