The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Chapter 95 Slightly Poisonous, Edible
As they walked toward the Hailing tribe, Bai Qingyu reached out and touched her arm, asking in a low voice, "We've looked around here, but we haven't seen any sea salt. Even if they're willing to trade with us, they probably won't be able to produce sea salt in a short time."

"I heard that only some beaches with special terrain have sea salt."

The Shanna orcs living by the sea have no shortage of salt, but that's because they rely more on seawater and don't need to search for salt rocks or sea salt powder.

Ling Chengen pointed to the vast, endless beach in the distance: "Sea salt can be dried in the sun."

"How do you sunbathe?" Bai Qingyu asked, puzzled.

Ling Chengen just smiled mysteriously: "You'll find out in a while."

Our ancestors used the sun-drying method in salt fields for thousands of years to make salt, which contains a lot of wisdom from our forefathers and cannot be explained in just a few words.

Seeing that she didn't want to talk about it, Bai Qingyu didn't press her further. Since she said that sea salt could be used to make it, she must have already planned it out.

"It probably won't be possible to successfully dry salt in a day or two, right? We didn't explain to the people of our tribe how long we're going to stay here. Staying too long might cause some trouble."

Ling Chengen: "We'll leave tomorrow. After noon, I'll teach them the basics of salt drying."

The most troublesome aspects of sun-drying salt fields are tidal intake and salt field grading. Tidal intake can be figured out with a little more thought, but salt field grading involves much deeper knowledge, which is difficult for the orcs to figure out in a short time given their current understanding of salt.

Since he didn't bring a pot, Bai Qingyu went for a walk in the nearby mountains and quickly found some hard-shelled fruits that were suitable for storing things. They looked somewhat like coconuts, but their size was no smaller than a millstone pumpkin. Even with Ling Chengen's strength, it would be almost impossible for him to break the entire hard-shelled fruit open with his bare hands.

Bai Qingyu took Ling Chengen's bone blade and, following the texture of the hard-shelled fruit, finally opened it.

Hai Xing poured all the fish he had caught into the small pond at the entrance of his cave. Watching Bai Qingyu open several hard-shelled fruits, he asked in confusion, "These golden fruits are hard and don't taste good. What are you doing with them?"

“To hold things.” Bai Qingyu sat on the rock, scooped out all the slightly astringent pulp and juice, and threw it aside. “Although the pulp of the golden fruit is hard to eat, it makes a very good container.”

Hai Xing squatted down beside him, looking at the sharp, smooth bone blade in his hand with some envy, and said, "Ordinary knives can't open the shell of the golden fruit. Even if we wanted to use it, we couldn't pry it open. But this bone blade in your hand, it must be custom-made from the bone of a beast, right? Would you be willing to trade it? We can trade it for prey from the sea."

Bai Qingyu glanced at him, then smiled and said, "This is my partner's thing, I won't give it to him."

When Hai Xing listened to him speak, he always felt that he seemed to be showing off a bit, but he didn't know what he was showing off.
"By the way, does your tribe have any orcs with metal-type abilities?"

Hai Xing pointed to the tip of his nose: "That's me, so what?"

"Do you have any stored metal? I'd like to ask you to help me refine something." Bai Qingyu took out a golden stone from the animal skin bag at his waist. "This is the heart stone of a metal-type beast; it can be absorbed to enhance one's abilities."

Hai Xing gazed intently at the heart stone radiating alluring energy and asked, "Can it really be absorbed?"

"Haven't you tried making this thing before?"

Hai Xing shook his head: "Gold-type alien beasts are very rare in the sea. Most of them are water-type. And after killing an alien beast, even if you cut it open, no one will pay attention to its internal organs."

“However…” He seemed to have thought of something and suddenly stood up and said, “I remember my sister used to pick up some pretty colored stones, and they look a bit like the one you have in your hand.”

Hai Xing beckoned to him: "Come in and have a look with me."

Bai Qingyu temporarily put down his work and went into Hai Xing's cave. He took the stone that Hai Xing had pulled out of the giant clam shell and examined it at the cave entrance for a while.

"Some are heart stones, some are not."

Bai Qingyu handed the selected heart stones to Hai Xing: "There are four light blue water-type heart stones, which are not suitable for you to absorb, two light green wood-type heart stones, and one gold-type heart stone that is only level one."

Bai Qingyu handed the golden heart stone to Hai Xing as a final gesture: "You can try absorbing this and you'll see if I'm wrong."

Hai Xing didn't stand on ceremony with him. He was a level seven metal-type beastman, and a level one heart stone was like half a cup of water to him. As soon as he started absorbing it, all the energy disappeared, completely disappearing into thin air.

However, the slight fluctuations and absorption of his supernatural abilities quickly convinced him of Bai Qingyu's words.

"Would you trade that golden stone in your hand for mine?"

Hai Xing looked at his palm with intense fervor, and as soon as he touched it, he felt the immense and abundant energy within.

For some reason, he had a crazy idea: if he absorbed this Heart Stone, his superpower, which had been stuck at level seven for many years, would level up again.

Level 8 Metal.

He will become the second orc in the entire tribe to reach level eight in superpowers, which will allow him to better protect the weak Sea Spirit tribe.

Bai Qingyu calmly said, "Since I brought it up, I am naturally willing to trade with you, but do you have any metal ore? I need you to help me refine a few things, and in exchange, I will give you this seventh-tier gold-type heart stone."

Hai Xing casually tossed the heart stone in his hand into a clam shell and turned to rummage through his stockpile of treasures from the past few years in a corner.

Although they live by the sea, they are backed by continuous mountains, so they can naturally collect a lot of minerals.

He picked up a bunch of the more valuable ores and placed them in front of Bai Qingyu for him to choose from.

Bai Qingyu is not sensitive to metal, but the Hanshan tribe and the Shilin tribe are very close, so many of the beastmen in Hanshan started to ask the metal-type beastman in Shilin to customize cookware. After observing a few times, the metal-type beastman in their tribe also went back to start experimenting. They failed many times, but finally they made it.

So he has figured out that the ore needed to make cookware should contain something called iron.

He squatted down and picked through the pieces, eventually finding several relatively large pieces of reddish-brown iron ore.

"It is made using only this type of ore."

Bai Qingyu looked up and asked, "Do you still have this kind of iron ore? This might not be enough."

Hai Xing noticed that instead of taking the more valuable ores, he chose the rather unremarkable red ore. Although puzzled, he nodded and said, "We have plenty of this kind of ore here."

"Even if I don't have enough here, I can go out and dig some more later."

These ores were found at the foot of a barren mountain behind their mountain.

The soil in that barren mountain area was reddish and not very vegetated, but many gold-eating dolphins dug burrows and built nests there.

Where there are gold-devouring pigs, there is usually metal; this is a bit of common sense that orcs living in the wasteland possess.

"Don't rush. Try doing what I say first and see if you can make it." Bai Qingyu instructed Hai Xing to refine the ore and make a smaller iron pot.

Although the process was somewhat bumpy, the result was good.

An iron pot with a diameter of about thirty centimeters was thus made.

Hai Xing sat cross-legged in the middle of a pile of ore, sweating profusely from exhaustion.

He handed the iron pot, which looked like a hat, to Bai Qingyu: "After all that fuss, this is what you wanted? What's it for?"

Bai Qingyu examined the exquisitely crafted cookware, finding it even better than the one she had previously ordered from Lei Sang. She nodded in satisfaction, then, mimicking Ling Chengen's manner, smiled and said, "You'll find out at noon." "Young Clan Leader, are you home?"

"The jellyfish tide is here again!"

Hearing the shouts outside, Hai Xing remembered that he had important things to do and didn't have time to explain to Bai Qingyu. He jumped up from the ground, picked up the harpoon leaning against the corner, and said, "I'll tell you about the other things when I get back. Isn't your partner interested in egg yolk jellyfish? You can ask her to go to the beach to see them. Egg yolk jellyfish look very beautiful, but don't let her go into the water."

Seeing him leave in a hurry, Bai Qingyu looked at the scattered ore on the ground and the heart stones casually placed to the side, and shook her head helplessly.

This person really has absolutely no sense of caution.

He placed the gold-elemental heart stone inside the clam shell, carried the newly forged iron pot to the place where the hard-shelled fruit had just been opened, and then went to look for the missing Ling Chengen.

Ling Chengen had already appeared on the beach, standing atop a pile of reefs constantly being washed by the waves, looking into the distance at the egg yolk jellyfish that were almost covering the nearshore waters.

These egg-yolk jellyfish were unlike any she had ever seen; they were extremely large.

The diameters are generally over one meter.

It looks like a raw egg that hasn't split open in seawater.

It is not the same species as the jellyfish with a yolk that looks like a fried egg.

The system also provided an answer.

"The two types of egg yolk jellyfish are completely different. This one is larger, but its venom is not strong."

The system dismissed the "egg yolks" floating in the sea with disdain: "I thought they were some amazing, poisonous jellyfish! Turns out they're just these?"

Ling Chengen: "The toxin is slightly cool, but if the contact area is large, there's still a risk to life, right?"

The system nodded: "The reason why these jellyfish are proliferating is related to the fact that they hunted a large number of marine creatures in this area and the large-scale proliferation of algae. As you know, the most fundamental reason for the large-scale proliferation of jellyfish is eutrophication of the water."

Without artificial rearing, jellyfish mainly feed on plankton and some small fish and shrimp.

The mass slaughter of marine mammals, coupled with the failure to promptly clean up their carcasses, and the increased sunlight and intensity after the end of the cold season, led to a rapid proliferation of phytoplankton, which naturally attracted jellyfish seeking food.

Ling Chengen hadn't expected there to be such a reason: "So as long as they stop slaughtering the alien beasts in the near sea, and wait for the jellyfish in the vicinity to consume all the plankton and the water quality to improve again, wouldn't the problem of these giant egg-yolk jellyfish invasion be solved?"

The system nodded, but still analyzed seriously: "Although that makes sense, the temperature is getting higher every day, and the sunshine hours will only get longer. The algae in the near sea will only reproduce faster. We will have to wait until the cold season arrives before the water becomes clean."

"Once the cold season arrives, they will face the situation of some strange beasts coming ashore again, and there will definitely be fighting again, and the water will be polluted once more..."

Ling Chengen asked in confusion, "Can sea monsters really come ashore?"

The system said speechlessly, "This is the Beast World. There are countless animals you've seen and strange beasts you've never seen before."

"The diversity of species in the Beast World is fifty times that of your original world, or even more."

"The variety of large amphibious creatures that can come ashore is beyond your imagination."

"How many exactly?" Ling Chengen asked, a little curious.

The system shook its head and said, "The statistics are incomplete. I have currently collected more than two hundred species of amphibians in the nearshore waters of this area alone."

Ling Chengen couldn't help but gasp. This was only the area in front of them, limited to the situation of amphibians.

There are more than two hundred kinds of animals and exotic beasts. I can't even imagine how many there are.

"The ocean covers 85% of this beast world, which is larger than the ocean in your previous world. If the deep-sea beastmen are willing to come ashore, they will be the absolute rulers of this planet."

“Marine resources are far more abundant than terrestrial resources; you can imagine for yourself.”

"This is what you call a true explosion of species."

The information that the system inadvertently revealed had quickly refreshed her understanding.

But none of this could shake her determination to dominate the land, as for the sea...

Sorry, she's not good at swimming. As long as the deep-sea races don't intend to come ashore and rule the world, she'll stick to her original plan.

"Let me ask you a question." After his initial shock, Ling Chengen quickly put his worries aside and calmly asked, "Are these giant egg-yolk jellyfish edible?"

“It’s edible.” Xiao Huang offered several options. “Poisonous jellyfish carry biological toxins, which are essentially made up of proteins. Do I need to explain the structure of proteins?”

"It's very easy to break."

"For example, being heated."

Just like boiling an egg.

Ling Chengen nodded, understanding.

"But jellyfish are rarely cooked, right?" she couldn't help but ask. "In my memory, most edible jellyfish are served cold, and they're called sea jellyfish."

"I don't know about that. Anyway, these jellyfish are edible, they just don't taste good."

No matter how I cook it, it doesn't taste good.

The system doesn't eat, but it has recorded data on Ling Chengen's tastes and knows her dietary preferences well. It can basically determine that she definitely doesn't like the food made from these egg yolk jellyfish.

Ling Chengen: "Isn't there any other way to get rid of these jellyfish?"

The system did not answer.

Ling Chengen judged that there might be a way, but she probably couldn't do it now.

"You'd better advise these orcs to stop cleaning up jellyfish in the sea and just kill them. They'll just spray out a bunch of jellyfish eggs... The more you kill them, the more there will be, just like the Echizen jellyfish before."

Ling Chengen: "How come I remember that Echizen jellyfish tastes pretty good?"

"So, when I said these two types of jellyfish are similar, I didn't say they are exactly the same. They look different and taste different."

Ling Chengen: "..." It seems that eating it is probably not going to work, but I can mention it to Hai Ling and the other beastmen, just in case it doesn't suit her taste.

The system makes all its judgments based on her personal data, and the suggestions it makes may not be universally applicable.

(End of this chapter)