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

Chapter 99 Reconnecting the Nerves
Ling Chengen gently pinched his soft earlobe with his fingertips, hooked his neck with one hand, and stopped abruptly just as his lips were about to touch the tip of his nose, turning his head sharply to look out the window.

A huge head poked its way through the flower curtain, topped with a bulging round bump. A pair of bright yellow eyes curiously watched the two people in front of the window. Suddenly, it stretched its neck and let out a howl, then flapped its wings and landed on a tree branch outside the window, sticking out its tongue to lick the back of Ling Chengen's head.

Ling Chengen had already sensed its intention and tried to jump off the windowsill, but Bai Qingyu blocked him in place.

Helpless, Ling Chengen, whose hair was soaked by the bag's saliva, was speechless.

Seeing her expression change from sunny to gloomy in an instant, Bai Qingyu quickly washed her hair and face with water. After looking up at the silly little winged dragon, a look of frustration appeared on his face.

What a terrible time to come!

If it had been just a little later...

Forget it.

Bai Qingyu knew there was no chance left. He took a step back, giving Ling Chengen some space to move around. He raised his hand and pinched the earlobe she had been rubbing, cleared his throat and said, "I'll go find your father first. I'll come back and talk to you after we've decided on how to conduct the marriage ceremony."

"Do you have any requirements or standards for the ceremony?" Bai Qingyu looked at her expectantly.

Ling Chengen thought for a moment and said, "No, just do it the way you want."

Bai Qingyu was stunned for a moment, then sighed helplessly: "Are you worried that I can't do the ceremony you want?"

Ling Chengen chuckled and said, "I don't understand these things, so asking me won't help."

Bai Qingyu held her shoulder and kissed her on the lips: "Then I'm going."

……

After Bai Qingyu left, Ling Chengen glanced back at the bag outside the window, then jumped out and touched its muzzle: "Is the injury healed?"

Bao Bao seemed a little smarter than before, as if it could understand her question. It immediately raised one of its wings on the tree trunk and turned its body to let her see it clearly.

Ling Chengen glanced at it and found that the wound, which was very serious before, was now just a series of relatively new scars.

She nodded, and Bao Bao immediately folded its wings, tilted its head and looked at her in confusion, then looked at the new house hidden among the flowering trees.

Ling Chengen didn't know what it wanted to do, so he just raised his hand and used his supernatural ability to communicate with it, telling it that it should tell its family in advance when it went out hunting, or not to go too far and wander into the territory of other tribes.

Otherwise, if she loses it again, she might not be able to find it again.

After giving her instructions, she jumped down from the tree, grabbed the trunk with one hand, and landed lightly on the roots.

She planned to go into the cave to check on Su Weihua's condition. Yu Shaochen used his healing magic on Su Weihua's external injuries whenever he had time. After so much time, they should be almost healed. If there were no problems, she planned to try to reconnect his nerves today.

Before they even reached the cave entrance, Chongzhen's voice suddenly came from not far away. He slid down from his treehouse, hugging a tree trunk, and looked at her with a hint of surprise in his eyes: "When did you get back? I thought you and Bai Qingyu were going to be out gallivanting for days."

Ling Chengen said speechlessly, "Can't you speak properly? What do you mean by 'fooling around'?"

"A female with a mate going out with a single male, isn't that considered fooling around?" Chongzhen handed her a washed apple and said with a smile, "I just saw Bai Qingyu leave your place in the treehouse. He seemed to be walking quite briskly. What good thing happened to you two?"

“He’s getting married,” Ling Chengen replied calmly.

Chongzhen widened her eyes slightly, first looking her over, and found that she had remained calm from beginning to end: "Aren't you sad?"

"Why would I be sad?" Ling Chengen took a bite of his apple and added quietly, "You two should get along well from now on."

Chongzhen's smile vanished instantly: "He and you became partners? When did that happen? How come I didn't know?"

“He went to talk to my father about it now. I reckon he had already told his father about it a while ago.”

Chongzhen followed her into the cave, and said somewhat anxiously, "Wait, didn't you two have a falling out before? How come you've rekindled your relationship so quickly?"

"Ling Chengen, I've heard from Xiao Xi that he rejected you many times before. You should at least maintain some dignity, right? A female shouldn't give in so easily, or what if he doesn't cherish you in the future?"

Ling Chengen slowly munched on her apple, listening to Zhongzhen chattering around her. She asked curiously, "I thought you'd be angry when you heard that? After all, this house is even more crowded now that he's here."

Chongzhen's lips twitched as she said, "I'm not blind. It was only a matter of time before you two got together, but I didn't expect it to be so soon."

"You have to work on him a bit, otherwise it'll make you seem like you're easy to fool."

Ling Chengen turned around and smiled at him, "I'm easy to please, isn't that a good thing for you guys?"

"What's so good about it?" Chongzhen took the last fruit pit from her lips and said seriously, "You are the young clan leader of Shilin! Has he mentioned when you will get married?"

“He’s going to hold a marriage ceremony tomorrow night.” Ling Chengen wiped his fingers and said casually, “I’m quite curious, what exactly is the marriage ceremony like? I’ve never done one before.”

Chongzhen: "...You agreed to do it tomorrow night just for a marriage ceremony?"

He said with a hint of exasperation, "If you want to hold a marriage ceremony, Yu Shao Chen and I can either choose one of us..."

"So, you're against me marrying him?" Ling Chengen suddenly turned around and stared at him intently.

Chongzhen rubbed his forehead in pain and said, "What good is it if I object?"

"You're quite self-aware."

Chongzhen patted his cheeks, quickly changed his expression, and seriously started talking to her about serious business: "Forget it, if you want to get married, then get married. I came to you to talk about something else. All the cubs that were brought back have been placed in the cub containment area, but there are too many cubs in the containment area all of a sudden, and the manpower that was arranged before is simply not enough to take care of them."

"Moreover, these cubs have been getting sick one after another. After examining them, the shaman said that they need to be well cared for for a period of time to recover."

"It's not that Shilin can't raise dozens of cubs, but the chieftain's idea is to give half of the cubs to the Hanshan tribe to raise, which will also alleviate the burden of raising them on our tribe."

Ling Chengen asked in confusion, "We have plenty of supplies this year, so raising a few dozen more cubs with small appetites won't be a burden. Why would Father have such an idea?"

Chongzhen spread his hands, saying helplessly, "How would I know?"

"But I reckon it's because the tribe doesn't have enough manpower."

Chongzhen glanced at Su Weihua, who lay lifeless on the stone bed, and continued speaking to Ling Chengen, "Taking care of cubs is no easy task. Not only do we have to ensure their safety, but we also have to be responsible for their daily diet, their living conditions, and even guide them in learning skills, training their physical abilities, and even helping them develop their special abilities..."

"Moreover, teaching cubs requires immense patience, and there are very few orcs who meet the requirements, so naturally there are not enough people."

Ling Chengen thought for a while and said, "Let me think about it before I say anything. Let's put those cubs in the shelter for now. Hanshan might not be willing to take them in." Hanshan is mainly inhabited by flying beastmen, and the entire tribe's survival mode relies heavily on flying and they are used to long-distance hunting.

Of the cubs they rescued, very few could fly.

Not to mention, they were all small, flying cubs in beast form.

"You go ahead with your work. I'm planning to help Su Weihua with his lumbar spine injury." Ling Chengen pulled up a wooden stool and sat down in front of the stone bed. He moved the succulent grass next to him closer, looked at Chongzhen standing beside him, and asked, "Don't you have anything to do?"

Chongzhen looked at the disfigured Su Weihua with curiosity and said cheerfully, "I'll go make dinner in a bit, but I think it's still early. I won't bother you, I'll just stand here and watch."

Ling Chengen: "I don't want to eat fish tonight."

Chongzhen glanced at her and laughed, "You brought back a bunch of radishes, gave most of them to the containment area, and piled the rest in this corner of the cave. The chieftain said that radishes are not tasty and will lose their moisture if left for too long, so it's best to get rid of that pile of radishes as soon as possible."

"I'll make you stir-fried radish and pork for dinner, plus roasted yellowtail beef. I already removed the pork ribs at noon, and I'll also make a pork rib soup. How does that sound?"

Ling Chengen nodded: "Sure, I also brought back some seafood."

"If I can finish it for him in advance, I can also take care of the seafood at the same time."

Seafood doesn't keep well; it becomes particularly unpalatable if it stays out of the water for too long, and the space has very limited ability to preserve freshness.

Seeing that she had untied the animal skin blanket draped around Su Weihua's waist, Chongzhen paused for a moment before quickly pulling the blanket back to cover the more private parts of the corpse.

He glanced down at Su Weihua and couldn't help but scold, "You weren't wearing a fur skirt, didn't you even tell me beforehand?"

Su Wei rolled her eyes at the two of them: "You two, at least let me say a word from beginning to end?"

"You guys ignored me after you came in, and she was so quick, how could I possibly have time to warn you?"

Ling Chengen sighed, stopping the two from arguing: "If you're not wearing any, then you're not wearing any."

Chongzhen couldn't help but click his tongue: "To be honest, she's not good-looking."

Su Weihua, with a ferocious expression, glared at him fiercely: "How good-looking can you be?"

Chongzhen blurted out, "As long as she's prettier than you, that's fine!"

Su Weihua was so angry that the veins on her forehead bulged: "Get out—"

As their conversation veered further and further off-topic, Ling Chengen couldn't help but put a hand to his forehead and turn to look at Chongzhen: "You two are really going too far! You're getting more and more outrageous."

"Chongzhen, go out and cook."

"Su Weihua, shut up and lie down."

Watching Chongzhen's departing figure, Su Weihua said with some annoyance, "He provoked me first."

"So what? Are you going to jump up and bite him a couple of times?" Ling Chengen raised his hand and slapped him on the waist. "Looking like this, do you even think you can jump?"

Su Weihua turned her head, facing the stone wall.

Ling Chengen helped him turn over, covering the area below his waist. He pressed his right fingertips along the middle of his two shoulder blades to confirm the position and arrangement of his spine, and then slowly channeled his supernatural power into his body.

"Lie still, no matter how much it hurts, don't move," Ling Chengen reminded him.

Su Weihua knew that this nerve reconnection was crucial, so she buried her face in the hay and animal hide, trying to steady her breathing, her hands clenched into fists.

As the supernatural power penetrated, his conscious muscles instinctively tensed, trying to fight against the unfamiliar force within his body.

But as she gently placed her left hand on his waist, a very soft voice involuntarily entered his mind, and his consciousness began to blur.

Seeing that his body was gradually relaxing, Ling Chengen began to concentrate on reconnecting his spinal nerves.

Spinal nerves are actually non-regenerative, so many people with severed spinal nerves are almost completely paralyzed for the rest of their lives, and may even be unable to control their excretions.

This is also the most painful aspect for paralyzed patients, because they cannot move on their own. Lying down for a long time causes their muscles to atrophy, making it difficult to maintain personal hygiene. Even turning over is extremely difficult, and bedsores are very likely to develop...

If superpowers didn't exist in this world, Ling Chengen would have given up on Su Weihua long ago.

However, the existence of wood-type abilities makes spinal nerve regeneration possible.

The supernatural power that Yu Shaochen expended on Su Weihua during this period was not wasted.

Ling Chengen used his supernatural abilities to manipulate the severed nerves, trying to reconnect the two broken ends.

Initially, her biggest concern was that the spinal nerves would atrophy after being severed, making it impossible to reconnect them even if the nerves were straightened.

However, under the nurturing of the wood-type superpower, the spinal nerves, which should have atrophied, grew a few millimeters more.

This growth process is very slow, and the amount of growth is also small, making it difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

But she had used her powers to examine his nerves from the beginning, and they were severely torn, so much so that even if the two ends were pulled apart, they could not be reconnected.

After confirming that the spinal nerves could be reconnected, the serious look on her face gradually disappeared.

"After you recover, you must thank Yu Shaochen properly."

Su Weihua tilted her head slightly and saw that sweat was on her forehead and nose. The sweat slid down her temples, gathered at her chin, and dripped onto her knees.

Su Weihua: "So, I can recover?"

“The spinal nerves are the most crucial part. Normally, a severed spinal nerve cannot be reconnected. I didn’t give up on you at first, but I was just trying my luck. The worst that could happen was that you couldn’t recover and would end your own life.”

“But Yu Shaochen infuses your body with wood-type superpowers every day, especially since I told him to use the superpowers mainly on your lumbar spine. If he doesn’t do as I say, your spinal nerves will atrophy and you won’t be able to reconnect at all.”

Su Weihua was somewhat lost in thought upon hearing this.

In fact, Yu Shaochen was really good to him and took great care of him, especially compared to his terrible roommate, Chongzhen.

(End of this chapter)