Pampered Beasts: Beautiful Actress, Many Children, Many Blessings

The rare herbs of heaven and earth are already scarce. How long will it take them to find them, going out again and again?

"By the way, you can issue tasks. Now that you are the city lord's wife, you can issue tasks in the name of the city lord to find spiritual herbs and medicines, and exchange them for longer stay, welfare benefits, and crystals. As long as the price is generous, I believe there will be plenty of people willing to do it!"

Tuntun's words undoubtedly inspired Xixi.

The precious baby in this womb has already been delivered, but what about the next one? And the one after that?

In particular, she also plans to give birth to a litter of Kunpeng babies for Kunhai. Kunpeng is an ancient divine beast. She had asked Yuanmeng before, and even a normal pregnancy would consume as much energy as this one. If she wanted all the benefits, the consumption would be astronomical. If converted into rare treasures, it would require at least three portions!

"TunTun, thank you so much!" Without hesitation, the task of collecting rare and exotic treasures was sent out that very afternoon.

In order to cast a wide net, Xixi did not limit the species, but for the rare treasures needed to nurture the Kunpeng baby, she not only increased the stakes, but also included information on the growth habits, locations, and whether there were any magical beasts guarding them.

In this way, things are clear and straightforward, and they also have higher prices, so most people would definitely prefer to look for these.

Of course, in order to ensure the quality of the treasures, Xixi has also put forward high requirements for their storage, especially for some plants, which have been clearly stipulated in terms of how to pick them and what kind of bottles to use to store them.

For a time, not a single rare treasure was seen, but the stalls selling artifacts became popular. Those jade boxes that Xixi had specifically mentioned, which were previously ignored, were now snapped up.

So much so that before anyone came to redeem their rewards, quite a few came to fulfill their vows, each one bowing their heads toward the city lord's mansion with utmost sincerity.

Due to her change in status, Xixi could no longer set up a stall herself, so she had to entrust the stall to Tuntun. In addition to ring toss, she added games such as shooting, pitch-pot, shuttlecock kicking, and hopscotch.

Xixi is like a treasure trove, with more and more novel ideas every day, and the stalls are doing better and better.

Later on, TunTun decisively suggested that they open an arcade in the arena, since it was the largest and best location there, and it would be a waste to leave it idle!

So, after fully consulting with the city lord, the two females hit it off immediately, and Happy Game City officially opened!

On the day the game city opened, Yunyao City, which had been quiet for a long time, gave birth to a new holy queen - Tun Tun!

This year, chosen by a thousand, is truly unlike any other year before.

The long time span led people to believe that the selection of the Holy Female had ended, and many females who thought they had not been selected had left one after another.

The election of Tun Tun gave them new hope.

"Xixi, that's great! I was chosen too!" Tun Tun's eyes welled up with tears.

No female would not want to become a Holy Female, and once she becomes a Holy Female, in addition to a comprehensive improvement in her physical qualities, it is equivalent to obtaining a ticket to the Central Continent!

Once they enter the Central Continent, it will be a symbol of class progress, a great leap forward. For this leap, many tribes will need to spend several generations of effort!

"Xixi, I did it! I finally did it! Five hundred years! Five hundred years have passed since our ancestors were forced to leave the Central Continent. Now I can finally represent my tribe and re-enter the Central Continent!"

“Forced to leave…re-enter…” Xixi repeated these two words, looking at Tun Tun with a puzzled expression, “You mean, your tribe originally lived in the Central Continent, and was forced to leave? Why did you leave?”

Actually, there's a question that Xixi has been thinking about for a long time.

Everyone longed for the Middle Continent, because it was far from the harassment of monsters and had developed textile and animal husbandry industries, making it a paradise for orcs.

Every year, the selection of holy maidens will bring another wave of holy maidens into the Central Continent. With such favorable living conditions and excellent fertility, the population of the tribes living in the Central Continent will surely break through the barrier!

In other words, the biggest dilemma facing the Chinese mainland should not be insufficient fertility, but rather the scarcity of resources caused by overpopulation!

If we follow this line of thought, then expelling those with lower talent from the Central Continent, as Dianhai did, might be one way to solve the population problem.

But why were they forced to leave?

“The pressure to survive in the Central Continent is immense.” Tun Tun’s words carried a sense of vicissitude beyond her years.

Just as Xixi thought, if they were content with the status quo, the tribe would grow rapidly, but only in number.

Quality, such as combat power and talent, will inevitably be influenced by the foreign holy female. It may give birth to higher-level combat power and awaken stronger talents, but more likely, it will give birth to a large number of low-combat males.

The tribe has to spend a lot of resources to raise these low-strength males, including food, water, medical care, and manpower. However, these offspring, whom they have raised with great effort, have not inherited the excellent genes of their fathers. This cycle continues for several generations. The tribe either becomes self-destructive, unable to make ends meet, or is suppressed by neighboring tribes and forced to leave the Central Continent, just like the ancestors of the porpoise.

Some clans, like the one in Dianhai, divide their descendants into different classes, with different levels receiving different resources. Once they reach the age of eighteen and awaken their talents, their lives are determined solely by their talents.

Those with exceptional talent can naturally remain in the tribe and live with their people, while those with less talent are forced to leave, or even be banished to the arena to become slaves and fight to the death.

There are also some tribes that rarely intermarry with other tribes. Although they are able to maintain the purity of their bloodline, they inevitably face the crisis of extinction. This is the case with Yanshan, where Sikong Hongyu is located.

Therefore, the various tribes in the Central Continent are constantly exerting their efforts to compete for living space and to ensure the survival of their tribes as much as possible, and they are under great pressure!

After listening to Tun Tun's story, Xi Xi couldn't help but sigh deeply, just like Tun Tun.

I initially thought Junsong's tribe had gone mad, but after careful analysis, I suddenly realized that it was just a strategy—a balance between procreation and ensuring the clan's bloodline.

However, this method is too terrible. They are all their own descendants, yet they insist on judging life and death based on talent. If that's the case, it would be better to follow Yanshan's example and stick to the bloodline without having children, or to follow Tun Tun's tribe and let them live and raise freely. At worst, they can leave the Central Continent.

I racked my brains trying to figure out a way to achieve the best of both worlds, but even after thinking about it for ages, I still couldn't come up with a solution.