After I Dumped 7 Beast Husbands and Ran

However, while Nan Zishi and her family were searching for the Little Mermaid, a major event unfolded in Stone Village, the former home of Hu Bai and his son.

「Three days earlier, in Stone Village.」

Hu Qian, the White Tiger Priest from Ten Thousand Beasts City, had come to Stone Village to investigate the deaths of Fox Xin and Fox Zi.

The Beastmen of Stone Village knelt respectfully, while the more timid among them trembled in fear.

"It’s a Priest from Ten Thousand Beasts City!"

"To think a great figure from Ten Thousand Beasts City would come here."

"Keep your voice down. Don’t offend the Priest."

A Male Beastman whispered, "I just asked around. It seems the High Priest sensed that Fox Xin and Fox Zi from our village were both dead, so he sent the White Tiger Priest to find out what happened."

"Fox Xin and Fox Zi are both dead??"

"They’ve been missing for so many days. They’re probably dead."

"Oh my god!!!"

Another Beastman asked, "Did you say the High Priest? The great lord who resides in Ten Thousand Beasts City?"

After the death of Stone Village’s chief, Fox Xin, the other females in the village weren’t up to the task and refused to shoulder the heavy burden of leadership.

So, Uncle Xiang and several of the village’s older males stepped forward to speak with the Priest from Ten Thousand Beasts City.

"Lord Priest, are you saying that our village chief, Fox Xin, and the female, Fox Zi, are both already dead?"

The young White Tiger Beastman Priest was dressed in a standard-issue robe of pure white Beast Skin. Despite his tall and sturdy build, he projected an air of holiness and nobility.

"Yes. Don’t worry. Whoever is responsible for the death of a female will be found out quickly."

Killing a female. In the Beast World, this was a heinous crime.

If a male was the culprit, it was an automatic death sentence!

If a female was the culprit, the punishment would be no lighter.

A snow-white Auspicious Beast—a Holy Deer—emerged from behind Hu Qian.

Upon seeing the snow-white Auspicious Beast, the Beastmen of Stone Village all bowed their heads.

Legend had it that Ten Thousand Beasts City possessed a Holy Deer, a gift from the Beast God to help govern the entire Beast World.

It was incomparably noble and sacred, possessing a limited ability to peer across time.

All Beastmen who saw it had to show it reverence and worship, just as they would the Beast God.

Hu Qian addressed the Beastmen of Stone Village. "The murders of Fox Xin and Fox Zi likely took place outside the village. We will leave now, and we should have the truth before nightfall.

Females are rare in the Beast World. Stone Village must continue to strive to fulfill its solemn duty of protecting them."

"Yes, Lord Priest."

Only after the Priest and the deer had departed did the Beastmen of Stone Village break into discussion.

"To think the Lord Priest from Ten Thousand Beasts City actually brought the city’s Holy Beast with him."

"Are Fox Xin and Fox Zi really dead??"

"They must be. None of the males from the Fox Heart Family or Hu Zi’s family are around. Only their cubs are left."

"Hu Lie is missing, too."

"Gods... To lose two females just like that, and one was our chief... Who could have done this?"

A male Fox Beastman spoke up, "Hey, is no one else wondering? How did the High Priest of Ten Thousand Beasts City know that Fox Xin and Fox Zi from our village were dead?"

"You don’t know about that?"

An elderly Male Beastman answered him. "Because females are becoming rarer and rarer in this world, the High Priest of Ten Thousand Beasts City borrowed the Beast God’s power to protect them. He located every female’s position and sent his Priests to each of their villages. The Priests then had the villages feed a special fruit to each female."

"Once a female eats the fruit, the High Priest knows whether she is alive or dead. If one dies, he immediately dispatches a Priest to investigate. This is also why the status of females is so revered. No one dares to harm a female, and no one dares to offend the nigh-omnipotent High Priest."

"The High Priest actually monitors every single female? That’s incredible."

Before long, the snow-white Holy Deer led Hu Qian to the cave that Nan Zishi had blown up.

The Holy Deer sniffed the air and conveyed its findings to the Tiger Beastman Priest, Hu Qian.

Hu Qian asked, "You’re saying the ones who killed the two females were another female and a wolf?"

The Holy Deer nodded its noble head.

’The beast is easy to deal with; we just kill it. But a female killing another female... according to the laws of Ten Thousand Beasts City, that must be punished as well.’

"You’re saying this female also has a Beast Husband who is a Seven-striped Beast King and a White Fox?"

Hu Qian said, "That’s fine. I’m an Eight-striped Beast King, and he’s a Seven-striped one. Defeating him won’t be a problem."

The Auspicious Beast hummed softly, and Hu Qian murmured, "You mean this female can also chant?

’Looks like I’ll need to be more careful.

’I hear that fellow Chi Xiao has been in the area recently... we could ask him for help.’"