Chapter 121: Me? A Special-level Female?

Chapter 121: Chapter 121: Me? A Special-level Female?

Ran Qi took a deep breath, but it did little to calm his racing heart. The few short seconds waiting for the King to answer felt like an eternity.

’I have to be the first to report this earth-shattering good news to the King!’

While waiting for the King to connect, Ran Qi’s trembling fingers pulled up Feng Si’s test results on the light screen and sent them.

When the King’s figure appeared on the communicator, Ran Qi was so excited he started pacing around the research lab. In his haste, he even forgot to bow, blurting out before the King could speak:

"King! It’s incredible news! I just ran a purity test on Lady Feng Si’s blood!"

Goose-feather-like snowflakes drifted down from the sky, landing in a steaming hot spring lake where they instantly melted, creating a stark contrast with the thick carpet of snow covering the banks.

Chi Jie, who had already arrived in Cang City, stood on a raised stone slab by the edge of the warm lake. He was wrapped in a thick, black beast-hide coat, and an attendant dutifully held a black umbrella over him.

Against the pure white world of the snowy day, his deep-set eyes and brows appeared even colder. With his leather boots planted in the snow, he stood with the steadfast aura of a tall, straight pine tree.

Between the detestable snowy weather and this return to a familiar place, Chi Jie had no desire to speak. It was only when he heard Feng Si’s name that a flicker of interest lazily sparked within him.

"Speak."

The King’s succinctness did nothing to cool the fervent excitement in Ran Qi’s mind.

He picked up the paper report in his hand, his words firing off like a machine gun:

"You sent me to treat Lady Feng Si before, didn’t you? I figured that since she’d have to come to the Sacrificial Hall for a blood test in a few days anyway, I might as well take a vial of blood for testing when she was having her physical check-up..."

Ran Qi didn’t even pause for breath as he exclaimed excitedly, "By the Beast God! I can hardly believe it! Lady Feng Si’s fertility level actually reached one hundred percent!"

Since ancient times, females have been divided into four classes—Special, high, medium, and low—based on the fertility concentration detected in their blood.

The ancestral Sacrificial Hall divided the one-hundred-percent scale into four equal classes, but this system, where every 25% marks a new class, became the very dividing line for a female’s unequal status upon adulthood.

Special-level Females were already rare.

According to the records, the Special-level Female with the highest fertility in the Empire’s history was the ancestral Female Queen, but even her level was only 85 percent!

And now, the Empire’s handful of unmarried Special-level Females only had levels of 77%, 76%, and 77% respectively!

Ran Qi quickly tried to calm himself down.

’My apologies, I got a little carried away. But with Lady Feng Si appearing with full fertility, those other Special-level Females the Sacrificial Hall used to treasure... they really seem rather ordinary now.’

"Females are inherently rare and precious. To reduce the sense of class division based on fertility, we’ve only ever announced their level, never the detailed percentage. Please, take a look at the information I sent you."

Ran Qi had just revealed a long-held secret of the Sacrificial Hall regarding female fertility levels, but he figured the nobles of the Empire knew anyway, to say nothing of the King himself.

Out in the snow, the attendants who heard this shocking secret—men who normally wouldn’t so much as blink in a furnace without the King’s command—wavered on their steel-like frames.

The black umbrella swayed as well, spilling the accumulated snow and obscuring the young Beast King’s expression.

Chi Jie stood in the frigid snow, his tall, slender figure starkly outlined by the swirling flakes. His gaze was lowered, fixed on the information displayed on the light screen.

Feng Si: Black hair, black eyes. Height: 169 cm. Age: 20.

Place of Birth: Unknown.

Initial Household Registration: Nantong City. Registered as a sub-female. Has one adopted Black Snake Clan cub registered under her name.

Blood Fertility Vitality: A perfect 100%.

Spiritual Healing Power Value: Inestimable.

"Alright, I understand." As a faint mist rose with his breath, a dark glint flashed in Chi Jie’s golden eyes.

Ran Qi watched the young Beast King’s expressionless face, his own face beaming like a wrinkled chrysanthemum.

’As expected of the King, his insight is incredible. He found a female who matches him perfectly long ago.’

’Now, I finally don’t have to worry about the King’s future spiritual rampages. The South Desolate Continent can continue to prosper!’

After ending the communication with the Great Sacrificial Rite, Chi Jie tilted his head slightly, his gaze landing on a flat stone by the hot spring lake as he propped up his chin in thought.

’It was as if by some twist of fate, whenever he saw her, even through a light screen, his heart—normally indifferent to everything—would suddenly, uncontrollably, begin to race.’

’So much so that with every encounter, he had to devote part of his focus to forcefully suppressing the desire to draw closer. It was like a battlefield—a war waged by his heart against itself.’

’Once is a coincidence. A string of coincidences is... fate.’

’His intense emotions had previously disrupted his usual calm, but thinking back on it now, he recalled an indescribable, unique aura about her during their last meeting.’

’Setting aside the flash of red hair he saw when he lost control, that aura—the one that had been hidden within his Spirit Domain and had yet to dissipate—was not something that could be produced by a typical Special-level Female’s Spiritual Healing Power Value.’

’And so, the abnormalities were all the more proof.’

A strange smile touched Chi Jie’s lips. As if he had grasped some possibility, he gave a slow, deep-voiced command: "Back to the city."

The umbrella-holding attendant asked in alarm, "King, are we not searching anymore? We only just arrived..."

"Aren’t the legions I sent out earlier still at it? Let them continue the search." Chi Jie smiled, not seeming to care much. He started walking toward the warship parked nearby, his leather boots crunching on the snow.

The footprints, impossible to hide in the snow, seemed rather hurried.

...

"Huh?" Feng Si blinked. "Me? A Special-level Female?"

Liu Xuan, the dean of Boman Gate Island, had come personally to respectfully present Feng Si with the Identity Card of a Special-level Female. Two Special-level Females in one year—it was a harvest year worthy of the history books!

The two administrators, Hu Fei and Fox Cui, followed behind him, their eyes stealing glances at Feng Si on the sofa, their hearts thrumming with excitement.

Facing the three pairs of excited eyes fixed on her, Feng Si hooked a long, pale finger around the brilliant red, diamond-shaped crystal and asked hesitantly, "You haven’t made a mistake, have you?"

’The original owner of this body was a low-level female with poor fertility!’

"There’s absolutely no mistake, you can rest assured. This is the result of twenty tests personally conducted by the Great Sacrificial Rite." Liu Xuan’s expression was one of unconcealed excitement, but his tone was exceptionally authoritative.

’How could that be?’

A flicker of confusion passed through Feng Si’s dark eyes.

’When she first transmigrated into this body, she was too busy fleeing for her life to immediately look in a mirror and see the original owner’s face. All she knew was that her hair had changed from red to the black she had in her modern life.’

’By the time she arrived in Nantong City again, she’d already been in this world for quite some time.’

’Perhaps...’