Leisurely Farm Life in Beast World

In fact, several orcs didn’t take Ji Nuan’s talk of retreat to heart, for powerful orcs, wild beasts are nothing but food delivered to their door.

Casa, Harry, and Norz were even excited about this discovery; these days, their main food source has been the flesh of thorn fruits, with meat being distributed only about once every two days.

Even so, their meat reserves were already running low, which made the orcs somewhat anxious. Meat is important to orcs, it’s the source of their strength.

Relying solely on plant fruits may allow the females to last a bit longer.

But if orcs go a long time without replenishing their meat intake, their bodies will quickly become weak and lose strength.

They chose a relatively spacious area to set up their tents, and Ji Nuan scattered some insect-repelling powder around the perimeter of the two tents; the red scorpions from a few days ago left a very profound impression on her.

Once the tents were set up, Harry and the others planned to drink water directly from the lake, but Ji Nuan filled several segmented tree containers with lake water and poured it into a pot.

She was going to boil the water before drinking it, as nobody knew if the water here was clean.

After hydrating themselves, Harry and the others finally remembered something very important; they hadn’t replenished their blood energy for many consecutive days.

Upon sharing this thought with Ji Nuan, she quickly understood what they meant; replenishing blood energy implied drinking the blood of wild beasts.

Ji Nuan didn’t object to their suggestion, but she made her stance clear: "I won’t oppose your need to replenish blood energy, but drinking beast blood and eating raw meat can cause us to contract horrible worm diseases, so my tribe has long since developed a substitute for beast blood.

In fact, for several years, no one in our tribe has consumed beast blood, and even the neighbouring tribes come to exchange for the substitute from us.

Although this means giving us some game in exchange, they prefer to trade for a chance at life rather than suffer a miserable death from worm diseases."

Ji Nuan’s words made the breathing of the several orcs heavy.

What worm disease means is not unknown to any orc; for them, contracting worm disease means watching one’s body weaken and deteriorate day by day until death.

But now, they were being told that eating raw meat and drinking beast blood could cause worm disease, and that there exists a substitute for the energy provided by beast blood.

Ji Nuan looked at the three orcs with a speechless expression: "In the meat you’ve eaten in the past few days, I’ve added that powder to it, so your body’s energy hasn’t diminished at all over these days, and has even been continuously replenished well. Haven’t you noticed?"

"You don’t actually think that your lack of fatigue and weakness over these days is because your bodies are strong, do you?"

The three orcs’ expressions immediately turned awkward; obviously, they had indeed thought so before Ji Nuan pointed it out.

But now that they thought about it, the loss of physical strength they experienced here in this time was several times what it would have been in the familiar forests.

So, the Watson Tribe really does have a powder that can replace blood energy.

Harry looked at Ji Nuan with intense eyes: "Shaman Ji Nuan, I wonder if we could exchange for some of this powder with you."