Demi-human Girls Completion Manual Chapter 1673 - 122: Palace

The golden slime, retreating quickly like a tidal wave, transformed the scene before Valentina’s eyes. The once bright morning sky and grasslands of Nali gradually morphed into the inside of a vast cavern.

Before the steel-forged Wutong tree statue, Valentina, propelled forward by the momentum of her prior escape, soon began to descend with her body becoming heavier, finally crashing onto the ground.

"Thud!"

"Miss Valentina!"

"Valentina!"

Surrounding her, several anxious and concerned voices sounded simultaneously. The agile Dal, Clan Patriarch of the Snow Fox race, was the first to rush over and carefully inspect Valentina’s current state.

At this moment, many of Valentina’s feathers had bizarrely turned into inorganic stone, and it was these stony feathers that increased her weight, causing her to fall so heavily to the ground.

Seeing her peculiar condition, Dal seemed at a loss as well, and promptly turned back, calling for Giant Troll Elder Daliu, who was skilled in medicine, to come over and check, while also asking Valentina,

"Are you alright, Miss Valentina?"

Valentina felt dizzy, perhaps due to anger or the stony feathers on her body. She slammed the ground hard with her fist, gritting her teeth as she said,

"Damn Elizabeth!"

Dal and Daliu, who came to check, exchanged glances, after which Daliu sighed and, quite seriously, said to Valentina,

"You went to Nali... Miss Valentina, you are already aware of Nali’s ambiguous relationship with the Sardinia Female Country and Turand Family, and of course, you should know their stance. Moreover, you have communicated with their Queen before. Under such circumstances, you still secretly went to Nali without telling us. Forgive my bluntness, but you are not only disregarding your own safety but are also endangering the safety of the entire Wutong Tree."

Daliu gently brushed Valentina’s petrified feathers, and under an herbaceous fragrant shading, the stone feathers fell one by one from Valentina’s skin.

The pain, akin to plucking feathers straight from the skin, made Valentina gasp, but it also indicated that the petrification hadn’t penetrated beneath the skin, which was a relief.

Seeing that the injury wasn’t severe, Dal sighed in relief, and couldn’t help but advise Valentina, though his tone was gentler compared to Daliu,

"Indeed, Miss Valentina, you are the world’s only Phoenix now, and your safety is the safety of Wutong Tree. If not for Clan Leader Baline discovering and informing us in time, we probably would have been kept in the dark... Even for the sake of your husband, you should think carefully before acting."

As the stony feathers shed from her body little by little, the irritation and anger within Valentina did not dissipate but instead grew stronger amidst the admonishing yet advising tones of the two patriarchs.

She unwillingly lifted her gaze, and before the divine radiance of Ice intensified, from behind the two patriarchs, Baline’s youthful and ethereal voice suddenly echoed,

"Don’t forget, Valentina is only eighteen this year... At her age, you did things a thousand times more reckless and unreasonable than she has. Daliu, when you were eighty, you secretly snuck out of the tribe with Cocolia for a rendezvous and ended up in the wrong place, not only missing Cocolia but nearly freezing to death outside at night. Dal, you once set your parents’ house on fire when you were young, and as a result, the former clan leader punished you by hanging you up and beating you all night; you were about twenty-five then, weren’t you?"

The two patriarchs were momentarily stunned, and then their old faces blushed at the same time.

When they assumed the role of elders, they forgot there was a super Slime behind them who had lived much longer and held an unknown seniority over them.

Valentina couldn’t help but lift her head and look towards the Slime King, sitting in the shadows, sucking on a pacifier with a "pop-pop" sound.

After saying these things, Baline used his plump hands to pat his round belly, removed the wooden pacifier, and instead sucked his fingers, saying to them,

"She’s still young, whether from a human or Phoenix perspective, that is true. The first eighteen years of her life were under the control of the Turand Family, and the moment she freed herself from them, she spent another four and a half years in slumber, only to wake up and take on the leadership of our Wutong Tree. In the past few months, she’s done quite well on her own. Honestly, if she had restrained herself from going to see her husband today, I’d suspect some old fogey had taken over her body...

"Don’t forget, that’s her husband and her closest person. In a way, although we serve Valentina, in terms of closeness, none of us could be called her ’family.’ You all have happy families, do you expect her to forgo the chance to see a husband she hasn’t met in ages? We are, of course, thinking of her and Wutong Tree’s safety, but we must not overcorrect."