Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 117 - 106: Your Venomous Fangs Are So Sharp

Looking down upon the defeated Beastmen, Ling Hong suddenly realized that Luoten had grown old.

He could kill him with a single move.

The Clan Leader who had once seemed so tall and imposing in his mind now looked like a beaten dog—dejected and pathetic. No wonder the man had always been so wary of him, so eager to eliminate him.

"I was wrong back then. I shouldn’t have ostracized you, or slandered you..."

Luoten spoke with feigned sincerity under the immense pressure, trying to appease the furious, bristling Wolf Beast before him. "Now that things have come to this, we can try to reconcile. Merging the tribes is what our people have always wanted. I am willing to give up the position of Clan Leader..."

But as Luoten spoke, a sinister expression flickered across his face. Behind his back, his hands suddenly transformed into beastly claws as a ball of Demonic Qi condensed in his palm.

His power surged severalfold. With the speed of a lightning strike, he lunged and thrust his palm at Ling Hong.

"Watch out—!" Not far away, An Jin’s expression changed drastically when she saw Luoten’s sneak attack. Before she could cry out, Gu Yin, who had been watching the battle with cold eyes beside her, suddenly disappeared.

A Seventh Rank Beastman’s speed was astonishing.

In the blink of an eye, just an instant before Luoten could launch his attack, a black-and-red python blurred into motion, coiling around and completely engulfing the man.

"...Thanks." Ling Hong, still shaken, shot a grateful look at the Snake Beast who had joined the battle.

He took two steps back, leaving the battlefield entirely to Gu Yin.

’I never thought the Clan Leader had another card to play. If I saw that right, the black aura on his body was Demonic Qi, wasn’t it?’

’He’d actually become a Demon Beastman?!’

"HISS~" Gu Yin’s hiss was his only response.

Gu Yin’s attack was swift and brutal. His sharp, saliva-dripping fangs pierced straight through Luoten’s chest while the sickening crunch of cracking bones echoed from within his tightly constricting coils. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Between the lethal venom and the brutal constriction, Luoten’s body rapidly deformed and turned a ghastly shade of purple. Soon, he was reduced to a mangled pulp of flesh and blood, which Gu Yin flung into the nearby grass with utter revulsion.

The blood-soaked grass instantly yellowed and withered.

The once-seething, chaotic battlefield fell instantly silent. Beastmen collapsed to the ground, scrambling backward on their hands and feet. "Wandering Beast... Snake Beast... Seventh Rank..."

Their faces were ashen, their terror palpable. A few of them had even fainted dead away.

’What was even more unbelievable than the Seventh Rank Snake Beast was the fact that their Clan Leader—the man they had always loved and supported—was actually a Demon Beastman?!’

’He’d hidden it for so long.’

’Demon Beastmen grew stronger by eating other Beastmen. No wonder young ones from their tribe would go missing every so often.’

’They had all just assumed the children had been mischievous, snuck out of the tribe, and gotten eaten by wild animals.’

’Now that they thought about it, the truth was horrifying...’

With their Clan Leader dead, the Beastmen of the Luoten Tribe lost all will to resist. Ling Hong and his men herded them back to the tribe to be branded as slaves.

—A defeated tribe was always absorbed by the victor, its members becoming low-status slaves and a source of cheap, exploited labor.

Leaving the battlefield cleanup to the other Beastmen, Gu Yin remained in his snake form and slithered over to An Jin, easily wrapping his thick, long body around her twice.

His mouth was full of blood, so he didn’t lick her. Instead, he sidled up and nuzzled her affectionately, as if waiting for praise.

"You’re amazing."

An Jin praised him with genuine sincerity, stroking the python’s smooth, cool, sleek body. "Your fangs and venom are incredible. To be able to instantly poison a Fifth Rank Beastman to death..."

This reminded her of something.

’Back when I first transmigrated here, the wolf and the Red Snake I saw fighting from a distance... that must have been Gu Yin and Ling Hong, right?’

’It’s a good thing Gu Yin was only Fifth Rank back then, too. Otherwise, Ling Hong probably would have been poisoned to death, and I never would have gotten involved in any of this.’

"HISS~" His bright red, forked tongue flickered in the air. Blood still clung to his partially exposed fangs, and a hint of pride appeared in his serpentine eyes.

An Jin marveled at the wonders of nature for creating a creature with such a perfect combination of explosive power, speed, and venom.

She couldn’t resist reaching out to touch one of his fangs.

The python beneath her hand trembled but quickly composed himself. He then wound his soft tail around her calf and rested his head on her thigh, giving it a gentle nudge.

He tilted his head and obediently opened his mouth, letting her touch his fang.

The tip of his tail began to vibrate, an instinctive reaction for a startled snake preparing to strike. The python’s eyes burned as he stared at her, but the vibrations in his tail slowly subsided until they ceased completely.

"HISS~"

Seeing An Jin continue to stroke him while lost in thought, a flicker of unease appeared in Gu Yin’s serpentine eyes, and a sense of panic began to bubble up inside him.