Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 242 - 173: Rage and the Beast God Fruit
As he laughed, his expression twisted with madness once again.
"I am the one Father sees as the future heir! Do you really think you can kill me like this?!"
The words had barely left his lips when his smile turned bizarre. The eight beast marks on his arm suddenly flared, increasing to nine!
"Do you know why I was able to advance again?"
Chi’s expression turned cold. He abruptly broke free of Gu Yin’s hold. His snake tail, which had instantly doubled in size, whipped around and slammed Gu Yin violently against the stone wall, sending a shower of rocks clattering down.
Chi’s eyes were dark as he reached up to touch the bloody hole in his neck. The pain twisted his face into an even more hideous, terrifying mask.
He slithered menacingly before Gu Yin, seized him, and returned the earlier torture several times over. "If I hadn’t just eaten your children, you might have actually killed me."
Glimpsing the shock and confusion on Gu Yin’s face, Chi’s smile widened, his gaze growing colder and more mocking. "How pitiful. You didn’t even inherit the basic ancestral memories of our people. In any case, you’re about to be eaten, so I might as well tell you."
"Your offspring all share your bloodline. I just devoured many of your children, which is how I managed to advance. Once I devour you, I’ll be able to ascend and become a King Snake!"
Chi leaned close to his ear, his bright red, forked tongue flicking across Gu Yin’s face as if savoring his next meal of kinsman. "From the look of you, it seems you have no idea. That beautiful, alluring female of yours is carrying your young. They must be over half a month old by now."
"Such a pity. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have wanted to eat her. She might have even ended up carrying my eggs."
Gu Yin’s earlier confusion and anger morphed into heartbreak and furious rage. The taste of blood filled his throat, and he struggled to swallow, gulping again and again.
He felt as if a dull knife was lodged in his heart, carving away at it, gouging out great, gory chunks of flesh and blood. The pain was so intense his entire body trembled.
’Jin’er was pregnant. Pregnant with the child he had always wanted.’
’His first clutch of offspring... gone before they were even a month old...’
The last shred of sanity in his mind shattered the moment Chi finished speaking.
’I have to kill him! Even if we die together.’
Gu Yin’s expression turned utterly savage. Like a maddened beast, he instantly shifted into his full beast form, bared his fangs, and sank them viciously into his enemy. Before Chi could react, Gu Yin coiled around him like a predator and began to squeeze with all his might.
It felt as if every bone in his body was being pierced and shattered. Chi’s face contorted in alarm as he struggled to break free from the python crushing him in its coils.
He couldn’t help but let out a sharp, furious roar. "We share the same bloodline! You can’t kill me! Your venom has no effect on me!"
Yet, the more he roared, the weaker his voice became. Chi’s eyes widened in disbelief, his voice trembling as he spoke. He couldn’t ignore the power rapidly draining from his body.
’This legendary power of devouring...’
"AHHH—WHY?! I fought for my life, clawed my way to the top out of more than a dozen Snake Beasts to become Father’s sole heir! Why wasn’t this bloodline ability passed down to me?!"
Chi screamed like a madman, his black hair whipping wildly through the air. His jealousy was so potent it felt as if it could condense into a black, viscous poison, making him want nothing more than to kill Gu Yin on the spot.
"And you! You’re nothing but an abandoned stray! Why? WHY?! Why did you get this power?!"
’No wonder Father never accepted me. He even sent me out to find my own brother. So that’s what it was... In Father’s eyes, I had already become nothing more than food to nurture his other offspring...’
’No!’
’It can’t be! Father said I was his heir.’
"If you dare kill me, Father won’t let you get away with it! He’ll avenge me!"
"HISS~" Gu Yin could no longer hear Chi’s shrieks and roars. He was focused completely on devouring every inch of his brother’s flesh and bone. Rage had stripped him of all reason, turning him into a ravenous beast, endlessly consuming its prey.
As the great python shifted its massive, long body, the other figure gradually vanished, leaving behind nothing but a pool of foul blood.
Gu Yin felt a strange transformation taking place within his body.
A flood of ancestral memories, the heritage of his people, rushed madly into his blank mind. But he had no time to process them. He had to leave the cave at once.
"Jin’er..."
He finally found her, unconscious and bleeding.
"How did it come to this..." Chi Li’s voice choked with emotion. His fingers trembled as he forced them steady, using herbs to stanch the heavy bleeding. His own eyes began to turn bloodshot.
