Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 257 - 177: Mutated Crystal Stone + Kill Him

"Hmph. What a weakling. All weaklings deserve to die. He couldn’t even take a single punch from me." The Wandering Beast wiped his hands in disgust on his tattered beast skin skirt, but before he could even turn around, several cold gusts of wind swept past him from behind.

"AH—! How could you—!!"

Before the furious roar could even finish, the Wandering Beast was decapitated.

There was only one Mutated Crystal Core, and there were six Beastmen.

What was to be done? Deep down, they all knew.

’Only the strongest Beastman can possess the Crystal Core!’

In an instant, the Wandering Beasts’ brief moment of camaraderie shattered, and they began to slaughter one another. Their crazed eyes filled with bloodshot veins, and each blow from their fists was more vicious than the last.

Pools of fresh blood and severed limbs soon littered the ground.

Hidden high above, Ling Hong watched this absurd scene with cold indifference. The fist at his side clenched subconsciously. Such a bloody and tragic spectacle filled him with immense disgust.

He hated this city.

Hated it to his very core.

"Haha! The Crystal Core is mine! You all deserved to die! All of you!" The slaughter below finally came to an end as the sole surviving Beastman roared, manic and numb.

A tall, well-built figure dropped silently from a tree.

"Ah! Who are you? Are you trying to steal this Crystal Core from me too? Damn you, I’ll kill you!"

The blood-crazed Wandering Beast swung his fist and charged straight at Ling Hong.

However, he was already severely exhausted from the previous battle. How could he possibly be a match for a High Rank Beastman?

With almost no effort, Ling Hong made short work of him, pinning him to the ground. He brought the edge of his hand down swiftly on the back of his neck.

The Wandering Beast’s eyes rolled back, and he collapsed unconscious in a corner.

"So this is a Mutated Crystal Core. They really do exist." Ling Hong snatched the blood-and-grime-covered Crystal Core from the beastman’s hand and carefully wiped it clean with his fingers, revealing its crimson-gold surface.

It wasn’t just the Wandering Beasts who scrambled for it; even he felt a fanatical urge of possession well up inside him.

Perhaps this city possessed a natural, demonic power that could silently influence a Beastman’s emotions, guiding them step by step into hell.

Ling Hong shook his head, suppressing the darkness that had suddenly flickered in his eyes. He quickly tucked the Crystal Core into his Beast Skin Bag and promptly left the area.

It looked like something was wrong on Gu Yin’s end.

...

...

The moment he saw the crazed female, Gu Yin knew she was mistaking him for someone else.

And in this Stone Castle, the only two with similar faces were him and Dannas.

He never imagined his mother would be imprisoned by Dannas until she went mad. Even though blood ties in the Snake Clan were weak, Gu Yin felt a sliver of sorrow for the "mother" who had given birth to him.

Triggered by these extremely unpleasant memories, Dannas became as volatile and fierce as a wild beast. His blood-red snake pupils burned with fiery rage. "You don’t know anything. And she never understood me."

He muttered through clenched teeth, like a demon.

"I did so much for her. Why couldn’t she see it?"

"I gave her the best life. I gave her Green Crystals to preserve her youthful beauty, letting her keep the appearance of a twenty-year-old even in her forties! As long as she was willing, she could have lived on with me!" 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

"She had so many mates. All day long, males would be driven mad by jealousy and try to hurt her. I was afraid she would get hurt, so I protected her here, in this magnificent Stone Castle I built just for her."

"Even after I killed all her previous mates, there were still other male Beastmen, lusting after her beauty, who wanted to take her away to the dangerous world outside! It tormented me, and I felt an irresistible urge to go on a killing spree!"

"So, for her own safety—and the safety of those other Beastmen—I had no choice but to protect Marie by keeping her at my side. She can only have eyes for me, and me alone!"

Dannas was trying to find a reasonable excuse for imprisoning his mate, but it didn’t change the fact that he had confined a female against her will.

Gu Yin frowned and looked down without speaking. He did not approve of such behavior.

If this were the past, he would have agreed wholeheartedly—a female was most obedient, docile, and easiest to control only when locked up and kept by one’s side.

But ever since he had Jin’er, he had come to understand that the secret to maintaining a relationship between mates was mutual love and affection.

Endless imprisonment and possession would only make a female hate and detest that male even more.

"She’ll only hate you more, just as she does now." Gu Yin mercilessly exposed the truth that Dannas feared most.