Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 258 - 177: Mutated Crystal Stone + Kill Him

"No, she’s just sick and mad! The Beast God Fruit will cure her!"

"Aren’t you here for the Beast God Fruit too? My finest descendant, Gu Yin?" Dannas shed his crazed, pained expression and put on a false, enthusiastic smile.

Gu Yin wasn’t surprised to hear Dannas say his name. He’d already suspected as much. ’How could a Snake Beast as cunning as Dannas not discover my true identity?’

"What do you want the Beast God Fruit for?"

"To save my female. She... is injured." Gu Yin’s voice was tinged with sorrow.

"Oh, so the little snake has a female. How impressive." Dannas chuckled, his tone thick with mock sincerity, then pushed open the gate to the backyard.

The two of them returned to the center of the backyard garden. The Beastman corpses that had been there were gone, devoured without a single bone left behind.

An ominous, dark-red sheen coated the ground, and the air was thick with the stench of blood and decay.

Dannas stared fanatically at the malformed plant, his gaze fixed on the fruit, which was gradually turning a luminous blood-red.

"The Beast God Fruit," he began softly. "That’s just a name the Beastmen gave this miraculous fruit. It can trade a life for a life, resurrecting any Beastman who eats it. They mistook it for a gift from the Beast God himself."

"But as you can see, the Beast God Fruit never bestows its gifts unconditionally. It requires the blood of many Beastmen to grow. In truth, it’s a lopsided trade—life for a life."

"And you want to use it to save an injured female? Such a waste. I’m disappointed in you."

The smile hadn’t even left Dannas’s face when his expression turned grim, giving him an eerie, cold look. "There is only one Beast God Fruit. If you want to take it, you’ll have to defeat me. Those are the rules in Absurd City!"

He attacked Gu Yin, not as a father fighting his son, but as a predator hunting its prey. Every strike was meant to kill.

Although Gu Yin had also successfully advanced to the rank of King Beast, he had done so too recently. His power wasn’t yet consolidated, making him a Half-King at best.

His powerful innate talent, combined with twenty years of near-death combat experience, kept him from being seriously injured by Dannas, but his chances of victory were nearly zero.

A slender, snow-white Wolf Beast burst through the gate and instantly joined the fray, momentarily evening the odds. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Though Ling Hong was slightly weaker than Gu Yin, together they could employ hit-and-run tactics, fighting in tandem to wear down Dannas’s stamina.

Snake Beasts deplete their stamina extremely quickly in combat.

"You’re a cunning little snake. How about this? I’m done fighting. If we continue, I might actually get angry and kill you both."

Dannas quickly backed away from them, a wide smile on his face. His eyes, however, were fixed on Gu Yin. "How about we make a little choice?"

"To finish nurturing the Beast Body Fruit, the blood of one last Beastman is needed."

Dannas feigned distress. "But if I just go kill another Wandering Beast, I’m afraid the city’s Beastmen will get upset. So... what about the Wolf Beast beside you?"

"He’s very strong. I’m sure the fruit he helps nurture will be exquisite. Just kill him, and I’ll give you this Beast God Fruit."

Gu Yin’s expression darkened. ’I can’t figure out what this cunning old bastard is up to. What is he planning?’

Ling Hong was stunned. He pressed his lips into a thin line, glancing nervously at the silent, dark-haired man beside him. His muscles tensed, already planning his escape.

"Don’t you want to kill him?" Dannas continued to coax him relentlessly. "My son, if I’m not mistaken, this Wolf Beast is also one of your female’s other males, right? I’m doing this for your own good. Don’t hesitate. Kill him, and you can have the female all to yourself!"

The black-and-red snake tail, which had been still, suddenly shot up from the ground. Ling Hong’s expression changed dramatically. His tense muscles propelled him out the gate in an instant as he roared in fury, "You’re actually going to—"

But to his surprise, the black-and-red snake tail, over ten meters long, shot straight past him. It snagged a Beast Servant standing behind him and instantly dragged the man into the garden.

Ling Hong froze, swallowing the furious curse that was on the tip of his tongue. After a moment’s hesitation, he stepped back into the garden.

He saw Gu Yin strangling an unfamiliar Beast Servant with his tail.

"Use his blood," Gu Yin said coldly, looking at Dannas.

’That Beast Servant served me loyally for more than a decade. Even I was reluctant to kill him. This little snake certainly knows how to pick his targets.’

Dannas was so furious he began to laugh. He started to applaud slowly, and it was hard to tell if he was being wistful or sarcastic. "Worthy of being my offspring. Your methods are just like mine were back in the day. I truly regret being so impatient back then, abandoning you before you even hatched."

"Alas... you must hate me to the bone, don’t you?"