Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 260 - 178: Mutated Crystal Stone and Kill Him

A mess of brains, blood, and shattered bone splattered across the ground.

Ordinary cities and tribes strictly forbade Beastmen from killing one another. In Absurd City, however, there were no laws or morals to speak of. Killing someone here was as easy and casual as slaughtering a wild animal.

"Hmph. What a weakling. All weaklings deserve to die. Couldn’t even take one of my punches." The Wandering Beast wiped his hands in disgust on his tattered beast skin loincloth. But before he could turn around, several cold drafts sliced past him from behind.

"Argh—! You—!!"

Before he could even let out an enraged roar, the Wandering Beast was decapitated.

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

They all knew exactly what had to be done.

—Only the strongest Beastman could have the Crystal Core!

Soon, the Wandering Beasts, who had been getting along moments before, turned on each other in a frenzy. Their eyes went wild and bloodshot as their fists flew, each blow more vicious than the last.

Splashes of blood and severed limbs littered the ground.

Hidden high above, Ling Hong watched the whole absurd spectacle with a cold expression. The fist at his side clenched unconsciously. The bloody, tragic scene filled him with utter revulsion.

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 ended, and the lone survivor, a Beastman, roared with a mixture of madness and numbness.

A tall, imposing figure dropped silently from the trees.

"Ah! Who are you? You want to take this Crystal Core from me, too? You bastard, I’ll kill you!"

The Wandering Beast was seeing red. He swung his fist and charged straight for Ling Hong.

But he was already completely exhausted from the previous fight. How could he possibly be a match for a High Rank Beastman?

Ling Hong effortlessly slammed him to the ground. A swift chop of his hand struck the Beastman’s neck.

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

’So this is a Mutated Crystal Core. They really do exist.’ Ling Hong snatched the blood-caked Crystal Core from the Beastman’s hand. He carefully wiped it clean with his fingers, revealing its reddish-gold surface.

It wasn’t just the Wandering Beasts who scrambled for it; even he felt a fanatical desire to possess it welling up inside him.

’Perhaps this city possessed some kind of innate magic that could silently influence a Beastman’s emotions, leading them step by step into hell.’

Ling Hong shook his head, suppressing the dark emotions that had suddenly surfaced. He quickly stowed the Crystal Core in his Beast Skin Bag and left the area.

’It seemed like something had happened to Gu Yin.’

...

...

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 such similar faces were him and Dannas.

Even though blood ties were weak among the Snake Clan, Gu Yin still felt a pang of sorrow for the "mother" who had given birth to him. He couldn’t believe Dannas had imprisoned her and driven her mad.

Stirred by deeply unpleasant memories, Dannas became as irritable and ferocious as a wild beast. His blood-red, serpentine eyes burned with furious flames. "You don’t know anything," he muttered through clenched teeth, like a devil. "And she never understood me."

"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 look like she was in her twenties even when she was over forty! If she had just been willing, she could have lived on with me forever!

"She had so many mates! Every day, some male, driven mad with jealousy, would try to hurt her. I was afraid she’d 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 plenty of male Beastmen who coveted her beauty and wanted to help her escape to the dangerous world outside! It pained me so much... I couldn’t stop myself from wanting to go on a killing spree!

"So, for her own safety—and for the safety of those other Beastmen—I had no choice but to keep Marie protected by my side. Her eyes could only have room for one male: me!"

Dannas tried to find reasonable excuses for imprisoning his mate, but it didn’t change the fact that he had taken it upon himself to lock a female away.

Gu Yin frowned and looked down, saying nothing. He did not approve of such behavior.

’In the past, he would have strongly agreed—a female was most obedient, docile, and easiest to control only when you locked her up and kept her by your side.’

’But since being with Jin’er, he had learned that the secret to a lasting relationship between mates was mutual love and affection.’