Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 394 - 267: Damn It and the Aggressive Him

A silent dread spread through the air, which was terrifyingly still. Her fur stood on end. She swallowed hard and subconsciously shrank back.

The dry twigs under her paws let out a strange CRUNCH-CRUNCH sound.

"Who’s there!" The cold, dangerous voice was thick with killing intent.

The man turned his head to look. His lower body was a massive, coiling snake tail. The dense green canopy cast his expression in shadow, but a pair of blood-red snake pupils, narrowed to blade-like slits, could be seen faintly. They were as cold as tempered ice, yet blazed with a fanatic lust for battle and a furious rage.

That killing intent, completely undisguised, swept into her eyes like the wind. It was utterly terrifying!

In that instant, Wamiya’s limbs, which had gone weak, felt a sudden shot of adrenaline. She dove into a low-lying thicket that offered good cover and ran, gasping for breath, paying no mind to anything else.

’Those blood-red eyes... they’re so familiar, yet so strange.’ The image was seared into her mind, filling her with an instinctual dread, yet it was mixed with... some other, inexplicable feeling.

She ran for several hundred meters in one burst, leaving the scenery far behind her. Only when the terrifying shadow of the snake was no longer visible did she finally begin to slow her pace.

Her body was trembling, on the verge of collapse, and her heart was THUMPING wildly.

’If I were in my human form right now, my face would probably be beet-red.’ The sense of crisis from being targeted by a cold-blooded beast had triggered her body’s instinctual desire to flee.

Her slowing steps came to a halt.

’...Oh no. The feeling... it’s coming back again.’

Before she lost consciousness, she wanted to curse up a storm.

「...」

Mi Yin withdrew his gaze and closed his eyes.

’It ran off pretty fast. I didn’t get a clear look, but from the size, it was just some small prey, not even enough for a snack.’ He couldn’t be bothered to chase it.

He leaned his upper body against the rough trunk of a tree, his long fingers digging into the dirt. A large pool of blood was spreading around him, sourced from the many wounds, both large and small, on his body.

His chiseled, bare upper body, as if carved from jade, was covered in a network of wounds. There were deep ones and shallow ones, new ones and old ones, crisscrossing each other.

The deepest one cut straight through his chest, revealing a glimpse of bone—a horrifying sight.

A dense Demonic Qi flowed from his wrist to the wounds all over his body. As the Demonic Qi touched the dark wounds, they healed with unnatural speed, closing into scars.

"I didn’t expect that after just a few months, your power would have regressed so severely. Is this all the damage you can do to me?" A sneer escaped the man’s lips, his crimson snake pupils filled with scorn.

He looked up at the man with silvery-white wings high in the sky, his scarlet lips curling into a mocking smile.

Ze Sheng stared coldly at the Snake Beast before him who had fallen to the demonic path. His thin lips were pressed into a tight line, his expression icy. His eyes, usually gentle and aloof, now swirled with thick killing intent and wariness.

His own condition wasn’t much better.

His once-pristine white wings were splattered with foul blood—whether his own or the Snake Beast’s, it was impossible to tell. His once-neat robes were now tattered and ragged.

"It’s enough to kill you."

He gripped his massive Ice Sword, but just as he was about to make a move, his expression suddenly changed.

Mi Yin’s previously limp, coiled tail tensed silently. He gathered a dense Demonic Qi in his palm, preparing to deal a final blow. But at that life-or-death moment, the silver-haired man before him abruptly vanished.

’He ran?’

’Such a perfect opportunity, and he actually ran.’

Mi Yin narrowed his eyes, his expression dark and filled with disbelief. With some difficulty, he pushed himself up from the tree.

He clutched his chest, panting slightly.

He could mend the wounds on his body with Demonic Qi, but this old wound that pierced his chest still flared up from time to time. It was an injury from his first battle with Ze Sheng.

—He had been outmatched and utterly defeated.

’If I had been stronger back then, could I have kept her with me?’

At this thought, the pain in his chest flared anew, a pang that tugged at his very heart.

Mi Yin closed his eyes. He moved around the area and found some herbs that could roughly treat his wounds. This was something... she had taught him, all those years ago.

His fingers paused. "..." He looked down dejectedly, then cupped his hands and crushed the herbs within his palm.

The acidic juice immediately seeped into the gruesome wound, the stimulus causing his muscles to twitch. His massive snake tail thrashed uncontrollably, snapping nearby trees.

He clenched his teeth, large beads of sweat rolling down his forehead. The pain only served to deepen his hatred and obsession.

’My Jin’er...’

’Stolen by that damned old bastard!’

After Jin’er died, he had stolen her body and taken it to the extreme cold of the Northern Land to preserve it in ice. He had then curled up around her and fallen into a long slumber, intending to be frozen with her forever.

But he never expected that bastard to find an opening. While Mi Yin was still weak from just waking up, Ze Sheng had swooped in and stolen Jin right from his grasp!

’But just now... he seemed to be in a hurry.’

’Something that could make that old bastard so nervous...’

Mi Yin’s expression changed as if he remembered something. He quickly took off in the direction Ze Sheng had fled. After just two steps, he caught a familiar scent.

"HISS~" His bright red, forked tongue flicked out, tasting the faint, rich fragrance lingering in the air.

’A familiar scent, etched deep into my soul. It’s a little different from before, but... there’s no mistaking it...’

"..." He froze completely, his heart pounding violently as his palms broke out in a cold sweat.

’How... how is this possible?’

But by the time he gave chase again, there was no one in sight.

Mi Yin’s hands clenched into tight fists. He stared grimly into the dark jungle, where all sense of direction was lost. His entire aura instantly became chilling and terrifying.

"Damn it!"

A vast swath of trees was snapped in two.

Flocks of black birds shot out from the jungle, CAWING chaotically. The Demon Beasts fell into disarray, prostrating themselves fearfully at his feet in submission.

"Besiege the Royal City until Ze Sheng is forced out again. And don’t make me wait too long."

After tossing out this cold command, the man’s figure vanished into the jungle’s shadows, swallowed by the darkness in an instant.

「...」

Meanwhile, Ze Sheng had sensed her approach. When he followed her scent and rushed over, he found her passed out on the path.

Several starving Demon Beast vultures were circling her, ready to make their move.

The next second, they were frozen solid, shattering with a CRACK without a single drop of blood being spilled.

"Wamiya?" Ze Sheng’s heart shattered. He rushed forward and gathered her into his arms, the corners of his eyes turning red.

Without even taking the time to clean the bloodstains from his body, he flew back to the castle in the Royal City with her.

「...」

Wamiya awoke on a soft mattress. ’Huh?’ She opened her eyes and looked around, confused.

Beneath her were soft, snow-white covers. Above her was a ceiling with carved patterns. The surrounding furniture was all familiar, as was the sight of Ze Sheng sitting in the armchair by her bed, his expression cold.

’I’m... I’m back?!’

She let out a sigh of relief, feeling like she had just survived a disaster. She patted her chest, where her heartbeat was returning to normal.

"Why did you run off by yourself?" Ze Sheng closed his eyes, then opened them again. His voice was as chilling as winter snow.

He took a deep breath, trying to make his voice sound somewhat gentle. He lowered his gaze to meet hers. "Didn’t I tell you not to go out alone? And to the Demon Beast Forest of all places, which is so dangerous? If I hadn’t arrived in time, you could have been killed."

’Not to mention... that Snake Beast was there too.’

Ze Sheng’s thoughts grew heavy, and his fingers unconsciously clenched into a fist.

He was terrified of them meeting. He had worked so hard to finally have her, and he would never, ever hand her over to someone else.

’Fortunately, things didn’t turn out as bad as I’d feared.’