Raising Beast Husbands with My Space — The Villainess Becomes a Beloved Favorite-Chapter 451 - 448: Adventure
Accompanied by these insects, there was also a sudden insect buzz in the mountains and forests, so sharp and shrill.
Seeing the insect swarm surging from the surrounding dense forest, Su Muyao and Xiao Jihan both changed their expressions.
"There are actually so many insects here."
They knew there would be danger along the way to the southwest but didn’t expect to encounter so many insects.
The system spoke: "If it weren’t for the main body destroying the snake shedding underwear Wen Nanxi gave the host, these low-level insects wouldn’t dare approach the host at all."
The system was furious at the thought of that main body.
It wanted to curse, it was infuriating.
"Previously, with the snake shedding that Wen Nanxi gave to the host, back then on Cang Beast Continent, the host wouldn’t touch anything like snakes or insects at all. Even if such things existed, they’d automatically avoid from afar."
The snake shedding clothes that the main body swapped for the host were fake.
Useless, unable to deter these things.
"Be careful!"
Before Su Muyao could act, Xiao Jihan was already blocking in front of her, instantly catalyzing his Ice Ability, with a piercing chill erupting from his body.
His originally drooping snow-colored long hair suddenly lifted as if upheld by an invisible spiritual energy stream, shimmering with cold glint under the mottled moonlight in the forest.
Due to Xiao Jihan’s natural Ice Ability, every strand of his hair seemed coated with a layer of frost.
The dark robe surrounding him also flipped and fluttered in the wind, the edges dyed with pale blue ice patterns by the chill, like butterfly wings gliding over a cold pool, solitary and chilly.
When the first wave of insects came swarmed from all directions, Xiao Jihan’s left arm lightly lifted, his snow-colored hair and robes traced a graceful arc in the air.
In his palm, the ice ability suddenly erupted like a flood of frost rivers, spreading fan-shaped with him at the center, and wherever it passed, everything around froze into ice.
Those insects instantly froze into ice and couldn’t move anymore.
Looking at it, it was as if they had turned into ice cocoons, crystal-clear.
The next moment, the ice cocoons shattered into flying ice shards.
Wave after wave of insects were thus resolved by Xiao Jihan using Ice Ability.
Su Muyao did not even need to make a move.
The system marveled: "Indeed, entering the Spirit Transformation Realm is different. Xiao Jihan like this feels like an Ice Immortal, with an ethereal sense of Immortal Energy."
Su Muyao paused, just watching Xiao Jihan deal with these insects, not paying attention to anything else.
But at this moment, he was elegant and poised like the moon in the firmament, his actions like cold ice unsheathed, with an unearthly aura, seemingly carrying a trace of divinity, akin to a deity carved from ice and snow.
After resolving several waves of insects, Xiao Jihan turned to look down at her, his cold and clear brows instantly melting into warm concern, "Are you okay?"
Even knowing his wife’s strength, Xiao Jihan could not help but worry about her at this moment.
Su Muyao shook her head, "I’m fine."
Just then, she heard a strange tone not far away, and in an instant, countless insects surged again.
"Be careful, someone is controlling the insects in this forest."
Just as Su Muyao was about to use her sword, Xiao Jihan once again dealt with the rushing insects with Ice Ability without turning his head.
The shattered ice shards of insects intertwined with his snow-like hair, akin to a beautiful winter scene.
However, the other kinds of insects rushing next could still spray venom when near death. The spider beastmen controlling these insects from the shadows suddenly appeared, their spewing spider silk seemingly carrying black energy, even suffused with poison, attacking Su Muyao and Xiao Jihan.
Xiao Jihan quickly pulled Su Muyao in his arms, leveraging his foot to retreat, the snow-colored long hair tracing a silver-white arc in the air, the hem of his dark robe brushing over the fallen leaves on the ground and leaving a layer of thin ice.
Simultaneously, his right hand clenched in the air, Ice Ability condensed into a pale light orb in his palm, like a massive barrier, blocking all the opponent’s attacks.
Moreover, his fingers turned, the Ice Ability transformed into dozens of sharp Ice Blades, surrounded by finely fragmented ice crystals, like blades condensed by moonlight, shooting toward these spider beastmen and their controlled insects.
"Ah..."
"Snap..."
Soon, countless insects and the dozen spider beastmen all fell.
These spider beastmen weren’t of Spirit Transformation Realm strength, naturally not Xiao Jihan’s match.
Xiao Jihan solved them effortlessly without the need for Su Muyao to act.
Except for the last spider beastman hiding in the shadows, who directly absorbed the blood power of other spider beastmen to quickly strengthen himself, his whole body was filled with blood energy.
Seeing this scene, the system exclaimed, "This method of absorbing others’ blood energy to enhance one’s own strength is so bizarre, similar to the method once used by Patriarch Xiao."
"Host, do you think the Xiao Family could be colluding with the Insect Clan or spider beastmen?"
Actually, at this point, Su Muyao also suspected this, agreeing with the system’s speculation.
"If the Xiao Family is colluding with spider beastmen, then other families might also be colluding with them."
Previously, Su Muyao speculated about this point, that certainly, large family forces colluded with spider beastmen, enabling them to establish a foothold so quickly on Cang Beast Continent.
"And the main body, he’s a snake beastman, perhaps related to spider beastmen as well."
"Previously, there were also spider beastmen among the law enforcement disciples of Bright Hall."
But as this spider beastman was absorbing the blood energy of other dead beastmen, before fully enhancing his strength, he was killed by Xiao Jihan.
After resolving these dangers, Xiao Jihan and Su Muyao continued forward.
However, the deeper they went into the forest, the stranger the atmosphere felt, with many mutated beasts, although they were all resolved.
Deep in the mountains, many trees and vegetation were gray-black, many were mutated plants.
Some vines wrapped around trees would silently attack Su Muyao and Xiao Jihan.
But they were all promptly dealt with by Xiao Jihan.
With Xiao Jihan protecting her along the way, Su Muyao’s mind wasn’t so tense.
Xiao Jihan took meticulous care of her.
They passed through the area thrillingly; as they did, Su Muyao noticed a faint glow ahead, "There’s a green light ahead, let’s go have a look."
When they pushed aside the ancient vines in front, they saw the scene ahead.
It was like a hidden ancient building abandoned deep in the wilderness, surrounded by an abandoned stone forest, and the nearby cyan-grey broken walls were covered with moss, vines also climbed on them, only the central area looked more orderly, with a dozen stone pillars standing silently.
"There is actually an abandoned building here, did someone once live here?"
Xiao Jihan said, "The aura here is not quite right, too cold and dark, and there’s black mist everywhere, I will take a look first."
They happened to pass through here; to cross the forest, they must go through this place, Xiao Jihan wouldn’t let Su Muyao take the risk.
He first went to explore.
Xiao Jihan stepped forward and observed before discovering the carvings on the stone pillars.
The most bizarre thing was that every pillar was carved with a snake, like a giant snake wrapping around the stone pillar, the sculpted patterns on it were still very clear, as if the sculpture would come alive the next second, the snake would wriggle, the snake head slightly lifted, snake mouth slightly opened, seeming to spit invisible tongues, even the snake eyes were lifelike, gleaming with green light under the night sky.
The green glow he saw earlier was the light emitted from the eyes of these snake sculptures.
