Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children

Chapter 555 - 554: Who’s Teasing Whom?

Si Shuo and the others followed the procedure and swore a contract before the Beast God. The moment they finished speaking, countless red lights shot into the participants’ foreheads. The contract was sealed!

Everyone wore a solemn expression. Si Shuo’s heart was in her throat. Her Beast Husbands’ cultivation levels were not low, and each of them had the ability to fight opponents of higher levels. They had plenty of tricks up their sleeves to save their own skin, too.

But she was still nervous, terrified of the worst-case scenario. However, others had bullied them to their very doorstep; this fight was unavoidable.

The incident from yesterday, where the outsiders had stirred up the Red-winged Black Oriole Beastmen’s nest, had caused a huge stir in half of Beiping City in just a day and a night.

Now, many Beastmen had rushed over to watch the show, forming a massive, dense crowd! This was mainly because the Red-winged Black Oriole Beastmen were notorious for ganging up on smaller groups, always dragging things to the fighting arena and using relentless tag-team battles to get their way.

Even the scions of the city’s most prominent families didn’t dare to provoke this pack of lunatics. So how did these outsiders muster up so much courage?

Just as Shu Shu had said, the Beastmen in the city cared a great deal about appearances. Those who came to watch the spectacle were all dressed respectably, wearing finely woven cotton and linen clothes with soft fur linings.

Those from ordinary families hired other Beastmen to carry them over. Those unwilling to spend the extra money transformed into their Beast Forms at home to run here, then found a place to shift back into human form and get dressed. The scions of the prominent families all had personal Beastmen to serve as mounts, while some had pure-blooded Wild Beasts that had acknowledged them as masters.

Gong You whispered in Si Shuo’s ear, "Darling, it looks like this fight is going to make us famous throughout all of Beiping City."

A bright light glinted in his dark green eyes. He was a bit nostalgic for the exhilarating fights in the arenas of Nanye City; it was just a shame he rarely met a worthy opponent there. After going to the Central Continent, his fights were challenging at first, but as his Level rose, he once again became a lonely master without a match. He would just spar with his Couple Brothers when he was bored.

Si Shuo smiled, grabbing his hand and swinging it playfully. "Then I’ll be down here cheering for you! My Gong You is the best."

Gong You squeezed her palm, his eyes filled with a tenderness that could drown a person. Back when her memories had been tampered with, they had to restrain their love and longing for her. Watching the sweet, smiling, and affectionate girl she used to be become so cold and distant toward them was an agony that twisted their hearts into knots.

"Darling, just focus on protecting yourself. We really can’t take another blow," he said, his voice soft and tinged with a faint vulnerability.

Si Shuo hugged his arm, nodding emphatically as she said seriously, "I’ll be on high alert!"

What had happened before was truly perilous. If not for her powerful spiritual power and Yichu’s Hypnosis Ability, who knows what disaster would have befallen their family.

Zhi Le, who was beside her, also ruffled her hair. "We still failed to protect you."

’Back then, there were so many of us. If Xiao Cheng hadn’t activated his counter-ability and we had all been subjected to Yichu’s hypnosis and memory alteration, what a miserable state would our family have ended up in?’

Behind them, Xu Chi nodded vigorously. "A shuo, we have to stay vigilant every single moment. Especially after the splash we’re about to make today, there will definitely be plenty of Beastmen with their eyes on us.

"But we’re out in the open while they’re in the shadows. We don’t know what kind of superpowers they have, so we can never be too careful."

Besides, they didn’t know much about the Yongchang Continent, and they had only just arrived in Beiping City!

Si Shuo hummed in agreement, and the cubs listened attentively as well. They might be young, but each of their superpowers was formidable in its own right and could turn the tide in a critical moment.

The Red-winged Black Oriole Beastmen were already getting impatient. After confirming their one hundred participants, they started huddling together, pointing and muttering at Si Shuo’s group.

Si Shuo was baffled. "Ji Liang, what are they doing? Don’t tell me they’re trying to score some verbal points first to boost their own morale?"

Ji Liang’s pupils narrowed. Before he could speak, Xiao Cheng cracked his knuckles and sneered, "Sister, they think they’ve already won. They’re already dividing the spoils!"

Si Shuo was furious when she heard that. ’How arrogant!’ she thought, gritting her teeth. "We have to pluck them bald."

They were new here, so they couldn’t be too excessive. At least, it wouldn’t be good to appear ruthless in public by breaking their opponents’ limbs or crippling their cultivation. They could only resort to moves that inflicted minimal harm but maximum humiliation.

The men nodded, their eyes narrowing as they too began to scheme.

Just then, a One-horned Bull Beastman took the stage to announce the match and the stakes. The crowd listened as he declared that Si Shuo’s family of seven males, with their ordinary cultivation levels, was challenging one hundred Red-winged Black Oriole Beastmen.

On top of that, everyone could see that the chosen participants standing below the stage were all among the highest-ranking cultivators of the Red-winged Black Oriole Beastmen!

The crowd erupted into a flurry of discussion.

"Sigh, these outsiders must be new to our Yongchang Continent. They’re so clueless and foolhardy, taking on the Red-winged Black Oriole Beastmen... I say, forget the match, they might as well just surrender now..."

"...Never mind the two- or three-Level gap in cultivation, they’re outnumbered more than ten to one..."

"If I’d known the gap was this huge, I wouldn’t have bothered coming. This is going to be so boring..."

"Hey, outsiders, just give up, why don’t you? Do you really want everyone to witness your utter humiliation?"

"Haha, Hong Jie, go easy on them when the time comes. I’ve got my Crystal Stones ready to take them off your hands... These outsiders are quite good-looking..."

The match hadn’t even started, but the audience was already writing off Si Shuo’s family.

In the crowd, there were even outsiders who had been forced to become slaves and mounts. They watched numbly, their eyes filled with schadenfreude and eager anticipation.

Since they couldn’t escape their own fate of oppression and exploitation, they naturally hoped Si Shuo’s family would suffer a miserable end as well...

After the One-horned Bull Beastman stepped down, Zhi Le was the first to leap onto the stage. He sneered, "As an outsider, I’m eager to see for myself just how skilled you Beastmen of the Yongchang Continent really are."

The level he was displaying was Level 13. After countless life-and-death battles, he projected the aura of a freshly drawn, cold blade, making one’s scalp tingle just by looking at him.

"A mere Level 13? I’ll go play with him." Upon seeing the handsome, silver-haired, gray-blue-eyed young man, a Level 15 Red-winged Black Oriole Beastman tutted, then leaped onto the stage with a light tap of his toes.

"The name’s Hong Xin! And I’m not one to be gentle with pretty things. If you surrender now, there’s still time. Otherwise, don’t come crying to me when you’ve got broken arms and legs. Brother here only shows a bit of tender loving care on a stone bed," Hong Xin said, raising an eyebrow with a smirk.

Zhi Le said calmly, "Oh? So breaking arms and legs is allowed?"

"Of course. Life and death are of no consequence in the arena. Just breaking your arms and legs to teach you a lesson is my act of mercy, all on account of that outstanding face of yours."

The Beastmen below the stage laughed along. "That’s right, Brother Xin has taken a liking to this Snow Leopard Beastman; that’s why he couldn’t wait to jump on stage. In the past, whenever Brother Xin fought, his opponents either went to report to the Beast God or ended up pinned on his stone bed..."

Zhi Le just smiled, instantly materializing his Thunder Sword and slashing it toward Hong Xin...