Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 338 - 221: That’s What He Owed Me, Better Than Last Time

Chapter 338: Chapter 221: That’s What He Owed Me, Better Than Last Time

A grating, sandpapery shout echoed in his mind:

"Trap them! Especially that female!"

Qi Yuan stood up from the tree. With a slight twitch of his slender fingers, the earth moved and the mountains shook.

The surrounding scenery changed rapidly.

Mountains turned into lakes, lakes were razed into flatlands, and several cliffs shot up abruptly.

Ze Sheng swiftly carried An Jin away, dodging mountain peaks that suddenly shot up from the ground like sharp swords.

He knitted his handsome brows, squinting as he glanced toward a dark area not far away. A dazzling white light gathered in his hand. "Over there." An invisible but powerful wave of Energy swept through the entire forest.

A thin, gaunt, dark figure quickly leaped out from the shadows of the jungle. He wore a wide, black cloak that obscured his face, revealing only the elegant curve of his lower jaw.

Ze Sheng stared at him thoughtfully.

"It’s you."

Qi Yuan gave him an indifferent glance, then his gaze fell upon the female in his arms. Beneath the cloak, his dark eyes betrayed no emotion.

"Your power is much stronger than the last time we met," Ze Sheng remarked, his smile not reaching his eyes. "It seems you’ve successfully obtained the Old Qilin’s power. You’ve not only transformed into a King Beast, but you’ve also inherited your Beast Father’s King Beast Domain that can manipulate space."

"You killed him, didn’t you?"

Qi Yuan clenched his fists tightly, bit his lower lip, and his whole body trembled.

He tried to suppress the hatred in his heart.

"He owed me that!"

"No, he never owed you anything." As someone who had been good friends with the Old Qilin, Ze Sheng knew his dear friend’s worries all too well. "On the day you were born, a great misfortune descended. The Priests of every city performed a Divination and foretold that you would bring endless bloodshed and strife to this continent."

"So..." He smiled faintly, callously picking at another’s wound. "So, back then, all the Beastmen wanted to kill you. Many even stormed the Old Qilin’s palace, demanding that you be strangled."

"If your father hadn’t protected you, your neck would have been snapped the moment you were born."

"..." Qi Yuan glared at him, his thin lips pressed into a tight line, his hands unconsciously clenching at his sides.

The figure in black in his mind was still urging him to act, but he remained perfectly still. He just stared intently at the gentle-looking Ze Sheng, the rise and fall of his chest growing more pronounced.

It was as if he was waiting for him to continue.

Qi Yuan’s mind suddenly flashed back to when, blinded by hatred, he had arrived before that massive palace.

He had looked at the frail, dying King Beast and smiled a cruel, cold smile.

"Back then, the Old Qilin told me he was sorry for what he did to his son, for abandoning him in a desolate, uninhabited forest. But he said that if he hadn’t, he wouldn’t have been able to protect his son..."

The black-haired youth had expressionlessly extended his sharp claws toward the King Beast with whom he shared the closest blood ties... toward his heart. Without hesitation, he had ripped open the man’s bloody chest.

"The Old Qilin was always thinking about how to make it up to you, and he even planned to pass his inherited power on to you..."

’No wonder. When I tried to steal that man’s power, he just smiled faintly at me. He didn’t even alert the palace guards. He just let me succeed so easily.’

Qi Yuan had always thought it was because the man’s body was too weak to even call for help.

’So this was the truth?’

A strange, sharp pain welled up in the youth’s heart, leaving him speechless. He slowly relaxed his clenched fists, like an enraged young beast that had suddenly lost its will to fight.

"So what are you trying to say?"

After a long moment, he finally looked up at Ze Sheng and said flatly, "Should I feel guilty and uneasy? No. I won’t." He shook his head. "I told you, this is what he owed me. The moment he abandoned me in the forest, he was no longer my Beast Father."

"If he truly loved me, he should have killed me the moment I was born, not thrown a newborn me into the desolate Dark Forest to starve. Countless crazed Fierce Beasts eyed me hungrily as I lay there, too starved to even move. Heh, you could never understand that feeling, could you? The feeling of being about to be starved to death... it’s worse than death itself..."

As he spoke, he actually started to laugh. "I had almost forgotten those unpleasant memories, but they were reawakened the last time I met you."

"But it’s a good thing..."

His gaze swept over to the female in the man’s arms. The expression under his cloak softened slightly, and his voice, now unconsciously gentler, carried a hint of warmth. "That time wasn’t as bad as before."

An Jin, who had been observing the battle, also felt the gaze fall upon her. She froze for a moment, then looked up.

Although the man in black wore a cloak and was taller and thinner than the last time she’d seen him, his gloomy, cold aura quickly allowed her to confirm his identity.

’The little villain. The major villain who will throw this continent into chaos in the future.’

’I didn’t expect him to start his villain career so soon. But why am I the target this time?’

’Master, judging by the little villain’s tone, he still has a lot of warm feelings for you.’

’So you didn’t disappear after all,’ An Jin thought.

Mirror Mirror gave a fake little cough in her mind. ’I’ve been framed! It really wasn’t my fault. When you were trapped in the Illusion Realm just now, my screen was suddenly covered by a fog. I couldn’t see anything, and my connection with you was forcibly cut off.’

’Alright.’ She decided to forgive it for now.

’What’s my favorability rating with the little villain right now?’

’23. Huh? It’s been so long, how did it go up by 3 points?’ Mirror Mirror’s mental voice shrieked.

’Since my favorability is stuck in a friendly state, why is he targeting me this time?’ This was what she couldn’t figure out.

’She runs, he chases, there’s no escape for her!’ Mirror Mirror, its mind poisoned by all sorts of trashy, melodramatic romance dramas and novels, immediately let its imagination run wild. ’Maybe after you saved the little villain in that cave, you became the only light in his gloomy life! So as soon as he got stronger, he couldn’t wait to come and capture you!’

’...’ An Jin really wanted to punch it.

’I remember the system’s final mission is to have me successfully survive in this world for 20 years...’ she thought. ’Don’t you find that strange? Logically, under the current conditions, forget 20 years—as long as I have enough Green Crystals, surviving for 200 years wouldn’t be a problem. But why does the system command me to *strive* to survive?’

’That’s an order from above. I don’t know either,’ the helpless tool, Mirror Mirror, replied with a mental wave of its hands.

’Forget it. I knew it was useless asking you.’

An Jin decisively cut off the chat channel.

A monstrous wave erupted from the bottomless lake again. Soaking wet, Mi Yin swam out from the water, his long, thick, black-and-red snake tail reflecting a chilling light under the eerie moon.

The man’s long black hair, half-wet and half-dry, was strewn across his bare chest, tracing rivulets of water. Crystalline droplets disappeared one by one into the beautiful, tight lines of his muscles.

As his snake tail swayed, it carved even deeper and longer trails of water into the soft grass.