Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 389 - 262: Mate Marks, All Disappeared

As the two figures disappeared, the sated vortex ceased its devouring. Immense daylight dispelled the black-clothed figures conjured from Demonic Qi, and a brilliant, dreamlike river of stars once again flowed across the pitch-black night sky.

In the boundless darkness, within a gloomy jungle, Mi Yin collapsed alone before a tree.

He clutched his frigid chest. Something... had vanished from it. The sharp, physical agony, coupled with a profound grief deep in his heart, forced tears from his eyes.

He released his hand. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

On his bare chest was the shattered mate mark.

Signifying—his mate was dead.

"Jin’er..." He collapsed completely to the ground, his voice trembling. His entire heart seemed to stop beating, and an endless cold and sorrow blurred his vision.

Countless wisps of Demonic Qi gathered frantically around him. The bloodred mark on Mi Yin’s forehead slowly turned black-red, and his cultivation, which had been stagnant for years, finally broke through to King Beast Peak.

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Meanwhile, Ling Hong, who was traveling through the night, abruptly stopped. He staggered two steps before collapsing uncontrollably to the ground, a searing pain, as if his heart were being twisted by a knife, erupting in his chest.

His mate mark... had shattered.

"How could this be..." An endless chill and trembling spread through his entire body. A tearing pain ripped through his chest, and even breathing became agonizing.

He spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, splattering it onto the wild grass. It stained the dark brown earth an even deeper shade.

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And in the sea far from the tribe, where the cold moonlight fell upon the rising and falling tides, the calm surface of the ocean suddenly erupted with a monstrous wave, destroying everything in the vicinity.

The Merfolk of the deep sea cried out in sorrow, a single tear falling from the corner of an eye.

The Merfolk’s tear fell into the water and transformed into the world’s most crystalline pearl, carrying with it an endless sorrow and longing as it returned to the primordial depths.

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That night, a spectacle occurred that no one would ever forget. The once-dark night sky suddenly blazed as bright as day, so dazzling it nearly blinded everyone.

Terrifying waves of Energy swept across the continent one after another. Many females and cubs, as well as some Beastmen with weaker constitutions, fainted on the spot.

Even the Beastmen who remained conscious were not much better off; they coughed up mouthfuls of blood, and their bodies trembled for hours, unable to walk properly.

It was also on that night that the once-famous Sheng’an City tragically lost its first City Lord—the female whom all the Beastmen of the continent had unanimously called the "Beast God Goddess."

Her wisdom was thousands of years ahead of her time. The technology she introduced propelled the era’s civilization forward, saved countless starving Beastmen from the brink of death, and made a tremendous contribution to the future development of the Beast God Continent.

Some diligent and intelligent Beastmen spent years of painstaking effort following the notes she left behind, managing to organize new technologies and research directions from them. However, they could never again replicate the worldwide splendor that the Goddess had created in her time.

In the decade that followed, the Beastman Continent, whose civilization had taken a great leap forward, once again entered a period of slow development.

The Beastmen entered a new era of development, but also one of shifting power. The continent was once again divided among several nascent forces.

The Merfolk clan, which had originally lived peacefully in the deep sea, began to frequently invade the continent in recent years, attempting to seize territory.

It is said that the new Shark King is cold-blooded and warlike, taking the innate selfishness and opportunism of the Merfolk to an extreme.

The first thing he did upon taking power was to abolish their matriarchal line of succession. The second was to launch the invasion of the continent. Was he perhaps trying to seize something important? No one knows.

Countless ferocious Demon Beasts swept across the land, plunging the long-peaceful continent back into misery and war. Among them, two particularly savage and bloodthirsty Demon Beast Kings led the charge.

Meanwhile, the newly risen King Beast of the Wolf Clan single-handedly consolidated four leaderless cities. In ten years, he expanded his territory and successfully forged a new Royal City, rising to become one of the four great Royal Cities.

Clashes between these several new and old powers ignited endless wars across the continent. Tens of millions of Beastmen were displaced and left destitute by the flames of conflict.

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We’re now entering the latter part of the story, and the style is going to be different from before. I’ll be using flashbacks to gradually reveal the upcoming plot, so things might seem a bit confusing at first. But just keep reading, and it will all make sense!