Guide To Train My Beast Husbands-Chapter 238: I asked you to stay obediently

Ruan Zeqiu was speechless; he knew that there was a screw or two loose within his sister’s head, but he never thought that she would be daring enough to negotiate with the guardian of the river. He raised his head and shouted, "Sister, this is not the time for you to start negotiating."

To his surprise, Ruan Chanchan turned and looked at him with a hint of anger. "It is always time for negotiations."

Yuan Ni then turned to look at the river guardian with a hint of surprise in his eyes. He raised his head and said to Ruan Zeqiu, "...Wait, it seems like the river guardian is willing to listen to her."

Ruan Zeqiu turned to look at Yuan Ni with an incredulous expression on his face. "What do you mean? The river guardian is really listening to her."

Ruan Zeqiu turned to look at the mer. He blinked his eyes and said, "You are joking."

Yuan Ni shook his head. "I am not joking. He is truly listening to her... I have no idea how she is doing it and why he is even listening to her."

Ruan Chanchan’s eyes lit up when he heard the mer say that the guardian was listening; she turned to look at the guardian and exclaimed, "Do you like the deal?"

The guardian let out a low rumble. His growl echoed in the low ravine, and the water around them stilled.

The python recoiled back, sensing something was slowly slipping out of control.

Ruan Chanchan, however, took a cautious step forward. With her hands raised in the air, she said to him, "Look, I don’t want to fight you either." Another growl. "...Alright, I know that we can never defeat you, but think about it, if we fight, you will also suffer from damages and injuries, right? What’s more, this fight will wreck the land, and this river might end up getting buried underneath it. You do not want that, right? After all, this is the river that you are supposed to guard."

The guardian’s eyes flicked to the collapsing slope that was slowly falling.

One more push, and it was going to collapse right into the stream that was flowing from the other side. The river guardian pursed his lips and turned to look at the puny woman, who dared to make demands in front of him.

The python moved slowly back, as if trying to retreat from the falling cliff. But as soon as he moved, a piece of the cliff broke off and fell right into the river.

Ruan Chanchan: "..."

Ruan Zeqiu and Yuan Ni: "..."

The guardian: "..."

The river guardian turned to look at the python and curled his upper lip and bared his teeth at the python as if warning it to look at the situation and stop moving.

Yuan Ni muttered, "It is warning the python not to move, or else he will kill him."

"Well, it would be really good if he were to kill him." Ruan Zeqiu muttered in a low voice. Just as Ruan Zeqiu finished speaking, the python turned to look at him with a hint of blame in his eyes, as if he were asking silently what he did for the mer to say such a ruthless thing.

Ruan Zeqiu: "..." Who was the one who tried to kill them just a few minutes ago?

The guardian moved. However, he didn’t move aggressively; instead, he moved purposefully. The water lifted Ruan Chanchan like a pair of hands closing around her waist.

She yelped. "Hey—Put me down—there is no need to be so aggressive. I can walk on my own just fine."

The river guardian didn’t listen to her; instead, he dragged her down under the water.

"SISTER!!" Ruan Zeqiu screamed when he saw his sister disappearing underneath the surface of the water.

Yuan Ni’s breath got caught in his throat as he instinctively moved close to the cliff. "It took her!"

However, before he could jump into the river to save Ruan Chanchan’s life, the water’s surface closed. He looked down, and his face twisted. "No! The portal closed."

"What do you mean by ’the portal closed?" Ruan Zeqiu questioned in a panicked voice. "How can the portal get closed? What about my sister?"

"CHANCHAN!" Yuan Ni didn’t hear what Ruan Zeqiu said to him. He crouched down and shouted at the river, "RUAN CHANCHAN! Can you hear me?"

**

Inside the water, the surface closed above Ruan Chanchan’s head.

Cold.

Dark.

Pressure.

These three words continued to echo inside Ruan Chanchan’s head. As the river guardian continued to pull her down, Ruan Chanchan continued to flail —then stopped. She realised she was no longer drowning.

The water parted around her, forming a hollow pocket. The markings around the scales of the guardian started to glow. The ancient symbols carved into her scales started to illuminate just as the ancient runes carved into the stones underneath them, right at the riverbed, started to shimmer.

The guardian’s voice then echoed in her head. Not in her ears but in her bones.

You caused my land to be disrupted.

"I didn’t do it."

You took my water away.

"Only temporarily."

You brought a calamity to my land.

And this time, Ruan Chanchan winced. "Okay, I might have done that."

The guardian’s massive eyes lowered until they filled her vision.

Why should I allow this?

Ruan Chanchan pursed her lips. She thought of the countless dangers that the totem warriors had to face when they came to this small mountain to collect water. If she could let this water flow down the mountain, then she would be able to help the tribe’s people.

She thought of Xie Daiyu, waiting for her at their tribe and telling her that she had been nothing but reckless.

"Because," she said in a soft voice, "You are lonely, no one prays to you and you are practically forgotten doing a job --that doesn’t bring anything in return."

Silence.

Then––

The guardian turned and the water around them started to surge violently.

And before Ruan Chanchan could understand what the guardian was trying to do, she was hurled out of the river with a bang.