Chapter 293: Chapter 293: Xiang Liu

Xiaojie’s sister was waiting for her over by the junkyard, so Jiang Qin didn’t hold back and immediately began to manifest an Alien Beast.

A Nine-headed Serpent suddenly appeared, and Jiang Qin slipped into the shadows.

The Snake Beast’s form blotted out the sun, shrouding this small patch of sky.

“ROAR—”

Its nine heads let out long, drawn-out roars, each facing a different direction.

The sound of the roar alone was enough to make one’s blood run cold, to say nothing of the few Beastmen who stood face-to-face with the nine heads.

“Wh-what kind of Genetic Beast is this?”

The lead Dark Night Rhinoceros Pig’s expression turned grim. He hadn’t expected the beast form of the short, young-looking boy to be so terrifying.

If he had known beforehand, he absolutely would not have coveted this small fortune.

But it was too late for regrets.

He shouted to reassure his companions, “Don’t panic! It may have nine heads, but it only has one body. Its movements are bound to be clumsy!”

“We’ll attack it from different directions!!”

The other three Beastmen complied, instantly scattering to attack from four directions.

After each strike, they would quickly retreat to avoid being caught by the snake heads…

However, if Xiang Liu were that easy to deal with, it would be unworthy of the name “ancient fierce beast”—even if this one was just a manifestation created by Jiang Qin.

One of its heads’ eyes flashed crimson as it abruptly spat a stream of venom at one of the Beastmen.

“AH—”

The Beastman let out a blood-curdling scream and, in a mere instant, was reduced to a skeleton.

The three remaining Beastmen stared in horror, their faces pale!

An insta-kill!!

They had brought four A-level Beastmen precisely because they were worried they couldn’t take this kid down!

And yet, one of them had died in the very first clash.

Then what Level was this kid?

“Boss, he… he’s an SS-level Beastman!”

That had to be it. Only an SS-level Beastman could possess such terrifying power.

But based on the Nine-headed Serpent’s form, S-level was also a possibility. After all, one look at this Snake Beast’s Genes told you they were anything but simple.

It was probably from the ancient Exotic Beast Clan!

The Dark Night Rhinoceros Pig gritted his teeth. “We’re leaving!”

All thoughts of robbing him or teaching him a lesson had vanished. He didn’t even have the heart to avenge his comrade.

All he wanted now was to run far, far away from this Nine-headed Serpent!

Hidden in the shadows, Jiang Qin immediately commanded it with her spiritual power: ’Xiang Liu, after them! Kill them!’

With her current SS-level spiritual power, her manifestations could travel up to a hundred kilometers away from her before dissipating.

So she didn’t hesitate to send Xiang Liu to eliminate them completely.

But she couldn’t let it drag on. Maintaining Xiang Liu consumed a massive amount of spiritual power. She could only keep it up for an hour at most. If it couldn’t kill them by then, she would have to let them go.

This was the limit of her spiritual power. She had to reserve some of it to manifest a fast, ordinary beast to get her out of the city.

***

With Xiang Liu chasing the three men, Jiang Qin paid them no more mind and hurried to the junkyard.

When she arrived, Bai Ruo cautiously emerged from her hiding spot in a garbage heap. “Is… is that you, Lord Yan?”

The young woman was wrapped from head to toe in a piece of yellowish-gray cloth, revealing only her eyes. She clutched a fiber sack in her hands.

“Xiaojie’s sister, Bai Ruo?”

“My Lord, it’s me.”

Jiang Qin nodded. “News of the Black Dragon?”

“My Lord, he went to Baofeng City. It’s highly likely he will stay there to recuperate.”

“Are you sure about the source?”

She didn’t want to go through all that trouble only to arrive and find nothing.

Bai Ruo said quickly, “Someone sold the information to my boss. It’s reliable. The Black Dragon was in Baofeng City, and he traded something for information about a female.”

The information brokers on Chaotic Star were just that unscrupulous.

Even though the Black Dragon was a client, they guessed from the item he traded that he was the wanted Black Dragon Beastman, so they sold the information without a second thought.

Red Leaf City wasn’t too far from Baofeng City, so the news was quickly sold to the bars over here.

At these words, Jiang Qin’s expression changed drastically.

’In that case, everyone after the bounty must already be heading for Baofeng City.’

’If Long Hao were at his peak, he could probably escape. But he’s injured now… badly injured…’

“Let’s go. We’ll leave immediately. According to our agreement, I only need to escort you to the next city, so taking you to Baofeng City is fine, right?”

Bai Ruo nodded, her eyes misty with tears. “Yes, My Lord.”

Jiang Qin already knew that Xiang Liu had killed two of the pursuers, but the Dark Night Rhinoceros Pig had fled a good distance and would take some time to hunt down.

Suddenly, rain began to fall from the sky.

Hearing the raindrops, Bai Ruo, who was riding on the back of a Wolf Beast, turned her head in disbelief. She looked back toward the place they’d left, her face a mask of astonishment.

“My Lord, it seems… it’s raining in Red Leaf City. It has never rained on Chaotic Star!”

To be precise, Chaotic Star didn’t have normal weather at all; it was perennially dry.

“Mm.”

Jiang Qin, of course, knew why. Though this Xiang Liu was just a manifestation and couldn’t cause a great flood, summoning a little rain was no problem at all.

Bai Ruo felt a sense of unease. She noticed the rain was confined to the sky above Red Leaf City. As they traveled, they left the rain behind them.

She wondered if such an unnatural phenomenon was an omen of disaster.

And her brother was still in Red Leaf City…

However, the rain over Red Leaf City soon stopped, as Jiang Qin had recalled Xiang Liu.

She didn’t want to waste any more spiritual power chasing down the rhinoceros pig.

The journey ahead wouldn’t necessarily be peaceful, so she needed to conserve some spiritual power for self-preservation.

Fortunately, it was the dead of night, and every household in Red Leaf City had its doors shut tight. Otherwise, they might have been exposed to the toxic rain.

The guards at the city gate were not so lucky.

They had watched with their own eyes as the rain began to fall, and then all movement outside the walls had ceased.

So they opened the city gates, ready to welcome back the victorious lords. Curious, they stepped into the downpour, wanting to see if it was real rain.

“AH!!”

The instant the rain touched their skin, the two guards collapsed to the ground, writhing in agony.

The rain’s poison wasn’t strong enough to be fatal, so they didn’t die. It merely corroded some of their flesh, and the pain caused them to pass out.

Xiaojie saw it all. Even Jiang Qin herself hadn’t expected the poison from her manifested Xiang Liu to be so potent.

But to Xiaojie, this was an opportunity!

Seeing the rain stop, he hurried into the city and urged several other families—those whose females had also been chosen—to flee.

’When everyone wakes up tomorrow, they’ll find that we’ve escaped and the guards are unconscious. They’ll assume we were the ones who took out the guards, and no one will suspect the bar owner.’

That’s right, Xiaojie didn’t want to die either.

If it weren’t for his need to protect the bar owner who had helped him and his sister, he would have fled with her long ago without a second thought.

He wasn’t afraid of going alone, even if no one was there to lead him. He could make it on his own.

He was only afraid the bar owner would bear the brunt of their anger.

But things were different now. A golden opportunity lay before him, so he immediately gathered the others to escape with him.

And their destination was Baofeng City.

After all, he couldn’t stop worrying about his sister. He was going to protect her!

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