Chapter 129: Chapter 129: A Way to Cross the Endless Sea

"Wake her up. The rest of you, watch her carefully. Don’t let her escape."

In her groggy state, Yu An heard a hoarse voice speaking. A foul smell followed, and she jolted awake.

The moment she opened her eyes, she saw an old, wrinkled woman standing before her.

She was startled, and then she saw Yu Yun.

Her memories came flooding back. She remembered.

She had been in her room waiting for Mo Yan when she was suddenly knocked unconscious. After that, everything went black.

"Who are you people! Why did you kidnap me?"

Granny Gu ignored her, but Yu Yun gave her a smile.

A malicious smile.

"Sister—no, you’re not my sister."

Yu Yun said arrogantly, "My Beast Father is the most powerful Beastman on the Beast God Continent. Once we’re home, you’ll be of great use."

’Beast God Continent?’

Yu An listened impassively to Yu Yun’s prattling, vaguely understanding that the Beast God Continent must be on the other side of the Endless Sea.

This was the Beastman Continent, and the people from the other side had named their own land the Beast God Continent to differentiate the two.

One reason was to assert their dominance. Another was that everyone there, whether male or female, possessed spiritual power.

Their spiritual power wasn’t static; low-level spiritual power could be improved through cultivation or other means.

Yu Yun had been pretending to be meek for so long, suppressing her true nature. Now, in front of Yu An, she dropped the act completely.

That was one thing, but when Granny Gu heard Yu An start fishing for information and saw Yu Yun spill the beans without a second thought, her expression darkened.

"Idiot!"

she rebuked angrily. "Don’t you even realize she’s prying information out of you? Now shut your mouth!"

Yu Yun was taken aback. Seeing the disappointed look on Yu An’s face, she felt both ashamed and furious.

But she couldn’t do anything to Yu An at the moment, or else she would have found some way to vent her frustration!

Yu An felt a little helpless. Yu Yun was on her guard now, so it would be harder to get information out of her. She still hadn’t figured out why Yu Yun was taking her back with them, and she wanted to ask about her family.

Fortunately, their bond was still intact, so Mo Yan and the others, as well as the Zaizai, should be fine.

With this in mind, Yu An glanced at a male Beastman who was starting a fire to roast meat, then said to Granny Gu, "Hey, I’m hungry. Give me some food."

"And while you’re at it, tell me what you want with me. Even if I’m going to die, I want to know why."

When Granny Gu ignored her, Yu An simply found a nearby tree and acted as if she was about to slam her head into it. "I’m not going to meet a good end with you people anyway. If you won’t even give me food, I might as well just die right now!"

Yu Yun instinctively grabbed her. They could still extract the Phoenix Blood if Yu An was dead, but the effect would be far better if she were alive, making the fusion process smoother for Yu Yun.

Yu An stopped trying to hit the tree and let Yu Yun hold her. "You can stop me once, but you can’t watch me forever. This is a long journey, isn’t it? I’ll have plenty of opportunities to kill myself along the way."

Yu Yun couldn’t help but turn to Granny Gu for help. "Granny..."

Granny Gu gave Yu An a long, hard look. "Give her food."

The male Beastman complied, handing her a piece of roasted meat.

Yu An said irritably, "Untie me. How am I supposed to eat with my hands bound?"

Seeing that she was about to make another scene, Granny Gu said in a low voice, "Untie her."

Yu Yun was the closest, so she untied her. Yu An flexed her wrists. "Aren’t you afraid I’ll run away?"

"You can’t escape," Yu Yun sneered. "Granny put a Gu on you. If you dare to run, she can take your life at any moment!"

Yu An blinked. "So she’s the one who put the Gu on Bai Ruo and Zhu Qingqing—oh, I mean Su Lian’s daughter?"

She secretly checked the Gu Worm in her body. After finding it posed no immediate danger, she pointed at Granny Gu and asked curiously, "Is there something wrong with her? Why would she put Gu on a bunch of random people for no reason?"

’Aren’t we enemies now?’

The corner of Yu Yun’s mouth twitched. She had no intention of answering that question.

Yu An shrugged. "You have to answer at least one of my questions, right? Otherwise, I’ll stop eating and start thinking about dying again..."

She kept talking, and soon the only sounds were the CRACKLE of the fire and the sound of her voice.

"The second one."

Granny Gu, who had been lurking in the shadows, finally lost her patience and forced those three words from between her teeth.

Yu An shut her mouth instantly and looked at Yu Yun.

Yu Yun found her annoying as well, so she decided to tell her a few things she deemed unimportant.

They might have been unimportant details to Yu Yun, but for Yu An, they solved several major mysteries.

It turned out that while the Gu Worms looked similar, their effects were vastly different.

Bai Ruo had actually been infected with two types of Gu Worms. One slowly weakened her body—that was the one Yu An had killed.

The other had died upon being implanted, but its effect remained: it altered the host’s memories.

Granny Gu had placed the Gu on Bai Ruo, hoping to use her to sow discord between the Beast Emperor and Yu Huang’s confidants.

Unfortunately, Bai Ruo had gone to the exiled land and rarely saw her former companions, so the plan came to nothing.

But there was no hurry. Zhu Qingqing was being used to manipulate Su Lian, and the one taking money from him wasn’t the Beast Emperor, but Granny Gu.

The Beast Emperor was solely focused on finding a way to reach the Beast God Continent and cared about nothing else.

Yu Yun didn’t mention Chun Nuan, but Yu An guessed that the one who wanted the Phoenix Feather was probably Granny Gu as well.

Yu Yun didn’t say a word about anything she wasn’t supposed to. Yu An chewed her roasted meat in silence, and the idea of going with them to the Beast God Continent began to form in her mind.

She could escape. Whether by hiding in her pocket dimension or by finding a chance to slip away, she was completely confident she could do it.

But her Female Mother was on the Beast God Continent. If she could find the way there, she could bring her home.

Yu Yun never once mentioned Yu Huang, so Yu An had no idea that the place they were taking her was, in fact, Yu Huang’s current "home."

The roasted meat was only lightly salted, and Yu An found it bland as she mulled over her decision.

It wasn’t until the next day, when Granny Gu ordered them to press on, that she finally made her decision.

An opportunity like this was rare. Besides, they weren’t that guarded around her. There would be no better chance.

As for her Beast Husbands and the Zaizai... Yu An believed the five of them could take good care of the Zaizai.

Besides, if she left a trail of markers, perhaps Mo Yan and the others would be able to follow her.

With this thought, Yu An stopped resisting and walked obediently in the middle of the group.

Yu Yun walked behind, staring at her. If there was one person in the group who wanted this trip to go smoothly, it was her.

Her wonderful future depended entirely on Yu An. She just hoped Yu An would behave and not pull any stunts. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Yu An was compliant on the road, but she frequently needed to stop and catch her breath, which Granny Gu didn’t seem to mind.

However, Yu An noticed that one of the males would always fall behind for a moment, probably to check if she had tried anything funny during her breaks.

Yu An gave an imperceptible smile and kept walking.

She had assumed they would take her to the Endless Sea, and she was curious to see how they planned to cross it. But to her surprise, they didn’t go there at all.

「A few days later.」

They reached the Treasure Pearl Sea. Granny Gu handed each of them a pearl, told them to swallow it, and then ordered everyone into the water.