Chapter 131: Chapter 131: Using Beasts to Kill... Wait a Minute, That’s My Sister!!

Three days later, standing on the shore of the Endless Sea, Mo Yan’s mouth twitched. "This is the solution you came up with?"

Ao Wu crossed his arms. "Mhm. If we can’t cross it, we’ll just fly over."

The Sea Clan Beastmen couldn’t cross because the waters below were fraught with danger. A moment of carelessness could mean ending up in the belly of a Sea Beast or meeting some other unfortunate end.

The Bird Clan Beastmen, on the other hand, couldn’t maintain flight for long periods and always needed a chance to land and rest.

But Ao Wu was different. He could fly for a very long time. And if he did need to rest, with Lan Yin and Lan Ying around, the dangers in the water could largely be avoided.

Mo Yan didn’t know if he could be trusted, but at this point, all they could do was give it their best shot.

Ao Wu transformed into his beast form and let them climb on. Just as Lan Yin was about to go over, he suddenly froze.

"Huh?"

His brow furrowed deeply. "I just sensed the aura of the Shark Pearls!"

Ao Wu said impatiently, "What the hell are Shark Pearls? Forget it. Let’s just hurry up and find An’an and the Zaizai."

"No, wait!"

Lan Yin clenched his fists. "An’an is still on the Beastman Continent! If she were across the sea, I wouldn’t be able to sense the Shark Pearls!"

He quickly explained what had happened before, and as soon as the others heard, they urged him to sense the Shark Pearls’ location immediately.

After some commotion, Lan Yin led the others into the water to search for Yu An.

When they reached the bottom of the Treasure Pearl Sea, Han Li belatedly remembered something. ’Didn’t Lan Yin say the Water-Repelling Pearls were limited in number? How can he so easily pull out so many now?’

’Damn it! The last time we came to the Treasure Pearl Sea, Lan Yin and Lan Ying worked together to scam us!’

But now was not the time to dwell on it. Han Li silently made a mental note, deciding to settle the score with him after they found Yu An and the Zaizai.

’They have to be safe...’

But when the five of them reached the seabed, they found no trace of Yu An—not even a ghost of a shadow. They did, however, find the Shark Pearls amidst a pile of pearls.

Lan Ying, who had been watching the outside world, recognized the familiar place and quickly signaled Lan Yin to let him take control of their body. He had something to say.

"An’an and I have been here before," Lan Ying said, looking at the miniature stone house. "This stone house glows red and sucks in small pearls. An’an also said she saw someone living inside. Oh, and a type of flower with a human face." 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

But when Feng Xuan went closer to look, he saw nothing.

"Flowers with human faces?"

Ao Wu’s eyes lit up. "I’ve seen them! I’ve seen them! I saw them on the Beast God Continent! After An’an was taken by them, she might have gone to the Beast God Continent through here!"

But then, the group was stumped. They didn’t know how to get through!

They took turns trying to pull the door of the stone house open, but they were left panting with exhaustion, and the door didn’t move an inch.

Han Li was so frustrated he pounded his head, saying dejectedly, "It’s not like the door is going to open if I say ’Open Sesame,’ right?"

The moment he finished speaking, silence fell. He looked up in confusion and saw the others gaping at him, dumbfounded.

Following their gaze to the stone house, he saw that the door had actually opened!

Han Li swallowed hard. "I... I actually guessed it?"

Yu An often told stories to the Zaizai, and he just happened to remember one he’d overheard—the poor Beastman and the forty thieves.

Never mind how the door opened—it was open. This time, when Mo Yan cautiously reached for it, he immediately disappeared.

The other four did the same. After the seabed returned to silence, the stone house’s door closed.

What they didn’t expect, and didn’t know, was that the stone house could only transport people safely to the Mist Forest because someone had made a sacrifice with a large amount of fresh blood. The red light Yu An and Lan Ying had seen before was, in fact, blood.

And after each transport, a sufficient blood sacrifice had to be made again for the next use. If it wasn’t fully replenished...

No one knew where the stone house would send them.

...

"ACHOO! ACHOO! ACHOO!"

Yu An sneezed three times in a row. She rubbed the tip of her nose. ’Mo Yan and the others must be thinking of me,’ she thought. ’I miss them too.’

At this thought, Yu An stroked her belly. The little one inside seemed to sense the Female Mother’s melancholy and moved with all its might.

The movement was small, but Yu An felt it.

Her expression softened, and she secretly took some food out of her storage space for a private snack.

Although the Beastmen on the Beast God Continent knew how to cook food, their cooking was terrible. Since she had the means, Yu An had no intention of wronging her own mouth and stomach.

She kept her movements small, and Yu Yun was no longer staring at her as intently as she had at the start of their journey, so for a while, no one noticed anything unusual.

Night fell again. Yu An expertly closed her eyes and covered her ears. Before, it had always been singing, but this time there was something new: the roars of wild beasts, accompanied by a faint tremor in the ground.

A single roar was enough to scare a timid person to death, but fortunately, no one in their group was an ordinary Beastman, so they could withstand it.

She had thought it would be like the previous day, stopping after just a short while, but Yu An realized something was wrong this time.

Beastmen didn’t have portable timekeeping devices. They usually estimated the time by the position of the sun and moon while traveling. But in the Mist Forest, the trees blotted out the sky, making the Beastmen’s sense of time less acute than elsewhere.

But Yu An had taken out her watch to check the time when it started, and she realized the beast roars this time were lasting much longer than the singing had on previous nights.

So long that Yu An was starting to panic.

Moreover, the tremors in the ground were growing stronger.

She immediately asked Granny Gu if this was normal. Granny Gu wasn’t too familiar with the Mist Forest, so she couldn’t say for sure.

Yu An thought for a moment, and when she placed her hand on the ground, Lu Lu burrowed into the soil.

It returned quickly with bad news. "An’an, a pack of wild beasts over there has started fighting! They’re in a frenzy, and their battle zone is moving this way!"

Yu An made a swift decision and stood up. "Something feels wrong. We should leave this place right now!"

Yu Yun pursed her lips and frowned. "What nonsense are you spouting? Get back here and sit down. Be careful you don’t get lost—"

Yu An didn’t wait for her to finish, turning and walking away. Seeing that she was serious, Yu Yun hurried to block her path.

It didn’t matter to her whether Yu An lived or died, but she couldn’t die right now, at least.

"Are you crazy? You—"

Before Yu Yun could finish, a crescendo of beast roars erupted nearby. In the darkness, pairs of bloodthirsty eyes suddenly appeared.

The beasts had been fighting over prey and territory. Now that new prey was right in front of them, they would naturally kill it first and settle their other disputes later.

Granny Gu’s face changed drastically. "Protect those two! Go!"

The Beastmen reacted quickly, but the wild beasts were just as fast. It became a frantic chase. Anyone who fell behind would become a meal for the beasts.

Two legs were ultimately no match for four. Seeing that the beasts were about to catch up, Granny Gu had everyone transform into their beast forms. The three females—old and young—climbed onto the backs of three males, who carried them as they ran.

Granny Gu’s beast form was a crow. To Yu An’s surprise, Yu Yun’s beast form looked almost identical to her own, the only difference being an extra silver feather on her head.

Yu An thought about it carefully. ’Even though we have different fathers and mothers, we look... about fifty percent alike!’

’Is it a coincidence, or...?’

While she was lost in thought, the expression of a man who had been casually lounging on a branch of an ancient tree nearby, watching the commotion, suddenly changed.

He sprang up with a kip-up and shot swiftly in the direction of Yu An and her group.