Reborn as a Hatrack in the Mystical Land-Chapter 609 - 66: Shepherd Snake Woman

Since that night when Yue Jinghua revealed the true reason for the annulment of the engagement, Yue Minzhi has been gloomy for the remaining days.

Although Yue Jinghua secretly blamed her elder brother for his reckless actions, she was also worried that his depression might affect his performance in the Dragon Pulling Test. She tried every means to cheer Yue Minzhi up, but to no avail.

One day, Shalman took advantage of Hongling accompanying Lie Rou on an outing to pray to Buddha and sneaked to Yue Jinghua, whispering in her ear.

"You said there’s a rare Dark Beast in the Underground Beast Fighting Arena, and you want to go watch?"

Even though they had won a fortune at the Underground Beast Fighting Arena last time, Lie Rou was very averse to the bloodshed and violence there, especially since Yue Minzhi had almost lost his life in the Beast Fight that one time. Since then, Lie Rou had explicitly forbidden Yue Jinghua from entering the Beast Fighting Arena.

Consequently, Shalman was also banned from entering.

It was merely a pretext for Shalman to want to watch the Beast Fight; her real intention was to acquire exotic beasts.

This girl had an inherent obsession with collecting, especially for Dark Beasts, and even more so for rare ones. It was not very noticeable when Dark Beasts were scarce in Shang Kingdom, but after arriving in Wo Hua Imperial City, her collecting addiction grew increasingly uncontrollable.

However, right now Yue Jinghua was indeed in need of special Dark Beasts for refining Dark Beast Vein Crystals, so they hit it off immediately.

Before leaving, Yue Jinghua thought that the atmosphere of the Beast Fighting Arena might help alleviate Yue Minzhi’s mood, so she invited him along, and the three of them set off for the Underground Beast Fighting Arena together.

Upon arrival at the Underground Beast Fighting Arena, the female guide who received guests twitched her mouth suspiciously upon seeing Yue Jinghua and greeted them somewhat reluctantly.

"Lord Yue, Young Master Yue, Miss Sha," after that one fight where one faced ten in the Beast Fight, Yue Jinghua and her "Black Yama" became widely known in the Underground Beast Fighting Arena.

During that Beast Fight, the Underground Beast Fighting Arena suffered a humiliating defeat.

Before Yue Jinghua could speak, the female guide led her to a secluded spot, "Young Master Yue, this is a Dan Xuan Card worth 100,000 Dark Pills that the owner of the Beast Fighting Arena has asked me to pass to you in private, hoping that you will not let your Dark Beast participate in the Beast Fights anymore."

What? Winning money without competing, and it’s worth 100,000 Dark Pills?

Upon hearing this, Yue Jinghua immediately became delighted.

Not taking money that’s offered is foolish!

After all, she wasn’t here tonight to participate in the contest. Little Shanshan, now embedded with a Dark Beast Vein Crystal, possessed enough strength to instantly kill these Dark Beasts in the arena, and simply competing against these Dark Beasts no longer met the requirements for training Little Shanshan.

Yue Jinghua thought secretly that she should come to the Beast Fighting Arena more often in the future; the taste of profiting without effort was truly delightful.

"Please tell the owner of the Beast Fighting Arena that I, Yue, will not participate in Beast Fights from now on. Tonight I’m just here to watch the competition. I’ve heard that the arena has introduced a batch of rare Dark Beasts," Yue Jinghua was more curious about where the Yanyue Chamber of Commerce, which was now in decline, had found these rare Dark Beasts.

"So Young Master Yue is also here for tonight’s Shepherdess Snake Fight. Tickets for tonight are selling fast, and there are only a few left. If you and Lord Yue had arrived any later, you might have missed it," the female guide was relieved when Yue Jinghua accepted the Dan Xuan Card from the Beast Fighting Arena.

If it had been the past, when a strong guest like Yue Jinghua showed up, the Beast Fighting Arena would have chosen to directly wipe her and the Dark Beast out.

However, just a few days ago, a sudden order from above decreed that they could not harm Yue Jinghua and anyone from the Duke Mansion, so the Beast Fighting Arena had no choice but to stop, not daring to act rashly anymore.

The female guide led Yue Jinghua and the others into the Beast Fighting Arena, only to see that tonight’s arena was indeed packed like a sea of people.

Looking into the Beast Fighting Arena, those several shepherd snake women, half-naked upper bodies shaping like snakes, yet resembling beautiful women, made Yue Jinghua come to a realization.

The men of this age, without the privileges of the modern male couch potatoes, have to satisfy their eyes in places like the Beast Fighting Arena.

Shepherd snake women are a special kind of Dark Beast from the Northern Ice and Snow Domain, said to be born from the glacier human snakes raiding local shepherdesses, producing these rare half-Dark Beast half-human creatures.

With their lower halves resembling snow snakes, covered with delicate and silvery scales, their well-developed upper bodies have their brimming breasts only concealed at the nipples by snow-like long hair.

The allure of seeming to conceal yet not, in fact, adds to their temptation, causing the men watching in the Beast Fighting Arena to have their blood boil with wolfish fervor, heedlessly blowing whistles and howling like hungry wolves.

Yue Jinghua held her forehead and sighed, then glancing at her older brother who was also looking at the scene inside, she couldn’t help but curse inwardly: "Men truly are animals that think with their lower halves."

"Huahua, don’t you think that shepherd snake woman resembles Long Rui somewhat?" Yue Minzhi called out to Yue Jinghua.

Yue Jinghua looked closely; there were five shepherd snake women in the Beast Fighting Arena, the youngest looking only about thirteen or fourteen years old, with her rounded face and starry eyes, still bearing a youthful air, indeed resembling the Long Rui of a few years ago.

"Have you heard? After tonight’s beast fight, there’s to be a bonus performance. It’s said that the Beast Fighting Arena, in order to repay new and regular customers, has decided to auction off the victorious side’s Dark Beast," Yue Jinghua and the other two had just settled down when they overheard several Dark Practitioners with rat-like countenances discussing.

No wonder there’s such a huge crowd tonight, it seems these spectators have ulterior motives beyond just watching.

"Auctioning a Dark Beast?" Shalman heard this and immediately showed a face full of excitement.

Shalman secretly rejoiced at his good fortune. Although shepherd snake women were only Sixth-level Dark Beasts, they were quite rare in the Eastern Continent. If he could buy one to nurture and tame carefully, they might be put to great use in the future.

After hearing this, Yue Min a frowned slightly and glanced at the shepherd snake woman huddling in the corner of the Beast Fighting Arena, too frightened to move, resembling Long Rui.

Yue Jinghua, noting her brother’s reaction, thought to herself that if the price was right, she could buy those shepherd snake women. After all, she had plenty of Dark Beasts at her disposal, and having a few more precious creatures wouldn’t hurt.

Besides, these shepherd snake women, strictly speaking, were somewhat similar to the Chaos Mantis in her Sea of Consciousness, both being mixed blood Dark Beasts.

But Yue Jinghua still had one concern: How could these shepherd snake women, who seemed as harmless as gentle sheep, be chosen by the Beast Fighting Arena to participate in tonight’s cruel beast fight? Could they really survive such savagery?

"Make way, don’t block this young lord’s view of tonight’s beast fight," just as Yue Jinghua was contemplating how to bid for the shepherd snake women, there was a push from behind, and a few sons of noble families and officials strutted into the Beast Fighting Arena with an arrogant demeanor.