Chapter 212: A Female of Great Fortune?

Chapter 212: Chapter 208: A Female of Great Fortune?

Ying Meng came barreling toward her, aiming for a direct clash of strength.

But Nan Zishi had no intention of meeting brute force with brute force. Countering hardness with softness, she twisted her body with a fluid grace that completely dissipated Ying Meng’s momentum.

Ying Meng stumbled and face-planted spectacularly. She whipped her head around and roared, “Nan Zishi, you’re a High Mountain Fire Red Eagle! Why are you dodging?!”

Nan Zishi struck a pose reminiscent of Vice Sect Leader Shen Teng. “Fine, I won’t dodge. Come on.”

Ying Meng lunged at Nan Zishi again. This time, Nan Zishi didn’t yield an inch. She took a single step forward and unleashed an immense burst of power.

She shot toward Ying Meng, and before her opponent could even react, she slapped her across the face!

Ying Meng’s eyes flew wide with shock. She tumbled through the air several times before crashing to the ground with a THUD!

Nan Zishi found it rather anticlimactic. ‘So weak. If I’d known, I wouldn’t have even bothered transforming into a Fire Red Eagle.’

Humiliation!

Furious and utterly humiliated, Ying Meng couldn’t take it anymore. She screamed at her Beast Husbands, “Kill Nan Zishi for me! KILL HER!”

Ying Meng’s Beast Husbands all charged toward Nan Zishi.

The males in the cave could no longer stand by and watch!

“Ying Meng has gone too far!”

“When it’s a fight between two females, we can turn a blind eye! But males bullying a female? How can we possibly stand by and do nothing?!”

“That’s right! Ying Meng is being so unreasonable, making her own males fight Emperor Nan.”

“That’s Emperor Nan! She’s the one who saved all of our families!!!”

Just as the males started to emerge from the cave, Nan Zishi raised a hand, stopping them.

Han Feng said, “Emperor Nan can handle this. Everyone must trust her.”

On Nan Zishi’s side, however, the cubs sprang into action.

Lang Xian was furious. “How dare she bully Mom?!”

Fat Wolf Mu grew angry as well, his face puffing out adorably. He shouted as he ran, “Whoever bullies Mom, I’ll beat them up! Charge! Beat that female to death, and her males and her cubs too!”

“A bunch of mongrels,” Huo Jun said as he walked over, a Three-striped Beast Pattern already appearing on his face.

The onlooking Beastmen began to murmur, “A Three-striped Beast Warrior? He’s so young to be a Three-striped Beast Warrior!”

Huo Jun looked like a little red prince, each step he took deliberate, reserved, and noble.

“Mother, little brothers and sisters, let me handle this.”

Just as he said that, Huo Jun used his innate, superhuman strength to kick one of Ying Meng’s charging males, sending him flying!

“Young Master…” The other males hesitated for a moment.

Ying Meng shrieked, “What are you all standing around for?! Get him! Get him now!”

Having no choice, another male charged forward.

Huo Jun flipped with a flap of his wings, pushed off the cave wall with a small foot, and used the momentum to launch himself at the male, sending him flying with another kick.

One by one, the males charged over, and Huo Jun’s confidence grew with each one he fought.

“Weaklings! You’re all weaklings!”

With a sudden flap of both wings, he spat out a ball of fire, setting the males’ Beast Skin Skirts alight.

The Fire Ability of the High Mountain Fire Red Eagle—the superpower that Beastmen feared most!

After the fight, the onlooking Beastmen were so shocked their jaws could have fit an egg inside.

“So powerful! Young Master Huo Jun actually awakened.”

“The Fire Ability of a High Mountain Fire Red Eagle… It’s so terrifying, so powerful!”

The males frantically rolled on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames.

Other males ran outside to use the falling rain to put out the flames.

One moment, Ying Meng was jealous; the next, she was fearful. Her expression kept shifting back and forth until her face was a veritable color palette!

Just then, Fox Qi shouted, “She bullied our mother! Let’s get her!”

The cubs charged toward Ying Meng. Ying Meng’s own cubs leaped to her defense, but they were all beaten up, after which Nan Zishi’s cubs secretly gave Ying Meng a beating too!

Beating her until she screamed and screamed.

All the other Beastmen chose to turn a blind eye.

“Junjun!”

“Mother!” Huo Jun ran to Nan Zishi, raised his little face, and said with great pride, “Mother, I’ve awakened.”

“That’s amazing! You’re so cool!” Nan Zishi said, stroking his head. “As expected of the oldest!”

‘Ever since returning home, although his mother sometimes criticized him, compared to her praise, those criticisms felt utterly insignificant.’

Huo Jun blissfully basked in his mother’s praise.

“Don’t worry, Mother. I’ll be sure to protect you and my little brothers and sisters.”

…

‘She herself had been defeated by Nan Zishi, and her Beast Husbands had been defeated by Nan Zishi’s cubs.’

‘And to top it all off, she and her own cubs had been beaten up by Nan Zishi’s cubs as well.’

‘It hurt so much. Her whole body ached!’

Ying Meng had been beaten into submission. Covered in dust and utterly dejected, she no longer dared to act recklessly.

She was shoved into a corner by the other Beastmen in the cave, who looked at her with disgust.

She curled up into a ball.

…

The typhoon arrived with a howl, yet there were still many Beastmen with nowhere to take shelter.

Hu Bai and the others spread out to arrange shelter for the nearby Beastmen!

Just then, a gigantic Black Dragon tumbled through the clouds overhead.

Below the clouds, Eagle and Crane Beastmen flew through the pouring rain.

Hu Bai and the others immediately looked up at the sky!

“It’s High Priest Long Yi!”

Xuan Jin, Chi Xiao, and Wolf Day and Wolf Night were instantly on guard.

Ying Li, He Lian, and Long Yi descended from the clouds.

Ying Li said, “Lord Long Yi, this weather isn’t normal.”

Long Yi replied, “It’s a typhoon. And it doesn’t look like a small one.”

He Lian shrieked, “A natural disaster is about to hit the Eastern Coast!!!”

Long Yi looked down, his gaze meeting that of Hu Bai and the others on the ground, who had already noticed them.

The Black Dragon male’s gaze was cold, while Hu Bai and the others’ expressions were guarded.

Ying Li observed, “They are all Beast Kings of the Eastern Continent.”

Long Yi’s gaze swept over them, one by one.

The Eastern Forest Fox King, the Eastern Mountain Eagle King, the Eastern Swamp Snake King, two Silver Wolf Beast Kings, and… the not-worth-mentioning Scorpion King.

Aside from the Scorpion King, the auras of the other Beast Kings were far from simple.

‘Have they all… advanced in rank?’

“Eight-striped Beast Kings.”

He Lian didn’t hear clearly and yelled, “Ying Li, what did the High Priest say?!”

Ying Li ignored He the deaf, turning to Long Yi to say, “A month ago, they were all Seven Stripes. How did they all suddenly advance to Eight Stripes? Lord High Priest, this isn’t right.”

Long Yi knew it wasn’t right, either.

‘So many beasts on the Eastern Continent advancing to become Eight-striped Beasts… They all advanced after following that Nan Zishi and establishing the Eastern Empire.’

‘Could it be? Is that Nan Zishi truly a female blessed by great fortune? Does the entire Beast World favor her?’

Long Yi raised a hand.

Hu Bai and the others’ Beast Patterns appeared as they prepared to fight at a moment’s notice!

The situation was incredibly tense, as if a battle would erupt in the next second. But instead, they heard Long Yi command, “Ying Li, He Lian, help save the people first!”

Ying Li was stunned. “Ah?”

He quickly recovered. “Oh, right, right!”

With that, Ying Li grabbed the hard-of-hearing He Lian and flew down to help rescue people!

Long Yi flew down as well, and was surprisingly, genuinely helping to save the ordinary Beastmen.

“What’s he doing?” Xuan Jin asked, crossing his arms.

Wolf Night said hesitantly, “I don’t know, but it looks like he’s rescuing people.”

Chi Xiao exclaimed, “This is absurd!”

Hu Bai said, “He is the High Priest of the Beast World, after all. It’s understandable that he’d choose to rescue Beastmen in the face of a great disaster.”

“Xuan Jin, Wolf Day and Wolf Night, Chi Xiao. With a great disaster upon us, personal grudges must be set aside. Save the people first!”

“Alright.”

And so, the two opposing factions formed a temporary, united front, working together to rescue the cubs and the females.