Chapter 573 - 570: Touching the Reverse Scale

Chapter 573: Chapter 570: Touching the Reverse Scale

Zhu Xiu almost instantly detected the scent of a bloodline that disgusted him to his very core.

He had been helping move stones, but his movements came to a sudden halt. The atmosphere around him instantly dropped to a frightening low. His vertical pupils narrowed into thin slits as he stared coldly at the few Beastmen who had appeared so abruptly.

The elderly Snake Beastman couple saw Zhu Xiu as well. They looked at him as if he were a rock, or perhaps a failed, defective product. There wasn’t the slightest hint of emotion from the long-separated family, only blatant indifference and a certain air of entitled demand.

The male Snake Beastman was the first to speak, his voice hoarse and grating, his tone demanding. "It’s been so long, you don’t recognize us? Get over here."

Zhu Xiu stood his ground, perfectly still. Not even a flicker of emotion crossed his eyes, as if he hadn’t heard a thing.

The female Snake Beastman frowned, a look of impatience on her face. "Forget it. We didn’t come for him anyway."

Her gaze swept past the other Beastmen and landed on Bai Wanwan. She turned to the young Beastman behind her and asked, "Is that her?"

The young Snake Beastman stared greedily at Bai Wanwan. "Yes, Mother! I want her!"

’That female isn’t just stunningly beautiful,’ he thought, ’she also seems to have some connection to my outcast brother.’

"Alright. Since you like her, Mother will help you take her."

King Cobra females were different from other females; relying on their venom, they feared no enemy in the wild.

She looked at Bai Wanwan. "Young female, my son has taken a liking to you. Are you coming with us willingly, or do I have to take you by force?"

Bai Wanwan glanced from side to side, only now realizing they were talking about her.

She let out a short laugh. "Ha! He’s taken a liking to me? Well, I haven’t taken a liking to him. Who the hell does he think he is? He’s not even worth a single scale on my Beast Husband!"

For a Beastman, these words were an incredible insult, and the Snake Beasts were instantly enraged.

"I thought you’d prefer we didn’t have to get physical, but it looks like we’ll have to teach you a lesson!"

A King Cobra’s venom was incredibly potent; even a female could easily take down a male from the Leopard Clan.

The moment the female Snake Beastman spoke, a terrifying killing intent erupted from Zhu Xiu. Beside him, the faces of Xin Feng, Yan Lie, and the others also turned grim.

The young Snake Beastman eagerly stepped forward, his eyes locked greedily on Bai Wanwan. He licked his lips. "Give me that female!"

Zhu Xiu finally moved. He slowly turned his head, his gaze like the sharpest of ice picks, stabbing into his so-called "brother." A single word, squeezed from the depths of his throat, dripped with endless frost and killing intent: "Scram!"

The elder male Snake Beastman seemed enraged by Zhu Xiu’s attitude. He raised his voice, bellowing with an absurd self-righteousness, "How dare you speak to us like that? This is what you owe us! Even giving up the female your brother has taken a fancy to wouldn’t be enough to atone for your mistake."

"Owe you?"

Bai Wanwan’s voice, clear yet laced with fury, suddenly rang out.

She stepped around Xin Feng, who had been shielding her, and walked forward, one step at a time. Her lovely face was a mask of frost, her sharp gaze sweeping over the revolting Snake Beasts.

She came to a stop beside Zhu Xiu, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with him. She met the icy stares of the Snake Beastman couple without a shred of fear, her voice ringing out, clear and cold for all to hear:

"I have never seen Beastmen more cold-blooded than you. He was just a little hatchling who didn’t know anything. Did he ask to be a mutant? You brought him into this world, and just because he didn’t meet your expectations, you threw him out like garbage."

She grew more furious as she spoke, her chest rising and falling. "If you had any decency, you wouldn’t have had children in the first place! You give birth but don’t raise them, you abandon them and don’t care, and now you have the nerve to show your faces here? I am his mate! What right do you have to demand he give up his own mate? Is your skin thicker than the tribe’s stone walls? The Beast God will abandon scum like you sooner or later!"

Bai Wanwan’s verbal lashing made the Snake Beastman couple’s faces flush and pale with rage. They clearly hadn’t expected this beautiful, seemingly delicate female to be so fierce and sharp-tongued.

However, the spoiled "brother," far from being snapped to his senses, became even more infatuated by the sight of Bai Wanwan’s vibrant, furious expression. ’A female this beautiful even when she’s angry,’ he thought, ’I absolutely have to have her!’

He actually ignored Zhu Xiu’s almost tangible killing intent, slithering foolishly toward Bai Wanwan and reaching out to grab her arm. "Female... I like you so much..."

SLAP! SLAP!

Two crisp, resounding slaps landed mercilessly across his face.

Bai Wanwan had used all her strength, slapping him so hard his head whipped to the side. Clear red fingerprints instantly blossomed on his cheek.

But the pervert, far from getting angry, touched his cheek with an even more obsessed look in his eyes. There was even a hint of twisted excitement in his voice. "That was great... Hit me again..."

He actually started to lean in again!

This time, before Bai Wanwan could strike again, Zhu Xiu made his move.

All anyone saw was a blur. Before they could even see how Zhu Xiu had struck, the annoying young Snake Beastman was hurled through the air like a rag doll. He flew in a wide arc before crashing hard onto the empty ground dozens of meters away, kicking up a cloud of dust. He struggled a few times but couldn’t get back up.

Zhu Xiu didn’t even glance at the worthless creature. His cold eyes, like those gazing upon the dead, swept over the dumbfounded Snake Beastman couple. "I’ll say it one last time. Get out."

"You!" The elder Snake Beastman trembled with rage.

But he could feel it—the aura of a Red Rank Powerhouse radiating from Zhu Xiu.

’How could this be?’

’I knew back then that he was a Mutant Beast, with more Talent than other Beastmen of his rank, but I never imagined he would actually become a Red Rank Powerhouse.’

"Time’s up."

The moment he spoke, Zhu Xiu moved faster than the naked eye could follow, a black bolt of lightning tearing through space.

The crowd heard a sickening THUD and the sharp CRACK of shattering bone. The annoying young Snake Beastman didn’t even have time to scream. It was as if he’d been hit head-on by a speeding mountain; his body contorted into a grotesque shape as he flew backward, spraying an arrow of blood. He smashed heavily onto the ground and was knocked unconscious, his condition unknown.

The female Snake Beastman let out a piercing shriek and rushed to her unconscious son.

But Zhu Xiu’s onslaught wasn’t over.

’He could forget the hatred from over twenty years of abandonment, but them trying to take Wanwan today... that was unforgivable!’

His massive Snake Tail, crackling with destructive power, swept mercilessly toward the male Snake Beastman!

The male Snake Beastman, both shocked and enraged, tried to defend himself, but he had clearly underestimated Zhu Xiu’s power and determination.

How could a full-powered strike from a Red Rank Powerhouse be so easily blocked?

BAM! With a deafening boom, the male Snake Beastman was sent stumbling backward, blood trickling from his mouth, a look of utter horror on his face.

Almost at the same instant Zhu Xiu attacked, Yan Lie and Yin Ze, who could no longer restrain themselves, also sprang into action. To dare humiliate Wanwan so brazenly—their opponents had just provoked their deepest wrath!