Chapter 219 - 218: Don’t Bother Me Again

The air was already cold, but Yan Ying’s hysterical scream made the atmosphere even more frigid.

She was dressed in a sharp combat suit, her makeup exquisite, but her insincere plea for help twisted her expression into a vicious grimace.

The Soul Beast Barrier they had raised, along with its multiple layers of stacked defensive shields, was soon mostly shattered.

"Miss, our apologies."

Three people took two steps forward, leaving the protective circle, and simultaneously spread their wings to escape into the sky.

The Mutant Insect King brandished the two long Thorn Whips on its head, lashing one out and skewering the three of them in a row.

Dull thuds echoed as they hit the ground, accompanied by a shower of blood.

Jian Yu’s mouth fell slightly open. ’Oh, a triple kill.’

Yan Ying’s eyes looked ready to pop from their sockets. The rebuke she had for the traitors was caught in her throat, and she couldn’t make a sound.

She whipped her head around, her gaze on Jian Yu turning venomous and terrifying.

"My cousin’s Soul Beast was destroyed because of Jian Yu, and he suffers from spiritual power rampages every day! She doesn’t have to die today, and I don’t have to target her, but she must take responsibility for my cousin for the rest of his life!"

The Mutant Insect King continued to ram the barrier.

Yan Ying’s body trembled in fear.

She pointed a finger at Jian Yu, her normally charming voice rising to a piercing shriek.

"Listen up, all of you! I am Yan Ying, the only daughter of the Emperor Wolf Star Planet Master. Before we left, everyone on Emperor Wolf Star knew I was coming to find Jian Yu!"

Yan Ying’s eyes glinted with malice. "Don’t think your Imperial Capital Star is the only one with a 3S Awakener! My grandfather is also a Level 3S! If anything happens to me and he decides to place blame, none of you will be able to escape!"

She took a deep breath, trying to force everyone’s hand with her final bargaining chip. "I don’t want the Beast Crystal! I just want Chairman Sheng Yue to suppress the 3S Mutant Insect King and hand over Jian Yu!"

Silence.

A dead silence.

"BANG! BANG! BANG!" The Mutant Insect King was still watching, ramming the barrier.

The last two layers of the Spiritual Power Shield were faintly showing cracks.

Yan Ying looked at Sheng Yue in a panic, forcing herself to appear calm. "S-So?! Chairman Sheng, what do you think?"

Zhang Qin clapped a hand on Wang Hu’s shoulder. "Not so great."

The two Yan Xu brothers sneered.

The two Zhang Ziyue sisters frowned.

Lu Yi curled her lip. "The Beast Crystal was ours to begin with."

Everyone unanimously agreed with Lu Yi.

Jian Yu tilted her head, looking at Yan Ying with the most innocent, endearing expression she could muster. "If you want to trade me away, shouldn’t you have asked me first?"

"Ask you?" Yan Ying said with contempt. "You think being Awakened is such a big deal? So what if you’re a Level 3S who Awakened some trash Soul Beast? You’re still just support, a healer for others. If my cousin didn’t need you because of his severe spiritual power and Soul Power rampages, do you think my grandfather would have let you live this long?"

With that one sentence, the people who had just gathered by Yan Ying’s side silently distanced themselves.

They didn’t want to court death.

Yan Ying’s gaze swept around, only to find that she was left with just the five people who had been desperately protecting her from the start.

She spun around and swung a slap across their faces. "Don’t forget whose money you’re taking and whose resources you’re using!"

Her slap struck the entire row of them. Jian Yu stared, dumbfounded.

A mask was knocked off. One person covered their face and said in a low voice, "Miss, now is not the time for this."

CRACK. Another layer of the defensive shield fell.

Yan Ying looked at the blood-stained Thorn Whips on the Mutant Insect King’s head and nervously took two steps back.

She maintained her arrogant air. "Sheng Yue! Haven’t you decided yet?"

Sheng Yue glanced sideways, the blue and white fabric of his clothes shifting slightly.

He looked at Yan Ying expressionlessly. "Decide what?"

"You!" Yan Ying’s face and neck flushed with anger. ’After all that, was he just treating her words like hot air?’

Yan Xu narrowed his eyes. "You’re hopelessly stupid. Our Chairman Sheng would love nothing more than for a fool like you to be torn to shreds. It would save him the eyesore and stop others from having to pay the price for your willfulness."

The moment his voice fell, the situation changed abruptly.

The last barrier broke. Realizing she couldn’t win, Yan Ying screamed for everyone to protect her as she turned to flee.

But the Mutant Insect King’s crimson, bulging eyes suddenly locked onto Jian Yu.

Its massive mouthparts opened and closed, letting out a sharp roar.

A strange ferocity and malevolence emanated from it, as if it knew Jian Yu was the ’arch-culprit’ who had killed its descendants and subordinates.

Its enormous insectoid body, wrapped in a violent aura that seemed to want to destroy and crush everything, charged straight toward Jian Yu’s position.

It ignored Yan Ying, not even pausing for a second as it brushed past her team.

"You’ve got to be kidding me," Zhang Qin said, speechless. He desperately pointed at Yan Ying. "Over there, over there! Brother Worm, go beat up the people over there!"

Wang Hu and the others had already prepared for battle.

Lu Qi’s palms were sweating. "This Insect King seems to have gained intelligence."

"BANG!"

The blue and white barrier trembled violently.

"Hahaha!" Yan Ying laughed with glee.

Her face showed an expression of finally having vented her anger. "Serves you right!"

Yan Ying said hypocritically, "If you had helped me earlier, I might have been able to support you now."

The Insect King rammed the barrier madly, its eyes staring straight at Jian Yu.

With each continuous impact, its hard carapace scraped against the barrier, producing a grating sound that made one’s ears ring and teeth ache.

Yan Ying looked at the cold-faced Sheng Yue. "I almost forgot. Your Chairman had an accident one year. He injured his nose, and his Spirit Domain also suffered heavy damage. Tell me, do you think he can defeat a Mutant Insect King that’s also Level 3S?"

Confirming that the Insect King was solely focused on breaking through Sheng Yue’s defense and had no intention of turning to attack her, Yan Ying’s sense of security returned, and she was no longer afraid.

She said smugly, "If you throw Jian Yu out now, I’ll have my people help you. How about it?"

Zhang Qin rolled his shoulders and cursed, "Just wait until I kill this damn bug. See if I don’t beat you up next!"

The cracks on the barrier began to spread.

Sheng Yue’s expression was cold.

"Don’t go out." Sheng Yue’s brow furrowed slightly as he directly deactivated the Energy Barrier.

His eyes turned sharp. The Soul Power around him surged, and his figure blurred into a white afterimage.

Zhang Qin and the others all raised their hands, stacking up a layer of defensive shields to block.

In the midst of the fight, the Insect King was drawn away from their position, led by Sheng Yue to a spot high in the distant sky.

Everyone looked up.

Yin Jiu’s body grew enormous. Even a single one of its leopard-like whiskers, hanging down, looked like a long rope on a high mountain used for climbing.

Sheng Yue’s attacks, wreathed in an ethereal blue Soul Power, collided in mid-air with the Insect King’s extendable long whips, erupting in blinding waves of light.

Zhang Qin ducked his head and rubbed his eyes. "I’m almost blind."

After more than a dozen rounds, Sheng Yue’s breathing was slightly ragged, and his clothes were stained with the Insect King’s foul blood.

Jian Yu skillfully provided Sheng Yue with a continuous attack buff, the corners of her eyes slightly red from tension.

Yan Ying sneered, "All you know how to do is cry. You’re completely useless. If all Level 3S were like you, the interstellar age would have been over long ago."

The Insect King’s final pounce failed. Yin Jiu opened its mouth, and its teeth sank into the Insect King’s abdomen.

A piercing shriek, a convulsing body. Like a super-sized big rig, it finally stopped struggling and crashed to the ground, kicking up clouds of dust.

Sheng Yue hovered in mid-air, his blue eyes icy.

Without so much as a glance at the insect’s corpse on the ground, he shot straight toward Yan Ying.

The tremendous impact made Yan Ying collapse limply to the ground.

"Miss!"

Yan Ying spat out a mouthful of blood and pushed them away. "What’s the use of any of you!"

But in her mind, she couldn’t stop seeing the image of Sheng Yue’s fluid movements as he fought the Mutant Insect King, and those cold, eternally aloof eyes.

’Why? Why would someone like Sheng Yue protect Jian Yu?’

’On what grounds does that bitch Jian Yu deserve the affection of so many Level 3S Awakeners?’

Sheng Yue walked up to Yan Ying and looked down at her. "Return what you stole from our academy."

Yan Ying’s eyes were dazed.

Sheng Yue’s thin lips pressed together, as if exerting silent pressure.

Cold, imposing, and inviolable. Yan Ying felt fear, but for some reason, the hatred for Jian Yu in her heart deepened another layer.

"I-It’s here." One of the people beside her hurriedly opened a backpack and presented it with both hands.

Jian Yu walked forward.

All her teammates followed behind her.

Yan Ying opened her mouth, but before she could speak, she was knocked to the ground by a surge of purple smoke from Jian Yu’s body.

"Ah!" Yan Ying scrambled up frantically, about to call for her people.

A wisp of dark purple smoke shot out, sending her flying backward into a thick tree trunk.

The sound of breaking bones could be heard. Yan Ying’s face was deathly pale, her lips trembled, and tears mixed with dirt smeared her face, leaving her in a wretched state.

She stared deathly at Jian Yu.

’Didn’t they say Jian Yu Awakened a Healing-type Soul Beast?’

Yan Ying’s people seemed frozen in place, not moving an inch.

Because their Family Head had told them they weren’t allowed to watch the young miss get beaten, they closed their eyes and didn’t peek.

Only when the pressure in the air, even more terrifying than that of a Level 3S, dissipated did their bodies relax. They then scrambled over to help Yan Ying up.

Jian Yu picked up the now-smaller Yin Jiu. "Watch your mouth, and don’t bother me again."