After he finished speaking, Qiu Tao and Cheng Wenyu each took an arm and pulled Shen Jianxi towards Lin Xinglan’s back. Seeing this, Su Rong and the other two also stopped fighting and moved towards them after killing the hyenas in front of them.
So Shen Jianxi watched with her own eyes as the cute boy transformed into a three-meter-long white tiger.
Holy crap!
For a moment, Shen Jianxi even suspected her eyes were playing tricks on her.
No wonder he ate so much. No wonder he was from a beast-taming family but became a sword cultivator. Turns out he was a demon himself. Beast-taming was innate to them, requiring no cultivation. Su Dan Novel Network.
But…
A tiger that loved desserts…
What if it became even cuter!
The bloodline suppression was innate.
Ever since Lin Xinglan revealed his true form, the hyenas opposite them became visibly more cautious, whimpering and retreating.
However, knowing they had killed so many people, there was no way they would let them go today.
Lin Xinglan let out a long roar and pounced, swatting away four or five hyenas with a single swipe.
Seeing that he had no intention of letting them go, the remaining hyenas exchanged glances and formed a circle around Lin Xinglan, gradually closing in on him.
Perhaps the battles between demonic beasts were not tainted by humans, or perhaps these hyenas lacked the intelligence.
All their attention was focused on Lin Xinglan, and they temporarily ignored the other six people.
As soon as they formed a circle, a gap was broken by the six people. Then another circle formed, and another was broken…
Shen Jianxi: …Did they really not notice anything was wrong?
They cooperated with Lin Xinglan from both inside and out. Shen Jianxi used the new bride gift from Shen Jiayi, a long whip.
The hyena pack visibly dwindled, and the ground was covered with corpses. The remaining hyenas scattered in all directions. They knew the principle of not chasing a cornered enemy.
Especially since Lin Xinglan seemed to be losing strength.
The last hyena disappeared. Lin Xinglan did not revert to human form but, under everyone’s gaze, shrank to the size of a Lingrou fox, like a white cat with beautiful markings.
Lin Xinglan licked his paw, his gaze sweeping over the six people before settling on Shen Jianxi.
His posture was proud and noble, completely different from that of the cute boy.
He walked towards Shen Jianxi with elegant steps, leaped up, and climbed up her leg, kicking Fu Zi, who had been sleeping on her left shoulder, off. The movement was so fast that no one even reacted before Fu Zi fell heavily onto the floor.
“Thump!”
A dull thud.
Hearing it, everyone present felt a pang in their heads.
Fu Zi, the little fox, let out an unconscious whimper.
Then Lin Xinglan occupied the spot where Fu Zi had been, curled up comfortably, and fell into a deep sleep.
Qiu Tao reached out to try and pick him up, but as soon as his hand extended, Lin Xinglan, who had been sleeping, suddenly swiped at him with a paw.
His fair and slender hand instantly turned red.
“This idiot!” Qiu Tao gritted his teeth. He had only been guarding against Cheng Wenyu, never expecting this idiot also had designs on her.
Others might not know, but he did. Every time Lin Xinglan transformed into his true form to fight, he would shrink due to exhaustion and would take about three days to recover. At this moment, all his actions and thoughts were driven by instinct.
That meant, by instinct, he wanted to be close to Shen Jianxi.
This showed what? It showed that this kid had impure intentions towards her from the start!
He really couldn't tell that his junior brother was a wolf in sheep’s clothing!
Qiu Tao’s intestines were turning green with regret. Thinking back to when Lin Xinglan seemed to be waiting for someone in Sifang City, he now had strong reason to suspect that the person he was waiting for was Shen Jianxi!
He bent down and picked up Fu Zi, who was still lying on the floor. Smelling a familiar scent, he stirred and buried his head in Shen Jianxi’s arm.
Shen Jianxi: …It seemed like she had opened an animal daycare.
The room was thick with the smell of blood, which was certainly not pleasant. Shen Jianxi glanced at everyone and hesitated, "Aren’t you all… going out?"
Everyone seemed to snap back to reality. Cheng Wenyu stood amidst the corpses, his white clothes unstained by even a drop of blood. He tentatively took a step, then ‘accidentally’ almost tripped over a hyena carcass on the ground, his aura radiating ‘weakness’. He pursed his lips and looked ‘helplessly’ in the direction of Shen Jianxi’s voice.
Qiu Tao saw through his little trick and snorted as he walked over, a ‘friendly’ smile on his face, “Does Senior Brother need help? Come, Junior Brother will support you.”
With that, he grabbed Cheng Wenyu’s arm.
Cheng Wenyu forcefully pulled his arm away, and Qiu Tao, seeing his unyielding nature, said again:
“Oh, Senior Brother, there’s no need to be so polite with your Junior Brother.
Huh? What’s wrong? Does Senior Brother want Xi’er to support him?
It’s difficult to walk with all these corpses on the ground, and Xi’er is so delicate.
But I believe Senior Brother would never want her to fall, right!”
With Qiu Tao saying it like that, it seemed as if his insistence on Shen Jianxi supporting Cheng Wenyu was only to make her fall.
Unpleasantly, Cheng Wenyu’s face darkened. He couldn’t be as shameless as Qiu Tao and could only slowly raise his arm and say word by word, “Then I’ll trouble Junior Brother.”
Qiu Tao’s lips curled up slightly as he reached out to support him, “Senior Brother is too kind.”
He maintained an air of brotherly affection.
Shen Jianxi suppressed a smile and walked out.
Behind her, Qiu Tao supported Cheng Wenyu, following her. However, he deliberately walked through areas with more hyena corpses.
But Cheng Wenyu, as if he could see, stepped on flat ground with every stride and walked out of the house steadily, a flicker of disappointment crossing Qiu Tao’s mind.
As they walked out of the village chief’s house, they discovered that all the women in the village were standing outside. Seeing them emerge, they all knelt and kowtowed.
Wails echoed throughout the village, their mournful cries deeply moving.
The leader of the women stood up and walked towards them, “Thank you, thank you, benefactors, for saving us.”
They had been here for too long, so long that they had forgotten the current year and day, and their hearts had become numb.
They thought they would rot in the mud in this life, but they never expected someone to come and rescue them.
Shen Jianxi gently wiped the tears from her face, “Everything will get better from now on.”
The sea presses down on bamboo branches, making them lower, only to rise again; the wind blows past mountain corners, turning darkness into light.
Shen Jianxi had always believed that after darkness, there would be brilliant light.
It was precisely because of this belief that she could endure one harsh and dark day after another.
They watched the seven people leave at the village entrance. After their figures disappeared, clutching the elixirs they left behind, the leader of the women turned to look at the pairs of eyes below, now filled with hope once more, and her throat tightened again.
They had truly survived…
Their eyes became resolute, and a tacit understanding formed among them.
No one could have predicted that in the years to come, a team composed entirely of women would become known throughout the Chongjian Continent, rescuing countless women trapped in dire straits.
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“The sea presses down on bamboo branches, making them lower, only to rise again; the wind blows past mountain corners, turning darkness into light.”
— From "Observing Rain" by Chen Yuyi of the Song Dynasty