Chapter 223: Old Ginger is Still Spicy! (Bonus Chapter for Donations)
Si Ye touched Sang Luo's forehead. She didn't have a fever. He reached out again, wanting to undo her sleeping gown. "Where do you feel unwell? Or are you injured?"
"I've been by your side all this time. Where would I have a chance to get injured!"
Sang Luo blushed and swatted away his paw, then snuggled completely into his warm, sturdy embrace.
She hugged his waist and rubbed against him, her voice uneasy. "A'Ye, I went to Beihai a few days ago and had a face-to-face talk with the Old Beast Emperor. He divined a hexagram for me, and the divination… is somewhat ominous."
Sang Luo originally didn't want to tell her beast husbands about this, because Ji Hua himself said that divination is only 70-80% accurate, and she didn't want them to worry about it.
But in the past few days, she had been feeling uneasy.
She wanted to confide in someone.
"Don't be afraid. I'm here. What happened?" Si Ye hugged her tightly, his warm lips gently landing on her forehead, his deep voice filled with reassurance.
"The Old Beast Emperor said that I would encounter a deadly tribulation in three months, with about a 30% accuracy rate. I don't know if I'm just being paranoid lately, but I always feel like there are several pairs of eyes watching me from the shadows…"
Sang Luo told him the whole story.
Si Ye's heart sank. He gently patted her back, comforting her. "I believe your intuition. There might really be something dirty hiding. I'll thoroughly investigate the Marquis's residence these days, and send you back to…"
He stopped abruptly, looking at her belly. The safest place was naturally the Phoenix Palace. Fei Yuan's strength was still quite considerable; he had almost no rivals on the continent.
Fei Yuan was also the biological father beast of this child. No matter what, he would definitely take good care of her and the child. Sending her back to Fei Yuan's side would be the most appropriate.
"Hmph, men with divided hearts are the most untrustworthy. You haven't seen the way Le Xia looks at me. I'm afraid that during my labor, they'll try to take the child and leave me!" Sang Luo saw that he was hesitating, shaking her head frantically. "I definitely won't go back to Phoenix Palace. Besides, the prediction isn't necessarily accurate. The only people who can hurt me are Emperor-level beastmen, but there are only a few of them, and I haven't offended anyone."
"It's best if nothing happens, but we can't gamble with your life. Have you forgotten about the magical beasts?"
"You've killed more magical beasts than I have. If those magical beasts really have their eyes on the Marquis's residence and want revenge, they'll definitely come for you first. At most, I'm just collateral damage."
"You can't say that. The magical beasts may not target you, but they may not target the child in your belly."
Sang Luo suddenly realized that she had forgotten about this.
Phoenix True Fire has a restraining effect on magical beasts.
Fei Yuan is also the only pure-blooded fire phoenix with the bloodline of the gods. The talent of the child in her belly is enough to terrify the demon race. If it is born and grows up in the future, it will be a greater threat to them than Fei Yuan.
The best time to cut the weeds and eliminate the roots is now!
The magical beasts are coming for her child!
She was forced to become a sacrifice.
For half a month, Si Ye personally led people to investigate the Marquis's residence and the entire imperial city.
They rooted out more than a dozen hidden King-level magical beastmen.
Three magical beasts with the talent for concealment and disguise replaced three servants of the Marquis's residence while the two of them were out for the New Year a few days ago, installing monitoring arrays and magical devices in her room. Si Ye also found that many secret passages had been dug out under the Marquis's residence, hiding magical devices that could be detonated.
Si Ye killed all the magical beasts and crushed all the magical devices.
The feeling of being watched also disappeared.
In a flash, more than three months passed without incident, and the Heavenly Fate Rope did not react in any way.
The hexagram was inaccurate.
Sang Luo also put this matter behind her and went out with Si Ye to shop for supplies.
Ahead, the crowd was in turmoil.
"Let's go see what happened?" Sang Luo was nosy.
Si Ye pulled her over.
In the open space surrounded by the crowd, a thin, young male beastman was lying on the ground, fifteen or sixteen years old, his clothes tattered and covered in wounds.
A strong, sturdy male beastman was holding a whip, lashing it hard at his body, the flesh flying, it was so miserable.
"I told you to run, I told you to run! See if I don't whip you to death, you little bastard!"
"Ah! Stop hitting me… Benefactor, save me! Take me away, please!"
The young man seemed to see a life-saving straw, pouncing in front of Sang Luo, wanting to reach out and hug her leg.
Si Ye's expression changed drastically. He hurriedly protected Sang Luo behind him and kicked away the thin, dirty beastman. "Get out of here, don't get in the way!"
He couldn't bear to see any strange beastman approaching Sang Luo, even though the three months predicted had passed, she was still pregnant, so it was best to be careful in everything.
"It's a slave trader selling beast slaves. This beast slave must have taken advantage of the chaos to run out. The slave trader wants to catch him back. It's quite common in the city. Don't worry about it," Si Ye said to Sang Luo.
"Oh, it's quite pitiful. Let's help if we've encountered him." Sang Luo threw a few low-grade crystals to the slave trader, buying the life of this lowly beast slave.
"Benefactor is so kind. Please take me back. I am willing to be a slave for life to repay your kindness!"
"There's no need to repay my kindness. Take these travel expenses and live a good life." Sang Luo didn't want to cause any more trouble, throwing him a few crystals.
The beastman kowtowed several times on the ground, took the money, and limped away.
Soon, they strolled to another street, and a scream came from ahead.
Screams rang out one after another.
The crowd was in chaos, running and trampling.
Si Ye quickly hugged Sang Luo, retreated from the crowd, and flew into the air.
Beastmen on the road went mad and transformed into their beast forms, frantically attacking other beastmen. In the blink of an eye, the bodies of several beastmen were torn apart.
"This beastman has been demonized!"
Then, an even more bizarre scene occurred. The beastmen corpses on the ground swayed and stood up, also beginning to attack the other beastmen nearby.
"They are specially refined corpse demons!" Si Ye cursed in a low voice, his expression ugly.
The spread of this kind of corpse demon is extremely fast. From the source, it can expand to the entire city and turn it into a graveyard in less than half a day!
Si Ye transformed into a huge phoenix, his voice wrapped in spiritual power, reaching tens of miles away.
"All beastmen in the city, listen to my command, retreat out of the city —"
He spewed out extremely dazzling flames at the source of the corpse demon, turning it to ashes!
But there is more than one corpse demon. There is also one in the northwest corner of the city!
After dispersing the nearby crowd, Sang Luo hurried to solve that corpse demon.
Suddenly, a huge palpitation struck.
The black rope on her wrist — broke!
Her pupils suddenly shrank. Not having time to think, she fled from the spot.
The broken black rope formed a black mist in the next second, trapping her.
Ji Hua!
Old ginger is still spicy. She was backstabbed!
"Luo Luo!" Si Ye rushed over, but failed to grab her.
Sang Luo disappeared into thin air.
He searched the entire city frantically.
He couldn't find a trace of her.
The soul imprint was shielded by a power far stronger than his!
"Luo Luo and your child are in trouble! Come and save them!"
Before Si Ye's message could be sent, a earth-shattering phoenix cry came from afar. A shadow that blotted out the sky flew out from the direction of the palace. Dark red flames instantly incinerated the magical beasts that broke into the city, and then transformed into a slender and tall figure.
Fei Yuan's pair of ink pupils were icy and horrifying, rolling with crimson light.
"I'll go find her. You organize the people in the city."
After speaking, he teleported away.
Third watch~
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