Chapter 329 Shedding Skin
“Like the out-of-control Xiaoyuan?”
“It’s a beastman, difficult to control demonic energy. Demon beast hybrids and pure demon beasts, like me, can cultivate both magic and spirit.”
“What realm are you in now?” Sang Luo's slender fingers touched his Adam's apple.
Quan Jin hummed softly, answering with difficulty,
“Supreme Realm.”
Sang Luo raised her eyebrows. Fei Yuan and Minos's child had already been born, and she couldn't get pregnant with a second child in a short time. She could have another child with Quan Jin; the offspring's talent would be very high.
Sang Luo kissed his lips, inviting him.
Quan Jin turned her over, pressing her against the stone platform, his strong arms lifting her legs.
The room was dim, the faint yellow candlelight illuminating a small patch of haziness, two figures becoming one.
The ripples in the water quickened.
Pool water splashed on the stone platform.
Breaths intertwined.
For a long, long time.
The moment the lovemaking ended, the enchanting daze in Quan Jin's eyes dissipated, the pool returned to silence, he looked at the female in his arms, who had fallen into a deep sleep, a satisfied smile on his lips, and then lowered his head to kiss her lips, his fingers brushing away her soaked hair.
He had dreamed of this countless times, and tonight he had her again.
Quan Jin carried Sang Luo out of the water, casually grabbed a black robe from the rack and draped it over his body, neat and proper, and then picked up a snow-white sleeping robe and covered her, concealing the traces of the night's frenzy.
Sang Luo woke up in the morning, feeling indescribably satisfied, but no one was beside her.
She turned her head, looking at the desk not far away.
Quan Jin put down the scroll in his hand, “Breakfast is ready.”
“Okay.”
Sang Luo got dressed, washed up, and had breakfast.
High-level beastmen mostly consume crystal cores and don't need to eat. Sang Luo purely indulged in her appetite. With such a mouth, not tasting all the delicacies of the great rivers and mountains was more uncomfortable than killing her!
The Void Demon Realm was barren, let alone any crops or grains. The meat of the demon beasts was sour, hard, and had no nutrition. The ingredients were specially transported by Quan Jin's subordinates from the outside world, but after all, they couldn't compare to the delicacies of the Beast World. Sang Luo quickly grew tired of it after eating for a few days.
“When are you going back to the Eastern Continent?” Sang Luo lay on the table, blocking his view of the book.
Quan Jin's gaze fell on her face, smiling, “Want to go back?”
“Yeah, there's nothing fun in the Void Demon Realm, and nothing delicious. The Beast World is better.” Sang Luo thought of something and suggested, “Your title of Southern Beast Emperor is only in name, but you still have the name, why don't we go back to the South!”
“Fei Yuan said that the beast kings in the South are in a chaotic war, and the people are suffering. You should come out and take care of things.”
“Okay.” Quan Jin nodded in agreement.
He had no intention of being the Southern Beast Emperor. Back then, he took that position only to facilitate the deployment of spies in the Beast World for future internal and external attacks… Quan Jin glanced at Sang Luo uneasily, thankfully she didn't have so many thoughts and didn't know these things.
… …
Eastern Continent, South.
The Beast Emperor's Palace had been uninhabited for many years, but it was still kept in good order by people every day.
A young man with short brown hair, wearing a uniform, walked up quickly.
“Your Majesty, you’re back!”
“Yeah.”
The young man then looked at Sang Luo, who was holding two little snake cubs in her arms, and bowed, “Your Highness the Queen, Your Highnesses, good day.”
“Sang Sang, he is my personal guard, Yan Nei. If you encounter anything, you can look for him.”
Sang Luo understood, this one was also a demon beastman, “Okay, thank you for your trouble.”
Yan Nei, “I will send someone to clean up the residence.”
A servant cleaning glanced over here, found an opportunity to retreat, came to the palace gate, and took out a spiritual letter in his hand.
Over the years, the Southern Beast Emperor had never returned. The beast kings below had become more and more unscrupulous, and had long regarded him as a dead person. They didn't expect him to be alive and back.
The South was destined to set off a bloody storm.
The beast kings couldn't sit still. Maybe they would give up the chaotic war first and unite against the "outside".
Only by completely overthrowing the largest Southern Beast Emperor could the beast kings divide more benefits.
In the past few years, two new beast emperors had emerged in the South, with powerful strength, able to compete with the Southern Beast Emperor.
This time, the Southern Beast Emperor came back, and also brought a female, and two beast cubs.
A good opportunity to strike!
Just as the beastman was about to send the letter out, a small black snake swam out of the grass.
He widened his eyes.
The next moment, he fell to the ground, lifeless.
Xiao Qi swam over to look at the envelope. After a while, another disguised responder beastman came to the palace gate, looking around.
Xiao Qi glanced at the corpse of the beastman beside him, and with a thought, the corpse swayed and stood up again, took the envelope he handed over with his tail, and walked out as usual.
The responding beastman took the envelope and hurried back to the city.
A jackal beast king had been waiting for a long time, and the moment he took the envelope and opened it.
“Boom!”
The fire talisman hidden inside the envelope exploded, and the beast king's head was blown off, and the bloody corpse fell to the ground.
The palace was in complete chaos, and the servants screamed.
For several days in a row, more than a dozen beast emperors in the South died violently, and no one could find out the real culprit no matter how they investigated.
These beast kings were all the ones who made the most trouble on weekdays.
And died the fastest.
In just one month, the beast kings in the South had calmed down a lot, and the beastmen and people below had also gained a stable life, recuperating.
Sang Luo knew nothing about the undercurrents. She ate, drank, and took care of the children every day, and her life was extremely peaceful.
One morning, Sang Luo went to the side hall to call the two children to eat, but found that only Xiao Qi was there, and Xiao Yuan didn't know where he had run off to.
She found the little silver snake in a corner.
It was hiding behind a stone tank, its slender little body hidden in the shadows, and it would be difficult to find unless the scales reflected light.
“Baby daughter, why are you staying here? Come out quickly.”
“I, I don’t feel well…”
The little silver snake rubbed against the ground uncomfortably.
Quan Jin walked over and said, “It’s going to shed its skin.”
Although Xiao Qi and Xiao Yuan were born at the same time, the time they hatched was too different, and Xiao Qi was a whole circle larger than Xiao Yuan. The growth rate of the little snake was the fastest in the first few months after hatching, and Xiao Yuan had also reached the time for his first shedding.
A few days later, Xiao Yuan successfully shed his snake skin, and his body was a little fatter than when he first hatched. The newly changed scales were more lustrous silver-white, with a slight iridescent purple light, beautifully like a snake-shaped sculpture placed in a window.
Quan Jin put away the complete snake skin he shed and put it in a red box.
He took out another box, which contained five shed snake skins, which were Xiao Qi's.
Quan Jin smiled gently, “For snake beasts, the first shedding is of great significance, leaving it as a souvenir.”
Sang Luo nodded, “Do you still keep the skin you shed for the first time when you were a kid?”
“Yes, but it's not on me. It was placed in the Western Continent back then.”
“Then let's go back to the Western Continent. You haven't been back for a long time, so go back and have a look.”
