Chapter 254: Chapter 254: You Will Die
THUD—
A red light flashed. On the surface of the glittering glass box, Yu An saw her own deathly pale face reflected back at her.
The square box fell to the ground with a dull thud. It was filled with red liquid, heavy enough to kick up a cloud of dust.
Yu An stared blankly at the box. After a long moment, she finally snapped back to reality and picked it up with trembling hands.
"Han... Han Li..."
’What happened? How could Han Li have turned into...’
There was a wolf’s paw print on the box. She frantically took out the other few boxes she had taken from the Divine Mountain. Comparing them, she found that aside from the different patterns, they were otherwise identical.
’So, this box is Han Li... and the other boxes... are also Beastmen?!’
Yu An bit the tip of her tongue, forcing herself to calm down. She teleported into her personal space and immediately saw Lu Yi maintaining order.
Lu Yi was highly capable and quickly calmed the panicked citizens. With the help of the Cloud Beasts, she had tied up Lu Min, Tian Shu, and the others.
Seeing Yu An, she hurried over. "Hall Master, they..."
Before she could ask how to deal with Lu Min and the others, Yu An, her face a mask of cold fury, stormed up to Tian Shu and threw a punch!
The moment Tian Shu entered this place, he felt as if his body was no longer his own. He had been completely powerless to resist when they tied him up.
Now, bound tightly by the Cloud Beasts, he couldn’t even dodge the fist flying at him.
"AH—!"
Yu An held nothing back. The punch landed with a sickening crunch, and Tian Shu screamed as his nose was broken crooked.
Overwhelming pain shot through him, but before he could even recover, Yu An grabbed him by the collar. "Talk! What was that thing you set up outside the city! Why does it turn people into this!"
Tears and snot streamed down Tian Shu’s face from the pain. He couldn’t get a single word out. He had always lived a pampered life, only coming to the Beastman World to gain some prestige, and had never suffered such a severe injury.
Seeing Yu An’s dark expression as she raised her clenched fist to strike again, Tian Shu trembled. But he still had his wits about him and knew he couldn’t answer her question.
It was a family secret. If he revealed it, his family would never let him go, even if he survived this ordeal!
’I’m from the Upper Realm,’ he thought. ’Yu An wouldn’t dare kill me. The most I’ll suffer is a bit of torture. When my men back at the courtyard notice something is wrong and come looking, the family will send someone to rescue me.’
With that thought, he clenched his jaw and remained silent.
Yu An’s gaze darkened. "Are you going to talk or not?"
"Don’t think I won’t kill you just because you’re from the Upper Realm. The Beast God... no, Tian Fu should have told you what this place is, right?"
"Wh-what place?"
Tian Shu was suddenly uncertain. He stammered, "My family has my Life Token! If you kill me, the token will shatter, and my family will hunt you down!"
When a Life Token shatters, they can use spiritual power to find out who killed its owner and take revenge.
Yu An paused, then let out a soft laugh. "He didn’t tell you?"
"I thought you were all in this together. I can’t believe he didn’t tell you something so important."
"This is my personal space," she said softly. "A space gifted to me by the Heaven and Earth Stone. Guess what happens if I kill you in here. Do you think your family will ever know who did it?"
Feeling the potent killing intent, Tian Shu stiffened. Still, he decided to feign ignorance. "I don’t know! I was just sent here to complete a mission! I—I can tell you what my mission is..."
"No need."
Tian Shu thought she was going to spare him, or at worst, lock him up. He never expected her next words, which plunged him into an icy abyss.
Yu An released his collar. With a wave of her hand, the Beastmen present felt a warm, reassuring aura envelop them.
Lu Yi was among them. After carefully sensing the aura, she looked at Yu An in utter disbelief.
"This aura is..."
’The Beast God!’
’There’s no mistaking it. Only the Beast God’s aura could make all Beastmen feel so at ease. Master Yu is actually the Beast God!’
’But Master Yu was personally appointed by the Beast God. What does that mean? Did she appoint herself?’
"That’s right," Yu An said with a slight nod. "I am the Beast God. But on the Divine Mountain, there is another Beast God."
"He comes from the Upper Realm, a world one level higher than our Beastman World. Shortly after I became the Beast God, he stole my title and replaced me..."
Tian Shu’s eyes widened in terror. "Are you insane?! How can you mention the existence of the Upper Realm to these commoners!"
Worlds have their own rules of operation. When the manager of any world receives their appointment from the Heaven and Earth Stone, they also receive a set of managerial guidelines.
The most important rule among them is to never reveal the existence of the Upper Realm to the world under their management.
Yu An didn’t even spare him a glance. She brought out the few boxes, including Han Li’s, and announced in a grave voice, "The Pseudo Beast God has colluded with people from the Upper Realm to bring disaster upon this world. Just now, I watched with my own eyes as my Beast Husband was struck by a red light and turned into this box."
"In a warehouse on the Divine Mountain, boxes like these are piled up like mountains. I suspect they were all once Beastmen."
Her words sent the Beastmen below into an uproar. The entire crowd exploded into a clamor, overwhelmed by the sheer volume of shocking information they couldn’t immediately process.
Lu Yi and the others were also reeling, their minds racing to comprehend the flood of information Yu An had just unleashed.
Tian Shu gave her a complicated look. "Aren’t you afraid of being punished by the Heaven and Earth Stone for revealing all this?"
Yu An shot him a cool glance. "I’m counting on it."
Tian Shu paused, a sudden possibility dawning on him.
After taking office, managers of the various worlds cannot freely travel to and from the Upper Realm. To return, one must first abdicate their position as manager.
’Yu An can’t return to the Upper Realm, so she can’t report this to the Heaven and Earth Stone,’ he realized. ’Don’t tell me she’s trying to lure out the Heaven and Earth Stone this way!’
"Crazy... She’s crazy... You’ll die..."
Of course, he wasn’t concerned about whether Yu An lived or died. He was terrified that if the Heaven and Earth Stone appeared, his family’s entire scheme would be ruined!
Yu An ignored him. If she’d once had the patience to deal with the Pseudo Beast God and find a way to the Upper Realm, that patience had vanished the moment she saw Han Li turn into that box.
The boxes in the Divine Mountain warehouse were piled like mountains. She hadn’t counted them, but there had to be tens of thousands, perhaps even over a hundred thousand.
And that was just one warehouse on the Divine Mountain!
Yu An closed her eyes, then turned to Lu Yi. "Lu Yi, you should have understood what I said. A Heavenly Punishment will descend soon. This space will be fine. You are to maintain order in Winter City. Before I’m taken away, I will return Winter City to its original location."
"Hall... Beast God," Lu Yi said, her face etched with worry. "What will happen to you?"
She was closest to Yu An and Tian Shu and had overheard their entire conversation.
Yu An replied calmly, "I am going to see the Heaven and Earth Stone and ask It to bring justice to the Beastman World."
"They," she said, glancing at Tian Shu, "what they have done in the Beastman World is beyond the scope of my authority. It must be reported to the Heaven and Earth Stone."
As for the punishment she would face for violating the managerial guidelines... she could no longer afford to worry about that.
