Chapter 96: Brutally Direct, Startling the Beasts

Chapter 96: Chapter 96: Brutally Direct, Startling the Beasts

A sharp pain, the likes of which he had never felt before, shot through Tiger Flame’s abdomen.

He clenched his fists, his face pale and ugly. He looked at Feng Si in disbelief. "How dare you use such a despicable trick on me."

"Young Master Beihuang," Feng Si said, the corners of her lips turning up slightly, "if it weren’t for your forceful abduction, which violates basic rights, how would I have ever had the chance to trick you?"

The male beasts, paragons of strength, were now scattered across the room. They were covered in sweat, their faces ashen as they curled up on the floor in agony. Mao Yang felt like he could barely breathe.

From behind them came Mao Lin’s admiring shriek, so loud she almost lost her voice.

"Brilliant!"

"This combination of conflicting poisons is absolutely brilliant!"

The dazed sub-females were snapped back to reality by the scream. Seeing the Beihuang Warriors collapsed and clutching their stomachs, and the glowing exit of the banquet hall, they all let out a collective cheer.

Feng Si never expected the Beihuang Warriors to have a change of heart and let them go. This was her plan from the start, and now that it was unfolding just as she’d envisioned, the right thing to do was leave immediately.

"Let’s go." Feng Si didn’t spare the Young Master of the Northern Wilderness another glance. She turned and gestured for everyone to head out of the banquet hall.

Feng Si’s dismissive attitude stung Tiger Flame’s eyes. He erupted in sudden fury, and a colossal creature materialized in mid-air.

The great White Tiger’s ice-blue eyes blazed with rage. It leaped from its position with a clear target, its massive body moving with impossible lightness. It soared over the petrified sub-females, pouncing toward the black-haired female.

Compared to the tiger, which was as huge as a house, the sub-females looked tiny, as if they would be torn apart by its claws in the next second.

The floor of the banquet hall trembled. Tables and chairs shattered. The air suddenly fell silent, and a fierce wind whipped up from behind them.

The sub-females were scared stiff. They thought they and Feng Si were about to die under the tiger’s claws. For a moment, they were too terrified to even scream, frozen to the spot.

Feng Si turned her head, her pupils contracting.

’How could this be!’

’Everyone else is down and out, but he can still move?!’

She looked up in astonishment.

’It’s too big, just way too big!’

The massive tiger, silver-white with brown stripes, was like a snow-capped mountain. Its silvery fur rippled backward in the wind. Even from a hundred meters away, she could clearly see its enraged eyes. It was like an oncoming tornado—unavoidable.

Perhaps because Feng Si’s heart was pounding so fast, or perhaps because it sensed the murderous aura, the Yun Chi in her pocket began to struggle frantically.

’Hiss? Mama?’

Sensing her cub, Feng Si gasped and snapped back to her senses. She covered the little one with one hand, her eyes fixed on the great White Tiger that looked like it would lunge and bite her face off in the next second.

With a panicked thought, she pulled a bucket of sticky, crushed, grayish grass from her storage space. Aiming for the White Tiger’s chin, she hurled it upward with all her might.

"CRACK!"

"CLANG!"

The bucket hit the White Tiger’s broad chest and then fell to the ground. The dark green crushed grass scattered into the air. Tiger Flame, who had taken a deep breath right into the cloud of dust, froze in mid-air.

After identifying what he had just inhaled, and guessing what it was, the entire White Tiger began to feel hot all over while still suspended in the air.

’Jing Jie!’

Tiger Flame was horrified.

He had never smelled this stuff before, but there was no mistaking it.

Sure enough, in the next second, a wave of pleasure that made his body go limp washed over him without warning.

His Spirit Domain boiled, and a searing heat surged toward his abdomen.

Horrified, Tiger Flame realized his heat had been triggered by the Jing Jie a sub-female had thrown. He looked down at Feng Si, his eyes wide with terror.

His original trajectory was calculated to pin down and capture the black-haired female, but the great White Tiger forcefully twisted its body in mid-air, changing course.

He flew directly over the heads of the sub-females and landed outside the door.

Then, the massive white tiger’s paws went soft. As it started to run, its feet seemed to slip, and it scrambled away in a frantic dash.

Tiger Flame sprinted through the white snow, his ice-blue eyes unfocused. His breathing grew heavy as he searched for a deserted place, wanting to collapse and roll in the snow to dispel the burning heat with its chill.

’So, so audacious! That sub-female... she actually... dared to use aphrodisiac grass on him!’

Back in the banquet hall.

"HISS! HISS!" came the faint, heart-wrenching sound of a cub.

Her heart still pounding, Feng Si heard Yun Duo’s hissing cries. She quickly looked down, pulled open her coat, and with trembling hands, unfastened the button on the pocket that was blocking Yun Chi.

With the obstruction gone, Yun Chi reacted instantly. Just as Feng Si’s hand touched the edge of the pocket, a small black head shot out. It then expertly and swiftly slithered up Feng Si’s arm and nestled into the crook of its mama’s neck.

The little guy seemed terrified. Feeling a pang of guilt, Feng Si gently placed a hand over Yun Chi. "It’s okay, it’s okay. Mama’s here. Don’t be scared~"

Her heart aching for him, she turned her head and pressed her cheek against Yun Duo’s. Worried that Yun Chi would be cold, she used her other hand to open her shirt, carefully tuck the cub inside, and then pull her clothes closed over it.

Pressed tightly against his mama’s body, Yun Chi immediately stopped his open-mouthed cries. A pair of moist, golden eyes stared nervously at Feng Si’s profile, then turned to look at her shoulders, hands, and feet.

After confirming with his own eyes that his mama was okay, Yun Chi tucked his little paws under his belly. As if completely drained of energy, he nestled weakly against Feng Si and went still.

Feng Si had tucked Yun Duo inside her sweater, against her skin. She pulled her coat up a bit, and her black hair fell down, hiding him from view.

This way, Yun Duo was in the most comfortable place for him, and no one could tell anything was amiss from the outside. After all, Yun Chi was still a Little Chilong who weighed less than a pound.

Just as Feng Si finished comforting her cub, the stunned crowd behind her seemed to snap out of it, and a series of thuds sounded from behind her.

She casually placed a hand over the spot where Yun Duo was nestled and turned to look behind her.

"AAAAAH—" Belated screams erupted from the group of sub-females. They looked so scared their legs had gone weak, and they could no longer stand properly.

Mao Yang, Mao Qingqing, and Mao Qiu collapsed heavily onto the people next to them. Their faces were flushed, their gazes were a bit hazy, and their cheeks had a rosy, pinkish hue.

Feng Si glanced around and saw the sub-females with the surname Mao being held up. She walked over and helped support her employee, Mao Qiu. "Are you all right?"

Seeing the lack of understanding in Feng Si’s eyes, Mao Qiu, whose body was completely limp, felt unable to say anything harsh.

She struggled to speak, her breathing quickening. "We’re... we’re fine. Just get us to the Sacrificial Hall quickly. We’ll be fine once we buy and drink from a suppression jar."

"Oh!" Feng Si’s gaze swept over Mao Qiu’s cat ears, which were already flattened back in agitation. With a look of sudden realization, she said to the other sub-females, "Quick, take them there."

’...So Jing Jie is catnip, and in this world it’s an aphrodisiac!’

’No wonder the ferocious-looking Young Master Beihuang fled so quickly. He’s a big cat, too!’

That was certainly—

Direct, crude, and shockingly effective on beasts.