Chapter 745: Mission Start!
Chapter 745: Mission Start!
“My hair?” Jasmine hissed.
She pinched the skin on his hand, the nails on her small fingers left slight red marks.
“Ow, ow!” Chen Wentian complained.
“This is your super amazing plan that you couldn’t tell me about? Where did you… how did you get so much of it?”
“Um… I may have stolen some from your pillows.” He admitted.
“You!”
Jasmine was no fool. As a divine beast, every part of her body was a precious treasure. If she naturally shed fur with the changing seasons, she kept it all greedily and used it to stuff the many pillows that surrounded her bed.
“And… I may have picked some directly from your tails.”
Her pretty face transformed from one of anger into one of horror. She quickly hugged her four tails to her body and scooted away from him, like he was some crazy bandit.
“You… you…”“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” He insisted with what he hoped was an honest expression.
“Fine! Fine! We’ll talk about this after the mission! I’ll get you back for this, I promise!”
“Sure, I’ll do anything you want.”
She snorted. She was still filled with dissatisfaction but she couldn’t hide the small smile that made her upper lip twitch.
“Whatever, let’s go!” She said.
“Mission start!” He replied.
With a slight ripple of spiritual energy, Jasmine broke through their cage and flew out. Chen Wentian quickly followed. It was finally their turn to act.
The sun was bright. It was barely the early afternoon. Sunlight peeked through the foliage of the ancient tree, through the massive leaves that were as big as dinner tables. Two figures rushed around the wide platform halfway up the huge tree trunk. They were so fast, human bystanders couldn’t even catch their shadow. Even for some insect species with amazing vision, all they saw were a pair of blurs.
A mantis guard gave a soft gurgle as a hole the size of a coin appeared on its head. Before it could crash down to the platform, two more mantises suffered the same fate. All it took was a small burst of moonlight.
On the other side of the platform, a mantis guard let out a squeal of surprise as its head was separated from its body. A black spear flashed and sang through the air, directly piercing the head of another nearby mantis.
The guards around the lair of the queen mantis fell quickly as two furious storms swept through them. All of it happened in the span of a few breaths. Not a single one was left alive. All they could do was make a small ruckus near the end that attracted the attention of the prisoners.
“Hey!”
“Something’s happening!”
“Get off me and Look!”
After sweeping the platform of insects, Chen Wentian and Jasmine came back around and smashed each cage that still held prisoners. There were a little over half of them left from the original bunch. These people would serve well as distractions for any insect reinforcements. Although the two of them were Spirit Kings, it was still annoying to have to deal with a swarm of bugs.
Just as Chen Wentian and Jasmine met up again, the air around them trembled as something stirred inside the dark lair that formed a gaping hole in the tree trunk.
“Intruders!” A furious voice roared from within.
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Above the skies of Beast God City, He Zicheng and Qu Shen had started fighting in earnest. They had already traded blows in the morning and they were eager to resume. Flashes of golden light mixed together with ones of crimson, illuminating the thick clouds. To ignorant mortals, it was as if two heavenly deities had descended.
He Zicheng let out a roar followed by a massive phantom lion’s paw filled with power, “I am sick and tired of you getting in my way. Again and again. Again and again. Why?”
The attack clawed a huge path through the clouds which was quickly filled back in. However, Qu Shen had dodged away long ago. He reappeared some distance away, glowing red wings flapping behind his back. He made a sweeping motion with his arm, creating an arcing blade of crimson energy that sliced toward the other.
He Zicheng snorted angrily. He raised his arm to the side of his head in a blocking motion. The golden lion paw reappeared, blocking the path of the blade of crimson. There was a huge clash of spiritual energy. Golden and crimson light flashed once again.
“Get out of my way! If we delay any longer, we’ll lose Jasmine’s trail!” He Zicheng said.
He was furious, he was anxious, but most of all he felt helpless and that was the worst feeling of all. It was as if something precious was slipping out of his hands once again. Jasmine was the key to his cultivation. She was to key the cultivation of all three kings of the Beast God Sanctum.
In these two or so years without her presence, his cultivation had not only not improved, it had actually regressed slightly. Normally, such a thing was unheard of for those who earned their cultivation themselves, step by step through hard work. However, his and Qu Shen’s powers had been supported by Jasmine and her divine aura for so long so naturally, her absence was a serious matter.
Qu Shen knew this as well. However, his hatred for this brother of his was slightly greater than his desire to find Jasmine. He sneered at He Zicheng as if he was looking at an idiot.
“So what? I am tired of you telling me what to do. The only person that could do that was Elder Brother Zhuge. Not you.”
“Oh, give it a rest!” He Zhcheng snarled. He was running out of patience. He didn’t want to rehash their old arguments for the thousandth time. “Why are you so stubborn? If you had not interfered that last time, she would have never escaped. I would have let you receive her aura as well.”
Qu Shen laughed mockingly, “Is she your possession? Should I be thankful to receive such a little favor? Even if you want to pretend that she is your possession, other people can still rob you of it.”
“Fuck! Go fuck yourself! I’ll kill you!” He Zicheng shouted.
He was tired of Qu Shen. He was tired of the eagle faction. He just wanted to unify the Beast God Sanctum and yet so many people were standing in his way. They antagonized him every step of the way. They even invited outsiders to do their dirty work. Even if he couldn’t catch Jasmine this time, he wasn’t going to let Qu Shen and his people off, not this time.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
His upper body transformed into that of a huge lion as he charged.
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