Half-Saint-Level Mutant Beast

Ye Chen froze.

Looking at the scene before him...

Li Xiaodie and Lan Lengshuang were busy grilling meat.

Zhang Daosheng, Bai Zhan, and the Westwind Lion King were gulping down wine and meat while bragging loudly.

Lan Batian was still following his daughter around as usual...

It was a very simple scene, yet somehow... warm?!

Ye Chen shook his head vigorously. He saw Lan Lengshuang holding several skewers of lamb and placing them in front of him.

"You must be hungry, right? I saved these especially for you~ If you want more, I'll go grill some more." Lan Lengshuang's eyes curved into slits as she smiled.

"Hey, hey, hey, sweetheart, what about mine?" Lan Batian followed behind Lan Lengshuang and grumbled under his breath.

Ye Chen glanced at Lan Batian, then smiled and took the skewers. "I think I could eat an entire sheep right now..."

"Okay, then I'll grill some for you." Lan Lengshuang hopped over to the brazier and continued grilling lamb skewers.

"Brother Ye... how about splitting half with me? Just half!"

Lan Batian drooled as he stared at the skewers in Ye Chen's hand, his eyes glazed over.

Ye Chen immediately grinned mischievously. He picked up a handful of skewers and bit into every one of them.

"Oh, you should've said so earlier. I've already eaten them~"

Lan Batian angrily thumped his chest.

Ye Chen grinned shamelessly.

After who knew how many rounds of drinks, the Westwind Lion King, Bai Zhan, and Zhang Daosheng had already collapsed on the ground and fallen asleep.

After running out of lamb skewers, Lan Batian joined the drinking army as well.

Before long, there was another person sprawled on the ground.

Li Xiaodie silently brought several blankets out of the villa and covered the drunken men with them before returning to her room alone to sleep.

Ye Chen casually swiped a bottle of wine and sat on a small hill, gazing at the sky.

"The night is clear, and the stars are sparse..." Ye Chen sighed.

Lan Lengshuang suddenly appeared and wrapped her arm around Ye Chen's.

"Looking at the stars?"

"Yeah."

"Ye Chen, did you know? My mother used to tell me that when people died, they would become stars and watch over you from the sky..."

Ye Chen smiled and listened carefully as Lan Lengshuang talked about the past.

Until Lan Lengshuang also fell into a deep sleep.

The Westwind Lion King suddenly opened his eyes and muttered softly.

"Little Ye, come over here. There's something I need to tell you."

Ye Chen froze on the spot. The Westwind Lion King had something to tell him, and he had actually waited until everyone was asleep?

"What is it?" Ye Chen blurted out.

The Westwind Lion King glanced at the three people lying beside him, then at Lan Lengshuang, who had fallen asleep beside Ye Chen, and helplessly shook his head.

"Take the girl back to her room. We'll find somewhere quiet to talk."

Ye Chen nodded slightly. In his mind, if Little Westwind was being this serious about talking to him, it was probably something very troublesome.

After sending Lan Lengshuang back to her room, Ye Chen walked out.

The Westwind Lion King grabbed Ye Chen by the collar and instantly appeared on the villa's roof.

"Little Westwind, you're not wind-aligned, are you? You're spatial-aligned, right?" Ye Chen said enviously.

After all, this speed was simply too fast.

"Spatial my ass. That was a leap. I'm just fast!"

Ye Chen waved his hand. "Fine, fine... What is it? Tell me."

Upon hearing Ye Chen's words, the Westwind Lion King's entire expression turned solemn.

"During the early days of Zanghai City's establishment, the Human Race had a Saint who killed a Half-Saint Mutant Beast with a single strike. But that Half-Saint Mutant Beast had to be destroyed with flames..."

"Otherwise, it would keep resurrecting! So that Saint sealed the Half-Saint-level Mutant Beast in the waters near Zanghai City."

The Westwind Lion King's expression grew uglier as he continued.

It was also because of that Saint that the Westwind Lion King had never been too afraid of the Human Race.

"That Saint made an oath at the place where he sealed the Mutant Beast, promising to seal it for a hundred years and return after that to kill it."

Ye Chen was instantly shocked when he heard this. I'm only in the Awakening Realm, and you're telling me there's a Half-Saint Realm existence near Zanghai City?

How am I supposed to play this game?

"The hundred-year deadline is almost here, but there's no news of that Human Race Saint... You know that I'm not part of the Human Race, so I can't know what's happening among your people."

Ye Chen felt numb all over. "Big brother, you're telling me this because you think I can beat a Half-Saint Realm existence?"

"...At least you're more reliable than Zhang Daosheng and the others." The Westwind Lion King scratched his head and said without hesitation.

Ye Chen immediately became smug. "If you put it that way, I suppose you're right..."

"Then what should we do?"

"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask? I only told you because I wanted to hear your thoughts!" The Westwind Lion King was going crazy!

"..." Ye Chen was speechless. What am I supposed to do? Dive into the water and let that Mutant Beast kill me?

The corner of Ye Chen's mouth twitched slightly as he imagined the scene.

Come on, brother Mutant Beast, open your mouth. I'll go in myself.

What a lunatic!

"If I hadn't already agreed to guard Zanghai City, I could just leave. But now that I've agreed..." the Westwind Lion King said helplessly.

"Then why did you agree in the first place?" Ye Chen asked, puzzled.

The Westwind Lion King froze. "Oh, right. Why did I agree back then?"

Ye Chen and the Westwind Lion King stood on the villa's roof, letting the cold wind blow over them as they questioned their lives.

"Ever since I awakened, not a single good thing has happened..."

Ye Chen let out a deep sigh.

"Maybe this is the world's way of tempering you?" The Westwind Lion King pulled two bottles of beer from his ring and handed one to Ye Chen.

Then he tossed the ring to Ye Chen.

"This is that Flame guy's Storage Ring."

Ye Chen smiled, accepted the ring, and continued, "I think we should still tell Old Zhang and the others about this. Although I'm powerful now, I don't actually have any real authority."

Ye Chen opened a can of beer and took a large gulp. "I still think beer tastes terrible. Can I switch it for cola?"

The Westwind Lion King cast Ye Chen a sidelong glance. "Cola can't dispel a thousand sorrows."

Even so, he still took a can out of the ring.

Ye Chen was stunned. Other people used their rings to store good things, but yours was full of drinks?

"Although it can't dispel a thousand sorrows, it can make me happy."

Ye Chen opened the cola and downed it in one gulp. "Refreshing!"

The next day, after everyone woke up.

At Ye Chen's suggestion, the Westwind Lion King still came clean to everyone about the matter.

After Bai Zhan's explanation, everyone finally learned that the Saint skilled in sealing techniques was named Ji Qianmeng, and that she was a spatial-aligned Saint...

Her mastery of Spatial Severing and Spatial Sealing had reached perfection. However... she had died at the hands of a Demigod.

Lan Batian felt terrible. "There's no point staying in Zanghai City... It's only been half a month..."

"Oh? You don't want to stay? That's simple. If you can get the entire city of Zanghai City to move, then everything will be solved." The Westwind Lion King rolled his eyes at Lan Batian.

"Easy for you to say!" Lan Batian said weakly.

Zanghai City had been established for so long that its people were already accustomed to everything there. How could they possibly move just because someone told them to?

Everyone turned their gazes toward Bai Zhan.

"Why are you all looking at me? I've already reported it to the higher-ups. How to resolve it is their problem. Looking at me won't help."