Chapter 363: Chapter 363
Jin Yao couldn’t transfer away her fate, nor could she transfer away her totem. She also couldn’t make Shi Bai become an undead soldier, nor could she learn the Priestly Dance of the Beast God’s Temple.
There must be a mastermind behind her. Today, this mastermind finally appeared.
The Black Priest said to Si Yan, "Sneaking around behind a male?"
Si Yan’s eyelids twitched as she walked from behind She Wang Tai Seng to stand before him. "Are you talking about me?"
She looked curiously at the Black Priest before her, a faint sense of familiarity stirring within her.
Si Yan said, "I am a female without the strength to truss a chicken. Shouldn’t I hide behind a male?"
The Priest sneered. "Priest Si Yan, Sage Si Yan, Messenger of the Beast God Si Yan. Are you truly a feeble female?"
Si Yan asked, "You came here to save Jin Yao?"
The Black Priest laughed loudly. "You are wrong. I don’t care about Jin Yao’s life or death. Si Yan, I’ve come to take you away."
Suddenly, a strong wind swept across the sky. Dark, ominous clouds surged.
The undead soldier Shi Bai circled in the air, black dragon breath spraying towards the Beastmen.
The dragon breath carried the decaying stench of the undead. Weaker Beastmen who inhaled this breath lost their ability to move.
THUD. They collapsed to the ground.
Then, the undead soldier Shi Bai charged fiercely towards Jin Yao!
Jin Yang and Jin Kun immediately put down the cubs, handing them to Jin Tong. They transformed into dragons and soared up to confront Shi Bai.
"Shi Bai, have you lost your mind? Executing Jin Yao is the will of the Beast God! Do you wish to defy the Beast God?!"
Black qi of decay still emanated from the corners of the undead soldier Shi Bai’s eyes as he said, "Jin Yang, Jin Kun. I must protect Jin Yao, and I must kill Si Yan."
Jin Yang and Jin Kun were instantly furious. "Si Yan is our sister! The Dragon Princess! As a Golden Dragon, how can you raise your hand against the Dragon Princess of your own tribe?"
But the undead soldier Shi Bai was driven only by the obsessions he held when he was alive.
"Si Yan has birthed the Dragon Egg! Kill her!"
"Si Yan has birthed the Dragon Egg! Kill her!"
With that, the undead soldier Shi Bai charged towards Jin Yang and Jin Kun!
After taking a hit from him, both Jin Yang and Jin Kun were knocked back. Jin Yang was shocked. "Why is he so strong?!"
Bai Feng said, "Golden Dragon Jin Kun, Golden Dragon Jin Yang. The Beastman before you is no longer Golden Dragon Shi Bai. He is now an undead soldier!"
Jin Kun asked, "High Priest, what is an undead soldier?"
"A decayed, dark thing, neither human nor ghost, resurrected by evil witchcraft after death."
The expressions of Jin Kun and Jin Yang changed instantly.
They had known Shi Bai for many years and couldn’t bring themselves to take his life.
But now, he was no longer truly a living Beastman.
Jin Kun said, "Jin Yang, let’s join forces to kill him!"
The two Golden Dragons, Jin Kun and Jin Yang, joined forces to battle Shi Bai.
Yet the Black Priest was not flustered in the least. He lifted his hand, raising his black staff, which was adorned with small black bones.
Each of these bones emitted a dark, mysterious light.
Just then, a black bone on Jin Yao’s body vibrated from within her beast-skin skirt and rolled out. It began to frenziedly absorb Jin Yao’s fortune!
Jin Yao felt no pain, but she clearly sensed something important slipping away.
The Black Priest was absorbing her fortune, absorbing the most crucial part of her fortune!
Jin Yao felt something within her shriveling up.
Her skin no longer seemed as elastic, nor as pale. She hadn’t aged, but she felt she had become ordinary, a female who wouldn’t attract any attention in a crowd.
"No, no! You can’t! You can’t take away my fortune!"
The Black Priest’s gaze was entirely on Si Yan. He didn’t even bother to spare Jin Yao a glance. He said, "Taking your fortune was part of the deal we agreed upon."
Yes, to resurrect Shi Bai, if she failed, he had the right to take away the fortune belonging to Si Yan from her!
But she had never imagined losing, nor had she thought her fortune would be taken now!
She would rather die glamorous than live an ordinary life!!
This was crueler than killing her.
"Don’t take away my fortune!"
"Kill me! Kill me! Just kill me!"
Jin Yao, who had been so desperate to live, was now begging for death.
As her fortune was sucked away by the black bone, blotches began to appear on her skin and grew larger. Her skin darkened minute by minute, turning a blackish-red. Wrinkles even began to form, their patterns resembling earthworms.
Her appearance kept changing, growing uglier and uglier. This made the Beastmen, who had been ready to execute her, too scared to make a move.
The Beastmen near Jin Yao, watching her transformation, were so frightened they backed away one after another.
The Beast God explained to Si Yan, "The part of the fortune within her that belonged to you has been forcibly separated. She’s gradually reverting to her original appearance."
The Beast God Long Ze shrank, transforming back into Old Gecko and resting on Si Yan’s shoulder.
Si Yan felt that the Old Gecko from moments before had looked too young and handsome, which made her a bit uncomfortable. Now, this form was just right.
"No, I don’t want this!" Jin Yao clutched her face in terror. "Si Yan, you wanted me dead, didn’t you? Kill me! Kill me!"
Si Yan looked at her. She suddenly felt that the greatest punishment for Jin Yao wasn’t death. Instead, it was letting her see clearly what she truly looked like after losing everything that didn’t belong to her.
The Beastmen retreated one after another.
"My gods, this Jin Yao! She used to look quite pretty, but now she’s so ugly."
"She really is a vicious, ugly, and wicked female."
"Dragon Princess? What a load of crap! She’s just an earthworm. I heard her nickname is ’Dirt Egg.’ Rolling mud balls in the dirt—that name suits her perfectly."
"Her fortune really was stolen from others. To think she’d turn into this after losing it. How disgusting!"
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Jin Yao couldn’t bear it any longer. She opened her mouth wide and cried out in agony.
Everything was gone; everything had been reset to its original state.
She had lost everything.
This was the greatest sorrow of all.
Once the black bone had sucked away all of Si Yan’s fortune from her, it tumbled to the ground.
Then, quickly, the small bone zipped into the Black Priest’s hand as if it recognized him. Si Yan, who had been about to snatch the black bone, froze. She frowned, looking at the Black Priest before her.
He calmly tied the small bone to his black priestly staff.
In front of Si Yan, the Emperor Snake Beastman, She Wang Tai Seng, radiated a terrible killing intent. Like a flash of lightning, he appeared before the Black Priest.
He swiped with a claw, but to his shock, he grasped only an afterimage. The Black Priest before him vanished and then reappeared in another location.
He raised his staff. Great fortune, enveloped in this dark power, caused the black clouds to churn overhead.
"Slumbering heroes, I grant you new life! Serve me!"
Old Gecko roared in anger, "Not good! He’s planning to resurrect more undead soldiers!"
Just after Old Gecko’s roar, the Beastmen felt the ground beneath them tremble. Then, from beneath the soil, former City Lords of Myriad Beasts City began to crawl out one by one.
Divine Mountain had always been the burial ground for the City Lords of Myriad Beasts City. Yet at this moment, it had unwittingly played right into the Black Priest’s hands.