Chapter 474: The Beast King Fell to Her Death
Jin Ling opened the door and walked out.
"What is it?"
Sunxiao’s expression was grim. "Something’s wrong with Sangze."
A flicker of change crossed Jin Ling’s eyes. He followed Sunxiao to Sangze’s stone house.
Feiyan was already waiting inside the house.
Seeing the two enter, he looked at Sunxiao and said, "Sangze’s condition is a lot like yours was before you broke the curse. The beast soul in his body is constantly draining away, and his body is instinctively rejecting the beast soul energy I’m trying to inject."
His voice grew heavy as he spoke. "If this continues, once his beast soul energy is completely gone, he’ll..."
He didn’t finish the sentence, but Jin Ling and the others understood what he meant.
"I’ll try using the beast soul power of the Sky-Swallowing Python first. Maybe I can stop his energy from leaking. The High Priest might have a solution for this. One of you needs to go back to the palace and ask him."
Feiyan stood up. "I’ll go. You guys stay here and look after Xixi."
Jin Ling nodded. "Be careful."
"I will."
Sunxiao gathered power in his palm and tried to inject it into Sangze’s body. At first, the beast soul energy within Sangze resisted. But the Sky-Swallowing Python’s power was so overwhelming and domineering that it suppressed the repulsive force, actually allowing Sangze’s body to slowly begin absorbing it.
As the power flowed into him, Sangze’s body slowly started to warm up.
Jin Ling looked at Sunxiao and saw his face turn visibly pale.
"Sunxiao, that’s enough."
Sunxiao slowly retracted his hand.
"Go be with Xixi. I’ll keep watch tonight."
Sunxiao nodded and left the stone house.
After confirming that Sangze was out of immediate danger, Jin Ling also left the room and stood guard on the veranda.
He looked up in the direction of the Beast King Palace, his gilded pupils dark and profound.
’Tonight is destined to be a turbulent one.’
「Inside the Beast King Palace, flames lit up the sky.」
The Beast King’s eyes were bloodshot as she glared at Yaoxi. "I... I knew it. You never gave up!"
Yaoxi stared back at her expressionlessly, her eyes filled with cold mockery.
"Give up? I was my mother’s firstborn cub. My father was the number one warrior in Beast King City back then. From a young age, both my father and mother raised me to be the heir to the throne. Just when I thought everything was falling into place, that the throne would rightfully be mine, you and your father showed up!"
The coldness in Yaoxi’s eyes transformed into a towering hatred.
"After your father killed mine, he coaxed our mother into favoring you and giving me the cold shoulder. If you were at least capable and smart enough, I might have accepted it. But you’re just an idiot!"
Seeing her approach, the Beast King instinctively backed away in fear. "I... I didn’t..."
"You didn’t? Qiao Yi, the last pure-blood of the Silver Frost White Wolf clan, was offered to you as your first beast-husband, but you didn’t want him. Instead, you insisted on running off to that low-rank green snake, completely falling for his deceptions. If he were merely stupid, that would be one thing. But he was also wildly ambitious, secretly harboring monsters and plotting to usurp the throne, and you were completely oblivious!"
The Beast King’s eyes widened in shock. "That... That’s impossible! Han Lie would never do anything to betray me!"
"That’s why you deserve what’s happening to you today, Yu Qing. I’ve let you sit on this throne for so many years. It’s long enough."
Yaoxi’s gaze suddenly darted to the doorway. In an instant, her expression changed, and she rushed to the Beast King’s side.
"Your Majesty, the fire has already reached us! You must come with me, quickly!"
The Beast King’s face paled, and she tried to push Yaoxi away.
"Yaoxi, what are you doing?! Let go of me! What are you trying to do... Let me go!"
The Beast King shoved Yaoxi away forcefully, but she used so much strength that her foot caught on the steps behind her, and she tumbled out the window.
"No! Your Majesty, no!"
Just as Yun Ji and the elders entered the hall, they saw the Beast King push Yaoxi away and fall from the window. The beast soldiers immediately leaped out the window to save her, but it was too late.
The Beast King hit the ground hard. Blood spattered everywhere.
Her eyes remained open even in death, filled with indignation.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" Yaoxi ran down the stairs, crying out. She grabbed the Beast King’s hand, her voice choked with sobs. Her head was lowered and her shoulders trembled violently, but she couldn’t suppress the smile creeping onto her lips.
"High Priest, the Beast King... she fell to her death."
As soon as the beast soldier finished speaking, the color drained from the elders’ faces.
"What... what in the world happened?"
"First, put out the fire in the palace. Then have everyone gather in the main hall and wait."
"Yes, High Priest."
「The fire in the palace wasn’t completely extinguished until dawn.」
All the elders, the Ten Beast Guards, Yun Ji, Yaoxi, and the others gathered in the main hall of the Beast King Palace.
The Beast King’s slowly cooling body was laid out in the middle of the great hall.
The entire hall was deathly silent, broken only by Yaoxi’s occasional sobs.
"Yaoxi, what exactly happened? How could something happen to the Beast King when she was perfectly fine?" The one who spoke was the Great Elder of the royal clan.
Yaoxi looked up and wiped the tears from her eyes. "I don’t know either. When the palace caught fire, I was worried about the Beast King’s safety, so I went to her inner chambers. But as soon as I entered, I saw Yu Ling trying to force the Beast King to hand over the throne to her immediately. When the Beast King refused, she tried to attack her."
Hearing this, the elders’ expressions turned grim. The Beast King had indeed summoned them to select an heir, but she had not clearly stated who she would choose.
"Yu Ye saw it happen too."
With a wave of his hand, Yun Ji had Yu Ye brought forward.
The moment he entered the hall and saw the lifeless body of the Beast King on the floor, he gritted his teeth, broke free from the beast soldiers’ grasp, and rushed forward.
"Mother! Mother!"
"Yu Ye, what happened in the palace? Tell us everything you saw."
Yu Ye looked up, his eyes bloodshot. Last night, his mother had suddenly summoned him to her inner chambers, saying she had something to tell him. But halfway there, a fire had broken out in the palace.
When he rushed to his mother’s chambers, he saw Yu Ling holding a bone knife, forcing his mother to abdicate the throne to her immediately.
He was furious. ’How could the throne go to her? She’s an idiot!’ He immediately stormed into the inner chamber and started arguing with Yu Ling.
During the argument, Yu Ling’s beast-husband burst in, and they started to fight.
But he never expected that in the process of their fight, they would accidentally injure his mother. They all panicked, and their first thought was to flee.
What they hadn’t expected was that as soon as they ran out the door, they would see Yaoxi arriving...
Yu Ye’s face turned deathly pale. He didn’t dare say what had actually happened!
"Yu Ye, why aren’t you speaking?"
"I... I saw Yu Ling... coercing my mother. She wanted to seize the throne! After I discovered her, her beast-husband took her and they fled."
Yaoxi lowered her gaze, hiding the smile in her eyes.
"The audacity! Send the beast soldiers after her! She must be captured and brought back."
At this point, the Second Elder stepped forward and said, "High Priest, with the Beast King dead, we must enthrone a new ruler as soon as possible. Otherwise, Beast King City will be without a leader, and I fear it will lead to unrest."
As soon as he said this, all eyes turned to Yun Ji.