A weak and evil woman was exiled? The beastly husbands risked their lives to protect her

Chapter 664 He's a villain who kills without hesitation!

Yu Hanche raised his hand, his warm and broad palm cupping her face and gently pulling her into his embrace.

"I feel suffocated," she struggled.

He coaxed her softly, "Just bear with it."

A faint scent of red wine and agarwood pheromones wafted from his warm chest.

The smell of blood had faded somewhat.

He held her tightly, took a long stride, and rode the wind across the blood-stained path, heading towards the outside of the sacred beast ruins.

“Charon said that a sufficient number of live sacrifices are needed to open the gate to the sacred beast ruins. You said that yesterday—” Jiang Xinli said, nestled in his arms.

Halfway through her sentence, the intense stench of blood around her, and the image of him practically crawling out of a pool of blood yesterday, made her heart sink, and she instantly understood something.

He asked, "What?"

"Did you," she frowned, her voice lowering, "kill all the Stone Clan?"

Yu Hanche's lips curled into a smile, but his eyes were icy cold. "Yes."

When he saw her and the nine Stone Clan beastmen disappear outside the Sacred Beast Ruins, he almost went mad.

After subduing the Scorpion City Lord and forcing him to reveal the method to open the gate, he ordered the city lord to gather all the Stone Clan members in front of the stone gate.

They used their blood as a sacrifice to open the giant gate.

However, he didn't mention these details.

Hearing his answer, Jiang Xinli felt a chill run down her spine.

The man's smile deepened, but his voice grew colder.

"What, Dark Lord, are you going to call me shameless, a pervert, or—"

"No." The girl in his arms was breathing heavily, her voice muffled, "I just—"

She didn't know what to say.

Based on the dramas she acted in on ancient Earth, he was an absolute villain who killed without hesitation.

But for some reason, even though his methods were ruthless and cruel.

But at this moment, being held in his arms, she felt a strange sense of security and peace of mind.

Perhaps this feeling had been buried deep in her heart for a long time.

Yu Hanche and Yu Feng led her back to the main hall.

Once the surrounding bloody corpses were gone, he released her and asked in a low voice:

"Just what?"

"It's nothing." Jiang Xinli pursed her lips and didn't say anything more.

She simply buried her face deeper into his chest, her arms tightly wrapped around his waist.

Sensing her affection, the man's previously cold and aloof heart softened instantly.

When the two reached the ground, the sun had just risen above the horizon.

But the heatwave was already rolling in, and Yu Hanche raised his hand to set up a barrier, protecting the two of them inside.

Jiang Xinli lifted her head from his embrace, looked around, and was slightly taken aback.

The enormous eyeballs on the wall that used to move with the figures were now frozen in place, like stone sculptures, as if they had been completely petrified.

The wind howled, stirring up dust.

At first glance, the entire city of sacred beasts was deathly silent and desolate.

"Them?" she asked softly.

"They are all Stone Clan members who were cursed after seeing the Scale Clan." With that, Yu Hanche took out the bone staff of the Owl High Priest, confirmed the direction, and once again used the wind to take her into the air.

Jiang Xinli looked down at the endless yellow sand. "So, they're all dead?"

"Yes."

She was slightly taken aback. "If I had known, I should have listened to you and directly questioned Lord Scorpion."

If that were the case, the entire Stone Clan would not have been sacrificed.

The man looked down and saw her solemn expression, knowing that she was feeling guilty and blaming herself.

After a moment of silence, he confessed, "Dark Lord, even if you interrogate me beforehand, it won't help."

"What do you mean?"

He slowed down his flight speed. "The Scorpion City Lord was only right about part of the Stone Clan's past."

Long ago, the Winged Clan, the Qilin Clan, and the Stone Clan lived together peacefully.

Back then, this planet had mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas, and was full of life.

The Scaled Clan can control clouds and rain, and they revere the color gold.

They prefer to live in the sky and the seabed.

The Winged Race can breathe fire and black is their most revered color.

They prefer to live on cliffs and in caves.

At that time, the Stone Clan did not possess any special abilities, yet they coexisted peacefully with the other two clans.

Until a black dragon, which later became the sacred beast, accidentally gained power that was almost divine.

This power can grant the Stone Clan special abilities.

In order to gain power, the Stone Clan began to devote themselves to the Winged Clan. They discovered that the strength of the power bestowed upon them by the sacred beast depended on their faith and sacrifices.

The best offerings are living creatures.

But this planet is isolated from the world.

So they began selecting offerings from within their tribe.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xinli gasped, "Using a sacrifice of one's own kind?!"

"Hmm." Yu Hanche's eyes were solemn.

The law of the jungle has gradually become the only rule on this planet.

It can be said that the surviving Stone Clan members today are born from the corpses of countless of their own kind.

The Lin clan had repeatedly tried to dissuade them in private, but the bewitched Stone clan chief, in alliance with the Wing clan, set a trap to imprison and seal the Lin clan.

The Scaled Clan completely gave up hope.

From then on, they ceased to summon clouds and rain.

"and after?"

"Later, the Stone Clan, having gained power, repeatedly pressured the sealed Qilin Clan, and even used the Winged Clan's supernatural abilities and strange magic to slaughter them."
In the end, only the leader of the Scaled Clan, a golden dragon, survived.

Jiang Xinli frowned. "So what we're looking for now is the Golden Dragon's reverse scale."

"Yes." Yu Hanche quickened his pace and continued.

"The Golden Dragon was sealed away for many years and harbored deep resentment. It used the resentment of the dead Lin Clan and the sacrificed Shi Clan to create the poisonous fog that descends at nightfall."

Without rain, the poisonous fog and scattered barriers are squeezing the Stone Clan's living space smaller and smaller.

"The Golden Dragon laid a curse, so that the land where the Stone Clan lived was not only lacking in water and rain; moreover, as time passed, they would not die, but would gradually turn into stone sculptures."

He lowered his voice, "So, for ordinary stone people, death is not necessarily a bad thing."

His last words were probably meant to make her feel better.

Those who harmed her deserve to die.

Jiang Xinli's brow relaxed slightly: "And then what happened?"

As their living environment deteriorates, the number of Stonefowl is decreasing.

Sacred beasts require the power of faith from intelligent beings as a sacrifice.

Moreover, like all dragons, the Winged Race has a great fondness for all things shiny gold and silver.

A thousand years ago, although the sacred beast left this place, it still required a constant supply of sustenance.

With the energy He bestowed upon them, the Stonefolk gained the ability to plunder orcs and their treasures across planets and time.

Jiang Xinli was stunned: "This is what they called treasure hunting?"

"Yes."

A thousand years have passed since the sacred beast left.

They used the time-space portal to burn, kill, and plunder for a thousand years.

Yu Hanche hugged her tighter: "Traveling across time and space and planets to plunder lives and treasures is simply the infamous act of interstellar piracy."

Before heading to Dark Star, he had dealt with many people like this.

The only way to deal with them is to be even more ruthless and decisive than they are.

"Therefore, the so-called homeland of the sacred beast is nothing more than a pirate hideout in an independent space-time."

"Space pirates?"

Jiang Xinli had heard Ye Kuo mention this word before.

Besides space pirates, there are also Zerg in interstellar space.

She was lost in thought.

Ocean Star needs to be sacrificed.

The Dark Star requires sacrifice.

This is also the case here.

Many clues remain interconnected.

"The Stone Clan's passage to other dimensions—" she asked.

Yu Hanche understood what she meant: "The spacetime that the Stone Clan went to and the spacetime that we went to belong to different dimensions."

Jiang Xinli seemed to be deep in thought. "So, if we want to leave here and return to Dark Star, we still need to rely on that totem?"

"Mmm." Yu Hanche hugged her tighter. "That totem is called the Wheel of Time."

"The Scorpion City Lord once said that if one obtains the Golden Dragon's Reverse Scale,"

He paused,

"After Dark Lord advances to 4S level, he can use its power to go to any space-time he wants."

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Cheche will be on the table tomorrow~ (The original plan was for her to be on the table the day before yesterday, but now the characters are all following their own storylines, and I can't stop them, hahaha)

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