A vicious female is trapped in a beastly hell.

Chapter 581 The soul returns to its hometown
Shen Tang stared in surprise at the resurrected ancient beast. It was pitch black all over, with its huge wings folded behind it. It looked like a giant winged lizard, or a bit like Toothless from the movie.

Its body is covered with sharp, rock-like scales, as sharp as armor, and a row of towering bony protuberances runs along its back, extending all the way down its thick, long tail.

The ancient beast opened its reddish-brown eyes, staring in shock at its completely transformed body, its eyes revealing a look of surprise and disbelief, as if it still thought it was dreaming.

After Shen Tang advanced to the Yuan Beast level, his healing ability was even able to revive the bone beast that had been dead for many years but whose soul still remained.

She pursed her lips and gave a gentle smile, saying softly, "Over the years you have guarded the vampire tomb, even if you have not made any great contributions, you have certainly worked hard. Consider this my way of showing my appreciation on behalf of your master."

The giant beast let out a loud roar, then obediently lowered its head, showing its submission to her.

Shen Tang reached out and patted its head. "So good."

She asked gently, "Your name is Jiming, right?"

As if it hadn't been called by name in a long time, the giant beast narrowed its eyes and emitted a deep, vibrating sound from its throat, seemingly indicating happiness or agreement.

From the memories left behind by the blood bead, Shen Tang learned that this giant beast was an extremely rare dragon-lizard winged beast mother. Such a massive species was almost extinct in the current beastman continent. It was something Nekro had accidentally picked up from a secret realm when he was young.

When it was first found, it was just a huge egg. At that time, Necro had wandered into a secret realm and was starving. He originally intended to cook it and eat it, but unexpectedly, it hatched by accident.

Necro felt a connection with this creature, and it even resembled their vampire clan somewhat, so he didn't kill it.

Later, when they found a chance to leave the secret realm, he took the dragon-winged beast back to the vampire clan as a pet and named it "Jiming". It accompanied him for several years.

Unfortunately, Ji Ming eventually died at the hands of others.

It was killed by a group of poachers from a neighboring country.

The reason why the dragon lizard was almost extinct was because its skin, flesh, scales and bones had extremely high medicinal and even craft value, and could be sold for exorbitant prices on the black market, which eventually attracted people's attention.

While it was out playing, a team from a neighboring country secretly infiltrated the vampire border and ambushed and killed it.

No one remembers the name of that small country anymore.

That was the first country that Necro destroyed.

It was from that time onwards,
The rebels officially began their campaign.

Ji Ming was also refined into an immortal bone beast by Necro, who spent a lot of energy to forever guard the safest forbidden area of ​​the vampires, becoming a guardian beast.

Shen Tang snapped out of her thoughts, gently stroked the giant beast's head covered in cold, hard keratin, and explained, "Jiming, we need to go inside. This is my companion."

Ji Ming raised his head, looked at Shen Tang, and then at Shen Li beside her.

The vampire's forbidden area is strictly off-limits to outsiders unless they have the master's permission, such as when Necro personally led him in last time. But perhaps because of Shen Tang's kindness, it didn't stop them. Instead, it respectfully made way for them and then lay down on the ground watching them, showing no intention of obstructing them at all.

Shen Tang was also somewhat surprised. She had thought that Ji Ming would not easily agree to let them in, at least it should not agree to let a completely unrelated outsider like Shen Li enter. She did not expect it to be so easy to talk to.

Shen Li's eyes flickered slightly when he saw this, but he said nothing.

The two entered the forbidden area of ​​the vampires.

Just like the first time I came here, it was pitch black, so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

They had only taken a few steps when a screeching sound of flapping wings came from above, followed by a gust of cold wind rushing towards them.

"Careful, come over here." Shen Li pulled Shen Tang into his arms and waved a ball of foxfire from his palm, instantly illuminating the entire space and allowing them to see a large swarm of bats above.

The bats turned to ashes the moment they touched the flames, and the surroundings fell silent.

The fire fox hovered above their heads, moving in sync with their steps.

Shen Tang held Shen Li's hand with one hand and walked step by step into the direction she remembered.

The foxfire slowly rose higher, illuminating more areas. Although she had been here three times before, this was the first time she had seen the entire palace clearly.

Although many parts of this place have collapsed into ruins, the magnificent scale of the buildings, the exquisite carvings on the walls and pillars, the shattered jade and stone artifacts, and the countless murals on the walls still reveal the splendor of its former glory.

Unfortunately, many of the murals were broken and their original appearance was no longer visible. Shen Li reached out and touched each mural, trying his best to memorize their contents.

From a young age, he was called a wise man by the priests. He could memorize things at a glance and never forget them. It was not difficult for him to write down these contents.

Seeing how intently he was looking at it, Shen Tang asked curiously, "Did you discover something?"

Shen Li held her hand, a smile curving her red lips. "I'll keep you in suspense for now—we'll talk about it when we get back."

The two arrived at the blood pool at the deepest part of the forbidden area.

Unfortunately, it can no longer be called a "pool" because the water in the blood pool has long since dried up, and from a high place it looks like a big pit.

However, this also revealed some of the secrets of this place—it was not a simple pool that had been dug out; the bottom was constructed of special stone, with mysterious and complex runes carved inside, giving it a very mysterious and difficult-to-understand feel.

Unfortunately, there's nothing here now; it's completely empty.

Shen Tang took out the dim blood bead from her spatial storage and said softly, "I originally wanted to send him back here, so that he could return to his roots after death..."

"But now, I'm thinking, won't he be too lonely staying here all by himself?"

Shen Li stroked her hair and gently comforted her, "With Ji Ming by his side, he shouldn't be so lonely."

He added, "Moreover, this is the burial place chosen by the vampire ancestors, so there must be a reason for it. He himself probably wanted to come back."

Shen Tang nodded in agreement, then smiled gently, "Yes, with Ji Ming by his side, I think he'll be happy."

Shen Tang walked to the dried-up blood pool deep in the forbidden area and gently placed the blood droplet in her hand in the center.

At that moment, it was as if the entire history of the vampire clan fell silent beneath her fingertips.

As if drawn by some force, the blood droplets slowly floated into the air and began to rotate gently, just like the vampire ancestors that Shen Tang had seen before.

Looking at the blood beads floating in the air, Shen Tang secretly vowed in her heart that she must take back all those blood beads and let the ancestors of the vampires return to their homeland!
The two stayed there for a long time before leaving the forbidden area.

Before leaving,

Shen Tang made Jiming lower his head, took out a bell with a red string tied to it, and tied it around Jiming's neck.

This bell contains a trace of her spiritual power. If Ji Ming encounters any problems here, he can summon her by shaking this bell.

The seemingly ferocious beast nodded obediently, lowered its head and gently rubbed its head against hers, then stretched out its paw and gently fiddled with the bell. It seemed quite satisfied after hearing the crisp sound.

Seeing this, Shen Tang couldn't help but smile. She then gently patted its head and softly instructed it.

"Take good care of this place, I'm leaving."

"I will come to see you again in the future."

"Roar……"

Ji Ming stood quietly at the gate, watching the two leave.

As their figures completely disappeared into the endless yellow sand, it slowly closed its eyes, lay down in the sand once more, and fell into eternal slumber along with this forgotten ancient site.

……

I do not know how long it has been.

In the utterly silent depths of the forbidden land, the blood bead placed on the altar seemed to flicker slightly, or perhaps not at all.

The wind and sand continue, silently.

Well, I've been writing the plot lately, but I wanted to write some slice-of-life and other things later to give everyone a break (rubbing fingers, blushing).

So, updates might be slow these next couple of days. Hopefully, I can get out of the "blacklist" soon...

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