The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Chapter 172 Deeply Wounded
Ling Chengen and Bai Qingyu stopped on the cable car, looked back at the shadow that had crashed at the cable car entrance and was rolling down the cliff, and their pupils instinctively contracted.

This time, Bai Qingyu reacted much faster than her, transforming into a streak of azure light and disappearing from her sight in the blink of an eye. A few breaths later, he returned to the cable car with two people on his back.

Ling Chengen stared intently at the two people on his broad back, and said in a somewhat subtle tone, "It really is him?"

Bai Qingyu also had a complicated expression, but without much hesitation, she said, "Let's leave here first."

The wind above the cable car was unpredictable. Ling Chengen was worried that Bai Qingyu would be under too much pressure carrying the two of them and would have difficulty controlling his body, so he did not jump on his back, but instead moved forward quickly on the cable car.

Bai Qingyu watched her movements with his heart pounding, but he also knew that if he brought three people with him, he probably wouldn't be able to control his body and flight speed as steadily as he did now.

Although there were no pursuers behind him for the time being, he always felt that Shi Ruoan had been holding back such a big move, and the people of Huangyan Beast City would definitely not let it go.

Right now, escaping is the priority.

After the two men carried two seriously injured people across the Huiyuan Cableway, they were hit by several fireballs as soon as they landed.

Ling Chengen remained on edge throughout. He had thought he could finally relax once he returned to the Northern Wilderness, but he hadn't expected there to be another group of people waiting for them here.

Bai Qingyu grabbed her shoulders, trying to gain altitude and avoid the attacks from the ground, but just as he flew to a height of one or two hundred meters, several water arrows shot towards him.

The way they were poking people like they were about to turn them into a hornet's nest.

"Nine-tier water system".

Ling Chengen grabbed his ankle with one hand, cooperating perfectly with him. He flipped in the air and landed steadily on his back. He tapped his left knee slightly on the ground and used his mental power to shatter the water arrow in Bai Qingyu's path.

Bai Qingyu asked, "How many people are around here?"

After spreading out his spiritual power, Ling Chengen said with a solemn expression, "More than thirty, twenty-four of them are below the ninth rank, and seven are above the ninth rank."

There were a total of thirty-one enemies.

If they were caught off guard, she and Bai Qingyu could take down three or four warriors above the ninth rank by joining forces, but seven... definitely not, especially in this passive situation.

Ling Chengen was considering countermeasures: "There are five flying orcs on the other side. Three are hiding in the woods ahead, and two are flanking from the side. The ninth-tier water-type orc who just used the water arrow was using his ability from the orc flanking from the right."

Bai Qingyu regretted saving the two people: "With these two people with me, it's not easy for me to fight back."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shi Ruoan, who was lying at Ling Chengen's feet, opened his eyes. He propped himself up with his left hand behind him and barely sat up. His right leg was slightly bent. His eyes gleamed coldly in the darkness. The moment he raised his fingers, an extremely shrill scream came from his right side.

"How many can you take down?" Shi Ruoan turned to look at Ling Chengen.

Ling Chengen couldn't help but raise an eyebrow and replied, "At most two."

"Climbing Star, the rest is up to you."

Shi Ruoan's voice faded into the air, and only then did Ling Chengen notice another severely injured orc beside him.

He was also a sea creature. Compared to the gloomy and cold Shi Ruoan, this young man, who was lying on Bai Qingyu's back and looked almost dead, was like a shattered crystal or a weightless feather.

No matter how you look at it, Ling Chengen felt that this person was already on the death list in the underworld.

She couldn't help but reach out her left hand, her fingertips close to the young man's nose, and felt his faint breath. She turned her head and glared at Shi Ruoan, who had sat up: "How could this person possibly deal with the previous high-level beastmen? He's already in dire straits himself."

Shi Ruoan glanced at the silver-haired merman who was still unconscious, and simply curled her lips slightly: "Leave it to him. You only need to deal with what you can handle, and leave the rest to us. We guarantee that you and your partner will not lose your lives here."

Ling Chengen couldn't help but retort, "...You're incredibly arrogant!"

What kind of time is this to be so shameless?

Shi Ruoan reminded him, "Don't stand there in a daze, they're here."

Ling Chengen sighed. There was no other way at the moment. Everyone was in the same boat. Given the current dire situation, she could only trust Shi Ruoan's words and try anything as a last resort.

Landing there offers no advantage; in fact, it will only make their situation more precarious.

Therefore, Bai Qingyu never intended to land; he wanted to withstand the attacks of five flying orcs from high in the air.

Ruo'an has already taken care of one, so there are still four left.

However, Ling Chengen had already accurately told them about the enemy's situation: each of the four flying orcs was equipped with one or two helpers.

In other words, they had to deal with seven or eight people high in the air.

Ling Chengen had a clear objective: to directly attack the mental domains of several flying beastmen whose ability levels were lower than hers, causing them to crash from a distance.

Mental attacks are indeed powerful, but they consume a great deal of her special abilities.

After taking down two flying orcs who were intercepting them, and watching them and the warriors on their backs fall into the dense forest, Ling Chengen reached out and rubbed his throbbing temples. His complexion was no longer as rosy as before, and even his lips had turned much paler.

The silver-haired merman lying on Bai Qingyu's back was still asleep. Ling Chengen reached out and pushed Shi Ruoan, saying, "He's in this state, and you still have the nerve to sit here and watch? Help him out!"

Shi Ruoan spread her hands and said, "I can't use my abilities right now, so I can only rely on him."

The attack on the approaching orc had already drained him of his last bit of strength.

To save Shi Panxing, he is now able to sit up and speak only by relying on his last bit of willpower.

Because he hadn't opened his eyes and woken up, he felt that these two brats would really throw them down as bait for their own safety.

“It really works, the rest of the people are catching up.” Ling Chengen suddenly turned around, his expression tense.

Shi Ruoan glanced at Shi Panxing, whose eyelashes trembled slightly, and said with a smile, "Don't underestimate the royal family of our Northern Region."

Several afterimages darted through the darkness, closing in on Bai Qingyu in the blink of an eye.

Bai Qingyu sensed danger, and her fur almost stood on end.

The silver-haired youth lying on his back suddenly opened his eyes, and the attackers around him seemed to be frozen in place, their bodies suddenly exploding into puffs of blood mist in mid-air.

Ling Chengen withdrew his gaze and looked at the white-haired merman lying at his left foot. He couldn't help but gasp, and then carefully examined him.

This beast world is truly extraordinary; there are always people more powerful than humans, and heavens beyond heavens.

The white-haired youth next to her, who was on the verge of death, had an unknown ability, but it was no less powerful than her mental strength.

Ling Chengen felt a sense of danger just looking at him, especially the moment his gaze focused on her and then fell upon her. The hairs on her arms and the back of her neck stood on end. "Is he royalty from your sea?" Ling Chengen abruptly averted her gaze, ignoring the disheveled white-haired merman, and stared directly at Shi Ruoan. "You're not lying to me, are you? How could royalty from your sea come ashore and be trapped in Huangyan Beast City, waiting for you to rescue them?"

Shi Ruoan raised her hand, clenched her fist, and coughed lightly, letting the gentle summer night breeze pass by her side. Her dark blue hair was lifted high, covering half of her face.

"That's a long story, but right now it's more important to get rid of those people chasing us."

Ling Chengen watched the orcs running in formation below, chasing after them, and couldn't help but spit inwardly: "They're like persistent ghosts, really thinking they're a pack of hyenas!"

Having averted the danger of being intercepted in the air, Bai Qingyu became noticeably more composed. Looking down at the orcs moving through the dense forest, he said disdainfully, "These people can't be caught, but they shouldn't be orcs from Huangyan Beast City."

“They’re from the northern region,” Ling Chengen recognized at a glance. “They should have been sent by the Daxing tribe.”

"I never expected that Huangyan Beast City and the tribes in the North would cooperate," Ling Chengen sneered.

Bai Qingyu explained, "Not all the nobles who were exiled harbored resentment towards the Southern Beast Plains. Most of them ended up in such a state because of interests and family ties."

"Although those nobles were exiled to the north, they established their own tribes there and gained considerable strength, which naturally gave them the right to contact and communicate with the forces in the Southern Beast Plains."

"Otherwise, how could the Chang family have been taken back so easily?"

The royal family's exoneration of the Chang family was only a small part of the reason. If no one had pulled strings for them, the royal family would never have remembered a family that had long since lost its foothold in the Southern Beast Plains.

Therefore, it is not so difficult to understand why the large tribes in the north have close cooperation with Huangyan Beast City.

Ling Chengen was still somewhat displeased. They had only taken a short stroll to the border of the Southern Beast Plains, yet they faced encirclement and interception from multiple sides, making it seem as if they had committed some heinous crime.

Even if it's a violation of divine law, this is nothing more than this.

Do these beastmen from the Southern Beast Plains really think they're in the Heavenly Court?

Just ridiculous.

Sooner or later, she will set foot on the Southern Beast Plains in a dignified manner and completely undermine the prestige of the Southern Beastmen.

"Take the eastern route to the Mulan Plain."

Ling Chengen did not intend to take the two wounded men back to Shilin.

There are two rivers near the Mulan Plain, both of which flow into the sea to the east.

Therefore, they didn't need to go to the beach specifically to release these two merfolk that had come ashore.

Bai Qingyu glanced at the sky and, after flying for three hours with his group, decided to find a place to land and rest.

Flying with three people was exhausting, and from preparing to escape to being constantly on guard against being ambushed, his mind was on edge the whole time. His physical and mental strength were almost at their limit.

"Then let's find a place to rest."

Ling Chengen felt sorry for him too. Bai Qingyu had exhausted the most energy, and now that he had shaken off the pursuit of that pack of "hyenas," it was most important for him to rest and replenish his energy.

Because it was difficult to discern directions and terrain in the dark, Ling Chengen was responsible for pointing the way, and the group eventually landed at a place where they had rested earlier.

This is a completely abandoned mine.

It must be some kind of metal-containing ore, but it was very small and had been mined out long ago, leaving only pits that looked like they were eaten by worms.

The mountain was bare, its surface a bluish-gray, devoid of vegetation. Only a small group of gold-eating dolphins roamed the area, searching for scattered pieces of metal ore…

After landing on the ground, Bai Qingyu immediately returned to human form.

He knelt on one knee, covered in sweat, supporting himself with one hand. It took him a while to regain his strength and stand up again.

Ling Chengen wanted to carry him directly to the cave where they had rested earlier, but he politely declined.

If there were no outsiders present, he might have given in.

But with Shi Ruoan and Shi Panxing still around, he wanted to save face for them.

Shi Panxing and Shi Ruoan were in no better condition than Bai Qingyu. When Bai Qingyu transformed back into human form, the two of them couldn't even react in time and rolled directly onto the ground full of gravel.

As Shi Ruoan's wound rolled over the pebbles on the ground, she couldn't help but clench her teeth, her face pale and her expression somewhat distorted.

And that white-haired Shi Panxing...

After sending Bai Qingyu into the cave, Ling Chengen finally had time to observe the physical condition of this sea royal under the light of the blue moon.

It was truly a terrible sight.

Shi Panxing could no longer maintain human form, so he remained in a state of human body and fish tail.

He and Shi Ruoan are like the two sides of the same object. Shi Ruoan is dark blue, from her ear fins to her tail, and even the scales covering her vulnerable parts of her body. It is a mysterious and deep dark blue.

Shi Panxing has white fur, but it's not pure white; you can vaguely see some extremely dazzling blue, just like the color of a glacier.

However, his body was so badly damaged that it was unrecognizable.

The silvery-white fishtail was pierced by black chains, and one could even see the sharp, white bones beneath its rotting flesh...

His collarbone was also pierced by two black chains of unknown material, with fragments of his flesh still remaining on the broken chains, making the injury look extremely horrific.

Having witnessed the most brutal tragedies of survival in the apocalypse, she rarely felt any sympathy anymore. But Shi Panxing's situation was truly tragic. The flesh exposed after his scales were plucked out looked like a human fingernail falling off, so shocking.

This wasn't just in one or two places; on his waist, abdomen, and tail, not a single intact, beautiful scale could be found.

Ling Chengen wanted to drag the man into the cave, but seeing his injuries, he was at a loss for what to do.

Shi Panxing lay on the ground, gave her a lifeless look, and then closed his eyes wearily.

Shi Ruoan slowly stood up, supported by the rocks, bent down and picked up the merman on the ground, and walked heavily into the cave step by step.

Ling Chengen followed behind them without saying a word, deciding not to ask anything. She had no desire to get involved in the conflict between the sea tribe and Huangyan Beast City.

To be honest, this trip with Bai Qingyu has broadened my horizons...

It made her have a terrible impression of the orcs in the Southern Beast Plains.