Chapter 967: Wash and Die

Five pets self-destructed.

One every day.

The other candidate heirs were like pigs cooped up in a pigsty years ago.

Enduring day after day, enduring the guillotine that could fall at any moment.

The tenth day of the heir competition.

Only four of the twelve selected heirs remained, including the ‘guillotine’ Yue Ling Bona.

“Good riddance!”

Yue Ling Bona chuckled, an unhealthy flush spreading across her pale face.

It was like someone was waving a blood-soaked butcher knife in a winter white plum forest.

Splattering tiny fragments of /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ crimson.

“Sister Suewan, do you still want to play it safe now?”

At this moment, Yue Ling Misheng, that big smart one, also had a face so ugly it looked like he had just been through hundreds of yin-yang reincarnations by burly men.

His eyes were bloodshot, glaring at Suì Wǎn as if she were a mortal enemy.

Suì Wǎn was so angry she laughed.

Anyone who didn't know would think she was the one who was crazy, making pets self-destruct, and mercilessly slaughtering her own clan.

“Yue Ling Misheng, did your mother eat brain-eating insects every day to supplement herself when she was pregnant with you? Is that why you’re so incontinent in both your cerebrum and cerebellum?”

What did she mean by playing it safe?

Can you speak like a normal person or not?

If not, why don’t you get out of the defensive energy shield and let the monsters teach you?

Damn it!

Monsters speak more logically than you!

She only understood one sentence of what he said.

“Now!”

That’s right, now she didn’t care who his mother was, get lost, you coward, I’ve tolerated you for too long.

“Suì Wǎn!”

Yue Ling Misheng had never heard such vicious and unpleasant insults, and smoke was practically coming out of his head from anger.

“Don’t tell me you didn’t cheat! And don’t tell me you don’t have any backup plans!

Look at your own defensive shield, then look at mine and Brother Qianchen’s.

Yue Ling Bona has clearly been targeting you these past two days, but your defensive shield always manages to pull through!

Everyone else has died, but you, who have been targeted the most fiercely, are still alive and well!

So tell me, why is that?”

What the hell.

Too much to say, Suì Wǎn suddenly became calm.

“Believe it or not, I really didn’t cheat, and I don’t have any backup plans.”

If she had to say something.

Was it cheating that her support offering included the alliance's recognized number one genius, the future strongest Beast Tamers in the interstellar universe?

Good luck was her backup plan.

“I don’t believe it!”

Yue Ling Misheng couldn't convince himself.

Suì Wǎn’s situation was too strange; she endured the most and densest attacks, and every time her defensive shield seemed about to shatter, it somehow managed to cling to life.

It was as if the Heavenly Dao was helping her, giving her a boost, and then she quickly came back to life.

He couldn't even remember how many times this had happened.

How could he convince himself that Suì Wǎn wasn't up to something?

Moreover, although he and Yue Ling Bona were not on the same side, from her various reactions and behaviors, it could be inferred that Yue Lingren and General Hu, who supported Suì Wǎn, had likely met with trouble.

In that case, who could help Suì Wǎn?

Rely on those few weaklings?

“Believe it or not.”

Spoiling you!

Suì Wǎn indicated that she was no longer serving him.

“Sister Suewan, you clearly have a way to help us, so why are you unwilling to help your younger brothers overcome this together?

Now is not the time for us to kill each other for the final heir spot.

Yue Ling Bona’s actions clearly have another purpose, targeting not just us, but likely our entire Yue Ling Clan; she must have others behind her.

If all the rest of us die, do you really think you can escape alone?

At a time like this, only cooperation can lead to a win-win!”

“...”

No matter how much better his words sounded than a song, Suì Wǎn didn't even twitch a hair, seriously and imperturbably directing her pets to attack the monsters that were spreading again.

As the candidates continued to die, the remaining individuals had to endure even more concentrated and frequent monster attacks.

Actually, her eyes and ears were only focused on the monsters.

Was that idiot Yue Ling Misheng as lovable as a monster?

“...Hehehe...Actually, I’m also very curious, Sister, how did you manage to escape death again and again?

Did your hypocritical father and conniving mother secretly give you some life-saving rule-based items?”

Yue Ling Bona raised an eyebrow, a morbid smile on her deathly pale face, her entire irises seeming to have turned into thick, bloody mist.

Both evil and pathetic.

Suì Wǎn found that she really didn't want to speak, so she perfectly maintained an unmoving facial expression.

...

Yue Ling Misheng truly didn't expect Suì Wǎn to be so heartless.

Did she really want to watch them die?

“Sister! You’re my biological sister, alright?

I beg you, if you have a way, please help your younger brothers.”

Seeing that threats wouldn't work, Yue Ling Misheng could only switch to a gentler approach, not forgetting to drag in Yue Ling Qianchen, who was already lying flat in his coffin.

“Brother Qianchen, you should also persuade Sister Suewan.”

Yue Ling Qianchen didn't even lift an eyelid, his hands clasped over his chest, serene and peaceful; if taken to a movie set, he would definitely be the most qualified 'corpse'.

He would persuade nothing.

Although Suì Wǎn’s situation was indeed a bit bizarre, he knew best that she simply had a stroke of dumb luck.

What backup plan was there?

Where was the solution?

It was just a matter of holding on for as long as possible!

He glanced at his defensive shield, whose light was even weaker than a firefly’s butt; if it could last for the time it takes an incense stick to burn, he’d lose.

Yue Ling Misheng’s situation was similar to his, which was why he was like a mad dog, biting and tearing at Suì Wǎn, hoping for nothing more than a sliver of hope.

He did want to sympathize with him.

So he kindly said, “It’s useless, just wash up and die.”

Yue Ling Misheng: “...”

“Hehehe...”

Yue Ling Bona’s laughter grew increasingly neurotic.

“You won’t tell...hehe...it doesn’t...doesn’t matter if you don’t tell...hehehe...”

As if she had made a certain decision, she stood up crookedly and unsteadily, her movements eerily like a zombie whose brain had been eaten.

She slowly formed a hand seal.

Suì Wǎn’s expression changed.

Hand seal?

Didn’t Yue Ling Bona only have five pets?

And all five of her pets had already self-destructed in the past five days, so why was she summoning her Pet Space again?

“Buzz.”

The green Pet Space materialized on the altar.

Then Yue Ling Bona threw something into the Pet Space.

“Crack,” went the sound of shattering porcelain.

A black mist, both liquid and gaseous, completely enveloped the green square space, and the next second, it was as if paint was fading.

The green light quickly transformed into purple!

“Purple! Sixth Awakening! How is this possible?”

Suì Wǎn and the other two shouted in horror; Yue Ling Bona was not a Fifth Awakening, but a Sixth!

“It’s over, she still has a pet!”

Yue Ling Misheng, who was already at his wits’ end, now had a face even paler than Yue Ling Bona’s.

“Hehe...It’s the same whether I say it or not anyway!”