Chapter 374 (1/2)

Chapter 374: I’m a Beast; You are Humans

Translator: Radiant Translations Editor: Radiant Translations

In the vast desert, fifteen shuttle ships threatened to destroy a huge, towering fortress.

“Make your move.”

“Time to act.”

The drivers of two of the fifteen shuttle ships received a secret transmission through a concealed device.

After acting like a sleeper agent for so long, they’re finally letting me act? a thin old man thought, a very sinister expression crossing his face. His name was Pei Shan, and he was not part of the six big Transcendent organizations; he had instead formed his own small group of which he was the head. For a long time, he had laid low so as to let the Xia Clan put their trust in him and others of similar background. At the very least, the Xia Clan placed more trust in them than those who joined the Bloodshed Tavern or the Temple of The Earth God.

Although I must betray the Xia Clan, there’s not a thing I can do about it. The Great Demonic God has promised to reconstruct my corporeal body. For me to keep on living, for the sake of an immortal life, the Xia Clan has to be annihilated. It must be wiped out. A cold glint flashed through Pei Shan’s eyes.

In another shuttle ship.

The Xia Clan… A glimpse of frustration was currently displayed on Yuan Qing’s young and inexperienced face. Brother Xue Ying, sister Jing Qiu, elder brother Eternal Wind, brother Pu Yang… Many familiar faces flashed through his mind. In his two hundred years, from birth and until now, he had spent the majority of his time in the human world, as one of the humans. As for Xue Ying and the others, he already considered them his own family, his own brothers and sisters.

“Forgive me!” Yuan Qing closed his eyes.

He had never managed to forget a scene from his youth.

“Mother! Mother, why won’t you move? Are you sleeping?”

“We have to leave. She’s already been killed by the humans.” A male wolf quickly bit a wolf cub by the scruff of his neck and fled.

“Father…father!” A now medium-sized wolf watched as soldiers of the Xia Clan chased and eventually killed a male wolf.

“Aaaaaahhhh~” Yuan Qing screamed.

Hong!

One of the shuttles suddenly took a turn and fired another black millstone, but this time toward another shuttle. With a power no less than the peak of the Deity bombarding it, the nearby shuttle went off-track and collapsed into another shuttle. In total, two ships had fallen from a single attack.

“Pei Shan!”

“Yuan Qing!”

The Xia Clansmen inside the other thirteen ships all stared in utter shock.

In the distance, Xue Ying was still wielding Blood-Drinking Spear when his expression turned grim. He had long since guessed that there would be another traitor, but under no circumstances did he consider one to be Yuan Qing! Despite not having many Transcendent friends, he really did care for this timid young transcendent as he would for his own younger brother.

“How could it have been him?” Xue Ying simply couldn’t believe it.

“Pei Shan, you have betrayed the Xia Clan! How…how could you?!” Chao Qing’s angry voice reverberated throughout the air.

“Big brother Chao Qing, you may have had good enough luck to become Deity, but what about me? Haha…you know, I’m already nearing the end of lifespan. When my time comes, how could I be worried with the Xia Clan’s survival?” Pei Shan arrogantly shouted, not a trace of regret in his voice.

Chi Qiu Bai stepped in, riddled with grief and indignation. “Do you live for the sake of living? Did you forget how you grew from an insignificant mortal until you became what you are today? Do you think that, without Xia Clan, you would now exist as you are? Are you really willing to sacrifice your clan just to be reincarnated in the Dark Abyss?”

“Chi Qiu Bai, I’m not some talented Transcendent like you are. I don’t hold a candle to your prospects,” Pei Shan coldly replied.

From the very start, Yuan Qing didn’t interject to say anything.

“Mn?”

“What’s going on?”

Yuan Qing and Pei Shan were startled to find that they could no longer operate their shuttles.

The two of them received a transmission. “Don’t worry, these shuttles just have some countermeasures in place. Traitors will immediately lose control over the shuttles. Without a driver, though, a shuttle will not be able to continue fighting since they will no longer have access to Deity Crystals for energy.”

Hua! hua!

The surrounding blurred, and a gold-robed figure walked out with his two hands extended. He seemed to be covering the whole sky. With a single palm, he captured the two shuttles. A ship powered by Deity crystal operating under normal circumstances would not be so easily captured by the Sorcerer God with his Demigod power. But since these two couldn’t be operated by the two traitors and were therefore unpowered, the Sorcerer God could easily take them.

Sou!

At his normal seemingly slow speed, the gold-robed Sorcerer God flew back to a part of the fortress. As he crossed that distance, the space around him distorted and blurred.

“Sorcerer God, go to hell!” Xue Ying became furious. He turned into a stream of particles and simultaneously hacked his Blood-Drinking Spear outward. It traveled over thousands of kilometers and brought along unmeasurable might as it fiercely hacked one of six exterior parts of the fortress, emitting a loud sound in the process. Upon contact, one of the castle’s arrays activated. A hexagonal shape separated from the main fort to protect it.

The two shuttles laid on the ground inside the secondary fort.