Chapter 287: Different Species (1/2)

“Ten-to-twenty Rainbow Pills will also be quite a big treasure,” Xue Wei said proudly, “They can provide a rather outstanding benefit to the people consuming them, and I believe that the Gu and Yuan families will be capable of outmatching the Baili family when the last of the Sky Knight Pills and Rainbow Pills have been consumed.

“I think I will be able to stay in their dungeons for a week, maybe two, but more than that and even I will start to have trouble hanging on to my sanity,” Xue Wei said cautiously. “So within two weeks, you will have to bolster your strength and get ready to fight back.”

“Big Brother, are you going to leave Luoluo?” Luoluo looked at Xue Wei with big eyes filled with worry, but Xue Wei just squatted in front of her and rustled her hair.

“Big Brother needs to go on a trip for some time. In the meanwhile, Uncle Xiao will look after you. If anything, you can always complain to Big Brother about him when I come back, and then I will scold him, okay?”

The girl had unshed tears in her eyes that she had tried hard to keep in check, but it eventually won, and a single tear fell down her cheek.

She did not understand what torture meant, nor did she understand what exactly was going on; all she knew was that Xue Wei needed to leave for a short while and that she would be without him—something that made her deeply upset.

“Big Brother promises to come back?” Luoluo asked with a pitifully small voice.

Xue Wei smiled as he gently wiped away her tear and rubbed her head, “I promise.”

“This is important?” she continued bravely, and Xue Wei smiled as he nodded his head. “Uncle Xiao will look after me and make sure that nothing bad happens?” she added, looking more confident.

Xue Wei once more said yes as he gave a glance towards Lin Xiao, who looked appalled by the thought of having to look after the kid for so long, but when taking a moment to consider alternatives, he understood this was the best solution.

“Is it safe though?” Bai Tianyi finally asked cautiously. “You already killed quite a few of their people. What if you are mistaken and they won’t try to gain your knowledge, but directly try to kill you in vengeance, then what?”

“They are the most influential noble family within Yan Dalu. Do you really think they will kill off someone who is of such value to them?”

“If you had killed my son, then I would tear you apart, no matter how valuable you are,” Lin Xiao agreed, with Hei Gou nodding as well and both of them looking quite worried.

Hearing their argument, Gu Bing’er could not help but snort. “You guys come from another continent, you do not understand anything about how the fights are here, in the noble families.

“Although he has killed a direct descendant of the Baili bloodline, there are many direct descendants, and there’s also a power struggle between them for the higher positions within the family.

“They will consider the fact that Xue Wei can elevate their family to greater heights, and they will feel that the weak Baili son died for the sake of the benefit of the family.”

Hearing Gu Bing’er’s understanding of the situation placated the others somewhat, and Xue Wei felt that was essentially the same kind of reasoning he had come to.

Yuan Bailong was not comfortable with the way things were going, but he could do nothing else than to fight by his fiancé and Xue Wei’s side.

Hearing him say that he would allow himself to be caught by the Baili family was something that he had never expected. He had not thought that Xue Wei would accept this way of handling them.

It was obvious that he would be mistreated in the Baili family, did he not fear torture? One has to remember that this was Yan Dalu, a place filled with spiritual energy and the torture methods usually focused on the soul and invading the mind.

Wounds to the soul were many times more serious than an injury to one’s body. A soul injury required some rare herbs and pills, or to consume a rather substantial amount of soul power to be healed.

Would anyone volunteer to enter a tiger’s den? Yuan Bailong had never seen anyone who would willingly do so before, but looking at Xue Wei, it seemed as if he was rather serious about this suggestion.

Sensing that he was serious, Yuan Bailong said nothing more. So after all the voices of disagreement were killed, they started forming a proper plan on what they had to do to free him once they were ready.

“This is a very risky plan,” Xue Wei summarized after they had finished discussing it. “And I am not sure how long I can handle, so the most conservative estimate is two weeks. I doubt they will kill me, but they might wear my mind down and turn me into a mindless doll.”

Xue Wei was speaking as if it was not himself that was going to be in this perilous position.

“It will be fine,” Bai Tianyi finally reaffirmed, “your kind have some defenses protecting their mind and soul. Don’t forget that your species is not something a weak human can compare to.”

Hearing this, the two from Yan Dalu were left flabbergasted. Was Xue Wei not a human? But he could not be a Primordial Beast either, as they were not that superior to humans, so what was he?

There were multiple races in this world—so many that it was impossible to say how many there actually were.

There were many different species of beasts. Then there were humans, and there were spirits, ghosts, demons, merfolk, centaurs, and chimeras.