149: Chapter 149 Her beast form is—

"Ah!" Tang Ruan shrieked.

She looked at her hand again, and it had returned to its original state.

"Am I seeing things?" she muttered to herself.

"Of course not.

Because you have always been such a terrifying thing."

Tang Ruan looked up at the sound, only to see a mist suddenly appear before her.

A person slowly walked out from within the mist.

"Fentian?

You... how did you come down here?"

She nervously clutched Hu Che in her arms tighter.

Hu Che turned his head, looking at Tang Ruan in confusion.

He let out a whimper in her arms.

It seemed he wanted to warn her that Fentian had arrived!

Tang Ruan patted his back comfortingly: "Don't be afraid, I will protect you."

She placed Hu Che behind her.

However, Hu Che suddenly jumped out, anxiously circling around her.

"If I had known your Beast Form would turn into that, I would never have liked you in the first place," Fentian said, his head held high in disdain.

Tang Ruan didn't care at all whether he liked her or not.

"What my Beast Form is has nothing to do with you!"

She didn't even know herself.

Fentian wasn't the least bit angry at being scolded.

His gaze fell upon Hu Che, who was in front of Tang Ruan, "Is this the Beast Husband you've been hiding?

I'll kill it today!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than the ground beneath Hu Che suddenly turned red.

Tang Ruan hurriedly lunged forward, grabbed Hu Che, and rolled to the side.

The ground where Hu Che had just been standing was instantly scorched into a patch of charred earth.

Tang Ruan let out a sigh of relief; it was a good thing she had moved fast.

Hu Che kept whimpering anxiously in her arms.

What should they do?

Tang Ruan was trapped in an illusion.

But after Fentian had severely injured him, he had also placed a Seal on his remaining power.

Now, not only could he not use his Supernatural Ability or open a space, he didn't even have the ability to speak.

He had completely turned into a fox.

He gnawed on Tang Ruan's arm, hoping she would wake up.

But he didn't have the heart to bite too hard, for fear of hurting her.

Fentian walked toward Tang Ruan step by step.

"After your soul dissipates, I, Heng Zhou, and Duan Shi will all forget you."

His face bore an expression of disgust.

Tang Ruan finally realized what was wrong.

Everything he said was what he believed she would be afraid of.

Or rather, what she would be afraid of if she possessed her complete memories.

However, because of her "amnesia," Tang Ruan didn't feel that any of the things he mentioned were a big deal.

She had already passed through four or five "doors" and had gained some experience in dealing with the Illusion Void.

As long as she didn't care about the illusions it displayed and broke through bravely, then the power of the Illusion Void was vulnerable!

Thinking this, a dagger appeared in her hand.

She lunged and stabbed toward Fentian.

The attack missed, and Fentian dodged it agilely.

Tang Ruan immediately condensed Energy balls in her palms and threw them at him one after another.

Fentian still didn't fight back, sliding backward with a smile.

Tang Ruan chased after him, passing through the mist before her.

Suddenly, she appeared outside Beast God Mountain.

Standing at the foot of the mountain, the rolling seawater lapped at her feet, wetting her insteps.

A cold sensation washed over her.

Tang Ruan instinctively took a step back.

What was going on?

Had she run out of Beast God Mountain?

No!

It had been dusk when she entered, but now the moon was at its peak; it was already the dead of night.

It was impossible for her to have stayed in the Illusion Void for that long.

But she wasn't sure.

Perhaps in a place like the Illusion Void, the flow of time was different from the outside?

But Hu Che hadn't come out yet.

No! She had to go back.

Just as Tang Ruan was about to turn around, she suddenly heard a cry from afar.

The sound was somewhat like a whale, but it sounded even more ferocious.

The seawater churned up waves, and behind the giant waves, something was swimming rapidly toward her.

She retreated instinctively until she had nowhere left to go.

With her back against Beast God Mountain, Tang Ruan suddenly realized that everything before her was still an illusion.

Because Beast God Mountain couldn't possibly be without lightning or the Curse of the Beast God.

Unless this was...

She stepped back a few paces.

She saw that the Beast God Mountain behind her was lush and green under the moonlight.

Even in the dark of night, it was easy to see that it must be emerald green during the day.

But the current Beast God Mountain was full of lightning, magma, and monsters.

Even if there was a patch of green occasionally, it was only near the middle of the mountain.

Then what time was this Beast God Mountain from?

Was it also from her memories?

In a moment of distraction, the owner of that sound had already leaped out of the water and flown toward her.

Tang Ruan had never seen such a behemoth; even the entire Beast God Mountain seemed insignificant before it.

It flew over her head.

It took a full ten minutes to fly past before it disappeared from her sight.

A word came to Tang Ruan's mind—Kun.

That's right!

Although she had never seen a Kun before.

According to the records in Zhuangzi's "Free and Easy Wandering," "In the Northern Darkness there is a fish, and its name is Kun. The Kun is so huge, I do not know how many thousands of miles it measures."

This must be that animal.

The ancient Beast World actually had Kun.

Then why would this Kun be her fear?

Could it be that she had almost been eaten by it once?

Just as Tang Ruan was thinking this, the Kun that had just flown far away suddenly roared and turned back.

It floated in the air as if swimming in water.

Tang Ruan then thought of the second half of the original text from "Free and Easy Wandering": "It transforms into a bird, and its name is Peng. The back of the Peng, I do not know how many thousands of miles it measures."

Shouldn't it turn into a Peng when it flies in the sky?

Just as she was thinking this, the Kun seemed to know her thoughts.

It began to twist its body.

Two large lumps bulged on its body, as if it were about to break through its skin and grow wings.

The Kun wailed in pain while twisting its body crazily.

The scene appearing in the air made Tang Ruan feel that it could fall at any moment.

It was truly quite terrifying.

Could it be that she had been crushed by a Kun?

Tang Ruan hurriedly leaned closer to Beast God Mountain again.

If it fell, at least there would be Beast God Mountain to hold it up.

But the Kun stopped moving, and it stopped crying.

Its skin and flesh were sinking in...

It was aging!

It was as if Tang Ruan had used her Energy on it.

The Kun was soon reduced to skin and bones, its eyeballs deeply sunken.

It looked somewhat horrific.

Finally, even the skin was gone.

It became a giant skeleton.

A scene suddenly flashed through Tang Ruan's mind—

In the deep sea, her ankles were locked, and no matter how she swam, she couldn't surface.

A whale that had been reduced to nothing but white bones behind her was chasing her.

So, the one chasing her was the Kun...

So, her greatest fear in the past was watching a Kun turn into white bones?

No.

If the past her was Yong Wu, then the terrifying scenes she had seen must have been a hundred or a thousand times more horrifying than this Kun.

Why did she remember only this?

Could the Kun be her companion?

Fentian had said that they would be reincarnated, and their Beast Form would be different in every life.

In just a moment of distraction,

Tang Ruan suddenly appeared in mid-air.

She saw that below her, Beast God Mountain was only the size of a fingernail.

She was so frightened she nearly fell from the sky.

A Kun's wail suddenly came from all around.

Tang Ruan stiffened, instinctively curling her body up.

Seeing her own feet...

Was she—a Kun?