163: Chapter 163 Hopefully, he won't get sick from eating this!

Tang Ruan's geography grades were very average.

She really couldn't be sure if this was the place she had dreamed of.

Therefore, she had Fen Tian take her down again to walk through it one more time.

"Is A-Wu looking for something?" Fen Tian asked.

"Just getting to know the surroundings. After all, I'm going to be living here for a long time! Hehe!" Tang Ruan said nervously.

Hearing Tang Ruan say she wanted to live here "long-term," Fen Tian's mood immediately improved. He didn't ask anything else.

Tang Ruan did manage to find the lake from her memory, but there was no grassland on the other side.

As far as the eye could see, there were only tall, inedible shrubs. There wasn't even a shadow of a beastman.

Tang Ruan was just thinking this when she suddenly heard a "crunch, crunch" sound from ahead.

She looked closely and immediately retracted her previous thought.

A disheveled Male Beastman from the Deer Tribe was squatting not far away, digging at something.

He was wearing only a tattered beast-skin skirt that couldn't be any more worn out.

Hearing the footsteps of Tang Ruan and Fen Tian, he turned his face. It was dirty, and his mouth was stuffed with tree roots.

Seeing Fen Tian and knowing he was Long Bao's brother, his instinctive fear of the Dragon Clan made him immediately drop to the ground, trembling.

"Why are you eating that?" Tang Ruan blurted out.

She had already sensed it earlier. Only the roots of this tree were edible, but they were slightly toxic, and eating too much would cause headaches.

The beastman lay on the ground, "shivering," and didn't answer.

Fen Tian was about to say something, but Tang Ruan suddenly grabbed his hand and examined the beastman.

Most male beastmen in the Beast World were strong, but the one before her could only be described as skin and bones.

After waiting a few seconds and seeing he still wouldn't answer, she didn't force him.

She took a few steamed buns out of her space, placed them on a leaf, and set them in front of him.

The beastman looked up, startled. Tang Ruan gestured toward her own mouth, "It's edible."

The beastman glanced at Fen Tian behind her, then suddenly dropped back to the ground, covered his head with his hands, and shook even more violently.

Tang Ruan looked back at Fen Tian helplessly. Fen Tian looked innocent; he had hidden all his pressure.

After leaving, Fen Tian saw Tang Ruan's troubled expression and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

Tang Ruan: "He seems very afraid of you."

"That's normal."

Tang Ruan suddenly stopped and turned around, "How is that normal? Yan—"

She wanted to say that beastmen in Central City nowadays weren't afraid when they saw Yan Qing because they knew Yan Qing was the king who could protect them.

This was Dragon Valley; these weak beastmen lived with the powerful Dragon Clan and should have been protected as well.

Why were they still so afraid when they saw Fen Tian, who was deliberately hiding his strength? But she swallowed the words back. She was afraid Fen Tian would get jealous.

Fen Tian took the initiative to explain, "Because they were originally food for the Dragon Clan."

Tang Ruan was startled. She looked at Fen Tian in disbelief. "Food?" she confirmed again.

Fen Tian explained further, unconcerned, "My father in my previous life loved eating beastmen. He kept many in the Dragon Clan. Later, he died. These beastmen just continued living here."

"Then you also…" Tang Ruan instinctively took two steps back. She really couldn't accept a beastman who had eaten other beastmen.

Fen Tian knew what she was thinking and pulled her back. "I don't have that hobby."

Tang Ruan let out a sigh of relief, suddenly remembering that he had said Long Bao didn't eat meat.

"Is it because Long Bao didn't like your father eating beastmen that he doesn't eat meat?"

"Mm," Fen Tian looked into the distance, seemingly lost in memory. "Long Bao had a little Female Beastman he played well with; she was from the Sheep Tribe. Then one day, my father thought she tasted good, and so—"

Tang Ruan's stomach churned, and she covered her mouth, nearly vomiting. How could there be such a father!

Fen Tian gently patted her back. "A-Wu, don't be afraid. I already killed him."

Hearing him say the words "I already killed him" in such an ordinary tone, Tang Ruan felt an indescribable complexity in her heart.

But thinking that the current Fen Tian was in an awakened state, he must have seen things even more terrifying than patricide, so she felt it was nothing.

But didn't Fen Tian not care about the lives of beastmen? "Because your father ate beastmen, you killed him?" she asked curiously.

Fen Tian's expression changed slightly, and a hint of disgust gathered between his brows.

"Because he ate beastmen long-term, the Dragon Clan was punished by the Beast God, and our lifespans were cut almost in half. He heard that drinking dragon blood could grant immortality, so he locked Long Bao up—"

"Damn it!" Tang Ruan couldn't help but curse, interrupting Fen Tian.

She understood what came next without him needing to say it.

As a servant of the Beast God, even before awakening, Fen Tian must have been an extremely powerful existence.

His father naturally wouldn't choose him to be a blood bag; he would only choose the young little son.

No wonder Long Bao said when he saw him, "You're finally back, I've waited for you for so long."

Fen Tian was the only family member he could trust.

When Tang Ruan and Fen Tian returned, it was already dark.

From afar, Tang Ruan saw a little old man with white hair and a white beard squatting at the cave entrance.

When the little old man saw them, he walked over quickly. He skillfully squatted down, hugged Fen Tian's lower leg, and stayed still.

"Brother, Sister, you're finally back!"

Tang Ruan couldn't help but feel a bit heartbroken. After Fen Tian killed the Beast God, he could have come back to find him.

However, to save her, he had sacrificed his life along with Heng Zhou.

Long Bao had waited here for hundreds, even thousands of years. He had even become senile, yet he was still waiting for his brother to return.

"Long Bao, why don't you wait inside?" Tang Ruan bent down and asked in the tone one uses with a child.

The nights in Dragon Valley were quite cold.

"Long Bao wanted to see Brother and Sister sooner. Long Bao prepared food for Brother and Sister."

Long Bao stood up, grabbed Tang Ruan with one hand and Fen Tian with the other, and walked into the cave.

Inside the cave, there was a long stone table with four things neatly arranged on it: tree roots, stones, wood that looked like dried meat or dried meat that looked like wood, and a pair of deer antlers.

Long Bao picked up the "dried meat" and brought it toward Tang Ruan's mouth.

Looking at that piece of suspected "zombie meat," Tang Ruan instinctively shrank her neck back.

Fen Tian raised his hand to stop him, "Long Bao, this meat can't be eaten anymore!"

Long Bao looked up at Fen Tian. He was somewhat hunched and a head shorter than Fen Tian.

Hearing Fen Tian scold him, he lowered his head, his shoulders trembling helplessly.

Seeing that he looked like he was about to cry, Tang Ruan hurriedly reached out to take it, "Thank you, Long Bao, I just happen to be hungry."

Fen Tian snatched the meat from her hand. "This meat has been frozen in ice for thousands of years!"

Tang Ruan: ...

Tang Ruan: It really is zombie meat...

While he was saying, "This meat has been frozen in ice for thousands of years," he opened his mouth and took a bite.

He chewed twice; the taste was no different from rotten wood, and he forced it down.

Tang Ruan: ...

Tang Ruan: He won't get sick from eating that, will he!

She looked down and, sure enough, saw a mass of purple energy flowing down his throat.