220: Chapter 220 The Prince Died Young.

"What Cub?"

After Jiao Luo finished speaking, she remembered who it was.

It was the Cub of her useless brother who had already "died."

Because it was useless, she hadn't gone to see her in years.

If he hadn't mentioned it, she would have forgotten that this person even existed.

"Should we capture her and bring her back?" the Witch Doctor asked.

Jiao Luo admired her fingernails and said indifferently, "No need. A piece of trash that hasn't inherited the Power of the Beast God is useless to keep around."

Jiao Luo lowered her hand.

"Take me to see my brother."

In the deepest part of the ocean abyss, there stood a white palace.

The palace was surrounded by colorful coral.

From a distance, it looked like a blooming garden.

Several huge luminous pearls were scattered throughout, illuminating the seabed as if it were daylight.

Inside the palace, in a secret room,

a young, handsome Jiao Clan Male Beastman was tied to a white stone pillar.

Chains were wrapped around his hands, his neck, and even from his waist down to his fish tail.

The chains had chafed his silver-purple fish tail, causing many scales to fall off. The blood flowing out stained his dreamlike tail with mottled patches.

Yet even so, he remained so beautiful that one couldn't look away.

Jiao Luo had always envied him for having such a beautiful tail; she wished she could cut it off and attach it to herself.

However, whenever she thought about how he would show himself in his Beast Form—only because his Energy was restricted by a Seal—

she felt a little better.

"Prince Jiaoli, I've come to see you. I heard you've returned?" Jiao Luo asked triumphantly.

Hearing someone call his name, the Male Beastman, his eyes covered by a white cloth, looked in the direction of the voice.

Suddenly, he chuckled, "Hehe."

His laughter was extremely melodious, yet it made Jiao Luo feel as if she were in hell.

Because she suddenly remembered that the person before her was no longer her obedient and foolish brother.

It was another soul living inside his body.

"You've come to see me?" Prince Jiaoli asked. "Since you're visiting me, why don't you take off the thing over my eyes and take a good look?"

His pleasant voice was full of enchantment.

Jiao Luo stepped forward involuntarily.

"Yes, that's it, take it off... Let us see each other properly."

Jiao Luo raised her hand, her fingertips touching his silk-soft white hair, and pinched the white cloth...

Suddenly, she saw the Witch Doctor beside her, who was about to open his mouth to call out to her.

She immediately realized what she was doing.

Terrified, she hurriedly withdrew her hand and retreated several steps.

She stared at Prince Jiaoli in horror.

Her father had fallen into an eternal slumber precisely because he had removed the cloth over his eyes, forever immersed in the most realistic nightmares until the end of his life...

He was a monster!

But it was also this monster that brought the Jiao Clan unprecedented prosperity...

Jiao Luo fell into her memories.

A long, long time ago, her father, King Jiao, had two dreams.

In the first dream, he dreamt that he had fallen into an eternal slumber.

In the second dream, he dreamt that the soul of the Servant of the Beast God had descended upon this sea area.

The males of the Jiao Clan royal family had always possessed the Supernatural Ability to foresee the future.

However, this Supernatural Ability was not under their own control.

It might appear once or twice in a lifetime, or it might never appear at all.

Due to the decline of the Jiao Clan's Energy, it had been a long time since any royal family member had foreseen future events.

Therefore, after King Jiao had these two dreams, he was convinced that they were prophetic dreams.

So, he found a Witch Doctor who could see spiritual Energy. Sure enough, they captured that soul in that sea area.

"This is the soul of the Servant of the Beast God. If I can make the Servant of the Beast God my Cub, it will surely allow the Jiao Clan to flourish once again!" King Jiao said excitedly.

However, at that time, he and his Mistress were not sure if their egg, which was currently incubating, already had a soul inside.

"If there is already a soul inside the egg, it shouldn't be able to enter, right?" his Mistress said.

King Jiao nodded and had the Witch Doctor use some methods to place the soul of the Servant of the Beast God into the egg.

They succeeded!

They waited excitedly for the birth of the Cub.

The Cub was born, and it was a Male Beastman.

The entire royal family was plunged into excitement.

Their prince was the Servant of the Beast God, possessing immense Energy.

His power would lead the royal family to unprecedented glory.

To commemorate the soul that was originally supposed to become the prince, King Jiao's Mistress gave the Cub a name: Prince Jiaoli.

But soon after, King Jiao announced to the outside world that the prince had passed away.

Because he had the same dream again. He dreamt that he had fallen into a slumber.

And this slumber was a precursor to the death of the Jiao Clan people.

The Jiao Clan would not age slowly like the Beastmen on land. Instead, after reaching a certain age, their appearance would no longer change.

It could almost be said that they remained forever young.

Then, as their body's Energy decreased, the time spent in slumber would become longer and longer, until one day, they would never wake up again.

Just when he was extremely anxious, he saw the dream change.

He saw himself cutting the Cub's wrist and greedily sucking his fresh blood.

He became full of Energy once again.

King Jiao woke up from the nightmare, recalling a legend that had always circulated within the Jiao Clan: "When the Servant of the Beast God is reincarnated, the Power of the Beast God will accompany the soul and appear in the new body."

Does that mean that as long as he drank the Cub's blood, he could also obtain the Power of the Beast God?

Allowing him to live forever...

That was what he thought, and that was what he did.

When he tasted the joy brought by the powerful Energy for the first time, he decided to make his Cub his permanent Energy supply.

Thus, he announced to the outside world that the prince had died. He even placed his own Mistress under house arrest to keep the secret.

Just like that, two years passed. One day, he discovered that there was no longer any Energy in Prince Jiaoli's blood.

At first, he thought it was because he had taken it too frequently.

But he soon discovered that there seemed to be two souls living inside Prince Jiaoli's body.

The expressions and actions of the two souls were completely different.

When that cold Prince Jiaoli was present, his blood would have the Power of the Beast God.

When that obedient Prince Jiaoli was present, his blood would have no Power of the Beast God.

He guessed that the cold soul was the soul of the Servant of the Beast God.

And the obedient one was the soul of his original Cub. They were actually using the same body!

According to legend, the Power of the Beast God enters the blood along with the soul.

In other words, only when the soul of the Servant of the Beast God controlled the body would Prince Jiaoli's blood contain the Power of the Beast God.

And when the real Prince Jiaoli appeared, that soul would fall into a slumber, and the blood would have no Power of the Beast God.

King Jiao seized every opportunity to take blood when the soul of the Servant of the Beast God appeared.

But after he had taken blood from that soul a few times, it never appeared again.

King Jiao was anxious; he feared he would fall into a slumber at any moment. He used various methods of coercion and inducement, but that soul simply wouldn't appear.

He occasionally observed its brief appearance, but it seemed to be deliberately hiding from him, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

Moreover, it seemed that it really didn't want to appear inside Prince Jiaoli's body.

The few times it did appear, it was always taking Prince Jiaoli to seek death.

King Jiao couldn't get the blood, and he had no way to deal with that soul.

Having felt the power of becoming stronger, he only wanted to become stronger still.

Moreover, he worried every day that he would die.

Until one day, he suddenly thought.

Could the Cub of the Servant of the Beast God also inherit the Power of the Beast God?

Although he couldn't control him, he could control his Cub.