235: Chapter 235 "I'll wait for you to come back."

Tang Ruan took a dagger out from her space.

This was something she had secretly kept after helping Heng Zhou draw blood not long ago.

The Jiao Clan naturally wanted it back, but none of them dared to come and take it.

Furthermore, Tang Ruan's Energy was almost entirely under a Seal. As long as she left Heng Zhou's protection, even with a dagger, she posed no threat to them.

After trying to ask for it a few times and seeing that she wouldn't give it up, they simply let it be.

At this moment, Tang Ruan held the gleaming dagger, moved behind Heng Zhou, and pressed it against his shoulder.

The muscles on Heng Zhou's back suddenly contracted.

Guo Guo grabbed his hand.

Her two small hands gripped his large hand nervously.

It was as if she were giving him courage.

"Guo Guo, don't be afraid," Heng Zhou said with a hint of a smile in his voice.

"Relax."

Following Tang Ruan's voice, Heng Zhou slowly exhaled and relaxed the muscles in his shoulder.

This would allow the blade to pierce in more smoothly.

Tang Ruan swiftly and accurately made a cut on the back of his shoulder.

Blood immediately welled out.

She frowned, a strange pang of pain surging in her heart.

But she still forced herself to lower her head and began to suckle.

She didn't dare use too much force, fearing she would hurt him.

Heng Zhou's tone, however, held a trace of impatience: "Harder!"

Only then did Tang Ruan increase her strength.

But the taste of human blood was far too metallic. That strange, fishy sweetness almost made her gag.

Sensing Tang Ruan's reaction, Heng Zhou frowned.

Then he noticed that she didn't stop despite her discomfort.

Heng Zhou curled his lips in pride.

She was indeed the Cub he had raised; there was nothing terrifying she hadn't seen.

When she was little, she had even hidden inside a monster's corpse just to play hide-and-seek with him.

Even though she had lost her memory, a little blood was nothing to her.

Having little A-Wu drink his blood to gain Energy was the third step of Heng Zhou's plan.

Since Jiao Luo could obtain Energy through his blood, then in principle, she could too.

Step one: he had to destroy the Water Mirror so Jiao Luo couldn't monitor them directly.

Step two: find a way to get Guo Guo over to him; he couldn't leave a weakness in her hands.

Step three: send away all the members of the Jiao Clan so Tang Ruan could obtain Energy from his blood.

He just hadn't expected that Jiao Luo wouldn't have a single beastman by her side willing to serve her wholeheartedly.

An opportunity had presented itself so quickly.

Step four: have Tang Ruan take Guo Guo and escape first.

Guo Guo had been outside before and knew the way from here to the surface of the sea.

As long as they could escape and contact Fen Tian.

Fen Tian could blast a hole through the ocean to rescue him.

Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered his relationship with little A-Wu.

If Fen Tian found out, would he still want to save him?

"Cough!"

While Heng Zhou was thinking, Tang Ruan suddenly couldn't help but let out a cough.

The Jiao Clan Male Beastman sitting outside the door immediately stood up.

"Guo Guo, the weather is cold. Hold Mommy while you sleep," Heng Zhou suddenly said tenderly.

"Mm! Mommy, hug!"

Guo Guo's response was practically seamless.

She even actually ran behind Heng Zhou and hugged Tang Ruan's waist, as if afraid she wouldn't know what to say next.

"Good girl, let Mommy hold you..."

Compared to the father-daughter duo's performance, Tang Ruan's acting was slightly inferior.

Fortunately, however, that Jiao Clan Male Beastman didn't actually intend to come in and take a look.

Once it was completely quiet outside.

Only then did Tang Ruan, slightly trembling, place her hand on Heng Zhou's back.

She tried to circulate her Energy to help him heal.

She pulled her hand away and saw the wound had vanished.

Excitedly, she stood on her tiptoes and whispered in his ear, "It worked..."

Heng Zhou's breath hitched in excitement.

He had originally worried that blood leaving his body, though freed from the Seal, might be sealed a second time once it entered Tang Ruan's body.

It seemed that, at least for now, it hadn't been.

Time was of the essence.

Tang Ruan immediately took Guo Guo's hand, bent her body low, and crept toward the door.

Tang Ruan and Guo Guo both looked back at the same time, gazing at Heng Zhou with concern.

Heng Zhou couldn't see them, but through his naturally superior sixth sense, he could feel them—

The two people he cared about most in this world were looking at him.

So, he confidently curled his lips at them.

He mouthed to them, "I'll wait for you to come back."

Tang Ruan nodded vigorously, turned back, and circulated her Energy, intending to blast the door open.

Suddenly, a surge of scorching Energy slammed into her heart, as if it were about to blow her heart apart...

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On the other side.

Having learned of Tang Ruan's disappearance, Fen Tian hovered above Beast God Mountain, dangling Hu Che in his Beast Form.

"Speak!

Is that Jiao Clan living down there?!"

Hu Che: ...

"If I knew, I would have gone to save my Mistress long ago. Would I still be waiting for you?"

Fen Tian said through gritted teeth, "Then why did Yan Qing and the others lie to me, saying you knew?

They insisted I had to find you before I could blast the sea!"

"I—" Hu Che fell silent.

He naturally knew the purpose behind Yan Qing and the others saying that.

Once Fen Tian blasted the sea, it would not only affect the beastmen on land but also bring a cataclysmic disaster to the Beast World.

Moreover, if he blasted the wrong place, even Tang Ruan would be injured.

Thus, they lied and said Hu Che knew.

They even had him hide away.

However, he had already been found by Fen Tian.

Over the past few days, they had entered the sea time and again, nearly turning the ocean upside down.

But until it was absolutely necessary, they still couldn't let Fen Tian blast the sea.

Fen Tian couldn't care less about all that.

He only knew that the Jiao Clan had taken his A-Wu, and every member of the Jiao Clan deserved to die!

After blasting the sea, the seawater would flood inward, mountains would topple, land would turn into ocean, and the ocean would turn into desert.

Even if all the beastmen in the Beast World died.

It was none of his business!

He only wanted A-Wu!

Seeing that Fen Tian was about to act.

Hu Che hurriedly said, "What if you hit the Mistress?"

Fen Tian's movements paused.

Hu Che thought for a moment and actually spoke up of his own accord: "Forget it, just do it!"

The Jiao Clan's palace was bottomlessly deep. In the past few days, they had also found many beastmen skilled in swimming, and even bribed Jiao Clan members to go down and search, but none had found anything.

Although Fen Tian was powerful, he wouldn't necessarily blast through the entire ocean all at once.

Perhaps causing a commotion would flush out the people who took Tang Ruan; it was hard to say.

Now that he was told to act, he didn't move.

Fen Tian landed at the foot of Beast God Mountain and tossed Hu Che onto the ground.

Hu Che immediately transformed into his human form, rolling twice before steadying himself.

He looked up.

He saw that Fen Tian had already jumped into the sea with a splash.

He was also worried that Tang Ruan would get hurt!

Their investigation over the past few days hadn't been entirely fruitless.

A Jiao person had seen Tang Ruan and Guo Guo floating rapidly toward the depths of the ocean as if they were being controlled.

If that Female Beastman of the Jiao Clan only wanted to avenge Princess Jiao Yi.

With her ability, she could have killed Tang Ruan right after she was taken away from Central City.

The fact that she went to such great lengths to take her away proved that she had other uses.

Perhaps it was to use her as leverage for a further revenge plan.

Perhaps Tang Ruan had some other use for her.

He still remembered that the Seal on Tang Ruan's body came from the Jiao Clan.

So, she shouldn't be in any life-threatening danger for now.

It was just that at the thought of her suffering grievances or even being injured there.

Hu Che also wanted to disregard everything and blast the sea.

Fen Tian had been in the water for ten minutes. His Beast Form was clearly a bird, but his swimming skills were unexpectedly decent.

But as the minutes and seconds ticked by, Fen Tian still hadn't come out.

That stupid bird wouldn't have held its breath until it passed out just to find Tang Ruan, would it?!

Hu Che immediately jumped into the water, but his swimming was only average, and he couldn't go for long periods without breathing underwater like Fen Tian.

After diving a few times, he suddenly felt a sense of helpless despair. He slapped the surface of the water and shouted loudly, "Fen Tian!

Fen Tian! Where are you!

Come out and blast the sea!

Stop searching!"

Suddenly, he heard the sound of someone surfacing behind him.