348: Chapter 24 "Are you scared?"

Not far behind her, there were several huge footprints, clearly left by a large beast.

They looked like—lion footprints.

As if to confirm her thoughts, a tuft of yellow fur was left in one of the footprints.

In other words, while she was confronting the Tiger Tribe Male Beastman, that Lion Clan member had actually circled behind her silently, intending to launch a sneak attack.

But in the end, why didn't they attack?

It was because Tang Longyan had appeared.

She raised her head again, clasping her hands over her heart as she looked at Tang Longyan.

"He's really so strong, so handsome, and so amazing! I love him so much!"

Yun Tiankai knew her current expression was that of a total fangirl.

But at such a distance, he couldn't see it anyway, so it didn't matter!

She stared unblinkingly at Tang Longyan.

Little did she know that Tang Longyan, having heard her words, now had red ears and a heart that was inexplicably beating a bit faster.

In a moment of distraction, the seawater controlled by Energy crashed down toward the beastmen like a great flood.

Tang Longyan, who originally only wanted to display his strength and scare them: ?

The beastmen below: !!!!!!!!

[Host! Run!]

As the little system's voice came through, Yun Tiankai realized—Tang Longyan was doing this for real!

She didn't know how to swim!

No, seawater crashing down from such a height should hurt quite a lot!

She instinctively raised her arms to protect her head.

However—

The water stopped a meter above her head.

Yun Tiankai lowered her hands to see azure blue all around and above her; it was as if she were in the deep sea.

A giant water bubble seemed to envelop her, preventing the seawater from getting close.

She instinctively reached out, wanting to touch the seawater outside the bubble.

"Don't move!"

Suddenly, a large hand reached from behind her and grabbed her slender wrist.

Yun Tiankai looked up and saw Tang Longyan's lowered gaze.

He stood behind her, encircling her in a semi-protective embrace.

Even though he only touched her wrist, Yun Tiankai still felt the posture was incredibly intimate and gave her an immense sense of security.

She couldn't help but blush.

"This... what's going on?"

"It's nothing."

As soon as he spoke, the three-meter-high seawater instantly receded toward the ocean as if it were alive.

Yun Tiankai watched this incredible scene until all the seawater had vanished from the Barren Continent.

The ground was only slightly damp; it was as if everything that had just happened was a dream.

Yun Tiankai suddenly thought of something—

She turned around, eyes wide, and asked Tang Longyan, "Isn't your Supernatural Ability Fire-based? How can you also control seawater?"

Tang Longyan said, "My Supernatural Ability is not limited to the Fire element."

Yun Tiankai took a deep breath: Could he be the legendary dual-element Fire and Water spiritual root?!

"I also inherited the ability to absorb and release Energy from my mother.

But I don't have a Water Supernatural Ability; I just enveloped the water with Energy and moved it over."

He knew what Yun Tiankai was thinking.

When he was a child, he once accidentally ripped the roof off his classroom from a distance, and the teacher mistakenly thought he had a Wind Supernatural Ability.

As a result, during the parent-teacher meeting, the teacher spent half an hour criticizing the matter of 'a Wind-type Cub ripping off the school roof.'

In the end, he wasn't scolded by his father.

Instead, a Wind-type Cub whose Supernatural Ability had just awakened took all the blame.

Yun Tiankai nodded: So that's how it is.

"Are you afra— what do you think?" Tang Longyan suddenly asked.

The gaze he directed at her was cautious.

He had deliberately changed "Are you afraid?" to "What do you think?"

He knew that most beastmen would feel afraid after seeing his strength.

Because compared to him, their power was like the difference between an ant and an elephant.

Ants instinctively want to stay far away from elephants.

Even if the elephant has no ill intent, they would fear being accidentally stepped on.

"You're so amazing—"

Yun Tiankai couldn't help but say, looking at him like a fangirl.

Tang Longyan felt a bit embarrassed being stared at by her affectionate gaze.

He gave a light cough and turned away.

This was the first time a Female Beastman other than his mother had praised him so directly and sincerely.

Yun Tiankai: ...

He dodged again.

However, she seemed to have gotten used to it.

Watching him dodge every time, she even developed a slight desire to tease him more.

Yun Tiankai used to feel like there was a man living in her heart who liked cute girls acting spoiled like little meat buns.

Now, she felt that the man living in her heart might be a pervert who just loved seeing handsome guys blush.

So, she stood on her tiptoes and leaned in again.

"Really! I totally adore you!"

Seeing Tang Longyan's blush spread from his ears to his neck, Yun Tiankai was satisfied.

This gave her more of a sense of achievement than a successful confession.

But she hadn't forgotten the main task.

Once Tang Longyan regained his composure and Yun Tiankai reined in her fangirling, the two of them went over their lines again.

Tang Longyan flew high into the sky, finding a spot where all the beastmen on the Barren Continent could see him, and spoke to those below: "From today on, I will take over this continent.

All beastmen must show me absolute obedience.

If you do anything that makes me unhappy—"

He raised his hand and pointed toward the distant grassland stripped of its grass and the sea surface floating with withered branches and broken wood...

Then, he said no more.

Five, four, three, two, one!

After counting to five in his head, he disappeared from everyone's sight at a speed difficult for the beastmen to track with the naked eye.

Tang Longyan returned to Yun Tiankai and asked somewhat nervously, "How was it?"

Yun Tiankai gave him a thumbs up. "Great! That's exactly the effect we wanted!"

In fact, they hadn't even had time to think of how to punish beastmen who made mistakes.

Because unless it was absolutely necessary, the Beast King did not allow Tang Longyan to harm the beastmen here, let alone kill them.

However, precisely because he said nothing and the beastmen had seen his power, they would be filled with dread, fear, and wild speculation—

Tang Longyan secretly observed Yun Tiankai's expression.

Seeing that she seemed very satisfied with his performance, his mood also became pleasant.

It wasn't that he hadn't seen his Fourth Father, the Beast King, use words to intimidate city lords.

But no matter how many times he was taught, he never knew how to speak up.

He was afraid that as the eldest Male Beastman Cub in the family, he wouldn't do as well as his siblings.

But in front of Yun Tiankai, he was very relaxed.

After receiving her praise, he also experienced a sense of confidence he had never felt before.

The "intimidated" Male Beastmen became much more restrained.

The next day, even the hunting forest became quiet.

The beastmen hunted with great caution, fearing they might anger Tang Longyan.

Because he only said he would be unhappy, but he didn't say what actions would make him unhappy!!!

While the Male Beastmen were filled with anxiety, the Female Beastmen were overjoyed.

They moved to the location of the new Tribe.

There were no houses here yet, but there were many caves where they could temporarily stay.

Tang Longyan brought over some crushed stones, and the females piled them together, wanting to build a perimeter wall.

But among these twenty-odd beastmen, most were old, weak, sick, or disabled, and they naturally had less strength than the males.

After a whole day of work, the fence had only grown by a few meters.

Although the Tribe had the protection of Lord Longyan's Supernatural Ability.

Maintaining a Barrier constantly was actually a very Energy-consuming task.

The females, who had come to recognize Lord Longyan's kindness, all began to feel bad for their new leader.

Bao Yang wiped the sweat from her forehead. "If only we could get those damn males to help."

"Good idea!"