Part 4
At least once inside the palace, they could confirm Mother Ning’s situation.
Because he was so happy, Professor Ning dragged Big Brother Ning to the study to discuss matters that night.
Ning Yunyi, thinking about going out later, didn’t follow them.
He took the two pets back to the small building in the back early. After coaxing the kitten cub to sleep ahead of schedule, Ning Yunyi instructed the Big Cat, “I have to go out for something. I don’t want Father and Big Brother to worry, so I won’t tell them. You guard the cub obediently. If anything happens, go notify Father and Big Brother.”
Although Zong Hao was puzzled about why Ning Yunyi was going out so late, he nodded seriously.
Ning Yunyi smiled, touched his head again to confirm he wasn’t feverish, and then left with peace of mind.
Before leaving, however, he changed into a night suit, wore normal clothes over it that could be shed at any time, and kept a fox mask in his space that covered everything including his hair and neck.
If he really encountered the Half-Beast Alliance, he would save them.
But to avoid trouble, he planned to hide his identity while doing so.
So, to make the act convincing, let people think it was a half-beast who saved the Half-Beast Alliance.
Ning Yunyi wasn’t sure of the exact location or time, so he could only search one place after another.
On the other side, after Ning Yunyi left, Zong Hao initially lay quietly on the soft mat in front of the bed, guarding the kitten cub.
At some point, he felt his body starting to heat up again, but it was barely bearable.
He lay there silently, eyes closed, trying to calm himself down.
Ning Yunyi searched for over an hour before his ears finally twitched, hearing a commotion from somewhere.
He took off his outer layer of clothes at a spot, wearing only the night suit and the fox mask, and quietly approached the source of the noise.
From a distance, he couldn’t hear clearly, but as he got closer, he could increasingly feel the shock of spiritual power rampaging around.
Ning Yunyi had a bad feeling. Sure enough, hiding his aura in the dark, he looked forward.
In a secluded alley not far away, the entrance was controlled by a net, cutting off most of the sound.
At the same time, above the alley and at the dead end, there were similarly extravagant gold-patterned nets, forming a sealed space within the entire alley.
Inside the alley, there were two factions.
One faction wore similar masks and black outfits with gold patterns, strangely coincidental to Ning Yunyi’s attire.
Ning Yunyi had guessed this based on the protagonist Gong’s description, which was why he dressed this way.
Although his black clothes didn’t have gold patterns, they looked similar enough in the dark night.
However, the masks worn by the Half-Beast Alliance were half white and half beast-face.
The other faction also had a uniform: black armor and full black masks made of special material, looking very textured.
At a glance, it was a specially trained Anti-Half-Beast Alliance squad.
There were only a dozen of them, but all were Double-S spiritual power users, and two were even at the Triple-S level.
Ning Yunyi’s eyes darkened under the mask. A squad of this level wasn’t something ordinary people could assemble.
Opposite them were dozens of half-beasts. But since their purpose was protection, not slaughter, there were strong ones, but also weak ones.
Especially since many were young and had low spiritual power.
Only a few had slightly higher strength. The highest one had Triple-S spiritual power, but he was the only Triple-S.
On the other side, not only did they have nets specifically to restrain half-beasts, but they also had two Triple-S users, and the rest were all Double-S.
This was almost a unilateral suppression specifically targeting the Half-Beast Alliance.
The opposition had no chance of winning. Just looking at this configuration, it would be a disastrous defeat.
No wonder it took more than ten years for them to rise again. The only Vice-Leader who escaped was likely heavily injured in this event; surviving was already a stroke of luck.
The Leader of the Half-Beast Alliance, who was short in stature, spoke with a disguised voice, slurring slightly, “Whose orders are you following to move against us?”
Obviously, this person also saw the opponent’s strength and knew there was no chance of winning, so they wanted to die knowing the truth.
The leader of the opposition said coldly, “Someone will tell you when you get to the underworld.”
The Alliance Leader was silent for a long time. “We can surrender without fighting and leave ourselves at your disposal, but there are many underage children in our alliance. Let them go.”
The opposing leader suddenly laughed callously. “We aren’t like you. Let them go? Leave potential trouble for the future? To tell you the truth, the higher-ups gave a direct order: either dead or captured alive.”
One could almost imagine what being captured alive would entail.
The Alliance Leader exchanged a look with the Vice-Leader, who was a head taller, and gritted their teeth. “Since there’s no way to live, we’ll cut a bloody path out.”
They had fallen into a trap this time. They thought they were coming to save an ally, but they were betrayed, intended to be wiped out entirely.
The Alliance Leader lowered their voice. “Wait… you find a way to escape. Don’t worry about us.”
The Vice-Leader’s voice was indistinct. “What did you say? How can I ignore you? Watch you die?”
The Alliance Leader lowered their eyes. “They have those nets; we can’t break free. But you are different… you have a chance to escape. Later… avenge us.”
The Vice-Leader didn’t answer, simply confining all spiritual power into the weapon in his hand.
The opposition had obviously seen the Triple-S user long ago. “We two will deal with him. You go catch those half-beasts. Kill the ones with low spiritual power on the spot; capture the ones with high spiritual power alive!”
As the words fell, the dozen people immediately changed formation. The two Triple-S rank experts began to besiege the Vice-Leader.
Although the Vice-Leader was strong, being suppressed by two evenly matched opponents meant he couldn’t break free at all.
He burst out all his spiritual power in an instant, wanting to break out of the encirclement, but still couldn’t flash out.
Not only that, the opposition deployed the nets directly, and screams came almost simultaneously.
Ning Yunyi hadn’t expected so many experts to be here. So while they were negotiating, he desperately absorbed spiritual energy from the jade. When it was about enough, he took out a Tang blade from his space and infused a portion of the spiritual energy into it.
He leaped forward directly.
The special net, which was originally airtight and had long been tested to be invulnerable, suddenly made a humming sound. In the blink of an eye, everyone who heard the sound looked over.
Because the sky was too dark, they didn’t see clearly who was cutting the net.
The opposition leader sneered. “Looks like there’s a fish that slipped through the net, actually coming to send himself to death. It would be a miracle if this net could be cut.”
This was something they had tempered countless times—absolutely the hardest thing in the entire galaxy.
On the other side, the Alliance Leader and Vice-Leader, who were entangled in the fight, were stunned. A fish that slipped through the net? All fifty members of our alliance are here.
Just then, moments after the leader said it couldn’t be cut, following a few strokes and the sound of something snapping, crash—something broke in two.
Simultaneously, a black shadow appeared at the end of the alley.
With a speed invisible to the naked eye, he flashed in front of the leader. The Tang blade in his hand danced out sharp and incredibly fast sword flowers, actually forcibly blocking the spiritual attacks of the two Triple-S users.
This scene not only shocked the two Triple-S users, but the Vice-Leader was also stunned.
Ning Yunyi said with a rasping voice, “Leave these two to me. Go save people!”
The Vice-Leader didn’t waste words and immediately flashed away to help.
The two Triple-S users snapped back to reality and quickly went to pursue, but were easily blocked by Ning Yunyi. “Running where? Didn’t you say ‘dead or captured alive’? With my strong spiritual power, don’t you want to capture me alive?”
The two Triple-S users looked at each other. They couldn’t even determine the opponent’s spiritual power, which meant it was above theirs. This… is walking spiritual power.
They stopped corning the others; as long as they caught this fox in front of them, he would be worth the whole group.
Ning Yunyi became entangled with the two. Although the opponents had strong spiritual power, Ning Yunyi wasn’t weak either. However, these two had strong combat experience and were truly a bit difficult to deal with.
Fortunately, there was still a wall between Double-S and Triple-S. Once the Vice-Leader joined in, the disadvantageous situation over there was immediately reversed.
“Quick, use the nets! Can’t let them escape!” Soon, high-tech nets were cast down one by one. Any half-beast caught in the net couldn’t break free at all, as if their spiritual power was restricted.
They could only immediately revert to beast form, roaring and baring fangs at the people outside the net, but it was useless.
The only exception was probably the Vice-Leader. He actually actively approached those netted half-beasts and used spiritual power to tear openings.
The nets that half-beasts couldn’t resist seemed to make no difference in his hands.
The other side understood immediately. “He is not a half-beast, he is human!”
They split in two. Half began to specifically besiege the Vice-Leader, while the rest started dealing with the half-beasts.
The Alliance Leader was small, and although their spiritual power was strong, they had to protect the weak. Attacked from front and back, they were soon hit heavily by spiritual power and spat out a mouthful of blood.
The Vice-Leader had been saving people and tearing nets, releasing spiritual power at a high intensity, and was also on the verge of collapse.
Just then, over on Ning Yunyi’s side, he finally dealt with the two difficult guys. He quickly blocked a blow coming at the Vice-Leader. Controlling the Tang blade with spiritual power, he swung it fiercely, rushing forward with the pressure of powerful spiritual power, knocking quite a few people flying.
Everyone’s face changed: Such strong spiritual power!
Who exactly is this person?
Ning Yunyi didn’t delay. With a wave of his hand and a few more sword flowers, wherever the Tang blade wrapped in spiritual power went, those nets were sliced open.
He turned his head and shouted at the half-beasts still standing, “What are you staring for? Run quickly! I’ll cover the rear.”
Having dealt with the two Triple-S users, the rest added together were no match for him.
The Vice-Leader gave him a deep look, immediately picked up those who couldn’t get up, grabbed them, carried them, and rushed out of the alley.
The Alliance Leader and those who could still move immediately followed suit. Soon, only Ning Yunyi and the few remaining standing enemies were left in the alley.
Ning Yunyi raised the Tang blade and swung. Those people instinctively raised their hands to block. When they lowered their hands a moment later, it was quiet in front of them—where was there even half a shadow of a person?
Ning Yunyi exited the alley and found that the half-beasts hadn’t run far. They were in the distance. Seeing Ning Yunyi run out, they breathed a sigh of relief, then quickly scattered and ran toward several different alleys.
Ning Yunyi guessed they must have a secret base, splitting up to run and eventually gathering at one place.
Upholding the principle of saving people to the end, Ning Yunyi quickly followed one direction.
After winding through unknown numbers of alleys, finally, under the deliberate guidance of the two leaders waiting for him, Ning Yunyi rounded a corner to an underground entrance. The view suddenly opened up—it was actually in the style of an underground ancient palace, very large, like some sacrificial square.
As the stone door closed, the finally safe half-beasts collapsed to the ground one after another, gasping for breath.
Ning Yunyi stood at a spot looking around curiously. Suddenly, two figures appeared before him, one tall and one short.
The Alliance Leader cupped their hands and was about to kneel on one knee. “Many thanks to our benefactor for saving our lives!”
The voice was crisp—it was actually a female voice.
The Vice-Leader also cupped his hands. To show sincerity, he also reverted to his original voice. “Benefactor saved us today; there will surely be a heavy reward in the future!”
Ning Yunyi was helping the Alliance Leader up. Hearing this somewhat familiar voice abruptly, he turned his head sharply to look. “???” Illusion… right?
On the other side, at the Ning house. Ning Xiaomiao was sleeping in a daze when he vaguely felt thick spiritual power surrounding him.
His cultivation had been effective these days, and he was very skilled in controlling spiritual power.
In his sleepy state, he felt he shouldn’t be leaking spiritual power.
Finally opening his sleepy eyes, the little milk cat rolled over, scratched the tip of his ear with a small paw, and opened his eyes a slit to look forward. He felt the spiritual power was emanating from the front.
He propped up his little head to look, then froze the next moment. “Meow?” Eh? Why is spiritual power overflowing from Cat-Cat?
Not only that, looking at the Big Cat who had his beast eyes tightly closed and seemed very uncomfortable lying there, surrounded by substantial spiritual power… in the next moment, right before the kitten cub’s suddenly widened beast eyes, the Big Cat shrank a whole size.
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thanks for the chapter!