Upon hearing this, the two subordinates looked startled.
"The Devouring God Flower? You mean...?"
"The one from the legends? The Devouring God Flower that consumes a person’s spiritual power?"
Bai Chaosi’s expression grew grim.
"That’s right."
The two subordinates were stunned, their faces instantly paling.
"What is something like that doing here?"
"Weren’t they said to have gone extinct thousands of years ago?"
Bai Chaosi hadn’t expected it either. When he fell into the chasm beneath the abyss earlier today, it wasn’t the swamp below that had ensnared him, but the Devouring God Flowers growing around it.
They were densely packed, covering the area.
At first, he had merely found it strange that such vibrant, budding flowers would be growing at the bottom of a fathomless abyss.
Only when he drew closer did he recognize them as the Devouring God Flowers the elders had once spoken of.
They were crimson, with a single stem, and bloomed in the shape of a human face.
They were utterly grotesque, yet so beautiful it was suffocating; one could easily be captivated by them.
He had nearly been ensnared by one of the Devouring God Flowers, which was still just a bud.
Just a faint whiff of its fragrance had nearly allowed it to devour and control him.
Horrified, he had expended a great deal of energy to sever its hold on his spiritual power.
He had initially intended to destroy the flowers and eliminate the threat for good. But then he recalled the elders’ warning: dormant Devouring God Flowers were the safest. If awakened or brought into the world, the entire Beast World would face annihilation.
Fortunately, all the Devouring God Flowers were dormant and had not yet bloomed.
That was why he hadn’t dared to act rashly.
He could only collapse the sole cavern leading to that place, sealing it off!
"The Devouring God Flower... That’s the legendary Destructive Flower Seed!"
"Young Master, is it possible you were mistaken?"
The two subordinates looked as though they were facing a great enemy, their faces full of disbelief.
Bai Chaosi returned to the present.
"I wasn’t mistaken. That’s why we have to block the underground exit—to bury these things forever beneath the abyss, where they will never see the light of day."
Shen Yue was in her room, but she wasn’t asleep.
Although she was physically and mentally exhausted after her brush with death today, she still opened the Spiritual Spring. She treated the wounds on the little cubs’ paws and gave each of them a drop of Vitality Water.
Only then did she lie back down in her own spot, finally able to relax.
Then, she began to carefully recall the secrets about her predecessor that she had discovered in the underground hall today, replaying the events in her mind.
Thinking of the five men who had now appeared in her life, she felt a growing sense of unease.
As fate would have it, all five of these men were her predecessor’s former betrotheds.
She felt there was something inexplicably strange about the whole situation.
It was just too much of a coincidence!
Her predecessor had seven betrotheds, and she had slept with five of them.
If the remaining two men also turned out to be from that group, then this matter was far from simple.
The original owner had been so angry about the marriage annulments that she ran off to Beastification City. And then, by some bizarre twist of fate, she ended up sleeping with the very seven Beast Husbands who were breaking off their engagements with her!
’How could such a coincidence be possible?’
’Such a coincidence that all seven Beast Husbands were in Beastification City on the same day. Such a coincidence that among all the frenzied males there, the original owner somehow managed to not make a single mistake, sleeping only with the seven fiancés who were breaking their engagements.’
Shen Yue only regretted that her memories contained no information about the specific identities of the remaining two Beast Husbands.
If she could just confirm that the seven men she’d slept with were indeed those seven fiancés, then things were getting more and more interesting.
’Her predecessor must have been hiding a huge and astonishing secret.’
...
「The next day.」
When Shen Yue woke up and opened her door, she froze in the entryway.
The four men who had been fighting all night, along with Bai Chaosi, were all standing stiffly in the courtyard like five telephone poles.
All of their eyes were fixed on her, as if they had been waiting for her to wake up.
The corner of her mouth twitched.
"What are you all doing here? The five of you, showing up to claim your kids?"



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