Volume One, Chapter 39: You’re Attacking Yours Truly with Energy Bullets? I’ll Stand Right Here and Let You Hit Me!
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Lin Yao’s move left Xia Mengying, Xia Yumeng, and Liang Xiaofei utterly dumbfounded.
The reason Zhu Zhihan did not look surprised was that she had no idea what the three items were. Instead, she tilted her head to one side in bewilderment.
It had to be said that any one of these three crystals was a priceless treasure—something money could not buy.
After all, every Beastmaster dreamed of making their skills even more powerful.
Liang Xiaofei thought that if he had been in Lin Yao’s place, he probably would have gladly agreed to help the moment Shen Nanqian offered the first benefit.
Yet Lin Yao had remained astonishingly composed, squeezing the entire three-piece skill-crystal set out of the Shen brothers.
Liang Xiaofei was filled with boundless admiration for him.
On the surface, Lin Yao seemed not to have done anything at all, but there was far more to it than met the eye.
If Lin Yao had been unable to resist the temptation of the first two benefits, he would never have obtained the third—and most substantial—one.
And if he had not possessed absolute confidence and overwhelming strength, he would never have dared resist the temptation while remaining certain that he could save the Shen brothers’ lives.
Xia Yumeng admired Lin Yao just as much.
She even began to suspect that her sister had been completely fooled by him.
That old monster Lin Yao had surely concealed his true strength and manipulated her sister until she was utterly bewildered!
The thought instantly filled Xia Yumeng with pride in her own cleverness. Her brilliant little mind had once again seized the high ground.
Although she was not a Beastmaster from Northwind City, the regulations for leaving any city were the same.
A Beastmaster below level ten could never slip out of the city under the watchful eyes of the Dawn Guard.
Adding that to all the other peculiarities surrounding Lin Yao, Xia Yumeng concluded that the old monster was definitely pretending to be weak while secretly hiding his true strength. He had fooled her sister completely!
Xia Yumeng immediately decided to take revenge on Lin Yao and vent her sister’s grievances.
“You old monster Lin Yao, how dare you deceive my innocent sister so badly!” Xia Yumeng seethed inwardly. “Just you wait. Once I become your little wife, I’ll not only eat your food and use your things, I’ll sleep in your bed, sleep with you, and even beat your children!”
Naturally, Lin Yao had no idea that Xia Yumeng was already hatching all manner of vicious schemes.
To prevent the Shen brothers from actually being beaten to death, he had already sent Zhu Zhihan and the Shadow Werewolves into action.
“Zhihan, come save them with me!”
“Okay, big brother!”
Zhu Zhihan nodded solemnly.
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Before the words had even faded, energy surged within her palm and condensed into a long dragon-shadow sword wrapped in golden lightning. Thrilled beyond measure, she raised the sword and charged into battle.
Lin Yao could not help frowning at the sight.
He discovered that his Zhihan seemed a little too enthusiastic about this sort of close combat.
She could clearly have used Thunder Divine Spears from a distance to pin down and kill her enemies one by one, yet this time she had charged straight into the enemy ranks without hesitation, swinging her sword at them.
Lin Yao decided that this would not do.
Even with his first and second wives watching from the side, he would have to properly correct Zhihan’s combat habits tonight.
Zhu Zhihan had not been fighting Lü Hongbo and the others for long when all thirty Shadow Werewolves leaped into the battlefield as well.
Relying on their numerical advantage, Lü Hongbo and his Beastmasters had previously beaten the Shen brothers until they howled in agony.
But against Lin Yao, they no longer held any advantage in numbers.
Lü Hongbo, however, was indeed highly capable when it came to command.
In an extremely short time, he devised a way to deal with the situation.
“Capture the leader first! Old Wei, take two men and kill that fellow! Once he’s dead, his beasts will be nothing to worry about!”
The “fellow” Lü Hongbo referred to was, of course, Lin Yao.
The man Lü Hongbo called Old Wei was a gaunt old man with high cheekbones and a cold, sinister face.
The moment Lü Hongbo finished speaking, Old Wei led his three pale-boned wolves forward, accompanied by two comrades, and swiftly closed in on Lin Yao.
Old Wei and the two men behind him were all undead-type Beastmasters.
Old Wei had contracted three pale-boned wolves, while each of the other two Beastmasters possessed two skeletal spearmen.
Together, the three men commanded ten combat units.
As Old Wei and his companions charged fiercely toward Lin Yao, Xia Mengying immediately prepared to summon her Whirlwind Flame Wolf to defend him.
Lin Yao raised a hand to stop her.
“Wife, let me handle it!”
Xia Mengying rolled her eyes at him.
Over the past few days, Lin Yao had been calling her “wife” more and more naturally. She suspected that, before long, he would be unable to change the habit whether or not anyone else was present.
Although her relationship with Lin Yao was heating up rapidly, was it not a little too natural for him to call her “wife” so directly?
What left Xia Mengying even more speechless was that Xia Yumeng was fanning the flames from the sidelines.
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Xia Yumeng grinned at Lin Yao.
“Husband, your little wife requests permission to fight!”
In Xia Yumeng’s eyes, if the first wife could stand nearby and watch Lin Yao show off his prowess, then the little wife naturally deserved the same treatment.
So she was obviously only joking.
Who could have guessed that Lin Yao would pat her on the shoulder and say with great satisfaction, “Of course, Yumeng, my wife. Those three Beastmasters and their seven undead beasts are yours.”
Xia Yumeng was instantly dumbstruck.
What did he mean, they were hers?
She was nothing like her sister. She possessed almost no combat ability at all—she was purely a decorative Beastmaster.
She had originally been counting on finding the Rose Treasure to change her fate, but she had yet to see even the slightest trace of it!
“No way!”
Xia Yumeng crossed both hands in front of her chest to form a large X and decisively rejected Lin Yao’s battle assignment.
Xia Mengying delivered another blow from the side.
“Husband, throw her out there for some practice. It would be good for her, since she has no combat ability whatsoever.”
Xia Yumeng threw her head back and sighed.
“My heavens, is the struggle among wives really this brutal?”
After lamenting, she hurriedly clung to Lin Yao’s arm and pleaded pitifully, “Husband, let me stay and warm your bed. Don’t make me go out there to die!”
Xia Mengying seemed determined to tease her younger sister. With a smile, she added, “One person is enough to warm the bed. You should go outside and build up your courage.”
Xia Yumeng panicked.
“Lin Yao, you old monster… Ahem! Lin Yao is so powerful. Surely he can handle sleeping with two wives at once, can’t he?”
If Old Wei and the other two had not already reached them, Lin Yao would truly have liked to keep watching the sisters bicker.
Xia Yumeng was clearly the type who never won a fight but never lost an argument. If they continued, who knew what outrageous, suggestive remarks she might blurt out.
Seeing that Lin Yao was still flirting with his first and second wives at such a critical moment, Old Wei and the others were naturally delighted.
They quickened their pace and rapidly closed in on him, each of them beaming with anticipation.
Because Lin Yao’s method of dealing with them was actually—
Energy bullets!
One of the Beastmasters behind Old Wei could not help bursting into laughter.
“You’re kidding, right? You want to fight us with energy bullets? Come on, I’ll stand right here and let you shoot me. Let’s see whether your energy bullets can even hit me!”
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