Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands-Chapter 161: The Quick Get, The Slow Miss Out

The ice encased Bai Yan, restricting her movements, leaving her no chance to dodge.

Xiao Jinsheng’s long blade directly pierced through her chest.

"No—!" Jin Ao and the others, already injured in battle, saw what happened to Bai Yan, their eyes turning red with despair.

Bai Yan, in agony, spat out a mouthful of blood as Xiao Jinsheng twisted the blade in her heart.

The aura of life on Bai Yan grew weaker and weaker until it completely vanished.

"Little Yan!" Xue Ruiyang watched helplessly as Bai Yan’s figure collapsed, desperately trying to reach her.

In the current situation, they didn’t have the mental capacity to ponder why, despite Bai Yan’s death, they as her Beast Husbands were still alive.

Just as they mourned in pain and hatred over Bai Yan’s corpse, they noticed a white light enveloping her body.

The wounds on Bai Yan’s body disappeared entirely; even the bloodstains on her clothes were consumed by the white light.

She resurrected. As soon as she sat up, Jin Ao and the others hadn’t even had time to rejoice when a cold, pale blade once again punctured straight through Bai Yan’s neck.

"I want to see how many times you can come back to life." Xiao Jinsheng withdrew the blade, gazing coldly at Bai Yan’s lifeless body as her life force dissipated once more.

It was the first time Jin Ao and the others realized Bai Yan could revive, leaving them dumbfounded.

Seeing her resurrection gave them a renewed sliver of hope for survival.

But just as Bai Yan revived again, Xi Qu and the others unleashed their strongest powers and rushed toward her.

Yet Xiao Jinsheng’s blade was swifter—this time, it still aimed for Bai Yan’s heart but was blocked by a golden barrier.

The blade melted into the golden barrier and was forcibly ripped from Xiao Jinsheng’s hands before being flung aside by an invisible force.

Xi Qu and Ying Fei had also arrived, rescuing Bai Yan, who clung to her last remaining life, just in time thanks to the golden barrier.

Enraged, Jin Ao swung his golden staff toward Xiao Jinsheng’s head.

Chen Yunji moved swiftly to shield Xiao Jinsheng, raising a hand to nullify all the elemental superpowers imbued in Jin Ao’s weapon.

Both sides braced for battle, but a golden barrier abruptly cut across them.

A voice belonging to the Terminal resounded out of thin air.

[Terminal: Good afternoon, Task Takers of the Mist Continent.]

[Terminal: To preserve humanity’s fire and sustain the hope for life, a new rule is hereby issued. Internal conflict among females and Beastmen is prohibited on the Mist Continent.]

[Terminal: Your enemies are the Fog Corpses, Poisonous Fog, and Mutant Beasts—not each other.]

[Terminal: From this moment on, malicious fighting resulting in the death of any female or Beastman will lead to the random execution of one non-female member of the perpetrator’s family.]

"Screw you..." Xiao Jinsheng couldn’t hold back her rage.

[Terminal: Warning issued to Task Taker Xiao Jinsheng.]

"Hahaha, weren’t you going to kill me?" Bai Yan, having overcome her initial terror, now laughed brazenly, especially after hearing the new protective rule issued by the Terminal.

Xiao Jinsheng’s superpower was bizarre, displaying several high-star superpowers in succession.

Even if Bai Yan and Kui Mao teamed up, they still wouldn’t be a match for Xiao Jinsheng alone.

Before, Bai Yan had three lives, but under Xiao Jinsheng’s suppression, she had already lost two of them.

Anger simmered within Bai Yan’s heart, but hearing the Terminal’s new rules, she couldn’t stop herself from laughing out loud.

The golden barrier deployed by the Terminal remained firmly between Xiao Jinsheng and Bai Yan.

Right now, killing Bai Yan wasn’t as important to Xiao Jinsheng as killing off the Terminal.

Why not change the rules sooner or later, but only now when she was about to exact her revenge?

"Give me back that worm!" Bai Yan demanded.

She hid behind the golden barrier on the other side, emboldened by the Terminal’s surveillance. At this moment, she no longer feared Xiao Jinsheng.

"What do you mean by ’give it back to you’?" Caicai retorted.

It clutched the containment bottle holding the Insect Brain tightly and sneered, "I found this worm on the ground. I thought nobody wanted it."

Perhaps feeling that its leek-like form was inconvenient,

Caicai shifted into a small golden sprite, clutching the containment bottle as if to taunt Bai Yan. "If you want the worm, go pick it up yourself."

"Quick hands win, slow hands lose."

"That’s my worm!" Bai Yan shouted anxiously.

At this moment, she didn’t care whether her system’s true form was a revolting worm.

Even if it was a worm, considering all the cheats and skills the system had granted her, Bai Yan thought she could endure it.

The system absolutely could not fall into Xiao Jinsheng’s hands.

The golden barrier deployed by the Terminal still stood between them.

Bai Yan didn’t dare cross it.

Nor could Xiao Jinsheng come over.

To reclaim the Insect Brain, Bai Yan could only seek help from the Terminal.

She wasn’t sure if the Terminal was still paying attention to her dispute with Xiao Jinsheng.

But this time, it was thanks to the Terminal speaking up that she managed to survive.

"I want to report Xiao Jinsheng! She stole my worm pet, disrupted the peace among Task Takers of the Mist Continent, and violated your newly issued rules, Terminal."

After banning interspecies fighting, the Terminal no longer paid attention to the events between Xiao Jinsheng and Bai Yan.

Bai Yan’s plea for help went unheard by the Terminal.

"You can only cling to it to stay alive," Xiao Jinsheng sneered coldly.

At this moment, Xiao Jinsheng’s simmering grievances toward the Terminal reached a boiling point.

The Mist Continent’s females and Beastmen were nothing more than livestock raised by the Terminal.

Twelve-star females were used as breeding tools.

Twelve-star Beastmen were used as food for the Terminal.

This was why Xiao Jinsheng had always wanted to overthrow it.

Old grudges unresolved, new ones now added.

Suppressing her fury, Xiao Jinsheng left, intending to accelerate her plans to destroy the Terminal.

Once Xiao Jinsheng and her cohort were gone, Bai Yan could no longer hold herself up and collapsed to the ground.

A sharp pain struck her chest, and she spat out blood violently.

She watched helplessly as her spiritual power fell from Seven Stars to Six Stars.

On the Star Map, Kui Mao’s name dimmed completely.

The contractual totem between Bai Yan and Kui Mao on her wrist also appeared briefly before vanishing altogether.

"Kui Mao!" Bai Yan screamed in alarm as she staggered toward where Kui Mao had fallen.

What she saw was Kui Mao’s corpse lying in a pool of blood, a gaping black hole at his heart where a dagger had been twisted.

"Xiao Jinsheng! I’ll kill you!" Bai Yan stood by Kui Mao’s body, unable to approach, her heart burning with hatred.

Xiao Jinsheng! Shi Xie! And Chen Yunji!

They would all become the targets of her revenge!

This time, Bai Yan had lost the Insect Brain, a Six-Star Beast Husband, Kui Mao, and two lives.

It was a partial victory for Xiao Jinsheng, a step closer to avenging her grudge.

But Xiao Jinsheng felt no happiness in her triumph.

She had been so close, just a little more!

Her attacks had been swift, cutting down Bai Yan immediately upon resurrection.

But she hadn’t anticipated the Terminal’s sudden intervention and the new rule that followed.

In a secluded domain shielded from the Terminal’s monitoring, Li asked, "Did the Terminal step in because there haven’t been any new births on the Mist Continent in five years?"

At times like these, the death of a high-star, high-quality female or Beastman would be a significant loss to the Terminal.

As a cultivator, the Terminal naturally wouldn’t let its chickens or sheep die prematurely in infighting—especially now when no new offspring had been born for years, leaving it with fewer to harvest.

"It can only be this reason, aside from discovering our resistance," Que Zelian added bitterly.

Today was supposed to be the day Xiao Jinsheng avenged her great grievances.

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