Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands
Chapter 102 The Heart of the Nine-tailed Fox Dug Out

Chapter 102: Chapter 102 The Heart of the Nine-tailed Fox Dug Out

Neither side was willing to back down.

Bai Yan wanted to bring her Beast Husbands, especially the two Eleven Star Beast Husbands, to regain their dignity.

Xiao Jinsheng naturally wouldn’t swallow her pride.

The battle was about to erupt when Li silently spread his Domain, but then a notification from the Terminal sounded.

[Terminal: During the competition, participants are prohibited from fighting. Violators will be disqualified from the competition.]

For a moment, both sides fell silent.

Bai Yan was baffled.

Xiao Jinsheng, however, understood.

After all, everyone who came to compete on Cloud Island had a minimum spiritual power rating of Five Stars, even for females.

These were talented individuals, and in the eyes of the Terminal, they were the perfect food.

Of course, the Terminal wouldn’t allow its food to fight each other at such a critical time.

If they were damaged or killed, what would it eat?

There hadn’t been any newborns for five years.

Once the Terminal spoke up, no one dared to make a move.

Xiao Jinsheng directly collected the turkey into her Space and provocatively glanced at Bai Yan.

She discovered that being the venomous supporting character was actually pretty fun.

Bai Yan’s eyes filled with tears of anger. Feeling wronged, she threw herself into Ying Fei’s arms.

In her heart, and in her system’s voice, there was an undeniable determination: [From now on, I don’t want resources worth less than a thousand points. Lock onto high-score ones for me!]

This time, she was determined to outdo Xiao Jinsheng!

The Terminal forbade fighting, preventing her from taking revenge with her Eleven Star Beast Husbands.

She couldn’t accept Xiao Jinsheng taking first place in this competition.

Thinking about how she had her system’s cheat mode, which could directly locate high-point resources, Bai Yan was confident she would claim first place this time.

Xiao Jinsheng listened to Bai Yan’s conversation with her system and smiled wickedly.

That mistaken Divine Gold System had placed her in this world and then left.

She didn’t have a system, but she could find resources herself.

In the following days of resource searching, Xiao Jinsheng’s team always seemed to find themselves on the same path as Bai Yan’s.

To irritate Bai Yan, Xiao Jinsheng didn’t even return to her Space to rest at night.

Bai Yan tried to shake her off but couldn’t. She wanted to fight but hesitated because of the Terminal’s prohibition of combat, leaving her fuming inside.

Finally, she couldn’t hold back and confronted Xiao Jinsheng: "Jinsheng, if you’re doing the tasks, then do them properly. What’s the point of following me all the time?"

"What do you mean by following you?" Xiao Jinsheng scoffed. "Cloud Island isn’t yours. I just happen to be heading in this direction, and I’m annoyed that I keep running into you."

Bai Yan’s chest tightened with anger. She asked coldly, "Then how do you explain consistently stealing my resources?"

"Please, we’re in a competition. Resources are left unattended for whoever finds them first." Xiao Jinsheng mocked her. "Surely you’re not being unreasonable and assuming that everything you lay your eyes on is automatically yours?"

"Don’t waste your breath on her," Xue Ruiyang interjected, trying to calm Bai Yan.

Ying Fei cast a sharp glare at Xiao Jinsheng, only to have his line of sight blocked by Li’s contemptuous crimson gaze.

Bai Yan spoke in a tone of grievance: "Jinsheng, we’ve been sisters for years. I don’t want to fight with you. If you’re here to collect resources, I’ll just leave."

With that, she persuaded her Beast Husbands to move in another direction.

Her team kept bumping into Xiao Jinsheng’s lately, and the resources Bai Yan found using her system were all ground-based.

Initially, these high-point resources should have belonged to her because of her system’s cheat mode.

However, since Xiao Jinsheng kept intercepting her, Bai Yan began to suspect it was intentional—a deliberate move to oppose her.

As a result, even resources found by her system were frequently taken over halfway by Xiao Jinsheng.

Because of this, Bai Yan only dared to look for resources capped at a thousand points over the past few days.

But being tailed by Xiao Jinsheng frustrated her efforts, forcing her to defend against both Xiao Jinsheng and herself.

Yet the Terminal had already warned them—fighting wasn’t allowed during the Cloud Island competition.

Angry and stifled, Bai Yan instructed her system to locate a low-point resource area so she could go there and shake off Xiao Jinsheng.

To her surprise, she spent an entire day walking and didn’t encounter Xiao Jinsheng.

It turned out that their paths crossing over the previous few days might genuinely have been a coincidence.

Relieved to have evaded Xiao Jinsheng, Bai Yan rejoiced and summoned her system: [Is there something with even higher points, like hidden resources? We’ve already wasted several days.]

The system responded slowly this time.

After waiting for over ten minutes, the system finally spoke: [I’ve detected a resource—a hidden one. If you retrieve it, you can end the competition early and secure the top spot.]

Bai Yan: [Where is it? I’ll head there immediately.]

System: [At this location.]

Looking at the map the system sent, Bai Yan hesitated: [Isn’t this the Snow Peak we passed earlier? Why didn’t you mention it had hidden resources then?]

While traversing Cloud Island, Bai Yan naturally noticed the Snow Peak Xiao Jinsheng had previously visited.

Seeing the resources at the base and halfway up the mountain had already been collected—along with the system not flagging anything over a thousand points—she hadn’t bothered to check the Snow Peak.

Yet now, the system had changed its tune to claim there was hidden treasure. Bai Yan felt skeptical.

System explanation: [It was just detected. Previously, some kind of energy probably shielded it, so I couldn’t notice.]

Bai Yan, confused: [You’re a system, yet something can block you?]

System, exasperated: [Hello, you do realize I’m a system, not a god? Your Star Map loses signal deep in Mist West, disconnecting you from the Terminal. As a system, I occasionally lose signal. Big deal.]

System: [Xiao Jinsheng and her team lagged behind you yet somehow arrived at Cloud Island first. Clearly, they took a shortcut.]

System: [I’m a system, but I failed to detect the shortcut. That means Cloud Island—or even Silent Valley—likely contains something, a type of energy capable of blocking my signals.]

After her argument with the system, Bai Yan calmed down, gathered her Beast Husbands, and headed to Snow Peak.

Meanwhile, atop Snow Peak, Xuan Jiu held a sealed white porcelain urn and arrived at the Bamboo Courtyard.

"Take this. Deliver it to her," Xuan Jiu placed the urn in front of Chen Yunji. Although pale, he still forced a carefree gesture, fanning himself in the biting wind.

"Your superpower reached Ten Stars!" Chen Yunji exclaimed in shock.

For the past two years, he and Xuan Jiu had repeatedly inflicted self-harm to stem their superpower growth.

On Mist Continent, it was difficult to increase superpower stars—and just as hard to lower them.

They had severed dragon horns and chopped off tails, merely managing to keep their abilities dangerously balanced at Eleven Stars. Every few weeks, they had to cripple themselves to avoid waking up at Twelve Stars.

So now, with Xuan Jiu’s sudden power drop to Ten Stars, Chen Yunji’s reaction was unsurprisingly dramatic.

"Don’t overreact. I just dug out my own heart," Xuan Jiu said with exhaustion.

"You’re courting death," Chen Yunji retorted.

Xuan Jiu let out a thin smile: "Who wants to die if they can live? Unlike you, I awakened the Nine-tailed Fox’s bloodline power. I can survive without a heart for another year."

"So you have one year," Xuan Jiu teased.

Though Xuan Jiu phrased it vaguely, Chen Yunji understood his meaning.

Since Xiao Jinsheng and her team decided to defy the Terminal and leave Snow Peak, Xuan Jiu and Chen Yunji had been closely deliberating for several days.

They shared a common enemy. Since both of them were fighting to survive and understood the Terminal’s truth on Mist Continent, working together made perfect sense.

However, Xuan Jiu and Chen Yunji were trapped by the Terminal on Snow Peak.

Though the Terminal didn’t closely monitor them, it had set up a program on Snow Peak.

If Xuan Jiu or Chen Yunji disappeared from Snow Peak, the Terminal would immediately notice.

Chen Yunji’s superpower was unique—he could bypass the Terminal’s program and leave Snow Peak undetected. But while he might elude the Terminal’s barrier, he couldn’t avoid its scrutiny.

The Terminal might not be able to determine how Chen Yunji left Snow Peak or what method he used to escape.

But it would know that Snow Peak was missing Chen Yunji’s presence.

Thus, Xuan Jiu’s superpower was needed to fake Chen Yunji’s continued presence on Snow Peak.

This plan was the result of their discussions across several days.

Each would leverage their superpower advantages, ultimately deciding Chen Yunji should leave Cloud Island to seek out Xiao Jinsheng, while Xuan Jiu remained on Snow Peak to cover for him.

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