Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands
Chapter 103 The Doomed One in the Prophecy Is Me

Chapter 103: Chapter 103 The Doomed One in the Prophecy Is Me

"You’re more suitable to leave than I am, and I’m more suitable to stay behind." Xuan Jiu smiled and said, "My heart is with Xiao Jinsheng, so I’m at ease."

"Do you trust her that much?" Chen Yunji frowned.

"Seeing through someone’s heart is such a simple task." Xuan Jiu shook his fan lightly and chuckled. "Don’t forget about my Beastification Bloodline."

Chen Yunji stayed silent.

He thought about Xuan Jiu’s superpowers: Puppetry and Mind Reading.

For anyone whose Superpower Level was lower than Xuan Jiu’s, as long as Xuan Jiu activated his ability, he could read their innermost thoughts.

However, whatever Xuan Jiu read from someone else’s mind, unless he chose to reveal it, Chen Yunji naturally had no way of knowing.

From the first and second days after bringing Xiao Jinsheng to the Snow Peak Bamboo Courtyard, when Shi Xie and the others came to pick up Xiao Jinsheng, Xuan Jiu had already used his Mind Reading Superpower.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have revealed the truth about the Terminal so straightforwardly in Li’s domain.

The fact that he could confidently disclose this Mist Continent secret to Xiao Jinsheng and her group meant he had already seen through their hearts.

As for Xiao Jinsheng’s thoughts, he didn’t even need Mind Reading to figure them out.

What intrigued Xuan Jiu more was what he saw in Huaiqing’s heart when those Beast Husbands of Xiao Jinsheng had just arrived at the Bamboo Courtyard.

Huaiqing, through prophecy, had seen Chen Yunji dying at the Snow Cliff Ice Sea.

A Twelve Stars Star Stone had been dug up, its energy completely absorbed, lying scattered beside the corpse.

The Beastmen Xuan Jiu had seen previously—those consumed by the Terminal at that table—had met deaths identical to this.

"Hurry up and go. Leave the disguise on the Snow Peak to me." Xuan Jiu urged, "While everyone else is still competing, you can go help with some tasks. You might even use it as a token to make her accept you."

"A friendly reminder: her Beast Husbands are not ones to mess with." Xuan Jiu grinned mischievously, savoring the chaos.

"I’m only going to discuss cooperation." Chen Yunji reminded him.

"Yeah, yeah, say that to me all you like, but try saying that to her Beast Husbands’ faces. They won’t believe you." Xuan Jiu sneered.

"Then you go." Chen Yunji decisively changed his mind.

Xuan Jiu was speechless. "Do you think I can leave this Snow Peak? You’re spouting nonsense."

Saying this, Xuan Jiu got up and kicked Chen Yunji. "Get lost already. From now on, this courtyard is mine."

Chen Yunji, forced out by the overbearing Xuan Jiu, was driven straight out of the courtyard.

Standing in the biting snow with the white porcelain jar holding the heart in his arms, Chen Yunji was left utterly disoriented.

As he prepared to set off, Xuan Jiu suddenly ran out after him. "Wait a second, I forgot to give you something. Hand this over to her as well."

"What’s this?" Chen Yunji glanced at the item in his hand. It was a beast skin scroll. He was puzzled. "A piece of leather you’re gifting her?"

"This is a secret recipe. It’s my roast chicken recipe. If it weren’t for her love of my cooking, I wouldn’t share it." Xuan Jiu snorted.

Chen Yunji remained silent.

After a moment, Chen Yunji hesitated. "She... doesn’t really love your cooking that much, does she?"

He might have been blind, but his ears still worked.

He clearly remembered Xiao Jinsheng tasting that roast chicken and casually calling it mediocre, which had sent Xuan Jiu into a fit of rage at the time.

"Just take it and give it to her. Why are you so full of useless chatter?" Xuan Jiu’s face turned sour.

"Nope." Chen Yunji directly threw the beast skin scroll back at Xuan Jiu. "If you want to give it to her, do it yourself."

"Chen Yunji, are you sick again? How am I supposed to give it to her?" Xuan Jiu asked, exasperated.

"The time will come, and there’ll be opportunities. The soonest within half a year, the latest..." Chen Yunji paused slightly, his voice heavy with hidden sadness, then continued, "No more than a year."

"Take care," Chen Yunji said.

The storm descended, with dark clouds pressing down upon the Snow Peak.

Accumulated snow weighed down the branches of large trees until they snapped, crashing into deep drifts of snow.

A pair of silver boots stepped over the soft white snow without leaving a trace, heading in the opposite direction of the Bamboo Courtyard.

Amidst the swirling winds and snow outside the courtyard, the silver figure had disappeared entirely.

Xuan Jiu closed the courtyard gate, standing beside a silver-haired man.

The man’s eyes were covered with white cloth, his solitary demeanor cold and desolate, identical to the Chen Yunji who had already left the Snow Peak.

The only difference was that due to Chen Yunji’s peculiar Beastification, the dragon horns couldn’t be replicated by the puppet disguise.

Looking at the puppet before him, which had been conjured from the tail he had severed earlier, Xuan Jiu smiled faintly. "It seems the one destined to die in the prophecy was me."

He had seen into Huaiqing’s mind...

And he had seen the glimpse of Chen Yunji’s death that Huaiqing had foretold.

In the prophecy of Chen Yunji’s death, there were no dragon horns.

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Hearing the system’s reminder, Bai Yan, who had been eager to seize the hidden resource and end the competition early to claim first place, had just arrived at the Snow Peak when the system’s voice changed.

System: [Wait, the hidden resource has disappeared.]

Bai Yan was startled: [Did another participant take it?]

System: [I’ve found it. The hidden resource disappeared just ten seconds ago and has now reappeared—on Red Maple Peak.]

Red Maple Peak?

Bai Yan was momentarily stunned.

That was the mountain she had been on before coming to the Snow Peak.

Bai Yan: [Are you serious? I just came from there.]

System: [Why would I lie to you? The hidden resource simply changed locations.]

System: [As expected of a hidden resource, allowing the competition to end early. Could it be a moving creature, perhaps?]

Bai Yan fell silent, irritated: [I’m not going to dignify that with a response.]

She had spent two days traveling from Red Maple Peak to the Snow Peak, and now she was being told she had to go back.

Cursing the system a few times inwardly, Bai Yan and her Beast Husbands turned back in the opposite direction.

This time, their return to Red Maple Peak was faster than their initial trip to the Snow Peak.

She was genuinely worried that the hidden resource might sprout legs and disappear again by the time she arrived.

While Bai Yan was fuming, Xiao Jinsheng, standing off to the side, noticed that Bai Yan wasn’t allowing the system to search for high-value resources anymore. Unable to glean useful information from the voice in her heart, Xiao Jinsheng altered her plan.

At that moment, while Bai Yan headed one way, Xiao Jinsheng went in the opposite direction. As someone blessed with incredible luck, Xiao Jinsheng, without following Bai Yan or the system, managed to stumble upon quite a few resources worth 1,000 points.

Just as Xiao Jinsheng, munching on candied hawthorn made by Huaiqing, watched her Beast Husbands sort through collected resources, a cold voice sounded from behind her. "Xiao Jinsheng."

"Hm?" Xiao Jinsheng turned around, surprised to see Chen Yunji. "What are you doing here?"

She distinctly remembered that Chen Yunji and Xuan Jiu had been trapped on the Snow Peak by the Terminal and couldn’t leave.

"May I have a word?" Chen Yunji looked at Li and asked.

After ensuring there was no danger nearby, Li promptly unraveled his domain.

Only then did Chen Yunji reveal his and Xuan Jiu’s plan.

Whether it was Xiao Jinsheng’s group, Xuan Jiu, or himself, they were all on the same front—united against the Terminal.

With Chen Yunji and Xuan Jiu’s considerable strength, they had no intention of sitting idly on the Snow Peak, waiting for death. They also wanted to contribute to the effort against the Terminal.

However, the Terminal had installed a monitoring program on the Snow Peak. If it didn’t detect Xuan Jiu or Chen Yunji for 24 hours, it would alert the Terminal.

Thus, Chen Yunji and Xuan Jiu played to their respective superpower strengths: Chen Yunji, with his Elemental Superpower, left the Snow Peak to collaborate with Xiao Jinsheng, while Xuan Jiu, with his Puppet Superpower, stayed behind, creating a replica of Chen Yunji to deceive the Terminal.

"This is from him for you." After finishing his explanation, Chen Yunji handed the white porcelain jar to Xiao Jinsheng.

"What’s this? Pickled vegetables?" Xiao Jinsheng asked as she curiously accepted the jar and brought it to her nose.

Given Xuan Jiu’s inexplicable confidence in his terrible cooking skills, she feared he had sent over a jar of foul-smelling pickles to prank her.

"His heart." Chen Yunji’s tone was as calm and unhurried as ever.

Xiao Jinsheng’s hands trembled as she held the jar.

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