Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands
Chapter 73: Just Recovered from a Brain Injury and Got Hurt Again

Chapter 73: Chapter 73: Just Recovered from a Brain Injury and Got Hurt Again

Once the interfering Fog Corpse died, Li hurried back, while Shi Xie flashed forward, chasing the Earth Element Fog Corpse that had been shot with an arrow and fled underground.

When Yu Yunxiao was released from the space, he landed in an icy plain, beneath which lay fragments of Fog Corpses shattered into pieces.

Before he could grasp the situation, he was pulled by Xiao Jinsheng to treat Que Zelian.

"Don’t cry, don’t cry." Yu Yunxiao, trembling slightly, comforted Xiao Jinsheng: "This is poison from a Seven Stars Fog Corpse. I’m at Seven Stars too—I can cure him."

"Mo Jiao, Mo Jiao too." Confirming Que Zelian was no longer in danger, Xiao Jinsheng anxiously rushed to the spot where Mo Jiao had fallen into the abyss: "He was thrown underground by the Earth Element Fog Corpse."

"I’ll rescue him." Li gently patted Xiao Jinsheng’s head to soothe her.

In a flash, he dove straight into the ground.

Xiao Jinsheng waited anxiously, and thankfully Mo Jiao was quickly brought up from underground by Li.

Black scales stretched from Mo Jiao’s neck to the side of his face, covered in wet mud and blood stains.

Yu Yunxiao, one in each hand, treated Que Zelian and Mo Jiao simultaneously.

Xiao Jinsheng swiftly transported all three into the space.

Meanwhile, Huaiqing and Su Ye were still eliminating the remaining Fog Corpses, but Li urged Xiao Jinsheng to enter the space as well.

Xiao Jinsheng shook her head, clinging tightly to Li: "You all come in with me."

With two Beast Husbands injured, she was completely uneasy about leaving anyone outside.

"The most troublesome one has already been dealt with—we won’t be in danger." Li reassured her.

Seeing Xiao Jinsheng still shake her head, insisting they all hide in the space together, Li suppressed the sourness in his heart and, against his true feelings, said: "Don’t you want to check on Que Zelian and Mo Jiao? They’re injured and really need you now."

"Then you..." Xiao Jinsheng nervously gripped him tighter.

"We’ll stay here to clean up the Star Stones; there’s no danger in that." Li hugged her, gently patting her back: "Be good now, wait for us in the space, okay? I’ll collect Star Stones for you."

"Then I’ll come out every half an hour." Xiao Jinsheng said worriedly.

She understood that if she stayed outside, the men fighting the Fog Corpses would likely be restrained in their actions.

Otherwise, with Que Zelian and the others’ ability to venture deep into Mist West and reach the Demon Territory, it would have been impossible for them to be helpless when besieged by Fog Corpses.

Obediently, Xiao Jinsheng entered the space and started learning how to treat injuries with Yu Yunxiao.

"Still think you can escape?" A cold laugh sounded behind the Earth Element Fog Corpse.

It turned around and saw its reflection in the eyes of a man who looked divinely beautiful, yet at this moment, all the Earth Element Fog Corpse could feel was fear.

Shi Xie curved his lips into a grin, revealing sharp fangs at the corners.

Shi Xie reached out with a smile and grabbed the Earth Element Fog Corpse’s neck, lifting it into the air.

His sharp claws tore into the Earth Element Fog Corpse’s abdomen, ripping out its internal organs, tossing them to the ground.

The Fog Corpse’s entire body was frozen solid by ice, and under the alternating attacks of Water Element and Ice Element superpowers, it was repeatedly thawed and frozen, completely losing the ability to resist.

It could only stare as Shi Xie disassembled its body piece by piece, accompanied by Shi Xie’s gleeful laughter from time to time.

An ice blade, its tip gleaming with frigid energy, pressed against the gray-white eyeball of the Fog Corpse, less than a millimeter away.

Shi Xie sneered: "Do you see flowers... in your own eyes?"

The Earth Element Fog Corpse struggled, but its limbs were frozen to the ground.

A thin layer of water membrane wrapped around Shi Xie’s hand. He raised it and pressed it against the Fog Corpse’s frozen face, his blade slicing through its eyeballs, carving patterns onto them.

The higher the Star Level of a Fog Corpse, the more human-like it appeared.

With human consciousness awakened, as a side effect, they felt pain more intensely than lower-level Fog Corpses.

The agony invited fear.

The Earth Element Fog Corpse howled in pain, its feeble pleas for mercy drowned out by the melodic laughter.

Its gray-white eyeballs were directly carved into thousand-petal motifs in its sockets, and only then did Shi Xie scoop them out.

Amid the Fog Corpse’s wails, Shi Xie methodically sliced through its skull layer by layer, digging out the Eleven Star Star Stone at last.

Washing clean the bloodstained Star Stone with flowing water, Shi Xie raised an eyebrow impishly, casting a cold glance at the motionless Fog Corpse: "So noisy."

When Shi Xie rejoined the team, Li and the others had just finished digging out all the Star Stones from the Fog Corpses nearby. Xiao Jinsheng emerged from the space to meet them.

Shi Xie’s pristine white robe still exuded a saintly aura, though the bandages wrapped around his forehead from earlier had become somewhat askew due to the battles.

Walking up to Xiao Jinsheng, he held out the Eleven Star Star Stone to her: "This is yours."

"You killed it, so it’s yours." Xiao Jinsheng shook her head, refusing.

Shi Xie lowered his gaze in disappointment, his voice tinged with loss: "Is it because I’m not your Beast Husband, that you won’t accept anything from me?"

As he spoke, he staggered backward, his whole body swaying unsteadily.

"What’s wrong?" Xiao Jinsheng asked nervously.

Shi Xie pressed his hand against his forehead, waving dismissively: "It’s nothing, just that Eleven Star Fog Corpse got a sneak attack on me."

His face was filled with guilt: "It’s all because I’m not strong enough. That Earth Element Fog Corpse’s attributes counter mine, and it’s one Star Level higher than me, so I got a bit injured."

"You’re hurt!" Xiao Jinsheng exclaimed in worry.

She hurriedly called over Yu Yunxiao.

Shi Xie stood obediently, not moving as Yu Yunxiao came to treat him, but his icy blue eyes were fixated on Xiao Jinsheng, filled with reluctance: "Once I’ve recovered, will you send me back to the seabed?"

"That’s right. I do belong to the deep ocean where sunlight never reaches."

"It’s a place of loneliness, coldness, no friends—and even the flowers I’ve nurtured for twenty years in search of a Female Master are all gone."

"In the future, this world will only have me left in it."

"No... without a Female Master, returning to the seabed is merely a dead end for me."

"Don’t bother treating me. If I must die in the icy depths of the sea, I’d rather be buried here." Shi Xie gazed at Xiao Jinsheng with a wounded look in his eyes.

Xiao Jinsheng’s expression wavered, but Yu Yunxiao smacked Shi Xie on the head: "Can you stop talking so much? So noisy!"

Already annoyed about treating a rival, he irritably refused to continue.

"No need to save him—let him die." Yu Yunxiao grumbled.

"Isn’t Seven Stars enough to treat him?" Xiao Jinsheng asked in confusion.

Yu Yunxiao rolled his eyes and glanced at Shi Xie: "Seven Stars can heal his brain, but I’ve just realized his heart and lungs are injured too."

"For that, I’ll need to be at Nine Stars."

Saying this, Yu Yunxiao raised his hand and sternly warned Li: "Don’t smash any more Star Stones. Leveling up abilities too quickly isn’t always a good thing—I need to take it slow."

Li tilted his head and clicked his tongue in annoyance but didn’t smash any Star Stones this time.

His dissatisfied gaze swept over Shi Xie, and he sneered: "Don’t think I don’t know what you’re up to, acting all weak here."

"If you dare harm her, I’ll blow you and your Undersea Palace into oblivion."

"Jinsheng, he’s so fierce..." Shi Xie said feebly, clutching his chest and gasping in pain: "I’m feeling really awful—I can hardly breathe."

"Not good, his heart’s tearing apart." Yu Yunxiao exclaimed in alarm: "I don’t have enough Superpower Level to fully heal him right now, but I can stabilize his condition for now. We need to find a safe and clean place."

The surrounding area was littered with corpses, obviously incompatible with the idea of safety or cleanliness.

In the short term, the only absolutely safe location was Xiao Jinsheng’s space.

But to enter the space...

One must either be her Beast Husband through matrimony.

Or someone with the intimacy of a Contractual Totem bond.