Lethal Stunner: Kicking Off with Five Beast Husbands

Chapter 251: Chapter 251: Don’t Reward Him

"Xiao?" Ying exclaimed in surprise.

His eyes stared blankly at Xiao Jinsheng as she leaned closer to his face.

He found her appearance utterly unbelievable.

Xiao Jinsheng had already left.

Xiao Jinsheng already had a little white cat.

There was no way she could return here to find him.

Realizing that everything before him might just be a figment of his imagination before he dissipated.

Ying dared not look at the Xiao Jinsheng conjured by his hallucination. He turned his head and closed his eyes.

He had accepted his fate, quietly waiting for death to descend.

The warm Healing Superpower covering him withdrew instantly.

Ying curled his lips in sorrow.

He knew it—everything was just his delusion.

But the sad atmosphere failed to envelop him completely before it was scattered by a smack.

"Pa!" A crisp sound rang.

The sting on his cheek made Ying blink in confusion and open his eyes.

His thoughts were still tangled: Do people feel pain after they die?

"Does it hurt?" Xiao Jinsheng asked.

"It... hurts..." Ying dumbly nodded.

His gaze was clear, and he was completely dazed by the slap.

"Good, it’s supposed to hurt." Xiao Jinsheng reached out a hand toward him.

Ying lay motionless on the bed.

She decisively grabbed his collar with one hand, pulling him up to rest against the bedhead.

Her palm gave a gentle pat to the other side of his cheek as she smiled and asked softly, "Awake yet? If not, I can give you a symmetrical one."

"I’m awake." Ying began to realize this wasn’t a dream.

But the moment he replied, he immediately changed his tune.

He shook his head fiercely, looking hopefully at Xiao Jinsheng. "I think... I might not be fully awake yet."

"Xiao, slap me one more time."

Xiao Jinsheng could only use Mind Reading Jade Yunxiao.

She couldn’t read Ying’s mind.

She simply assumed he wanted some pain to confirm reality and illusion.

Raising her hand, she was about to oblige.

Lou Yan Zhi, standing nearby, stepped forward and said, "Don’t reward him for this."

Ying’s cat ears immediately drooped, glaring at Lou Yan Zhi with hostility.

Fifteen Stars of Superpower.

He could fight.

This one he’d never seen before—must be trouble.

Ying’s figure flashed, shrouded in black mist, and he lunged at Lou Yan Zhi with a curved knife.

Lou Yan Zhi raised his hand, forming a gesture. Golden runes expanded, creating a transparent barrier before him.

One blade, one shield.

Both were manifestations of energy.

The clash of black and gold energy erupted inside the room, bursting into sparks.

Lou Yan Zhi quickly scattered Ying’s black mist, stepping aside.

His brown eyes briefly darted to the heavy sword placed nearby, then looked at Ying with a slight lift of his brow. "Fifteen Stars and you think you can challenge a Sword Cultivator?"

"If you underestimate my swordsmanship."

"I happen to know a bit of magic as well."

Using his spirit as formation, golden runes transformed circle after circle into spinning razor-sharp discs, slicing toward Ying.

Ying’s eyes turned fierce as black mist surged, resisting the incoming golden runes, devouring them bit by bit.

Noticing the superpower he unleashed gradually being absorbed.

Lou Yan Zhi said calmly, "Alright, you’re tough and resilient—you’re not dying this time."

"Hm?" Ying finished devouring the golden runes, looking at Lou Yan Zhi and Xiao Jinsheng’s familiar interaction in confusion.

He hesitantly asked, "Is he... one of your Beast Husbands too?"

"He’s not," Xiao Jinsheng quickly clarified.

"White cat has a bad temper, black cat has bad eyesight?" Lou Yan Zhi scoffed. "I’m standing here plain as day, and you still can’t recognize me?"

Ying didn’t want to engage with Lou Yan Zhi.

For some reason, this person gave him an urge—to fight.

More aggravating than Mutant Beasts and Fog Corpses.

He turned his back to Lou Yan Zhi, lifting his gaze toward Xiao Jinsheng. Tentatively, he asked, "Xiao, what is this?"

He clearly had already destroyed himself.

Appearing here now.

Clearly, it was Xiao Jinsheng who brought him out.

Which meant... Xiao Jinsheng didn’t dislike him?

Thinking of this, Ying’s heart, wrapped in chilling darkness, began to thaw.

"We found a way for you to leave the Spiritual World," Xiao Jinsheng explained.

At the same time, she reached out, glowing with healing light, toward Ying’s cheek.

Ying thought she was about to slap him, perfectly balancing out the imprint on his face, so he obediently presented the unmarred side to her.

Xiao Jinsheng couldn’t help but stifle her laughter.

The healing radiance soothed the swelling redness of the slap mark on his face.

She explained, "I didn’t mean to hit you earlier—back then, I couldn’t wake you no matter what, so it was an urgent measure."

As it turns out, the method was indeed effective.

And afraid it wouldn’t work, she had considered dealing a second slap.

So when Xiao Jinsheng struck, she really didn’t hold back.

But the force was strong enough that his face swelled.

Thankfully, the Healing Superpower could instantly restore him.

Upon hearing Xiao Jinsheng’s explanation that he only needed to practice a spiritual power-focused manual and strengthen his Dark Soul’s abilities until he gained a physical body, Ying’s despondent eyes brightened.

"I can truly live in this world?" he asked hopefully.

Xiao Jinsheng looked toward Lou Yan Zhi.

Lou Yan Zhi nodded. "Based on your current strength, you can probably manifest a body by the time your superpower reaches Twenty Stars."

Ying was currently at Fifteen Stars, which meant as long as he diligently trained his spiritual power.

With simultaneous progress in spiritual power and superpower, once he reached Twenty Stars, he’d have a benchmark to assess whether his Dark Soul could achieve physical form.

"I can do it," Ying said repeatedly. "I can kill plenty of Mutant Beasts and Fog Corpses."

"I’ll go back and train immediately," Ying said, always one to take action.

Though he wished he could linger here longer.

But only by forming a physical body could he remain here permanently.

Enduring hardship first, Ying was willing to wait.

He looked at Xiao Jinsheng one last time, full of reluctance, and smiled. "I’ll train well, and then come find you again."

"Xiao, don’t recklessly enter the Spiritual World anymore."

The Mutant Beasts and Fog Corpses of the Spiritual World were endless.

In such a dangerous place, he didn’t want Xiao Jinsheng to suffer.

As they parted, Xiao Jinsheng called out to Ying with concern. "No one is born to belong to darkness, so you must train earnestly and go to a normal world."

"This is our promise."

"I trust you won’t break it, will you?"

"I’ll train diligently," Ying assured her.

He guessed Xiao Jinsheng must know about his self-destruction.

Apologetically, he said, "I’m sorry for worrying you. I won’t do that anymore."

He had thought that this world, and the people in it, disliked him.

But after this experience, Ying was certain that he was cared for.

As he was about to enter slumber, Ying hesitated again, sitting up from the bed, his damp eyes looking at her, pleading earnestly, "Can you slap me one more time?"

"Huh?" Xiao Jinsheng was stunned.

Que Zelian, who had been silent the whole time, now cast a puzzled look toward him.

Lou Yan Zhi’s gaze at Ying more resembled someone watching a black cat gone mad.

"I’m afraid this is a hallucination. At least with pain, even if I return, I’ll know it was all real," Ying said softly.

Seeing Xiao Jinsheng still hesitant to slap him. noveldrama

His cat ears drooped in disappointment, his weakened voice begging, "Just slap me one more time."

"Uh... okay..." Xiao Jinsheng hesitated a while before lightly patting his cheek.

"Harder, I don’t mind the pain," Ying reminded her.