Chu Xuan opened the door and saw Yu Jinglan and Shen Lingjun entering the farthest room on the left. The commotion was coming from that very room.
Chu Xuan strode over and entered the room, discovering that Jian Ze and Mo Jingxing were also there, along with Xie Xingwen lying on the bed.
When Yu Jinglan saw Chu Xuan enter, his eyes instantly reddened with rage. “What are you doing here? To see if Xie Xingwen is completely dead? You jinx, you’re not welcome here. Get out!”
Apart from Yu Jinglan, the others also regarded Chu Xuan with intense hostility.
Xie Xingwen had transformed into his true form—a massive serpent coiled motionless on the bed as if lifeless. Black scales continuously oozed blood, staining the sheets crimson, and the room was thick with the heavy scent of blood.
Noticing Chu Xuan’s gaze fixed on Xie Xingwen, the others quickly moved to stand in front of the bed, blocking her view.
“No matter what, Xingwen is your Beast Husband. You usually beat and scold him, but this time, causing him to lose his life is truly unforgivable,” Jian Ze said, his eyes filled with disgust and rejection. In their view, Xie Xingwen was critically injured beyond recovery.
As fellow Beast Husbands of Chu Xuan, they had lived together in this courtyard for so long, all having endured her abuse and insults, and had long regarded each other as companions.
Today, Chu Xuan had schemed to take Xie Xingwen’s life; tomorrow, it would surely be their turn.
If it ever came to that, they would take her down with them—no one would get out unscathed.
Feeling the intense killing intent emanating from her Beast Husbands, Chu Xuan broke out in a cold sweat down her back.
“System, what exactly is going on?” she silently asked the system.
[Host, the reason you were kidnapped this time is that you were deceived by Cheng Xu, Lin Qinghui’s Beast Husband. You’ve always coveted Cheng Xu’s beauty and wanted to snatch him to be your own Beast Husband, which is why you fell into the trap set by Lin Qinghui and Cheng Xu. Their goal was to eliminate you. Xie Xingwen risked his life to save you and is now on the brink of death, seemingly unable to hold on much longer.]
After hearing the system’s explanation, Chu Xuan felt a throbbing pain in her temples. Just how lustful was the original host? With five stunning Beast Husbands at home, it still wasn’t enough for her—she actually had her eyes on someone else’s Beast Husband.
Was that Cheng Xu really so captivating? If she got the chance, she’d have to see for herself and satisfy her curiosity.
But for now, the most urgent matter was to save her serpent Beast Husband. If he really died, Chu Xuan had no doubt that the males before her would tear her apart.
Chu Xuan’s gaze returned to Xie Xingwen on the bed. “He needs treatment immediately. If we delay any longer, it will truly be beyond saving.”
“As if we needed you to tell us that,” Yu Jinglan snarled, glaring at her fiercely. “If it weren’t for you, he wouldn’t be this badly injured.”
Chu Xuan: “What I mean is, I can save him.”
With that, she moved forward, but Mo Jingxing reached out to stop her. “What harm are you planning to inflict on him now? Chu Xuan, please, try to be human for once. Xingwen has already suffered enough because of you. Can’t you just stay away from him?”
“I said I can save him.”
Chu Xuan slapped Mo Jingxing’s hand away and rushed toward the bed.
However, Jian Ze and Shen Lingjun blocked her path once again.
Chu Xuan stood in place, taking a deep breath. She knew these male beasts had a very poor impression of the original owner, and no matter what she said now, they wouldn’t believe her.
There was no other way—she could only…
A cold glint flashed as Chu Xuan drew a dagger and pressed it against her own neck, threatening, “If you don’t let me pass, I’ll kill myself right here. If I die, all of you will die too.”
After inheriting the original owner’s memories, Chu Xuan had roughly grasped the relationship between Beast Husbands and their female master.
Once a Beast Husband and female master formed a soul contract, they became bound by Heaven’s Law. If the female master perished, the Beast Husband would die as well.
That was why no matter how badly the original owner behaved, these Beast Husbands endured in silence, and when she was kidnapped, they still risked their lives to rescue her.
After all, no one wanted to die.
“Chu Xuan, have you gone mad?!” Yu Jinglan roared angrily.
Chu Xuan stared at them, pressing the dagger closer, and began moving toward the bedside.
Her gaze was resolute, as if declaring she would truly kill herself if any of them dared block her path.
As Chu Xuan approached, the men had no choice but to reluctantly make way for her.
Sitting by the bed, Chu Xuan examined Xie Xingwen’s injuries, then formed hand seals and began circulating the Returning Spring Heart Sutra.
Mo Jingxing watched her putting on an act and sneered contemptuously, “You’re the one who harmed him, and now you’re pretending to be the good person? Even the best physician in Tianshui City can’t heal him. What can a useless female like you—”
Mo Jingxing’s words caught in his throat mid-sentence.
He saw a faint green glow emanating from Chu Xuan’s palm. As she channeled the green light into Xie Xingwen’s body, the wounds on the serpent form visibly healed at a rapid pace.
“This useless female actually awakened a healing ability? How is that possible?”
Mo Jingxing couldn’t believe his eyes, while the others also stared wide-eyed, their faces filled with disbelief.
On this Beast World Continent, females were like Heaven’s Law’s favored children—born with spiritual power capable of soothing the frenzied spiritual sea of consciousness in males. But no female had ever awakened an ability, let alone an extremely rare healing ability.
Moreover, judging by the speed of Xie Xingwen’s wound recovery, Chu Xuan’s healing ability must be quite high-level. When had she awakened it? They knew nothing about it.
These male beasts mistook her Returning Spring Art for a healing ability, but Chu Xuan didn’t bother to explain. Ability or not, what mattered was that the effect was achieved.
Having spent three hundred years in the Cultivation World, the only technique Chu Xuan had mastered was the Returning Spring Art. Three centuries of repeatedly practicing a single technique had brought her to the pinnacle of mastery, making its application effortless.
However, Xie Xingwen’s injuries were too severe. After treating all his wounds, Chu Xuan’s energy could no longer sustain her. The moment she stood up, she collapsed straight downward.
Jian Ze, being closest, instinctively reached out and caught her.
Looking at the female in his arms—her face pale, eyes slightly closed, with fine beads of sweat covering her forehead and nose—it was clear that using the healing ability had exhausted her greatly.
After his wounds healed, Xie Xingwen transformed back into human form lying on the bed, apparently out of danger.
Looking at the unconscious Chu Xuan, Jian Ze bent down and lifted her horizontally in his arms, saying, “I’ll take her back to her room to rest.”
Regardless, Chu Xuan had indeed saved Xie Xingwen this time, and the other Beast Husbands said nothing as they watched Jian Ze carry Chu Xuan away.
When Chu Xuan woke again, she heard the system’s delighted voice: