Chapter 176: Chapter 176: It’s Over, We Provoked Him Too Much

"Yeah," Feng Xuan pursed his lips, looking at him with disdain. "Alliance Hierarch, now I finally get why he was ordering me around. Turns out he’s a young master of the Dragon Clan, used to a pampered life."

"But I’m not his family’s servant. Why should I have to wait on him?"

"When he saw I wouldn’t listen to him, he kept tripping me up. If I hadn’t been on my guard against him, I’d have gone to see the Beast God by now!"

Feng Xuan’s complaints were endless, spilling out in a smooth, uninterrupted stream. Ao Yin didn’t even want to listen anymore.

"Alright, alright," Ao Yin gestured for him to shut up. "I get it."

Feng Xuan, not quite finished, asked, "Alliance Hierarch, why did you capture that Ao Er? Are you making the son pay for the father’s debts?"

This wasn’t Ao Yin’s true intention, but he didn’t want his real purpose known, so he tacitly agreed with Feng Xuan’s suggestion.

Feng Xuan perked up. "Alliance Hierarch, let me do it! I’ve been wanting to teach him a lesson for a while now!"

He was eager to give it a try, but the more he acted this way, the more suspicious Ao Yin became.

’Why does it feel like this Feng Xuan is being deliberately theatrical?’

Thinking this, he decided to test him. "Alright, you can come with me."

Yu An naturally followed behind. Ao Yin was walking in front, and with Feng Xuan blocking the view, he didn’t notice her. The guards, however, did see her, but since the Alliance Hierarch hadn’t forbidden the supervisor from following, they didn’t stop her.

Ao Er was locked in the dungeon. Hearing a noise, he looked up and saw Yu An and Feng Xuan first, only noticing Ao Yin on the second glance.

He thought Yu An and Feng Xuan had been captured too. Just as he was about to speak, Feng Xuan spoke first. "So you’re a Dragon Clan young master. No wonder you have such a bratty temper, ordering me around like a servant."

"Let me tell you, I’m with the Invincible Alliance, and I’m here today to get my revenge!"

Ao Er had never been so quick on the uptake. He sneered, "A lowly person is a lowly person. Don’t tell me you’re from the Invincible Alliance. Even the Alliance Hierarch of the Invincible Alliance is a lowly peasant in my eyes, fit only to be my servant!"

Feng Xuan immediately looked at the Alliance Hierarch. "Alliance Hierarch, he actually dared to curse you! Please allow me to drag him out and give him a beating!"

Ao Er said sarcastically, "Beating me is useless. A lowly person is a lowly person. No matter what tricks you pull, my Female Mother will never like you."

"I am the child of my Female Mother and Beast Father. Someone else has exhausted all their efforts for so long, and yet even the fakes they find can’t get my Female Mother’s approval. How... pathetic~"

Ao Yin’s face darkened bit by bit, a storm brewing in his eyes. Yu An noticed the veins on his lowered wrist bulging.

He used to hate it most when the Female Mother and Beast Father favored his so-called "good big brother" Ao Jin. Now, what he hated most was someone using the fact that Yu Huang didn’t like him to mock him!

"You want a beating?"

He sneered. "Fine, I’ll grant your wish!" 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"Guards, bring him out!"

The guards behind him immediately stepped forward, took out the key, opened the cell door, and dragged Ao Er out.

Feng Xuan suggested, "It’s too small to do anything in here. Why don’t we drag him outside? The sun is blazing right now, perfect for peeling a layer of his skin off!"

"Pah!"

Ao Er, his face full of defiance, said contemptuously to Ao Yin, "What’s so great about taking it out on me? If you have the guts, go fight my Beast Father... oh, I forgot, you can’t beat my Beast Father. You only managed to take my Female Mother away back then by using some dirty tricks."

"But so what if you used tricks? So what if my Female Mother lost her memory? Even with amnesia, she can’t accept you. Oh dear, I almost forgot, a certain filthy male is completely unworthy of my Female Mother’s acceptance."

Ao Er mocked, "You say you love my Female Mother to the point of madness, but in reality, who knows how many females you’ve slept with? You’ve even had more than one or two children. If I were my Female Mother, I wouldn’t give you the time of day either. I’d be afraid of catching a disease just by getting close to you!"

’That’s a lot of information,’ Yu An thought, recalling Yu Yun and Ao Yun. ’Could they be Ao Yin’s biological children?’

Ao Yin had originally been suspicious of Feng Xuan’s behavior and was able to maintain some rationality. But after Ao Er’s tirade, he completely lost his cool.

"You—you shut up!"

"Guards! Take him to the square! I’m going to flay him alive, one slice at a time!"

On the surface, Ao Er looked disdainful, but inside, he was very nervous.

’Little Sister, oh Little Sister, help, help, help! Save your second brother!’

Having just been summoned to the main square not long ago, they were now being told to gather at the small square. Whether they were stewards, supervisors, or miners, everyone found it absurd.

Gathering twice in one day—what on earth could be so important?

When they reached the small square, they saw that the Beastman who had been taken away during the last gathering had been dragged onto a platform.

Ao Yin’s face was grim. "Tie him up! I, the Alliance Hierarch, will carry out the execution personally!"

Feng Xuan tried to take over the job, but he was pulled aside by Ao Yin’s men. His heart sank.

’Damn it, I think I provoked him too much!’

Ao Er also felt like crying but had no tears. Just as he braced himself to be cut a few times, a figure stepped in front of him.

It was Yu An.

Of course, to others, it was Supervisor Lin.

Ao Yin’s gaze was vicious. "Get out of the way!"

"Alliance Hierarch," Yu An didn’t move, speaking in a raspy voice. "Before the execution, please allow me to put on a little performance."

Before Ao Yin could speak, she took out a prepared signal flare and quickly set it off.

A beautiful firework exploded in the sky. The Beastmen had never seen one before and were momentarily stunned.

’What is that? It looks quite festive... No, wait, why would they set something like that off?’

Then, several white clouds quickly descended, and hailstones began to rain down with a CLATTER. The Beastmen were bewildered by the pelting, but thankfully, the hail was mainly concentrated on the people on the platform. The group led by Ao Yin was hit the hardest.

"Wh-what is this stuff? Quick, protect the Alliance Hierarch!"

"No, guard Ao Er! Don’t let him esca—"

The rest of the words got stuck in Ao Yin’s throat, because the spot where Ao Er had been was now empty.

In reality, after Yu An had pulled Feng Xuan and Ao Er into her space, she used the cover of the Cloud Beasts to make a swift escape. When the Cloud Beasts could no longer carry her, Ao Wu, who had been waiting in mid-air, took over.

Ao Wu whisked her away in a flash, and after the Cloud Beasts finished dropping their hail, they too slipped away.

This left Ao Yin fuming with impotent rage. "After them! Bring them back!"

Given Ao Wu’s speed, by the time the pursuers left the mining camp, he had already brought Yu An to the city gates.

The two of them then entered the city with calm expressions. Since they had been selling iced slushies for the past few days, the people of Sand City all recognized them.

"Boss Yu, you went out of the city?"

"Yes," Yu An lifted the small bamboo basket hanging from her wrist. "I went outside the city to pick some wild fruit."

Someone couldn’t help but ask, "Boss Yu, are you really going to teach us how to make iced slushies?"

Yu An corrected them, "The method for Ice Making. And of course, I will. As the Beast God Envoy, I will definitely teach everyone."

"This is the mission the Beast God gave me, and it’s also the reason I came here. Everyone, please rest assured."

Her friendly attitude instantly earned her a great deal of goodwill.

Yu An used this excuse on the Beast God Continent, first, because it was convenient, and second, because she wanted to win the people’s hearts.

The Invincible Alliance, under Ao Yin’s leadership, was rotten to the core, but it had managed its public reputation quite well. If war were to break out again, it would be very disadvantageous for the Dragon Clan.

She wanted to see who would ultimately win a higher place in the hearts of the Beastmen—her, the "Beast God Envoy," or the Invincible Alliance!

"ACHOO!"

Yu An tightened her clothes. ’Why do I suddenly feel so cold?’