Future Beast World: Pampered by beautiful women, many children and good fortune

Chapter 97: Returning Home…

[Sang, you haven't found the real Insect King's Palace. This is a spatial maze; we've been going in circles.]

The Insect King's Palace clearly looked like it was at the foot of the mountain, seemingly within reach, yet so far away. The two had been walking for ages without making any progress, instead encountering wave after wave of assassination attempts.

Lou Xian Yue had set up several markers along the way. When he saw the markers again, he finally confirmed that she was going around in circles within a living, moving maze space.

The purpose of this kind of spatial maze was to trap people inside forever, slowly exhausting their life force until they died.

If Lou Xian Yue's true body were here, this kind of spatial maze would naturally be no problem, but he was currently using Sang Luo's body, with too many limitations. He could only try to break the formation first.

Lou Xian Yue formed a formation under his feet, and a powerful force swept out like a huge wave. The illusion in front of him instantly disappeared, turning into wall after wall of towering barriers.

[You have spatial talent and illusion talent. Combining the two could allow you to try constructing this kind of spatial illusion. It would have unexpected effects on the battlefield and could even kill without bloodshed.]

“……” Is this really the time to be giving her pointers?!

[Hurry up and think about how to break this! I don't want to be trapped here. I need to save my daughter quickly!]

Before, Sang Luo wasn't completely sure that Little Zhixin was in the Insect Clan's main camp and had a sliver of hope, so she wasn't too worried. Now that she knew it had really been taken to the Insect Clan and offered to the Insect King, every wasted moment increased the danger it was in.

[Don't worry too much. Royal beast cubs don't die that easily. From the moment they are born, they form a bloodline connection with their mother. If it suffers a fatal injury, you will also be affected. Have you felt it being hurt?]

[…Not yet.] Sang Luo secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Lou Xian Yue touched the stone wall, walking forward step by step. Along the way, he destroyed several stone bricks.

These blue-gray stone bricks looked the same.

Sang Luo had studied formations slightly. Watching his movements, she discerned a bit of a pattern. These few stone bricks were spatial construction points. After destroying them all, the space would disappear.

Sang Luo returned to the real world.

She… was actually still in the Black Tower! Goosebumps immediately rose!

On the first underground level of the Black Tower, Sang Luo was standing on a rock. Below her was flowing golden-gray quicksand, and a fissure sandworm, tens of meters long, was frantically waving its tentacles. The rapid quicksand carried everything around it towards its giant mouth. One step later! She would have been in the fissure worm's mouth!

Sang Luo didn't dare to think too much and quickly jumped to a rock further away. A lightning fire ball rapidly condensed in her palm and was thrown towards the giant worm.

The fissure worm reflexively swallowed the lightning fire ball into its belly. The next second, the entire space, the entire underground level, erupted with a thunderous explosion! The entire Black Tower was on the verge of collapse!

Sang Luo simply went all out, blowing up the entire sinful Black Tower.

In the second before the Black Tower collapsed, she escaped from it, leaving behind a pile of ruins.

A pleasant, clear, and smiling voice came from her ear.

[Your control over power is improving quite quickly.]

Sang Luo put the beast crystal of the fissure worm into her space. It was a rare beast crystal with the power of rules, very useful during pregnancy. [Tsk! They should see who they're messing with. My personality is all about getting even! If they dare to take my daughter, even if it costs me my life! I'll make the entire Insect Clan pay!]

[…Nothing will happen to you.] Lou Xian Yue's tone carried a reprimand. However, it was the first time he had seen a female beast care so much about her child.

Was it because… she cared about the father of that cub?

A slender Insect Clan member, nearly three meters tall, suddenly appeared.

He had two heads, and his eyes were burning as he looked at Sang Luo, licking his thin tongue and laughing wickedly.

“Such tender beastman flesh. It's been so long since I've encountered such a fragrant beastman…”

“Ka—”

Before he could finish speaking, one of his heads was chopped off.

Sang Luo said, "Are you annoying or what? Don't you understand the principle that villains die from talking too much? You ugly thing, you actually want to eat me? You're ugly, but your dreams are pretty big!”

The Insect Beast was furious. “I am the Fifth Prince of the Insect Clan! How dare you chop off my head! I will definitely mince you into meat paste!” As he spoke, a new head grew out of the severed neck, but the new head looked foolish and drooled at the corners of its mouth.

[His weakness is not the head. That is not his real head. Concentrate your fire on attacking the mouthparts one inch downwards from the side of his abdomen. That is his true weakness… ]

Listening to Lou Xian Yue's reminder, Sang Luo immediately looked at his abdomen. Sure enough, she saw a hidden mouthpart there. The corners of her lips turned up in a smile. “To be so ugly and actually be an Insect Clan prince. Anubis is also an Insect Clan prince like you. How come he's so good-looking? Oh, no, that skin of his might also be deliberately disguised… But this is indeed the first time I've seen someone as ugly as you!”

The two-headed Insect Clan member angrily flashed forward, closing the distance. At that moment, Sang Luo seized the opportunity. Lightning turned into a sword in her hand, and she stabbed it into his abdomen. The tip of the sword turned and cut horizontally to the left.

The Insect Clan member's entire body immediately broke into two halves and was burned to ashes by a fire.

Sang Luo put away his energy crystal. She had collected quite a bit of food for the next child on this trip. The next second, she teleported to the gate of the Insect King's Palace.

“Finally here.”

The moment she opened the door, Lou Xian Yue hurriedly said something, but Sang Luo didn't have time to hear it clearly. A blinding white light flashed before her eyes. She opened them again, looking at the familiar floor and furniture, and was stunned.

Two middle-aged men and women were busy at the dining table. Seeing her return, they smiled and said, “The meal is just finished. Xiao Luo, come and eat!”

“Dad, Mom…”

“Sis, why were you out for so long? Let me see what delicious things you bought and let me have a taste!” The teenager jumped off the sofa and grinned.

Sang Luo handed him the bag of snacks she was carrying and sat down at the dining table.

Sang's father came out of the kitchen and put the last dish in front of her. “Try it quickly. Your favorite braised prawns in oil. Dad just bought fresh live prawns from the market today…”

A tear suddenly fell from the corner of Sang Luo's eye.

“What's wrong, dear?”

“It's nothing. I just… seem to have had a dream…”

The fantastical world in her memory was becoming increasingly blurred. Sang Luo's life seemed to be back on track. What she had always longed for in her heart was her original normal life, an ordinary but warm happiness. Everything she had done was to return here.

Sang Luo sat down at the dining table, wanting to take a bite of rice, but a desperate voice suddenly came from her mind, causing her to wake up abruptly, dropping her chopsticks on the ground.

Then, the white rice in the bowl all turned into wriggling black worms.

The people and things around her faded and disappeared like slides in an instant.

Lou Xian Yue was nervously holding her hand. “The Insect King is ahead.”

Sang Luo didn't have time to ask him how he suddenly appeared here and looked in that direction. Sure enough, she saw a black giant worm.

Without hesitation, she stabbed a sword into the giant worm's abdomen.

Immediately, the Insect King's corpse turned into countless small worms, crawling all over her and instantly submerging her!

Ah!

Sang Luo woke up again.

Lou Xian Yue was still in front of her, staring straight at her.