Yarui was kicking himself. He'd been so focused on chasing the female who'd tumbled down that he hadn't noticed this was Shengqing's territory.
If he had smelled Shengqing's scent, he would never have set foot here, not even on pain of death!
Yarui struggled, his eyes darting toward Shengqing. He opened his mouth, about to beg for mercy.
But Shengqing gave him no chance to speak. With a powerful twist of his snake tail, he snapped Yarui's neck.
Yarui's body convulsed once before he went still, his mouth agape as he breathed his last.
Shengqing tossed the corpse aside and shifted into his human form. He walked over to the small female lying on the ground, gathered her into his arms, and headed for the cave he had carved out for hibernation.
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Su Yu didn't know how long she'd been unconscious. When she finally struggled back to awareness, her mind was still foggy. On instinct, she leaped from the stone bed and burrowed into a pile of Beast Skins stacked nearby.
