You agreed to farm together, but you secretly went to guard the beast?

Chapter 558. Dig out all eighteen generations of ancestors!
Ye Shiyao, who was eavesdropping nearby, couldn't help but blink.

Just as he was about to exchange glances with Nangong Zhang, he turned his head and saw that Tang Yunde, He Yaobai, Yan Wuji, Shangguan Qing and others were all tilting their heads, their ears pointed straight at Su Xingchen and Wei Bisheng. They seemed to be preparing seriously for the battle, but in fact they were all eavesdropping.

Ye Shiyao: ...

These people say they can't rely on Qian Qi, but they're probably still pinning their hopes on her behind her back!
“Su Xingchen, there’s really no point in keeping her hidden away. Regardless of whether she has the ability to resolve this war, she should step forward and think of a solution.”

Nangong Zhang said calmly, "Even if we can solve just one of them, it will relieve a lot of pressure for us."

“Yes, yes,” Ye Shiyao immediately agreed, “Didn’t she handle the Golden Black Tiger Beast in the West very successfully?”

"That was before. The Black Tiger Beast was only temporarily trapped in the western mountains by her. Now that the other three sides have all shown up with S-class magical beasts, the Black Tiger Beast is also starting to stir." Su Xingchen glanced sharply at Ye Shiyao and Nangong Zhang. "She can't even kill the Black Tiger Beast, so how can she talk about killing other S-class magical beasts?"

"I advise you not to count on Qian Qi."

Nangong Zhang frowned.

Given Su Xingchen's personality, if Qian Qi could be of any help, he would definitely be the first to spare no effort in squeezing every last drop of value out of Qian Qi, just as he had squeezed every last drop out of his own son Su Ang, in order to achieve peace and stability in Zhongzhou.

Now he's vehemently opposing Qian Qi's involvement in this matter. Is it really true, as he says, that Qian Qi's abilities are limited to this and he has no greater value?

After pondering for a moment, Nangong Zhang still chose to believe Su Xingchen.

After all, he had only known Qian Qi for a year, while he had known Su Xingchen for decades and knew him inside and out.

"In that case, let's rely on ourselves."

Nangong Zhang spoke up.

Ye Shiyao had no choice but to give up. Wei Bisheng glanced at Nangong Zhang, said nothing more, and turned to arrange for the awakened ones to go to various cities to relocate the residents.

Yan Wuji looked down at the message sent by the Elders of the Beast Taming Association on his computer, remained silent for a while, and then got up and left the conference room.

Su Xingchen glanced up, then calmly looked away and continued to monitor the beast tide situation in various regions.

……

Inside the instance, Qian Qi lay prone behind a rock, staring at the monsters on the distant hillside below.

This is the monster boss of the training dungeon, but this time, she does not plan to go into battle herself. Instead, she has entrusted the task of conquering the dungeon to the students of Awakener University.

After so many days of training, it's time to go out and test our true skills!

Qian Qi waved forward and said to the squad behind him, "Go! Let's get them!"

The three five-person squads responded and rode their Flaming Hounds towards the boss.

The dungeon boss was an A-rank Golden Horned Sheep Beast, about the same size as an evolved Flame Hound. Its pair of sharp golden horns not only provided strong defense, but the damage from its charge was also not to be underestimated. It directly knocked a B-rank Flame Hound away, and the student on its back was also thrown off.

The other two Flame Hounds attacked from both sides, and the two students on their bodies released A-grade metal spikes, clearly aiming at the Golden Horned Goat Beast's eyes.

The Golden Horned Goat leaped several meters high, dodging the metal spikes. The two students didn't just release two spikes; they kept shooting them at it. All the metal spikes that were dodged fell to the ground. They didn't notice that these spikes were trembling slightly.

Qian Qi stood up from behind the rock, climbed onto it, sat cross-legged, chewed on grass roots he had pulled from the roadside, and watched the battle through binoculars.

These students, caught in the midst of battle, were bound to make mistakes under the tension and excitement. Just as they had gone through 20 minutes of combat training and successfully surrounded the Golden Horned Sheep Beast, preparing to deliver a fatal blow, the metal spikes stuck in the ground behind them suddenly flew up, turning into a rain of spikes that swept towards their backs! Qian Qi immediately spat out the grass in his mouth and was about to signal Su Ang to help when he saw a student from the command department suddenly turn around. With a wave of his hands, a huge transparent mental shield was erected behind them.

Immediately afterward, the other two command students received the signal and turned around to release their mental shields to withstand the destructive force of the spikes.

"This golden-horned sheep can directly control our metal spikes!" the first student to react shouted. "Everyone, be careful not to be ambushed!"

In the short time it took to react, the Golden Horned Ram had already escaped the encirclement. As it raised its head, a huge metal sphere condensed on its head and hurled it towards the group.

"Be careful to avoid!"

The squad leader who was closest shouted, narrowly avoiding the metal sphere, only to see that the metal sphere seemed to be aware of its own existence, suddenly braked, and then turned around and rolled towards him!
"Grass!"

"grass!"

The squad leader and Qian Qi simultaneously uttered words in their native tongues, one expressing surprise and speechlessness, the other excitement and exhilaration.

Seeing the other dozen or so people rushing towards the golden-horned sheep's head, ready to blow it off, Qian Qi suddenly stood up from the rock, holding up a megaphone and extending his hand like Er Kang, shouting, "Don't kill it!!!"

The harsh, hoarse sound of the loudspeaker made the students slow down for a moment. Their subconscious restraint prevented the golden-horned sheep beast from being blown off its head, but it was still dazed and disoriented by the various elemental attacks, and stumbled to the ground.

"Mee-ye-ye-ye-!"

The golden-horned sheep stared helplessly at the students with its horizontal pupils, its eyes filled with anger.

It's just grazing here, it doesn't intend to eat people, so why provoke it!
Qian Qi packed up his binoculars and megaphone, rushed over, grabbed the golden-horned sheep by the neck, and cried out, "Sheep, my sheep, I'm the bondmaster of the sheep next door to your brother-in-law's second aunt's daughter's ex-boyfriend! Are you in pain? Please don't die, I'm coming to save you!"

Golden Horned Goat Beast: ?
Golden Horned Goat: Who?

Before the Golden Horned Sheep could even realize which sheep was the neighbor of its brother-in-law's second aunt's daughter's ex-boyfriend, Qian Qi stuffed its mouth with a lot of indescribably delicious magical plants.

Although it tasted terrible, the sheep's head no longer hurt, but it was still too weak to get up and run away.

To be precise, its legs still had the strength to kick wildly, but its injured head prevented it from standing up.

"Don't be afraid! I'm here to protect you!" Qian Qi hugged the sheep's neck tightly and comforted it gently. "With me here, they won't dare to kill you. At most, they'll just cut off a few pieces of your flesh and roast them for dinner."

Golden Horned Ram Beast: ...

That would be worse than just killing me! And can you please let go of me?! You're choking me to death!
Qian Qi tightened his grip on his arm, muttering, "I bet you're thinking you'd rather just die. Here's what we'll do: I'll send you to your death, as the last bit of help I can offer as the patron of your brother-in-law, second aunt's daughter's ex-boyfriend, and the neighbor's sheep—"

So who exactly are my brother-in-law and aunt? And if they were going to send me to my death, why did they stop these humans from killing me just now?

There were too many things to complain about, and the Golden Horned Sheep Beast didn't know where to start. It struggled violently in Qian Qi's arms, and soon felt dizzy and lightheaded. Its pupils began to roll upwards, and it had a kind of drunken, floating feeling.

In its hazy consciousness, it heard Qian Qi's voice, faint as a cloud, saying to one of the young humans of the metal element, "I've strangled it until it's unconscious. Now's the time to make it release its contract runes and form a contract with it! Once the anesthetizing magical plant I fed it takes effect, we'll find out the whereabouts of the other Golden Horned Sheep Beasts!"

What……?!

The Golden Horned Sheep Beast struggled to roll its eyes down, and saw Qian Qi's beautiful and gentle face wrinkle up at an extremely strange speed. She laughed in a ferocious and sinister way, "A beast that can freely control other people's metal for its own use, hehehehe, this is truly a peerless beast! We absolutely cannot let it go! In a moment, we'll have to dig out all its ancestors for eighteen generations!"

The golden-horned sheep was almost scared to death by her.