Eternal Beast Taming Family

Frost gathered on every building in Heyu Town, as if coating them with a layer of ice crystal glass.

A chilling, bone-chilling coldness constantly seeped into the body from the air.

Some residents in the town ran out of firewood and wanted to open their doors to buy more, only to find that the doors were blocked by blocks of ice, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't open them even a little bit.

Some residents appeared on the street, their eyes glazed, taking off their already thin cotton-padded coats, mumbling incoherently, "So hot...so hot..."

It's like the last fantasy of someone on the verge of freezing to death.

In the tea room of the town hall, when ice crystals appeared on the roof and walls.

Tang Cheng could no longer sit still. He slammed his hand on the table, shattering all the teacups.

"Does your Liu family intend to use the lives of every mortal in town to complete the advancement ceremony?"

Liu Qiancheng spread his fingers, and a chill burst forth from his palm, instantly freezing the tea that had splashed out of the shattered teacup into icicles in the air.

He smiled at Tang Cheng, "Mayor, don't be angry. They're just ordinary people. If they die, we can just buy more from other places."

"Just stay here and wait for the promotion ceremony to end, and our Liu family guarantees to give you a Heyu Town that is even more prosperous than it is today."

The Azure Scaled Tiger appeared behind Tang Cheng, its eyes gleaming with cold light. It was waiting for Tang Cheng's command to devour the three people in front of it.

"The Liu family is so cold-blooded and cruel that they are unworthy of their position as a prominent family. I will report the details of this matter to the prefectural government. Let's see what you will do then."

"Cold-blooded and cruel? Mayor Tang, you should also come from a noble family, how could you raise such a naive noble son like yourself? In this Jingyuan Dynasty, from top to bottom, which noble family didn't climb up by stepping on the blood of the people?"

Even the royal family, don't they regard us noble families as lackeys, making us patrol the four corners of the land and suppress the territories to maintain their long-lasting rule?"

The usually cold-faced young man from the Liu family scoffed at Tang Cheng's words.

After hearing his explanation, Tang Cheng remained silent for a moment, then a look of relief flashed in his eyes.

He couldn't bear to watch ordinary civilians die before his eyes, and the message he sent out received no reply.

He knew that everything the Liu family did was permitted by those above them. If another seventh-rank family could be born, what did it matter if two more towns were destroyed?

A seventh-rank noble family brings far more value than tens of thousands of commoners.

Tang Cheng straightened up and said calmly, "Uncle An, please."

An aged sigh echoed in the room, "Xiao Cheng, why bother? Your purpose in coming here was simply to witness the common occurrences of life and death in this world."

Clearly, the old man also didn't want Tang Cheng to continue interfering in this matter.

Tang Cheng shook his head. "The Liu family has been planning this for who knows how long. I don't know if I can stop them, but as the town mayor, I have to go to the altar to take a look."

"Ugh."

A helpless sigh rang out, and an old man appeared in the snow at the doorway. He stood there quietly, as if he were one with the surrounding world, making it impossible for anyone to discern his true nature.

On the cane he was leaning on, a green-scaled, three-eyed serpent, about a meter long, was coiled and entwined.

"I'll stop you here, you can go ahead."

These words were spoken to Tang Cheng. Dense vines spread from the cane he was leaning on, and then grew rapidly around the walls and roof.

In no time, the room was surrounded and turned into a prison.

Although they couldn't figure out the old man's background, the three members of the Liu family were not the kind of people who would surrender easily.

Five different-looking source beasts, all exuding an aura of frost, appeared within the vine enclosure. As soon as they appeared, various ice blades and blizzards began to attack the vines without restraint.

The old man's expression remained unchanged. The third eye of the serpent on his cane opened, and its body instantly grew to about ten meters in length.

The serpent, seeing the gaps created by the attack on the vine enclosure, used its own body as a weapon to force back the people and source beasts that wanted to escape.

Tang Cheng seized the opportunity and quickly left through the gap that Elder An had left for him.

Looking at the teahouse, now completely destroyed, and the surrounding buildings, Old Master An's gaze revealed a calm and unwavering emotion.

"Let him suffer a bit. This Liu family head is a smart man; he can't be hurt."

Old An muttered to himself, it was unclear whether he was speaking to someone else or to himself.

Tang Cheng arrived on the street as he wished, and saw that many bodies covered with ice crystals were already lying on the street.

Some people carried charcoal on their backs and pretended to run, while others held thin children in their arms, as if only in this way could they give each other enough warmth.

Without needing to investigate, Tang Cheng knew they had all lost any chance of survival. This was just one corner of the town; there must be others in the distance struggling and dying in similar agony.

On the frozen corpses, ice crystals, radiating a halo and resembling magnified snowflakes, appeared, drifting towards the center of the town as if drawn by some force.

Tang Cheng tried to reach out and stop them, but the ice crystals, which looked like they had a physical form, became illusory after contact, and continued to float upwards without changing their path.

Tang Cheng turned to look at the graceful figure dancing in the center of the ice crystal pillar in the town center. A murderous glint flashed in his eyes. Then he straddled the "Azure Scaled Spirit Tiger" and sped across the houses toward the center.

……

Chu Shengfan, who was grinding Mingguang stone powder in his room, felt something and walked to the window to look outside.

I saw the enormous ice pillars, and the graceful figures dancing within them.

His fingers tapped unconsciously on the glass windowpane, making a crisp tapping sound.

Suddenly he seemed to hear faint cries for help coming from outside the courtyard.

The next second, he felt relieved. This was Yaoxintang, and it was perfectly normal for injured people to come here seeking help.

Chu Shengfan wanted to go back and continue grinding the jade powder, but the faint cries for help made it impossible for him to calm down.

His source beast, "Flower Medicine Butterfly," already possesses healing abilities; those mournful sounds might be of some help.

He pushed open the door and walked into the courtyard, only to find that the heavy snowfall that had been falling like goose feathers that morning was gone. When he looked up to observe, he discovered that a transparent dome had appeared above the entire Yaoxintang at some point.

It wasn't that the snow had stopped, but rather that it was being blocked by the cover.

Following the route he remembered, Chu Shengfan arrived at the entrance of Yaoxintang, only to find it in complete disarray, with people lying, sitting, and standing.

The once spacious hall had become incredibly crowded, as if everyone on the street had come here.

With more people comes a cacophony of sounds: soft sobs, loud wails, words of gratitude, and curses against God.

Through the crowd, Chu Shengfan looked towards the door. The heavy snow was still falling, seemingly without stopping, but the snow piled up to his calves without increasing in height. This sight seemed very strange to Chu Shengfan.

Before Chu Shengfan could even observe, a figure suddenly knelt down in front of him.

"Are you the young doctor at this shop? I beg you, please save my child's life. Please!"

As she spoke, her fingers, red and swollen from the cold, gripped Chu Shengfan's calf tightly. Before this, Chu Shengfan had never thought that an ordinary woman could have such strength.

Those around her watched the woman's actions with a numb look in their eyes.

To others, this woman was just grasping at straws in her desperation; what illness could a child possibly be cured of?

"Let go of me first. Which child is yours? Let me see him."