The outcome of this conversation was clearly not what Mingyan wanted.

Inside the cave in the darkness, the firelight flickered.

His dark eyes stared at the female orc before him in the darkness, seemingly with the intention of seeing through her.

She was forging a metal he didn't recognize, sitting there watching the firelight illuminate her face.

"Si Yan." In the stillness of the night, the male spoke slowly again, "Are you curious about the two scars on my face?"

She looked at Mingyan, beads of sweat glistening on her face. She nodded: "Curious."

Si Yan slightly curved her lips: "Do you want to say it now?"

Mingyan slowly said, "In the Beast World, females are not only protected by males, but also by the Beast God."

"Beast God?" Si Yan was a little puzzled. Could this term really be more than just a belief?

Does this world have gods?

Mingyan's rough fingers touched the hideous wounds on his face, and he continued, "Although the Beast God has left, the protection of the females remains. These two wounds are from killing two females."

Si Yan was shocked: "You killed two females?"

Mingyan chuckled: "Yes, I killed my mother and my half-sister."

The male stared intently at her, not missing a single reaction or expression from her.

"Aren't you going to ask me why I killed them?" Mingyan suddenly asked.

Si Yan didn't know how to respond, and finally shook her head: "Don't recall it. Don't think about painful memories."

Mingyan's eyes flickered slightly, and a self-deprecating smile appeared on his lips.

His past was so sordid that she didn't want to hear about it at all.

Si Yan noticed something was wrong with him: "Ming Yan?"

The tall male stood up: "I'm leaving. Get ready, we're heading to Dark Sun Lake tomorrow."

Si Yan nodded. "Okay."

The Black Tiger Orc stood at the highest point in the city, gazing at the cold, enormous moon in the distance.

His face was cold and devoid of warmth.

He gripped the tree trunk, which shattered under the force of his knuckles.

In the animal kingdom, there are white-spotted tigers and yellow-spotted tigers, but there are no black tigers.

The day he arrived, the world suddenly turned dark. Yet, White Tiger City rejoiced, and the whole world celebrated!

His father beast lifted him up for the whole city to see.

Black tiger cubs, a symbol of the tiger god!

Originally, everything was beautiful.

It wasn't until the day his father died in battle that he noticed something was different.

The once gentle mother became paranoid.

She hated his father beast, but his father beast was dead.

Because he looked exactly like his father, his mother made him strip naked and stand in a corner to humiliate and shame him.

Not a single male dared to step forward and help him.

He seemed to have become accustomed to being the object of his mother's emotional outbursts and wanton humiliation.

Everything has changed.

He even hated his parents for creating such a beautiful dream for him.

She also hated her own mother for shattering this dream.

He was initially trying to be patient.

In the end, his mother looked at him with the eyes of someone looking down on something lowly, and said to him, "Mingyan, you filthy, lowly, and vile thing. You actually managed to cultivate into a Crimson Crystal Beastman. Well then, I'll marry you off to your own elder sister. She will take good care of you."

At this moment, Mingyan was utterly desperate.

He understood perfectly well that his mother only valued his abilities and was unwilling to let him leave her family.

On one hand, they felt disgusted and loathed him, but on the other hand, they wanted to drain him dry.

His two closest relatives, the two people closest by blood, used every evil means to try to possess him!

Everything that followed fell into place naturally.

He killed them.

He killed his mother and elder sister.

They also escaped that terrifying family.

Killing a female will be punished by lightning.

He remembered that day when he saw purple lightning strike from the sky, and he thought he was going to die.

But he survived the lightning punishment.

...

Hu Yong, bearing numerous wounds, awoke on the stone bed.

Once the person wakes up, the critical period is completely over.

His injuries weren't actually that serious. He sat up and saw the tall figure on the rocky cliff outside the cave.

He shook his head sadly.

Those adults are really having a hard time.

"Lord Hu Yong!" Hu Que immediately helped him up.

Hu Yong swayed slightly and continued looking at Ming Yan.

At a young age, he lost both his parents, his hands were stained with the blood of his loved ones, and his face bore the marks of a lifetime.

This brand transformed the most handsome male in White Tiger City into the ugliest male.

He escaped the pursuit of White Tiger City, enduring countless hardships before finally gaining a foothold.

He gained a foothold simply to survive.

Hu Yong knew everything about Ming Yan because he was Ming Yan's uncle.

He watched as the newly adult Black Tiger went through periods of uncertainty, gradually gained resolve, founded Black Tiger City, and established himself as a powerful force in the region.

But he also believes that the scars of the past have always been etched on him and have never left.

"I've always felt that if a female could truly love the adult, perhaps the adult could break free from the fear and constraints he had felt towards females in the past," Hu Yong thought. "However, the adult probably wouldn't like females anymore. Females are so fickle and so terrifying."

As a child, Mingyan witnessed so many females resorting to any means to obtain males. He experienced it all and developed a loathing and fear of females.

His purpose in growing into a powerful male was for freedom.

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