Chapter 86 The Mistress Favored Me

Rupert knew he shouldn't bother the Mistress with everything.

But the female messenger is the earth walker of the mother tree.

Any changes in the cursed land could be blessings bestowed by the Beast God and the Mother Tree.

Rupert always believed that the arrival of the female messenger was the opportunity, the change, and the future for the Lion's Roar tribe, and even the entire Cursed Land.

Now that the female envoy is nowhere to be seen, the protective barrier should be safe.

He had no choice but to leave.

"Then we won't disturb the female envoy's rest any longer. If there's anything, you can come to me and the chief female envoy anytime."

Hollen nodded.

After seeing Rupert and the group of orcs off, Hollen turned to look at Iyuexi, finally having time to sort everything out.

"what happened?"

Yi Yuexi stroked her chin and thought for a moment, unsure of what she should say and what she shouldn't.

After all, as far as he knew, the Golden Lion Clan and the Cursed Lands had some secret connections.

Yi Yuexi didn't want the female master to get involved, so she simply waved her hand and said.

"You should go ask Lu Liufeng and the female master."

He glanced at Mu Ling in the ruins out of the corner of his eye, and his explanation became even more perfunctory.

"As for Mu Ling, you can ask him yourself when he wakes up."

Mu Ling appeared to have lost control of his beastman form and fainted, but Yi Yuexi could sense that he was alright.

And who knows, he might even have his own destiny, just like him and Lu Liufeng.

Hollen's blue lion eyes narrowed slightly.

He knew that something must have happened just now.

But he may not have the right to know about this.

After all, of the several beastmen, he and Duan Si are the only ones who are certain to leave.

It's understandable that they're being wary of themselves since they're leaving.

However, the thought of being excluded still left Hollen with a vague sense of unease.

"I see."

Yi Yuexi didn't care about his feelings, and instead asked him to lend a hand.

"Help me move Mu Ling into his room."

"With such heavy snow, it's not good to keep him outside all the time."

Yi Yuexi was in a good mood, so she started doing good deeds for the beast.

When Huo Lun moved Mu Ling's wolf form, he noticed that Yi Yuexi's supernatural aura had become much stronger.

It must be because he had just broken through and was still unstable that the energy overflowed and was noticed by him.

However, this time, he did not ask again.

Because he knew that Yi Yuexi wouldn't tell him anything.

He then carefully sensed the aura of his subordinate, Mu Ling.

However, apart from being weak and having no supernatural abilities, Mu Ling was no different from anyone else.

But an almost impossible idea still popped into Hollen's mind.

After moving Mu Ling into the house, he stood by the door, his gaze involuntarily drifting towards the room where Lu Liufeng and the female master were.

There wasn't time to think about it carefully before, but now that I recall it, could the dirt on Lu Liufeng's body be impurities that overflowed from his body when he broke through to a higher level?

Hollen was aware of Lu Liufeng's special abilities.

While in the Holy City, Lu Liufeng already showed signs of breaking through the third major stage and entering the fourth major stage.

However, upon arriving at the Cursed Land, he was suppressed to the third major stage and could no longer break through.

Then... how do you explain everything he just saw?

Hollen thought for a moment, then knocked on the door.

He didn't probe; he asked directly.

"Lu Liufeng, have you entered the fourth stage?"

A soft "hmm" came from inside the room, followed by Lu Liufeng's voice.

"Let's boil some water in a pot. If the mistress wakes up later, she might want to take a bath."

The female master is clean-loving, so you can prepare hot water in advance.

Lu Liufeng and Yi Yuexi had different ideas.

Lord Yiyue was on guard, preventing Holen from knowing too much and thus letting the Golden Lion Clan know everything.

But Lu Liufeng's main goal was to win over Huo Lun and bring him onto the same side.

When a ship capsizes, no one is spared.

After all, given Hollen's intelligence and strength...

Living under the same roof, you can't protect yourself from him.

The fact that Lu Liufeng broke through the curse seal and entered the fourth major stage could not be kept secret.

If they encounter a severe battle on this glacier journey, the fact that the female master can extract the beastman's powers will not be kept secret.

The more you keep things from Hollen, the further away he will be, pushing him away from the female master and back to the Golden Lion Clan, making him completely stand on the side of the Golden Lion Clan, only for the Golden Lion Clan and not for the female master.

Therefore, Lu Liufeng not only did not intend to hide it, but also wanted to make Huo Lun inseparable from the female master.

However, Lu Liufeng did not intend to tell him that Mu Ling might come from the long-lost Zu Lin.

The Golden Lion Clan's ambitions are too great.

Hollen will keep this a secret from the Golden Lion Clan to ensure the safety of his mistress.

However, they might not necessarily keep quiet about it for Mu Ling's safety.

Hollen, standing outside the door, was stunned for a few seconds before he came to his senses.

For a moment, his expression was complicated.

He didn't expect that Lu Liufeng wouldn't hide anything.

Hollen knew that Lu Liufeng's breakthrough must be related to the female master.

He could somewhat guess what he was thinking, but after a moment of silence, he simply said...

"knew."

inside the house.

Lu Liufeng held the female master in his arms, sitting in a chair, his heart unable to calm down for a long time.

He turned his palm up, and an invisible wind spread outwards.

In an instant, the area around him seemed to transform into two different worlds from the rest of the room.

He can sense everything happening in the surrounding area, if he wants to.

However, he did not unleash his wind-based abilities.

Because this is not a superpower.

This is... field.

A small number of orcs with bloodline power may possess a domain if they can break through the fourth major rank and enter the Earth rank.

The High Priest of Eagle Strait was a powerful Earth-rank expert who possessed the Rain Domain.

Within this territory, beasts cannot roam.

A domain can greatly enhance the abilities of orcs while suppressing the abilities of other orcs within it.

Everything within my domain is at my command and under my control.

If the domain is powerful enough, even if the body perishes, it can remain permanently manifest in the outside world.

Legend has it that the Boundless Sea is the domain left behind by a dragon-orc who died thousands of years ago.

Only beastmen with dragon blood can enter the Boundless Sea.

For this reason, Lu Liufeng had been speculating whether the Cursed Land was also a domain left behind by some powerful figure a thousand years ago.

Today, in his heart, this guess has become vaguely certain.

In the past, he only felt an overwhelming pressure that made it hard to breathe when he saw the cursed land.

But after he broke through to the fourth major stage and suddenly possessed a domain.

He had a different feeling about the cursed land.

Besides pressure, there is also a sense of rejection and subtle resistance.

This is the unconscious incompatibility, exclusivity, and uniqueness between fields.

Lu Liufeng never imagined that he could break through the third major stage and enter the fourth major stage in the Cursed Land.

He never imagined that he could possess a domain at the fourth level.

This is...unbelievable...

Even the ancestral beasts are probably no better than this.

Of course, Lu Liufeng knew even better that he had obtained all of this because of the female master's favor.

He lowered his eyes and looked at the sleeping woman in his arms.

He raised his long, slender fingers and gently touched the woman's face.

The female had regained two-thirds of her fair complexion; she was exquisite and beautiful, more beautiful than any female he had ever seen.

But it also stirred up a sense of unease in his heart for no apparent reason.

Even after he reached the fourth major stage and possessed a domain, making him difficult to rival at the same stage, he still felt uneasy about not being able to protect the female master.

Lu Liufeng looked at the female master and murmured.

"I'm still too weak."