For ease of movement, Zhi Le and Zhi Zhan stuck together with Si Shuo.
Zhi Le was guarding Si Shuo, while Zhi Zhan leaped out with the two masked Iron-eating Beasts accompanying Bai Xiao, Xiao Cheng, Witch Doctor, heading straight for the Eldest Prince and Second Prince.
The Eldest Prince was already surrounded by thirty to forty High-level Beastmen. When they saw Zhi Zhan rushing over, they left half to protect the Eldest Prince while the rest pounced on him.
Zhi Zhan sneered as the lightning in his hand morphed into a thick, purple Thunder Whip. As he brandished it, the lightning issued a deafening crack, like a thunderbolt splitting the sky, striking fear into the hearts of the Beastmen.
Lightning attacks were formidable and naturally conductive. On top of that, Xue Bao, a creature that could destroy Spiritual Power, was sitting on Zhi Zhan’s shoulder.
In other words, the Beastmen’s Protective Shields were rendered completely useless!
The Beastmen were heavily reliant on their Protective Shields. It was like a soldier going into battle without his armor; the psychological pressure alone was immense.
By now, Zhi Zhan had already woven a massive net of lightning, trapping all of the Beastmen, including the Eldest Prince.
He grinned as he brandished the Thunder Whip. The Beastmen had no room to dodge and were forced to play a deadly game of hide-and-seek with him in the narrow, crowded space.
Whenever a male was struck by the Thunder Whip, he would convulse, his fur standing on end, and then collapse to the ground, unconscious.
As their comrades fell one after another, the remaining Beastmen were on the verge of collapse, only managing to resist passively with gritted teeth. If not for their fear of the Eldest and Second Prince’s brutal punishments, they probably would have thrown the two brothers to the wolves by now.
But they didn’t last long under Zhi Zhan’s Thunder Whip, dropping one by one and hitting the ground with stiff thuds.
The Eldest Prince’s face was a ghastly sight. Finally, he dropped to his knees and bowed his head. Though his expression was one of bitter resentment, his voice was filled with remorse and sincere repentance. "Sir, my brother and I were blind to have offended such esteemed guests.
We’ll—we’ll take you on a tour of the Crystal Stone Mine right now. Take anything you want!"
Looking at the unconscious forms of the High-level Beastmen piled on the ground, the Eldest Prince trembled with fear, terrified of becoming one of them.
These were the guards the two brothers had spent a fortune to hire, and yet he never imagined that thirty or forty of them couldn’t even defeat a single opponent.
Such terrifying power completely surpassed the definition of an expert on the Yongchang Continent.
Zhi Zhan raised an eyebrow. "And what if we want this entire mine?"
The Eldest Prince clenched his fists. This was his and his brother’s most profitable mine. ’Just moments ago,’ he thought, ’we were so sure. With all the experts gathered here, how could we not be saved? How could we not get our revenge?’
The reality was, not only had they exposed their main base to Si Shuo and her group, but they were also too weak to defend it.
Did he even have the right to refuse? Out of the corner of his eye, the Eldest Prince saw that the Second Prince had also been defeated, and he sank further into despair. "Sir... you-you have to at least leave a little something for my brother and me, don’t you?"
Bai Xiao, Xiao Cheng, Witch Doctor smiled. "Don’t worry. We’ll leave some for you. In fact, there’s no upper limit. It all depends on whether you’re capable of taking it."
Si Shuo nodded in agreement. "Year after year, you’ve been shipping laborers here to mine for you. But these Beastmen are barely fed, and the work is so grueling and endless that they can’t even survive the coldest season.
This is tantamount to slow murder! As the Eldest Prince and Second Prince, you’ve plotted against your own people. What right do you have to be called Princes? What right do you have to work for the prosperity of the Beastmen?"
The fight on the Second Prince’s side had also ended. He knelt on the ground, his face ashen with defeat. "We know we were wrong. We swear we will never do something so outrageous again.
Please, Bai Xiao Witch Doctor and Si Shuo Divine Servant, for our Father’s sake, please don’t hold this against us.
Under your supervision, we will certainly learn how to properly care for our people and work for the prosperity of Guanping Country..."
His words were prettier than a song. Si Shuo just smiled and glanced at Zhi Zhan.
Without her having to say a word, the lightning in Zhi Zhan’s hand split into two streams that shot straight toward the Dantians of the Eldest and Second Prince.
The lightning was incredibly fast. By the time the Eldest and Second Prince even perceived it, the attack was over. They only felt their lower bodies go numb, with no sensation of pain.
And yet, they had seen the lightning strike. Its power and speed were so terrifying, it was beyond imagination!
With a wave of her hand, Si Shuo revived all the men who had been lying on the ground. They opened their eyes and scrambled to their feet.
"Come on. Tell me what wrongs you’ve committed. Are you truly worthy of the Beast God’s trust?"
Sure enough, as soon as she finished speaking, the newly awakened men couldn’t stop themselves from reviewing their own memories, searching for all their past transgressions.
Little Hong read their memories. Almost none of them were innocent; their hands were all stained with blood.
Si Shuo’s eyes flickered as she began pointing. "You, you, the one at the very end, and you in the second row..."
She pointed out seventeen men in one go. For every man she indicated, Zhi Zhan would give a casual glance, and a bolt of lightning would descend from the heavens, striking the Beastman’s Dantian.
With their Dantians destroyed, these Beastmen could no longer practice Cultivation. Even though family background was highly valued on the Yongchang Continent, personal strength was also extremely important—it was the very foundation of their confidence.
Without their cultivation and superpowers, no matter how talented these males had been, they would now be ostracized and despised.
Needless to say, the Eldest and Second Prince now had no hope of ever becoming the Beast King.
And all the pain and cruelty they had inflicted upon other Beastmen would now be visited back upon them, leaving them to live with bitter, unending regret.
"Alright. You will all continue to supervise and maintain the mine. Otherwise, their fate will be yours," Si Shuo said coolly.
The guards who had just recovered scrambled to nod in agreement, not daring to show the slightest hesitation. They even swore oaths to seal their promise.
Si Shuo chuckled softly, then formed a Spring Breeze Technique and kindly cleared away most of the lightning’s lingering aftereffects for everyone present.
"There. Now that you’re all feeling better, hurry up and get to work! You don’t need someone cracking a whip over you, do you? After all, that’s exactly how you used to treat others.
You know what needs to be done, how fast, and to what standard of quality. Get to it. If anyone’s work is unsatisfactory, you can just expect to have your tasks increased!"
The feeling had just returned to the Eldest and Second Prince’s bodies. They still couldn’t believe that Si Shuo had managed to cripple their cultivation right under their very noses.
But when they tried to check, they couldn’t sense any circulation of Spiritual Energy within their bodies at all.
"Impossible! Si Shuo Divine Servant, you must be playing a joke on us, right? We’re Princes! How could we not have superpowers?
You... you’re abusing your position to settle a personal grudge! Our fathers will avenge us..."
"Avenge you? I think you mean they’ll be sending you the bill," Si Shuo said with a smile, unhurriedly pulling a small notebook from her pocket and beginning to read from it.
The woman was relentless, rattling off everything written in the notebook all at once: the incidents, the locations, the names of the witnesses, and so on...
Who could listen to the list of crimes, one after another, and not be filled with righteous fury?