Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children

Chapter 582 - 581: Dragon Bone Token

To be accepted into the Royal Guard was a great honor for any beastman, an affirmation of their status and position. If they worked hard, it wasn’t even impossible for them to become generals, commanding thousands of soldiers.

Now, they were being ordered to guard a female from outside the forest. Even though the young female was admittedly quite attractive, they still resented this assignment from the bottom of their hearts.

Ever since becoming members of the Royal Guard, they were met with flattery wherever they went. When had they ever been subjected to such coercion?

Suppressing their humiliation and anger, they set up a tent across the street and took turns standing guard.

Si Shuo and Xu Chi materialized inside the cave. Thankfully, they had an Array Flag that could create its own separate space when activated. ’Otherwise, wouldn’t we be living right under their noses, with no peace to speak of?’

She looked at the Dragon Bone Token in Xiao Cheng’s hand and reached out to study it, but he blocked her.

"There’s no telling what kind of trick is hidden in this thing. You’d better not touch it," Xiao Cheng said. He didn’t dare get too close to Si Shuo, his expression slightly tense. "I’ve kept my rebound superpower active this whole time, terrified I’ll fall into their trap without realizing it."

Ji Liang also frowned as he looked at the object in Xiao Cheng’s hand. "We also have items made from Bone Tokens outside the forest, but their functions are much simpler.

When Little Shushu and I first met, I gave her a Bone Token. The two Bone Tokens could sense each other.

This Bone Token is clearly much more High Level than any I’ve ever obtained. The problem is, we don’t have anyone who’s an expert in this field."

Si Shuo’s eyes glinted, and she smiled. "Haven’t I been studying all sorts of talismans? After mastering each one, I started combining and analyzing them. I figured out their most basic elements and the rules for combining them, and I even researched some bizarre and unusual talismans.

So I was thinking, if I replicate this Dragon Bone Token, I should be able to see exactly what tricks are hidden inside during the reconstruction process.

Besides, the replication process itself will be a form of purification, a way to strip away anything unwanted."

The beastmen considered this and agreed. Only by deconstructing the Dragon Bone Token could they learn what schemes were hidden within.

The only issue was that the best place for Si Shuo to replicate the Dragon Bone Token was an open area, one with abundant Spiritual Energy and a rich variety of elements. But if they left, they feared the Royal Guard outside would notice.

They had Spirit Plants with hypnotic effects, like the Green Cloud Vine, that could knock the guards unconscious and buy them some time. But first, they needed to confirm whether there were any other hidden observers besides the obvious guard detail.

The group quickly devised a plan. Xu Chi would take the Green Cloud Vine Spirit Plant to knock out the guards below. Meanwhile, Ji Liang would take Si Shuo to the Southwest Forest to perform the replication.

The other beastmen would turn invisible to observe and see which beastmen, if any, were alerted by the commotion.

And Xiao Cheng would continue to maintain his disguise as Si Shuo to mislead any onlookers!

The Dragon Bone Token was only palm-sized, but its bone was incredibly dense, making the replication process quite difficult for Si Shuo.

Replication meant deconstructing the original object entirely and recreating it on a one-to-one scale. Almost immediately, they smelled the stench of blood...

Ji Liang’s expression grew grim. "Only the most vicious forms of Magic use blood for refinement. This Dragon Bone Token has definitely been tampered with!"

A corner of Si Shuo’s mouth lifted into a smirk. She stripped away the replicated blood and, with her eyes still closed, continued to meticulously sense her way through the replication.

An unending stream of Spiritual Energy and various elements converged on her location. They slowly wove from a single point into a plane, then began to build upon it, layer by layer.

Soon, another stench assaulted their nostrils—this one nauseatingly foul.

The color drained from Yin Jiang’s face. "That’s the stench of a corpse—to be precise, it’s the smell of corpse oil. There’s a Witch Doctor near our home who loves to research evil things and often refines corpse oil.

Any object imbued with corpse oil will attract a certain type of power, which varies depending on the source of the oil.

But this kind of Magic is exceedingly evil. Both the creator and the user will suffer a backlash from the slightest carelessness!"

Si Shuo stripped that part away as well. She discovered the Dragon Bone Token was riddled with holes, filled with things like powdered bat teeth, weasel fur, and powdered snake scales, and then inlaid with Crystal Stones.

Forget the Beast World Continent; even in Si Shuo’s original world, these ingredients were the stuff of nightmares.

A Dragon Bone Token made with so many vile materials had been gifted to her by the Princess?

At the time, Little Hong had heard the Princess’s inner thoughts. The Princess had no idea about the sinister nature of the Dragon Bone Token and truly believed she was offering Si Shuo the best possible perk to win her over.

In addition to these materials, two simple runes were carved onto the Dragon Bone Token. Si Shuo paused the replication. With her eyes closed, she mulled over the runes she had just observed. After analyzing them repeatedly in her mind, she took out a blank piece of Beast Skin and began to draw a talisman.

She broke down the components of these runes. After she finished drawing the talisman, she tested it. One was a Child and Mother Sensing Talisman, which acted something like a tracking device; the Mother Talisman could pinpoint the location of the child talisman at any time, from anywhere.

The other one was designed to use nearby energy to self-destruct!

Luckily, they had the foresight to be cautious. They tore the talisman in mid-air and threw it. It was caught by a strong wind and carried far away, causing an anomaly in the surrounding Spiritual Energy.

Ji Liang immediately used Teleportation to move them a great distance away. When they looked back, they saw a mushroom cloud rising into the sky from the explosion.

"Heh. I bet this is a method the Royal Family uses to control its subordinates," Zhi Le said coldly.

Si Shuo pressed her lips together. The Dragon Bone Token was revered by all as a symbol of power. Everyone who received one, along with their own Royal Guard detail, felt immense pride and honor, never suspecting they were actually signing away their lives.

’Even the Princess is just one of the controlled. So who is the one holding the mother Dragon Bone Token?’

She also figured that remote detonation was a last resort, to be triggered only when a controlled beastman became disobedient—a liability that needed to be discarded. ’But what about before that point?’

’What purpose did the blood sacrifice, the corpse oil, and all those other vile materials serve?’

In any case, after a moment’s thought, Si Shuo continued to replicate a Dragon Bone Token, carving the sensing rune onto it.

After some more thought, she replicated the blood sacrifice component as well. This new Dragon Bone Token was about fifty to sixty percent similar to the original. The other party would be able to sense their location, but they wouldn’t be able to detonate it remotely.

They would figure out the rest of it bit by bit!

They didn’t dare to delay. Thanks to Gong You’s Time Law, they returned to the cave in no time at all.

The beastmen below were fast asleep, but other beastmen in the vicinity had sensed that something was amiss and were stealthily approaching to investigate.

But before they could reach the cave, they found that everything was back to normal. Even the beastmen who had been unconscious outside the tent were waking up, as if they had merely dozed off for a moment.

The beastmen hidden in the shadows quietly retreated.

"Did you get a clear look?" Wei Ce asked in a hushed voice.

Xu Chi, Zhi Qi, and Zhi Zhan nodded. Each of them had spotted one or two, and that probably wasn’t even all of the beastmen who were hiding in the shadows.