Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle

The Elf King waved his hand and rattled off a long string of elvish to the king beast elves down below.

Some of the king beast elves seemed excited, while others looked disappointed or melancholy.

They all knew the Elf King's orders—to destroy the entire underground crystal ore and drive out the humans, so the Phantom Spirit Elf Race could have a peaceful environment.

They didn't really care if the Conception Crystal Stones or the Crystal Essence were destroyed, but they'd run their base for hundreds of years and grown attached to it. Now, to just collapse it like this—most of them felt a wave of loss and pain.

A few king beast elves were actually pretty pumped and didn't give a damn.

Their base had been found by humans, and humans kept harassing them—if destroying the underground crystal ore would drive the humans away, they'd be thrilled. So what if the base collapsed? They'd just find a new spot and rebuild.

The Elf King channeled the Power of Realm and activated the contingency he'd left among the crystal stones and essences.

The crystal stones and essences would start resonating, spreading outward from the edge of the territory—expanding, spreading wider and wider. When the time came, the resonance would affect every last crystal stone and essence.

In the end, it would set off a Realm-scale blast, like a nuke, utterly destroying the entire underground crystal ore—collapsing it, burying it for good.

The territory was a full hundred thousand meters from the underground crystal ore, and with the barrier protection, they had nothing to worry about from the blast.

Xiao Ye and Cheng Bingxi had no idea what they were talking about.

Just as the Great Venerable Realm muscle elf returned to the territory, the two of them were transported into this massive underground grotto heaven by the circular halo.

The circular halo was mobile, following behind Xiao Ye's back.

It was easy to spot elves of the king beast bloodline—they naturally had an aura about them, either strong or faint, but always there.

Xiao Ye and Cheng Bingxi only had to sense for a second to tell which elves were regular bloodline and which were king beast bloodline.

"Bang!" Xiao Ye popped out from behind a giant boulder like a ghost, knocked out a king beast elf snoozing right there, then tossed it straight into the circular halo—right into the Holy Spirit Secret Realm.

This was the Elf Territory; none of them were on guard at all.

Next, Xiao Ye and Cheng Bingxi showed up by each huge stone cave in turn, bagging king beast bloodline elves one by one.

Since the two of them were concealed and nobody noticed, they moved at a crazy speed—they could grab one per minute, and in half an hour, together they'd caught over sixty.

But sixty king beast elves were nothing compared to the total elf population here.

According to Xiao Ye's estimate, there were at least two thousand elves in this place.

Just then, the Great Venerable Realm muscle elf came out of the hall, heading toward his own little boulder cave home.

He just happened to walk right under Xiao Ye's nose.

"Bang!" With a thud, Xiao Ye slammed a fist onto his head.

The muscle elf in the Great Venerable Realm shook his head but didn't pass out. He turned and, seeing Xiao Ye, immediately freaked out. For character sheets and glossaries, visit MV|LEMPYR.

"It's you!" he sent out a spiritual wave.

Xiao Ye laughed and said, "Yeah, what are the odds? We meet again."

The Great Venerable Realm muscle elf wasn't the least bit scared. *This was the Elf Territory, with the Elf King at the Great Venerable Realm holding down the fort, plus the Great Venerable Elders—what could he possibly be afraid of?*

"Heh heh heh! Human, you're dead meat, my king has already started the underground collapse bomb. In two hours, your entire underground mine will be totally destroyed."

He spoke with excitement, looking at Xiao Ye like he was already a corpse.

*To tell a walking corpse these secrets didn't faze him at all. Even if the word got out, so what? The crystal resonance was already in motion, and that Realm blast was going to happen in two hours, guaranteed.*

*The utter collapse of the underground mine was a sure thing.*

Xiao Ye's brow furrowed. *The Elf King actually wanted to wipe out the entire underground crystal ore?*

"Nice!" Xiao Ye clapped and cheered, clapping with glee, "That's awesome, the more you wreck, the better!"

Cheng Bingxi chimed in, "Yeah, we're all for it."

The underground mine belonged to the Hong family—if it went up in smoke, well, so be it.

Xiao Ye was absolutely thrilled about it.

When the time came, he'd shove the whole Elf Race into the Holy Spirit Secret Realm—not a single one would be left.

And the underground mine would be trashed by the elves.

The Hong family would probably bawl their eyes out after that.

It'd all be gone! Every last thing!

Nothing left!

Xiao Ye threw an arm around the muscle elf's shoulders, grinning, "You guys better really go all out with the demolition, can you pull that off?"

The muscle elf's grin froze. He was totally dumbfounded.

*This human should definitely not be reacting like this.*

The muscle elf sent a spiritual wave, "Wait! Did you not hear me? We're gonna destroy the whole underground crystal ore, and you're not even a little anxious?"

Xiao Ye shook his head, "Why rush? The underground crystal ore belongs to an old enemy of mine. The more you wreck, the happier I am—why would I give a damn?"

The muscle elf's mouth twitched, *a stampede of grass-mud horses rampaging through his mind.*

"Alright, enough talk, time for you to go," Xiao Ye said, and gave him a solid kick into the circular halo.

But then, Xiao Ye looked troubled.

*There were bound to be high-level combatants in the Elf Territory—Great Venerable Realm elves everywhere. There was no way there weren't more Great Venerables.*

*Trying to capture them all would be ridiculously tough.*

"Humans!?"

"You've got some nerve!"

"How dare you barge into our Elf Territory!"

A burly elf appeared overhead of Xiao Ye and Cheng Bingxi, speaking human words, face full of rage.

Great Venerable Realm! This was an elf elder at the Great Venerable Realm.

Turned out, just now, the muscle elf at the Great Venerable Realm had used bloodline power to notify this elder about the human invasion.

That's why this situation had come up.

"Boom!" The Great Venerable Realm let loose a massive aura, crushing down toward the two of them.

The gap in realms was just too huge, and Xiao Ye and Cheng Bingxi weren't even prepared to defend themselves. The overwhelming force hit them instantly, activating the protective mechanism of their Kunpeng Pendants.

In a flash, two white lights flared, teleporting them both away—while the circular halo remained where it was.

The elf elder at the Great Venerable Realm saw them vanish and didn't let his guard down, instead ordering two teams of Revered Realm patrols to guard the place, forming a circle around the halo.

Meanwhile—

"Splash!" "Splash!" Two splashes sounded.

Xiao Ye and Cheng Bingxi landed right in a bathtub.

And there was someone else in the tub, soaking.

It was Dean Kunpeng, Yunxi—she'd seriously gotten into baths lately, basically taking one every day, sometimes for several hours at a stretch.

Xiao Ye felt himself touch something soft—and on reflex, he squeezed it a few times.

Yunxi swiftly launched both of them out of the tub with a kick, flashed back to her bedroom, got dressed, and came out to the living room, blushing bright red.

Xiao Ye scratched the back of his head awkwardly and said, "Dean, sorry about that, I didn't see anything."

Yunxi rolled her eyes at him. The bathroom was all steamed up; of course he hadn't seen anything.

But—he'd copped a feel.

"So, what happened to you two? You used up both Kunpeng Pendants in one go," she asked.

Xiao Ye explained what had happened and said, "Dean, there's way too much high-level combat strength in that territory, and way too many of them. Maybe you could step in and scoop up every elf in that territory, and throw them all into the Holy Spirit Secret Realm!"