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

After about seventy or eighty percent of the aphrodisiac had been consumed, he would be able to show himself and use the excuse that Xiao Ye had violated the City Lord's Daughter to kill Xiao Ye on the spot.

So he waited, and ended up standing there for several hours, yet there still was no sign that things were wrapping up. His legs were starting to go numb.

"Damn, this Xiao Ye's physical strength was freakish. If only I had half his power—no, even a tenth of his power would be enough."

"They overdid the dosage on the aphrodisiac—a few more hours at least."

"*I just hope the City Lord's Daughter didn't develop feelings for him, or else things would get ugly for the Hong family afterward.*"

"*Still, doesn't matter what happens, the kill mission is going to succeed for sure.*"

The man in the gray clothes gave Xiao Ye a thumbs up, his eyes brimming with jealousy and envy.

He decided he would wait a few more hours before giving Xiao Ye a quick, painless death—not letting him suffer too much.

Meanwhile,

Inside the Elf Territory, Yunxi was watching everything happening in the underground crystal ore, paying special attention to Xiao Ye.

When Mu Qingxue was poisoned and tried to find Xiao Ye to cure her, Yunxi had thought about stepping in to stop it and detoxing the City Lord's Daughter herself.

But a figure stepped in front of her.

It was Patriarch Hong, Hong Dingtian. After glancing around at the beastless Elf Territory, his face darkened, and he said, "Kunpeng Venerable, you captured the entire Elf Race, you trying to start a war with the Hong family?"

Yunxi replied coldly, "So what if I am."

"Hong Dingtian, you must really be senile by now. Xiao Ye belongs to me, and you dare touch him?"

"You actually dared to set up a plot to kill him!"

Hong Dingtian was startled. Hong Tao had already set up the plan to kill Xiao Ye? And Yunxi already knew.

*Hong Tao, damn it, just useless… How many times did I warn you: if you want to get rid of Xiao Ye, do it in secret so neither of the Kunpeng Venerables gets wind of it, but look at you—barely started and already the Kunpeng Venerable knows what's up.*

"What, got nothing to say now that I exposed you on the spot?" Yunxi sneered.

The auras of the two Venerables erupted with terrifying power. The Grotto Heaven couldn't withstand the impact and began to collapse.

Hong Dingtian narrowed his eyes, forced a laugh, and said, "I'm guessing some youngster in the Hong family had a grudge with your man—bit of a junior feud. You're a top-level Venerable, isn't it inappropriate to butt in?"

"Competition between juniors is normal enough. And you, using that excuse to catch my Spiritual Illusion Elves—aren't you overdoing it a bit?"

"Juniors?" Yunxi found it hilarious, "Since when did the Hong family get so powerful? Great Venerable Ten-Star Realm is still a junior now?"

Hong Dingtian's smile froze, and he shot back, "You sure that junior is really a Great Venerable Ten-Star?"

Yunxi didn't feel like wasting words with him, and immediately prepared to teleport into the cave to drag people out.

But since Hong Dingtian was a top-level Venerable, how could he let Yunxi leave so easily?

"If you don't return the Elf Race, you're not getting out alive today," Hong Dingtian shouted, his aura vast and unfathomable, Dao Rhythm Realm so dense it was almost tangible radiating out around him.

Once the Dao Rhythm Realm covered the whole Grotto Heaven, in an instant it transformed into a Dao Rhythm Domain.

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Earth Dao Rhythm, Earth Domain!

Hong Dingtian's Contractor template was [SSS-Rank Earth Bear King Template], with the earth attribute.

This Grotto Heaven was home court for him.

Inside this space, the spatial factors became a little harder to manipulate. Yunxi's teleportation paused for a split second—that split second was all Hong Dingtian needed to seize the chance and attack her.

First, he used Earth Dao Rhythm Domain to expel the spatial factors from the Grotto Heaven, making them extremely scarce.

Then, he unleashed the domain's special skill effect.

[Strength increase x10, and the terrain becomes a cage to trap enemies]

The land around them instantly turned into chains and cages, imprisoning Yunxi. Hong Dingtian threw a punch straight for Yunxi's face.

With a blow from a top-level Venerable, if it were a mere Vajra Venerable, they'd probably be seriously injured.

But Yunxi just curled her lips into a slight smile and looked unfazed.

She activated her own Spatial Body, gathering all the spatial factors from the entire Grotto Heaven in an instant and taking them for herself.

Innate Skill: [Spatial Shatter].

Just as Hong Dingtian's punch was about to land, space centered on Yunxi cracked like a spiderweb, and with a bang, it suddenly shattered. Everything inside—rocks, soil, plants—split apart as if torn by invisible hands.

Hong Dingtian immediately withdrew, retreating, cold sweat popping up on his forehead.

If he hadn't pulled back, he'd have been shattered along with the space—and even if his body didn't break apart, he'd have been badly wounded for sure.

"Retreat, retreat, retreat!"

As he backed out, the entire Grotto Heaven's space began to collapse.

The Earth Dao Rhythm Domain fractured instantly. Hit by the backlash, Hong Dingtian hurried away in panic.

In just a few seconds, the Grotto Heaven of Elf Territory became a churning void—endless spatial turbulence and spatial blades rampaged through, and even spatial storms appeared.

The world had a self-repair function, but to restore this space entirely would take at least a few days.

High in the sky tens of thousands of meters above, Hong Dingtian gasped for breath, his face black with gloom. He'd lost that contest.

He simply wasn't a match for this Kunpeng Venerable.

Space was king, time was emperor—those words weren't just talk.

His attribute was earth, and at the same level, a Kunpeng Venerable with the spatial attribute could easily crush him single-handedly.

"So, is that all you've got? And you thought you could keep me here?" Yunxi appeared close by, full of contempt as she spoke.

Hong Dingtian fell silent. It looked like he really wasn't getting the Elf Race back, and it seemed this Kunpeng Venerable wasn't planning on letting him off, either.

"So what do you want?" he asked in a low voice.

Yunxi's pretty face was cold as ice as she said, "The Elf Race is a warning to the Hong family. If you go after Xiao Ye again, next time, it's going to be the Hong family's territory that disappears!"

Threat, a naked threat! Next time it was the Hong family's turf that vanished—that meant every Hong Family Member inside would vanish too!

*She meant to wipe out the entire Hong family!*

Hong Dingtian's chest heaved and his fists clenched tight.

*He wanted to fight Yunxi to the death, but he couldn't. Odds were he'd die while Yunxi would get away completely unharmed.*

After a long silence, he accepted reality and surrendered, saying, "I'll discipline that junior and warn every Hong Family Member—compete fairly, but no one is to make a move to kill Xiao Ye."

The word 'junior' was just an excuse to save face, but his stance was clear—the Hong family would give up trying to kill Xiao Ye and erase his name from the must-kill list.

The iciness in Yunxi's eyes faded a notch, and she snorted, "Glad you know what's good for you. Goodbye."

Watching her leave, Hong Dingtian felt thick waves of frustration and gloom welling up inside.

The Elf Race had been captured—the Hong family would lose at least forty to fifty percent of its assets, but there was nothing he could do about it.

"Hong Tao, damn it, you rushed it, tried to pull a fast one and got burned instead. Xiao Ye didn't get killed, and you practically invited a wolf into the house—shoved forty or fifty percent of our fortune right out the damn door." Hong Dingtian's face was livid as he tore open a spatial rift and returned to the Hong family—he was about to go beat someone up.

Meanwhile,

Yunxi appeared once again in the Elf Territory. After noting that the world's laws were gradually repairing the space, she didn't pay any more attention and departed directly.

She arrived at the cave where Xiao Ye was, flashing into place to stand right before Xiao Ye—who was in the middle of his business, big eyes staring at each other with her.

"D-Dean, you're here?" Xiao Ye was beyond embarrassed.

Yunxi's beautiful eyes turned cold, "What, you're not happy to see me? Want me to step outside for a bit?"