I was terrified! Raising a colossal star beast in the Beast Taming World

Chapter 255 Words That Cannot Be Spoken

Xue Youyou was stunned, a clear look of surprise appearing in her eyes. This information completely shattered her previous understanding of the Imperial Ritual.

She leaned forward slightly and pressed on, "Then who is the organizer of this Imperial Festival?"

She suddenly realized a possibility and blurted out, "Could it be... it's you and Taiyin? Is that why you know so much?"

"Even a fool would know that's impossible!"

Mutsuki's expression became even more speechless, as if she had heard some utterly absurd joke.

"Taiyin is merely a divine beast, not a deity. The two are worlds apart, okay? How could we possibly be qualified to hold an Imperial Ritual! If we truly possessed such power, we could have crushed you with a single stomp during the competition. Would I have lost to you then?"

She grew increasingly angry as she spoke, her tone revealing genuine resentment, as if a sore spot that hadn't yet healed had been touched.

"Besides, if this Imperial Festival hadn't caused your Divine Snow Woman to evolve inexplicably, I wouldn't have lost!"

"That's true..."

Xue Youyou thought about it seriously, and it seemed that this was indeed the case.

It's not that I think Mutsuki can beat her.

Indeed, as Mutsuki said, she could not possibly be the organizer of the Imperial Festival.

In fact, the sudden arrival of the Imperial Festival directly ruined Mutsuki's important plans and completely harmed her.

Both logically and emotionally, it doesn't seem like the other party's doing.

If this was truly a trap set by Mutsuki, then what was her purpose in setting herself up like this?

Xue Youyou returned to the clue she had just been working on, and said thoughtfully, "Actually, I've heard people say before that Yue Lanzhou was formed from a fragment of the Moon Realm."

She looked up at Mutsuki and tentatively asked, "Could it be the legendary moon goddess who disappeared in the long river of history?"

This time, Mutsuki nodded first, then shook her head.

Her expression became subtle, as if she hadn't expected Xue Youyou to know such a high level of secrets, and a hint of re-examination flashed in her eyes.

"You even know such a secret."

She paused for a moment, seemingly weighing how much to say next, and ultimately chose to reveal some of it.

"However, this is the most reasonable guess at the moment. Actually, I think so too. Even if it wasn't the Moon Goddess herself who took action, she must be involved."

She lowered her voice, then changed the subject, adding, "But strictly speaking, none of us have any way to confirm this speculation at the moment. Let's just call it 'proof of the devil' for now."

Upon hearing this, Xue Youyou chuckled and said, "Why do you sound more surprised than I am about this Imperial Festival?"

However, this sentence seemed to trigger a switch.

Mutsuki immediately put on a show of pouring out her grievances, as if the resentment that had been building up in her heart for a long time had finally found an outlet and was pouring out.

"What do you mean by 'quite unexpected'? It means I never expected it! It's like a bull charging in and smashing my grand plan, which I've spent years painstakingly laying out, into pieces."

She spoke faster and faster, pouring out her pent-up feelings like beans being poured out, without even taking a breath.

"My original plan was to win this league championship, then rightfully challenge for the position of alliance leader, and naturally take the position of the new leader of the Moon Orchid Pet Alliance. At that time, I would have influence in both the legitimate and illegitimate worlds, and unify everything—"

As she finished speaking, her voice suddenly lowered, and the last two words seemed to be swallowed back into her throat, ending abruptly.

She then suddenly realized that she had become so engrossed in her conversation with Xue Youyou that she had almost unknowingly revealed the deepest ambition hidden in her heart.

I made a mistake I shouldn't have made...

Mutsuki silently slapped herself in the face.

"Ahem, we've gone off-topic."

She cleared her throat, feigning composure as she forcefully steered the conversation back on track, though a faint blush crept into her ears.

"Let's continue with the Imperial Ritual."

Xue Youyou blinked her beautiful eyes. She seemed to have heard something incredible just now... something about the underworld and the legitimate world, something about unifying the martial arts world, and so on.

However, she wasn't interested in these power struggles; whoever wanted to be the leader could be.

"As I just mentioned, the Imperial Ritual is organized by an organizer. Since there is an organizer, there must be a purpose for holding it."

Mutsuki's voice rang out again.

"Based on the imperial sacrifices I found in ancient books that are clearly recorded in history, the purposes of the imperial sacrifices were different."

"It could just be a game played by some deity to pass the time, a whim, like humans casually placing a few pieces on a chessboard. Or it could be hiding some extremely terrifying reason, concerning cause and effect, sacrifice, or some kind of rule that we cannot understand."

She extended a finger, the tip drawing a white line on the water's surface, as if demarcating a boundary between life and death:

"If it's the former, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks for the chosen participants. While the gods' games are capricious, the blessings they bestow are unimaginably abundant. But if it's the latter—"

She paused, her gaze hardening, and said, word by word:

"It's possible that in the end, no one will survive."

"For example, this time, we were branded with this ominous mark right from the start, which probably means they have ill intentions."

Mutsuki's voice lowered even further, as if she were stating a conclusion she herself was reluctant to admit.

Xue Youyou was slightly taken aback, but after a moment, she chuckled softly. The smile was gentle, yet it carried an undeniable sharpness.

"Hehe, it's better if it's not good."

Seeing Xue Youyou's slightly excited smile, Muyue shook her head speechlessly, as if looking at a fool who didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth.

A moment of silence hung between them, broken only by the gentle lapping of the water.

Then, Mutsuki suddenly changed her tone, her voice becoming softer than before, as if it were just casual conversation, falling unintentionally onto the water's surface.

"Let me scrub your back, as a... reward."

"Huh?!"

A big question mark immediately appeared above Xue Youyou's head. She subconsciously shrank back, pressing her back against the stone wall of the bathtub.

What's going on? We were just talking about life and death, how did we suddenly jump to scrubbing people in the bathhouse?

Isn't this topic jumping a bit too far?

Xue Youyou is essentially a conservative and good girl.

However, before Xue Youyou could react, Muyue's hand had already touched her.

The movements were slow, yet carried an undeniable certainty.

Moreover, the hand lands on the inner thigh.

—Where the hell are you rubbing?!

Xue Youyou froze, a fine shiver quickly rising on her skin, instinctively wanting to dodge.

This position, this distance, is really going too far.

However, the next second, her body stopped.

Because she could feel it—Mutsuki was on her lap, writing characters with her fingers, stroke by stroke.

The movements were slow and clear, cleverly blended with the scrubbing motions, so that without careful observation, one could not discern anything unusual.

She was using the guise of "scrubbing herself in the bath" to convey some unspeakable message to herself.

Now that it's just the two of them alone, they can't even say these things face-to-face—

What could it be?

A deep sense of doubt welled up in Xue Youyou's heart.

She stopped dodging and instead held her breath, focusing all her attention on the fingertip that was slowly moving across her thigh, carefully distinguishing the transitions between Mutsuki's strokes, word by word.

However, after she received Mutsuki's secret message word by word, a look of disbelief and incredulity suddenly welled up in the depths of her eyes, which had been filled with mere curiosity.

The shock was like a boulder falling from the sky and hitting a calm lake, creating ripples almost as great as when I learned that the Yuki-onna of the Goddess of the Ages had embarked on the path of mythology.

She looked up and met Mutsuki's eyes, which were more serious than ever before.

In that instant, she could clearly sense that Mutsuki wasn't bluffing.

Those eyes held no ulterior motives, only the most earnest and stern admonition.

Even so, Xue Youyou still found it hard to believe. She opened her mouth, wanting to subtly confirm something with Muyue.

However, before the words she wanted to say could even form in her throat—

There was a knock on the bathroom door.