Seven Cubs, Seven Fathers, Zero Days Off

Chapter 212: Chapter 210: Seal Technique

Huang Ziyue was also a little puzzled, and his expression turned grave. After all, he had just carefully examined the two children’s bodies.

It was truly bizarre. The children were dead, yet their bodies were as soft as if they were still alive.

Just then, Shen Yue suddenly thought of something.

”Pull open their clothes.”

Upon hearing this, Huang Ziyue immediately and carefully pulled open the collars of the two children’s clothes at their chests.

The two wounds, now exposed to the air, were an unusual color.

The skin on the children’s bodies looked cold and was marked with livor mortis, but the wounds themselves looked as if they had just been inflicted.

Moreover, a faint aura of spiritual power was leaking from the wounds.

Shen Yue was taken aback.

”What’s going on? Why is there spiritual power?”

Huang Ziyue was just as baffled. He said,

”I’ll do it!”

Shen Yue immediately stepped aside.

Dark red spiritual power emerged from Huang Ziyue’s hand, and he gently passed his palm over the wound.

The moment his spiritual power touched the wound, a pale yellow spiritual power insignia abruptly shot out from it.

The insignia, glowing faintly like a Dharma Seal, hovered over the wound, shimmering in and out of view.

It seemed to be preventing any other power from interfering or drawing near.

Shen Yue watched in amazement.

”What is this?”

’It looks like a Seal Technique.’

Huang Ziyue said nothing, instead moving his hand toward Qi’er’s chest.

Just as his dark red spiritual power touched the wound, an identical Seal Technique made of spiritual power shot out from Qi’er’s chest.

Huang Ziyue frowned. He didn’t retract his spiritual power. Instead, he brought his slender fingers together and shot out a beam of even deeper red spiritual power.

It crashed directly into the Seal Technique.

Instantly, the Seal Technique’s yellow light flared, and the entire seal expanded several times in size.

It nearly enveloped both children’s bodies.

However, at that very moment, as if Huang Ziyue’s power had opened a channel, the pale green spiritual power within the children’s bodies gushed out.

This pure spiritual power, free of any impurities, flowed out and began to circle in front of Shen Yue.

Shen Yue was a bit stunned.

Watching the spiritual power float before her like strands of light, she asked in confusion,

”Is this the two children’s spiritual power?”

’They’re already dead, so why is their spiritual power still in their bodies?’

’What’s happening?’

She couldn’t help but reach out and touch it.

To her surprise, the next second, the spiritual power drilled into her body, wisp by wisp.

Shen Yue’s eyes widened as she felt her body instantly become filled with the spiritual power.

It was like a warm current, a spring breeze, flowing through her limbs and bones.

It then merged with her Vitality Power.

Then, it became a part of the vast vitality within her Spiritual Spring Space.

’She couldn’t believe it. Had the two children’s spiritual power actively entered her body?’

Huang Ziyue hadn’t expected the spiritual power to go straight into Shen Yue’s body either.

Alarmed, he immediately retracted his hand and steadied her.

”Shen Yue, how are you? Are you alright?”

He was afraid this spiritual power would harm Shen Yue.

After all, he didn’t know that the Divine Power within Shen Yue’s body could devour and absorb the spiritual power of others, converting it into her own strength.

Therefore, he feared that the spiritual power that had suddenly entered her body would have an adverse effect on her.

His worried expression warmed Shen Yue’s heart.

”I’m fine, don’t worry.”

Huang Ziyue studied her.

”Let me see.”

He passed his hand over her, only letting go after confirming that she was unharmed.

At the same time, he could sense that the two streams of spiritual power, after entering her body, didn’t seem to have affected her negatively at all. On the contrary, her aura had become even lighter.

’He was momentarily confused. Just how powerful was the energy inside Shen Yue’s body that it could merge with spiritual power?’

But he didn’t probe any further. As long as he was sure she was okay, he was relieved.

Just then, a sound came from outside the dark room. They feared that Huang Ziyue, by triggering the Seal Technique on the children’s bodies, had attracted someone.

Shen Yue’s gaze hardened. ”Someone’s coming!”

With that, the two of them quickly rearranged the children’s clothes, leaving no trace.

Huang Ziyue waved his sleeve, and the lingering auras in the room instantly dissipated.

In a flash, the two of them disappeared into the shadows.

But just as they hid themselves, a low, deep growl echoed through the room.

The sound was a heavy pant, rumbling as if from a deep chest, carrying both a threat and a warning...

The pair frowned, unsure what kind of animal could make such a huffing sound.

The next second, an elongated shadow was cast from the doorway.

It looked like some enormous beast with sharp ears and deadly claws.

The two of them immediately stared down with vigilance.

They watched as the shadow drew closer and closer, until the figure that cast it stepped into the room...

...and it was completely unexpected.

The creature that appeared, for a member of the Beast Clan, couldn’t be called large. In fact, it was rather small.

Its low-slung front, its waddling, portly body, and its soft, cat-like steps...

...and that big, round face that looked so adorably dopey.

Shen Yue’s pupils contracted. She recognized the creature on the floor at a glance.

’A Pallas’s cat!’

It was actually a Pallas’s cat.

Moreover, this Pallas’s cat had blue-gray fur and a huge tail that hung down like a thick feather duster, stirring up the dust on the floor with every sway.

When Huang Ziyue saw the Pallas’s cat emerge, he didn’t quite process it at first either.

He knew it belonged to the Cat Clan, but he also felt that this cat’s build was somehow different from others.

Just then, the Pallas’s cat on the floor narrowed its dark yellow, beastly pupils. Its fur bristled as it vigilantly scanned the room.

Its long, thick whiskers twitched, probing the subtle fluctuations in the air.

After a few seconds, it crouched low and then leaped powerfully.

Its agile body landed instantly on a ceiling beam. From above, its eyes swept over the area below, not missing a single spot.

Meanwhile, Shen Yue and Huang Ziyue were standing invisibly in mid-air not far from it. Its intensely aggressive, beastly eyes scanned inch by inch past their location.

Both of them watched it warily.

After the Pallas’s cat had prowled about for a moment and confirmed there was no one above, it leaped down again, landing on the two children’s bodies.

It then began to pace back and forth over the children, sniffing the air.

Shen Yue breathed a sigh of relief. She narrowed her eyes, watching to see what it would do.

’Could it be that the Seal Technique on the children was placed by this Pallas’s cat?’

At that moment, the Pallas’s cat below, having repeatedly inspected the children, seemed to discover something.

He instantly transformed into human form.

Huang Ziyue and Shen Yue both stared, their eyes fixed.

Hu Tu.

’This Pallas’s cat is Hu Tu?’

Hu Tu’s beast form was actually a Pallas’s cat.

Huang Ziyue’s gaze darkened slightly. ’It seems the Seal Technique was indeed set by Hu Tu himself.’

’Otherwise, he wouldn’t have rushed to the dark room so quickly.’

Shen Yue, of course, had also realized this. She felt that the Hu Tu who had just transformed seemed somewhat different; his temperament was completely unlike the Hu Tu they had met during the day.

Although his appearance and build were the same, his expression and the faint aura he exuded made him seem like a completely different person.

Both of them cautiously stared at the man below.

’No wonder,’ she thought. ’When I was in the main hall today, I felt the carvings on the floor were so familiar. They looked like cats, but not quite. They were fierce, with every depiction in an attack pose.’

’They were the very image of a savage beast, nothing like the docile, charmingly clumsy cats they were supposed to be.’

’Thinking about it now, wasn’t that the spitting image of a Pallas’s cat baring its fangs to hunt? So fierce, so aggressive—a perfect ambush predator.’

’So, this was Hu Tu’s true nature.’