Chapter 304: Give Me a Reason

“How is it? This Monarch’s appearance is still pleasant to your eyes right?”

Lou Mu Yan didn’t expect that the Thunder Monarch, who appeared so cold and noble, would ask such a question, and said with a smile: “It’s alright.”

The Thunder Monarch looked askance at her, snapped his fingers, and a seat fell beside Lou Mu Yan, “Sit.”

Lou Mu Yan wasn’t polite either. After sitting down, she asked straightforwardly: “I wonder what business you have with me, Thunder Monarch? I don’t have much time to delay here.”

She still had to rush to the top of the mountain to compete for the top three. If she was delayed and couldn’t make it to the finals because of this, who would she go looking to pay for the debt.

Lou Mu Yan’s attitude was very cold and indifferent, while the Thunder Monarch’s gaze was deep. One couldn’t tell his emotions.

This was the first time he had been treated to rudely—sure was interesting!

“Are you not curious as to why I am in this space?” A wine glass appeared in the Thunder Monarch’s hand, and he took a sip as he asked lazily.

He replaced ‘This Monarch’ with ‘I’, which could be regarded as a negotiation on an equal footing.

Lou Mu Yan raised her eyes, “I’m curious, but I have some guesses.”

“Let’s hear your guesses.” The Thunder Monarch shook his wine glass and said lightly.

“Presumably, the you in the competition space is your original body right?” Lou Mu Yan observed that the Thunder Monarch’s expression didn’t change, but his pupils constricted, and she continued: “What I saw in the Sunset Cloud Mountain Range was just your double.”

“Ha…” The Thunder Monarch pursed his light pink lips as laughter overflowed, but he didn’t sound that happy, “You are indeed not an ordinary Sword Master.

“You’re wrong. I am just an ordinary Sword Master.” Lou Mu Yan leaned on one hand on the armrest, her tone light.

The Thunder Monarch stood up and walked from the throne with a wine glass in his hand, tall and graceful.

He walked to Lou Mu Yan and squatted down. His deep eyes were as if they were going to suck her in, and after a while, he spit out a sentence: “Let’s sign a Contract of Equals.”

Lou Mu Yan’s expression was indifferent and there was no joy at all in contracting a Tier 9 Demonic Beast, “Give me a reason.”

“Isn’t it worth your risk to be able to contract a Mutant Royal Race Demonic Beast like me?”

The Thunder Monarch brought his face closer to Lou Mu Yan, his breath against her face, and his voice was hoarse and sexy with a hint of temptation: “Don’t forget, I’m a Tier 9 Demonic Beast. A Contract of Equals—only you benefit.”

“Keep away from me.” Lou Mu Yan furrowed her brows and pushed the Thunder Monarch away as she said with arrogance and dominance: “So what about a Tier 9 Demonic Beast? I’d rather not have a Demonic Beast than have one with ulterior motives by my side.”

Seeing his eyes flash, she sneered, “Maybe others will be overjoyed by this kind of ‘free pies falling from the sky1’ situation, but I don’t want to contract you at all.”

What a joke, there must be some secret with the human Almighties for the original body of this thunder beast to be bound in this competition space. Her mind would be broken if she felt that she was benefiting from this contract.

Even if she really had benefits, but the result would definitely be endless trouble.

The Thunder Monarch was startled, obviously not expecting that he would be disliked by this human Sword Master with low cultivation base.

“What do you want?” The Thunder Monarch asked, taking a deep breath to suppress the blazing fire in his chest.

Lou Mu Yan looked at him coldly, “Give me a reason why I should contract you first.”

“You are such a bold woman.” The Thunder Monarch chuckled, stood up, and walked back to the throne.

“A thousand years ago, when I was still a cub, I inadvertently passed through a Space Rift and flowed to this interface. It only took a hundred years for you human Almighties to discover this space and bring waves after waves of high-level Sword Masters here to sweep this place clean.

“At that time, I was just a Tier 6 Demonic Beast, powerless to fight.

“Originally, as long as one cultivated to be able to transform, one could break through the shackles of this space, yet who knew that those human powerhouses directly set up a Great Array to seal this place up.

“Later, every twenty years, they would send a group of young human Sword Masters into this space to participate in the Continental Tournament for Hegemony, and the goal was mainly to maintain the balance in numbers of Demonic Beasts.

“When I advanced to Tier 9, I once had a great war with your human Almighties for a few days. In the end, because of the restraint of this place, I failed to kill them successfully.

“Of course, they couldn’t do anything to me either, so we came to an agreement.”

“Since you have the ability to fight against those human Almighties, then why don’t you force your way out?”

Lou Mu Yan pondered for a moment, then, as if remembering something, suddenly looked up at him and said, “No. It’s your original body that can’t get out right?”

“Exactly. This Monarch’s original body is indeed bound by a mysterious force in this space. Unless I can break through to Tier 10, then I can’t get out with my own strength.” The Thunder Monarch’s deep and dark eyes deepened.

Lou Mu Yan raised an eyebrow, “Then you should cultivate to Tier 10. With your mutant talent, although it isn’t easy to advance to Tier 10, but it shouldn’t be that hard.”

“As long as this Monarch remains in this space for one day, it is impossible to cultivate to Tier 10.” The Thunder Monarch’s eyes were filled with coldness.

“Why? Is it the restraining power of this space, or the Array arranged by the human Almighties?” Lou Mu Yan asked in surprise.

“Both. Among those human Almighties, there was one Array Master who used the energy of this space here to arrange Arrays, making it so that all the Demonic Beasts in this place are unable to cultivate to Tier 10.” The Thunder Monarch snorted coldly.

If it weren’t that the human Sword Masters discovered this space when he was only Tier 6, how could it be possible for those people to easily succeed.

Lou Mu Yan chuckled, raised an eyebrow, and said: “You’re bound here by the human powerhouses, so why do you think I would help you?”

The grievance from this Demonic Beast isn’t small. If he left this space, then she really didn’t know if he would become a scourge or not.

“What if I gift you a great fortuitous opportunity?” The Thunder Monarch drank the wine in his cup and a drop of red liquid slipped from his lips along his collarbone, extremely sexy.

Lou Mu Yan rolled her eyes secretly. This Thunder Monarch was a little too seductive. Luckily she didn’t like this type of man, otherwise she’d probably be enchanted by him.

Meanwhile, Bing Ji who stood on her shoulder wasn’t so calm—his small eyes narrowed, and he couldn’t resist repeatedly shouting ‘beauty!’ inwardly.

“You’re bound in this space by the human Almighties, and you obviously have a lot of resentment towards the humans. Although a large, fortuitous opportunity is good, but I don’t want to become the sinner among humans and let you out to harm this land.” Lou Mu Yan said straightforwardly.

The Thunder Monarch looked at her in surprise and snickered, “I didn’t expect you, such a petty woman, to also have such an awareness. Truly rare!”

“Don’t forget that I’m also a human Sword Master.” Lou Mu Yan rolled her eyes at him.

“I do have some resentment towards those human Sword Masters, but I’m not hostile to humans.” The Thunder Monarch assured in a sincere tone, “As long as you take me out of this space, I promise not to mess around and kill human Sword Masters arbitrarily.”

His enemies had never been the human Sword Masters of this small interface.

Lou Mu Yan didn’t miss the monstrous hatred that flashed across his eyes very quickly, but that hatred really didn’t seem to be directed at those human Almighties.

It seemed that this Thunder Monarch was also a Demon Cultivator with a story.

“What you mean is that we will sign a Contract of Equals, and I’ll use the Spirit Beast Ring to take you out of this space, then you’ll be free.” Lou Mu Yan tapped lightly on the armrest of the chair with her finger.

The Thunder Monarch stared at the wine glass in his hand, “You’re absolutely correct!”

1Chinese idiom meaning to obtain something beneficial/what you want/fortuitous as if it just fell into your lap so easily.