SSS rank Mother-In-Law to an Invincible Family - Chapter 446

Chapter 446: Situation In The Southern Continent
Meanwhile, the situation in the Southern continent was taking a turn that the psychic would not have imagined.

The trees were thicker here, the ground was darker, and the air had weight. Even the Spiritual Qi carried a kind of pressure that made it harder to breathe.

The beast forces that had arrived here expected resistance. They knew this was Monster Race territory.

But they also expected to push forward like they had in the West and East—break formations, scatter defenders, and move in fast.

That didn’t happen.

The first problem started within hours of arrival.

A beast squad scouting the outer forest vanished. No roar. No sound. Just gone.

The second problem came when their vanguard stepped into a clearing and triggered a chain of formation traps hidden under the leaves.

The ground swallowed dozens of beasts, dragged into reinforced stone pits reinforced by Spirit Beast bones and powered by the land’s natural Qi veins.

Some tried to crawl out.

They never made it.

Then came the poisons.

Not fast. Not flashy. Just slow, creeping toxins placed in the roots of the trees, laid out in talisman nets that activated only after the beasts had walked deep enough into them.

Several beast soldiers collapsed mid-step, their bodies twitching before going still.

The commanders pulled back slightly, thinking it was just one zone. A bad patch of land.

They were wrong.

The entire outer border of the Southern Continent had been rigged—months ago.

Not just by humans.

But by the Monster Race.

And the Xu family had only helped fine-tune the formations when they arrived to defend the area from human poachers.

Back then, they didn’t think they’d be using these traps against the beast faction.

But now?

It was working perfectly.

Three full beast battalions were now stuck in a stretch of jungle less than ten kilometers wide. And they couldn’t move.

Every time they stepped forward, something went wrong.

They lost someone to a sudden blade trap.

Or someone vanished in a flash of light.

Or worse, someone went missing and came back hours later, walking and breathing—but not speaking. Just staring.

They usually died within a day.

The beast commanders were not happy.

Inside a beast command bunker built from fallen trees and bones, the atmosphere was boiling.

“This is taking too long!” one of the commanders growled, slamming his fist onto a stone slab.

“From what we got, the monster race never really interacted with anyone other than the Xu family.

And we thought we had planned for that, but the situation is way different from the info we got!” another shouted.

“They’re not scattered,” a third muttered, staring down at a carved map. “They’re smart. They’ve been living here for quite a long time. They know this land better than we do.”

“Then why didn’t we burn the trees down?!”

“We have tried, but the trees seemed to be spiritual, and the only way they could burn is if a powerful cultivator used most of his power, which is not a good idea.”

“Also because every time we try, the forest fights back!”

The voices grew louder.

The ground outside trembled slightly, but it wasn’t from battle—it was from the beast army’s frustration boiling over.

The captains argued.

The soldiers paced.

They were beasts built for war—but they couldn’t even find an enemy to fight.

It was a joke.

A slow, humiliating march into a jungle that hated them.

And just when they were about to call for reinforcements and pull back to regroup, it happened.

One of the guards posted outside the command bunker screamed.

Then choked.

Then stopped.

Silence followed.

The commanders inside went still.

“…Did you hear that?” one of them asked, ears twitching.

Another stood and moved toward the entrance, eyes narrowed.

No sound.

Just jungle.

But something felt wrong.

He turned back toward the others. “Check outside.”

One of the captains opened the door and peeked out slowly.

The guard was gone.

Nobody.

No blood.

Just an empty patch of ground where he used to be standing.

They stepped out slowly, weapons raised.

Nothing moved.

Just the leaves.

Just the wind.

A few seconds passed.

Then, a few more.

The tension eased a little.

“Probably just got caught by one of those cursed vines again,” someone muttered.

But as they turned to head back inside, one of the captains stopped mid-step.

His foot twitched.

Then he froze.

“…Why can’t I move my leg?”

Another blinked. “What?”

He reached for his sword—but his arm wouldn’t respond.

“I… I can’t…”

Then his knees gave out.

His body fell sideways, stiff like stone.

The others watched in horror as more and more of them began to shake.

One dropped to his knees, growling. “Is this… a spell?”

“It can’t be. I didn’t feel any—”

Before he could finish, a blur moved across the trees.

Then another.

Silent.

Precise.

The beasts didn’t even get the chance to draw their weapons.

One was sliced clean across the back.

Another’s throat was opened before he could roar.

A third tried to run but collapsed mid-step, his legs cut from beneath him.

They didn’t even know what hit them.

The last commander standing screamed, “AMBUSH!”

But no one answered.

Because they were already dead.

He turned to run—but only made it three steps before a line of cold steel ran across his spine, ending it all.

Inside the command bunker, blood now soaked the wooden floor.

The entire leadership squad of the Southern Beast raiding force was dead.

Killed before they could react.

Before they could even scream.

A few minutes later, figures emerged from the trees, cloaked in brown and green, their eyes glowing faintly.

Some wore the sigils of the Monster Race—tribal paint, spirit bone necklaces, masks carved from tree bark.

Others moved more quietly, their robes darker, trimmed with silver.

Shadow members from the Xu family.

All of them were stationed close to the beast camp and were watching the whole time to see if they could find anything, but when they found out that they would withdraw, that was the cue for them to end this.