"Ring ring ring…"
At that moment, Ye Xuan's cell phone suddenly rang.
Ye Xuan picked up his phone and tapped on the answer button.
A man's voice came through the phone. "Hello, is this Mr. Ye Xuan? I'm the courier for Divine Wind Express. The items you bought online have arrived. Is there anyone at home?"
"Yep, I'm at home. Please deliver it to my unit," Ye Xuan said.
Tap tap tap.
His family lived on the third floor. After a while, as the sound of footsteps on the stairs came from the corridor, he opened the door and walked out of his room.
Ye Xuan looked at the young man holding a courier package and said, "Hello, I'm Ye Xuan."
When the courier saw Ye Xuan, he didn't immediately hand over the package to him. Instead, he took out his mobile phone and said, "Sorry, I'll need to take a photo of you for this delivery to confirm your identity."
"Alright." Ye Xuan didn't turn him down.
The things he'd purchased totaled over 60,000 dollars, so it was only natural that his identity had to be confirmed beforehand.
Besides, when he'd made his purchase, he had selected the option that only he himself could receive the items.
Ka-chk.
"Alright, that's about it."
With a click of his camera, the courier took a photo of Ye Xuan and confirmed his identity.
Then, he gave the few packages in his hands to Ye Xuan and asked him to inspect them.
"At last!"
After everything was over and the courier had left, Ye Xuan closed the door.
He excitedly opened the three packages that he had already roughly inspected just now and took them to his bedroom.
Next to Ye Xuan's ear, Lil Wan grabbed a strand of his hair, which was particularly long in her tiny hand, and asked nervously while swinging around on it, "Ye Xuan, will this really work?"
"Rest assured!" Ye Xuan said firmly. "This is the talent that I've awakened. As long as I use these materials, I can completely alter your aptitude and quickly make you stronger.
"Lil Wan, when you become stronger, I'll need you to protect me."
"Alrighty!"
Lil Wan nodded her head forcefully.
Ye Xuan had already told her before that he would be able to upgrade her today, which had naturally surprised her.
However, in this era, there were indeed geniuses who gained all kinds of strange perks when their Beast Taming talent awakened, allowing them to quickly raise certain beasts' star ratings.
Click!
While he talked to Lil Wan, Ye Xuan swiftly took out a green crystal, which was stored in a wooden box, from one of the packages.
This green crystal, which emanated fluorescent light, was the thousand-year-old Core of the Ancient Wood. It was worth 3,000 dollars.
Then, he opened the second package, which contained a white porcelain bottle.
Contained within this porcelain bottle was the Dark Iron-Grade Tear of Life, which was worth 30,000 dollars per drop.
A black seed was inside the last package.
For the seed, Ye Xuan had opted for a Dark Iron-Grade Ironwood Thorn seed.
The seeds of the Ironwood Thorn were considered to be the more expensive type among Dark Iron-Grade vine seeds.
A vine completely covered in iron thorns would grow from this seed.
"I must succeed!"
Looking at these three materials, Ye Xuan once again glanced at the exquisite, lovely Lil Wan, who had stopped swinging around on his hair and was standing on his shoulders with all her trust placed in him. Then, he took a deep breath.
"Editor!" He focused his mind, directly opened the attribute panel in his head, and selected edit.
Bzzz!
In an instant, a strange purple light poured out of the center of his forehead.
It shrouded Lil Wan, who was standing on his shoulder, and all three materials placed in front of him.
It didn't last for long.
In probably just about two or three breath cycles, the purple light abruptly stopped shining from between his eyebrows with a whoosh.
After the purple light vanished, the three materials placed in front of him were all gone.
"Lil Wan!" Seeing this, Ye Xuan's heart couldn't help but pound as he hurriedly reached out a hand to his shoulder to make sure that Lil Wan was still there.
Swoosh!
Just as he stretched out his hand, he saw Lil Wan turn into a ray of light, then gently hop off his shoulder and into his palm.
As soon as Lil Wan fell into Ye Xuan's palm, she said to him impatiently, "Ye Xuan, I succeeded. I can feel it. I've become stronger. And I think I've even gained some new powers."
Though he felt relieved to see that Lil Wan hadn't vanished, Ye Xuan hurriedly asked, "Do you feel okay?"
According to the Beast Editor, editing wouldn't cause any side effects, but even so, he couldn't help but worry about her.
After all, Lil Wan had been by his side for more than ten years, ever since he was a child, and had long become one of his closest companions.
"Nope, I feel great now," Lil Wan said briskly. She seemed very happy.
Unable to contain herself, she even started dancing around in Ye Xuan's palm.
She was performing an elf dance.
In the past, she had often been disappointed with herself for not being able to help Ye Xuan.
But now, she was finally capable of assisting him.
After Lil Wan assured him that she was okay, Ye Xuan immediately opened the attribute panel, which displayed Lil Wan's stats.
[Tamed Beast (1): Ancient Wood Elf (Lil Wan)
Beast Level: Top-level Apprentice
Beast Grade: ⭐⭐⭐
Ability (1): Psychic Power
Ability Grade: ⭐⭐⭐
Current Ability Level: lvl 2 (Due to the massive enhancement in Psychic Power, proficiency over Psychic Power has dropped by a level to "Skilled." Can return to "Adept" level through practice.)
Ability (2): Nature Affinity
Ability Grade: ⭐⭐
Current Ability Level: lvl 4 (max)
(Affinity with nature. Can absorb Spirit Aura at all times, thus enabling the restoration of Mind Energy and physical strength at a faster pace. Has been maxed out due to editing; cannot be further improved.)
Ability (3): Spawn Ironwood Thorns
Ability Grade: ⭐⭐⭐
Ability Level: lvl 1 (Fundamental mastery of spawning Ironwood Thorns)
Ability (4): Conjure Tear of Life
Ability Grade: ⭐⭐⭐
Ability Level: lvl 1 (Enables the conjuring of one Tear of Life droplet of the same level as the elf.
The Tear of Life can be used to perform the restoration technique. Ability can be leveled up through multiple uses.]
"These attributes…"
After reading Lil Wan's attributes, Ye Xuan's was gaping in surprise.
This time, Lil Wan had not only been upgraded from one star to three stars…
But starting from the rank of Low-Level Apprentice, she had skipped over the rank of Intermediate-Level and was now a High-Level Apprentice.
At the same time, she'd gained two very useful abilities.
First, was the Spawn Ironwood Thorn ability.
One could say that with this ability, Lil Wan finally had combat capabilities and the power to protect herself.
Next was the conjuring of a Tear of Life of the same grade as herself.
Ye Xuan thought he was seeing things when he saw that she now had this ability.
Currently, Lil Wan was still at a low level. If the Tear of Life she conjured were to be sold, it would only be worth about 500 to 600 dollars per drop.
But after she advanced to the Dark Iron Level, she would really be his cash cow.
A Tear of Life droplet was worth 30,000 dollars, which equated to 900,000 dollars per month.
His parents worked hard every day, but it would take them over six years to make that much.
Besides…
A beast's cultivation speed not only depended on the beast's star rating…
It also depended on the aptitude of the Beast Tamer.
The better the aptitude of the Beast Tamer and the higher the star-rating the beast had, the quicker the beast could evolve.
With his Mythic-Level Beast Tamer aptitude, paired with Lil Wan's current star rating, it wouldn't take her too long to advance to Dark Iron Level.
What's more, not only had Lil Wan's star rating increased after the upgrade, but even her two previous abilities had improved in grade.