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"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-chak.
"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.
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With that in mind, when the Two-Headed Amber Wolf was about to disintegrate into Amber Aura, Ye Xuan prompted his mind and communicated with the Seed of Beasts, causing it to shoot out in the form of a ray of light and fly into the two-headed Amber Wolf's Spirit Ocean.
Of course, he wasn't intending to contract that thing as his own beast.
He was just practicing with it.
Forming a contract with Lil Wan had been very easy.
But that was because Lil Wan hadn't resisted.
His next beast wouldn't necessarily be that easy to form a contract with.
For that reason, Ye Xuan had experimented on most of the monsters he had slain in the past few days before they died.
Roar!
However, before Ye Xuan could start his experiment, a series of rustling sounds cropped up in the forest in the distance.
Immediately, a behemoth walked out from under the hillside in the forest.
"That thing, it is…"
Seeing the behemoth walking out of the Amber Forest, Ye Xuan shuddered.
Revealing an expression of disbelief.
This behemoth stood at more than three meters tall and was five to six meters in length. Its entire body looked as if it had been cast in dazzling tricolor amber, and it had wings protruding from its ribs. Sure enough, it was an Amber Dragon.
A three-star grade Amber Dragon?
Wasn't it said that all Amber Dragons lay deep inside the Amber Secret Realm? Why would one be in the Amber Forest?
"Let's go!"
The moment he saw the Amber Dragon, he immediately put away the Seed of Beasts and unleashed his Mind Energy to retrieve the Amber Heart from the Two-Headed Amber Wolf, which had completely crumbled. Then, he ran away from the dragon with Lil Wan.
As they were running, Ye Xuan glanced at his and Lil Wan's attributes.
After three days of training, both he and Lil Wan had made great progress.
[Ye Xuan:
Warrior Aptness Level: Dark Iron
Warrior Level: Top-Level Warrior Apprentice
Beast Tamer Aptness Level: Mythic
Beast Tamer Level: Intermediate-Level Beast Tamer Apprentice
Seed of Beasts: 1
Beast: Ancient Wood Elf
Reverse Nurturing Ability: Nature Affinity (☆)]
During those three days, under Lil Wan's continuous reverse nurturing, his Spirit Ocean had widened, his Mind Energy had heightened, and he had already grown from a Low-Level Beast Tamer Apprentice into an Intermediate-Level Beast Tamer Apprentice.
On top of that, he'd gained Lil Wan's passive ability, Nature Affinity.
However, the Nature Affinity ability had dropped by one star when they'd arrived at this place.
But even so, the ability was still of great use to him.
Besides, compared to him, Lil Wan had improved even more.
[Ancient Wood Elf: (Lil Wan)
Beast Level: High-Level Apprentice
Beast Grade: ☆☆☆
Ability (1): Psychic Power (☆☆☆)
Level: lv3 (Proficient in own Mind Energy. Can achieve perfect control through further practice.)
Ability (2): Nature Affinity (☆☆)
Level: lvl4
Ability (3): Spawn Ironwood Thorns (☆☆☆)
Level: lvl2 (Good mastery over ability: Spawn Ironwood Thorns. Can achieve Adept Level through future practice.)
Ability (4): Conjure Tear of Life (☆☆☆)
Level: lv1 (Novice level. Can achieve Skilled Level through future practice)]
Lil Wan hadn't improved in grade during the last three days.
But her Mind Energy, however, had improved from the previous lv2 to lv3.
At the same time, her Spawn Ironwood Thorn ability had improved from lv1 to lv2.
It was precisely because of this that she'd been able to perform so epically in the previous battle against the Two-Headed Amber Wolf.
Rumbling!
As the Amber Dragon charged forward, the earth shook and rumbled.
And some massive verdant trees fell to the ground.
What's more, that thing was evidently coming after Ye Xuan.
Ye Xuan was sprinting forward, the beast behind him.
He had an awful expression on his face.
In these three days, he had made rapid progress in the Amber Secret Realm. Hence, he didn't want to leave this place so soon.
Feeling that the Tricolor Amber Dragon was getting closer and closer to him, Ye Xuan shouted, "Lil Wan!"
Lil Wan and Ye Xuan's minds were connected. After Ye Xuan shouted, Lil Wan immediately shot out an Ironwood Thorn.
All of the barbs on the Ironwood Thorn vine were lying flat. They seemed peculiarly docile. On top of everything, the whole Ironwood Thorn arrived in front of Ye Xuan in a blink of an eye.
With glittering eyes, Ye Xuan grabbed the vine, and Lil Wan lugged his body and brought him high up into the sky.
Whoosh!
When Ye Xuan flew up into the sky, the Tricolor Amber Dragon behind him charged forward to his previous location, stirring up violent winds that sent the fallen leaves on the ground into a chaotic flurry.
Ye Xuan flew to an altitude of five to six meters. He turned around only to see the Tricolor Amber Dragon stop in place, its claws leaving two deep ravines in the ground.
It could easily be guessed what would happen should the dragon's attack land on him.
[Monster Name: Dual-Winged Tricolor Amber Tyrannosaurus
Monster Level: Top-Level Apprentice
Monster Grade: ☆☆☆
Monster Ability:
Ability (1): Amber Tyrannosaurus Aspect (☆☆☆☆)
Ability Level: lv 4 (Has already developed Amber Aspect to perfection. Cannot be further improved. Possesses colossal strength, defense, regeneration, and resistance to all elements)
Ability (2): Amber Tyrannosaurus Roar (☆☆☆)
Ability Level: lv4 (Has already perfected the ability. Cannot be further improved. Deters other living beings with a bellowing dragonic roar, causing them to panic or even lose control.)
Ability (3): Amber Tyrannosaurus Claw (☆☆☆)
Ability Level: lv4 (Perfect control over own claws. Claws possess immense tearing power. Wields potent melee combat ability. Cannot be further improved.)
Ability (4): Amber Tyrannosaurus Whip (☆☆☆)
Ability level: lv4 (Perfect control over own Amber Dragon tail. Tail possesses terrifying attack power. Cannot be further improved.)
Evolution Path (1): Dual-Winged Five-Color Amber Tyrannosaurus. Requires 10 Amber Hearts of different classes (Top-Level Apprentice), Amber Dragon Heart (Top-Level Apprentice), and Inborn Amber Dragon Spring.
Evolution Path (2): Four-star Dual-Winged Amber Tyrannosaurus. Requires Amber Heart (Top-Level Apprentice) …]
"Holy sh*tcakes!"
Ye Xuan's Mind Energy swept across and immediately revealed the attributes of the Dual-Winged Amber Tyrannosaurus beneath him.
After seeing its attributes, he instantly cursed in his heart.
With such attributes, was this thing really just a three-star monster?
That was to say, if someone told him that this monster was the king of the entire Amber Secret Realm—that is, the four-star Amber Dragon that Nong Lejia and the other students had talked about—he would believe it.
Because this dragon's attributes were simply too great.
A three-star monster who wielded four-star grade abilities. How did that make sense?
What was even more incredible was that this thing had reached the maximum level in every ability. It was almost like it was running on cheat codes.
In these three days, he had seen a lot of monsters.
But most monsters didn't even have a single ability at maximum level.
"It's out of my league!" Ye Xuan sighed.
Such luxurious attributes coupled with the limits that it could reach with subsequent evolutions, as Ye Xuan had seen when he'd glanced at its attributes... made Ye Xuan almost instantly fall in love with this Dual-Winged Tricolor Amber Tyrannosaurus.
But unfortunately, there was absolutely no way he could take down this Tyrannosaurus.
Let alone contract it as his own beast.
Roar!
Seeing Ye Xuan rise into the air, the Dual-Winged Tricolor Amber Tyrannosaurus, whose first attack had missed, abruptly unleashed a thunderous roar, a chilling light flashing across its eyes.
The roar turned into a terrifying sound wave...
Enveloping both Ye Xuan and Lil Wan in an instant.
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[Tamed Beast (1): Ancient Wood Elf (Lil Wan)
Beast Level: Top-level Apprentice
Beast Grade: ⭐⭐⭐
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Beast Ability:
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.]
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"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 Star…
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.
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