Binding successful.
Chu Yi immediately outlined the contract Array, using his eyes as the contract for the Pet Beast. In an instant, the gray-white Spiritual Energy was further refined, slightly tinged with milky white, becoming even purer.
Black Iron Rank 8!
This advancement speed is rocket-like!
Most of the credit went to Chu Yi's Superior Spiritual Talent, combined with two years of Cultivation.
Afterwards, a sense of exhaustion surged like a tide, and Chu Yi fell asleep. Not a word was spoken the entire night.
「The next day.」
Chu Yi walked out of his room, bringing along the exhausted little Bika.
Bika, unlike usual, was not sitting on his shoulder but was curled up in his pocket, its head drooped, looking drowsy.
The little guy had stayed up all night. Its golden-brown fox eyes had dark circles. When Chu Yi found it, there were eight empty bottles of Happy Water beside it.
As for Lulina, she was drenched from the Happy Water, soaked clean through...
A genuine wet-look temptation! Who the heck knew what those two had been up to.
Chu Yi felt a flush of embarrassment.
Following the Star Bracelet's instructions, he used warm water to clean the listless Lulina, planted her in a well-lit place, comforted her with a few words, and left her there to recuperate.
Impressive. I actually managed to wear out the healer on the very first day.
Immediately after, Chu Yi left the room.
His mind, however, was already pondering the creation of his first feast dish, intended to enhance Bika's abilities.
So-called feast dishes were like the specialty cuisine in Hero Knight. After consumption, they granted special effect boosts, and many included talents, skills, and attributes that had stacking limits.
Of course, excellent feast dish recipes had to be exchanged for evolution points. For example, the path to ascending to god and demon status required some extremely rare feast dishes.
Generally speaking, players made their own feast dishes. As for the effects…
It all comes down to luck.
"Bika is fire-attributed. I should check high-end restaurants for fresh meat from fire-type Pet Beasts," Chu Yi muttered to himself, clicking his tongue.
Pet Beasts, as companions for Beast Tamers, could also be used as ingredients.
For example, the most popular Scallion Duck, eaten with scallions, was incredibly delicious. Beast Tamers on missions in the wild loved to carry such creatures. When hungry, they could roast and eat them. They were as fresh as could be and even came with a side of scallions—very considerate.
In today's world, the Beast Taming system had developed quite maturely. Apart from Spiritual Energy technology, there had also been significant expansion in cuisine.
At the same time, Beast Tamers also heavily cultivated edible Pet Beasts. Pet Beasts were Extraordinary Life forms, rich in Spiritual Energy, which was also very nourishing for Beast Tamers.
I really want to taste that Scallion Duck.
Chu Yi and Bika couldn't help but drool. Bika was practically salivating, licking its lips. To promote the Scallion Duck, there was no shortage of television commercials, and it had also received five-star ratings from some experts. Soy-sauce duck, roast duck, stewed duck…
At this moment, a heavenly voice reached his ear.
"Does Senior want to eat Scallion Duck?"
Chu Yi was stunned. He immediately snapped back to reality, only to see two girls walking side by side from the street corner.
One of them had bright eyes and pearly teeth. Though wearing only a plain white dress, she possessed a fairy's grace and jade-bone beauty, appearing as ethereal as a celestial maiden. Her figure was... 'E'-normously stunning.
It's her! The wealthy and generous milk-tea junior!
The other girl was also quite pretty, but compared to the first, she looked utterly impoverished by comparison.
So young and already so flat-chested. Quite remarkable. Chu Yi didn't even give her a second glance.
"What Scallion Duck? Junior, did you mishear something?" Chu Yi feigned ignorance, refusing to admit anything even if beaten to death.
Chen Xi chuckled, covering her mouth. She approached, a light fragrance wafting from her as her pink lips moved slightly. "Senior, do you mind if we walk together?"
"YIP!"
Before Chu Yi could speak, Bika sensed something. It turned toward this white-dressed junior and caught a whiff of wealth. As Chu Yi's top-notch salesperson, Bika's eyes lit up, shining brightly as it stared intently at Chen Xi.
A wealthy girl would buy it chips!
"Such a cute little fox." Chen Xi's heart immediately softened.
Little Bika performed a comically cute routine, then leaped onto the large cup of milk tea, making a bewitching sound.
Cuteness attack!
Chu Yi was speechless.
"Senior, is this your newly acquired Pet Beast? So adorable," Chen Xi said, stroking Bika's little head curiously.
"But mid-tier Red Foxes are quite common in the wild." The ignored girl, the tragically flat-chested one, could no longer suppress herself and spoke in an unfriendly tone, "From what I observed, this Pet Beast isn't contracted. Senior, don't you have an impressive Pet Beast to show us juniors?"
Pausing, she seemed to realize something, a look of sudden enlightenment on her face. "Oh, I forgot. Senior, you're the 'oddity' in the academy, the one who still hasn't contracted a Pet Beast. My apologies for the offense."
"Shen Yun…" Chen Xi muttered, tugging at her sleeve, but she couldn't stop her friend from continuing her veiled sarcasm.
"However, I believe the academy is a place to train elite Beast Tamers, to guard the front lines and protect our country," Shen Yun continued, "not a place to idle away time, drifting aimlessly, wasting the resources provided by the academy, and taking up a spot meant for a true Beast Tamer warrior."
Shen Yun slapped a heavy label on him, criticizing from a moral high ground, "Senior, I have an unpleasant question: can this Red Fox of yours even fight? Can it go to the front lines?"
Chen Xi couldn't help interrupting, "Shen Yun, Senior is also working hard. He's proficient in Pharmacy…"
"Heh…" Shen Yun sneered. "Apprentice-level potions are mass-produced through automation. The academy sells them for 300 Federation Coins a bottle, yet he sells them to you for 1,000 Federation Coins each! That's more than three times the price! Such a useless good-for-nothing and a profiteer deserved to be kicked out of the Starfire Sequence last month."
Chu Yi remained silent. That 'automation' she's talking about is probably for those fake, low-quality potions, he thought. Only new students fall for that scam.
At this, Chen Xi anxiously glanced at Chu Yi. She couldn't understand why Shen Yun harbored such strong animosity towards the senior, as if she were naturally hostile to him.
This little firecracker... Chu Yi mused. I don't have any conflict of interest with her. Is she just crazy, or what?
"Junior, I have something urgent, so I'll take my leave," he said.
Thus, he called Bika over, turned around, and left.
Just a minor interruption, not worth dwelling on. Strength is everything.
Master Chu considered himself kind-hearted; he detested slanderers. Therefore, once I'm powerful enough, I'll silently dispose of this Shen Yun... You've already sown the seeds of your own demise!
"Xi Er, there are plenty of talented young men in the academy. Why bother with this waste?" Shen Yun said, taking Chen Xi's hand with concern.
Chen Xi watched Chu Yi walk away, then glanced at her friend, who suddenly seemed like a stranger. Her pretty face grew cold. "Shen Yun, tell me honestly, why are you deliberately belittling him?"
Shen Yun hurriedly explained, "Don't be angry. It's actually for your own good. Everyone knows Chu Yi is an 'oddity.' He still hasn't contracted a single Pet Beast. Instead, he delves into Pharmacy, fooling a group of instructors and tarnishing the academy's reputation."
Chen Xi's pretty face was frosty as she stared at her coldly. "I want the truth."
Seeing her friend genuinely angry, Shen Yun hesitated for a moment, then said helplessly, "Alright, I'll tell you the truth. The one who replaced him in the Starfire Sequence is my brother, Shen Tianqi."