The price of Tier One energy crystal stones varies between 800 and 1200 Dragon Coins, and with each tier increase, the price doubles.
The price of Tier Two ranges from 1600 to 2400 Dragon Coins.
Tier Three prices range from 3200 to 4800 Dragon Coins.
Fortunately, the energy crystal stones of the Insect Type and Poison Element are in huge supply, so their prices are among the lowest of many energy crystal stones.
Mo Qingchen looked towards the Tier Three energy crystal stone exhibition cabinet and quickly found the Insect Type and Poison Element energy crystal stones.
[Tier Three Insect Type Energy Crystal Stone: Priced at 3200 Dragon Coins]
[Tier Three Poison Element Energy Crystal Stone: Priced at 3400 Dragon Coins]
Goodness, the two energy crystal stones the size of pigeon eggs need a total of 6600 Dragon Coins.
This time, it looks like bankruptcy is on the way!
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South City Suburb.
Mo Qingchen gazed deeply at the iron barrel on the table filled with honey.
At this moment, within the iron barrel, a beige Exotic Beast Egg with black stripes was soaking in the golden honey.
As time went by, the once dull and lackluster Exotic Beast Egg was now coated in a faint silver glow.
After 3 hours of soaking, the golden honey had turned pale white, as if all the nutrients had been completely depleted.
And through visual inspection, the state of the [Unicorne Egg] had shifted from life-threatening to sub-healthy.
Using Telekinesis, Mo Qingchen gently lifted the egg from the honey and controlled a cloth to wipe the surface of the eggshell clean.
His gaze shifted slightly to another iron barrel placed on the table.
Incubation Plan 3 required soaking this egg in [Great Needle Bee Queen Honey] for three days, then using Tier Three Insect Type and Tier Three Poison Element energy crystals for incubation.
Three days is not a long time; he could take advantage of these three days to hunt and earn some quick money.
Otherwise, without money, it would be impossible to continue nurturing the Guardian Beast.
He placed the [Unicorne Egg] into the Bee King Honey for soaking, then sealed the barrel, storing it in the Space Backpack.
This was the slum; his home was beside the large garbage dump, where the daily human flow was not small.
He dared not leave the egg at home, taking it with him for safety.
After packing some items into the Space Backpack, Mo Qingchen left his house, taking out a large lock to secure the door.
Then he walked along the edge of the garbage dump to reach a sewer manhole cover.
The old manhole cover was covered in rust stains.
Rodent-like Exotic Beasts hidden in the city generally hide in dark, damp places like the sewers during the day.
In addition, these rodent Exotic Beasts reproduce quickly and can spawn a litter every month, with the authorities often issuing tasks every quarter to recruit a large number of Beastmasters to enter the sewer for cleaning.
Now it's only June; it's been two months since the last cleaning and one month until the next, so there are quite a few rat monsters in the sewer during this period.
Now that he has become an Apprentice Beastmaster, although he hasn't contracted an Exotic Beast yet, the talent grants him bonuses. Even at Tier Zero, Mo Qingchen is not afraid of the malnourished rat monsters, also not at any tier, in the sewer.
Casually moving the already loose manhole cover, he looked at the pitch-black passage as a spiritual fluctuation radiated from Mo Qingchen's body.
Ever since awakening his talent, Mo Qingchen had naturally grasped the changes brought about by the talent.
For example, the use of Spiritual Power.
He extended his Spiritual Power out of his body to explore the surrounding environment; 1 point of Spirit allows the Spiritual Power to extend 1 meter outside the body.
Spiritual Power can move objects, even lift himself, letting him fly.
In short, the uses of Spiritual Power are many, and the skill [Telekinesis] derived from his talent made it easier for him to master how to control objects using Spiritual Power.
For example, spinning sharpened steel bars to strike targets at high speed.
With just a thought, he could do it with ease.
He could even precisely pierce the eyes and other weak points of targets.
This is the confidence why he dared to enter the sewer and kill monsters for money on his own.
The meat of rat monsters is purchased by the slaughterhouse, selling on the market for 200~220 Dragon Coins per jin, with a purchase price of about 120.
The most common mutated rat or Rattata in the sewer usually weighs about 10 jins as an adult, providing 4~5 jins of meat.
Lived beside the garbage dump for the past four years, Mo Qingchen has stabbed to death a total of eight rat monsters, selling the bodies to the slaughterhouse, making an unexpected fortune.
With Spiritual Power probing, even if the sewer was pitch-black, he could still sense the surrounding environment.
Before he even went down, the Spiritual Power had already detected the movements of the rat monsters.
In the sewer, around a corner five meters from where he was standing, a grown mutated rat was hiding.
This was a somewhat emaciated mutated rat; its gray-black fur matted together appeared very dirty and cluttered.
Its emerald-green eyes tinged with blood-red, sharp incisors, sharp claws, a tail longer than its body, draped by the side of the gutter.
At that moment, this 0.4M tall rat was very alertly looking towards the sewer entrance.
Mo Qingchen squinted slightly, taking out a steel bar he had prepared long ago from his belt.
The steel bar was as long as chopsticks, as thick as a pinky finger, and sharpened at one end.
With the manipulation of Spiritual Power, the steel bar silently floated up, then began to spin gradually, slowly descending from the opening.
The probing of Spiritual Power was all-encompassing without dead angles, so the steel bar was controlled by Mo Qingchen to avoid the sight of the mutated rat, approaching its blind spot in vision flying above its head.
"Whiz!"
The steel bar rotated breaking through the air, piercing accurately into the eye of the mutated rat, straight into its skull.
One hit, a kill!
[Notice: Beastmaster killed a mutated rat (LV3), Beast gained 3 points of experience.]
[Notice: It is detected that the Beastmaster has not yet contracted a Beast, the Beast's gained experience automatically dissipates.]
Mo Qingchen: (╬￣皿￣)???
Beastmaster kills monsters, and the Beast gains experience?
Are you kidding me?!
Mo Qingchen's face was full of question marks, not thinking about what kind of nonsense logic this was.
No wonder most of the Beastmaster's equipment is for escape and various protection abilities and rarely increases combat abilities.
Beasts kill monsters, earn experience to level up, and increase power.
Beastmasters kill monsters, and the Beasts earn experience to level up and increase power.
The Beastmaster's tier is linked with the Beast, the stronger the Beast, the more attributes it feeds back to the Beastmaster.
So the Beastmaster just needs to stay behind and remotely command the Beast to deal with monsters, huh?
So, Mo Qingchen is considered an anomaly for tearing monsters by hand, right?
What kind of crap is this?!
The sudden unexpected event left Mo Qingchen speechless.
No wonder in the courses teaching Beastmaster knowledge, it was never mentioned that Beastmasters upgrade by killing monsters themselves.
Because Beastmasters couldn't gain experience by themselves from killing monsters, there was no need to teach it at all.
It also made him understand why those Apprentice Beastmasters who couldn't pass the novice trial dungeon, causing their [Abyss Pattern] to be wiped, would forever sever their path as a Beastmaster.
Even if they kept the Attribute Panel, without the contract of a Beast, they couldn't improve their tier, completely stuck.