Chapter 82: You Feather-Plucking Scoundrel!!!

The Mandragora King was severely disciplined by the Sunflower King.

While the Mandragora King, having awakened self-awareness, was indeed very precious, its personality was too vile and it refused to be disciplined.

If it wanted to survive properly as a member of the Breeding House, it had to first learn to control its mouth and accept an education of love.

For example, Dahui's Aiziwujinshanlei, the Sunflower King's Aizitongkubiantuo, and the Myriad-Change Silkworm's Aizhisiwangningzhi.

Even the Little Charcoal Dog and Xiao Xue have ways of expressing their love; one breathes fire, the other breathes snow.

The Mandragora King felt that it was being suppressed to death by this bunch of Pet Beasts in the Breeding House, and was nearly driven insane.

It might be the first medicinal herb with awakened self-awareness to be driven insane by a human.

To prevent this old geezer from escaping, the Sunflower King's Tier 2 Clone was watching it from 360 degrees without any blind spots.

Hundreds of eyes were staring at it; whether it opened or closed its eyes, all it saw were eyes. Just thinking about it made it shudder.

Furthermore, to prevent its voice from harming others, Ye Bai had wrapped the Mandragora King's mouth with over a dozen layers of transparent tape.

The Mandragora King shed tears of regret; it had actually become a prisoner.

Especially that white and chubby big fat silkworm, which was looking at it with greedy eyes, sticking out its tongue to lick its lips from time to time, and revealing eight neat teeth—this guy was definitely wanting to eat it.

It was afraid, truly afraid. It had entered a den of thieves, hadn't it? Mommy, I want to go home!

After finishing with the Mandragora King, Ye Bai took inventory of the good things the Sunflower King had brought back after clearing the Beast Tide.

The rewards from the Pet Beast Unions of other cities had already been deposited into the account of the Jiaying City Pet Beast Union. Among them, 20% was the commission for the Jiaying City Union's referral, 20% was distributed to the school as payment for leasing the school's Tier 2 sunflowers, and the remaining 60% would be transferred to Ye Bai.

What the Sunflower King brought back included many golden circular solids, as well as many electric-type crystal cores.

【Thunder Gall: A thunder-type treasure nurtured by the Ancient Lantern Fish. When it impacts the ground, it can trigger a violent explosion, with an effect comparable to a Sky Thunder Seed.】

【Tier 3 Electric-type Crystal Core: An electric-type crystal core condensed from the body of an Ancient Lantern Fish. It is usually found together with a Thunder Gall. Humans only know that the Ancient Lantern Fish is a poison-type Pet Beast, but they do not know that individual Ancient Lantern Fish can condense electric-type crystal cores.】

【Sapphire Heart: The most essential part of the Ancient Lantern Fish's body, usually growing next to the poison sac. Only a chef with superb skills can carefully remove the Sapphire Heart.】

This was a treasure the Sunflower King brought back from Deep Sea City.

Ye Bai had heard of this ingredient; it was hailed as the A8-grade marbled beef of the deep sea, a B-grade ingredient. The meat was extremely tender, just like eating tofu, and it was very juicy.

This was the dream meat in the hearts of many gourmets. It was said that eating a piece could make one feel as if they were floating in a celestial state.

However, because it grew together with the poison sac, and the poison sac was only one micron thick, it was fused with the Lanbaoshizhiriou.

If not handled properly, the chef would be contaminated by the Highly Toxic substance and die from poisoning, and the Lanbaoshizhiriou would also be inedible due to the contamination.

Therefore, chefs capable of processing the Ancient Lantern Fish were not common, and every one of them had a waiting list starting at three years.

Colorful pearls the size of an infant's fist rolled onto the ground; they were large and round.

【Deep Sea Pearl: A natural pearl nurtured by deep-sea Luoke. When ground into pearl powder, it has beauty and skincare benefits.】

This was a gift the Sunflower King brought from Three Waters City.

Although Luoke-type Exotic Beasts exude corrosive and sticky liquid after death, they, like seashells, can nurture pearls.

It was just that this type of Exotic Beast was too rare, so the Sunflower King had picked up a bargain.

This kind of colorful pearl would surely drive many noblewomen crazy.

This was only a portion of them; there were still quite a few stored with the other sunflowers.

As for Stone Wisdom City, besides the treasures obtained through barter by the Pet Beast Union, there were also various high-purity metals. These were metallic substances digested and condensed by the Ore Beast after consuming them.

There were also the Ore Beast's canines, which were like two sharp daggers. These were the hardest parts of its body. After the Ore Beast consumed metal ores, it would extract a portion of the metal essence and condense it onto its canines.

However, the Ore Beast's canines were simply too hard; even a cutting machine used for stone materials could not shake them in the slightest.

Therefore, the people at the Shihui Shi Chongshou Gonghui all knew the value of the Ore Beast's canines, but they had no way to remove them.

It was said that the cleaning company only managed to remove the Ore Beast's canines and sell them at a high price after transporting the carcass away and using controlled demolition.

"Sunflower King, you are now the 'Manager Hua' of the Sunflower King Cleaning Company. My respects, my respects."

The Sunflower King had an honest look on its face; no matter what its status was, it was Ye Bai's Pet Beast.

Back when the Fangyuan Breeding House was at its lowest point, when the sunflower advanced from Tier 1 to Tier 2, it was Ye Bai who spent all his savings to treat it and bought expensive potions to save its life. The sunflower had also relied on its own willpower to break through the Tier 1 bottleneck.

From that moment on, the sunflower decided to spend its whole life guarding Ye Bai, even if it meant sacrificing its own life, it would not hesitate.

At this moment, the Sunflower King clapped its hands, and seventeen Tier 3 sunflowers stood out. Three Pet Beasts as cute as little fairies also flew out from the Sunflower King's flower disk.

The Sunflower King looked smug. Although these were all Tier 3 sunflowers and on the same level as itself, most of them were sub-plants it had split off and were all under its control. The other Tier 3 sunflowers had been recruited by it.

It was the leader of the entire sunflower tribe; even if these sunflowers advanced to Tier 3, it was still the leader.

"Tier 3 sunflowers?"

"Where did they come from?"

"Tsk tsk."

"I remember that for a Tier 2 sunflower to advance to Tier 3, it must have a Tier 3 Sun Stone to evolve."

"I was just thinking about how to obtain some Tier 3 Sun Stones to let the Tier 2 sunflowers evolve."

Ye Bai rubbed the Sunflower King's flower disk, and the Sunflower King's eyes curved into crescents.

"Although Stone Wisdom City produces evolution stones, it does not include Sun Stones and Moon Stones."

"Sun Stones and Moon Stones both require special environments to be produced, and their selling prices have always been more expensive than evolution stones of the same tier."

"Moreover, it was recently reported that a famous Sun Stone production area, Taiyanggu in the Beautiful Country Alliance, suffered a collapse accident. The impact of the accident was significant, and it is said that the Taiyanggu mining area will not be able to produce Sun Stones within a year, which has caused the price of Sun Stones to skyrocket tenfold."

"A single Tier 3 Sun Stone is now worth no less than two million Alliance Coins."

"Twenty of them would be forty million Alliance Coins. What a grand gesture."

The Sunflower King gestured, wanting to tell how these Tier 3 Sun Stones came about.

Unfortunately, after much effort on its part, Ye Bai still did not understand.

"If only we could form a contract, then I would probably know what you mean."

The Sunflower King felt a bit disappointed, but when its gaze fell upon the gloating Mandragora King nearby, its eyes suddenly lit up.

It walked toward the Mandragora King step by step, a sinister smile appearing on its face.

If the languages aren't synchronized, at least there is a free online translator right here.

The Mandragora King saw the Sun Flower King's malicious smile.

Σ(⊙▽⊙"a: Don't come over here!

Help!

The Sun Flower King gave a violent tug to the transparent tape wrapped around the Mandragora King's mouth.

Ah!!!!

A miserable cry erupted from the Mandragora King's mouth, the tape covered in the Mandragora King's broken root fibers.

That feeling was more than ten times more painful than having clear tape stuck to leg hair.

It hurt so much that the Mandragora King's tears and snot flowed out together.

This expression of its made Ye Bai very curious.

Are these tears and snot real?

Or is what's flowing out the sap of the Mandragora?

Ye Bai had the Sun Flower King find a container to store these liquids in.

He would take them to the Research Institute to test them later.

Mandragora King!!!

You won't even let my tears and snot go; you are a guy who plucks a feather from every passing goose.

Only now did the Mandragora King realize just how black-hearted the human before it was.

Mama, I want to go home~

Intense regret rose in the Mandragora King's heart; if time could start over, it would absolutely not have been filled with righteous indignation and wanted to take revenge on humans, nor would it have been caught by the Sun Flower and stepped through the door of the Breeding House.

It would have hidden far, far, far away, preferably never to meet again for the rest of its life.

But it was already trapped in a cage.

The tears shed now are all the water that entered my brain back then.

The Sun Flower King relayed its own words to the Mandragora King, making it translate online.

Originally, the Mandragora King wanted to cause trouble, but seeing the Sun Flower King raise a small leather whip, looking eager to try,

it knew that if it said one wrong word, a whip would likely lash out at it.

Thus, the Mandragora King lowered its flags and ceased its drums, put away its little schemes, and honestly translated word for word.

After the online translation, Ye Bai knew how the Tier 3 Sun Stone came to be.

"If I haven't guessed wrong, it must be the work of the people from the Cleaning Company; they are afraid."

"So they wanted to use Tier 3 Sun Stones to evolve Sun Flowers, letting these evolved Sun Flowers stand on equal footing with you."

"What a brilliant strategy; if it weren't for the fact that most of the Sun Flowers here were split off from you, the other party might have actually succeeded."

The people from the Cleaning Company are lifting a rock only to drop it on their own feet.

Thanks for the Cloud-Piercing Arrow, old friend, thanks for the Joyous Gift Package sent by the old friend.

At this moment, a drop of magnificent liquid dripped down from the petals of the Sun Flower King.

Ye Bai felt a majestic aura of life emanate from it.

This was exactly the Life Crystal Dew that Ye Bai had dreamed of; according to historical records, this thing was called Heavenly Dew in ancient times.

The Mandragora King's eyes were wide open, its gaze becoming scorching hot, so hot it could have burned a hole in the Sun Flower King's leaf.

It could feel that this thing had immense benefits for it; as long as it could swallow one drop, its strength would surely increase greatly.

Ye Bai carefully took out a reagent bottle, collected the six drops of Life Crystal Dew, and placed them meticulously into his Pet Beast Space.

Just at this moment, the Sun Flower King clapped its hands, and a big guy appeared.

Begging for votes, sorry, I'm late.

(End of chapter)