Chapter 207: Forging the Ring

After the video finished playing, Qiao Sang asked, "Do you like any of them?"

"Lu Lu Lu!"

Shuilu Yana shook her head like a rattle-drum.

Seeing this, Qiao Sang wasn't about to give up. She immediately picked up her phone and started searching for other celebrity pet beast video compilations.

At that moment, Shuilu Yana pressed a paw down on the phone screen.

"What's wrong?" Qiao Sang looked up and asked.

"Lu Lu Lu?"

Shuilu Yana looked confused, very curious why Qiao Sang was showing her these things — they had clearly agreed it was time to train and get stronger.

Although Qiao Sang couldn't understand what Shuilu Yana was saying, she had at least spent some time raising Like Ya Bao and Little Xunbao Ghost, so from the expressions her pet beasts showed she could roughly guess what they were thinking.

Of course, the accuracy rate was anyone's guess…

"Are you asking me why I'm showing you this?" Qiao Sang guessed.

"Lu Lu Lu."

Shuilu Yana nodded.

Great, she guessed right… Qiao Sang chose her words: "If you want to get stronger, the most effective way is to evolve. I've looked into it — if you want to evolve, you have to taste the feeling of heartbreak on a rainy day. The surge of emotion that wells up inside you is what can trigger your evolution."

"Lu Lu Lu…"

Shuilu Yana's expression was one of shock — she hadn't expected her evolution conditions to be this twisted.

"So I showed you these videos to find out what type of pet beast you like." Qiao Sang said.

"Lu Lu Lu…"

Shuilu Yana looked bewildered — she had never thought about this question before…

When Like Ya Bao finished today's training, what she saw was the sight of her own beast master and Shuilu Yana sitting head-to-head, watching a phone.

"How about this one?" Qiao Sang asked.

"Lu Lu Lu." Shuilu Yana shook her head.

"Then what about this one?" Qiao Sang asked.

"Lu Lu Lu." Shuilu Yana shook her head again.

"Ya?"

At that moment, Like Ya Bao poked her head over.

What are you watching?

"Lu Lu Lu!"

Before Qiao Sang could answer, she heard Shuilu Yana cry out in a panic, then instantly turn into a streak of blue light and dash toward the courtyard.

Qiao Sang: "???"

Like Ya Bao: "???"

"Did you scare her?" After a moment, Qiao Sang asked, bewildered.

"Ya ya…"

Like Ya Bao shook her head at a loss, wearing the exact same bewildered expression.

That old pet beast didn't seem like she had such a small courage…

……

August 29th.

Qiao Sang woke up very early — not because her biological clock woke her automatically, but because Little Xunbao Ghost had woken her up.

"What's wrong?" Qiao Sang didn't really have morning grumpiness; she just rubbed her sleep-heavy eyes and asked good-naturedly.

"Xun!"

"Xun xun!"

Little Xunbao Ghost held the ring in both paws and happily showed it off in front of her beast master.

Qiao Sang's eyes flew open and she sat bolt upright in bed, exclaiming in shock, "You've trained out your Ghost Fire?!"

"Xun xun!"

Little Xunbao Ghost nodded vigorously, then tossed the ring upward. It stopped mid-air, and a ghostly green Ghost Fire appeared right in the center of the ring.

She really had trained it out!

Looking at the Ghost Fire emanating a cold aura from within the ring, Qiao Sang's expression went a little dazed.

She remembered looking up online about how long it usually took a Treasure Ghost to train out Ghost Fire.

Without exception, the answers she got were usually around three months — some Treasure Ghosts with poor aptitude might even need double that time before the ring finished absorbing the materials and could produce Ghost Fire from within.

Yet her own Treasure Ghost hadn't even practiced for twenty days.

That kind of aptitude was something else…

But thinking about it more carefully, it was actually quite normal for Little Xunbao Ghost to have trained out Ghost Fire so quickly — after all, the little thing could learn the high-level skill Shadow Control just from playing with a virtual helmet, so merely shortening the time to train out Ghost Fire was nothing.

Thinking this way, Qiao Sang felt that her Little Xunbao Ghost training out Ghost Fire in less than twenty days was really nothing special — just basic operation.

Even so, she couldn't help the corners of her mouth turning up.

"Awesome, you learned it in such a short time." Qiao Sang praised with a smile. "Treasure Ghosts older than you aren't even as impressive."

"Xun xun~"

Little Xunbao Ghost was a little shy from the praise, awkwardly scratching her head.

"Now that you have Ghost Fire, we should move on to the next step." Qiao Sang said. "Next, you need to use Ghost Fire to forge the ring, working on splitting it into two, just like this."

Saying so, Qiao Sang searched up short videos of Treasure Ghosts using Ghost Fire to forge their rings and showed them to Little Xunbao Ghost.

Because short videos were highly interactive and entertaining, they spread extremely fast among young people, and many beast masters would upload short videos of their pet beasts' training process to gain attention.

As long as you search the keywords online, a whole bunch will pop up, and there are tons of short-video apps.

The most popular short-video app among them is called "Yu Yu," and it's basically full of all kinds of content about pet beasts.

Qiao Sang had searched for videos of Treasure Ghost training its ring on Yu Yu.

She tapped open the first video that came up in the search.

The Treasure Ghost on screen wore the ring on its head, eyes tightly shut, two short toes pressed together and held in front of its face.

The next second, the entire ring ignited with ghostly green ghostfire.

Why does that pose look so much like some kind of ritual… Qiao Sang grumbled inwardly, swiped her finger up the screen, and the video jumped to the next one.

In the second video, the Treasure Ghost placed the ring—covered all over in ghostfire—on its short toes and kept spinning it.

As if that weren't enough, it tossed the ring upward, and when it came back down, the ring landed on another short toe and started spinning.

Good lord, isn't this just acrobatics… Qiao Sang gave up, turned her head, and said to Little Treasure Ghost: "In short, just like what you saw in the video—burn the ring completely from the inside out with ghostfire. Once you hit a certain threshold, you should sense signs of the ring splitting into two."

"Xunxun!"

Little Treasure Ghost nodded seriously.

……

After washing up and eating breakfast, Qiao Sang headed out as usual, only to find that the rate of people turning to look was much higher than normal.

The other day, because of Little Treasure Ghost, passersby had all looked like they wanted to look but didn't dare, yet were still sneaking peeks.

But today, everyone she passed on the street was staring wide-eyed, openly sizing her up, and almost everyone was holding their phones and snapping photos frantically.

Some were even in the middle of answering a call, and without a word they hung up and pointed their cameras at her.

Qiao Sang's heart clenched—had the Yuluoyana in her backpack poked its head out?

She quickly swung the backpack around to her front.

The zipper was slightly open, but from the outside there was no sign of Yuluoyana at all.

Qiao Sang breathed a sigh of relief, but soon felt puzzled inside.

Since they couldn't see Yuluoyana, why were they all acting like they'd seen something novel? Could it be that Yaba had gotten more handsome?

"Ya…"

Yaba, at this moment also thinking it might be because he'd gotten more handsome, lifted his head slightly and strutted forward with a proud gait.

Little did they know that the one attracting the passersby's frantic photos was the Little Treasure Ghost on their beast master's head—eyes tightly shut, two short toes pressed together in front of its face, the ring on its head burning with ghostfire.

Just as Qiao Sang was wondering why the rate of people turning to look had suddenly risen again, her phone buzzed.

Who would be calling her at this hour? Qiao Sang came back to herself, took out her phone, and looked at the lit-up screen—Song Yuan.

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