Chapter 257: Treasure-Hunting Ghost

Two days faster than she expected—looks like Little Treasure Ghost caught quite a lot of ants today... Qiao Sang muttered to herself, then directly added the points after the level to 【Beginner (992/1000)+】.

Now that Little Treasure Ghost's Hypnosis had also been practiced to the Ultimate level, it was time to prepare for evolution.

"Xun..."

At the same time, Little Treasure Ghost, who was searching for ants all over the courtyard, suddenly felt the energy within its body surge and increase.

Before Little Treasure Ghost could think further, it suddenly spotted an ant passing slowly on the ground not far away.

"Xun!"

Little Treasure Ghost excitedly cried out at once.

Found you!

The next day.

In the courtyard.

Qiao Sang held up her phone and started filming Little Treasure Ghost.

"Xun..."

In the video, Little Treasure Ghost's head suddenly filled the entire frame.

"Don't get so close, just keep doing your thing." Qiao Sang said as she moved Little Treasure Ghost's head, which was pressed right against the camera, to the side.

"Xun?"

Little Treasure Ghost tilted its head.

What is this filming?

"My premonition tells me you'll evolve today, so I want to record how you look right now, so I can pull it out and look at it later when I'm bored." Qiao Sang explained.

Evolve?! Today?!

"Xun xun!"

Little Treasure Ghost was stunned for a moment, then immediately showed an excited expression and happily spun a circle in mid-air.

The next second, it teleported in front of Ya Bao, who was preparing to cast a Meteor Rain.

"Xun xun!"

"Ya!"

Ya Bao got a fright, and the energy it had just gathered within its body was scared away and dispersed.

"Ya ya!"

Ya Bao looked at Little Treasure Ghost, and was just about to strike the big-brother pose and give it a proper lecture, when it suddenly recalled what Little Treasure Ghost had said earlier.

"Ya?"

Ya Bao's eyes immediately went wide, showing a "really?" expression.

"Xun!"

Little Treasure Ghost nodded solemnly.

Absolutely true!

Whatever their own beast master said could never be wrong!

"Ya ya!"

Ya Bao used telekinesis to bring Little Treasure Ghost in front of it, and mimicking how Qiao Sang usually patted its head, patted Little Treasure Ghost's head with its claw.

Not bad, kid—you're actually about to evolve!

"Xun..."

After being patted twice, Little Treasure Ghost teleported aside and pouted.

Bro, you have no idea how much dirt is on your claws......

Before Ya Bao could react, Little Treasure Ghost teleported again to the side of Lu Lu Yana, who was doing backstroke in the pool, to show off.

"Xun xun!"

Lu Lu Yana opened her eyes, glanced at Little Treasure Ghost, then uninterestedly closed them again.

"Xun xun!"

Little Treasure Ghost, unwilling to give up, repeated what it had just said once more.

"Lu Lu Lu."

Lu Lu Yana didn't even open her eyes, and gave a perfunctory cry to express congratulations.

"Xun..."

Little Treasure Ghost's original excitement had mostly vanished.

How can this guy show no reaction at all hearing that it's about to evolve.....

"Xun..."

Little Treasure Ghost smacked its lips, then teleported back to its beast master's side.

What it didn't know was that after it left, Lu Lu Yana opened one eye and偷偷 took a peek.

"What's wrong?" Qiao Sang noticed Little Treasure Ghost's mood was off and asked.

"Xun xun..."

Little Treasure Ghost was still young after all and simply couldn't keep things in—it poured out everything that had just happened in one go.

It couldn't figure out why Lu Lu Yana could remain so calm hearing that it was going to evolve.

Qiao Sang glanced toward Lu Lu Yana's direction.

Lu Lu Yana, who had been偷偷 peeking with one eye open, stiffened and hurriedly closed her eyes.

Qiao Sang looked away and said with a low laugh: "I can guarantee that when you evolve, Lu Lu Yana definitely won't be as calm as she's acting right now."

"Xun?"

Little Treasure Ghost showed a puzzled expression.

Really?

"Really." Qiao Sang smiled and said, "When you evolve later, I'll record its expression and show it to you."

Although she hadn't spent as much time with Shui Lu Yana as with Ya Bao and Little Treasure, after this period together, she had come to understand Shui Lu Yana's personality pretty well.

Apart from being rather obvious about matters concerning Ya Bao, Shui Lu Yana was basically tsundere about everything else, with a slight tsundere streak.

"Xun~"

Little Treasure Ghost heard her beast master's words, covered her mouth, giggled, and nodded.

Qiao Sang held her phone in one hand and patted Little Treasure Ghost's head with the other, saying gently, "Actually, whether Shui Lu Yana is calm or not isn't important. Didn't you originally want to evolve and get stronger so you could feed back to me?"

"You did it, and that's enough, isn't it?"

"Xun......"

Little Treasure Ghost stared blankly at her beast master, recalling her original intention, recalling why she had suddenly started training hard back then.

"Xun!"

Little Treasure Ghost nodded vigorously.

The next second, a ray of Bai Guang suddenly enveloped Little Treasure Ghost's entire body.

Holy crap! Evolution light!

It's evolving already?!

Isn't it only morning right now?!

Based on the stat bonuses' progress, it should have evolved by evening!

Qiao Sang was a bit dumbfounded by Little Treasure Ghost's sudden evolution, but fortunately she quickly came to her senses, adjusted her emotions, stepped back a few paces, found a perfect filming angle, and started recording.

Ya Bao quickly ran over to watch, while Shui Lu Yana swam to the edge of the pool, eyes shining, staring fixedly at Little Treasure Ghost.

Qiao Sang noticed Shui Lu Yana's reaction and didn't forget the promise she'd made to Little Treasure Ghost.

She silently switched to panorama mode, then zoomed in on Shui Lu Yana's position, giving it a close-up of its face.

At that moment, the Bai Guang faded, and Qiao Sang quickly aimed the camera back at Little Treasure Ghost.

The Bai Guang dispersed.

A pet beast appeared on the phone screen — not large in size, mostly gray all over, with golden pupils, hair that drifted backward in the wind like ghost fire, the tips of its hair matching the color of its pupils, and a gold hoop earring dangling from each ear.

Perhaps the gold earrings and hairstyle were imposing enough, they added a touch of noble air to the brand-new Little Treasure.

But very quickly, that noble air vanished without a trace.

"Xun xun!"

Little Treasure excitedly floated over to Qiao Sang and nuzzled cheek to cheek.

"Wait a moment!"

Qiao Sang pressed stop on the recording, stuffed her phone into her pocket, grabbed Little Treasure Ghost beside her, and held it up in front of her eyes for a careful look.

"Xun?"

Little Treasure blinked blankly.

"Why do I feel like you're half a size smaller than before you evolved?" Qiao Sang said hesitantly.

Logically, when a Treasure Ghost evolves into a Treasure Demon, its size should double, but right now Little Treasure looked half a size smaller than when it was a Treasure Ghost.

And also......

"The color of your hair isn't right either." Qiao Sang was a bit stunned.

She had naturally done her homework online about the Treasure Ghost's evolution form, the Treasure Demon.

Little Treasure's form and hairstyle were fine, identical to the Treasure Demons she'd seen online, but the color of the hair tips was off.

A normal Treasure Demon's hair tips should be copper-yellow, but Little Treasure's were a dazzling golden-yellow under the sunlight.

This change is just... way too cool!

PS: Thanks to boss "Ai Chi Huang Shan's Gan Bian Jun Wang" for the tip!