Chapter 541

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Protagonist:

Shen Yao

The Xiao Guai in Shen Yao's arms already had vertical pupils, its body half-crouched, staring eerily at what was behind it.

Shen Yao lowered her eyes and raised her hand, absently stroking Xiao Guai's fur, until a light laugh reached her ear, followed by the vacant seat beside her being taken and occupied.

Hm?

"This Xuanbai Swift Shadow Cat has been raised well; it behaves very ferociously."

Shen Yao turned her head with a smile, meeting a pair of beautiful, upturned peach blossom eyes.

Oh, looks like a dissolute young master!

A real dissolute young master, very much the image of an ancient flirtatious scholar.

Shen Yao did not speak, instead assessing the person sitting beside her; although he looked decent enough, he was not very familiar.

Seeing the cold reception, the man did not feel awkward, continuing to stare at Xiao Guai in Shen Yao's arms and praising it verbally, not forgetting to introduce himself at the end, "Yue Ning."

The Yue Family? The Yue Family of Jin Province?

As her thoughts turned, Shen Yao smiled and spoke of that Shi Fry Shi Jie located in the Ling Feng Shan Mai, "It is Mister Yue's contracted pet beast."

Three years ago, Shen Yao had once run into the Di Sha Chi Yue Teng advancing in the Ling Feng Shan Mai.

Transforming from Xuan Rank to Di Rank, the Shi Fry Shi Jie's ferocity surged, drawing the Officials to intervene and encircle and suppress it.

After a struggle of half a year among various parties, it finally fell into the hands of a newly promoted Di Rank Beast Tamer, and this Di Rank Beast Tamer came from the Yue Family of Jin Province, also a very famous person in the Official Beast Tamer circles.

Recalling this news now, Shen Yao linked the figure in her memory with the face before her as a matter of course; so it was him.

"Pleased to meet you."

Didn't expect to run into a Di Rank Beast Tamer on a trip out; truly, hearing a hundred times is not as good as seeing once. Yue Ning of the Yue Family — vastly different from the imagined image.

"Host, this is just a playboy; his private life is deplorable."

The System directly led off by complaining about this heaven's pride of the Yue Family, Yue Ning; after all, it knew more than the Host.

In today's society, social intercourse cannot be changed.

The more deeply rooted the clan, the more all sorts of problems will appear. Among them, internal personnel conduct issues inevitably exist; every family has them. Moreover, the worldview where the strong are respected suppresses certain opinion channels to a certain extent; without personal experience, no one cares overly much.

The Yue Family of Jin Province is different from the Cui Family of Jing City. Cui Hengxin counts as good bamboo producing bad shoots; the other Cui Family members are still quite normal, including Cui Hengxin's several blood relatives. Even the two brats Cui Hengxin himself doesn't know about enjoy the Cui Family's resources every year (though compared to the whole, it's merely a drop in the bucket).

The Yue Family does not take the commerce route like the Cui Family; their family is comparatively free and unrestrained, or rather, the internal polarization is relatively severe.

Those with good conduct are especially dignified; those with bad conduct cannot be fully complained about even if one tried. Yue Ning precisely belongs to the type with no fault in proper business, but poor personal conduct; superior talent, private life goes without saying.

The System wrote at great length about Yue Ning's unreliable deeds, especially in private life — simply too many to record.

"But it's also mutual consent," Shen Yao continued stroking Xiao Guai's fur.

System:...

The System was directly stalled by the Host's words; mm, indeed so.

Although philandering and heartless, he wouldn't stage forced buying and selling, forced seizure; at most it's a clean break of person and money, after all, clearly priced — disgusting to look at but violating no laws.

"The Yue Family's situation destines them to not be too normal." The Yue Family also has Heaven Tier Beast Tamers; in Beast Taming strength they are on par with the Cui Family.

Moreover, the Yue Family mostly serves in Official Institutions; personnel quantity far cannot compare to the Cui Family. Previously, a power seizure occurred inside the Alliance, causing the Yue Family to dare not cluster together; playboys like Yue Ning who maintain a game-amidst-the-world attitude are not few in the Yue Family.

"Host, what exactly do you mean by this?" The System listened with hair-raising alarm; surely not, surely not what it was thinking.

Shen Yao silently rolled her eyes, making the System stop its impractical brain-supplementing; she and Yue Ning merely exchanged names after meeting for the first time.

Glancing at the now-quiet Yue Ning from the corner of her eye, Shen Yao raised her hand and stroked the Xiao Guai in her arms, pondering the rumors about the Yue Family's internal affairs she had once heard.

If she could truly get involved with the Yue Family, the benefits it brought her would absolutely be stronger than the Cui Family.

When it comes down to it, Cui Hengxin isn't that important in Li Suyan's heart.

Moreover, the person is already dead; under emotional transference, how much could remain to fall on Xinxin and Mimi.

Right now the two children don't get many resources; even if they later show decent Beast Taming talent, it won't suddenly surge.

Closeness and distance of relations, interests and harms.

Li Suyan has very many points to consider; moreover, Shen Yao doesn't want to keep clinging to the Cui Family. The waters inside a great clan are terrifyingly deep; once Xinxin and Mimi fall in, they won't easily get out.

"Meow."

Xiao Guai's timely cry interrupted Shen Yao, who had already sunk into personal emotions.

She smiled and patted Xiao Guai's full head, turning her head to look at the bus that had already started moving.

"Miss Shen."

The quieted Yue Ning spoke again, taking out his phone with a smile to add contact.

"Mister Yue."

Shen Yao took out her phone and added contact with the other party; although she felt a bit strange inside — after all, which Di Rank Beast Tamer isn't a Big Shot? Only the Yue Family has such eccentrics; their behavior style makes one forget the bearing a Di Rank Beast Tamer should have.

The two of them weren't very familiar; perhaps Yue Ning excels at dealing with women, especially beautiful women, after all he boasts of passing through myriad flowers; Yue Ning's great name is renowned both in the Beast Tamer circle and ordinary circles.

Shen Yao did not want anything to happen with Yue Ning; in this Mission World she only likes her own children, not wanting to be sent a husband while having kids — at least not now.

Taking advantage of the time on the road, the two chatted a few simple idle words.

This bus's destination is the Yugu Valley Mountain Range; Yue Ning accompanies his nephew, Shen Yao accompanies her sister-in-law; at this moment both are ordinary elders, and can actually chat out quite a few common topics.

"Yugu Valley Mountain Range arrived!"

As the bus beneath them stopped steadily, the two tacitly stopped the conversation, each bringing their family's younger generation off the bus to prepare.

Shen Cheng and Shen Ying behaved well on the bus; now that they've arrived at the place, they directly reveal their true colors.

Two people, each more cowardly than the last.

Shen Yao:...

Shen Yao led them and walked into the Yugu Valley Mountain Range first, then found an empty space and dumped them there directly, "Going forward is within the Yugu Valley Mountain Range scope; you will train in the wilderness here. Unless it's a life-or-death crisis, I won't appear."

She seriously reminded Shen Cheng and Shen Ying not to treat the wilderness training before them like playing house.

Shen Yao said that due to environmental differences, the Yugu Valley Mountain Range had more ghost-type and evil-type spirit beasts; their two contracted beasts were Mountain-Moving Turtles known for strong defense, so their attack methods would be somewhat lacking, "I suggest you find someone to cooperate with, even if it's just for one wilderness training."

Shen Cheng and Shen Ying nodded with an "en," lowered their heads to ponder for a moment, then turned around and left carrying their respective backpacks.

"Meow."

Xiao Guai jumped from Shen Yao's arms to the ground, tilting its head to look them over with its round eyes.

"No rush, we'll follow behind later," This time Shen Yao only brought Xiao Guai when going out; considering the Beast Tamer's fragility, the distance between the two of them couldn't be too far.

Besides, Shen Yao also wanted to see with her own eyes the combat quality Shen Cheng and Shen Ying had tempered; a generous investment couldn't rely on lip service alone—everything had to be seen to be believed.

After staying in place for no more than an hour, urged by Xiao Guai, Shen Yao simply followed the route Shen Cheng and Shen Ying had walked.

By this time Shen Cheng and Shen Ying had already found partners they thought suitable.

A Yellow Tier Flaming Lion with attack capability, its Beast Tamer was a young girl; the three partnered up and moved forward, stumbling but still able to persist.

During this time, the three encountered various spirit beasts; not many could cause them trouble, but it was about to get dark, and they couldn't not consider the issue of lodging in the mountain range. Finally, they simply cleared out a nest of Red-Eyed Rat holes and expanded the cave entrance to move in.

Shen Yao:...

Shen Yao stayed in a tree no more than a hundred meters from them; beside her was Xiao Guai, restored to its half-grown appearance.

Both person and beast were somewhat worried; Red-Eyed Rats lived in groups and had a vengeful attribute. These three choosing the Red-Eyed Rats' cave as their lodging—were they deliberately fishing or unaware of the situation?

A swarm of Red-Eyed Rats rushing over was trouble even ordinary spirit beasts couldn't handle.

"Meow."

Xiao Guai sharpened its claws intending to help, but was directly stopped by Shen Yao raising her hand.

"No rush, wait a bit longer."

If something really happened, she couldn't ignore it, but if nothing happened, she couldn't recklessly stick her head out.

Xiao Guai meowed once, then elegantly jumped back into Shen Yao's arms and nestled there without moving.

On the other side, Shen Cheng and the others, whom Shen Yao worried about, were not completely unaware of their situation.

The reason they chose to stay in the Red-Eyed Rat cave was not that they weren't afraid of death, but that they felt there weren't many Red-Eyed Rats on the periphery of the Yugu Valley Mountain Range; they could take the opportunity to wipe them all out at once, both tempering themselves and gaining prey.

Don't let the name Red-Eyed Rat sound unappetizing; actually, Red-Eyed Rats are vegetarian spirit beasts, their meat is fresh and delicious, and very suitable for young spirit beasts to eat.

Among the three spirit beasts present, which one wasn't a big eater at home? Now they've come to the Yugu Valley Mountain Range for wilderness training; regardless of the final reason, filling their bellies along the way shouldn't be excessive, right?

"Next we do this..., that..., and also..."

Shen Cheng settled on the plan, Shen Ying and Yu Fei supplemented it.

Yu Fei was the Beast Tamer of the Flaming Lion; upon entering, she was sincerely invited by Shen Cheng and Shen Ying to cooperate. Thinking that she was indeed in danger alone, and there was the Mountain-Moving Turtle's overbearing defensive attribute, she agreed very seriously.

Now looking at the sparks from the three of them colliding, Yu Fei felt she hadn't chosen wrong.

"If there's nothing else, settle it temporarily for now. Can't sleep too soundly at night; let's take turns keeping watch."

"Alright, I'll take the first half of the night."

"Then I'll take the second half of the night."

"Leave the middle time period to me."

"..."

As the sky darkened, bonfires in the distance lit up warm orange light and shadows.

The three simply ate some food they brought in, followed the two girls to rest first, leaving only Shen Cheng sitting by the bonfire to keep watch.

The firewood turned black and fragile from the fire, then made crackling sounds. Two Mountain-Moving Turtles stood at the front and rear side positions, retracting their limbs and closing their eyes to rest.

Shen Cheng shook his slightly dizzy head, hmm, busy all day, he was a bit sleepy.

The Yugu Valley Mountain Range at night was desolate and gloomy; he rubbed his eyes while adding firewood, until he heard rustling sounds coming from behind him.

Sleepiness was blown away by drowsiness; Shen Cheng instantly opened his eyes, stood up, and looked around while not forgetting to wake Shen Ying and Yu Fei who were sleeping.

Pair after pair of red eyes appeared in Shen Cheng's vision, with squeaking rat sounds rising and falling.

As expected, the Red-Eyed Rats' revenge, though late, arrived; they were surrounded and attacked by the rat swarm.

Beast roars accompanied by various attack skills, and bonfires knocked flying; Shen Yao lay in the tree, her gaze toward Shen Cheng and the others in the midst of chaos.

The system broadcast Shen Cheng and the others' response in real time; for now they were holding the upper hand. If the Red-Eyed Rats had no reinforcements, the three winning was only a matter of time.

Shen Yao felt deeply relieved, saying Shen Cheng and Shen Ying had made progress. Even if their response still had small mistakes, the Red-Eyed Rats' aggressiveness wasn't strong, and Shen Cheng and Shen Ying's safety was greatly guaranteed.

Xiao Guai meowed twice without forgetting to nod; a pair of bright pupils were especially obvious in the night.

Hugging Xiao Guai's soft body, Shen Yao comfortably closed her eyes.

Hmm, it seemed she could sleep soundly tonight.

Shen Yao fell asleep without any burden; Shen Cheng and the others had to clean up the loot and deal with the bloody smell around them, only having time to simply clean their bodies by morning.

The Mountain-Moving Turtles and Flaming Lion ate fresh hot Red-Eyed Rat meat—it was so fragrant.

In contrast, the three Beast Tamers all had dark circles under their eyes and were muddled, only able to fall asleep face down.

Fortunately, their location was in the periphery of the Yugu Valley Mountain Range, with not too much risk; otherwise, in this current confused state, being wrapped in dumplings by beasts would be quite normal.

At high noon, the three simply ate something, then carried several bags of loot and continued forward into the Yugu Valley Mountain Range.

Last night's strong start gave them confidence; people need positive feedback, right? Even the originally apprehensive Shen Ying was full of confidence for this wilderness training trip.

And then after that, they were quickly slapped in the face by the cruel environment.

Facing various endless wild spirit beasts, the three desperately coped, leaving them covered in injuries.

The bitter trio:...

Fortunately, Shen Cheng and Shen Ying both knew what they came out for this time and didn't quit halfway. Instead, they came together; Yu Fei, who joined midway, thinking the Flaming Lion was dragging them down, was persuaded by Shen Cheng and Shen Ying together, and still gritted her teeth and persisted.

The benefit of doing this was that the spirit beasts' skill release and usage improved; they wouldn't unleash their ultimate move at the first sign of trouble, or look to the Beast Tamer at the first sign of a problem.

Contract Pet Beasts with strong autonomy are closer to Wild Pet Beasts living Outside, except they have Beast Tamers raising and feeding them compared to Wild Pet Beasts.

Nowadays Shen Cheng and the other two hide behind the three Beasts, relying on the Flame Lion as main attacker, with the Mountain-Moving Turtle cooperating, killing their way bit by bit toward the position near the inner area of the Yugu Valley Mountain Range.

Until their luck ran out, they encountered a group of vine-type Pet Beasts, Chi Xue Teng, going berserk, and were instantly entangled and subdued.