Chapter 91: with translation of chapter title

【Contract Successful!】

【La Tiao willingly accepted the Soul Spirit Contract, becoming your pet.】

Chen Shicheng opened the panel and glanced at the pet column.

Sure enough, a 3D image of La Tiao appeared inside, along with its detailed attribute information, which matched almost exactly what the Eye of Bai Ze had identified, except that the question marks in the skills had become skill descriptions.

【Heavenly Phenomenon (Unawakened)】

【Indestructible Diamond Body (Unawakened)】

Well, nailed it! Aside from not growing wings, La Tiao's three skills completely match the description of the Purple-Gold Flower Marten.

However, watching La Tiao roll around on his chest, acting cute, Chen Shicheng felt something was off—what kind of fearsome ancient beast spends its days just eating and acting adorable? It's utterly disgracing its ancestors.

You know, the marten of the Four Heavenly Kings could even be swallowed whole by Erlang Shen—although it was eventually killed by someone.

"From today on, you must strive to grow; in the future I'll have to rely on you for protection, so hurry up and eat something to awaken your bloodline as soon as possible."

Chen Shicheng casually shoved the somewhat dazed La Tiao into the Storage Bag, watched it obediently devour the flesh inside, then casually pulled out the Tai Sui.

With the spatial shift, the fragrant flesh nearby vanished; the Tai Sui couldn't react in time to what had happened, and the next moment a finger smeared several drops of essence-blood onto its head.

Under Chen Shicheng's expectant gaze, the essence-blood seeped bit by bit into the Tai Sui's body, turning into contract threads that wound around its soul-spirit.

Though the Tai Sui's intelligence was low, its instinct made it resist the contract; as its body thrashed wildly, strands of essence-blood were forced out, and seeing the contract about to fail, Chen Shicheng immediately gave a dry cough and pulled La Tiao's head out of the Storage Bag.

La Tiao had a chunk of unknown wild monster's hind leg meat dangling from its mouth, its eyes clear yet foolish, unaware why its master had pulled it out again.

But heaven is big, earth is big, eating is biggest; anyway the master said to eat more, so why hesitate? Just eat!

After only a moment of bewilderment, La Tiao resumed what it had left off, tossing the hind leg meat—over ten times its own size—into the air with a flick of its head, then frantically opening and closing its small mouth.

Just like Jerry the mouse eating in Tom and Jerry, the huge hind leg meat was devoured in a few bites, even the tough leg bone not spared.

Chen Shicheng rubbed La Tiao's head, his gaze unfriendly as it swept back and forth over the Tai Sui's body, seemingly considering where to take a bite.

Weak.

Helpless.

That naked gaze instantly stirred the Tai Sui's painful memories; the spot where La Tiao had gnawed before began to throb faintly.

The thought of possibly being eaten alive by that little marten made the Tai Sui shudder violently; its modest intellect instantly weighed the options, and it ceased resisting the contract.

【Contract Successful!】

【Yin Blood Tai Sui 'willingly' accepted the Soul Spirit Contract, becoming your pet.】

【Lv. 10 Yin Blood Tai Sui, Essence: 25, Qi: 11, Spirit: 8.5, Skills: Earth Escape, Limb Regeneration, Blood-Flesh Condensation.】

【Earth Escape: Body merges with the earth, allowing free movement underground, greatly increasing speed.】

【Limb Regeneration: The Tai Sui has no strict distinction of limbs; even if only a small fragment remains, as long as life is not extinguished, it can devour flesh and regrow.】【Blood-Flesh Condensation: Can refine flesh into blood essence; consuming it grants +1 Experience Points of the same level, daily limit 10 points. (Experience acquisition rules are the same as leveling up.)】

"Done!"

Feeling the weak but solid soul-bond with the Tai Sui, Chen Shicheng's eyes lit up.

After stuffing the clueless La Tiao back into the Storage Bag, he patted the Tai Sui's body and said, "Blood essence, give me a few."

Upon hearing that, the Tai Sui was obviously reluctant, but bound by the contract it obediently activated the skill, and a drop of fresh blood slowly appeared at the top of its body.

At first the blood was liquid, but upon contact with the outside air, the pea-sized blood gradually solidified, and as a faint exotic fragrance drifted, the blood turned into a crystal-clear blood-red gem.

【Blood Essence (Lv. 10): Consuming it grants +1 Experience Points. (Experience acquisition rules are the same as leveling up.)】

"Just one? Forget it, you'd better just rest and recover."

Chen Shicheng had been dissatisfied with the Tai Sui's stingy production of a single blood essence, but upon lowering his head he noticed the Tai Sui visibly wilting, its once-smooth surface now bearing some wrinkles, like wind-dried dead skin.

Hurriedly stowing the Tai Sui away in the Storage Bag to let it eat and recover, Chen Shicheng then pulled out La Tiao and shoved the blood essence straight into its mouth.

Blood essence is a good thing, but its experience acquisition mechanism is the same as leveling up.

He is currently level 13; consuming a level‑10 blood essence would add only 0.001 experience points—pure waste—so it's better to give it to the level‑0 La Tiao to maximize gains.

As expected, La Tiao's experience bar jumped to level 0 (40/100); just two more and it would level up directly.

However, seeing the Tai Sui's listless state, it's clear that producing blood essence is extremely difficult for it; hoping to get a few more in a short time is pure fantasy.

It seems we need to nurture not only La Tiao but also the Tai Sui.

I just don't know how this guy deals damage to wild monsters—could it be just sitting on them to death by weight? After stuffing the still‑dazed La Tiao into the Storage Bag, Chen Shicheng glanced at the so‑called ID and forum functions.

There's nothing special about it; the ID is just a blank space added before the real name, allowing you to freely add any name you like.

Without much thought, he directly set the game ID to "Zi Shu".

As for the forum, it's an extra module on the official real‑world website; it's just been launched, with hardly anyone posting, so we'll have to wait a while to see.

After confirming the game had no new changes, Chen Shicheng took Hui Siye, left the inn, and prepared to act as a power‑leveler to boost the levels of his two contracted pets.

As for the location, he didn't choose the highest‑level wild monster area, the underground palace corpse‑dump, but opted for the outskirts of the gathering place.

After all, he had once tried to have La Tiao land the finishing blow, but spirit‑type monsters have damage immunity, which La Tiao cannot overcome.

And although the Tai Sui is level 10, its attack power is roughly zero—likely worse than La Tiao—so he could only use the wild monsters on the gathering place's outskirts as test subjects.

Over the next few days, Chen Shicheng and the Cultural Tourism Bureau Logistics Department, like newbies, roamed the forest seeking high‑level wild monsters, crippled them, then let La Tiao and Tai Sui land the finishing blows, frantically raising their levels.

(End of Chapter)