My tamed beasts can't be demons.

Chapter 45 The Challenge (Please continue reading!)

The little girl who grows mushrooms: [Damn! Another long essay, huh? I'm betting 100 credits, it's definitely from Linzhou!]

The little girl who grows mushrooms: [Damn it, it's true! You guys from Linzhou are just jerks! You can't beat others in the dungeon, so you like to post long essays online and cyberbully them, right?]

The little girl who grows mushrooms: [Wait till I see your little essays, I'll scold you one by one!]

Want to have sex with Red-tailed Fox: [Mushroom Sister, stop cursing! It's not worth getting angry over these bastards from Linzhou. If you curse them into being 'red-faced,' they'll just come looking for trouble. Why don't you curse us instead?]

The mud monster, soft and moist: [Yes, yes.]

The little girl who grows mushrooms: [Wait, what's with your nicknames? Will this even pass censorship?]

……

Zhou Lu sat helplessly to the side, watching Wu Xiaoqing frantically type on her phone.

Hanabi leaned against the fence of the mushroom field, watching the mushrooms growing vigorously inside, looking eager to try them out.

However, it seemed a little absent-minded today, glancing at a small glass bottle on Wu Xiaoqing's desk every now and then.

"Xiaoqing, do you have so much free time every day?" Zhou Lu said helplessly.

Why is it that every time I come here, Wu Xiaoqing is arguing with other people online?

"It's nothing, it's nothing. Today was my day off anyway," Wu Xiaoqing said, still somewhat indignant. "Those guys from Linzhou Beast Taming Academy are a bunch of bullies who prey on the weak. They can't beat us in the academy competition, so they bully us Xin'an students in the secret realm. If they don't get the better of us, they spread rumors everywhere! It's infuriating!"

"Aren't they just asking for trouble?"

"Looking for a scolding? Heh, don't underestimate others." Wu Xiaoqing looked at Zhou Lu and said, "They don't care about our opinions. These posts are for casual viewers. Imagine you're a student planning to apply to the Beast Taming Academy, and you want to check out the academy forum beforehand, but all you see are posts like this. How would you feel?"

"Won't the administrator delete it?"

"Hehe, isn't it better if they delete it? It shows we have a guilty conscience, and then we can use the evidence of the deleted post to continue complaining on the public internet." Wu Xiaoqing was very experienced. "This isn't the first time they've done this. Don't take it to heart. In the future, if you see Linzhou in the secret realm, don't hesitate, just attack him."

"what?"

Wu Xiaoqing proudly puffed out her chest: "As long as we really do it, they won't be spreading rumors! We're doing this for their own good."

This novel train of thought left Zhou Lu momentarily bewildered.

pat.

Wu Xiaoqing put her phone on the table and stretched.

Zhou Lu asked curiously, "Aren't you going to keep cursing?"

"Stop arguing, they've gotten too heated and are challenging our school team to a match," Wu Xiaoqing said, yawning. "Young people are still too hot-blooded."

……

That's because you used really nasty language...

"Oh, right, the place they agreed to fight seems to be the Mountain and River Secret Realm," Wu Xiaoqing suddenly said. "Aren't you going there anyway? You can go and join in the fun."

Zhou Lu stroked his chin: "Let me practice [Body Feeding] first. If it's not over by then, I'll go join in the fun."

"You really want to go?" This was something Wu Xiaoqing hadn't expected.

"Let's observe how other people fight with their beasts and learn from their experience." Zhou Lu wasn't looking to get revenge; if he were truly a college student, he might have had such thoughts.

People who have been toughened up by society will be more careful with their actions, and they won't bother with anything that doesn't bring them any benefit.

If a task popped up in the system right now, he might immediately be ready to beat someone up.

He has now made up his mind not to pursue the competitive route, but not pursuing the competitive route does not mean that competitive beast tamers are completely without merit for him.

Skill combinations and the use of spirit beast characteristics are the specialties of many competitive beast tamers.

Zhou Lu still doesn't have a good target for a second pet, but he can find inspiration from these beast tamer competitions.

Although many spirit pets can synergize well with Fireworks, such as Sticky Baby, some of their skills can be learned by Fireworks through [Absorption].

Zhou Lu didn't think it was worth wasting a beast-taming slot on them.

Of course, he had another option: to wait for the system's task.

This system will definitely have tasks that prevent me from obtaining a second pet—if my second pet will also be very important in the future.

can not wait.

Or rather, you can't just wait for the system to assign tasks like a fool.

The second pet can be either purchased or captured in the wild.

With Zhou Lu's financial resources, the only way he could acquire a rare spirit beast cub or egg was by snatching up a bargain at an auction, like the protagonists in those classic beast-taming novels. Otherwise, he would never acquire a second pet through purchase.

Therefore, Zhou Lu focused his main attention on capturing animals in the wild.

However, even Hanabi's special evolution is not yet complete, so it's too early to talk about a second Pokémon.

Thinking this, Zhou Lu's gaze fell on the small glass bottle that Wu Xiaoqing was fiddling with.

There were a few grains of vermilion soil in the glass bottle.

Ever since Hanabi entered this laboratory, she has been glancing at the glass bottle from time to time, showing a very eager expression.

As its beast tamer, Zhou Lu could naturally sense Hanabi's emotions, so he asked, "What is this?"

Wu Xiaoqing examined the bottle in her hand and said, "The soil sample sent over from the C1422 Secret Realm was discovered by the Pioneer Army near the Vermilion Bird Temple and brought here for me to test."

C1422 Secret Realm!

Zhou Lu glanced at the system.

If he remembered correctly, the system's optional mission eight was to send him to the C1422 secret realm to steal the Vermilion Bird's dung.

He had been wondering where he got this information if there was no system.

So it's Sister Xiaoqing...

"Why are you interested in it?" Wu Xiaoqing asked.

Zhou Lu didn't hide anything: "Huahuo seems very interested in it."

"interested?"

Wu Xiaoqing's eyes lit up. As a professional graduate student in the field of cultivation, she certainly knew what this meant.

"In other words, this is very likely the material for the evolution of fireworks!" Wu Xiaoqing suddenly sat up.

Looking at the serious Wu Xiaoqing, Zhou Lu felt somewhat unfamiliar with her.

Xiaoqing always acted nonchalantly around him, so it was rare to see her so serious.

"I need to find a way to get more of this soil from the Pioneer Army," Wu Xiaoqing said, stroking her chin.

"Yes! I knew this kind of soil was very effective for cultivating mutated, swelling, delicious mushrooms!"

Wu Xiaoqing slapped her palm and said.

Don't waste your energy on this kind of thing!

"I can... go by myself..." Zhou Lu glanced at the system.

"No way!" Wu Xiaoqing slammed her hand on the table and said very seriously, "The Vermilion Bird Temple is outside the safe zone. If you go, there will be no safety instructor accompanying you! Wait until I... no, I mean, submit the application materials, that's the safest way."

"That's one thing..."

Zhou Lu looked at the system.

But these three selectable B-grade spirit beast skill cards are just too good to pass up.

(End of this chapter)