Digimon: I really didn't want to be the Digimon Emperor!

"A dark area?!"

Upon hearing this, the expressions of several professional animal trainers became rather unnatural.

Their gazes toward the golden-horned siblings unconsciously carried a hint of pity.

Wang Lin muttered to herself, "These two mountain kings are fine running rampant in Savage Valley, but once they go to the Dark Area..." She shook her head and didn't continue.

The golden-horned beast seemed oblivious to the tamers' expressions and readily agreed, "Alright! My brother and I were just about to go and see for ourselves."

Cheng Yuan, watching from the side, clearly saw that the golden-horned beast wasn't unaware of it; rather, it simply had no choice.

The silver-horned beasts would only foolishly follow their sister, but the group of professional animal trainers in front of them clearly wouldn't give them a second option.

Xu Xin raised an eyebrow: "The Beast Tamer Association has a base in the Dark Area, which will provide you with basic assistance."

He gave the silver-horned beast, which was over ten meters tall, a meaningful look. "You've been following me all this way. If you manage to slip away right under my nose... that's your skill."

"Hahaha, how could that be!" The golden-horned beast chuckled dryly, rubbing its hands together. "My brother and I are the most trustworthy of us!"

Cheng Yuan thought to himself: These two siblings must have guessed that the Dark Area wasn't a good place. But right now, they either had to go to the Dark Area to try their luck, or they would die here on the spot—even a fool would know which to choose: self-preservation.

Next, Cheng Yuan and the others went to take stock of the spoils of war.

This digital space race war ended in victory for the Monkeymon, thanks to the mediation of professional tamers.

However, the Beast Tamer Association clearly wouldn't allow one entity to dominate—Xu Xin immediately summoned the Shamanmon of the Savage Beast Battle Group, demanding that these junior leaders integrate the battle groups and return all the cubs and digital eggs.

"From now on, the Association will handle the trade of Digital Eggs with you," Xu Xin announced. "You can exchange them using Digital Gems, wood, and ores." A glint of light flashed in his eyes. "The Association will also send humans to 'teach' you cultural knowledge."

Cheng Yuan almost burst out laughing—this is exactly how trade and cultural exchanges between humans and wild beast tribes are established in the digital space. These "volunteer teachers" will most likely be animal trainers who haven't found partners yet.

In this way, the partnership between humans and wild beasts was officially established.

Having lost their backer, how dare the shaman beast and the wild beast have any objections?

The mischievous monkey beasts were even more grateful—after all, Cheng Yuan and his companions had genuinely saved their clan.

The two sides quickly reached an agreement, and the baby monkey was added to the list of human partners.

"The harvest time has finally arrived!" Kang Zhao rubbed his hands together, his eyes shining.

As dawn broke, Xu Xin stood before a pile of spoils, his expression serious as he began the task of distributing them.

In this war, Xu Xin does not intend to return the legacy of the Gadgetzan—the Digital Core and the incomplete data—to the Wildmon, because this would hasten the birth of the next Gadgetzan.

Wang Lin chimed in, "The Wind Calamity Beast is not only powerful, but even more terrifying is its intelligence. This riot was orchestrated by it."

Using a brand-new digital collector, she collected data on the participation of the Windstorm Beasts, then took the digital core and carefully placed it into a specially made shielded container. "If this data is allowed to flow back to the Wild Beast tribe without any control, it will give birth to new Windstorm Beasts in less than six months."

Cheng Yuan nodded thoughtfully.

He recalled the cunning tactics employed by the Wind Beasts during the battle. They even arranged for the tribe to launch a feint attack on the outpost to mislead the human beast tamers, and then secretly moved to Green Fruit Mountain. They were indeed quite different from the other wild beasts.

The Digimon Gaaramon evolved from the more intelligent Shamanmon in the Wildmon tribe. The evolved Gaaramon became more cunning and shrewd, making it impossible for it to become a Tamer Partner. The riot that was extinguished in its nascent stage was also instigated by Gaaramon.

"As for this..." Xu Xin picked up the broken digital core of the King Kong Beast, his tone softening, "Although its energy is almost exhausted, it is still very valuable as a mature core."

Zhao Lu curiously leaned closer to examine it: "Teacher, can this still be used?"

"Of course." Xu Xin's lips curled up slightly. "The Digital Nursery can be used to replicate and cultivate 10-15 Digital Eggs. Digital Eggs produced using mature Digital Cores will also have better potential." He paused, "They should be worth about 80,000 or 90,000."

Xu Xin turned to Sepikmon: "The Digicore and data of the Mischievous Monkeymon are now returned to their rightful owner."

He solemnly handed the data collector, now filled with data, to the old monkey, saying, "I hope you will use it properly."

The Sepikmon trembled as it accepted the collector, tears welling in its eyes beneath its mask: "Thank you...this is the soul of our people..."

"As for the legacy of the Wildmanmon..." Xu Xin suddenly revealed a sly smile, looking at the students, "Consider it a reward for your practical experience. Remember, when collecting data, make sure the data is pure and don't mix it with other Digimon data."

The students cheered and pulled out their digital data acquisition devices to start working.

As dawn broke, the inventory was finally completed.

Cheng Yuan rubbed his aching back, looked at the data acquisition device filled with data, and a satisfied smile appeared on his tired face.

"A total of over 180 Wild Beast Digital Cores and 140 sets of pure data," Xu Xin announced. "By exchanging them through professional beast tamers, taxes can be waived, leaving a total value of nearly 600 million."

This number sent a collective gasp through everyone. Even the usually composed Zhao Lu's eyes widened in shock.

Even more surprisingly, the Sepik Beast, representing the Monkey Beast clan, gifted them 30 precious green fruits, which were almost all the treasures of the four Monkey Beast tribes.

"This is just a small token of our appreciation," the old monkey said, his voice filled with gratitude. "Without your help, our tribe might already be..."

This was an unexpected windfall. Based on the calculation that each green fruit is equivalent to an intermediate-level Rubik's Cube, its value is close to 120 million!

Cheng Yuan knew that these green fruits, as intermediate-grade digital gems, were each quite valuable. This gift further proved the significance of this adventure.

This was a huge sum of money, and Xu Xin knew very well that the person who connected the whole thing was Cheng Yuan. For this reason, he specifically talked to Cheng Yuan.

Xu Xin called Cheng Yuan aside to an ancient tree. This usually decisive and efficient professional animal trainer showed a rare look of hesitation at this moment.

"Class representative," Xu Xin said bluntly, "the total value of the harvest from Savage Valley this time exceeds 700 million." He paused, looking directly into Cheng Yuan's eyes, "I know very well that without your mediation, we could not have achieved such results."

"I plan to allocate it like this," Xu Xin continued, "80% will be used to train this year's students and help them get into the Beast Tamer University. The remaining 20%..." He paused meaningfully, "will be divided equally among your team. This allocation might be a little unfair to you. I'd like to hear your opinion?"

Cheng Yuan did a quick mental calculation and figured he'd get around 29! Holy crap, that's equivalent to 10 days of sparring! Still a huge profit!

"Teacher Xu, you saved my life," Cheng Yuan said sincerely. "I'll do whatever you say."

Indeed, if Xu Xin's team hadn't arrived in time, Cheng Yuan would have died in the claws of death because of his aggressiveness and recklessness.

Xu Xin smiled and said, "That's right, you know how to be pragmatic and know when to advance and retreat. I didn't misjudge you. In 3 to 5 years, you will understand how wise it was to back down today, and this will be of greater help to you in the future."

"I know you must have a lot of questions." He winked mysteriously. "In return, you can ask me any questions you want on the way back, all the way to the outpost, and I'll answer the ones I can."

He added, "The intelligence consultation fee for the leader of an elite professional animal trainer team isn't cheap!"

Cheng Yuan was overjoyed. He understood that sometimes information and intelligence were priceless.

Cheng Yuan was pondering what to ask when he suddenly heard a gasp.

The golden-haired black ball beast on the puppy's head is about to evolve.

"Woof! Cheng Yuan, look!" The little dog excitedly jumped up to Cheng Yuan. The golden silk black ball beast on its head was wrapped in dazzling golden light—not the common green evolution cocoon, but a rare golden holy type evolution cocoon!

"W-this...so that's how it is! Holy type...it's actually Holy type..." Sepikmon exclaimed in surprise.

The cocoon of evolution burst open, and a white-bodied, gold-striped dog-meow beast leaped out.

The dog-cat beast's tail has a ring of golden fur around it.

Cheng Yuan recalled that when the puppy beast was still a meow beast, its tail also had a tuft of golden hair.

"The Golden Warrior Hanumon is coming back!" Seppimon exclaimed, tears streaming down his face.

Cheng Yuan was dumbfounded. He never expected that this journey would not only unravel the mystery of the wild beast cub, but also unexpectedly reveal the evolutionary path of the Hanu beast!

Although reluctant to part with its "toy," the Golden Woof-Cat Beast still said goodbye to it with a heavy heart, and waved goodbye to the entire Mischievous Monkey Beast tribe in the group.

After all, a tamer can only be bound to one Digimon partner, and the system can only be bound to one Digimon at a time. Therefore, if Cheng Yuan takes the Golden Woofmon out, it may not necessarily provide it with a better environment to grow. On the contrary, here, the Mischievous Monkey Tribe will devote all its resources to raising it.

"Goodbye, WoofMeowmon. I'll come visit you when my tamer is on vacation. When you grow up and become strong, we'll go fight Skullmon, Spidermon... and Renamon together!" Dogmon said goodbye heartlessly, leaving behind a teary-eyed golden WoofMeowmon.