My beast taming system has absolutely no problems!

Xia Yu, of course, couldn't see the real-time comments on the screen, and he continued his press conference.

"For the past few centuries, the beast breeding industry has faced an insurmountable barrier."

“Every pet is limited by an invisible ceiling from the moment it is born, which we call ‘species level’.”

The large screen behind him then cut to a demonstration animation that Jiang Yuxi had someone make for him.

The silhouette of a grey finches was blocked by a semi-transparent wall, and no matter how it flew, it could not break through that barrier.

"A pet with a high-level race can only grow to a high level in its lifetime. Its efforts and the bond with its tamer cannot change this fact."

Xia Yu's tone became slightly more subdued.

"I think every beast tamer should understand this feeling."

The chat was silent for a brief moment, then a few messages slowly floated by.

"...Manager, please don't do this, I suddenly feel a little uncomfortable."

My first pet was a high-level one, and it stayed with me for eight years. Last year, it couldn't keep up with the group anymore, so now it's at my hometown helping my mom grow flowers.

Alas, indeed, aside from extremely rare spiritual materials, racial hierarchy is an insurmountable barrier.

[The key is that even the top-tier pets of the masters and kings are too busy distributing those rare items, so who's going to give you a high-level pet?]

So what? What can you, as someone who teaches skills, change?

Xia Yu nodded slightly, as if responding to the unseen comments on the screen.

He picked up a box of qualification cubes from the display stand, held the light blue cube between his fingers, and raised it in front of the camera.

The lens of the vision machine is focused.

"Those who have been to Miaomiao Pet House should know that in addition to teaching skills, we also sell a kind of spiritual energy supplement called 'Energy Cube'."

Xia Yu's voice returned to its previous steady rhythm as he introduced, "Different types of ability blocks will have different benefits for pets, and the one I have here is the latest variety developed by Miaomiao Pet House, called 'Ability Block'."

"Its effect is simple: it raises the pet's racial rank."

There was silence.

It wasn't that the audience was silent; there was no one in the audience to begin with.

However, the live stream chat room with two thousand viewers was instantly cleared, and not a single new chat message appeared for a full three seconds.

But soon, text far more dense and terrifying than before filled the entire screen of the psychic machine.

【? ? ? ? 】

What are you talking about? Increasing the racial rank of a pet?

[Hilarious! Another fake medicine seller!]

[Got it, Miaomiao Pet House thinks teaching skills is too slow a way to make money, so now they're starting to fleece their customers, right?]

[A skill-teaching expert has crossed over into psychic energy supplements, and even developed a supplement that can increase the level of pet races—this world has truly gone mad.]

[Manager, blink twice if you've been kidnapped!]

[Do those people who say it's fake medicine have any brains? Which scammer would choose a place like the Donghuang Beast Taming Exhibition? They can easily crack down on fakes there, one investigation and they'd be caught red-handed, okay?]

[They must have connections and influence; otherwise, why would a small pet shop have a booth here?]

[Store Manager: I'm just selling fake medicine, and you're saying it's dark?]

Undoubtedly, the majority of the comments were skeptical.

Wen Shiyu, standing next to the booth, felt a chill run down her spine.

I'm so awesome, you're supposed to cosplay an entrepreneur, so please cosplay a good one for me!

You don't look like Steve Jobs, you look like Lei Jun!

No, that's not true. Although Lei Jun is a bit flamboyant, at least he can actually produce products.

You're just a conman who sells robot vacuums and suddenly announces he's going to make cars, aren't you?

I've been maintaining this social media account for over a year!

Xia Yu couldn't see the comments or Wen Shiyu's reaction, but he could guess most of it.

If someone claims in a live stream that they have invented a product that can upgrade the level of a pet's species, everyone will believe them without hesitation.

The beast tamers in that world are too easy to fool.

It's perfectly normal for some people to have doubts.

This is the instinct of a somewhat rational person when faced with disruptive information.

But since Xia Yu dared to stand here today, he was already prepared to face all the doubts.

He put the qualification cube back into the box, shrugged, and said, "I can guess what you all are thinking right now. To be honest, if I were in the audience, I wouldn't believe it either. So, I've specially invited a few 'witnesses' to come up on stage today."

He snapped his fingers.

Below the stage, three students from the Donglin Dojo, who had been brought over by Wang Linyan to serve as his servants, walked onto the stage with their three pet beasts.

The appearance of those three pets was all too familiar to everyone in the live stream.

These are the three most common birds in the city, jokingly referred to by the people of Donghuang as the "Three Families of the Sewers": the Grey Wind Sparrow, the Mama Spider, and the Firefly-tailed Mouse.

The appearance of the three pets, jokingly referred to as the "sewer starter trio," caused the live stream to fall silent once again.

It wasn't shock, but rather speechlessness.

I thought you went to all that trouble to get everyone excited, that you were going to do something big.

That's it?

Who hasn't seen them?

Xia Yu didn't waste any words.

He turned on the psionic spectrometer on the display stand and then attached the electrode patch at one end of the machine to the body of the Grey Wind Sparrow.

The Grey Finch was startled by the cold patch, shook its wings, but did not struggle.

Immediately, the data began to jump on the external screen of the psionic spectrometer.

[Racial ranking check in progress, please wait...]

Wen Shiyu, standing by the booth, was so nervous that her breathing almost stopped.

Her live stream's backend data is visibly increasing, with the number of online viewers exceeding 20,000.

But she had no interest in being happy about the data at that moment.

Because she knows better than anyone that the greater the traffic, the greater the cost of a public relations disaster.

But look at Xia Yu's confident expression.

Could it be... a plot twist?

Store manager, whether my account goes viral or fails today depends entirely on your divine intervention!

The blue progress bar on the screen is moving very fast.

The energy structures of high-level and extraordinary pets are simple, making them much faster to detect than those of overlords and natural disasters.

The whole process took less than twenty seconds.

But everyone in the live stream felt that the testing process was taking so long.

Finally, the progress bar was filled with blue.

Immediately, a crisp notification sound rang out.

[Subject being tested: Grey Finch]

[Attribute: Wind]

Gender: Male

【...】

[Energy Level: Low-level]

[Race Rank: Extraordinary]

When the bright "Transcendent Race Level" popped up on the screen, a commotion immediately arose from the audience.

This was made by a few scattered people at the exhibition who were attracted by Xia Yu's "press conference" and stopped at the Miaomiao Pet House booth.

In the live stream room, where the number of viewers had approached 10,000, the chat exploded after a brief silence.

【？？？？？】

[Dude, he actually pulled it off! The Grey Wind Sparrow's racial rank is Extraordinary?]

All those years of learning beast taming techniques have been for nothing!

[Huh? Doesn't the live stream warn about the risks of using AI?]

[Did they change the parameters of this psionic spectrometer? How could the Grey Wind Sparrow's species level be Extraordinary?]

[From another perspective, maybe it's a mutant. There are so many Grey Wind Sparrows, it wouldn't be surprising to see a few extraordinary mutants, right?]

[Those who slipped through the net of nine years of compulsory pet-taming education, didn't your elementary school pet-taming basics teachers teach you that there are obvious differences in appearance between mutated and ordinary pets?]

[That's outrageous. I still don't believe it. If such a psionic supplement existed, would they give it to a Greywind Finch?]

[Just kidding, actually, the mammoth spider and the fluorescent-tailed mouse also used it.]

You know what, judging by this situation, it's actually not impossible...

【...】

At this moment, Xia Yu is characterized by his ruthlessness and taciturn nature.

While the comments section was still debating the test results of the Grey Finch, he had already swiftly removed the electrode patch from the Grey Finch and attached it to the Mama Spider.

The psionic spectrometer started working again.

The result was the same.

[Subject of detection: Spider mitten]