Li Weiyang's Eye of Insight had only awakened recently, so she could only see the basic information of pet beasts.
At her current level, she could not yet see things like a pet beast's aptitude.
But if aptitude was lacking, resources could make up for it. Besides, these were all pet beasts in their juvenile stage. As long as there were sufficient resources, their aptitude could naturally be improved considerably.
According to the knowledge Ye Bai had learned, pet beasts were currently divided into tiers.
First Order through Ninth Order.
Each tier had ten levels.
Beyond the Ninth Order, there were higher realms, but given the scope of knowledge Ye Bai had encountered so far, he had not come across them.
In his mind, a Third Order pet beast was already the ceiling of combat power.
Take their homeroom teacher, Zhang Lingxue—she was a Third Order Level Eight Pet Beast Master.
If she had not been busy with research and wasted so much time, she would have become a Fourth Order Pet Beast Master long ago.
Li Weiyang shamelessly edged closer to Ye Bai. Flashing eight neat pearly teeth, she greeted Little Snowball.
She looked approachable and easy to get along with. This was Li Weiyang's utterly natural disguise.
Unfortunately, the two Little Snowballs still circled Ye Bai, not sparing Li Weiyang even a single glance.
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A trace of loneliness appeared on Li Weiyang's face, and she fell silent.
She stared at Little Snowball, seized by that familiar feeling of something being right before her eyes, yet separated from her by a hundred thousand miles.
Ye Bai: Such a strong green-tea stench!
"Ye Bai, you can't keep hogging Little Snowball. You should have a spirit of great love. Don't stand in the way of the class monitor choosing Little Snowball."
Seeing Li Weiyang looking slightly dejected, a righteous individual—read: simp—immediately stepped forward to condemn Ye Bai and seek justice for her.
Just like Little Snowball, Ye Bai did not spare the simp a single glance. This left He Qingyuan with egg all over his face.
"Fine, Ye Bai. Are you looking down on even your fellow classmates now?"
"Have you gotten so full of yourself that you can't even be bothered to speak to me?"
Hearing He Qingyuan jabbering away, the surrounding students all frowned.
At that moment, He Qingyuan straightened his back and proudly pointed at his pet beast, the Boxing Rabbit.
"See this? This is the Boxing Rabbit I carefully picked out. What a fine young lad."
"Boxing Rabbit, stand up and greet everyone!"
As its name suggested, the Boxing Rabbit was a big, fat rabbit. It stood half a meter tall, with large red eyes and ugly buck teeth jutting out from its three-part mouth.
Its clenched paws looked like boxing gloves, which was why people called it a Boxing Rabbit.
Boxing Rabbits did not have the best temper. They were easily angered and irritated, and when their eyes turned red with rage, they would even disregard their Pet Beast Master's commands and frantically attack their opponents.
They liked to bully the weak and fear the strong. When they encountered pet beasts weaker than themselves, they would mock them without restraint. But when they met a stronger pet beast, they would not dare let out even a fart.
That was why they were also called Hooligan Rabbits.
However, He Qingyuan had only contracted with the Boxing Rabbit recently. It was not familiar with him yet, so naturally it was unwilling to obey his commands.
The Boxing Rabbit gave a huge yawn, flopped directly onto the ground, scratched its butt with one paw, and looked utterly uninterested.
With so many classmates watching, He Qingyuan was overcome with embarrassment. His face instantly turned bright red, though no one knew whether it was from anger or anxiety.
Then he remembered the Ruby Carrot he had bought with three months' worth of allowance.
The Ruby Carrot was a special ingredient and also a resource for nurturing pet beasts.
It was rich in various trace elements and nutrients, filled with juice, and sweet to the taste.
Little Snowball's nose was made from Ruby Carrot and counted as a renewable resource.
The moment He Qingyuan took out the Ruby Carrot, the Boxing Rabbit was no longer sleepy. It scrambled up from the ground in a flash and snatched the Ruby Carrot from He Qingyuan's hand with mercenary speed.
The Ruby Carrot was only as thick as a thumb and around two centimeters long, glittering like a brilliant gemstone.
The Boxing Rabbit opened its mouth and crunched down the Ruby Carrot.
A rich, refreshing fragrance spread outward, instantly invigorating the onlookers.
After swallowing the carrot in two or three bites, the Boxing Rabbit still looked as though it had not had enough.
It wore an expression that said, You know what you're doing. I'm satisfied. Its paws clenched into fists with a series of crackling sounds.
The Boxing Rabbit suddenly kicked off the ground with both legs, swung its fist, and smashed it heavily into a decorative stone on the ground.
With a crack, the stone shattered into several pieces.
Just as He Qingyuan smugly basked in everyone's admiring gazes, Ye Bai finally reacted.
"What is it, Ye Bai? Scared now, aren't you? Hurry up and apologize to Li Weiyang, or else I wonder whether your head is harder than that stone from just now." He Qingyuan spoke with his nose in the air.
Ye Bai's cheek twitched. He had seen people courting death before, but never anyone courting death this hard.
Ye Bai looked at Li Weiyang. She subtly revealed an expression of gloating delight.
Honestly, Li Weiyang had always disliked Ye Bai's aloof manner too. She wanted to use this chance to gauge his depth.
She had always been quite wary of Ye Bai, though she did not know whether it was because of the blessing of Ye Bai's Academic God Halo.
Ye Bai called loudly to a staff member nearby, "Hello, teacher. He damaged the flowers and plants in the Secret Realm. He should be punished."
Li Weiyang.
He Qingyuan.
All the students present.
Ye Bai, you really took this to another level.
The staff member recalled that the Secret Realm Rules did indeed contain such a provision. He nodded. "Student, you damaged public property in the Secret Realm. According to the rules, you must receive a tenfold penalty."
After asking for He Qingyuan's name, the staff member issued the first ticket.
He Qingyuan's face turned black as ink.
There was an nmp in his heart, but he did not know whether he should say it.
Just then, a Dark Shadow shot out from nearby and crashed like a cannonball into the Boxing Rabbit not far from He Qingyuan.
The Boxing Rabbit only felt an immense force strike it, and its body flew backward uncontrollably.
With a splash, it landed in a nearby fountain.
"Boxing Rabbit!"
He Qingyuan cried out. Only then did everyone realize that the Dark Shadow was actually a Chameleon Silkworm, white and flawless as jade.
Its body was slightly larger than that of an ordinary Chameleon Silkworm, and it was currently fleeing in panic.
It bounced and hopped along at astonishing speed.
Behind it, a group of staff members holding capture nets shouted at the Chameleon Silkworm, "Don't run, Chameleon Silkworm!"
Suddenly, the ground split open. A Drill Groundhog with a steel drill on its nose emerged, glaring fiercely at the Chameleon Silkworm.
The Chameleon Silkworm shuddered at once. It looked in other directions and found several pet beasts rubbing their paws together, blocking its path.
With nowhere left to go, the Chameleon Silkworm's gaze shifted and landed on Ye Bai.
Its eyes rolled, and it looked at Ye Bai as though he were a huge slab of fat meat.
The Chameleon Silkworm leaped directly onto Ye Bai's hand. Ye Bai felt as though a twenty-pound "pig" had landed in his palm.
Little Snowball was startled and instantly dissolved into countless snowflakes that flew away.
Ye Bai saw that this Chameleon Silkworm looked foolish and silly on the surface, but a glint of sharp intelligence flashed through its eyes.
The light of the Sun Crystal fell upon the Chameleon Silkworm's jade-white body, and Ye Bai saw a flash of light vanish from between its brows.
Combining this with the information provided by his Information System, Ye Bai immediately understood. This fellow was not a Chameleon Silkworm, but the even rarer Thousand Changes Silkworm.
Ye Bai had once looked through the records. Thousand Changes Silkworms looked extremely similar to Chameleon Silkworms, but they were far rarer.
Out of a million Chameleon Silkworms, not even one Thousand Changes Silkworm might appear.
The Silk Thread it spat out was exceptionally smooth and could be woven into the finest silk.
According to the Information System's prompt, the Thousand Changes Silkworm's Silk Thread was said to be worth an ounce of gold for an ounce of thread.
It was simply that very few people knew this.
Having a Thousand Changes Silkworm was equivalent to owning a hen that laid golden eggs.
In Ye Bai's eyes, it was no longer a Thousand Changes Silkworm, but the secret code to getting rich overnight.
A white light appeared between the panicked Thousand Changes Silkworm's brows. It wanted to form a contract with Ye Bai.
At that moment, the leading staff member stepped forward. "Sorry, student. Could you hand over the Chameleon Silkworm in your hand for us to take away?"
"We don't know where this thing came from. It is not a pet beast raised in the Secret Realm, and it is dangerous and uncontrollable."
"You've only just awakened your talent. Forming a contract with this kind of pet beast carries great risks."
"Moreover, it has a very vicious temperament and always likes to snatch food from the other pet beasts in the Secret Realm."
"It has made the other pet beasts miserable and full of complaints. We could no longer endure it, so we set a trap to capture it. We just didn't expect it to see through our trap and flee here."
The staff had laid a Heaven Net Earth Trap this time precisely to capture it and drive it out of the Secret Realm.
Yet before the troops had even marched forth, the general had already fallen, and this dangerous Chameleon Silkworm had ended up in the hands of a student who had come to form a contract.
The leading staff member patiently explained. Even Li Weiyang stepped forward and urged Ye Bai to hand over the Chameleon Silkworm in his hand.
Although she did not like Ye Bai, they were classmates after all. Sometimes, she even used him as a shield, making quite a few people back off.
Ye Bai's awakened talent was not impressive, but Li Weiyang felt that he was no ordinary fish in a pond. If she had not truly wanted the Little Snowball in Ye Bai's hand this time, she would not have signaled the simp to provoke him.
When it came to keeping things within bounds, Li Weiyang had a warning line. Anyone she could avoid offending, she absolutely would not offend.
"No need. I happen to not have a pet beast yet. I'll take this one."
While no one was paying attention, Ye Bai bit his finger and forcefully pressed it against the Thousand Changes Silkworm's brow.
The white light instantly burst forth, enveloping Ye Bai and the Thousand Changes Silkworm.
Blood traced a strange Rune between the Thousand Changes Silkworm's brows, and a faint, intangible connection formed between Ye Bai and the Thousand Changes Silkworm.
A brilliant pearl also appeared in a slot within Ye Bai's Pet Beast Space.
Hungry, hungry, hungry.
Ye Bai could feel waves of hunger coming from the Thousand Changes Silkworm's heart, a burning, scratching sensation that scorched its heart and lungs.
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