Purebred Poison Sting Earth Dragon Egg (Recommended to read together with tomorrow's installment!)

In a VIP room, a lean-faced man in a black suit, his hair meticulously combed, stood before the floor-to-ceiling windows and looked down at the guests mingling over drinks.

Invitations to the Mu Zhen Auction were mostly distributed in the Central Region, and most attendees came from influential families there.

Besides bidding on items they wanted, quite a few had come to network.

The Zhao Family, the Li Family, the Xu Family... The man matched the people moving around below to the information in his memory.

Before long, his gaze settled on a child wearing a school uniform.

Surprise crossed his face. Which family is she from?

"Hello, I'm Yu Ke from the North District Yu Family." A girl who looked about eighteen, wearing a pink dress that bared her rounded shoulders, sat in the chieftain chair beside Qiao Sang. With a gracious smile, she asked, "Which family are you from?"

Qiao Sang glanced at her while eating a pastry. "The nation's."

Yu Ke: "???"

She's pretty guarded... Yu Ke muttered inwardly.

Her gaze drifted involuntarily toward the pet beast with magnificent fur on the girl's lap.

She had spotted it on her way over. Its actual size was around three meters, and it could run through the sky.

Ordinary people simply couldn't afford to contract a Psychic Type pet beast like this—rarely seen, handsome, and capable of carrying someone into the sky.

She had also noticed that the girl hadn't worn an oxygen mask outside, which meant she was at least a D-rank Pet Tamer. That made it very likely that this pet beast belonged to her, rather than an elder in her family.

Other people who attended the auction without dressing for the occasion might simply have been unaware of the Mu Zhen Auction's standards and gotten