Talent Out of Control

"Mind your hygiene. Don't touch unfamiliar things with your tongue. Don't do that again!" Chen Wei nagged Color Spirit for a while, trying to help her break this bad habit.

After all, Color Spirit was only a one-month-old baby. Chen Wei needed to teach her some basic human common sense in daily life.

He knew snakes generally used their tongues to gather information, but as an extraordinary creature, Color Spirit no longer needed to use her tongue as a substitute for smell. Those adorably vacant eyes of hers were not just for show.

"Yiyi?" (It's not food?)

Color Spirit looked at it twice in confusion, clearly still unable to understand.

"This is the packaging. The food is inside. Here, this is your dinner."

Chen Wei opened the package in his hand, then pointed at the lesser ice-element source crystals and fresh spirit fish inside.

"Yi." (Got it.) Color Spirit tilted her head indifferently.

"Eat."

Chen Wei took out a fresh spirit fish and gently held it to Color Spirit's mouth.

Color Spirit stared at the fresh fish in Chen Wei's hand and fell into thought. She was afraid of accidentally attacking her master.

"Yi." (Let go of it.) Color Spirit widened her clear, watery eyes.

"Huh?" Chen Wei, who had originally wanted to feed her by hand, disappointedly placed the lively, flopping fish onto the clean table.

Color Spirit launched herself forward and instantly bit the fish flopping on the table. With a puff of icy breath from her mouth, she froze the fish into a lump of ice.

"Looks like Color Spirit prefers frozen food."

Watching Color Spirit eat, Chen Wei lowered his head and packed away the remaining fresh spirit fish and source crystals, then put them in the refrigerator for cold storage.

At seven that evening, after Color Spirit had eaten and drunk her fill, Chen Wei finished his own dinner and began his daily cultivation.

After finishing his cultivation, Chen Wei, feeling that he had improved slightly, woke Color Spirit from her pleasant dreams.

"Color Spirit, wake up. Time for enhancement."

The moment sleeping Color Spirit heard the word "enhancement," she immediately perked up. Her eyes flew open, and her body instantly coiled around Chen Wei's wrist.

Seeing Color Spirit's impatient behavior, Chen Wei smiled faintly. What an impatient little thing.

He gently stroked Color Spirit's tiny body and used Dragon Power Enhancement twice.

Color Spirit blissfully enjoyed Chen Wei's gentle caresses, feeling her strength grow at a visibly rapid pace. Unfortunately, she could only enjoy it for a few minutes each time.

"Huh?" (That fast?)

After the two enhancements were complete, Color Spirit raised her head to look at Chen Wei. She still wasn't satisfied. She wanted to experience that feeling of growing stronger without end.

Sensing Color Spirit's aggrieved gaze, Chen Wei smiled helplessly.

"Didn't we agree? If you won the battle, you'd get enhanced four times a day. Including tonight's two sessions, you've already been enhanced four times today. I still need to prepare delicious Dragon Crystals for you!"

Upon hearing this, Color Spirit reluctantly left Chen Wei's wrist. She slipped over beside his pillow and went back to sleep.

She couldn't resist the temptation of food. Sleeping was better—out of sight, out of mind. Besides, her master had said that Dragon Crystal was a gift prepared for her advancement to the first rank.

Once her strength broke through to the first rank, she would finally get to savor that long-awaited Dragon Crystal to her heart's content!

"Grow well, my future trump card."

Watching Color Spirit gradually drift back to sleep, the corners of Chen Wei's lips slowly curved upward.

Chen Wei stood up, stretched lazily, and loosened his stiff muscles. Then he let out a heavy breath, venting the fatigue in his heart. He still had Dragon Crystal homework to finish!

But he would not be enhancing Dragon Crystals today. Based on his previous experience, with the little energy he had left, he could only barely make one basic Dragon Crystal.

As for why he had chosen to make Dragon Crystals, it was because he had already found his second pet beast—the Titanium Crystal Ragdoll he had long dreamed of—though he had not yet had the chance to choose one.

Rather than fearing scarcity, one should fear inequality. Even for a future pet beast, gifts that ought to be prepared needed to be prepared in advance, lest conflicts arise within the team later.

Setting everything else aside, as a Beastmaster, Chen Wei wanted to be as impartial and fair as possible when providing Beastmaster resources to his pet beasts, ensuring that the rain and dew fell evenly upon all.

"Sorry, Color Spirit. Please forgive me."

"I just have no resistance to fluffy silver shaded Ragdolls."

After poking fun at himself, Chen Wei skillfully took a disposable blood lancet, disinfecting alcohol, and a bandage from the backpack on the bedside table.

It couldn't be helped. Making Dragon Crystals required a drop of his blood.

As someone who had read the Spring and Autumn Annals, he couldn't possibly be like the characters in novels and simply bite open his finger with his teeth to collect blood, could he?

Not only would that waste too much blood and be unhygienic, but more importantly, Chen Wei simply could not bring himself to bite down.

He did not have that kind of ruthlessness, nor did he know what kind of ruthless person would draw blood that way.

Chen Wei first pressed his right thumb against his left index finger several times to make the fingertip flush with blood. After disinfecting it with alcohol, he used the lancet to pierce the skin of his fingertip.

He dripped the blood into his palm, then covered the wound on his fingertip with a bandage.

Looking at the blood in his palm, Chen Wei did not hesitate and directly activated his second talent, Dragon Taming Power.

With a soft sizzle, a phantom blue flame ignited over the blood in his palm. The once-liquid blood gave off an enticing fragrance as it was refined by the flame.

As the fragrance spread, Color Spirit, immersed in her sweet dreams, seemed drawn to it. Her head swayed slightly before she suddenly opened her eyes and raised her head toward the source of the scent.

Chen Wei watched the blood in his palm gradually contract and condense into a red crystalline essence, his expression turning solemn. He could feel his stamina rapidly flowing into the red crystal in his hand. This expenditure of stamina was far greater than when he had made Dragon Crystals before.

Chen Wei tried to stop the Dragon Crystal's creation, but there was no response at all.

He fiercely twisted the muscles in his thigh, trying to use pain to fight off the surging drowsiness.

At that moment, Chen Wei's slightly pale face was densely covered in sweat, yet he still desperately maintained the balance in his left palm.

He gritted his teeth and held on. Who knew how long passed—perhaps a minute, perhaps much longer. Then, with a crisp crack, the Dragon Crystal finally condensed, and that enticing fragrance vanished in an instant.

"Success!" Chen Wei let out a breath, but then his vision went black, and all strength left his body as he collapsed unconscious onto the bed.

"Yiya? Huh?" (Making something tasty? What's wrong?)

Color Spirit sensed Chen Wei's weakness through their contract. She carefully crawled to his side and rubbed her tiny cheek against his sweat-soaked face, her bright, watery eyes filled with worry.

An unconscious Beastmaster needed protection. Color Spirit vigilantly swept her gaze around the room.

A moment later, her gaze fell upon the Dragon Crystal clenched tightly in Chen Wei's hand.

"Yiya!" (_) (I'm so touched!)

A faint sheen of moisture appeared at the corners of the innocent Color Spirit's eyes.

He exhausted himself like this just to prepare food for me? She recalled the scene of Chen Wei crafting the Dragon Crystal after she had been awakened by its fragrance.

That persistence she had felt through their contract, that kind of determination... Th-this is my Beastmaster?!

Along with her gratitude, Color Spirit felt a little worried. This was the first time she had experienced such a strange feeling.

What can I do to repay him?

Color Spirit immediately thought of today's battles. Every time she won, she could feel Chen Wei's happiness and excitement through their contract.

I'll bring you victory!

At that moment, Color Spirit made up her mind. Pressed tightly against Chen Wei's body, she trembled slightly, as though flames were burning in her eyes.