"Come on, this is the place."
The elevator stopped, and Xu Ran followed close behind Liu Yu into an immensely spacious hall.
Compared with the previous twenty floors, this place looked far too basic.
After all, not only had those floors used extremely advanced environmental mimicry technology, but every floor had also used spatial expansion technology.
Yet none of those technologies had been used in the hall on the twenty-first floor. Strictly speaking, a hall like this represented the actual size of a single floor of the Transcendent Evolution Department.
At the very center of the hall stood a pillar with a slanted top, fitted with a thoroughly futuristic display screen.
Walking straight up to the screen, Liu Yu unlocked it with practiced ease.
Immediately afterward, the hall darkened, and their surroundings changed in an instant. Like a holographic projection, an enormous Contract Beast abruptly appeared beside them.
Xu Ran could even sense a trace of its terrifying aura.
That was... a powerful aura beyond the Monarch Rank!
Combining his earlier analysis with what he felt now, Xu Ran could readily deduce that the Contract Beast before him had reached the Overlord Rank.
This was also the ideal stage for an Emperor Species to evolve into a Holy Spirit Race.
There was also a blurred human figure in the image, whose face and build were indistinguishable. From his interactions with the Overlord Rank Contract Beast, it was clear that he was its Beast Tamer.
There was no telling what the man and beast said, but immediately afterward, the Overlord Rank Contract Beast began rapidly devouring various resources.
Xu Ran widened his eyes, trying his hardest to make out exactly what those resources were. Unfortunately, the projection seemed to have deliberately blurred that detail.
A moment later, the Overlord Rank Contract