Starting With Contract Pets

Chapter 178: A Secret

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Looking around, the Ice Phoenix finally chose a river valley upstream of the reservoir. After carefully observing the surrounding conditions, it nodded in satisfaction. “Quack.” This place is pretty good. Alright, I’ll do it here. No other creatures are around, either; it’s suitable for my breakthrough.

Thinking like this, it activated its spiritual power and took out the best ice blue potion from a small feather-shaped storage device under its wings.

This storage device was given by Su Bai, and the medicine was frugally reserved by the phoenix for its use when it advanced in realms.

Just as it was preparing to drink the medicine, there was a sudden noise not far away.

Shocked, its head jerked up suddenly and it launched a Thousand Miles Freeze attack without hesitation. Although it controlled its power, the terrifying strength still iced most of the river valley.

This was not over yet, though. Right after, it launched another Instant Ice Seal and an Ice Flame. The flame-like breath instantly dropped the temperature of the entire river valley by forty or fifty degrees; all the ice arrows and ice balls were also smashed down.

In the end, in the middle of an ice burst attack, all the ice exploded and turned into ice powder.

“Quack!” You dared to sneak-attack me? Do you know who I am? The Ice Phoenix stood proudly on the large bluestone with disdain all over its face. Did the other really think that its strength was only as weak as it showed on the surface?

“Quack?” Huh? You’re not dead? Upon hearing movement again, it quickly prepared to fly away.

“Of course, I’m not dead; if not for my immunity to your attacks, I would be dead already!” Su Bai walked out gloomily, glaring angrily at the phoenix.

Ah, it turns out to be my cutest master. Your lovely phoenix really didn’t know it’s you, or else I would never attack you.

Upon seeing its owner, the phoenix quickly lowered its head and admitted its mistake.

“B*llsh*t. You think I don’t know that you can sense me?” Su Bai felt the urge to choke his pet to death.

“Qua-quack...” I thought that it’s an impersonator. After all, my lovely master, you’ve been sleeping all the time. It must be a fake if you appeared here suddenly.

Rattled, the phoenix explained a bit awkwardly.

“Do you really think that you can hide your little trick of coming out to exercise every night? If I hadn’t secretly replaced your potions with more advanced ones, would you have broken through so fast?”

Su Bai angrily threw a bottle of potion over.

“Thank you, master; thank you, my dearest master.”

The phoenix quickly picked up the potion and thanked him crisply.

Without even looking at his pet, he turned around and walked off.

As soon as he exited the river valley and came to a hillside, an icy-blue spiritual vortex exploded from below. A gigantic ice phoenix illusion—noble and elegant, beautiful and gorgeous—appeared in the river valley.

Before he had seen enough, the illusion quickly disappeared along with the spiritual vortex.

“Quack.” My dearest master, wait for me.

A crisp sound rang in his head as the old hen chased after him.

“Quack?” Ah Bai, can you keep my breakthrough a secret for me? It looked up at him.

“Yes,” Su Bai replied blankly, “can’t you change your appearance? An old hen looks too ugly.”

The Ice Phoenix thought for a while, then activated its camouflage skill, and transformed itself into a baby duck covered in yellow fluff. It looked quite cute.

“Quack?” Ah Bai, how does this look? It glanced at him and asked.

“...As long as you’re happy.” He shrugged.

Great. It had really become a quacking duck.

He already held no expectations for this Ice Phoenix, which was in the late stage of paranoia. Its disease would not get better, and the only thing he was grateful for was that it worked hard day and night because of paranoia. Hence, its breakthrough speed was second only to the dragon out of all his pets.

Its senior sister fox was still a peak high-level warlord, and was even working hard to evolve into an Alluring Demon Fox. Even with the teaching speed of the Twelve-tailed Magic Fox, its progress was not as fast as this phoenix.

Regarding this, he did not know what to say.

He looked at the data of the evolved Ice Phoenix and discovered that it had unexpectedly awakened a new skill, Ice-snow Ray

It was a powerful single damage skill, and combined with its Frostmourne characteristic, it could kill opponents of the same grade.

Shaking his head, he walked home quickly to sleep.

He woke up early the next morning even though it was Saturday.

“Howl~” The cub flipped around and hit his stomach with a paw.

“...”

Why was Purple Jade in his bed? He had obviously locked the doors and windows to his room last night.

He was speechless to see the big white cat lying down next to him and reached out to remove its paw.

The cub suddenly embraced him in a bear hug and blinked at him with its big, round purple eyes. It stretched out its pink tongue and licked his face, seemingly licking its beloved toy.

“Stop it!” Su Bai glared at it.

I refuse to. Ah Bai, you smell so good.

The cub showed an incredibly gluttonous expression.

Other people examined themselves on three points daily, but it liked licking him three times daily.

Su Bai asked why the cub liked licking him, and it said that he was fragrant and smelled so good, but he was convinced that that was not so. He was so clean that there was no scent on him.

However, as if the cub was addicted, it would lick him so much that he suspected it would devour him if not for it being contracted to him.

“Enough. Are you going to eat?”

He broke free of it and went to wash his face and brush his teeth.

The cub got out of bed unhappily.

After washing up, he came out to feed the pets breakfast. He also took out some ingredients from the refrigerator to make a simple meal for himself.

The other pets did not react much to the phoenix having changed into a duck. Actually, it was more like they did not care.

“Let’s go; we have to set off soon.” Su Bai motioned.

He was going to his master’s place today. Gao An had some things to tell him; he wanted to greet his master while he was there, too.

After keeping the dino, the dragon, and the phoenix into his contract book, he set off on the cub’s back.

Soon, he arrived at the training base of his master in the city.

“You’re here.” Liu Xinghe opened the door and smiled.

“Hello, Brother Liu.”

“Let’s go. The master is planting flowers inside.”

He took him into the backyard and nodded at him before leaving.

“Hello, master. I personally made this Purple Sparrow tea for you; you can drink it when you are free.”

He bowed and handed the elderly man a can of tea.

Gao An finished watering the flowers and put it down to accept his disciple’s Purple Sparrow tea. He opened it and took a sniff before nodding gently. “It’s not bad; I’ll accept this.”

After speaking, he took the tea and sat in the imperial tutor chair at the center of the yard. He looked at the boy carefully and then at the cub.

“How far have you cultivated the Ancestor Blood Dragon? Let me take a look at it.” Gao An motioned.

“It’s now a peak high-level commander and will probably break through to the sovereign grade in a few months.” Su Bai released the dragon as he explained.

“Roar?” The Blood Dragon appeared and glanced at Gao An vigilantly. It then looked back at its owner questioningly.

“It’s alright; this is my master.” He caressed its head.

“It’s very good, beyond my expectation. It seems that you’re indeed suitable to be a professional Pet Tamer.” His master nodded in satisfaction.

“I asked you to come here because I have something to tell you.” Gao An paused before posing a question. “Do you know the divine skills of summoners?”

“A senior told me about divine skills before, saying that they’re special skills bred from origins of broken worlds and infinitely powerful.” Su Bai responded, feeling a little puzzled. Why was his master suddenly mentioning that? Was it related to the Scarlet Wilderness?

“That’s right. Every Pet Tamer’s divine skills are hard to come by and are very difficult to acquire...”

Gao An once again went over the details of the Pet Tamer’s divine skills.

“Every time such a divine skill appears, it’s a target for all the Pet Tamers to fight for. The Scarlet Wilderness, which you often visit, also has such a divine skill and it is almost incubated.

“Anyone with blood pets above the monarch grade can compete for it. Did you know about this?”

Su Bai shook his head, shocked. “I’ve never heard of it at all.”

“The blood moon’s original divine skill was successfully conceived probably this year, but I can’t estimate the specific time. One of the important reasons they want to snatch your Ancestor Blood Dragon is that,” said Gao An.

“Then what should I do, master? Should I suppress my dragon so that it doesn’t break through?” asked Su Bai.

This kind of divine skill competition would probably involve title-holders, emperor grades, and even stronger Pet Tamers.

For example, those summoners with monarchs were simply expendable, and they could not handle a single move in front of Pet Tamers with emperors or sovereigns.

Not to mention his dreams, in the face of such a situation, even though he has a plug-in, he must still be self-aware. If he goes there to compete, he’ll surely die.

“I called you today to talk about this.” Gao An nodded with satisfaction. Su Bai had not been mesmerized by the Pet Tamer’s divine skill.

He first opened a shield and then continued speaking. “You don’t need to suppress the Ancestor Blood Dragon’s breakthrough; it doesn’t matter. It’s up to you whether or not to compete for the divine skill, but based on my research, I have another guess. Would you like to give it a try? If it succeeds, there’s a high probability that everyone else will be wiped out.”

“What guess?” asked Su Bai curiously. Was there really a way to snatch the divine skill from those with emperor and sovereign pets?

“This method will depend on your pet dragon; no one else can do it.

“To obtain the original divine skill of a world, the premise is that you must possess such a monster and have a certain world-origin existence. The original divine skill is the reward of life in the world when that world dies, so outsiders need monsters of the corresponding level when they enter.

“However, in addition to that, some powerful monsters in this world have the opportunity to obtain the original divine skill.

“In the blood moon world, only those with monarchs have a chance of entering the land of origin. That’s because the world origin contained in the body of this level has reached a certain grade.

“The origin is condensed from the essence of a world, but what do you think is the root of a world?

“Yes, it is the beings living in that world. They are part of the origin of the world and are also the existence of life; that’s why a world can grow slowly. The origin of those dead stars will only become thinner and thinner and never grow.

“If you can transform all the monsters in the blood moon world into your Ancestor Blood Dragon’s blood subordinates, then you can even indirectly control the origin of the world.

“Because all the creatures in the world are under your control, it means that the origin of the world is also at your mercy.

“Even if there’s no way to convert all monsters into blood subordinates, as long as the majority is achieved, it means that the origin contained in the Ancestor Blood Dragon is second only to the origin of the world.

“You don’t have to vie for it with other people at that time. As long as you enter, the whole world will pave the way for you, and the origin of the world will cheer for you.” Gao An slowly relayed everything.

“Really?” Su Bai was shocked at such an underhand method.

“According to my research, as well as some data in the Alliance, the probability of success is very high.

“Even if it fails, it doesn’t matter. Having many blood subordinates is good for the Ancestor Blood Dragon. What you must do now is spread the bloodline of your dragon across the Scarlet Wilderness as soon as possible,” instructed the elderly man.

“Thank you, master; I understand.” Su Bai quickly thanked the old man.

“Okay, there is nothing more to do after talking about this; you can go plant spiritual plants with me.”

Gao An stood up. He had only told his disciple the method and had not provided him with extra help. It was completely up to the youth whether he could achieve this feat or not.

If he could not do it in the end, he could quietly make a move to help out. Either way, he could not let this original divine skill fall into the hands of the Alliance’s families or the Twelve Dragon Slayers.

Gao An thought happily inside.

“Okay, master.” Su Bai nodded, knowing that it was impossible to get rid of working for his master.

“Master, how is your process of transforming another world?” He asked this as they walked, always curious about it.

“No progress. It’s been stuck at 70% for several years.” Gao An sighed.

“I see. It seems like it’s quite difficult to transform another world.” He also sighed.

“Of course, the space cracks and monster wildernesses you enter now are still suitable for humans to venture into, but in fact, the environment in most places is extremely harsh. Not only is there no oxygen, there are also extreme cases where there’s super gravity, sulfuric acid, and volcanoes. Only experienced elite Pet Tamers can barely enter such places as those rookies won’t be able to handle the environment at all.” Gao An shook his head.

A senior Pet Tamer needed at least three high-level commander pets to be considered highly experienced.

Su Bai nodded. He also knew the dangers of such places, and ordinary professional Pet Tamers would never dare to enter them.

After working for a few hours and having lunch with Gao An, he left the place.

In the afternoon, he would go to Hou Jie’s Blue Moon Cultivation House in Carp Town to work as a cultivator. At the same time, he would read a book and assist her.

However, on his way back to the village, he found a group of villagers gathered together, discussing wildly, their expressions full of trepidation.

“Uncle, what’s the matter?” Su Bai asked the village head, Jin Shunshui.