Astral Pet Store (WN)

“Nice!”

“Snow and wine go perfectly together!”

There was a small cube forged with spatial skills in the snowy area. Inside the cube was a rush cushion; an old man was sitting on it while enjoying himself.

He was Legend the Drunken, the guardian of the Tower. Even though he was just a doorkeeper, many of the Tower’s legendary warriors treated him with respect.

He wasn’t at the Void State. But he did have strong combat abilities.

“Huh?”

While staring at the snow, Legend the Drunken sniffed with his reddish nose, then suddenly narrowed his eyes. A black dot was approaching in the distance. The black dot was getting closer and closer until the outline was revealed.

It was a magnificent spaceship!

The ships built on the Blue Planet could only traverse the oceans, but humans would seldom make the trip, given the fact that oceans were infested with wild beasts. Humans had even stopped making aircraft carriers.

But then, a spaceship was about to arrive! That was something that couldn’t have been made with the Blue Planet’s available technology. “It’s them…”

Legend the Drunken’s eyes glowed, and the signs of inebriation disappeared from his face. The redness receded and all his leisure utensils vanished with the wave of a hand.

He strode forward. Legend the Drunken was then ready to receive guests. Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

The noise made by the spaceship was sonorous and deafening. The spaceship stopped above the Tower. The cabin door opened and two people came out. Both were at the legendary rank.

Legend the Drunken narrowed his eyes. Those two were at the Fate State!

He felt as if he were seeing the Master of the Tower. The surrounding astral power was being compressed; that pressure was commonplace when a warrior stood in front of someone of higher rank. Those two could kill him easily!

“Hey red nose, you’re still the doorkeeper.”

The middle-aged man smiled at Legend the Drunken.

Legend the Drunken answered with respect, “Mr. Zhou, you’re teasing me. I have no other skills but keeping watch over the doors… Sir, are you here to pick up those who were selected?”

“Yes,” the girl standing next to the middle-aged man answered coldly.

She looked around with contempt, especially when she noticed the low density of astral powers floating around.

The legendary battle pet warrior surnamed Zhou said, “Is your master here? Mr. Fang, our teacher, is here to look at the candidates. Tell your master to come out now.”

Legend the Drunken narrowed his eyes. Mr. Fang?

A teacher… of that academy?

His heart was racing. He had heard some stories about that academy. It was said that those who could become teachers there… should be at the Star Rank!

It was for that very reason that the academy had established a name even in the scope of the Federation!

“I, I will tell him right away.” Legend the Drunken was getting nervous. He took out his phone and was about to dial the number. “It’s okay. We’ll go see him.” An indifferent voice came from the spaceship.

With that said, the entrance was suddenly opened.

The spaceship slowly went into the Mysterious Realm.

The middle-aged man and the ice-cold girl gave Legend the Drunken one last glance but no longer spoke. They flew back and entered the spaceship.

Legend the Drunken finally came back to his senses when the ship vanished. He didn’t open the entrance but the spaceship still went inside; there had to be someone above the legendary rank on that spaceship!

He immediately called the Master and told him about this, just in case the latter would require time to be ready to receive such honorable guests.

Inside the Tower’s Mysterious Realm.

The spaceship’s arrival alerted many legendary battle pet warriors. The Tower’s Mysterious Realm was of moderate size; the legendary warriors were capable enough to sense any situation across half of the Mysterious Realm. The spaceship had alerted those who had not yet gone to the battlefronts.

Soon after, those of legendary rank came out and gazed at the huge spaceship.

They saw some special symbols on the spaceship. That was the official language of the Federation; they had seen it before but didn’t know how to read it.

Whoosh!

All of a sudden, there was a ripple in space. An old man with gray hair appeared in front of the spaceship. It was the old man from that cottage.

He looked at the spaceship, yearning to get a taste of such power. But he stored away his flights of fancy and lowered his head. “I am Gu Siping. It is my honor to meet you.”

Four people at the Fate State came out from the spaceship.

The old man narrowed his eyes.

Then, a middle-aged man also stepped out from the spaceship. He had dashing eyebrows and deep eyes; something was intimidating about him. The middle-aged man walked on the void, step by step.

He nodded to Gu Siping. “So, you’re the owner of this place?”

“Not exactly. I just received the honor of being selected as their leader.” Gu Siping tried his best to be humble.

The middle-aged smiled with a little bit of contempt and continued, “I come here on behalf of the Hugh Mia Academy, all in order to recruit some new students. I’ve already seen the information about the candidates and they do meet our standards, but I do wonder… if their information is authentic.”

Gu Siping said at once, “Sir, please trust me. I have personally gone through the information of those candidates and everything is authentic. But I don’t know if something has happened to them during this time. Two of the candidates are my grandsons and they do meet your requirements.” “Is that so?”

The middle-aged man looked around and suddenly said with a frown, “Come over here.”

Space trembled. All of a sudden, two people were squeezed out of thin air from next to Gu Siping, the kid and the young man in the cottage.

The two had a dull look in their faces. They then managed to calm down when they saw Gu Siping.

“Not bad. Bone age is nine and the rank is seventh. There’s a certain beast presence in him. I think he was born to have a beast constitution, although I cannot tell which rank his beast bloodline is.”

The middle-aged man seemed to be happy about the kid.

That kid did have the qualities to be admitted in their academy. The kid could easily reach the Fate State once he was trained well. As for whether the kid could go beyond the Fate State, that would be up to luck.

Gu Siping was overjoyed to hear that. “My grandson is still young. Sir, I’m sorry for troubling you by looking after him.”

The middle-aged man remained silent. He was observing the young man.

“Bone age 16 and cultivation is at the peak of the ninth rank. There’s a presence of ice in him. He was born with an ice constitution. I cannot tell which type of ice constitution he was born with. He’s not bad.”

The middle-aged man nodded. The young man was also up to standard.

If it was later confirmed that the young man’s ice constitution was of the best kind, it would also be good for the academy.

The young man was relieved. He looked at the huge spaceship and knew that those people were from the Interstellar Federation.

He and his little brother would go with those people to a legendary place far, far away to study.

It was said that the most powerful in that far-off place had already become gods; they could destroy an entire planet by lifting one of their hands.

“Are they your grandsons?”

He had a kinder expression when the middle-aged man turned to talk to Gu Siping again. After all, being able to have two grandsons like those two on that resourceless planet had surely not been easy.

Their grandfather would also be honored if the two kids could perform well in the academy.

Gu Siping smiled. “Sir, thank you so much.”

“Don’t mention it.” The middle-aged man said, “What about the other candidates?”

Gu Siping answered at once, “They are somewhere else. Sir, why don’t you stay here for a couple of days. I will call them.”

Gu Siping then apologized, “I’m sorry but there have been beast strikes all across our planet. The other candidates have gone with their families to fight against the wild beasts. It’ll take some time to get them here. Sir, please forgive me.”

The middle-aged man understood what Gu Siping was implying.

He was apologizing as if feeling sorry…

But the fact was that he wanted them to help.

However, the middle-aged man did not say it out loud. After all, life on that almost primitive planet wasn’t easy. He also knew that people were suffering.

“Do they have phone numbers? I will call them and send someone to pick them up,” the middle-aged man said.

Gu Siping felt a bit embarrassed. “I have their numbers but some places don’t have a strong signal. If we call them one by one…”

“Don’t worry. Input all their numbers into one phone and I’ll deal with the rest,” the middle-aged man replied.

Gu Siping was confused but he didn’t dare to disobey. He entered the number of the candidate’s guardians in his phone.

“Sir, those are the numbers.”

“Okay.”

The middle-aged man captured the phone over and poured out some astral powers into the device.

The phone trembled and four projections rose from the phone.

“Master?”

“Master?”

The people showing up in the projections were surprised.

They felt as if they would have cut through space and entered the Tower’s Mysterious Realm.

Not only did they see Gu Siping, but also the middle-aged and the huge spaceship.

Soon enough, the four came back to their senses, wide-eyed with excitement.

They are from that place! Yuan Tianchen trembled. They had arrived. His granddaughter would go to that place!

“I am a teacher from the Hugh Mia Academy with the task of recruiting students,” the middle-aged man said briefly, “Tell me where you are and I’ll send people to get you.”

They had recognized him even before the introduction. The four people immediately spoke and gave their location details.

The middle-aged man hung up the call and threw the phone back to Gu Siping.

Gu Siping was in a daze.

Since when was my phone this powerful?

The middle-aged man said calmly, “I only manipulated some rules. Nothing strange about that.”

The middle-aged man then said to the others, “Go and find where they are. Get them here.”

“Okay.”

The four nodded. They entered the spaceship and soon came out after making preparations. They said their goodbyes to the middle-aged man and headed off.

Sheng-Long Defense Line.

Yuan Tianchen was seized with excitement once the call ended. He ignored the looks of astonishment from those around him and said to the girl, “Did you hear that? They’re here! They are waiting at the Tower!” “I heard that.”

Yuan Linglu nodded.

She didn’t see that but she did hear it.

That famous academy from the Interstellar Federation was there to pick her up.

She would finally tap into her full potential. Once she reached the Fate State-or the possibility of going beyond the legendary rank

—the current crisis on the Blue Planet would mean nothing to her!

“Grandpa, I will go and work hard. You have to take care of yourself!” the girl said to Yuan Tianchen with determination, “Whatever happens, live on. Also, don’t go and anger that person.”

Yuan Tianchen knew who she was referring to. The joy seemed to have been cut off by hatred. He nodded. “I know. I won’t be that stupid. Let’s wait till that person perishes on his own!”

Yuan Linglu remained silent.

Perishing by himself?

She didn’t think so.

She no longer had such a grand wish.

On the contrary, she wished that person could live until she returned!

A legendary battle pet warrior asked gingerly, “Lord Yuan, who was that…?”.

Yuan Tianchen came back to his senses. He looked around and was barely able to hold back his smile. “He is from the Interstellar Federation; an academy is currently recruiting and my granddaughter has passed according to their standards. They’re here and it just so happens that we’re currently in crisis. I’ll ask my granddaughter to tell them and see if they can help us get rid of those damn beasts.”

The many legendary battle pet warriors looked at each other speechlessly.

Is he referring to the academy with abundantly qualified teachers?

The legendary battle pet warriors gasped; they jealousy looked at the quiet girl.

They knew that the girl had been recruited by the academy, but it would only count until she got there; the letter of acceptance could be canceled at any time.

But the academy’s teacher had actually made the trip!

When the girl returned, she would become someone that all of them would look up to.

It was also perfect timing for those people to arrive at the moment. It would be great if they could help in dealing with the wild beasts.

Everyone was full of troubling feelings for a moment.

The threat of the wild beasts would recede. But the bitterness from envy would persist.

“Hmm…”

Yuan Tianchen was unable to mask his joy.