Chapter 259 Arrogant Promises from Each Department! The Battle for Deanship Reaches a New Climax!

Zhan Qiong's words...

Sent Jiang Yun into a brief moment of contemplation.

Which institute to choose.

It concerned the core future direction of every one of his battle beasts.

Although he hadn't deeply interacted with these special paths before, his studies at Qingquan No. 1 Middle School in C City gave him a basic understanding of these different beast-taming paths.

Different paths.

Meant completely different cultivation methods and roles for the battle beasts.

Traditional Beast Taming.

The most common and core path, focusing on excavating the racial potential of the beast itself, skill comprehension, honing combat techniques, and exploring evolution routes.

It pursued pure rapport between the Beast Tamer and the beast, maximizing combat power.

Artifact Path Beast Taming.

It wasn't that the Beast Tamer refined artifacts themselves.

But rather, the Beast Tamer studied the Dao of Artifact Refining.

To tailor and Cultivate life-bound treasures for their own beasts.

Treasures grew alongside the beast, sharing a connection of mind and Soul, allowing the beast to exert combat power far exceeding its racial limits, and even granting special abilities.

And the beast taming armor condensation Jiang Yun obtained was an extremely special type of life-bound treasure.

A powerful life-bound treasure.

Could often cause a qualitative leap for a battle beast.

Formation Path Beast Taming.

Studying the Dao of Formations; some beasts were born sensitive to energy nodes, or could deploy innate Formations themselves.

Formation Path Beast Tamers systematically studied Formation knowledge, working with beasts to set up Formations that could trap, kill, assist, or defend—changing in a myriad of ways and utilizing the power of heaven and earth. It was the path of the wise, overcoming the strong with the weak and controlling the battlefield.

Rune Beast Taming.

Runes are simplified scripts for communicating with the Laws of Heaven and Earth, containing wondrous power.

Rune Beast Tamers studied runes.

They could engrave runes on the beast's body or equipment, or directly use rune power to assist in battle, instantly strengthening certain abilities of the beast or manifesting various incredible effects.

Runes and Formations were often combined.

Multiplying their power.

Pill Path Beast Taming.

Centering on the refining of Medicinal Pills.

Using Medicinal Pills to significantly accelerate a beast's growth, break through Bottlenecks, heal injuries, or even temporarily stimulate potential and change attributes.

A powerful Pill Path Beast Tamer was a mobile treasure trove of resources, allowing themselves and their partners' beasts to grow stronger at a speed far exceeding ordinary people.

Pill Path Beast Taming also integrated the healing and support Systems.

Focusing on the beast's treatment, purification, status recovery, and buffing abilities.

These Beast Tamers and their beasts were indispensable backbones in a team, greatly enhancing the team's sustained combat capability and survival rate.

Although their direct combat power might not be strong.

Their status was revered.

Beyond these.

The Dao of Beast Taming had other special paths.

Such as the Spirit System, specializing in mental attacks, control, and illusions.

The Curse System, studying curses, weakening, and the application of negative statuses.

There was also the Shadow System, focusing on reconnaissance, lurking, and assassination.

The Battle Array System, researching joint attacks and battle array coordination, and so on.

These paths either had specific requirements for the type of beast or required the Beast Tamer to possess special talents or interests; they were relatively niche but each had unique characteristics and impressive power.

Jiang Yun quickly analyzed his own situation in his mind.

Little Fire was a pure fire and water attribute combat beast. Currently, it showed no obvious special talent in artifacts, Formations, or runes. Following the traditional beast-taming route to solidify its Foundation while considering equipping it with some general-purpose treasures to enhance combat power in the future was the safest choice.

Little Skylark had excellent speed and burst, but weak defense. If it followed the Artifact Path, tailoring one or even multiple treasures focused on speed, attack, or life-saving might perfectly compensate for its shortcomings and leverage its ultimate advantages.

As for Formations and Runes, unless he specifically contracted beasts with related talents in the future, there was no need to consider them for now.

Pill Path... Jiang Yun remembered that his peculiar appraisal ability seemed to have extraordinary insight into Materials. Perhaps he would have achievements in the Pill Path?

But Alchemy itself required a lot of time and energy to study and practice. He currently desired to quickly improve his combat power more, so his interest wasn't great.

Just as Jiang Yun was weighing the pros and cons and hesitating slightly.

Zhan Qiong interpreted this as difficulty in choosing.

Or rather, a signal of waiting for a better price.

A sharp light flashed in his eyes!

The Opportunity had come!

He immediately spoke out loudly.

His voice was like a resonant bell.

He directly threw out the Beast Taming Institute's price.

“Little friend Jiang Yun, if it's truly hard to choose, why not join my Beast Taming Institute? I, Zhan Qiong, in the name of the Dean of the Beast Taming Institute, shall take you as my sole Personal Disciple! My institute's Myriad Beast Firmament Pavilion will be completely open to you! You will enjoy the highest priority for all Cultivation Secret Realms and Trial Grounds within the Beast Taming Institute! Furthermore, you can monopolize thirty percent of the top-tier resource quota allocated to the Beast Taming Institute by the academy every year! And, I promise that within three years, I will find you at least one rare beast cub or Beast Egg with a potential assessment of Eclipsing Moon Rank or higher to help you perfect your beast-taming System! What do you think?”

Boom!

As soon as these conditions were voiced.

The teachers and students in the square were the first to explode with excitement!

“So... Sole Personal Disciple?! Dean Zhan Qiong hasn't taken a Personal Disciple in decades, right?!”

“Myriad Beast Firmament Pavilion completely open?! Those inside are all Eclipsing Moon Rank or even Sun-Level beast-taming secret methods and battle techniques! Even ordinary Heaven Rank Disciples can only browse them limitedly!”

“Monopolize thirty percent of top-tier resources?! My god, how many Amethysts and rare Materials would that be?!”

“Eclipsing Moon Rank potential beast... and at least one... this generosity...”

Even Elder Mo Chen on the high platform couldn't help but gasp.

“Dean Zhan Qiong is... putting all his chips on the table...”

The various families in the audience area were even more shaken.

This level of cultivation intensity.

Had already exceeded their imagination of academy resources!

Su Yuntian and the others were listening with surging emotions.

This treatment... it was practically cultivating Jiang Yun as the future Dean!

The expressions of the other deans changed.

They inwardly cursed that old fellow Zhan Qiong for not following the rules of engagement.

Leading with a trump card right away!

Medicine Dust Son of the Pill Institute immediately followed up.

His voice rose due to urgency.

“Little friend Jiang Yun! Come to my Pill Institute! I grant you the title of Pill Institute Saint! All Pill Formulas, Pill Furnaces, and Pill Fires in the institute are yours to use! The Heaven and Earth Melting Furnace will be opened specifically for you! Every year, I will provide you with a hundred Meteor Spirit Medicines and ten Eclipsing Moon Rank Spirit Medicines for practice! Furthermore, as long as you come, I can call upon all the Elders of my Pill Institute to tailor a set of beast Origin tempering Pill Formulas with no side effects for you, helping you and your beasts lay a supreme Foundation! In addition, all the daily growth pills, healing pills, and Breakthrough pills for all your beasts will be supplied for free and in unlimited quantities for life by the Pill Institute!”

Whoosh—!

“The title of Saint?! Pill Institute Saint?! What an honor that is!”

“Heaven and Earth Melting Furnace opened individually?! That's the core place for refining Eclipsing Moon Rank pills!”

“Earth Rank and Heaven Rank Spirit Medicines as practice Materials?! This... this is too extravagant!”

“Origin tempering Pill Formula?! And customized by all the Elders?! This is an Opportunity that can affect one's Foundation for a lifetime!”

“Lifetime free unlimited pill supply?! This... this is equivalent to carrying a top-tier pill treasury with you!”

Many people were already so shocked they couldn't speak.

Jiang Yun was also struck with shock!

And his heart was incredibly moved!

Sun-Level beast-taming secret methods!

Origin Tempering Pills!

Although he didn't know what these things were.

Seeing the shock of the crowd and the academy's Elders and teachers was enough to prove the extraordinary nature of these items.

At the same time, he was incredibly expectant of what amazing benefits the other institutes would offer!

Tie Kuang of the Artifact Institute was not to be outdone.

“Jiang Yun! Come to the Artifact Institute! I'll give you the qualification for Vice Dean candidate! Use all the rare metals and spirit Materials in the Artifact Institute's treasury as you wish! You have permanent usage rights to the two great Artifact Refining Holy Lands: the Star Forging Platform and the Earth Core Fire Vein! I will personally teach you the Divine Forging Art, the Thousand Tempering Decalogue! And, I promise, as soon as you reach the corresponding Realm, the Artifact Institute will exert all its strength to tailor at least one growth-type life-bound treasure for every one of your beasts! I'll provide the Materials! The first one will start from Eclipsing Moon Rank Materials!”

“Vice Dean candidate?!”

“Permanent usage rights to two great Artifact Refining Holy Lands?!”

“Thousand Tempering Decalogue?! That's one of the Artifact Institute's ultimate techniques!”

“At least one growth-type life-bound treasure for each beast?! And starting from Eclipsing Moon Rank?! How many resources would that consume?!”

Dean of Array Department Xuan Jizi of the Formation Institute's voice was cold but firm.

“Jiang Yun, the Formation Institute grants you the title of Formation Path God-Son, with a status equal to the Dean. You may browse all ancient Formation diagrams, including the three fragmented Primordial Killing Formation Diagrams. The Zhou Heaven Star Constellation Formation cultivation room will be permanently open for you. And the entire institute's power will be gathered to deduce and design a set of life-bound battle Formations perfectly suited to your beasts' characteristics. At the same time, I will invite the previous Dean to teach you the Primordial Beast Taming Formation Diagram, helping you gain a first glimpse into the threshold of the Dao of Formations.”

“Formation Path God-Son title?! Equal to the Dean?!”

“Primordial Killing Formation Diagram? That's the stuff of legends!”

“Life-bound battle Formation?! Custom deduced?!”

“Primordial Beast Taming Formation Diagram... the value of this treasure is immeasurable!”

Amidst the crowd's shock.

Wen Yuan of the Rune Institute waved his jade brush.

Golden runes flowed.

“Little friend Jiang Yun, join my Rune Institute, and the highest authority of the Wending Pavilion will be opened for you. And I promise that the three strongest Rune Beast Tamers of this institute will join forces to engrave a permanent Innate Dao Rune and Spirit Sea for you, which can significantly enhance your perception and control of runes.”

“Three Supreme Rune Masters joining forces to engrave an Innate Dao Rune?! This is modifying rune talent!”

The promises of the several deans were each more shocking than the last.

Every item mentioned.

Caused waves of exclamations from the entire field.

Whether it was students, teachers, or Family representatives in the audience area, they were all shocked to the point of their scalps tingling by these sky-high conditions.

Many of these resources, permissions, and titles were things they had never heard of, or even dared to think about!

Is this the treatment for SSS-Rank Talent?

They were practically hollowing out the academy's core heritage to snatch the person!

Jiang Yun was likewise incredibly moved!

He wanted the benefits of every institute!

Could he not have them all?

Jiang Yun felt a dilemma in his heart!

However.

This was only the appetizer.

When Vice Dean Yan Song of the Appraisal Institute finally spoke.

Even the other deans' eyelids twitched wildly.

Vice Dean Yan Song glanced at Qian Rongrong beside him.

Then looked at Jiang Yun.

He took a deep breath.

And gritted his teeth.

“Little friend Jiang Yun, if you join my Appraisal Institute, this institute can directly grant you the title of Chief Appraiser! You will enjoy the right to allocate all resources within the institute. After Grand Tutor Dongxuan arrives, you can consult him at any time. Furthermore, to show our sincerity, the Appraisal Institute is willing to give you a one-time gift of two Eclipsing Moon Rank Materials, five million Low Grade spirit crystals, and one Opportunity to enter the depths of the Myriad Appraisal Corridor to comprehend the Heavenly Appraisal Intent!”

“Two Eclipsing Moon Rank Materials?! Any choice?!”

“Five million spirit crystals?! This... this is enough to buy a small Family, right?!”

“Heavenly Appraisal Intent in the depths of the Myriad Appraisal Corridor?! That's an Epiphany Opportunity that Appraisers dream of!”

“The Appraisal Institute... is indeed wealthy to an outrageous degree!”

Hearing this, the other deans' faces turned green.

Medicine Dust Son glared with a huff.

“Vice Dean Yan Song! You old money-grubber! Do you think you can knock down a Genius with just money?!”

Tie Kuang was even more furious.

“Two Moon-Erosion Materials! Five million spirit crystals! Is your Appraisal Institute trying to empty the academy's vault?!”

Wen Yuan also shook his head with a bitter smile.

“Vice Dean Yan, this... you're making it very difficult for us.”

Vice Dean Yan Song, however, looked indifferent.

“Resources are meant for geniuses. My Appraisal Institute has the ability to Cultivate an SSS-rank Prodigy like Jiang Yun; it's not a loss!”

Seeing that the deans were about to start arguing again because of the increased conditions, and even began to attack and expose each other's shortcomings, the scene showed signs of spinning out of control once more.

The people in the square were already numb from listening.

Leaving only sighs of boundless envy for Jiang Yun.

Just as this scramble reached a fever pitch and everyone thought Jiang Yun would have a difficult time choosing among these dazzling super promises.

Or that it would trigger a new round of auction-style bidding by the deans.

Buzz!

A peaceful, gentle, yet unquestionably majestic voice resounded, as if from the depths of the Void Realm, yet also as if directly in everyone's Soul, instantly smoothing over all the noise and arguments.

“Deans, there is no need to fight anymore.”

The voice wasn't loud.

Yet it clearly spread to every corner of the field.

“Student Jiang Yun's placement...”

The voice paused slightly.

Carrying a hint of indescribable depth.

“The Dean has already made arrangements.”