109: Fulfilling commitments
“Thump, thump, thump.”
Liang Jingsi stood at the entrance of Chenyang Pet Store, knocking on the door with anticipation.
At this time, the sign hanging on the door still read, 'Restocking, temporarily closed.'
“Click.”
The door was quickly opened from the inside.
Appearing before Liang Jingsi was a Spirit Beast flying in the air, a spiritual bird with five-colored brilliant feathers of red, yellow, blue, green, and purple.
It turned out to be a Beast acting as a doorman? This was the second time Liang Jingsi had seen this beautiful-feathered bird.
Even though her family was in the business of Beast auctions, and she had seen many Beasts that were rare for ordinary people, she still couldn't identify the race of this particular bird.
However, since it was in this store, and it seemed to be performing some kind of work within the store, then the rarity of this Beast must be exceptional.
As Liang Jingsi appraised the Colorful Sound Spirit Finch, the Colorful Sound Spirit Finch disliked Liang Jingsi’s judging gaze of its value, so it loudly called out:
“Shopkeeper, outside is a little girl. Should I let her in?”
From inside the door, a clear voice of a young man came, “Let her in. Also, your language is uncivilized. Today’s Spirit Beast meat will be deducted.”
Hearing Luo Chen's response, the Colorful Sound Spirit Finch finally moved its body, which had been blocking the middle of the doorway.
Then it wailed in great distress,
“Shopkeeper, how was my language uncivilized? She *is* a little girl.
And according to your human aesthetics, she can’t be an old lady at this age, right?”
“Thud.”
A sound like a heavy object falling to the ground seemed to come from inside the store, then it fell into an eerie silence.
Being flippantly called a 'little girl' by a Beast was a first for Liang Jingsi.
She walked into the store from the doorway, both amused and exasperated, and then saw Luo Chen, who had sent her the message today.
He was currently sitting in the resting area directly opposite the store entrance. That flippant bird was now tightly shut-mouthed, gently patting Luo Chen's legs with its wings.
However, its rolling eyes clearly revealed an emotion called unwillingness.
Especially after seeing Liang Jingsi enter, its eyes showed even deeper dissatisfaction.
“Miss Liang, the Beasts in the cages on the first floor of this store are all for sale.
The information and prices of the Beasts are posted outside the cages. You can choose freely.”
Liang Jingsi covered her mouth and chuckled, “I’ve been looking forward to the Beasts in the store for a long time. Today, I must choose carefully.”
Luo Chen was noncommittal, also smiling as he replied, “These Beasts should satisfy you, but the prices are also quite 'beautiful'.”
Liang Jingsi gently scanned the store. From her initial quick glance, she had already seen many novel Beasts.
And with the previous Beast as assurance, she naturally wouldn't doubt Luo Chen's words.
So, with full anticipation, she walked towards the cages on both sides of the store.
The store fell silent for a moment, with only the crisp 'tap-tap' sound of her high heels hitting the floor.
She looked at the Beast in the first cage. It was a plant-Type Beast, and Liang Jingsi frowned slightly.
If it wasn't a healing-Type Beast, plant-Type Beasts, unless they had the Skill 'Rooting,' would have their value discounted to some extent below the King Beast realm.
The ground inside the cage was covered with a thick layer of snow, and a snow lotus the size of a washbasin was in the center of the cage.
Its petals were layered and intricate, in a semi-open form. The outermost petals were as white as snow, and the color became lighter towards the center, with the innermost petals being almost transparent.
Even though it was confined to this small world within the cage, it maintained an elegant and graceful posture, like a goddess nestled in a snow-capped mountain.
race: Ice Domain Snow Lotus
Rank: Spirit Beast Six-Star
Type: Ice Type
Aptitude: Excellent
Skills: 1. Falling Snow (Yellow Tier): The Ice Snow Lotus creates snowfall within a small area.
2. Snow Lotus Image (Earth Tier): The Ice Domain Snow Lotus creates its ice and snow images around itself through ice and snow, and the created Snow Lotus Images will continuously absorb the surrounding heat, creating a low-temperature environment. At the same time, the Snow Lotus Images can self-detonate to cause damage when needed, and the Ice Domain Snow Lotus can exchange positions with the Snow Lotus Images.
3. Ice Thorn (Profound Tier): Within a certain range of itself, sharp ice thorns form from the ground.
4. Frost Invasion (Profound Tier): Reduces the temperature in the target area and has negative effects on all targets, including reducing movement speed, increasing energy consumption, causing frostbite, and stunning.
5. Snow Lotus Flower Shield (Profound Tier): Isolates the owner of the flower shield from the effects of ultra-low temperatures and can be immune to the effects of the Ice Domain Snow Lotus’s attack Skills.
6. Ice Domain (Earth Tier): The Ice Domain Snow Lotus forms an Ice Domain with a thick layer of ice on the ground within a thousand square meters. Within the Ice Domain, the Ice Snow Lotus’s various Skills consume half the energy and their effects are enhanced.
Because this information was handwritten by Luo Chen, there was no State or Evolution Path.
Liang Jingsi looked incredulously at the Ice Domain Snow Lotus’s last Skill, Ice Domain.
She hadn't misread it, had she? This was a Domain-Type Skill, the threshold to becoming a Wild Rank Pet.
Although this was an Earth Tier Skill, its description seemed unremarkable.
However, Domain-Type Skills are key for King-Ranked Beasts to break through to Wild Rank Pets. Countless Beasts and Beast Masters are stuck before this threshold.
But can a Spirit Rank Beast truly comprehend a Domain-Type Skill? Liang Jingsi unconsciously began to doubt.
Although its Skill description included the word 'Domain,' and its description was very similar to a Domain, Liang Jingsi still urgently needed an answer.
“Shopkeeper Luo, is your Ice Domain Snow Lotus’s Ice Domain Skill truly a Domain-Type Skill?”
Liang Jingsi's voice trembled slightly from excitement.
Luo Chen heard the voice and looked over curiously, “Ah, yes, is there a problem?”
Perhaps Luo Chen's tone was too calm and indifferent, so Liang Jingsi had to confirm again: “I mean, the most crucial Skill for a King Beast to break through to a Wild Beast, the Domain that requires comprehending at least one Domain-Type Skill.”
Luo Chen placed the book in his hand on the table in front of him and answered with certainty and naturalness,
“Yes, Miss Liang, I confirm that it is the Domain-Type Skill you are referring to.”
“This…” Would he really be willing to sell such a Beast?
Liang Jingsi quickly swallowed the rest of her words. If Luo Chen really decided not to sell it because of her words, she would have nowhere to cry.
She clenched her hands, forcing herself to calm down, then looked at the price of the Ice Domain Snow Lotus: 3.5 million spirit coins.
This was much more expensive than many King Beasts, but it was very reasonable for a Beast with a Domain-Type Skill, even if it was currently only a Spirit Beast and would face the threshold of becoming a King Beast in the future.
But if it already possesses a Domain-Type Skill at the Spirit Beast stage, would you still worry about it not breaking through to a King Beast?
The spending limit Liang Qiu had set for her was 12 million spirit coins. This amount was the maximum liquid capital the Liang Corporation could provide.
This was because they were currently urgently organizing the auction in Liuguang City, and also needed to set aside a portion of funds to maintain the corporation's operations.
Actually, 12 million spirit coins was already a lot of money. One must know that the monthly income of a Spirit-Rank Beast Master in Qingyang City was only around 2,000 to 5,000 spirit coins.
For ordinary people and fierce Beast Masters, it was even lower, 1,000 or 700-800 spirit coins.
However, even with these spirit coin salaries, they could still live a decent life in Qingyang City.
So, the purchasing power of spirit coins in this world was still quite strong.
Currently, Liang Jingsi was the only one choosing in the store, so she didn't have to make her decision immediately.
So she suppressed her emotions and decided to look at the other Beasts before making a decision. After all, the 12 million spirit coins still needed to be utilized to their maximum potential.
She pulled out a small notebook from a ring-Type storage artifact on her finger, wrote down the price of the first Beast, the Ice Domain Snow Lotus, and its most significant advantage.
Then she moved her steps, looking towards another cage three or four meters away.
The Beast in this cage was still a plant-Type Beast, and Liang Jingsi's mindset at this time was completely different from when she first entered the store.
The plant-Type Beasts in this store seemed to be very unusual.
This time, she chose to check the Beast information posted outside the cage first.
race: Fragrant Lily of the Valley
Rank: Spirit Beast Five-Star
Type: Life Type
Aptitude: Good
Skills: 1. Medicinal Aroma (Earth Tier): I possess a spiritual Medicinal Aroma, which, when smelled, cures all diseases. The normal fragrance emitted by the Fragrant Lily of the Valley can remove most diseases from a target’s body, restoring them to their optimal State.
2. Muscle Regeneration (Earth Tier): The branches, leaves, and petals of the Fragrant Lily of the Valley can all be used as excellent medicine, capable of healing physical deficiencies in a target, regenerating severed limbs, effective only on species below Spirit Rank.
3. Life Sustenance (Profound Tier): Extracts life energy from other living beings to nourish the target.
4. Life Spirit Shield (Profound Tier): Excess life healing received by the target, beyond their limit, forms a shield to protect the target from damage.
5. Withering (Profound Tier): The Fragrant Lily of the Valley forms a connection with a target, then causes both itself and the target to wither simultaneously, losing an equal amount of life energy.
After reading the information on this Beast, Liang Jingsi's face was full of pleasant surprise—a rare pure healing-Type Beast.
It had a total of five Skills, four of which were related to healing or protection.
It is common knowledge among Beast Masters that pure healing-Type Beasts are rarely encountered in the wild, because they simply cannot survive.
Such Beasts are generally cultivated by human Breeders, but the natural survival instinct of Beasts drives them to develop some offensive or self-preservation Skills.
Therefore, the healing-Type Beasts on the market are not only impure, but most of their healing Skills are not particularly outstanding.
However, this Fragrant Lily of the Valley before her, solely by virtue of its Muscle Regeneration Skill, already surpasses all Beasts of the same Rank.
If it could advance to a King Beast and be able to treat King Rank species, it would definitely be highly sought after in Middle City.
After all, besides Breeders, the most respected profession is that of a physician.
Now Liang Jingsi found it hard to judge the value of the Fragrant Lily of the Valley and the Ice Domain Snow Lotus.
After all, one possesses a Domain-Type Skill, which significantly lowers the threshold for breaking through to a Wild Beast.
The other is a healing-Type Beast, capable of regenerating severed limbs.
Liang Jingsi couldn't compare them, so she could only look at Luo Chen's asking price. After all, the difference in prices between the two could indicate the value these two Beasts held in Luo Chen, the Breeder's, heart.
Fragrant Lily of the Valley, priced at 4.2 million spirit coins.
Liang Jingsi looked at the price of this Beast and patted her chest. It was 700,000 spirit coins more expensive than the Ice Domain Snow Lotus.
It seemed that in Luo Chen's eyes, the price of this Fragrant Lily of the Valley was even higher than Liang Jingsi had imagined.