32: Reiki Revival

Chenyang Pet Store.

Looking at the two suns in the sky, Luo Chen suddenly realized that the sea beast siege had finally ended.

An excited broadcast voice echoed throughout Qingyang City at the perfect moment.

"Good news: The sea beast siege has ended. Residents, please wait patiently where you are. Beast Masters have already begun clearing hidden sea beasts and floodwaters from the city. We believe you will be able to return home shortly."

Just as the broadcast said, several Beast Masters soon appeared on Central Street, where Chenyang Pet Store was located.

They summoned their respective beasts. Using their beasts' Skills, they either absorbed the water into scales on their bodies or condensed it into giant water spheres, which were then transported out of the city by riding a flying bird.

Regardless, these beasts were quite efficient; the water level dropped at a visible rate, and it was estimated that the cleanup would be finished before long.

Luo Chen watched for a while before turning back into the store. Right now, what worried the two brothers most was whether their parents were safe; they had no idea how the couple was doing.

To distract himself, Luo Chen focused his attention on the six strange fish that the Colorful Sound Spirit Finch had captured.

He first used the Eye of Truth on the strange fish with Bone Spurs along its sides and back, successfully seeing some of its information.

[race: Cold Bone Fish

Rank: Spirit Rank Two-Star

Type: Water Type

State: Injured

Aptitude: Common

Skill: 1. Cold Bone (Yellow Grade): The Cold Bone Fish grows Cold Bones from different parts of its body. These bones are incredibly hard, allowing them to make attacks. These bones also make them one of the foods that undersea predators dislike.

2. Bone Spur (Yellow Grade): The Cold Bone Fish launches the Cold Bones from its body to deal damage to a target.

3. Water Shield (Yellow Grade): The Cold Bone Fish condenses water elements around its body to form a shield.]

After reading its information, Luo Chen was somewhat disappointed. Originally, beasts that could only survive in the sea were unpopular with inland Beast Masters. This Cold Bone Fish's Skills were also mediocre; even as a Spirit Rank beast, it would probably be hard to sell.

Luo Chen glanced at the six strange fish the Colorful Sound Spirit Finch had caught. Good grief, three of them were Cold Bone Fish. He would raise them for a while; if no one was interested, they would make decent rations for the Colorful Sound Spirit Finch.

He continued looking at another Type of sea beast. This one looked somewhat like the manta rays Luo Chen had seen in aquariums in his previous life, with a flat body like a blanket.

[race: Azure Ray

Rank: Spirit Rank One-Star

Type: Water Type, Light Type

State: Minor Injury, Confused

Aptitude: Excellent

Skill: 1. Light Stealth (Yellow Grade): The Azure Ray refracts the path of light to make itself disappear from the vision of other creatures.

2. Swift Swim (Yellow Grade): The Azure Ray changes its swimming State to Swift Swim, greatly increasing its speed.

3. Star Flash (Yellow Grade): The Azure Ray bursts with starlight-like flashes around itself. Those looking directly at it will suffer vision damage, and those close by will be damaged by the high temperature of the flashes.

4. Light Energy Ray (Mystic Grade): The Azure Ray charges up and then spits a Light Energy Ray from its mouth that deals massive damage.]

Seeing the Azure Ray's description, Luo Chen realized in hindsight that this beast was actually quite good, and its Aptitude was in an Excellent State.

The Colorful Sound Spirit Finch had captured two Azure Rays in total. The other one's panel was more ordinary; not only was its Aptitude Common, but it also lacked the Light Energy Ray Skill.

Though they were of the same race, individual differences could sometimes be quite large.

Luo Chen turned his gaze to the last sea beast, hoping it could bring him some surprises like the Azure Ray just had.

[race: Iron-Toothed Fish

Rank: Spirit Rank Five-Star

Type: Water Type, Metal Type

State: Minor Injury, Angry

Aptitude: Common

Skill: 1. Iron Teeth (Yellow Grade): The Iron-Toothed Fish devours seabed ores to absorb the metallic elements within, making its teeth harder.

2. Great Strength (Yellow Grade): The Iron-Toothed Fish possesses terrifying bite force, capable of easily crushing even metal.

3. Iron Armor (Yellow Grade): A portion of the metallic elements absorbed by the Iron-Toothed Fish attaches to its surface scales, forming an Iron Armor to protect it.]

Luo Chen sighed quietly. If this iron-toothed, iron-skinned Iron-Toothed Fish couldn't be sold, it probably wouldn't be popular as food either.

There were six sea beasts in total: three Cold Bone Fish, two Azure Rays, and one Iron-Toothed Fish.

Relatively speaking, the one most likely to be sold was the Azure Ray with Excellent Aptitude; in Luo Chen's view, the chances for the other five beasts weren't very high.

"Mission 1: Sell one Spirit Rank beast. Reward: 100 points, 5 Energy Stones;

Mission 2: Successfully evolve a beast. Reward: 150 points, 1 Mystic Grade Skill Crystal;

Mission 3: Sell twenty beasts with Good Aptitude. Reward: 50 points, new items added to the store."

Just after he finished checking the information of the three sea beasts, the system finally issued new missions.

Luo Chen asked the system in his mind with surprise, "System, are you alive?"

System: "..."

"Host, please note that this system is non-biological; 'living' or 'dead' does not apply."

"Alright then, but why was there such a long gap between mission releases this time?" Luo Chen was curious.

"The shop upgrade consumed a lot of energy. This system also required a certain amount of time to perform its own upgrade."

Luo Chen didn't know if the system's explanation was true or false, but he could only choose to believe it for now.

The first mission was to sell a beast. There happened to be six Spirit Rank beasts in the store now, though he didn't know if anyone would buy them. He could also sell one to his own family; although this method was a bit of a loophole, since the system didn't forbid it, it was considered allowed.

To complete the mission, one shouldn't be too picky.

For the second mission, evolving a beast, Luo Chen already had a direction: the Fragrant Rabbit that Luo Yang had boarded had already reached Dire Beast Six-Star and could try to evolve.

The third mission, however, gave him a headache. There weren't even twenty beasts for sale in the store in total, let alone beasts with Good Aptitude or higher.

This mission would have to be taken slowly.

The appearance of two figures at the first-floor entrance interrupted Luo Chen's thoughts and caught the attention of Luo Yang, who was observing the cages.

"Dad, Mom!" Luo Yang exclaimed in surprise. The ones outside the door were indeed the couple, Luo Yuheng and Su Muqing, returning from participating in the city defense battle.

Seeing the two of them return safely, Luo Chen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Not only that, he observed that Luo Yuheng's aura was vastly different from before he left.

It seemed he must have successfully promoted to a King-Rank Beast Master during this battle. Luo Yang naturally noticed this as well.

"Dad, which of your beasts promoted?"

Luo Yuheng smiled slightly, and a large cat over a meter tall even while sitting appeared beside him.

The large cat was snow-white all over with fluffy fur, perfectly fitting human aesthetics. Luo Chen looked at it as if he were seeing a future, grown-up version of Xiao Maoqiu.

This was precisely Luo Yuheng's beast, the Light Spirit Cat, but now it should be called the Light Spirit Cat King.

Seeing the Light Spirit Cat King appear, Xiao Maoqiu perhaps smelled a familiar scent and followed it step by step, tiptoeing to its side to sniff gently.

The Light Spirit Cat King used its fluffy, broad tail to gently sweep over Xiao Maoqiu's body in an affectionate manner.

Luo Chen used the Eye of Truth to check the Light Spirit Cat King's detailed information, but found he couldn't see anything.

The failure of this information probe confirmed one thing for Luo Chen: currently, he could only probe the information of beasts at the Dire Beast and Spirit Rank levels.

Luo Chen looked at Xiao Maoqiu, who was playing happily with the Light Spirit Cat King's tail. This little fellow couldn't continue being so carefree; as his own beast, how could it just lie around like this?

With its innocent face, Xiao Maoqiu had no idea that its Beast Master had already decided to make it start working hard.

The family of four sat down at the tables and chairs provided for guests on the first floor. Since the big battle had just ended, no customers were coming in, so the store was still quite peaceful.

"Dad, how was the battle outside?" As soon as he sat down, Luo Yang couldn't wait to ask.

Luo Yuheng prepared his words before saying somewhat heavily, "It was very tragic. Many Spirit Rank Beast Masters died, and many King Rank ones were sacrificed as well.

The city walls were even breached by that Tide-Calling Mermaid. If the reinforcements from Liuyun City hadn't arrived at the last moment, Qingyang City might still be under siege by sea beasts right now."

"That Tide-Calling Mermaid—why did it suddenly stop its attack halfway through?" This was a question Luo Chen had been curious about. Logically, the Tide-Calling Mermaid had already breached the wall, and with its strength as a Desolate Beast, no one in Qingyang City could have stopped its assault.

If it had put all its effort into destruction, Qingyang City would surely be a dead city by now. But it hadn't done that; instead, it let those lower-Rank sea beasts attack through the gap.

Hearing Luo Chen's question, Luo Yuheng gave a hearty laugh before explaining to him, "That is because of World Suppression."

"World Suppression?"

"Yes. These secret realm creatures cannot enter Earth Star at will because the current Earth Star does not allow such powerful foreign creatures to appear.

Currently, the upper limit for beasts allowed to enter Earth Star is the King Beast Rank. However, some Desolate Beasts can temporarily enter Earth Star by paying a certain price.

But when they repeatedly use Skills that exceed the limit, they will still be rejected by the rules of Earth Star. That's why the Tide-Calling Mermaid, after releasing a few Skills, only maintained the rain to create a suitable environment for those sea beasts."

"Then the Tide-Calling Mermaid could be said to have broken into Earth Star for its kin, but why do the beasts of other secret realms also want to enter Earth Star and occupy territory?"

One doubt was explained, but even more doubts emerged.

"There is a scientific hypothesis that Earth Star is undergoing a recovery. During this recovery process, various opportunities will be born, allowing beasts within secret realms to break through racial limitations and climb toward higher peaks through bloodline evolution.

So these low-Rank beasts serve as the vanguard to land on Earth Star, seizing good mountain peaks and establishing a foothold for the big shots behind them.

In this process, they naturally end up in opposition to humans, who occupy the most territory. But then again, humans already use beasts, so the relationship was inherently oppositional to begin with."

Luo Chen had originally thought he had come to a world of Beast Masters, but only now did he realize he had come to a world of spiritual qi recovery, where humans just happened to have the ability to command beasts.

"According to news from the Capital, it's estimated that the next time for Earth Star's elevation is coming soon, and it might be the most intense one yet."

Luo Yuheng shared this news, which he had obtained from who-knows-where, with the two brothers, simply wanting them to be prepared.