52: He really tried his best.

North Gate Street.

This was Lin Chuan’s second time here; the last time, Ye Yao had led the way.

Before he knew it, he passed by the herbal medicine shops again.

Especially after seeing the sign for ‘Xiongfeng Pharmacy’ again, his steps couldn’t help but quicken.

“Oh, the person who just walked past…” The old man in the shop recognized Lin Chuan at a glance.

Many people came to his shop, but very few left without buying some medicine.

Lin Chuan was one of them.

“I wonder which shop’s medicine he ended up buying that could possibly be better than mine?”

The old man didn’t believe it; this was his obsession… Lin Chuan took several turns and finally arrived at the area selling pet beast eggs and young beasts.

This place was much livelier than the commercial district where Lin Chuan had previously fleeced people, and it was also very simple and direct. Various pet beast eggs were mostly displayed in the open air.

Of course, there were no detailed descriptions, only a rough name, making it completely like opening a blind box.

And surprisingly, many Beast Tamers chose their pet beasts this way.

When a Beast Tamer came into contact with a pet beast egg, if they were a very good match, there would naturally be a subtle connection.

However, this was entirely dependent on luck.

Of course, most people chose this method for only one reason: poverty.

If they had money, who wouldn't want to directly contract a pet beast guaranteed to be Monarch Rank?

Since that was the case, Lin Chuan didn’t stand on ceremony and immediately began to pretend to choose.

However, his selection speed was a bit fast; he basically just touched each pet beast egg and was done.

It looked like he wasn’t carefully sensing and matching with the pet beast eggs at all.

Finally, even the shop owner couldn’t stand it anymore and stepped forward to ask, “Little brother, may I ask, are you really choosing a pet beast egg?”

If Lin Chuan hadn’t done anything too out of line, he would have thought the other party was here to cause trouble.

“Yes, do you have any lightning-attribute ones here?”

Lin Chuan had touched almost all of them, and not only hadn’t he found the [Lightning Attribute Resistance] skill, he hadn’t even seen a lightning-attribute pet beast.

He wasn’t entirely without gain; he had imprinted [Ice Attribute Resistance], but that was all.

“Little brother, to be honest, there are no lightning-attribute ones here, and not even in this entire area of pet beast shops. Lightning-attribute pet beasts are quite rare and generally aren’t sold here.”

Lin Chuan understood; this was the difference between wholesale and auction.

It was his good luck that he had encountered a Lightning Sparrow at Third High School before and managed to imprint [Lightning Element Affinity].

However, although Lightning Sparrows were also rare, they weren’t particularly powerful pet beasts.

“Alright, then I’ll just look around some more.”

With that, Lin Chuan went to other shops.

In the shop owner’s opinion, Lin Chuan was still far from Silver Rank, so there was no need to buy a pet beast egg so early. Moreover, Silver Rank Beast Tamers were already qualified to directly contract Elite Rank pet beasts, without needing to raise them from a pet beast egg.

However, that was the other party’s business, and he, as a businessman, couldn’t interfere, as long as the other party didn’t cause trouble.

Next, Lin Chuan visited several more shops. Indeed, as the previous shop owner had said, lightning-attribute pet beasts were incredibly rare. The only one he encountered was still a Lightning Sparrow, which he had already imprinted.

Of course, he wasn’t entirely empty-handed; he not only obtained another elemental resistance, [Wind Element Resistance], but also imprinted the ‘Element Affinity’ skills for the five attributes: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Similar to [Lightning Element Affinity], Level 1 only added 5% damage reduction and damage. However, it could be added to the damage reduction from resistance.

Lin Chuan found that the more similar skills Old Hei learned, the smaller the increase in his abilities became. Perhaps this was a limit. Achieving 100% absolute damage reduction was simply too difficult.

This was also reasonable; otherwise, if others unleashed a powerful ultimate skill they had painstakingly charged, and you just bathed in it, that would be too discouraging.

Although, it was pretty close now.

“Dizzy, nauseous.”

For the first time, Lin Chuan felt that fleecing people was so mentally exhausting that it made him sick.

In just half a day, he had investigated hundreds, if not a thousand, pet beast eggs, which directly gave him a repulsive reaction.

He swore he would never do this again.

With a little less than half a day left, he decided to see if there was anywhere selling Yao Beast meat… Finally, he found a butcher shop, but Lin Chuan wasn’t very satisfied.

The Yao Beast meat displayed for sale was all cut into small, fragmented pieces. The Rank was not high, and the price was determined entirely by taste.

Moreover, it was hard to say how fresh it was; it might have been frozen for a long time.

Obtaining the freshest Yao Beast carcasses was not simple.

In fact, according to the city’s regulations, Yao Beast meat sold had to be pre-cut and could not be sold whole. This might be due to concerns that some Yao Beasts could revive, or that some individuals with ulterior motives might exploit whole Yao Beast carcasses.

Generally, without special channels, it was difficult for individuals to obtain large quantities of fresh blood and flesh.

Lin Chuan getting three Commander Rank Yao Beast carcasses from the Yan Family was pure luck, and it might even have involved Yan Batian personally hunting them.

The fact that they could be delivered directly to Lin Chuan’s hands certainly had something to do with Qin Yan’s connections… In the end, Lin Chuan still spent tens of thousands to buy over twenty catties of meat from a certain Elite Rank Yao Beast.

According to the butcher shop owner, this meat was tough and hard, not very tasty, which was why it was cheap.

Lin Chuan bought it not to eat, but to absorb, to see how many enhancement fruits Elite Rank Yao Beast meat could yield.

After returning home, Lin Chuan immediately chose to absorb it.

Half a minute later… “Damn it, what a huge loss…”

Lin Chuan had originally thought that he could at least ripen one.

In reality, Lin Chuan had overthought it.

Twenty catties of Elite Rank Yao Beast meat weren’t even enough for half an enhancement fruit.

Could it be that the golden tree was picky?

Lin Chuan guessed that this might be related to freshness. The longer a Yao Beast had been dead, the more energy was lost from its blood and flesh.

After all, what was required was blood and flesh. For this kind of separately sold meat, the blood had long since drained away.

After this incident, Lin Chuan gave up the idea of buying retail Yao Beast meat himself.

Either he would get some Advanced Yao Beast blood and flesh monthly through Xu Dazhi, or through Qin Yan, who had promised him one per month and still owed him last month’s.

Finally, he could only wait for another sucker like the Yan Family.

“It’s hard…”

Thinking about it, Lin Chuan even considered going out of the city to hunt himself.

However, he stopped himself in the end.

Unless his safety was absolutely guaranteed, for example, by bringing Old Qin as a bodyguard, he should just stay put in the city.

Old Qin had already warned him that Yao Beasts were rampant recently, so it was better not to seek death himself.

He shouldn’t get carried away just because he had some strength!

Lin Chuan quickly reflected. He had been too diligent recently; lying flat was the way to go.

Then, he immediately opened a game and logged on to calm down.