September 18th.

Half a month had passed since Shi Yu arrived in Ancient Capital.

For Shi Yu, these two weeks had been very rewarding.

Although neither of his pets had shown significant improvement, he himself had gained quite a lot.

Firstly, he had learned the Ethereal ability.

With the help of the beast-eared girl and the internet-addicted grandma, he should be able to bounce around among a bunch of low-level pets for a few minutes without getting killed immediately.

This ability was very useful for Shi Yu!

Secondly, through exploring the Iron-eating Beast ruins, he had discovered the evolution forms of the Iron-eating Beast, enriching his and Eleven's future paths.

At the same time, it had also made Shi Yu start paying attention to the myths and history of this world.

What exactly was the connection between here and Earth?

"Leaving aside Gigantification for now, Fortification is much more comprehensive than Hardening... The main thing is that the two skills have different principles and can be used together! It's simply making the Iron-eating Beast even harder."

"But the strongest is still Inherent Sharpness. Among the five elements of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth, each element has its own special properties. Metal's properties are settling, killing, convergence, sharpness, and so on."

"Inherent Sharpness perfectly contains two major special properties. It's completely a core Metal skill, worthy of its Super skill level."

On the plane, Shi Yu recalled Master Lin Hongnian's Vajra Ape King and Iron-eating Beast's battle scenes, and his heart surged.

The Iron-eating Beast had just evolved and broken through, and its skills were not yet proficient, so it was definitely not a match for the old Monarch-level creature, the Vajra Ape King.

That was normally the case, but through the Inherent Sharpness Super skill, Master Lin Hongnian only slightly provided some Metal-type energy crystals, allowing the Iron-eating Beast to accumulate enough energy, and the battle situation almost reversed instantly.

The Vajra Ape King was directly suppressed when faced with the Iron-eating Beast's sharpness outburst!

"This skill is suitable for rich Beast Tamers."

Shi Yu looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, feeling that he couldn't afford this skill at the moment.

He saw the essence of Inherent Sharpness, which was nothing more than two crooked words: "Pay to Win".

Metal-type Super skills are Pay-to-Win skills, no problem.

"Sigh."

As he sighed, Eleven and Green Silkworm, on his left and right shoulders, also looked out the window.

At this time, they had both been released by Shi Yu to experience the feeling of flying.

Thinking that neither of his pets had ever been on a plane, Shi Yu simply let them come out to experience it.

Currently, they were on their way back to Icefield City.

Although Ancient Capital was good, Shi Yu couldn't really stretch out and couldn't cultivate in peace when he was outside. He still preferred to cultivate at home.

It was more comfortable to lie at home when recuperating.

Therefore, after throwing the matter of the Iron-eating Beast evolution form research to Master Lin Hongnian and others, he himself sneaked back first.

Shi Yu had originally planned to stay in Ancient Capital for half a month, and now it was almost time. If he continued to fool around there, he would definitely miss his professional assessment.

As for the Iron-eating Beast evolution form research, there was no rush, because rushing wouldn't help... He would max out Eleven's Hardening first, and then study it together.

"Ying."

"Ji!"

At this time, Eleven and Green Silkworm were intensely discussing something.

About "flying".

Although Green Silkworm was a worm, it would inevitably fly after transforming into a butterfly or moth.

Even now, it could fly with its Ethereal Phantom ability.

However, faced with Worm's question, Eleven, the more powerful leader, fell into deep thought.

How could it fly?

Metal Wings? Electromagnetic Levitation? It couldn't do either...

Or, should I let you fly 100 meters high first, and then immediately Enlarge and slap you down?

...

That day, Shi Yu returned to Pingcheng.

Because he had been away for more than half a month, he definitely had to clean the villa before moving back in.

Shi Yu gave this arduous task to Eleven and Worm to train their life skills.

High combat power and low life skills pets were absolutely not acceptable. Pets had to develop in all aspects. It would be ideal if they knew a little bit about washing clothes, cooking, earning money, and supporting the family.

As for himself, he made a phone call to Bamboo Stone Martial Arts Center to order Eleven's food for the next period.

"It seems that Leader Lin has invested a lot this time. Can Bamboo Stone Martial Arts Center still afford to feed so many people?"

Shi Yu fell into deep thought, but the problem didn't seem too big?

Soon, Iron-eating Beasts would be more expensive, especially Iron-eating Beasts from the Iron Bamboo Breeding Base!

After all, Leader Lin's Iron-eating Beast was the first evolved Iron-eating Beast, and the wild Iron-eating Beasts and Iron-eating Beasts sold elsewhere, could they compare to the Iron-eating Beasts raised by Leader Lin?

Although the real difference might not be much, sometimes, brand effects were just so unreasonable.

Assuming the price of Iron-eating Beasts rose from the original hundreds of thousands to one million, the 800-plus Iron-eating Beasts in the Iron Bamboo Breeding Base would be eight hundred million. If they also sold some matching food or even Iron-eating Beast breeding secrets, their assets would probably exceed ten digits directly.

"That's great..."

When Shi Yu thought that Panda Senior Sister was so good at managing the household that she even sold her panda doll costume to him, he immediately felt that the Iron Bamboo Breeding Base would definitely make a lot of money this time.

Sure enough, he was the only one who was poor.

Shi Yu silently looked at his small treasury. The 10 million that Senior Sister Lu gave him, plus the 1 million given by the Pingcheng Association, a total of 11 million, now only had less than 6 million left.

In addition, the supplements were almost gone due to the points added to Eleven and Green Silkworm, plus the consumption from practicing Ethereal for the past half month.

Shi Yu suddenly felt that he had been too extravagant.

In these two months, he had spent four million just on supplements.

Another million was spent on buying Void Crystal Fruit for Worm to increase its Space-type compatibility.

In a few months, poof, five million was gone.

This was even with the fact that Eleven's food had always been provided by Bamboo Stone Martial Arts Center.

Shi Yu felt that if things continued like this, unless he married into Bamboo Stone Martial Arts Center, the remaining money might not be enough to spend...

"Don't panic, the Ice-type energy crystals in the relic bead are dispensable and can be exchanged for other resources."

"But it still doesn't feel like enough. It seems that in the end, I still have to sell Worm silk?"

Shi Yu once again set his sights on Worm. The Space-type Transcendent-level Worm silk would definitely sell for a good price.

After all, it was unique in the world. Selling one strand for tens of thousands wouldn't be too much, right?

Shi Yu looked at Worm, who was cleaning up fallen leaves.

Worm shuddered and turned its head.

Shi Yu: (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

Green Silkworm: 〒▽〒？

...

If necessary, he would definitely have to sacrifice Worm.

But for now, there was no rush.

Shi Yu felt that he wouldn't need supplements in the short term.

Seeing the amount in his treasury decrease, Shi Yu had learned his lesson this time.

He planned to cultivate with Void Crystals first to raise his Beast Taming Space to level two, and then add points to Eleven and Worm.

After his Beast Taming Space was raised to level two, his physical fitness would be significantly improved, with a qualitative leap.

Different from the quantitative change before, this time it was a qualitative change.

It was roughly equivalent to Shi Yu in the Awakening stage breaking through to the Extraordinary level!

At that time, the weakness time after adding points should be significantly reduced. Roughly speaking, he could probably save a lot of supplements.

At the same time, after his Beast Tamer level was raised, he could also contract Worm, and the number of pages in the Skill Index could finally be increased again.

So, after weighing the pros and cons, Shi Yu decided to focus on improving his own level first.

This time, whether it was to save money, the professional assessment, contracting Worm, or updating the Skill Index, he had to calm down and meditate!

With a goal, everything was easier to say.

"Eleven, next you should focus on training your coordination, which is the continuous stacking of combination skills."

"Worm, you should continue to train your speed of Dream Weaving. You are too slow at activating Ethereal Phantom."

After the two pets finished cleaning the room, they ran to Shi Yu to receive their tasks.

The training content was still the same as before, but both pets were very enthusiastic and ran off to train with a "Roar" and "Ji".

This couldn't help but make Shi Yu sigh that having Eleven to take the lead saved the Beast Tamer's heart.

After simply assigning the training content to Eleven and Green Silkworm, Shi Yu also began to immerse himself in cultivation starting tonight.

Normally, if someone wanted to raise the level of their Beast Taming Space from level one to level two, even if it was just a single element of strength, it would take at least a year with good talent.

If it was like Shi Yu, who wanted to contract a second pet and create a good growth space for the pet, and had to consider the size and environment of the Beast Taming Space, just increasing the space strength wouldn't be enough.

In this way, more effort was required. Even if an extremely talented Beast Tamer came, it would be impossible to achieve it in about three months.

Fortunately, Shi Yu had enough Void Crystals to support his accelerated cultivation for a long time. In this way, the impossible could become possible.

In fact, among the 10 million initial funds provided by Lu Qingyi, there was not only the part for Shi Yu to nurture his pets, but also a part for Shi Yu to buy his own cultivation resources. In this way, Shi Yu could catch up with this year's professional assessment.

But Lu Qingyi would never have imagined that all of this money would end up being used by Shi Yu to buy supplements...

Next, Shi Yu began to cultivate silently, and occasionally, he would pick up the past years' professional assessment exercises and start practicing.

In addition to meditation, he and Green Silkworm and Eleven had to do two sets of test papers every day, after all, this was an unavoidable hurdle in the professional assessment.

It wasn't just to cope with the assessment. Accumulating more knowledge would definitely not hurt. Although he still felt that slacking off was more comfortable, Shi Yu still had the self-control he should have in other aspects besides courting death.

In this way, in the blink of an eye, a month passed.

During this period, except for Lin Xiuzhu and the others needing Shi Yu to provide some information, Shi Yu was rarely disturbed by other things, and his cultivation went particularly smoothly.

After Shi Yu cultivated and meditated with Void Crystals for a month, half of his Beast Taming Space barrier, which had a transparent texture, began to turn gray under his meditation strengthening.

This meant that his Beast Taming Space strength had already reached the threshold of level two!

Shi Yu was overjoyed and continued to cultivate in peace.

At the same time, in addition to the spatial strength, he began to concurrently strengthen the scale and environment of the Beast Taming Space.

During Shi Yu's cultivation process, Eleven's Growth Level also successfully reached level ten, finally catching up with Worm in terms of Growth Level.

However, next, whether it was Eleven or Worm, it would not be so easy to break through to the Extraordinary level.

Worm was because of racial restrictions.

Eleven was because it was restricted by Shi Yu's Beast Taming Space level.

Therefore, in order for Eleven to grow to the Extraordinary level without restrictions, Shi Yu had to quickly raise his Beast Taming Space level.

November 28th.

More than two months had passed since Shi Yu meditated and cultivated diligently.

After more than two months, Shi Yu really wanted to swear!

It was too difficult!

It was so easy to improve the level of his pets, just add points, why was it so boring and exhausting when it came to him?

This was even with the fact that he hadn't added points randomly and put himself in a weak state, and had wholeheartedly devoted himself to meditation and cultivation!

If he mixed in adding points, it would probably be even slower.

"Although it's a bit painful, I finally caught up..."

Inside the room, Shi Yu sat on the bed, meditating and introspecting the changes in his Beast Taming Space.

With a large number of Void Crystals as a shield, Shi Yu finally successfully spent two months raising his Beast Taming Space level to level two.

When the spatial crystal wall strength of the Beast Taming Space reached level two, the color turned gray, which meant that Shi Yu could normally contract and control Extraordinary-level pets.

The spatial scale also expanded accordingly, which meant that Shi Yu could contract a second pet.

At this time, the pet growth environment in the space was also more complete, which meant that Extraordinary-level pets could also get a good growth acceleration inside.

Shi Yu opened his eyes, got out of bed, and moved his body, and also felt that his physique had completely surpassed the scope of ordinary people.

"Hahahaha, Come on baby!!!"

This time, Shi Yu was like a prisoner who had been stuck in prison for a long time, and was suddenly released, and his spirit was greatly relaxed.

"Eleven, Worm!"

Shi Yu laughed and called out to the two pets in the relic bead who had been self-reliant for the past two months.

"Ying?"

"Ji!"

Eleven and Worm came out in confusion, and then looked at the crazy Shi Yu in confusion.

～(tロt)σ What's wrong...

Had he finally gone crazy after cultivating for too long?

In the past two months, Shi Yu, Eleven, and Worm had been working hard to cultivate.

However, in Eleven and Worm's eyes, Shi Yu's efforts were obviously abnormal.

After all, slacking off was Shi Yu's style.

However, these days, Shi Yu rarely slacked off, which always gave them a bad feeling.

Now it seemed... it had finally happened...

"Get lost!"

The corners of Shi Yu's mouth twitched as he looked at Eleven and Worm, who were thinking wildly.

"I finally broke through."

He smiled and said, "Do you know what this means?"

"Ying?"

"Ji!"

The two pets were stunned, broke through?

Eleven walked forward two steps stupidly, carefully sensed it, and then was shocked.

Because it had a contract with Shi Yu, it immediately felt the change in Shi Yu after carefully sensing it.

Eleven: !!!

After being stunned for a moment, it stood in place and raised its arms in surprise.

"Ao wooo wooo!!!"

Shi Yu finally broke through!!

It immediately circled around Shi Yu like a child and cheered.

Its Beast Tamer had finally grown up and finally gained growth through hard work!!!

Tears!

Eleven felt that it had witnessed the growth of a human who only knew how to slack off, and felt a sense of accomplishment.

After the surprise, Eleven was stunned again, always feeling that its relationship with Shi Yu was a bit reversed... It stood there blankly and re-sorted out the relationship between Shi Yu and itself...

"Ji, ji??" Green Silkworm reacted more slowly.

But it also quickly widened its eyes and showed starry eyes.

Shi Yu had broken through, did it mean that it could also be contracted by Shi Yu like Eleven???

"Yes." Shi Yu smiled slightly.

"Finally, I can officially contract..." He sighed with emotion.

It was really not easy for them to live in harmony for so long with Worm, who had been raised for several months, without a contract.

Probably not many trainee Beast Tamers would dare to do what Shi Yu did, spending millions on a wild pet without a contract.

In the end, telepathy was always the best.

"Without further ado, let's go." At this time, Shi Yu closed his eyes and muttered in meditation.

He and Worm were already old acquaintances, so there was no need to be polite. Come in!

At this moment, Shi Yu introspected the Beast Taming Space in his mind.

It was a world with gray crystal walls, with an interior like clouds.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~

As Shi Yu communicated with the Beast Taming Space, a breeze blew outside, and the curtains were blown up.

Countless light spots flickered in front of Shi Yu, and two gray-textured circular array diagrams, like star maps, appeared above and below Green Silkworm!

In the next second, countless weak light spots flowed out of the array diagrams, and the light spots wrapped around Green Silkworm, as if to envelop and cover it!

"Ji!"

Green Silkworm called out. Because both sides were well-integrated, it naturally accepted the contract, and its whole body was directly enveloped in white light and gradually turned into fluorescent light, disappearing into the outside world and entering the Beast Taming Space!

The second pet, Green Silkworm, was successfully contracted!

[Name]: Green Silkworm

[Growth Level]: Awakening Level Ten

[Skills]: Silk Thread (Transcendent), Absolute Sleep (Proficient), Ethereal Phantom (Proficient)

Shi Yu happily opened his eyes.

He felt that his physique had improved a bit, and at the same time, the biggest change was the Skill Index. As he contracted the second pet, Green Silkworm, he immediately added five new blank pages, just like when he contracted Eleven!

"Ying!!!"

At this time, as Shi Yu contracted Green Silkworm, Eleven also felt some changes beside him.

Not only Shi Yu, but Eleven also had more contact with Green Silkworm at this time.

After all, they were the same Beast Tamer. After that, although the communication between Eleven and Green Silkworm was not as easy as Shi Yu's telepathy, it was not as difficult as before.

The Beast Tamer was also a link between different pets.

"Ji!"

After the contract was completed, Green Silkworm was summoned out by Shi Yu again.

"Don't train tonight, everyone rest for a day."

"No, two days!"

Shi Yu looked at Eleven and Green Silkworm with a smile, and immediately became salty again, causing the two pets to show an expression of disappointment, it had only been two months!

"What do you know, it's time to work overtime next!"

"It's right to rest and brew for two days."

The two pets were stunned, adding points, was it coming again!!

Shi Yu nodded, it was not easy to get to this step.

There was still one month left before the professional assessment, and next, it was time to work hard to add points.

First of all, Eleven had to prioritize improving the racial skill Hardening, so as to help it break through to the Extraordinary level with the improvement of the racial skill.

As for Green Silkworm's Silk Thread, it was still the best skill for experimenting with the skill proficiency cap.

At this time, Shi Yu only had one question, if he kept upgrading Green Silkworm's Silk Thread, did it have hope of breaking through to the Extraordinary level with the Green Silkworm form???

No Beast Tamer seemed to have ever cultivated an Extraordinary-level Green Silkworm...

Green Silkworm was classified as a Low-level Extraordinary race, which meant that it had hope of breaking through to the Extraordinary level in this state, but no Beast Tamer was idle enough to do so.

Because it took too much time and Green Silkworm's lifespan was not enough, to do so, a large number of resources would have to be spent, which was not cost-effective. It was better to just evolve directly in the Awakening stage, which must have been verified, so a unified conclusion was reached.

Shi Yu's expression was strange, feeling that Green Silkworm's hope of evolving within a month was not great. Instead, it had a good chance of breaking through to the Extraordinary level itself by adding points to Silk Thread.

So, if he summoned an Extraordinary-level Green Silkworm during the professional assessment, and it was still a strong Extraordinary-level Green Silkworm, would the opponent's three views be shattered? In any case, he couldn't let him only use Eleven in the professional assessment.