June's sky saw heavy snow in the ancient capital.

The students of the Ancient Capital University either returned home, went out for training, or chose to stay on campus to study.

In the morning, Shi Yu practiced a set of health-preserving Tai Chi Fan on the snowy ground outside his dormitory, then returned to his room to drink porridge, exhaling white air.

Having transmigrated for so long, he had grown accustomed to the weather of this world.

It was completely unpredictable. The ancient capital was still considered good; some places had perpetual scorching sun or perpetual severe cold.

"Delicious."

Shi Yu said contentedly, holding the white rice porridge.

"Yi!"

Wearing a napkin and confidently eating soil with a spoon, the Ginseng Baby was full of confidence.

Regardless of Worm's cooking skills, the quality of the raw materials it provided was definitely top-notch, making it definitely delicious.

Now, the food ingredients for Shi Yu and Eleven, Worm, and Chi Tong in Shi Yu's team were all provided by the Ginseng Baby.

Shi Yu purchased corresponding seeds, and the Ginseng Baby used its maxed-out Nutritional Matter, Lush Growth, and Sweet Aroma to modify and ripen them, making the nutritional value and taste of the produced plants many times better than those of outside food.

"Mmm..."

Worm felt that its cooking skills still played a significant role.

To ensure that Shi Yu could have hot meals during future archaeological expeditions, it had put in a lot of effort to materialize a fully automatic kitchen.

Although it was an ancient, non-mechanized operation, it was precisely because of this that the food tasted delicious. Laboring Worm was the most glorious.

Little Chi Tong landed on the table, quietly eating ice-rice grains and fire-rice grains mixed together, along with a few soul crystals as embellishments, resembling meat chunks in fried rice. This was specially tailored by Shi Yu and the Ginseng Baby for its taste.

"Ying! (I'm full!)" On the other side, Eleven put down its food bowl and, after saying thank you, trotted off to charge itself. Eating was just for fun; if it really wanted to feel full, it had to freeload on the electricity of Ancient Capital University.

In the past few months, the frequency and amount of electricity Eleven consumed had even exceeded those of some teachers' sovereign-level lightning-type pets.

"Yingyingying?"

However, just as Eleven was about to go to the charging room, it bumped into two unexpected guests at the door.

Two voices were conversing outside, occasionally punctuated by the melodious laughter unique to young women. Eleven looked up and saw two rich women.

Lu Qingyi, wearing a black T-shirt and brown shorts with a white research coat draped over them, her slender legs clad in black stockings.

And Bai Xi, wearing a white midriff-baring combat top and black combat shorts.

The two walked to the door of Shi Yu's dormitory while chatting.

"Oh, it's Eleven." At this moment, Bai Xi noticed the little iron-eating beast about 0.3 meters tall at the dormitory door, looking up at them.

"Long time no see." Lu Qingyi also smiled and greeted Eleven.

"Aowuwuwu!!" Eleven waved its arms up and down to express welcome.

"Where's your Shi Yu?" Bai Xi asked.

"Yingyingying...!" Eleven pointed to the house, indicating that he was practicing health preservation.

"Awo! (Follow me!)" After saying that, it shot out an arc of electricity from its fingertip, opening the door for the two of them and preparing to lead the way.

……

Inside the house.

Shi Yu felt sleepy.

He really hadn't slept well these past few days.

Little Chi Tong was about to drain him dry.

Now that his physique had exploded, Shi Yu, who hadn't allocated any points to Little Chi Tong for a long time, was now completely focusing on it.

In addition to maxing out Possession, the other three high-level skills—Flame Sword, Soul Slash, and Intimidation—were also being upgraded to complete mastery and perfection in preparation for the upcoming Martial Arts Tournament.

As for the second one needing attention, it was the Ginseng Baby.

Its racial skills were fine; except for the ultra-level skill Source of Life, all had been maxed out. However, the teaching skills—Hardening, Energy Fruit, Multiplication, and Absolute Sleep—were all at the perfect level and had not yet been maxed out.

Shi Yu planned to take the Ginseng Baby to the Time Mystic Realm at Imperial Capital University for its final mutation evolution after maxing out all the skills.

Of course, besides these skills, the Ginseng Baby also didn't know Intimidation and Super Vision, two common skills in Shi Yu's team. Among them, Shi Yu felt that the priority of Super Vision should be raised to the highest level and arranged for the Ginseng Baby first.

Because transcendent-level Super Vision had a chance to allow the user to see situations related to themselves within the next 0.5 seconds!

Judging from the effect alone, it was extremely useless—so useless that it couldn't be more useless. If it could see the picture one second later, it wouldn't be so useless.

0. 5 seconds was purely for fun; as soon as you saw it, the time would pass before you could react. Moreover, it was only a chance... Its level of坑人 far exceeded the owl's precognition of the future.

That being said, there was no denying that transcendent-level Super Vision already involved the basics of the time domain. Since the Ginseng Baby planned to go to the Time Mystic Realm, it wouldn't be bad to max out this move to lay a foundation. Regardless of what effect it might have, it wasn't difficult to add points to intermediate skills anyway, so just max it out.

"Uh." At this time, Shi Yu had just finished breakfast and was about to lie on the sofa for "meditative" cultivation when Eleven suddenly brought Lu Qingyi and Bai Xi in, causing Shi Yu to abruptly get up.

"Senior, Senior Sister?" Shi Yu looked at the two people in surprise and said, "Why are you here?"

"What do you think?" Lu Qingyi's expression was helpless. In her memory, she had taken Shi Yu and Little Chi Tong to the undead battlefield just yesterday. How could it be that in the blink of an eye... Shi Yu had caused such a big commotion here?

She was directly called over by the old man to strictly supervise Shi Yu and tutor him.

However, Lu Qingyi was still willing, mainly because Chi Tong was the daughter of the Undead Nether Phoenix. The news about Empress Sister was too explosive. Regardless of whether it was true or false, it immediately made Lu Qingyi unable to sit still. She couldn't wait to discuss it with Shi Yu for three days and three nights.

She even regretted a bit in her heart that if she had gone to the undead battlefield with the Gem Cat and Shi Yu, she would have successfully spoken to the Undead Nether Phoenix. She was so envious of the Gem Cat!

"Hee..." Bai Xi was shorter than Lu Qingyi. She stuck close to Lu Qingyi, inhaling the fragrance from her Senior Sister's body, and secretly gave Shi Yu a thumbs up. You are indeed amazing.

Bai Xi's family background was also not simple. She obviously knew about the changes in the undead battlefield.

"Accident, accident..." Shi Yu smiled awkwardly and said, "Eleven, make tea."

"Yingyingying." Eleven went to make tea.

"Where's Chi Tong?" Lu Qingyi asked.

"Chi Tong..." Shi Yu glanced at it and said, "Just ran into the space to sleep."

The Ginseng Baby was managing the vegetable garden in the space as usual. Worm, who had just finished washing the dishes, was helping the Ginseng Baby create favorable conditions by using the power of imagination to create various favorable weather conditions and fertile soil.

As for Chi Tong, it still looked like a child, sleeping after eating. It would probably take a while to wake up.

"Ah... Then let it sleep first." Lu Qingyi said.

"Senior Sister, how is your situation?" Shi Yu asked Lu Qingyi.

Lu Qingyi was also a busy person, running around the country to improve her own and her pet's strength, striving to enter the Legendary level as soon as possible.

Last time when they parted, Shi Yu remembered that Lu Qingyi said she was training with the Evil-Suppressing Lion.

"The harvest is not bad. The bloodline level of the Wind Demon Lion is already comparable to that of a overlord species. After another period of evolution, its potential should be fully stimulated." Lu Qingyi smiled slightly.

The Evil-Suppressing Lion was one of the guardian gods of the Eastern Wastelands, a quasi-mythical species. It hated evil and lived in areas plagued by ancient demons. Although Lu Qingyi's Wind Demon Lion was only at the commander level, its potential was not much worse than that of a overlord species because it had inherited the Evil-Suppressing Power of the Evil-Suppressing Lion.

After listening, Shi Yu immediately sighed. He didn't know if Principal Feng's totem guardian god, who was an internal member of the First Bureau, was the Evil-Suppressing Lion. Regardless, he wouldn't join in the fun. He was afraid that the Evil-Suppressing Lion would suppress him. Shi Yu felt that he wasn't a good person.

"Let's talk about serious matters first." Lu Qingyi said, "Bai Xi pulled me over this time."

"Heehee." Bai Xi touched her head, acting like a little girl in front of Lu Qingyi.

"This time, I begged Senior Sister for a long time..."

"Uh." Shi Yu quickly reacted.

Principal Feng had taught him not to run around and to obediently learn from Lu Qingyi during the holidays.

And Bai Xi wanted to pull Shi Yu to participate in the Martial Arts Tournament, which would inevitably require him to leave school and run around.

After thinking for a while, Shi Yu passed the problem to the beast-eared Senior Sister. Now it seemed that Bai Xi was planning to start with Lu Qingyi!

"Senior Sister Lu has already agreed to let us participate in the Martial Arts Tournament. She's watching us go together." Bai Xi clenched her fist in victory.

Lu Qingyi was silent and said, "That's what I said..."

Shi Yu's expression was serious and he said, "Don't worry, there's definitely no way we'll cause trouble this time."

At this moment... Eleven obediently put the brewed tea on the table. Its big eyes looked at Shi Yu.

Really? I don't believe it.

"The Martial Emperor Relics... It's not a dangerous place." Shi Yu said.

"Yes, indeed. I've been there before." Lu Qingyi said, "The archaeological atmosphere there is strong, and there's really not much of a problem, unlike the undead battlefield, which is so dangerous. Moreover, Bai Xi grew up in the Martial Emperor Relics since she was little."

"Yes, yes." Bai Xi nodded.

"The location of the Martial Arts Tournament is like my backyard. There's no danger." Bai Xi was very sure.

Shi Yu: "..."

The Martial Emperor Relics is your backyard?

"By the way, my parents heard that you're going to participate in the Martial Arts Tournament and want to invite you to play at my house. After we arrive in Wuling City, let's live at my house." Bai Xi suggested.

"Uh, your family is..." Shi Yu asked.

"My parents are businessmen. They've also heard of you." Bai Xi said, "They've wanted to meet you for a long time."

"Bai Xi's entire family has a Fusion Talent and is also one of the organizers of the Martial Arts Tournament, guarding the Martial Emperor Relics." Lu Qingyi added from the side, "Have you heard of the Wuling Bai Family?"

"..." Shi Yu was silent.

He really... hadn't learned about it.

"The Wuling Bai Family is a very old martial arts family. The entire family mainly focuses on the Beast Tamer's personal combat. The family is involved in multiple industries, such as archaeology, commerce, medical care, education, and nutritional products. It's a very large Beast Taming family." Lu Qingyi introduced with a smile:

"Uncle and Aunt run a company specializing in Beast Tamer body-tempering equipment and nutritional products. The body-tempering facilities at Ancient Capital University are all provided by Uncle and Aunt's company. In addition, Bai Xi's second grandfather is a retired Legendary Beast Tamer Senior, so Bai Xi is considered the little princess of the Bai Family."

"I'm far from Senior Sister." Bai Xi pounced on Lu Qingyi like a hungry tiger, wanting to give her a hug, but was directly pushed away.

Shi Yu: ...You really don't treat me like an outsider.

However, this was the first time Shi Yu had learned about Bai Xi's family situation. She was indeed another rich woman!!!

A family involved in so many fields sounded very rich.

"So when are we leaving??" Shi Yu asked.

Lu Qingyi, Bai Xi, and Shi Yu looked at each other.

"The sooner the better." Bai Xi suggested, "Let's leave today? Principal Feng doesn't seem to be here today."

……

Wuling City.

A tier-two city.

This place was considered a very developed tier-two city, belonging to the top tier-two cities. Its development was much better than Icefield City.

Martial arts were popular in Wuling City. Compared to Beast Tamers in other places, the local Beast Tamers paid more attention to exercising their physique. Even if they didn't have a self-combat-type Beast Taming Talent, they still had to exercise a good physique.

The reason was simple and related to history. According to historical records, the Martial Emperor was from Wuling City and started his rise from here. Therefore, in later dynasties, this area advocated martial arts.

Wuling Airport.

Two girls wearing sunglasses with extraordinary temperament and youthful beauty, as well as a handsome young man wearing sunglasses beside them, attracted everyone's attention.

Even though handsome men and beautiful women were very common on this Blue Planet where most people were extraordinary lifeforms, these three were still a very eye-catching group, especially Bai Xi, who attracted far more attention than Lu Qingyi and Shi Yu.

Many people swallowed when they saw Bai Xi's figure. It wasn't that she was very plump, but that she was very coordinated. She clearly looked like she had a sense of power and was a martial arts expert at first glance, but her figure was surprisingly perfect, balancing at the best point. This was the figure that most people in Wuling City envied the most.

In comparison, Lu Qingyi, who looked like an older sister, didn't look like a self-combat-type Beast Tamer, while Shi Yu, who looked completely wrapped up and fiery red, although he had a handsome face, didn't look very strong and seemed weak, like a gigolo...

Fortunately, Shi Yu didn't know what they were thinking, otherwise he would definitely seriously protest.

He was the strongest in physique among the three. There was no problem with one punch for each Transcendent-level. As for the figure, although there were no muscles, it might be very ordinary, but the ordinariness definitely revealed strength. Exercising a body full of muscles could only attract men.

"Let's go to my house directly."

After coming out of the airport, Bai Xi directly suggested.

"It's still early. Why don't we go shopping?" Lu Qingyi said.

Bai Xi immediately agreed and said, "Okay, okay. I know a newly opened perfume shop. The owner is a grandmaster-level plant controller who specializes in flower-type plant pets. The products are all exclusively made by her. Do you want to go take a look?"

"Okay."

Shi Yu: "..."

Perfume?

If you want that thing, just ask me. I have as much as you want, and they're all top-quality. Why do you need to buy it?

"..." Shi Yu suddenly remembered that after the Ginseng Baby's Sweet Aroma was maxed out, he hadn't sent it to Senior Sister Lu and the others. Girls should like that thing. He had only let the Ginseng Baby serve the Gem Cat. It was a sin... He would let the Ginseng Baby formulate exclusive perfume later and send a bunch to Senior Sister Lu and Panda Senior Sister and the others.

"Shi Yu, what about you?" Lu Qingyi looked at Shi Yu.

"Me..."

Shi Yu glanced at Bai Xi's expectant gaze and decided not to be a third wheel. He said, "You guys go shopping. I just used my phone to check and it seems like there's an antique street nearby. I'll go take a look over there."

"Eh..." Bai Xi said, "Okay, then go quickly, but don't buy things randomly. There are so many scammers over there who specialize in scamming out-of-town tourists who don't know the business. Where are there so many treasures?"

Lu Qingyi said, "Don't worry, he's an expert."

Shi Yu: "..."