Astral Pet Store Novel - Chapter 113

Chapter 113: Mysterious Realm

While students of all grades were discussing the new advanced teacher, Su Ping was in Dong Mingsong’s office, saying his farewells for the day.

“Why are you rushing back?” Dong Mingsong was surprised that Su Ping was leaving right after the lecture.

“I have to take care of the store,” Su Ping replied. He had to go back and continue the pet training.

Even though the dummy function for pet training was available, he had to manually select the new pets for the following training batch. The function wasn’t fully automated.

Dong Mingsong understood after Su Ping mentioned the store. He remembered the Wind Fruit he bought for the store. A glow flashed through Dong Mingsong’s eyes when he asked with anticipation, “Now that I recall, you can train pets in your store, right? Can you help train my pets? You can name the price.”

Su Ping threw him a look and shook his head. “I don’t accept advanced pets for the time being.”

Given Dong Mingsong’s strength, his pets were most likely of the advanced rank. He wasn’t Su Ping’s target customer right then.

Dong Mingsong was a bit disappointed to hear those words. Yet, on second thought, he could see the reason.

He believed it was probably because that top-level trainer behind Su Ping had not yet recovered from his wounds and was unwilling to get in touch with battle pet warriors who were too powerful, as another way to keep his identity hidden…

Dong Mingsong heaved a sigh inside and expressed his understanding, “No problem. Do let me know if you can train them in the future. I will be waiting. Take it as me already making a reservation. Remember to come to me first.”

Su Ping gave him an odd look. Dong Mingsong sounded as if he knew the rules of the store.

“Sure.” Su Ping then left after saying goodbye.

Feng Yanjing sent him away. Su Ping went downstairs, took out his keys to unlock the bike and waved Feng Yanjing goodbye. Then, he rode back the way he had come from.

At the gate, the doormen didn’t stop him this time. They knew who he was now.

After about half an hour, Su Ping returned to the store.

The first thing he did was to summon the Inferno Dragon and Little Skeleton to put them back in the nursing pens.

Previously, both had been resting in the nursing pens when they were summoned by him.

The Antiquity Pet Contract was different from the modern Astral Power Contract. Su Ping’s pets didn’t have to stay in the contract space to be summoned. As long as they were within a certain range, they could be pulled into the contract space through the power of the contract and then summoned somewhere else.

However, once they returned to the contract space, they couldn’t return to the nursing pens on their own.

Su Ping felt sorry for having wasted almost two hours of nursing pens’ time.

After he settled down the two pets, he pulled up the window to the cultivation planes. He chose the second batch of pets from the nursing pens and used the dummy to train them.

While he was selecting, all of a sudden, he noticed a pet that he had never seen in one of the nursing pens. It was a snakelet of the pet named Purple Python which had sixth-rank bloodline.

Noticing the broken eggshells in the nursing slot, Su Ping realized that this was the egg that had come out from the second level Spirit Pool for Incubation.

At the very best, a second level Spirit Pool for Incubation could breed advanced pets. He wasn’t blessed with the best of luck. That being said, it was a good deal to have a sixth-rank pet bred with one hundred energy points, i.e. 10,000 coins.

“Purple Python, a pet that is kind of common. No wonder I didn’t find its information. I overestimated it,” Su Ping said to himself.

This was a pet skilled in combat. Compared to pets of the dragon, demon, and element families, pets of the combat family were generally much weaker. Most of such pets had limited abilities. It was only their pure strength that was shocking.

Take this Purple Python for example. It wasn’t highly toxic. The only advantage was its strength. The Purple Python had few pet skills, merely two, namely Python Entangle and Snake Bite, which were inherited skills. If this Purple Python had a good aptitude, it could learn other skills such as Snake Roll and Lurking.

But compared to the other pets, those skills were not worth mentioning.

At the moment, the Purple Python had just hatched. The purple and cyan dots on its scales weren’t connected yet. The Purple Python was only as long as an adult’s arm. It curled up in the nursing slot and its scales would move up and down now and then as if breathing. The Purple Python was enjoying the anima in the nursing pens.

Su Ping observed it. It suddenly hit him that he needed a middle-rank pet to unlock the service of advanced pets’ training.

The worse the pet was, the easier it would be for the pet to be trained to an above-average rating. This Purple Python seemed like a suitable choice.

Su Ping didn’t act on it right away, though. He went back to select other pets for the next training batch.

Su Ping went back to the store when the dummy began the training. He cultivated and watched the store while he pulled up the cultivation sites to see if there was any place suitable for the Purple Python.

After the previous training, he had learned that the right cultivation site could make the pet training more effective.

A customer arrived shortly after.

Su Ping closed the window. It was a returning customer.

“Sir, I’m here for my Fantasy Beast.” It was Gu Beichen. He seemed to be in a bad mood. He had shown up just to take his Fantasy Beast back. As for the training effect, he had no expectations at all; he thought he would just consider it a day’s boarding service.

It was expensive. But the Bloodsoul Bead and the Devils’ Bones he managed to buy had covered this loss.

“Sure.” Su Ping was happy since Gu Beichen had been on time. “I will get it for you. Wait a moment.”

After he returned to the store that day, one of the first pet batches he had the dummy train was the Fantasy Beast.

Su Ping went to the pet room. One glance and he found the Fantasy Beast in one of the nursing pens. He picked it up.

The Fantasy Beast had just returned from the cultivation site and was quite traumatized. Right then, the Fantasy Beast was immersed in the comfort of the nursing slot. It flew into a rage when it was picked up by Su Ping. A mouth was revealed on its cloud-like body, showing its teeth at Su Ping in a clearly menacing way.

However, anger was quickly changed for surprise when the Fantasy Beast saw and felt who it was. Its gaping mouth was slowly closed until it couldn’t be seen…

Its black, watery eyes were filled with sadness.

Su Ping knew the Fantasy Beast had surely been “trained” well in the cultivation site, judging by how terrified it was. Su Ping cast a pet identification spell on it and noticed two additional skills. One of the skills was quite impressive. It was an advanced one!

Besides, its combat strength was up by 0.2. This was a stunning result for this common training.

Su Ping was quite happy. He brought the Fantasy Beast out from the pet room and gave it back to Gu Beichen. “Your pet.”

Gu Beichen looked at his Fantasy Beast. He was relieved since there were no wounds. He nodded and said, “Thank you.”

It was nothing but polite words with no sincere feelings.

With that said, he put away his Fantasy Beast. As for the training, he didn’t even bother to ask.

He didn’t have to think to figure out what effects could come out from a one-day training.

“I’m gonna go now.” Gu Beichen turned around and left.

Su Ping was surprised. He was ready to introduce the skills of the Fantasy Beast to Gu Beichen in case he wasn’t familiar with his pet, which could prevent him from using its abilities to their full extent, like it happened with Su Yanying. However, Gu Beichen didn’t give him this chance.

Su Ping had to give up since Gu Beichen had already left.

After he left the pet store, Gu Beichen got into his SUV and drove to the border of the base city, heading toward the barren area outside.

He had taken care of the registration the day before, when he returned to the city. Now he only had to wait until the Elite League began. During this time, he was going to train in the barren area for the final sprint!

…

Su Ping continued cultivating after Gu Beichen left. He found time to pull up the system’s shop and bought the middle-level beast catching ring as well.

The regular customers that visited the store in the morning had made him earn nearly 5000 energy points. It was more than enough to buy the middle-level beast catching ring. However, he needed a lot more energy points to buy that middle-level Original Force Pellet he coveted. He felt powerless and frustrated.

Not long afterward, another person went to the store.

Su Ping had thought it was Gu Beichen again because this customer was driving the same car and the noise the exhaust pipe made was identical.

Su Ping looked up and noticed it wasn’t Gu Beichen, but someone familiar.

“Mr. Su, it’s been a long time,” Ye Chenshan greeted him with a smile.

Su Ping was curious. “What are you doing here?”

Ye Chenshan laughed. “We have to thank you for what happened last time. Isn’t it what I should do to support your business?”

Su Ping nodded. “Yes, indeed it is.”

This answer surprised Ye Chenshan. “Mr. Su, you are a frank man indeed.”

Su Ping didn’t comment on that. “Come and take a look. What do you need?”

Ye Chenshan cast his eyes on the shelf behind Su Ping. When Ye Chenshan saw the prices, he found it hard to keep that smile on his face. He just forced a laugh and changed the subject, “Mr. Su, actually, I have something amazing I want to tell you.”

“Oh?”

Su Ping remained calm. He wasn’t surprised at all.

No one went to the Hall of Trinity without a reason. That wasn’t a Hall of Trinity, but a little store. Even so, if Ye Chenshan wanted to pay a debt of gratitude, he would have paid a visit much sooner. He waited till then, most likely, because he had something to ask.

Ye Chanshan smiled. “A Mysterious Realm is opening up. Mr. Su, are you interested? The Worldwide Elite League would begin shortly after… Mr. Su, you must have signed up for it, right? Going to a Mysterious Realm is an excellent training opportunity. Many people who have signed up for the League will go there to train, hoping to achieve a breakthrough so that they can stand out in the league.”

“Even if you cannot win the championship, anyone lucky enough to reach the top 10 will have the chance to receive guidance from a legendary battle pet warrior! The Mysterious Realm is the key. Anyone who can secure precious treasures there or secret books that cannot be seen by anyone else would basically have an assurance to win at the Elite League!”

“Mysterious Realm?”

Su Ping was surprised.

He seemed to have heard that information blockage about Mysterious Realms was even stricter than that of the barren areas. For civilians like him, he could only find a very limited amount of information. The only thing he knew was that even powerful warriors from the barren area could lose their lives in the Mysterious Realms.