Celestial Beast Taming

Ever since his Order Beast, the Biluo Spring Dragon, suffered damage to its Origin, Wen Tao had remained at the Star Frost Tower to protect Bai Chen and Yu Juanjuan.

During this time, Wen Tao would delegate any necessary tasks to his Deputy, Xu Anjun.

Fortunately, Wen Tao didn’t assign many tasks to Xu Anjun, which allowed him to spend a great deal of time actively befriending Zhong Chenghuai.

After learning that Zhong Chenghuai had become Zhong Yi’s Deputy, Xu Anjun placed even greater importance on maintaining their relationship.

He not only introduced the head of Antai Infrastructure to Zhong Chenghuai but also called in a favor to acquire an extra invitation to the Exotic Beast Garden, an event jointly hosted by several top-tier and long-standing factions that specialized in cultivating Guardian Beasts.

But when Xu Anjun offered the invitation to Zhong Chenghuai, he discovered that Zhong Chenghuai was not as interested in the Exotic Beast Garden as he had imagined.

This made Xu Anjun feel a bit awkward.

’If Zhong Chenghuai isn’t interested in the Exotic Beast Garden, then haven’t I prepared all this for nothing!’

Xu Anjun hadn’t originally planned on buying an Exotic Beast at the garden.

The event, hosted by a coalition of top-tier and long-standing factions, was mainly for sightseeing.

The Exotic Beasts there were, for the most part, incredibly expensive.

Typically, it was scholars and Creators who were most interested in these mutated Exotic Beasts.

After all, when a Guardian Beast had just mutated, it was difficult to determine its true value without first raising its Tier and Quality.

Xu Anjun had just returned home and was wondering what to do with the invitation.

If Zhong Chenghuai wasn’t going to the Exotic Beast Garden, then there was no point in him going himself.

Just then, his communicator chimed with a notification.

Xu Anjun had over ten thousand contacts on his communicator. They were either the heads of various factions or Creators of Three-finger rank or higher.

After all, in Starlight City, one needed a certain level of status and power to even be qualified to add Xu Anjun as a contact.

Of all those contacts, however, there were only a few dozen for whom he hadn’t muted notifications.

Seeing the message was from Zhong Chenghuai, Xu Anjun immediately opened it.

[Iron Arm Loves Wreaths: Younger Brother Xu, I won’t be going to the Exotic Beast Garden tomorrow. I gave the invitation to my young master. My young master wants to visit the Exotic Beast Garden tomorrow.]

[Iron Arm Loves Wreaths: If you have time, you should go with my young master tomorrow morning.]

A look of irrepressible joy spread across Xu Anjun’s face as he read the message.

’I invited Zhong Chenghuai to the Exotic Beast Garden to build a connection with him.’

’And the reason I wanted to connect with Zhong Chenghuai was that he’s the Deputy for Zhong Yi, a Healing-type Celestial Destiny Seeker.’

Xu Anjun had heard the rumors for a while now: Zhong Yi’s reported potential rating was SSS Level.

The chance to personally escort Zhong Yi to the Exotic Beast Garden was, in Xu Anjun’s eyes, a tremendous honor.

Ever since he had guided Zhong Yi from the entrance of the Central District to the Star Law Hall to select a mansion, Xu Anjun hadn’t had another opportunity to see him.

[Beneath Biluo: The Exotic Beast Garden opens at eight tomorrow morning. I wonder what time Lord Su Sheng wakes up.]

[Beneath Biluo: I’ll head to Lord Su Sheng’s mansion before seven. I can take him over whenever he’s ready to leave.]

After his chat with Zhong Chenghuai, Xu Anjun lay contentedly in bed, ready to sleep.

Though Xu Anjun was usually a night owl, he always slept soundly.

But tonight, Xu Anjun tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.

His heart was filled with anticipation for the next day, but there was something else, too—a strange feeling.

It was the kind of feeling that made his heart pound with unease.

He always got this feeling the day before something dangerous was about to happen.

But the thought of taking Zhong Yi to the Exotic Beast Garden in the Upper City District tomorrow calmed him down.

’What danger could there be at the Exotic Beast Garden? It’s not as if an Exotic Beast would suddenly go on a rampage and attack people, right?’

’Even if there was such a ferocious beast, the VIPs invited to the garden are all incredibly powerful.’

’Why would they ever give some Low-Tier Exotic Beast a chance to cause chaos?’

Unlike Xu Anjun, who tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep, Zhong Ling and Shen Xuan were utterly exhausted.

The moment they got back to their rooms and finished showering, they collapsed onto their beds, fast asleep.

Their nerves had been stretched taut the entire time they were exploring the Ice Cave Secret Realm.

Now that they could finally relax, the exhaustion was simply unbearable.

Following Zhong Chenghuai back to the main residence, Zhong Yi exchanged greetings with Zhao Kai on the first floor.

Then, led by Zhong Chenghuai, he went up to his room on the third floor.

Back at the Evolution Shop, Zhong Yi and Shen Xuan had to share a single room.

The room could only fit two beds and a desk. Zhong Ling’s and Zhong Chenghuai’s rooms were each a dozen or so square meters.

Aside from an even smaller guest room, any other visitors would have had to stay in the warehouse.

But this new main residence occupied over two thousand square meters of land and had four floors.

That came out to a total of over eight thousand square meters of usable space.

Zhong Yi’s bedroom alone was nearly four hundred square meters, and its en-suite bathroom was almost one hundred and fifty square meters.

Two-thirds of the bathroom had been fashioned into a hot spring.

Two thermal spring sources, originating from the Scorching Sea Secret Realm, had been placed in the water supply system beneath the main residence.

These two spring sources supplied every bedroom in the residence with its own personal hot spring, complete with a constant flow of fresh water.