“Ahem, Whale Guy. Let’s cut to the chase—we’re here to negotiate!” Instantly seeing her little scheme exposed, Luo Ning’s face flushed slightly. She cleared her throat twice, forcing her expression to stiffen, suppressing the smugness at the corner of her eyes, and put on a serious negotiating face.
“Oh? Negotiate?” Li Changqing raised an eyebrow.
“That’s right! You saw everything yesterday, didn’t you?” Luo Ning lifted her chin, her voice full of confidence as she spoke, as if she had all the reasoning on her side.
Of course, Li Changqing knew what Luo Ning was referring to. He nodded in response.
“I saw it. So what?”
“Since you even brought out the National Guardian Totem back then but didn’t attack me in the end… and even let us leave, only coming to find me today at noon… that means you don’t actually have any ill intent toward me! You don’t even want to capture me!”
Luo Ning’s expression was certain, her logic clear as she spat it out in one breath.
Li Changqing was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the evil pink-haired Luo Ning on the rooftop.
He hadn’t expected that after this guy turned into a girl—even though the hair was pink—the brain was still pretty sharp.
True, if it weren’t for Big Boss’s instructions, Luo Ning would probably have been taken away long ago and handed over to the authorities for containment.
“That’s right. I really don’t have any ill intent toward you. But speaking of which, since you already figured out my intentions, why did you run away earlier?” Li Changqing’s mouth twitched.
Right! If you guessed that, then why the hell did you run?
“Tch, that was just me guessing. How could I know what you were thinking? What if you turned around and captured me?” Luo Ning stiffened her neck, replying with an air of righteousness.
“And also! Yesterday, logically speaking, I should be the great hero who saved Jiangcheng! If it weren’t for me, everyone in the Newborn Calf Breeding Center back then would have been finished.”
“Don’t you agree with that point?!”
Faced with Luo Ning’s righteous counter-question, Li Changqing fell silent for two seconds, then reluctantly nodded, admitting it frankly.
“Fine, fine. I agree, I agree!”
“Good! Since I’m the great hero, then this matter is settled. Go back and prepare some prize money. Then, when school starts, remember to come to my school and present me with an honorary certificate in front of everyone. Okay, that’s it. You may withdraw now.”
Luo Ning spoke with utter seriousness, her little feet in white silk stockings lightly tapping with satisfaction, the floating cannon turret wobbling slightly along with them.
“…” Li Changqing.
That comment instantly made Li Changqing laugh out of anger.
He stood there stunned for two seconds, his wet suit fluttering gently in the wind, his face piled high with helplessness.
Even the Cloud White Wind Whale circling high above froze for a moment, its massive whale eyes staring blankly at Luo Ning on the rooftop. It thought that only Li Changqing was this shameless, but now it seemed there was another?
“The prize money and the certificate—I can give you both.”
“But this matter isn’t so easily settled.” Li Changqing shook his head, his smile fading considerably.
“Luo Ning, I think you should know what’s inside you. It can be said that it’s one of only two Mythical-level beings to have appeared on Blue Star in thousands of years. Your variable is too great!”
“If you get possessed, you’ll become the source of the greatest disaster for the country—or even the world.”
Li Changqing straightened his body, and a faint wind field around him slowly awakened—that was his Beast Taming Talent.
Divine Wind Transformation!
The winds and clouds in the sky gradually converged. With the blessing of Li Changqing’s Beast Taming Talent, the Cloud White Wind Whale suddenly released an atmospheric wind pressure even stronger than the previous Overlord Aura!
Clouds slowly formed into a thick cloud roll spanning dozens of miles across the sky. The surrounding airflow seemed to turn into an unbearably heavy gravity, pressing down from the sky like the earth itself!
“I won’t let Master be possessed!”
The dual voices of Yin Yue and Shuo Ling fell, filled with a strong desire to protect their master.
She turned slightly, half-shielding Luo Ning behind her. Her Overlord Aura turned into the light of Starlight and Moonlight, softly spreading around her, steadily blocking the rolling and heavy airflow pressure from the sky.
High above, the immense body of the Cloud White Wind Whale shuddered violently. The atmospheric wind pressure enhanced by the Divine Wind Transformation was still layer by layer dissolved upon touching that Starlight and Moonlight.
Not even a shred of residual force could approach the rooftop.
“!!!” Li Changqing.
This Silver Moon Wolf Girl… is definitely extremely strong!
Her actual combat power is absolutely not the Low-Level Overlord that her realm suggests!
But despite his shock, Li Changqing felt more and more interest in this pet and master pair from the bottom of his heart.
Luo Ning on the floating cannon turret also completely dropped her playful grin, her pretty face serious and determined.
Luo Ning glanced at Yin Yue, who nodded back at her.
Only about eight minutes left!
She had to hurry.
Luo Ning took a deep breath, and her clear voice sounded again: “Whale Guy, in that case, let’s have a man-to-real-man Pokémon battle that starts with eye contact!”
“?” Li Changqing.
A battle that starts with eye contact?
Good grief!
It seems this guy really was a real man after all!
Also, what is “Pokémon”?
“Actually, I didn’t know what would happen in the future at first. I worried about this and that. But I’m willing to trust my beast!”
“Whale Guy, do you understand ‘Heart-Mind Connection’? Yin Yue said I’d be fine, and somehow I’m not afraid of anything anymore!”
“This feeling is really wonderful! It’s as if Yin Yue has brought me endless courage and confidence!”
There was no trace of fear in Luo Ning’s bright eyes toward the unknown power. They were filled only with unreserved certainty and trust in the wolf-eared girl beside her.
“Let’s fight with our beasts. If I can prove that we have the potential to solve the problem, will you buy me a few years to develop?”
Luo Ning leaned forward slightly, sitting on the floating cannon turret, her clear voice carrying weight.
She didn’t come right out and say she wanted to beat Li Changqing. Instead, she phrased it differently.
After all, the man had been deeply entrenched in the path of beast taming for a long time. His experience and strength were right there.
While she was just a newbie who had only recently crossed into the Beast Taming World, being carried hard by the reborn Yin Yue.
Who was strong and who was weak was clear at a glance.
Plus, Yin Yue didn’t have much time left…
Li Changqing was first startled.
The realm of Heart-Mind Connection?
“What?!”
Li Changqing’s eyes widened, once again shocked by Luo Ning’s words.
What did you say?
You only completed the contract yesterday, and today you’ve reached the realm that took him and Kunkun a full ten years of mutual磨合 to achieve?
How is that possible?!
Who would believe that?
Were they already acquainted before the contract?
Or some other special reason?
“You’re not lying to me, are you?” Li Changqing rubbed the corner of his eye, which was twitching from wide-eyed staring.
“What would I lie about?” Luo Ning asked, a little confused. As a beast-taming newbie, she didn’t know how difficult the state of “Heart-Mind Connection” was for a beast tamer.
Even top-tier master-level beast tamers couldn’t easily achieve it!
Li Changqing suddenly realized—could it be that the reason Luo Ning wasn’t backlashed was purely because that Silver Moon Wolf Girl, through the bond of “Heart-Mind Connection,” had taken all of Luo Ning’s mental energy consumption upon herself?
“Sss…” Li Changqing looked at the calm Silver Moon Wolf Girl and subconsciously sucked in a cold breath.
He hadn’t originally intended to capture, imprison, or contain Luo Ning.
He had come to see Luo Ning’s views on the being inside her, and also to see if he could take her on as a student, with the purpose of “monitoring and guiding.”
After all, Big Boss’s instruction to him was to guide and stabilize Luo Ning’s original heart.
He might now start to believe what Kun Peng Big Boss had said. No wonder Big Boss only told him to go with the flow.
This girl, together with that Silver Moon Wolf Girl, might actually create a miracle!
At this moment, Li Changqing no longer cared about those vague future dangers.
What he cared about most was wanting to fight this Silver Moon Wolf Girl.
And coincidentally, she had come right to him.
An apprentice beast tamer, a Low-Level Overlord, a Monarch Bloodline that broke limits, a special Ship-Girl Armed Evolution, and they had reached the Heart-Mind Connection realm only a day after contracting…
Too ridiculous, and too interesting!
“Alright, alright, fine. I accept the battle.”
Li Changqing gathered his thoughts, looked up at the serious Luo Ning, and a thick smile curled at the corner of his mouth.
“If you perform as well as you claim, I can buy you time to develop.”
“But how long do you want to develop?” Li Changqing recalled Big Boss’s advice—don’t deliberately intervene, don’t forcibly counterbalance…
“Three years.” Yin Yue looked up, speaking the time required plainly.
In her past life, she had met her master too late. Her body had defects, her strength improved slowly, and in the end, she was powerless to stop her master from choosing the path of borrowing the Abyss’s power to resist the Primordial Blood Seed.
In the end, the threat of the Primordial Blood Seed wasn’t fully resolved, and they attracted the more powerful and dangerous threat of the Abyss.
No way in this life!
In this life, not only had she obtained her master’s first (contract), but she also had the accumulation of skills and experience from her past life.
Three years—Yin Yue had enough confidence to raise herself to a level stronger than her past life!
In her master’s words, the Primordial Blood Seed was just an early boss for her.
Yin Yue’s final enemy was always only one: the Super God-level Abyss!
“Are you sure you only need three years?” Li Changqing showed surprise, clearly not expecting such a short development time.
Three years to fight a Mythical-level?
No matter how he looked at it, Li Changqing wasn’t convinced, but the divine thought of the Ancient Kun Peng seemed to appear again in his ears: Go with the flow… go with the flow… go with the flow…
“…” Li Changqing.
“Fine… alright. Three years it is. But I need you to go meet my Big Boss in three years and earn its recognition. My Big Boss is one of Hua Kingdom’s National Guardian Totems, the Ancient Kun Peng.”
Li Changqing chose to hand this hot potato back to Big Boss in three years and let it “go with the flow.”
“Of course, if you disappoint me… then I won’t be able to control you anymore. I’ll have to hand you over to the higher-ups to deal with.”
“Deal!” Yin Yue and Luo Ning answered in unison.
“Good! Then let me personally witness whether the trust between you two is as solid as you say!”
As soon as he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed into the distance. The Cloud White Wind Whale high above erupted instantly!
The ten-thousand-mile cloud roll collapsed backward. The terrifying combat power of a High-Level Overlord poured down without reservation. The entire area of the suburban unfinished buildings was instantly wrapped by thick cloud rolls into a pristine white cloud sea space.
“Next, we’ll spar in here. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be good to damage the flowers and grass outside.”
Thanks for the chapter!