Chapter 223: Disappointment and Happiness

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

-Should I try it now?- Zhang Che immediately grew tempted.

However, the sky was already dark. Even if there was a spiritual herb nearby, Zhang Che didn’t dare to casually go search for it.

Although he had journeyed close to two thousand kilometers the whole day and didn’t encounter any powerful exotic beasts, Zhang Che didn’t dare to guarantee that his luck would remain this good, not to mention that it was nighttime.

As everyone knew, the nights in the beast world were at least twice as dangerous as the day!

“I’ll just behave myself and rest for now. It’s not too late to try it tomorrow.”

Zhang Che ordered the Purple Crystal Tortoise to stand guard at the cave entrance. He laid down on the icy cold ground, ready to sleep. However, in the next moment, he recalled another matter and immediately sat up, calculating with the help of his fingers.

“There’s no mistake. It’s been two whole months since I acquired the Mutated Puffersword. According to the advancing patterns from the previous subdued beasts and pets, the time required for the next instance doubles every time they advance. Then, shouldn’t it be two months to advance from gold to dark gold-quality?”

However, most of the day had passed, and yet there was still no signs in his spiritual sea, leaving Zhang Che feeling doubtful.

Although the Mutated Puffersword was merely at two-star gold-quality, and was no longer able to keep up with his current strength, he could gift it to Miss Tienan after it advanced to dark gold-quality.

If his memory served right, Miss Tienan had become a beastmaster for a long time now. She only needed to make a trip into the beast world and casually “farm” some exotic beasts to reach Tier Two easily. At that time, the two-star dark gold-quality sword could be given to her as a present.

“Could it be that the required time to advance from gold to dark gold quality is more than double of advancing from silver to gold quality?”

When all was said and done, the day was still not over. Although Zhang Che harbored some doubts, he wasn’t able to find out the truth. He could only wait for tomorrow to know what the situation was.

Alas, the next morning was a disappointment. When Zhang Che woke up the next morning, he immediately went to check on his spiritual sea. There weren’t any changes to the Mutated Puffersword card.

“Looks like dark gold quality is a threshold.”

Shaking his head, Zhang Che could only accept this depressing result.

If rising from gold to dark gold-quality only needed twice the time from silver to gold-quality, the Golden Elephorse King was also on his sixtieth day today, if Zhang Che remembered correctly.

The moment he thought of Hanxue, Zhang Che couldn’t help but feel deeply apologetic.

That fellow had remained in his spiritual sea for over twenty consecutive days without a chance to take a breather out here now. God knew how he was doing now.

Zhang Che had no choice, however. There was no chance to let him out since he exited the beast world previously, went to Bei Du, and arrived at this place out of the blue. It was too dangerous.

Moreover, the surrounding area was an endless range of mountains. It truly wasn’t very suitable for him to move around in.

In his spiritual sea, the golden light representing Hanxue shone brightly a few times, sternly expressing his dissatisfaction to Zhang Che.

“Be good. I’ll definitely let you take a good breather out here when I walk out of this mountain range and reach somewhere safe.”

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After consoling Hanxue, Zhang Che walked out of the cave. First he found a stream between two mountains and washed up, then had a simple breakfast… Well, he ate a few dozen kilograms worth of exotic fruits.

After eating and drinking his fill, Zhang Che set his gaze upon the frisky monkey at the side. “Come, come, let me have a look at your superstrong Spiritual Reaction skill, see if we can find a stalk of spiritual herb or two today.”

“Zhizhi!” the frisky monkey immediately nodded. He showed a proud face, then suddenly shut his eyes. A ripple no one could sense quickly spread out in all directions.

After a full minute, the frisky monkey opened his eyes again, jumping up and down, pointing in two different directions.

-Oh boy… He really is a “treasure hunting monkey”… He actually found two places with spiritual herbs!-

“Which side is nearer?” Zhang Che asked, looking at the frisky monkey. The latter immediately pointed to the left.

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Thus, Zhang Che brought his group of babies and headed towards the nearest spiritual herb in a grandiose manner, scaring the low-tier exotic beasts into running away in all directions, causing quite the commotion.

After running for slightly less than two kilometers, Zhang Che arrived at a valley and found a stalk of glistening jade green spiritual herb that resembled an orchid under the guidance of the frisky monkey.

However, it was very obvious that this thing’s grade wasn’t high. It was only an ordinary spiritual herb. God knew how much difference there was between this and a heavenly treasure. At least, none of Zhang Che’s pets even bothered to take a proper look at it.

This was normal, however. If the heavenly treasures were really this commonly found, would they still be called heavenly treasures?

Zhang Che dug out the spiritual herb carefully. After that, he directly stored it into the Purple Crystal Tortoise’s unique dimension.

It was strange, speaking about it. Logically, wouldn’t the plant he just dug out be considered a living object, too? It could actually be stored in the Purple Crystal Tortoise’s body, and yet an animal, even an egg, could not. It truly was confusing.

After picking this spiritual herb, Zhang Che immediately headed to the other location.

This time, an exotic beast was guarding where the spiritual herb grew.

It was a pity, however. The exotic beast was only a four-star silver-quality trash, frozen into a lump of ice with a single breath from the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon. Afterwards, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon rushed over and smashed it into countless ice shards with a smack of its claw.

Zhang Che didn’t try to stop the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon’s actions, either. In any case, this kind of trash might not necessarily drop a beast card. If he killed it, so be it.

The spiritual herb did surprise Zhang Che slightly, however. It was a tiny bush, which bore about a dozen thumb-sized red fruits. The frisky monkey actually showed desires of wanting to eat them.

Although the grade of this spiritual herb was at the level of heavenly treasures, it was probably one of the better ones.

Zhang Che couldn’t be bothered to care if it was fully matured. He directly picked all the dozen or so fruits and stuffed them into the Purple Crystal Tortoise’s spatial pocket.

He didn’t know how to use them anyway, and would have to ask around after he returned. However, spiritual herbs at this level were more likely to be sold.

After witnessing the effects of the frisky monkey’s impressive skill, Zhang Che couldn’t be any more satisfied. He resumed his journey, continuing on his way in his endless mountain range.

It was another half a day of speedy travel. The number of mid-tier exotic beasts Zhang Che encountered grew fewer and fewer, and their quality was also becoming lower and lower. In the end, it was rare to even run into a gold-quality exotic beast.

Zhang Che knew that he should be leaving the depths of the beast world soon. He was getting closer and closer to the safety zone.

Although… the number of people around here was a little too low, wasn’t it? Logically speaking, there should be a few beastmasters moving around in these areas, at the least. However, Zhang Che still hadn’t met any creatures that could walk on two legs.

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When the sky started to gradually turn dark again, the mountain peaks ahead finally became shorter. It was no longer as grand and straight as before.

“Hmm? What is that?” Standing on the peak of a mountain, Zhang Che saw a few black dots quickly moving about on the ridge of a mountain several kilometers away.

If his eyes weren’t playing tricks on him, they seemed to be a group of creatures standing upright on two legs… humans?