Celestial Beast Taming

"Don’t you get any funny ideas!"

"Or I’ll secretly have my bugs chew up all the new shoots on those Earth-Surging Golden Lotuses you’re growing."

Wen Duoduo scoffed at his words.

"You little brat, if you dare touch my Earth-Surging Golden Lotuses, I’ll use my Beauty Goddess Butterfly’s phosphorus powder to trick all your earth-shaker female ants into a nuptial flight. Who’s afraid of whom, huh?"

Hearing this, Liu Shu quickly shut his mouth, glaring indignantly at Wen Duoduo.

He had just been talking big, but Wen Duoduo was definitely capable of following through on her threat.

Long Mu was already used to their bickering. Seeing Liu Shu fall silent, Long Mu said to Wen Duoduo,

"Wanting to raise his Tier was his own idea. Out of respect for him, Ah Shu and I didn’t suggest he remain at the First Level to participate in the Secret Realm."

"Besides wanting to promote the Chasing Light Dragon Palace to an A Level Influence, we also want to take this opportunity to make some friends."

Wen Duoduo smiled at his words. For people like them, making a friend on the Virtual Source Network was no easy task.

No matter the environment, there were always invisible barriers to making friends.

The status of a Zhenxing C Level Talent was, in fact, the highest-level ticket to making friends.

As he said this, Long Mu’s brow furrowed slightly.

Long Mu remembered Zhong Yi saying before he last left the Virtual Source Network that after completing his Tier promotion in a few days, he would participate in a Secret Realm opened by the Wanyu Gambling Company.

Over the past few days, Liu Shu had been sending Zhong Yi information about recently opened Secret Realms.

But Zhong Yi hadn’t replied at all!

It wasn’t that Long Mu was afraid Zhong Yi would suddenly disappear after he and Liu Shu had given him over 3,000 points of Divine Origin Value.

Someone with the ability to become a Zhenxing C Level Talent wouldn’t lack ways to earn Divine Origin Value.

If he were to run off for a mere 3,000-plus points of Divine Origin Value, it would be his own reputation that suffered.

For a Zhenxing C Level Talent, one’s reputation was arguably the most important thing.

No matter how great Zhong Yi’s Talent was, his strength was ultimately only at the First Level.

Long Mu was very worried that Zhong Yi might have encountered danger in his own world, and he and Liu Shu would be completely unable to help.

「Two days later.」

Zhong Yi inspected the four War Puppets that Hong Ji had cultivated.

Then, brimming with confidence, he entered the Virtual Source Network.

As soon as he logged into the Virtual Source Network, Zhong Yi found he had received a pile of messages.

It had been less than ten days since Zhong Yi joined the Chasing Light Dragon Palace.

Normally, after successfully recruiting talent, the major influences on the Virtual Source Network would not proactively announce the news.

This was especially true for a Zhenxing C Level Talent like Zhong Yi.

Doing so would create the suspicion that they were trying to tie the recruited Zhenxing C Level Talent to their influence for good.

It was highly likely to cause dissatisfaction in the recruited Zhenxing C Level Talent.

In reality, however, everyone was extremely free on the Virtual Source Network, and they all lived in different worlds.

Even if someone did something outrageous, there would be no real-world retaliation.

But one’s identity on the Virtual Source Network was bound, unchangeable even if one replaced their Source Material Celestial Shuttle.

While there was no actual real-world retaliation, one’s reputation would be affected.

Once a reputation was ruined, moving forward on the Virtual Source Network would become incredibly difficult.

It wasn’t just individuals who had reputations; a reputation was even more important for an influence.

All influences treated the talents who joined them well, granting them their freedom.

This meant that after joining an influence, if talents felt uncomfortable staying, they could voluntarily leave and find a new one to join.

Since the news hadn’t gotten out, Zhong Yi was still receiving invitations from numerous influences.

However, Zhong Yi didn’t bother looking at these invitations closely, nor did he schedule meetings with the representatives sent to communicate with him.

Zhong Yi had already joined the Chasing Light Dragon Palace, and the Chasing Light Dragon Palace allowed its internal members to form their own influences.

𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

This satisfied Zhong Yi’s requirements!

Joining the Chasing Light Dragon Palace allowed him to freely develop his Soul Soil.

Furthermore, the two Palace Masters of the Chasing Light Dragon Palace came from the Radiant Ecosystem and the Dragon Abyss Ecosystem, respectively.

Zhong Yi didn’t know much about these two ecosystems, but from his brief contact with them before, he could sense that their status within the Radiant Ecosystem and the Dragon Abyss Ecosystem must be extraordinary.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to leave to form a new influence and directly bring nearly ten B Level Talents with them from their original factions.

The 3,000-plus points of Divine Origin Value that Liu Shu and Long Mu had given him was a great act of recognizing his talent.

It gave Zhong Yi the capital to do many things on the Virtual Source Network.

Zhong Yi himself was also very willing to join a developing influence with great potential like the Chasing Light Dragon Palace and befriend some truly prodigious young talents.

After clearing away all the messages trying to recruit and win him over, Zhong Yi discovered that Luke had sent him nearly thirty messages.

Seeing Luke’s messages, Zhong Yi couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.

Luke had just joined the Liuren Demon Hall, yet he had already participated in a Secret Realm opened by the Wanyu Gambling Company and achieved a top-100 ranking.

From Luke’s messages, Zhong Yi could sense that Luke was extremely dissatisfied with his own results.

And yet, he was also pleasantly surprised to have obtained over 600 points of Divine Origin Value from a single Secret Realm exploration.

Luke’s Divine Origin Value earnings made Zhong Yi think to himself, ’Talents who are dominant within their Tier can actually make so much on the Virtual Source Network!’

Representing an influence to participate in a Secret Realm opened by the Wanyu Gambling Company on the Virtual Source Network yielded far more Divine Origin Value than exploring a Secret Realm in the real world.

Although exploring a Secret Realm in the real world allowed one to obtain a Heart of the Secret Realm, Hearts of the Secret Realm were also sold on the Virtual Source Network.

Depending on their attributes, they were valued at anywhere from one hundred to two hundred Divine Origin Value.

In the Guardian Beast World, various Celestial Destiny Seekers and Guardian Beast Masters with outstanding Lifebound Guardian Beasts cooperated and formed teams.

It was possible to obtain Divine Origin Value and Hearts of the Secret Realm in this way.

It was just that the Hearts of the Secret Realm they obtained often had to be split among several people, so on average, each person’s earnings were only a few dozen points of Divine Origin Value.

There was a special leaderboard for Divine Origin Value obtained by exploring ordinary Secret Realms in the Guardian Beast World.

This leaderboard was public, and everyone who obtained Divine Origin Value from ordinary Secret Realms could see it.

As soon as Zhong Yi made it onto the leaderboard, he examined it carefully.

He discovered that quite a few people were on the list!

But very few Hearts of the Secret Realm were in circulation. Aside from being used internally by factions, he figured that a good number of them must have been taken to the Virtual Source Network to be sold.

After all, the price of a Heart of the Secret Realm on the Virtual Source Network wasn’t low, and there was a large market for them.

Basically, as long as you listed one for sale at a price that wasn’t too outrageous, it would sell within a few days.

The Third Level Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm no longer had entry restrictions.

As long as one had the strength and energy, they could participate in the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm an unlimited number of times.

This was because when participating in a Third Level Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm, each person only carried 20 points of Divine Origin Value.

In a 100-person Third Level Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm, getting first place would, at most, yield a profit of only three to four hundred points of Divine Origin Value.

But placing in the top 100 in a Secret Realm opened by the Wanyu Gambling Company already provided a higher income than that.

If one could rank in the top three, or even first place, the income would likely be several thousand points of Divine Origin Value.

After all, the higher the rank, the larger the share of Divine Origin Value one would receive.

Actually, Zhong Yi was a bit surprised that Luke was able to achieve such a high rank.

’In my mind, Luke isn’t a talent who excels at solo combat.’

While Luke’s Fallen Energy Race Bloodline had clear drawbacks, it also had distinct advantages.

Luke, as a Zhenxing C Level Talent, could better display his true value by joining a team where their abilities complemented each other.

Zhong Yi replied to Luke, but Luke didn’t answer for a long time.

’Luke probably isn’t logged into the Virtual Source Network right now.’

Besides Luke, the person who had sent Zhong Yi the most messages was Liu Shu.

He had sent over twenty messages in total, all about the Second Level Secret Realms opened by the Wanyu Gambling Company.