After chatting with the mayor for a while, Qin Xiao left the secret realm and took his leave.

He has a lot to do these next few days.

Claim your rewards, organize your resources, plan your next steps, and most importantly, advance!

Soon, Qin Xiao rode Ilya back to his villa.

He glanced subconsciously at Bu Feifei's courtyard. The gate was tightly closed, but the roses and unidentified red flowers in the courtyard were still blooming brilliantly.

"Master, master, these flowers are so beautiful, I want to..."

Ling'er lay on his head, her tone revealing eagerness.

Qin Xiao scratched his head, and Ling'er wiggled her bottom where she had been scratched. "Isn't this a bit inappropriate?"

His tone was somewhat hesitant, after all, this was someone else's territory.

"What does it matter? There's no need to talk about chivalry with this kind of cult member. Just take as much as you can!"

Qin Xiao was taken aback. Although it was a bit strange, what you said made a lot of sense.

Ling'er really likes all sorts of random flowers.

Qin Xiao tapped the bracelet and sent a message to Bu Feifei.

Qin Xiao: Hey, Feifei-chan, the red flowers in the yard are blooming, so I won't be polite.

Ding! Instant reply.

Bu Feifei: The picture of cherry blossoms is indeed beautiful, it's a pity.

Qin Xiao was startled and examined the picture carefully, but unfortunately, there were no clues to tell where it was.

Bu Feifei: Those flowers are called Death Flower, a beautiful flower from my hometown. I really miss them. Please take good care of them for me.

Qin Xiao replied a few times, but the other party stopped responding.

Tsk, it's happening again. Qin Xiao was speechless.

I considered reporting them, but I kept thinking I might get some information from them, so I kept it to myself.

He put down the projector on his wristband and said, "Hey, go ahead and tidy it up. Don't let them pluck it all off."

Ling'er excitedly jumped off his head and ran straight towards the red, thorny flower bushes.

They plucked a large section of it up by the roots, shouting, "Master, quickly put it in my spatial storage!"

Qin Xiao's eye twitched. Goodness, you don't let anything slip by.

Putting away the red flowers, Ilya picked up a flower and smelled it.

“Master, this flower has a strong essence of plants, but it also contains some toxins.”

Qin Xiao remained noncommittal. "The Death Flower, well, the name itself doesn't sound like anything good. I just don't know if this thing is a strange beast. This flower doesn't seem to have anything special about it."

Turning away, the man and the two beasts soon returned to their villa.

Yoyo burst out of the space and flew all over the room.

Qin Xiao sat on the sofa and took out the prize money from the competition.

The Soul of Taiyin, a Golden-Rank Spirit Crystal.

He first picked up the Yin Soul and used his own spiritual energy to erode it.

A surge of cold air rushed out and spread to his brain.

It felt as if I had been cleansed and refreshed.

His talent level has also been upgraded from green to blue.

It wasn't easy. He started with white talent and improved all the way up, and now he's an elite with blue talent.

Qin Xiao picked up the gold-tier spirit crystal with some pride, taking advantage of his good condition to try and break through to the gold tier in one go.

With his eyes slightly closed, Qin Xiao absorbed the spiritual energy, feeling its surge.

An hour later, he gave up.

Blue is such a trash talent! Ha!

"Ling'er! Yo-yo! Come here!"

Ling'er and Youyou, who were playing around, rushed towards him.

"Hey, don't say that your master doesn't love you two, especially you, Ling'er. You're the lowest rank, so keep it up! You're only Silver Eight Star, and you can still sleep? Look at you."

Qin Xiao said in a serious tone, and Youyou excitedly jumped up and down and snuggled into his arms.

Bai Ling lay face down on the sofa, her back to him.

Out of spite.

Qin Xiao's lips curled up, and he reached out to stroke Bai Ling's two long tails.

"You have twenty, oh, twenty! Hurry up and absorb them."

As Qin Xiao spoke, he pulled Bai Ling into his arms.

Qin Xiao distributed the remaining spirit crystals: twenty to Jianmu and twenty to Ilya.

There are twenty left, I'll keep them for when I need them.

He can no longer rely on himself; his advancement now mainly depends on Ilya and Ling'er.

With those two advancing, he'll definitely be able to reach Gold rank in one fell swoop!

Jianmu and Youyou are already at the Gold rank, so the feedback from raising them by one or two stars in a short period of time is not significant.

After distributing the spirit crystals and sending Ling'er and Youyou to absorb them, Ilya went to the kitchen.

Qin Xiao then opened his bracelet and logged into the official website of Huawu Kingdom. He still had a golden skill bead, which was no small matter.

It took me ages to find the section on the official website for the top ten national college entrance examination awards. I clicked on it, entered my student ID number, password, and verified my iris and genetics.

The system automatically redirects to the inventory of gold skill orbs for selection.

Upon seeing the inventory, Qin Xiao was speechless. What a great opportunity! The Huahua Martial Kingdom only had five of these golden skill pearls in stock.

This is simply outrageous. I don't know if it's really that rare, or just too sought after.

With patience, Qin Xiao activated the five skill beads one by one.

Thunder Commander: Controls the element of lightning

Shadow Travel: Moving freely in the shadows

Golden Light: Releases intense golden light, briefly solidifying anything exposed to it (requires light-based abilities).

Silent Fog Sea: Releases a dense fog that relentlessly attacks all sound sources within it (requires water-based abilities).

Marking: Releases one to three dimensional markers, enabling sensing and tracking across dimensions (requires spatial abilities).

Hiss~

These are quite impressive. Any one of these five golden skills can help a corresponding beast reverse its fate.

Oh no, what do we do if everyone wants them?

Qin Xiao looked conflicted, and had no choice but to reluctantly begin the process of elimination.

The first thing to rule out is the Golden Light.

Firstly, the strength of the skill is unclear, making it impossible to determine its immobilization effect.

Secondly, he doesn't have a beast to match this skill; he doesn't have a light-type beast yet.

The second skill to be ruled out is Shadow Step, which should be a very powerful assassin-type skill.

However, the same principle does not apply to Qin Xiao's current beast taming abilities.

Although this skill seems to be similar to Thunder Command, it directly increases a certain attribute of the beast tamer, rather than a single attribute skill.

But for Qin Xiao, it was nothing special. After all, if he were to contract a shadow-type assassin beast...

With two or three shadow-type gold skills and some colored skills, there's no need to compromise specifically for this skill.

The third one to be ruled out is the Thunder Commander, mainly because Ilya is a suitable match, but Ilya's wind and thunder power is more than enough.

Qin Xiao couldn't tell whether this skill would stack. If it didn't, he would be at a huge loss. Even if it did, it would be difficult to upgrade to the color level.

Moreover, his beast-taming skills will improve as his rank increases, which is the power of the god-level template.

What you gain is an inherent ability that grows with your strength.

The last two skills remaining are Silent Fog and Mark.

Qin Xiao was having a hard time choosing. With Youyou's spiritual energy, the Silent Mist Sea, a group attack-type divine skill, could probably cover half a city, making it perfect for easily crushing weaker opponents.

The marking can also enhance Jianmu's support abilities, in addition to Jianmu's spatial abilities.

Qin Xiao even imagined what it would be like if the Jianmu tree connected multiple dimensional worlds in the future, and then directly pursued and killed the beings of the boundless universe!

It's a bit of a difficult choice; both skills seem great and have promising prospects.