Chapter 064 Chapter 64 (Updated)
The breeze is gentle and the pine trees are rolling.
White doves fluttered across the clear sky, their pure white wings covered with a faint golden glow under the sunlight.
Bathed in the clear sunlight, Xia Muqing put one hand in front of her forehead and looked at the tall stone tablet in front of her. Her eyes fell on two lines of short words and her breathing paused.
"I'm sorry," she said, a little bewildered. "I didn't know your parents..."
"It's okay."
Cheng Zizhuo turned around and smiled at her, his smile clean and refreshing: "It happened many years ago. To be honest, I don't have any recollection of it."
"When they died, I was only three or four, and my brother was only in the third grade. Honestly, my brother had it harder. He remembers more things, and he also had to raise a little burden like me..."
Xia Muqing: “……?”
"Wait, you have a brother?"
Cheng Zizhuo was also stunned for a moment: "Yeah, didn't I tell you?"
"Hmm, I forgot. My brother's name is Cheng Cheng, which means City Cheng."
Xia Muqing: “???”
Wow, I’ve more than just heard of it!
"Chengcheng Divine Beast Master, is he your brother?"
He was a very famous adventurer who had been active in different dimensions for many years and had discovered many evolutionary routes of mysterious beasts. He often appeared at the forefront of trending searches. Even when Xia Muqing helped Xu Ling with the breeding plan, she had borrowed Cheng Cheng's name.
"So, wouldn't all four of you in the family be beast masters?"
Xia Muqing was very surprised: "Your family is so strong."
Her glowing eyes made Cheng Zizhuo's cheeks a little hot. He tilted his head and scratched the back of his head: "Are you okay?"
"I haven't thought about that. My brother... well, we haven't been in touch much in recent years. He's too busy. Once he enters the alternate dimension, it takes several months. The last time I saw him was the day before..."
He shook his head, took out a tissue and wiped the steps next to the stone tablet, then waved to Xia Muqing: "Come, sit down."
Xia Muqing: "Can I sit here?"
Would it be impolite to my uncle and aunt?
Cheng Zizhuo shrugged: "It's okay, I heard that they are not stereotyped people."
Xia Muqing: "..."
That’s true. You can imagine it by looking at Cheng Zizhuo’s personality.
The two of them sat down on the steps. The white marble steps were warmed by the sunlight, and the smooth ground was like a mirror.
Cheng Zizhuo tilted his head slightly, looked at the gray cocoon in Xia Muqing's hand, and asked with concern: "How is it? Is it effective?"
"Has the little caterpillar recovered a little?"
Xia Muqing nodded.
She described to Cheng Zizhuo what she saw. At the same time, the overwhelming golden torrent continued to flow towards the gray cocoon of the little caterpillar, like a huge and dazzling web woven by starlight, with great momentum and without stopping for a moment.
Cheng Zizhuo imagined the scene and took a deep breath: "So spectacular?"
He was itching to see it. “I never thought that the caterpillar’s characteristics would be so magical. I wish I could see it too.”
The two sat in the cemetery for a while until the golden light gradually dissipated in Xia Muqing's sight.
The energy absorbed by the gray cocoon was close to saturation, and a huge change had occurred at this moment - the color of the gray shell became much brighter, and a faint white light ball flowed inside. Through the translucent shell, one could see that the original strange patterns on the curled wings of the little caterpillar had mostly disappeared, replaced by golden rays.
The two completely opposite energies confronted each other for a long time, with no winner to be determined. Finally, they slowly merged, leaving a Tai Chi-like totem on the cocoon.
The cocoon exudes strong energy fluctuations. No matter who looks at it now, they can't recognize that it is the cocoon of a small caterpillar.
Cheng Zizhuo looked at it and was amazed: "Once this little fellow you raised hatches out of its cocoon, it will definitely be a powerful mystical beast that is no less powerful than a cub of a divine beast."
Xia Muqing held the gray cocoon in her hands and sighed, "I just don't know when Xiao Zi will be able to break out of the cocoon."
And when will the Swift Dog wake up?
After all, the college entrance examination is just around the corner.
…
In fact, Xia Muqing has a special admission quota, and she only needs to get a minimum score in the college entrance examination.
When Chi Zi and Ning Xi came to help, they also said that even if Gale Dog and Little Caterpillar could not wake up before the college entrance examination, it would not affect the resource allocation agreed upon by the two universities to Xia Muqing.
But from Xia Muqing's perspective, this is an important exam that happens once in a lifetime. She doesn't want to get into university with just a guaranteed score, which would be embarrassing if she told others about it in the future.
Cheng Zizhuo still had a lot of things to do, so he only stayed in S City for one day and hurried back to Yandu the next day.
Before leaving, he told Xia Muqing something.
"In District Eight, I encountered the Nine-segmented Crystal Scorpion," Cheng Zizhuo said. "It told me that the Azure Dark Snake had disappeared. It came to District Eight in search of it, but after half a month, it still hadn't found the little snake."
Xia Muqing was slightly stunned: "Why would the Azure Dark Snake go to the Eighth District?"
Cheng Zizhuo: “I don’t know.”
Normally, a beast king like the Nine-Sectioned Crystal Scorpion wouldn't care about the whereabouts of an unevolved mystical beast, but this Azure Dark Snake was the little creature Xia Muqing had asked it to look after. The Nine-Sectioned Crystal Scorpion still had a fondness for Xia Muqing, who had given it the poisonous flower stone, and didn't want to let her down.
But now, it ran to the eighth district but couldn't find the whereabouts of the Qingbi Ming Snake, and could only regretfully tell Xia Muqing this bad news through Cheng Zizhuo.
"The alien space is full of dangers after all. It's very likely... it's already dead."
Hearing this, Xia Muqing felt a little disappointed and sighed.
The Azure Dark Snake has a high talent. Even if it is not as talented as her Gale Dog and Little Koi, if it is trained well, it will definitely become an excellent and powerful mysterious beast.
It’s a pity that I met the wrong person.
Cheng Zizhuo saw her sadness and patted his chest and said, "If I have the chance in the future, I will cooperate with the Contracted Mystical Beast Protection Association to strive to raise the threshold for Beast Tamers and prevent those with bad intentions from harming the Mystical Beasts."
"After all, I'm a beastmaster now, so my words should carry some weight, right?"
After saying goodbye to Cheng Zizhuo, Xia Muqing stayed in the hospital for a few more days. After the conditions of Swift Dog and Caterpillar were completely stable, she took them home.
Then, she was called to school in a hurry by the teacher.
"If the Swift Dog hadn't been injured, the provincial champion would definitely be yours. There's no way you could escape."
After the division of subjects, the new class teacher, Teacher Yuan, called Xia Muqing to the office and asked about the recent situation of Swift Dog and Little Caterpillar with concern. After getting the answer "still in a coma", she sighed repeatedly with great regret.
"The college entrance examination is ultimately a national unified examination and will not be postponed for your personal reasons."
Teacher Yuan looked at Xia Muqing helplessly: "In this situation, you must prepare for the worst. If neither the Gale Dog nor the Caterpillar can play, you can only rely on the Koi Fish."
"Teacher has inquired about the competition. Your koi fish has been bred very well, no worse than the Swift Dog before its evolution. But Xia, no matter how good it is, it is still an ordinary, unevolved species. Other students are all focusing on training their profound beasts in order to prepare for the college entrance examination. Some have even evolved to the second stage, not to mention the first stage."
"So, teacher suggests that you lead the koi fish to a sprint next time, at least to the first level. After all, it's easy for a mysterious beast like the koi fish to evolve to the first level, and the materials are easy to collect..."
Upon hearing this, Xia Muqing gave a bitter smile.
"Teacher, my koi fish is a little special," she whispered, "It's not that I don't want it to evolve to the first level, but now, it can't evolve."
Speaking of this, Xia Muqing was also helpless.
As time passed, the countdown to the college entrance examination was torn page by page. Although the conditions of the Swift Dog and the Caterpillar were stable, there was no sign of waking up. Xia Muqing said that she was not anxious, but that was impossible.
She had also thought about the method Teacher Yuan mentioned, and even mentioned it to Little Koi a few days ago.
The little carp was very cooperative and quite anxious, having long dreamed of evolving and dominating the field. As Xia Muqing sorted through the evolutionary materials, it excitedly helped arrange the crystals, twirling its tail and rolling around on the ground, spitting out a stream of golden bubbles.
But what was surprising was that after Xia Muqing had laid out all the materials in the yard that day and the little koi had absorbed them all, it actually burped while staggering: "Gurgle."
And then... then nothing happened.
There is no evolution, not even the slightest fluctuation.
Xia Muqing: “???”
Koi fish: “???”
The koi fish blew bubbles and waved its fins in confusion and loss, describing its feelings.
It felt like there was a very deep hole in its body, which was not felt on normal days. However, once it wanted to evolve, the black hole would emerge and rudely and unreasonably swallow up all the materials Xia Muqing prepared for it, as well as the mysterious energy surging in its body.
It is like the huge mouth of a glutton, which is never satisfied. If it cannot be filled, there will be little opportunity for evolution.
The little koi felt upset, but he didn't believe it, so he yelled at Xia Muqing to prepare a few more sets of materials.
Fortunately, Koi fish are common mysterious beasts, and the evolution materials are not that difficult to obtain. Collecting them is simple, but it costs money.
Xia Muqing gritted her teeth and bought a lot of materials for it. Adding the hospitalization and treatment expenses of Gale Dog and Little Caterpillar during this period, the star coins and points accumulated during this period were almost gone. She had to log in to the "Zhao Cai Jin Bao" account and go to the forum to brush up another round of points.
But after swallowing so much material, the koi fish only patted its round belly and burped a few more times.
After it swallowed enough materials for ten koi fish to evolve, but still showed no signs of evolution, Xia Muqing had to accept the reality.
——Before the college entrance examination, she was afraid it would be difficult for her to make Xiao Jin evolve.
Hearing her say this, Teacher Yuan also opened his eyes wide in surprise.
"Is there something wrong with the koi fish? Has it been treated by a therapist?" Teacher Yuan said anxiously. "Or is it that the evolution materials are not properly matched, or the evolution environment is not ideal?"
"Don't worry, if you have any difficulties, you can tell the teacher, I will definitely help you find a solution-"
Xia Muqing waved her hands quickly: "No, no, teacher, these are not the questions."
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the koi fish's health.
Not only is there no problem, it also always says that it feels it has become a lot stronger, its strength has become greater, and its skills are more effective, especially the "Leap Over the Dragon Gate" skill. The golden bubbles it throws out are simply earth-shattering and sky-shattering.
It is even less likely that there is a problem with the materials. The evolution materials that Xia Muqing carefully matched for the koi fish, supplemented by the high-quality resources exchanged from the Beastmaster Association, will only be more effective than the popular prescriptions circulating on the Internet.
Xia Muqing thought about it and felt that there could only be two reasons.
One is still an old question, the S-level characteristic of Koi fish is "disorder".
If even the skill effects can be changed, it doesn't seem impossible to change the regular evolution.
As for the other one, it is the dragon pill that the little koi always carries with him and constantly absorbs energy from it.
After absorbing a large amount of dragon breath, the little koi's life essence has changed dramatically, and its life potential far exceeds that of ordinary koi. After breaking through its limits, its attributes have reached an unprecedented 95 in all subjects, which is simply shocking.
"Because the potential of life has been elevated, the threshold for evolution has also been raised?"
Xia Muqing touched her chin, thinking secretly.
But then again, it was precisely because the little koi's attributes were still growing that she could use this as a basis to prove that there was nothing wrong with Xiao Jin's body.
After checking all the steps and talking to each other, Teacher Yuan was at a loss.
This is fine, that is fine, it is really beyond her knowledge base.
"You...sigh," she looked at Xia Muqing, the best student in her class, "Teacher sincerely hopes that you can get a good score in the college entrance examination, not only to be admitted to the Beast Taming Academy, but also to live a life without regrets."
"You only have one chance, so you must seize it. The college entrance examination requires each student to bring two profound beasts. I've explained your situation to the education department, and they've replied. If your profound beast still can't recover before the exam, they'll allow you to take only one."
"This is the only thing I can do to help you. But Xia, if you only bring one Xuan Beast, it means you will be comparing one Xuan Beast with two others, which will definitely be difficult."
"In recent years, profound beast research has advanced rapidly, and the format of the college entrance examination has also changed frequently. Even now, there's still no accurate notification from higher authorities about how the exam will be conducted this year."
"Let's speed up our preparations, time is really running out."
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