“What were you using your eyes for?”

While Lin Shiru and Ye Xuan were talking in the living room on the second floor of the villa, Su Yunmeng’s voice came from outside. “There was such a tumult in our villa. You didn’t see anything? How is it possible?”

“We usually don’t have any visitors. I bet it is Ye Xuan. He must have come back.”

Then Ye Guotao’s helpless voice came. “Well, well, it was nothing at all. You have been nagging me all the way for such a trivial matter.”

“What? You don’t like me to nag you, do you? Can’t I say anything even though you did something wrong?”

“It was not a big deal at all. Besides, I was busy then.”

Upstairs, Ye Xuan could not help but show an awkward smile at Lin Shiru when he had heard his parents’ little quarrel.

Lin Shiru got to her feet as soon as she heard Su Yunmeng and Ye Guotao’s voices. Then she went downstairs to greet them.

Ye Xuan had to follow her downstairs.

“Auntie, uncle, you are back. How are you? Do you like living here?”

Lin Shiru hurried to greet Su Yunmeng and Ye Guotao when she had seen them open the door and walk into the villa while going downstairs.

“Shiru, I am so glad to see you here.”

Su Yunmeng’s eyes lit up when she saw Lin Shiru.

She even completely ignored Ye Xuan, who was right behind Lin Shiru.

What a good mother.

At the sight of that, Ye Xuan went downstairs helplessly.

He started to talk with Ye Guotao…

Because neither Lin Shiru nor Su Yunmeng was paying attention to him.

“Dad, is your snack shop open?”

Ye Xuan asked Ye Guotao after finding a place to sit down.

“Not yet. Your mother and I were just out for some fun. We were chitchatting and doing something else. Just a little bored.”

“But the snack shop will be open soon. The freshmen at Jiangzhou University will start school in two days, well, the day after tomorrow. We will start to run the snack shop when the freshmen have arrived.”

“The freshmen are coming in two days?”

That seemed to make Ye Xuan ponder.

He would fight against Ye Tiange in two days, that is, the day after tomorrow.

He was sure he would defeat Ye Tiange.

However, he guessed Su Yunmeng and Ye Guotao would worry about him again by then.

But there was nothing Ye Xuan could do about that.

He would have to wait until then and see what to do.

He was sitting on the sofa listening to Ye Guotao talking about his anecdotes while thinking about these things.

As his cultivation level improved, opportunities to spend time with his family like this were fewer and fewer.

Therefore, he really cherished them.

As to Su Yunmeng and Lin Shiru, they were having a great conversation, which was a little surprising.

Of course, for most of the time, it was Su Yunmeng who was speaking, and Lin Shiru was just listening.

And Lin Shiru did not hurry to leave this time.

Su Yunmeng was very hospitable. She invited Lin Shiru to stay for supper, and the latter did not refuse. She did not leave until after the supper.

“Ye Xuan.”

At dusk, Lin Shiru looked at Ye Xuan when he was seeing her out. “You will fight against Ye Tiange in two days. Are you sure you can win?”

“Of course, I will win. I am sure I can win.”

Ye Xuan nodded at her. “What I am not sure is whether I can kill that wonderful grandson of Ye Yuanming in the presence of him despite his disturbance.”

“Like how I killed that Beast Tamer from the Eternal Night Clan.”

Lin Shiru knitted her brows together.

Ye Xuan sounded very calm.

However, she perceived Ye Xuan’s strong killing intent in spite of his calm tone.

“Well, just try your best.”

She added after a pause, “If you can’t kill him, I will do something about it. We have that video.”

“Yeah, I understand that.”

Ye Xuan nodded.

Then Lin Shiru leaped into the night sky and flew away after bidding farewell to him.

“Here you are. It is for you.”

Ye Xuan went back to the villa after Lin Shiru had left. Lying on his bed, he took out a Silver Star Fruit and threw it to the Tyrannosaurus, which was staying in the World of Dragons.

Growl!

In the World of Dragons, the Tyrannosaurus opened its mouth to catch and swallow the Silver Star Fruit as soon as it saw the fruit fall in front of it.

It seemed very satisfied after some chewing. Then it lied down on its stomach at the peak of the Mountain of Dragons.

After lying down, it started to use the cultivation method recorded in the Sky Tyrannosaurus’ Secret Technique to cultivate that Silver Star Fruit efficiently while breathing in and breathing out.

Ye Xuan split a dash of his consciousness to watch the Tyrannosaurus cultivating. He did not take it back until a good while later.

It had become his habit to feed his beasts every day. He had been used to doing that.

While thinking about that, he threw the Solar and Lunar Elixir Flame Bead and the Bead of Spirit Clam Disturbing the Sky that he had got from the trip to the Ancient God Planet into the Tidal Treasure Snail’s world.

The Tidal Treasure Snail’s combat power was not gorgeous as those of the other beasts that Ye Xuan had.

However, it was so unique that no one could replace it at all.

Ye Xuan was looking forward to its level up. He wondered how big the area the small map covered would be after its upgrade to the Silver level.

Not until he had fed the Tyrannosaurus and the Tidal Treasure Snail did he send a dash of his consciousness into a pitch-black area in his Spirit Ocean.

This was the Beast Lair that he had just created, the Beast Lair that belonged to Obscurus.

Different from other Beast Lairs of his…

There was nothing but darkness in this one.

Filled with darkness, the whole area seemed to be integrated with darkness itself.

However, such pure darkness was very beneficial to Obscurus.

While Obscurus was here, if Ye Xuan were not its owner…

Even though he was the one who built this place.

He would have been hardly able to locate it after shifting his consciousness here.

While thinking about these things, Ye Xuan focused on Obscurus.

He instantly saw it strolling aimlessly there as an almost invisible shadow.

It seemed to have developed a curiosity for this place.

At the same time, his Mythic-level Seed of Beasts was quite effective.

Ye Xuan detected that the Seed of Beasts had made Obscurus gradually less hostile to him.

“Not bad.”

Ye Xuan looked away after darting a glance at Obscurus to check up on it.

According to Obscurus’s attributes he had read earlier, it should be able to achieve the Silver level in one day.

Ye Xuan estimated he would be able to achieve the Silver level as well when Obscurus had achieved the Silver level.

“And Lil Wan…”

Ye Xuan suddenly recalled the evolutionary resources he had exchanged for Lil Wan on the Dragon Horn Planet. They should arrive the next day if everything was all right.

“Tomorrow,” Ye Xuan murmured.

He picked up his phone to read his friends’ feeds.

Then he went on to browse the news.

He checked the breaking news on the Cerulean Planet while he had been away.

He was going to sleep and take a good rest after that.

“Breaking news! At ten o’clock this morning, almost ten thousand Beast Tamers from the Eternal Night Clan arrived on the Cerulean Planet through Jiama’s channels connected to the Ancient God Planet.”

“Jiama’s spokesman announced the country had officially signed an agreement with the Eternal Night Clan from the Eternal Night Planet based on the principle of mutual benefit.”

“Breaking news! Simon, a Beast Tamer on the Challenger level from the Silver Blood Clan, was repulsed by the King of Shadow from the Barren State of the Xia after he had reached the Xia’s border via Guluo at 3:00 p.m. today.”

“Breaking news! The leader of Gute resigned his office at 7:00 p.m. today. His unexpected resignation could be related to the Beast Tamers that are visiting the country recently from the Silver Horn Planet.”

“What a world! There are all sorts of bad news!”

Ye Xuan threw his phone away after browsing the news for a good while.

He had planned to sleep.

He had also planned to check Obscurus’s status the next morning to see whether it could achieve the Silver level, thinking maybe he could achieve the Silver level as well by then.

However, the news completely dampened his spirits.

Was it still possible for him to sleep?

He was too angry to fall asleep.

Besides, as a Bronze-level Beast Tamer, it would be fine for him to stay awake for dozens of days without any sleep.

So he slipped out of the villa.

He went to practice the Ape and Dragon Honing Fist at the foot of the mountain.

…

The next day.

Early in the morning, Wang Tianshan returned to the Tianshan Base from the Dragon Horn Planet in a flash.

Dozens of Challenger-level Beast Tamers from the Cerulean Planet were guarding the Dragon Horn Planet in turn.

So he did not have to stay there all the time.

“Zhang.”

He found Zhang Jiantong, who was responsible for taking care of Ye Xuan when the latter was at the base, as soon as he came back. “Make a trip to Jiangzhou University immediately and give this to Ye Xuan.”

Then he handed a Beast Ring to Zhang Jiantong.

“Give this to Ye Xuan?”

Zhang Jiantong was very surprised. He wondered what was in this Beast Ring.

He even had to go to Jiangzhou University to give it to Ye Xuan in person.

Despite the surprise, he accepted the task without hesitation.

…

Ring…

Ye Xuan got a call from Qi Liangcai while he was having breakfast in the villa.

More than that, it was a video call.

He picked up the phone and answered it in surprise.

Then he saw something weird on the screen.

He saw in the video call Qi Liangcai and Wei Shan cleaning the outer wall of a building on the campus with rags while mounting their beasts.

“Qi Liangcai, what are you and Wei Shan doing?” Ye Xuan asked, confused.

What was this? They were working as janitors while mounting their beasts?

“Ye Xuan, cut out the gloating.”

“It’s because I was too worried about you yesterday, so I flew to your villa from my dormitory on the three-legged Hellfire Crow, and everywhere was stained with my blood as I flew by.”

“Get your ass over here to help if you are a good friend!” Qi Liangcai shouted on the phone.

“Help?”

“You want me to go and clean with you together?”

“Well, it is fine to clean.”

“But isn’t this too peculiar?”

“We will have to clean every building while mounted on our beasts.”

“Darn it. Now everyone on campus will know you two.”

Ye Xuan shook his head. “I am sorry, dude. I am afraid I can’t. A little busy, you know. I plan to achieve the Silver level today. I appreciate both of your efforts, though.”

Then he hung up the call.

“Shoot!”

Qi Liangcai cursed when Ye Xuan had hung up the call. “Achieve the Silver level? This dude didn’t even make an effort to find a decent excuse.”

Neither he nor Wei Shan knew Ye Xuan’s real cultivation level.

They thought he remained the same as when he had fought against that Beast Tamer from the Eternal Night Clan, that he was still on the low Bronze level.

But the low Bronze level and the Silver level were totally different. There was a huge gap between them.

“Excuse me, do you know a freshman of your university called Ye Xuan? Do you know where he lives?”