Beast taming, starting from zero point
Chapter 752 - 673: The Shadow of Darkness

Chapter 752: Chapter 673: The Shadow of Darkness

Qiao Sang typed in a search, and the page quickly redirected, displaying relevant news.

[Shocking! A Spectral-type Pet Beast Appears in the Morgue at Blue Star!]

Well, someone knows how to make a headline... Qiao Sang glanced at the accompanying video below.

It was from a surveillance angle, playing the clip of Xiao Xunbao using Spatial Movement on the basement first floor to take away "the little girl" and Dorin.

The text below also included an introduction to ghost rings and spectres.

As Qiao Sang scrolled down, she found many comments from netizens.

[Ha, a Spectral-type Pet Beast capable of Spatial Movement? That made me laugh.]

[Indeed, it’s a Spectral-type Pet Beast I’ve never seen before.]

[A high-level Spectral-type Pet Beast? Isn’t it a little too small? It’s even smaller than my pacing pig.]

Xiao Xunbao had been watching with great interest, but when it came across this comment, it couldn’t help but step back, covering its chest with its paws and showing a heartbroken expression.

Qiao Sang was still looking at the comments.

[Am I the only one concerned about why this child is so terrifying?]

[Clearly, she’s been possessed by some Spectral-type Pet Beast.]

[Check out hot search number 11, a man conspired with his lover to kill his two children, and this is that girl.]

When Qiao Sang returned to the hot search page, she didn’t find any related news.

At that moment, Elma asked, "You were there at the scene, did you see everything?"

Qiao Sang put down her phone and hummed in affirmation.

Elma cursed under her breath, "I never thought we’d have such scum in District One. Lucky we had the latent resentment of Duo, otherwise those two scumbags would have definitely gotten away."

Hearing this, Qiao Sang asked, "What happened to the woman afterwards?"

After thinking for a moment, Elma said,

"The news reported that the latent resentment of Duo didn’t go after her, but the police arrested her that night."

Qiao Sang thought to herself, it seems the children held the deepest grudge against their own father...

Elma couldn’t help but glance at the injured-looking ghost ring spectre beside her.

Others might not know, but she was aware that this Spectral-type Pet Beast also possessed the Combat Series skill of Tile Splitting.

A Spectral-type Pet Beast with Combat Series skills, and even Psychic Series skills, truly, it’s freakish...

Xiao Xunbao didn’t realize it had already been branded "freakish" in someone’s mind.

It was still reeling from the hit to its self-esteem by the netizen’s comment about its small stature, so much so that it was distracted during the following battle training.

"Steel Guardian."

Gangbao, noticing Xiao Xunbao wasn’t in the right state of mind, called out, signaling a pause.

Qiao Sang also noticed there was an issue.

As she stood unflinchingly like a mountain, taking hits, she asked, "What’s wrong?"

"Xun Xun..."

Xiao Xunbao glanced at Gangbao and heaved a long sigh.

Expressing its frustration that as the number two, it was still not as big as the number four...

Are you just realizing this now? Qiao Sang organized her words and said,

"Once you evolve, your size will increase."

"Xun Xun..."

Xiao Xunbao gave a despondent look towards its Beast Tamer, having seen images of its post-evolution self, which weren’t any larger.

Qiao Sang: "..."

Almost forgot about that detail...

Elma joined the conversation, "What’s wrong with the ghost ring spectre?"

"It’s nothing," Qiao Sang replied. "It just feels it’s too small."

Qiao Sang knew Xiao Xunbao well; it tended to recover quickly from what it considered problems, as it was rather easygoing.

After pondering for a moment, Elma said,

"Spectral-type Pet Beasts have a skill called Shadow Control which can manifest illusions that are ten to even a hundred times larger than themselves. If it feels inadequate about its size, it should practice that."

So this is compensating for size with skills... Qiao Sang smiled, thinking to herself that the illusions created by this skill are fake, only visually intimidating to the opponent, but they do not increase the actual damage sustained.

"Xun Xun!"

She opened her mouth to speak, but before she could articulate a word, Xiao Xunbao beside her was already bright-eyed and excited.

It wanted to learn this skill!

Qiao Sang: "..."

"What you need to focus on now is training Shadow Control to complete your evolution," Qiao Sang said with a helpless expression.

Xiao Xunbao was always coming up with random ideas, and she was genuinely worried it would spend its time practicing Shadow Control instead.

The skill might sound mighty and impressive, but it wasn’t very practical.

Xiao Xunbao’s opponents in battles were always Pet Beasts of the same level, and once it evolved to General-level, its opponents would be General-level as well.

As the majority of General-level Pet Beasts were around six meters in size, even if Xiao Xunbao learned this skill and could project an illusion ten times its size, what use would it be? It would still appear smaller to its opponent.

Unless it mastered the skill to the point where it could project a hundred times larger illusions.

However, as levels go up and opponents’ sizes increase, she genuinely felt this skill wouldn’t be much use in future competitions.

"Xun Xun!"

Xiao Xunbao clenched its paw into a fist and placed it in front of its face, looking determined.

It would finish training as soon as possible, then evolve, and practice this move again later!

Qiao Sang: "..."

As long as you’re happy...

Now that Xiao Xunbao had found some short-term motivation to train, Qiao Sang didn’t have the heart to say that Shadow Control wasn’t really useful. She nodded subtly:

"I have faith in you."

"Xun Xun!"

Hearing the words of its Beast Tamer, Xiao Xunbao grew even more spirited. It gestured seriously to Gangbao with its short toes, signaling to continue training.

"Steel Guardian."

Finally into the groove... Gangbao nodded, almost imperceptibly revealing a pleased expression.

...

The sun dipped below the horizon, and the clouds were tinged with golden hues.

Dragging her tired body, Qiao Sang returned to the villa she was renting.

As soon as she entered the villa and didn’t see black leather shoes at the entrance, she knew the vice-principal hadn’t returned yet.

Qiao Sang drank a bottle of fitness supplement and soaked in a bath laced with a Tenacity Potion.

The soreness quickly disappeared and was replaced by a comfortable feeling akin to soaking in a hot spring, along with a sense of limitless energy within her that was even more exaggerated than being under the effect of Healing Light.

Could it be that the first phase of training was complete... Qiao Sang couldn’t help but wonder.

After soaking for a while longer, she got up, dried off her body, put on her pajamas, and went to her room to pick up her phone. She wanted to ask her coach about the specific feeling after completing the first phase of training.

But just then, she noticed Xiao Xunbao in front of the computer, typing away at something clickety-clackety.

Holy shit! Has it learned to play games now?

Qiao Sang was first stunned, then tiptoed closer to Xiao Xunbao.

She saw Xiao Xunbao replying to a comment using a Three-Dimensional mode of Shadow Control:

[Spectral Series Ghost will grow very big!]

Qiao Sang: "!!!"

"You can type?!" After her shock, Qiao Sang’s eyes lit up with excitement.

"Xun Xun..."

Xiao Xunbao got startled and made a ’just a little bit’ gesture with its paw.

It was a bit panicked inside.

Many people in TV dramas use computers for school. If it could do the same, would they want it to go to school too someday...?

Genius!

That’s pure genius!

Qiao Sang looked at Xiao Xunbao with blazing eyes, about to lavish it with praise.

At that moment, her phone vibrated.

Qiao Sang steadied her excited emotions, picked up the phone, and saw the call was from a Blue Star number. She chose to answer:

"Hello?"

"Hello, I am a teacher from the admissions office of the Imperial Beastmaster Academy. May I speak to Qiao Sang?" a mature female voice came through.

A teacher from the admissions office of the Imperial Beastmaster Academy? Qiao Sang paused for a moment, then quickly replied, "That’s me."

"Are you currently in front of your computer?" the other party inquired.

Qiao Sang glanced at the computer screen and said, "I am right in front of it."

"Good, please do not turn off your computer. The paperwork for your transfer to Yuliandun University is all set. I’m sending it over to you now. You just have to submit the documents to Yuliandun University when you arrive."

As soon as the other party finished speaking, the computer screen went black.

Then concentric ripples appeared in the center of the screen.

A mechanical claw, with a dark iron hue and complex structure, reached out from it, handing over a sealed file.

Having witnessed such a form of teleportation once before, Qiao Sang was much calmer this time. She reached out to take it.

The mechanical claw attempted to retract.

"Xun Xun~"

But as it was halfway back, Xiao Xunbao grabbed the mechanical claw, curiously squeezing it.

The mechanical claw seemed a bit confused and froze in place.

Seeing this, Qiao Sang’s mouth twitched slightly: "Xiao Xunbao, let go quickly..."

"Xun Xun..."

Xiao Xunbao reluctantly released the claw.

The mechanical claw, as if realizing something, quickly retracted, seemingly afraid it might be grabbed again if it was too slow.

After the mechanical claw retracted, the screen quickly returned to normal.

"Did you receive it?" asked the voice from the other end.

"Received," Qiao Sang said, looking at the file in her hand.

"Good, I hope you have a wonderful vacation," the other party said with a laugh and hung up the phone.