Beast Taming: Starting From Zero

Chapter 645: Shaping Fruit

After five minutes of browsing online shopping platforms, Qiao Sang decisively gave up on the idea of buying yin chao beads online.

The price was 9.9, not to mention free shipping, which was truly alarming.

Although some well-known item flagship stores had yin chao beads with appraisal certificates attached, the highest level only went up to A-grade.

For Qiao Sang, who still held an unlimited card, this was a bit too low-grade.

After all, evolution was a big deal; if she had the ability to get better ones, she naturally wanted to use the best.

Qiao Sang looked up well-known brand item stores in the 19th District, preparing to pay them a visit.

Truly good items were hard to find online; she thought that if they weren’t online, there would always be some in physical stores, just like when she bought those S-grade potions.

After jotting down the addresses of several well-known item stores, Qiao Sang logged onto Sainan High School’s official website and began looking at the points exchange section.

Almost all the exchangeable items had been refreshed.

It seemed that Sainan High School’s third-year students were all using points now… Qiao Sang scrolled her finger across the screen, starting to check out items that hadn’t appeared yesterday.

Her unlimited card hadn’t expired yet, so it was pointless to use points to exchange for things that could be bought with money on the market.

Qiao Sang went through them one by one, based on the standard of being hard to buy on the market.

Initially, her total accumulated points were 1121. She used 60 points for a focusing monocle, 100 points for Pure Glycine, 300 points for Sacred Essence Water, 5 points for a Pet Miniature Shrinking Bracelet, and 100 points for a Full Appraisal Star Appraisal Series Limited Edition Pet Identifier. She now had 556 points remaining.

Later, although she had taken a fancy to the Magical Hood, which required 50 points to exchange, Steel Treasure didn’t like it, so she didn’t exchange it, which meant the points had remained unused.

556 points were already enough to exchange for high-grade items. Qiao Sang directly clicked on the leftmost “Sort by Points: High to Low.”

[Name: potential card]

[Function: Dropping the Pet’s blood onto the card will show what level of Pet its evolution limit is.]

[Note 1: This item is a one-time product and can only be used once.]

[Note 2: Before use, the Pet must be on an empty stomach and cannot drink water or eat any food.]

[Note 3: Do not let the potential card get wet, otherwise it will affect the final test results.]

[Points: 666]

A potential card, this thing should only be suitable for Pets you want to contract but haven’t yet… The item ranked first in points only costs 666, it seems Sainan High School’s good items have mostly been exchanged… Qiao Sang glanced at the final points, mentally complained, and continued to scroll down.

[Name: shaping fruit]

[Function: According to the Pet’s inner thoughts, you can choose to make its size larger or smaller.]

[Note 1: A Pet can only use a shaping fruit once in its lifetime; a second use is ineffective.]

[Note 2: Once changed, it cannot be reverted.]

[Note 3: The changed size will either be half the original size or double the original size.]

[Note 4: After the Pet’s size changes, the required food will also decrease or increase accordingly, please prepare in advance.]

[Points: 555]

Can change the size of a Pet? Qiao Sang’s eyes lit up.

This thing is good!

Although the saying “the bigger the Pet, the stronger it is” isn’t absolute, it certainly conforms to the reality of ninety percent of the Pet world.

Qiao Sang immediately thought of Steel Treasure.

This thing is simply too suitable for Steel Treasure, you know that Steel Treasure’s Air Absorption skill works better the larger its size!

Moreover, as a Flying-type Pet, the power of many of Steel Treasure’s skills is tied to its size, such as common Flying-type skills like Air Blade and Brave Bird Attack.

Most importantly, the shaping fruit requires 555 points, and she just happened to be able to exchange for it!

Thinking of this, Qiao Sang immediately clicked to confirm the exchange, afraid that if she was slow, someone else would snatch it.

After filling in her address, Qiao Sang contentedly put down her phone.

However, she immediately thought of something, picked up her phone again, looked at the still-open points exchange page, and clicked on “Sort by Points: Low to High” on the left.

There was still 1 point, couldn’t waste it…

[Name: 126th Pet Arena Championship Semifinals VIP Invitation]

[Function: Allows viewing the semifinals of the 126th Pet Arena Championship from the VIP seats.]

[Note 1: It’s the semifinals, not the finals.]

[Note 2: Can be transferred.]

[Points: 1]

Qiao Sang didn’t even think about it and directly clicked exchange.

There was no other way; this was the only thing that could be exchanged for 1 point.

8:23 PM.

A certain chain brand Pet item store.

The Staff apologized and said:

“I’m sorry, we don’t have S-grade yin chao beads here. Perhaps you’d like to look at other items.”

This was already the sixth one… Qiao Sang said calmly:

“I can wait. Can you transfer one from somewhere else?”

“I’m sorry.” The Staff still maintained an apologetic expression: “We genuinely don’t have S-grade yin chao beads. Perhaps you could look at other items; we have many other items suitable for Ghost-type Pets here…”

Qiao Sang silently sighed in her heart, ignored the Staff’s enthusiastic sales pitch, and walked away.

S-grade yin chao beads seemed much rarer than she had thought. She had visited almost all the somewhat famous item stores, but none of them had it… Qiao Sang felt heavy-hearted, then thought of something, pulled out her phone, logged onto the Yu Beast Center’s official website, clicked on the task release section, and posted a message seeking S-grade yin chao beads.

Since she couldn’t find it herself, she could only ask others for help…

She closed her phone screen, but in the next second, the phone vibrated.

Qiao Sang picked it up and saw it was from the Yu Beast Center’s official website backend:

[Someone has accepted your task.]

Qiao Sang: “!!!”

That fast!

Qiao Sang was shocked. She immediately checked and, based on the information of the recipient, dialed their number.

“Beep beep ~”

The call connected, and a pleasant female voice came from the speaker:

“Hello?”

“I am Genius You You You Mu, are you Love Me In Vain?” Qiao Sang asked.

To ensure personal privacy, many people use their ID names when posting or accepting tasks online.

“It’s me.” Love Me In Vain said: “But I don’t have any S-grade yin chao beads on hand. I just know a place that might have information about this level of yin chao beads. Do you want it?”

“Yes.” Qiao Sang said decisively.

“Then the Yu Beast Professional League International Team Tour VIP ticket in your task reward…”

“If the information you provide is correct, I will mail the ticket to you.”

“Okay.” Love Me In Vain’s voice carried a smile:

“I see your task was posted in the 19th District. There’s an underground trading market there, right below the Ghost Nest Bar. As long as you show the people inside your identity as a Yu Beast Master and say you want to trade, someone will naturally take you there.”

After speaking, she paused and added:

“There are quite a few good items related to Ghost-type Pets there.”