Yuntian Pet Beast Battle Resort.
One had to admit that compared to his own land, this neighbor's place was truly well-decorated.
There were even specially constructed roads, with shuttle buses running back and forth to handle transportation.
The service was impeccable.
No wonder they had always wanted to buy this land outright.
The construction costs alone must have been enormous.
However, it was obvious that Su Ping had no mood to appreciate the scenery outside the window right now.
He yawned.
Manager Guan, sitting across the tea table, smiled as he took a look at him.
"Xiao Ping, didn't sleep well last night?"
That question hardly needed asking—Su Ping's faintly darkened eye circles already answered it.
It was not because of Li Shu and his classmates coming over.
Rather, after truly completing a cultivation project for the first time and earning such a large sum of money, combined with the thought of not wasting the effects of the Spirit-Nurturing Ancient Tea, he had meditated for half the night.
After that, he had spent even more time selecting poison-element resources for Xiao Qing and purchasing materials for Heart of Wood potions, busy until the sky began to brighten.
The final result was that his realm had risen slightly without breaking through again, while the more than four million he had earned had been spent down to just a few tens of thousands.
Still, thinking about the resources that were about to come knocking on his door, Su Ping felt his spirits lift.
Aside from the twenty full sets of Heart of Wood potion materials,
He had also purchased four poison-element resources:
Heart-Slaying Fruit, Wolfbane Aconite, Red-Robed Oleander, and Devil Willow Leaves.
All four were herb-based poison resources, and Devil Willow Leaves were even an elite-grade poison resource.
Xiao Qing's Poison Wood Heart had already been confirmed to grow through consuming poison-element resources.
Naturally, Su Ping was not about to be stingy with his soul-bound pet beast.
Manager Guan could also see that Su Ping was not in the best condition, so he stopped with the small talk and took out the contract, handing it over.
"Xiao Ping, take a look. We at Yuntian are truly sincere. For your Forest Wolves, as long as they're ordinary-grade, it's a guaranteed five hundred per day per wolf—same price per battle. Elite-grade ones are twelve hundred, also per battle.
"We also provide professional recovery and medical facilities free of charge, plus full accident insurance. Everything's included. You can rest easy."
Su Ping nodded and carefully read through everything from start to finish before nodding again.
"No problem. But Uncle Guan, I only have one condition—that I can terminate the rental at any time. Sometimes I get busy…"
"No problem at all!"
Manager Guan waved his hand cheerfully. Pet beast rental was merely a pretext anyway. The real purpose was to get Su Ping to come around Yuntian more often and strengthen their relationship.
He cleared his throat and continued.
"Xiao Ping, you can tell Uncle Guan is sincere. I also know a bit about your current Heart of Wood situation.
"Forest Wolves are a basic pet beast in Linzhou. There are plenty of cultivation bases. Your father never cared much about this side of things, but I know how the Heart of Wood business is going now.
"As the young boss of such a large cultivation base, life probably isn't that easy, right? This piece of land—Yuntian is truly sincere. What do you think of this price?"
Before Su Ping could speak, Manager Guan handed over a slip of paper.
It was covered in zeros.
To be honest, the offer was indeed extremely sincere.
But Su Ping could only smile helplessly.
"Uncle Guan, this land was left behind by my grandfather. You also know my dad—he may be unreliable in many ways, but he takes this kind of thing very seriously. If I dared do something like this behind his back, he'd break my legs. And honestly, I'm really not short on money right now."
"Don't worry. When your dad comes back, I'll talk to him myself. That works, right?"
"Uncle Guan, please don't make things difficult for me…"
Su Ping hurriedly stood up, cutting him off.
"How about this—let me show you my Forest Wolves. I'll rent out sixteen of them: ten ordinary-grade and six elite-grade…"
Without waiting further, he led Manager Guan out the door.
They arrived at the open space in front of the courtyard.
There stood a figure with a darkened expression, gripping a rope tightly, while a full seventeen Forest Wolves surrounded her in a tight circle.
Seeing Su Ping finally arrive, Qin Xiaoxue let out a sigh of relief.
From childhood to adulthood, who had ever made her do something like this?
Only this brat dared treat her, Young Miss Qin, like a maid.
Especially with so many people casting astonished looks in her direction.
It was unbearably embarrassing.
Yet strangely enough, despite being surrounded by wolves and ogled by passersby, Qin Xiaoxue was completely convinced.
The reason was simple.
Among these seventeen Forest Wolves—aside from the sixteen Su Ping planned to rent out—one of them was her own Mutou.
And in just a single night, although Mutou's Self-Healing level had not increased, the feedback through the soul connection clearly told her that Mutou had made huge progress.
This brat really did have some serious skills!
However, Qin Xiaoxue's gaze shifted slightly as she looked at Su Ping.
She might be hot-tempered and straightforward, but she was not stupid.
If the power behind Yuntian Resort was truly the Tianyun Group, that would be terrifying.
With Tianyun Group backing them—and even the chairman personally showing up—was all this really just for renting a dozen Forest Wolves?
Don't be ridiculous.
That was obviously impossible.
Thinking back to their previous conversation, Qin Xiaoxue felt that she really needed to remind Su Ping later—not to get sold off and still help count the money.
Sure enough, what happened next proved her suspicion right.
Manager Guan only gave the wolves a casual glance before nodding and speaking briskly.
"Take these little guys to the training arena first and wait to see if any Beast Tamers pick them. I'll personally transfer the money to you tonight.
"But about that matter—give it some serious thought. Even if it's not for anything else, think about your own future."
With that, Manager Guan turned and left.
Su Ping waved his hand and led the dark-faced Qin Xiaoxue, along with the seventeen Forest Wolves—including Mutou—toward the training arena at the rear.
Seeing that Su Ping showed no intention of helping at all, Qin Xiaoxue grew even more annoyed.
Was this brat really treating her like a maid?
Before she could speak, a voice suddenly came from not far away.
"Isn't this Su Ping? I was just thinking of going to see Young Master Su later. Didn't expect to run into you directly—what a coincidence?"
Su Ping frowned.
A group of people approached quickly from a nearby shuttle bus.
The speaker was none other than the former Class Monitor of Class Two at No. 6 High School—Zhou Shuchen—whom he had not seen in over a month.
This guy had never left a good impression on him before, but he had never been this irritating either.
Su Ping did not bother responding. His gaze quickly found Li Shu in the crowd, waving enthusiastically.
He had heard yesterday that Li Shu would be coming today—he just had not expected him to arrive so early.
But at that moment, Zhou Shuchen's next sentence made Su Ping's movement freeze.
"I heard everything just now. Young Master Su, when did you become so down-and-out? You actually need to make this petty money by renting out trash Forest Wolves?"
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