Rags to Riches: The Rise of a Dual-Talent Prodigy-Chapter 478 - 470: These students are so damn brutal!

Chapter 478: Chapter 470: These students are so damn brutal!

"Xiaoqi junior, you gathered so many Black Iron Splitting Sheep, are you planning to have the students contract them?" Unlike other "reserved" commanders, Xi Ye came over brazenly and asked curiously.

Although these Black Iron Little Sheep have decent strength, they can’t compare to the B-level Combat System’s Flame Dog. Letting students contract a weaker beast than the last, somehow Xi Ye felt this wasn’t something Qian Qi would do.

Qian Qi shook her head, "Of course not..."

Just as Xi Ye was about to nod in agreement, he saw Qian Qi seriously fiddling with her fingers and calculating, "...not just because of that, the Black Iron Splitting Sheep breed extremely fast, and they’re not picky eaters. They can absorb a lot of energy just from eating greens. When we bring them back to the school, the Magic Plant Academy can recycle the damaged Magic Plant leaves smashed by Skill Department students and sell them to the Beast Taming students. This not only reduces the waste of Magic Plants but also promotes further economic development of the Magic Plant Academy."

"And the horns of the Black Iron Splitting Rams are key materials for the Flame Dog to evolve into an A-level Magical Beast. There are so many Flame Dogs on the market; for every two Flame Dogs that evolve, one Black Iron Splitting Ram loses its horns. However, with the fast breeding rate of Black Iron Splitting Sheep, it can fully supply the evolution needs of Flame Dogs. Though these dehorned Black Iron Rams might lose significant advantage in courtship..."

"But it’s not a big issue since Black Iron Splitting Sheep meat is delicious and highly nutritious, making it a gourmet feast for many high-level beasts. These rams, which have lost their courtship advantage and can no longer produce offspring, can be sold to Beast Masters for a second profit. There’s no need to worry about Black Iron Splitting Sheep overbreeding and becoming a plague since their greatest enemy will eventually be humans..."

"In fact, if every Beast Master contracted one male and one female, they could produce and sell a flock of Black Iron Little Sheep to feed their contracted beasts, achieving self-sufficiency with a small-scale farming economy... And feeding Black Iron Little Sheep will obviously require a large amount of Magic Plants. At that time, our Magic Plant Department College can receive a large amount of orders, achieving a true economic leap forward!" Qian Qi’s eyes were bright and her voice powerful!

Xi Ye: ...

No? Even capitalists aren’t as good at squeezing value out of Black Iron Splitting Sheep as you are?!

You’ve even thought about producing and selling them yourself?!

The Black Iron Splitting Sheep in your hands would cry their hearts out!

"Also, the group skill of Black Iron Splitting Sheep—the Black Iron Split Shield—is incredibly sturdy and comes with an attack skill, making it perfect for use on the battlefield as a vanguard to block the advance of numerous low-level beasts, buying time for those behind. They can also be deployed on the training ground to train the battle capabilities of contracted beasts, and once a victory is achieved, they can be used immediately to replenish strength..."

Qian Qi continued fiddling with her fingers, not fully satisfied, "Calculating like this, they really have many uses. It was truly virtuous to bring them back; I should ask Principal Zheng and Yan Wuji for more money when I get back."

Xi Ye: ...

So, the uses for these Black Iron Sheep, were they just thought of on the spot by you?

You’re even planning to take this opportunity to "extort" Principal Zheng and President Yan Wuji?

Xi Ye couldn’t help but sympathetically glance at Su Ang.

If a mere weak Black Iron Meat Sheep is treated this way, who knows to what extent a Double S-level, stunning yet wealthy Brother Su will be exploited in the future...

Just as he was thinking about this, he suddenly felt his hair being tugged by something and, as he looked down, he saw Qian Qi had finished her calculations sometime earlier and was now brightly sparkling as she tugged at several strands of his crystal blue short hair, her voice lowered and filled with a negotiating tone, "Senior Xi Ye, have you thought about what I mentioned last time about growing your hair out? I can trade you a B-level Contracted Beast!"

She has visited so many instances and never found a magical beast with such beautiful fur as Xi Ye Officer has!

Xi Ye: ...

He thinks that rather than worrying about Su Ang, he should be more concerned about whether he’ll be plucked bald!

...

These days, have been a lifetime shadow for the Black Iron Little Sheep.

Once, they ate grass until they were sick, and only about once a month would their parents fight desperately to get a small high-level beast to supplement their diet.

But with so many brothers and sisters, each sheep could only get a few bites.

At that time, they all dreamed and fantasized about being able to eat high-level beasts until they were full.

Now, their dream has come true.

And they’ll eat until they’re sick.

It turns out, being forced by a "dog (in every sense)" to constantly eat a feast is more terrifying than being hungry...

"Urgh—" one Black Iron Little Sheep finally couldn’t resist and vomited.

And the owner of that Black Iron Little Sheep calmly picked up the vomit and stuffed it back into Little Sheep’s mouth.

Now, all the Black Iron Little Sheep vomited.

The Family Army members also vomited.

Too cruel!

This group of students is so damn brutal!

Meanwhile, the corpses of advanced magical beasts also attracted many greedy beasts, but as soon as they entered the scene, they were quickly cleared out by the patrolling Family Army guards.

These large solitary magical beasts were manageable, but the magic ants and spirit locusts drawn by the scent of blood were troublesome.

The wings of spirit locusts are essential materials for White Wolf Xiaoqi to evolve into the Flying Divine Wing Wolf. Fortunately, spirit locusts aren’t as fast-breeding as the demon locust tides. They merely look like locusts, hence the name. After collecting some spirit locust wings, the Flame Dog’s fire drove them away.

As for the Fire Cloud Demon Ants, being burrowing beasts themselves, the White Extreme Rats engaged in an underground struggle with them, reaching a fever pitch until the leader Bai Ji Ce turned the enemy ant queen. That’s when the group battle concluded.

As for how Bai Ji flipped the ant queen...

The conversation went as follows:

Bai Ji: Dear ant queen, why hang around here? What’s the point? Don’t you find eating Demon Beast Meat every day monotonous?

Fire Cloud Ant Queen: ? How could it not be monotonous?

Bai Ji: Come and see the world outside with me! There are lollipops, jelly, cream, and chocolate...

Fire Cloud Ant Queen: ? What are those?

Bai Ji: Sweet treats! Even sweeter and tastier than Magic Honey! Constantly bearing children is exhausting, so of course, you need sweet treats for comfort, sister!

Bai Ji: Demon Beast Meat is everywhere! But cream candies are only in the outside world! If you join me at the Awakener University as a part-time cultivator, you can have as much cream and chocolate as you want!

Now that the White Extreme Rats’ intelligence has started to develop, doing rough work like loosening the soil in the back hills is no longer suitable for the White Extreme Clan. Hence, Bai Ji had to find new soil-loosening slaves to help Qian Qi manage the hillside so that he could confidently take the White Extreme Clan to open new paths.

And such a coincidence it was that during Bai Ji’s training in the Secret Realm instance of the Beast Taming Space, he discovered that the simulated magical beasts could speak. During training, he frantically crammed various magical beast languages, and it just so happened that the Fire Cloud Demon Ant Clan’s language was among them.

Thus, understanding Bai Ji’s words, the Fire Cloud Ant Queen was tempted by sweets and decided to see the new world.

Time flew by, and soon more than half a month of instance time passed, and those A-level Black Iron Little Sheep, forced to keep eating advanced magical beast corpses for half a month, reached almost a half A-level standard.

Owing to that time of forced close contact from humans, the Black Iron Splitting Sheep no longer held much guard against humans. After all, these humans bathe them, groom them, wipe their butts, and even brush their teeth. Of course, the most important factor was the suppression from the genetic bloodline—a majestic Flame Dog stared at them intently, and they finally, albeit reluctantly, concluded contracts with the students.

As for those few Quasi-A-level Black Iron Sheep, they were divided by Uncle Li, Uncle Sun, and Dean Xi Mingde.

Qian Qi attempted to exchange an A-level Black Iron Sheep for Xi Ye’s blue hair, but was strongly rejected because "I prefer a contracted beast of a domineering, cool type."

"You really pretend a lot," Qian Qi retorted defensively.

"Indeed, a curse would be faster," Moyu once again chimed in with a bad idea.

"Forcibly twisted hair isn’t sweet," Qian Qi held back the eager Moyu.

Checking the time, Qian Qi felt it was about right and began gathering Beast Taming Department students to head for the final destination.

A-level Cold Moon Ginseng is the main material for the Moon Silver Demon Wolf to evolve into the A-level Moon-devouring Sky-roaring Wolf and is the ultimate aim of this training. Though Cold Moon Ginseng is small, its cold-imbued Moon Blade attacks are not to be underestimated. A large plot of A-level Cold Moon Ginseng’s growth area simultaneously releases Cold Moon Blade Rain, an almost omnidirectional attack with immense destructive power.

If it was just Qian Qi alone, even in S-class Defense Armor, he’d still get battered and spend a good ten days to harvest it all.

But, the combination skill of the Black Iron Splitting Sheep—the Black Iron Splitting Shield—can just resist these dense cold moon blades and deflect them.

Hundreds of half A-level Black Iron Splitting Sheep form two horizontal rows, the smaller ones crouching low, while the larger ones hold their heads high and cross among them, merging into a long, wide, and high Black Iron Splitting Shield. Their sharp horns emit a Splitting Blade, enough to cut off the Cold Moon Ginseng’s stems and leaves, and its broad shield surface can withstand the continuous cold blade attacks, harvesting the Cold Moon Ginseng below completely.

A full-fledged large-scale mobile harvesting machine.

In this way, Qian Qi can not only obtain sufficient evolution materials but also train these Beast Taming Department students’ cooperation skills, becoming the first users of contracted beasts employing combined skills, even A-level combined skills.

By then, with a bit of promotion, would there still be concerns about selling the Black Iron Splitting Sheep?

Qian Qi grinned widely while holding the Light Brain, capturing the entire scene on camera.