“It hatched! It hatched!”
“It’s coming!”
“Take it easy, Lao Zhou. A volcano Pal egg won’t… hey, why are you covering my mouth!?”
Zhou Yue was the most anxious of the three, having placed his Pal egg in the incubator the earliest.
Now that cracks appeared on the Pal egg, the ambient temperature rose a few notches, and all three stared at the incubator with great anticipation.
Zhou Yue had long since left a slot open in his party, just so this new Pal could join directly, his heart in his throat.
With a “pop” sound.
The shell fully shattered, and with a flash of red light, a wild bull covered in roaring flames with a fierce expression appeared before the three.
“A Blazing Bull!?”
“Whoa, looks so ferocious—this is what big bro managed to hatch???”
“Told you, how bad could a volcano Pal really be?”
“Pfft, it’s obviously just my luck turning around!”
Looking at this majestic and powerful Blazing Bull, Zhou Yue moved in with immense excitement and hugged the bull’s neck tightly.
A tamed Pal won’t harm its master.
Even though Zhou Yue was embracing fire, he only felt a little warm.
“Good boy, old bull. From now on, you’re my top fighter!”
Zhou Yue said as he stroked the Blazing Bull’s mane.
“Mine’s hatching too!!”
Zhong Yi suddenly shouted in excitement.
Cracks also appeared on his Pal egg. At that moment, Zhong Yi didn’t bother asking about the Blazing Bull’s abilities, his eyes locked onto his own incubator.
The next moment, a majestic, awe-inspiring Fire Qilin wrapped in flames appeared before Zhong Yi.
“No way! A Fire Qilin!! So cool!!!”
Zhong Yi was overjoyed.
Although the Fire Qilin wasn’t as bulky as the Blazing Bull, its slender build and sharp gaze radiated the aura of a powerful being.
And besides, a qilin naturally seemed a cut above a bull.
When the Blazing Bull looked at the Fire Qilin, the flame aura on its body dimmed somewhat.
“It’s fine, it’s fine. So what if it’s a qilin? We’re bigger than it!”
Zhou Yue quickly stroked the Blazing Bull’s head to comfort it.
“Ah! Mine’s about to hatch too!!!”
From Zhou Qiaoling’s side came a shriek.
Cracks appeared on the shell of her Pal egg as well.
Unlike Zhou Yue and Zhong Yi’s eggs, the flames seeping through the cracks weren’t red—they were blue-purple!
Zhong Yi and Zhou Yue’s gazes were both drawn over at once. Clearly, whatever was inside this Pal egg was something rare.
The next moment, a qilin wreathed in blue-purple flames appeared in the center of the group.
“Wow, is this one called… a Dark Qilin?”
Zhou Qiaoling excitedly walked up and affectionately squeezed the Dark Qilin’s neck.
“This is a subspecies of the Fire Qilin—a rare find… as expected of Junior Sister Qiaoling!”
Zhong Yi let out a series of exclamations.
Many things they’d never seen before were actually mentioned in the survival guide that came with their starter items.
Some Pals mutate into subspecies with different attributes.
These subspecies usually have slightly stronger stats than the originals.
The Dark Qilin, on top of the Fire Qilin’s abilities, gained a dark-attribute skill, while also having a higher level in logging work.
Zhou Yue opened his mouth.
A qilin was obviously stronger than a bull.
A Dark Qilin was obviously stronger than a Fire Qilin.
In other words, his magnificent Blazing Bull was, in fact, the weakest of the three.
“Moo…”
The Blazing Bull seemed to sense the slightly awkward atmosphere, its cry growing weaker.
“It’s okay, it’s okay.”
Zhou Yue quickly stroked it soothingly.
Compared to the adorable little creatures in his current party, the Blazing Bull had already satisfied his expectations for a strong Pal.
“You’re bigger and burlier than any of them! Have some confidence!”
“Exactly, exactly! Besides, it’s a volcano-exclusive Pal either way—it can’t be weak!”
Zhong Yi, worried that Zhou Yue might feel down, quickly added.
Just then.
With a flash of light, a figure appeared beside the Pal terminal.
It was Mu Yawen, returning from the field.
“Senior Brother, Junior Sister, I’m back~~ Hahaha, look what I caught!”
Mu Yawen’s laugh was hearty and simple.
The three turned around and saw a Blazing Bull the size of a small mountain standing docilely behind Mu Yawen.
Zhou Yue’s breath stopped for a second.
He looked at his own Blazing Bull, then at Mu Yawen’s.
It was like a son meeting his father.
“Where… did you catch it?”
“Not far, just in the valley to the west. Walk over and you’ll see it… This one’s got a lot of strength, I had a real tough fight on my hands! Hey? Senior Brother Zhou, where are you going? Senior Brother Zhou???”
……
……
Mu Yawen’s large fire-type Pal egg hatched an Inferno Ram.
Mu Yawen figured his big Blazing Bull was already enough and decided to give the Inferno Ram to a thoroughly disheartened Zhou Yue.
After all, his Blazing Bull lost the bigger-and-burlier contest, and wasn’t even a volcano-exclusive Pal to boot.
As for Zhou Yue’s Blazing Bull, it stayed at home to handle fire-starting and wood-cutting.
It came at just the right time, since they were in dire need of a fire-type Pal to smelt metal ingots.
With level 3 kindling and level 2 lumbering, it was already pretty strong among the rookie Pals that mostly sat at level 1 or 2.
After assigning the Pals, the four finally got back on track with the main quest—
attacking the tower.
“The poacher gang? Those guys in the camp outposts that keep Pals locked up?”
Zhong Yi had some vague memory of that name.
The poacher gang was everywhere. Their whole deal was capturing Pals, driven purely by profit.
They were hostile to the players and were usually treated as free exp packs whenever encountered.
“Hehe, gotta thank those folks~ They’ve given me quite a few cute Pals!”
Zhou Qiaoling said with a giggle.
Every small poacher camp outpost held one wild Pal captive.
So in reality, these outposts were basically freebies for the players.
Not only did they get bullets and Pal spheres from the gang members, they could also get the captured Pals for free—and sometimes even receive little gifts from the Pals themselves.
“Speaking of which, Senior Brother Zhou once mentioned that the tower master is a woman?”
Mu Yawen frowned slightly.
“Yeah, she’s the poacher boss’s daughter. I heard she has a bit of a temper.”
Zhou Yue nodded.
“Tch, fighting a woman is the most boring thing. Not one solid-looking one yet…”
Mu Yawen clicked his tongue.
While chatting, the four had already reached the base of the tower.
It wasn’t actually that far, considering it was right at the doorstep of their new base.
“Let’s wrap this up quickly!”
After feeding the Inferno Ram skill books and leveling it straight to 15, Zhou Yue was brimming with confidence, itching to find a worthy opponent for a real fight.
As the teleport array lit up under their feet, all four were warped into the poacher gang’s tower.
“So… you’re this round’s challengers?”
A proud, slender female voice came from the darkness.
“Clomp, clomp…”
Heavy footsteps accompanied a trembling of the ground.
A massive yellow-furred bear-type Pal stepped out from the shadows.
Perched atop its head sat a girl with her legs crossed, wearing some bizarre outfit, staring at the group with a look of utter disdain.
“Hmph, what ragged clothes you’re all wearing!”
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
