Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle
Chapter 475: Empress! (Please Follow)

Chapter 475: Chapter 475: Empress! (Please Follow)

Xiao Ye reached out and grabbed the chopsticks, trying to pull them out.

But Gu Qingcheng’s foot pressed down hard, and he couldn’t move them at all.

He looked up, just about to speak, when he suddenly felt the sensation of being stepped on.

Glancing down, he was stunned to find that his hand was being stepped on by Gu Qingcheng’s other jade foot in black stockings.

"Sister Qingcheng, could you move your foot a bit?" he said.

Gu Qingcheng acted as if she hadn’t heard him, continuing to step down.

Xiao Ye felt helpless, *Was this Hang City Empress doing it on purpose? But why the hell would she do that, to tease me?*

*Teased by the Hang City Empress?*

"Old Gu, is what I’m doing a bit too much?" Gu Qingcheng asked in her mind.

Her divine soul Gu Qingcheng’s face darkened, "Why are you stepping on his hand?"

"Just step on the chopsticks, let him see what you look like in black stockings."

Gu Qingcheng hesitated, "Do you think he could fall for me?"

Her divine soul Gu Qingcheng was speechless, "Wow, you really dare to dream!"

"Uh."

"I ripped my stockings."

*Is Sister Qingcheng about to beat me up?*

Xiao Ye stood and wiped the chopsticks with a napkin, then picked up a bun conjured by Ziran and began to eat.

It was like nothing had happened just now.

But she could tell, the stocking was ripped.

Looking up, she saw Xiao Ye appearing perfectly collected,

A strange expression flickered across Gu Qingcheng’s pretty face, as she thought to herself,

*Xiao Ye really is a sly old dog.*

Half an hour later, everyone had eaten and drank their fill.

Xiao Ye opened the blue Light Gate in the Bronze Hall, and said, "Sister Ziran, Xiaonannan, come on in, it’s time for you two to level up."

"Uh, Sister Qingcheng, you can come in too."

"But don’t go blabbing about what you see in there, you need to keep it a secret in your heart, okay?"

*He figured that Gu Qingcheng was one of his own now, Ziran’s good friend, and it didn’t really matter if she knew about his ability to upgrade templates.*

So he hadn’t planned to leave her out.

*After all, this template upgrading business was wild as hell, but the Hang City Empress could probably handle it, right?*

Jiang Xue’an giggled and said, "Master, I already told Madam about everything today. She knows that Sister Ziran and I are going to improve our aptitudes and upgrade our templates today."

Xiao Ye froze for a second, then nodded and laughed, "Well, if she already knows, let’s all go together."

"We’re all family, no need to keep secrets between us."

Gu Qingcheng felt a surge of joy, *Just those words alone from Xiao Ye showed that he didn’t have any reservations about her anymore.*

*Everything she’d done these past days had really worked.*

*It honestly made a huge improvement in their relationship.*

Ziran spoke up, "Wait, let me change into a bigger skirt first. This outfit is way too tight and I’m dying."

She bounced upstairs, her chest rippling as she went.

A while later, everyone stepped through the blue Light Gate and entered the tenth floor of the Bronze Hall.

Right beside the altar.

Xiao Ye smiled and said, "Sister Ziran, Xiaonannan, are you ready? I’m about to upgrade your templates."

Both nodded.

Xiao Ye and Ziran summoned their Contractual Power and began to call out their Contracted Beasts.

The Emperor Taotie of the [SSS-level Devour Template].

"Roar—"

The two vanished, as an ancient and primeval beastly roar echoed out.

A Taotie, five thousand meters long and two thousand meters tall, appeared on the open ground.

Its body was covered in pitch-black scales, radiating waves of chilling, bone-penetrating aura.

Those crimson eyes flashed with a suffocatingly intense gaze.

Its blood-red maw opened wide, revealing a full set of razor-sharp fangs in everyone’s sight.

Gu Qingcheng and Jiang Xue’an both flinched, their pupils narrowing.

The Emperor Taotie, ruler among all Taotie.

And Taotie, an ancient Divine Beast, was rumored to have limitless devouring power, getting stronger through eating.

All about that chow!

That monstrous mouth could open a thousand meters wide and high, looking truly terrifying.

Anyone seeing this Summoned Beast could never imagine connecting it with the pure goddess Ziran—the difference was just too huge.

"Master’s beast looks so adorable," Jiang Xue’an said, obviously thrilled.

Adorable?

Gu Qingcheng’s lip twitched, *Apparently Xiaonannan’s starry sky giant beast sense of aesthetics was something else.*

*This Emperor Taotie was such a brutal beast, compared to her Summoned Beast the Qilin, there’s no contest in terms of beauty.*

*Her Qilin looked majestic and elegant, with a noble and powerful form.*

Inside the Emperor Taotie’s mind, Xiao Ye was present as a spiritual consciousness.

He could feel the Emperor Taotie’s overwhelming strength.

*A Saint Realm Emperor Taotie!*

*One careless move and he could destroy everything.*

*Every single gesture had the power to alter the very world.*

Ziran, having seen other Beast Girls upgrade their templates before, immediately pulled out one hundred fifty Rule Fragments and Crystal Cores, letting them float around her.

Xiao Ye controlled the Emperor Taotie to open its blood-red maw and bite into the void.

"Boom!" A massive explosion blasted upward toward the heavens.

The entire space here was torn with void fissures, as if chunks of space had just been gnawed out.

But with its own set of rules, the Bronze Hall mended the torn space within milliseconds, and in an instant everything looked as good as new again.

Gu Qingcheng, for some reason, blushed, *Her mind flashed with an image of Xiao Ye biting her little foot.*

Then she heard a voice coming from the Emperor Taotie.

The Emperor Taotie spoke in human language,

"Xiaonannan, return to your starry sky giant beast form. You can upgrade your aptitude today, but you must provide enough Rule Fragments. After you upgrade, only then will your Quasi-Emperor Realm Perfection state not drop."

Jiang Xue’an reached out and produced a pile of Stellar Core Fragments and Black Hole Core Fragments in front of her.

Then she brought out ten sealed, intact Stellar Cores and ten sealed, intact Black Hole Cores.

Even sealed,

those twenty Celestial Cores instantly created huge visions in the world around them.

The tenth floor of the Bronze Hall was immediately transformed into a furnace with a temperature of over ten thousand degrees.

All the free energy on this floor was swept up by the Black Hole Cores.

Gu Qingcheng sucked in a sharp breath, *How much freaking loot did Xiaonannan pick up back when she followed her future self and Xiao Ye?*

*Even wild treasures like Stellar Cores and Black Hole Cores were piling up like nothing.*

Jiang Xue’an giggled and said,

"Master, I reached Quasi-Emperor Realm Perfection using these resources."

"With these, can I maintain my realm without dropping?"

Xiao Ye opened the Template Adjuster and checked her upgrade stats.

[50 Creation class items, 50 Stellar Core Fragments, 50 Black Hole Core Fragments]

[Resources needed to maintain realm: 200 Venerable Realm Crystal Cores, 200 Stellar Core Fragments, 200 Black Hole Core Fragments]

Xiao Ye considered, *One complete Celestial Core was the same as fifty Core Fragments, so with ten complete cores, Xiaonannan had more than enough for the upgrade.*

"These resources are more than enough!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xue’an shifted forms—it was as if a dream had become real. She went from being a drop-dead gorgeous beauty to a colossal ten-thousand-meter giant beast.

A starlight-class starry sky giant beast!

Even beside the Emperor Taotie, it was twice as big, at least.

Xiao Ye signaled the Template Adjuster.

Upgrade the templates and aptitudes of the Emperor Taotie and the starry sky giant beast!

Boom! Boom!

The Template Adjuster instantly went into action. In a split second, two deep, vast streams of power descended onto the Emperor Taotie and the starry sky giant beast, beginning to enhance their templates and aptitudes.