Divine Beast Creator
Chapter 378: Trip to Paradise_1

Chapter 378: Chapter 378: Trip to Paradise_1

"Huh? Xiao Shuang, is that your relative?"

"Where’s your girlfriend?"

Dodging a girl’s hand reaching to pinch his face, Feng Yuan glanced at Qi Chen and said, Qi Xiaoshuang patted the girl who stretched out her ’devil’s claw’ and said

"Xiao Shi, stop messing around, he’s my brother’s classmate."

The girl referred to as Xiao Shi frowned and looked at Feng Yuan, who was obviously much younger than herself, and said

"Classmate? But I remember your brother is in his senior year, right?"

"Yeah, so what?"

"Although I’ve got nothing against scholars, just taking the college entrance exam like this, he surely can’t get into the Beast Taming Academy, right?"

"Who says that? If the champion of this year’s Maomu Beast Taming Competition can’t enroll, who else could possibly get into the Beast Taming Academy?"

Qi Xiaoshuang said helplessly to Xiao Shi, and upon seeing Feng Yuan’s deliberately silly expression, Xiao Shi stared at Qi Xiaoshuang skeptically and said

"Do you think I didn’t watch the live stream of the Beast Taming Competition? Even though your brother is a member of the champion team, you can’t just make stuff up! Which member of their team has such a young child, and besides, he’s not even old enough to have a spirit beast, right?"

"Cough cough, well, you see, Xiao Ji wouldn’t be happy if you said that."

Giving Xiao Ji a glance as it glared at her, Xiao Shi pursed her lips and said

"You’re really too young to be raising a spirit beast now, Eggshell Chicken, a Native Level spirit beast, will evolve on its own in no more than a year and a half, and within that time, you won’t have the chance to sign a Beast Taming contract."

Xiao Shi said this because based on Feng Yuan’s appearance, he didn’t look older than ten at most, but one had to be at least eighteen to bear the pressure that one’s first Beast Tamer would bring to the soul. Even if the major families had special methods to expedite the process, the limit was seventeen years old, and Feng Yuan seemed far too young.

"Well, actually, Xiao Ji and I have already signed a Beast Taming contract..."

"How is that possible! How can a ten-year-old sign a Beast Taming contract."

"Well... Xiao Shi, he truly is my brother’s classmate, and he hasn’t skipped grades either. According to him, he ended up like this because of some accident. You should remember from the live stream, there was a guy on my brother’s team with an Eggshell Chicken, right? That’s him."

Xiao Shi looked at Feng Yuan suspiciously and then, as if realizing something, took a closer look and said

"It does seem... his face, it really resembles that of the adult."

"Have you run into some trouble? Do you need my help?"

Seeing Xiao Shi looking at him with an admiring expression, Feng Yuan took a few steps back and said

"No need, there’s nothing that requires help..."

"So, are the three of you out here for a family outing?"

"What ’three of a family’! Xiao Shi quit talking nonsense, will you!"

Qi Xiaoshuang exclaimed furiously at Xiao Shi, then swept her eyes over Qi Xiaoshuang and onto Qi Chen, before landing them back on Feng Yuan, Xiao Shi said teasingly

"If it’s not a family outing, then why would you specifically come looking for your brother?"

"Well..."

"Xiao Shuang~ are you guys not on good terms yet?"

"Eh? You are... Uncle?"

Qi Chen looked at the greeting boy with a full head of black lines and said to Qi Xiaoshuang

"Is this your boyfriend?"

"Stop talking nonsense! Zheng Zi’ang, if you keep this up, I won’t talk to you!"

"Don’t! Xiao Shuang, don’t be like that!"

"If you keep talking nonsense, see if I’ll still talk to you!"

"Seems like you’ve got a big problem, I should mention it to mom when I get back."

Upon hearing Qi Chen’s words, Qi Xiaoshuang, no longer caring about anything else, grabbed Qi Chen’s arm and looked pitifully at Qi Chen saying

"Bro~ don’t be like that~"

Qi Chen ignored Qi Xiaoshuang’s pitiful look and said sternly

"I can’t manage your problems; how to handle you is mom and dad’s affair, I’ll just tell them what I’ve seen."

"Actually, I think this issue is not only about Xiao Shuang, but her boyfriend too has problems, maybe Ah Mu should give him a lesson?"

"You!"

Qi Xiaoshuang glared angrily at Feng Yuan, feeling like he had grown a pair of little horns on his head and a tiny devil’s tail that was swishing back and forth. Qi Chen, deep in thought, released Ah Mu, and seeing the more than human-height Ah Mu, Zheng Zi’ang swallowed hard and shrank back a few steps, retreating.

"Bro! What are you doing!"

"Are you really Xiao Shuang’s boyfriend?"

Qi Chen stared at Zheng Zi’ang and said calmly, taking a few more steps back, Zheng Zi’ang weakly said,

"I was just kidding... she’s out of my league..."

As Zheng Zi’ang finished speaking, Qi Chen turned his head towards Qi Xiaoshuang and said,

"Is what he’s saying true?"

"Hmph!"

Qi Xiaoshuang turned her head away, refusing to look at Qi Chen. After a while of commotion, everyone gathered and played together in Meow Meow Paradise. Whenever there were disagreements, the group would split into several smaller teams to do their own things, yet they would regroup at the performance area after a short while.

At noon, in the Meow Restaurant within the paradise, Feng Yuan curiously watched the various cat-type spirit beasts serving meals. When he saw a white Traveler’s Owl carefully carrying a tray on its head, Feng Yuan said speechlessly,

"What’s the situation here? Are they using anything with ’meow’ in it?"

"What do you mean, anything with ’meow’ in it?"

"Like that, over there."

Following the direction of Feng Yuan’s finger, the group also saw the Traveler’s Owl that was serving meals. Qi Xiaoshuang said, exasperated,

"What on earth is going on? The Traveler’s Owl is clearly not a cat-type spirit beast... It’s fine to mix in the Blazing Tiger; after all, it can still be considered a feline spirit beast, and the owl can get by with a ’meow’ in its name, but what in the world is a Flame Lion..."

"No idea, but it can’t be that bad, can it... Has something unexpected happened?"

Feng Yuan glanced at Qi Chen and thought for a moment before saying,

"Staff shortage?"

"The park doesn’t seem that crowded, could something unexpected have happened?"

Hearing the somewhat concerned words of Yang Hongzhi, Feng Yuan thought for a moment, took out the Dark Ancient Book, placed it on the table, pressed one hand on it, closed his eyes to carefully sense his surroundings, and then said,

"There’s nothing dangerous nearby; it’s probably just a staffing issue."

As he spoke, Feng Yuan waved at a passing server with a cute smile and said,

"Hello~ Isn’t this a cat-themed restaurant? Are those also ’meow’ creatures~"

Qi Xiaoshuang glanced at Feng Yuan and murmured,

"He’s quite adept at acting cute..."

"After all, his appearance really fits for doing just that..."

Upon hearing Feng Yuan’s question, the server paused, faced with Feng Yuan’s ’innocent and curious’ gaze, hesitated, and then said,

"Actually, it’s because a lot of staff suddenly resigned. Most of the cat-type spirit beasts in the whole park belonged to them, so we promptly became short-handed. The park owner had no choice but to borrow some spirit beasts from elsewhere to fill in temporarily."

"Couldn’t they borrow cat-type spirit beasts?"

"That... I’m not very clear on that. It’s said that the park owner is still keeping the positions open, waiting for those bastards to come back."

Feng Yuan regarded the busy cat-type spirit beasts thoughtfully, noticing that they seemed to vanish whenever they felt tired, which was an important reason for the staffing shortage at Meow Restaurant.

After chatting with the server for a while, who then hurried off to attend to other customers, Feng Yuan and company continued to enjoy themselves at Meow Meow Paradise after a pleasant lunch.

As the sun set and everyone was preparing to leave the joyful Meow Meow Paradise, darkness rapidly enveloped the land. Qi Xiaoshuang, somewhat puzzled, said,

"Why has it gotten dark so quickly?"

"It’s not getting dark! Don’t stray too far from me!"

Feng Yuan, looking rather uneasy, took out the Dark Ancient Book. In the darkness, the simplistic patterns on the Dark Ancient Book glowed with a noble golden light, and a hemispherical barrier with edges cloaked in black mist enveloped Feng Yuan and wrapped around the others nearby. Inside the barrier, ghastly blue flames floated, casting a sinister and terrifying light on everyone’s faces.

From a distance, growling noises began to approach, as if some slumbering monster had been awakened.

"Agunas, are you in combat over there?"

The phantom of Agunas replied swiftly,

"We’re under attack here and can’t come to your aid at the moment!"

"Annoying rats!"

Feng Yuan took out an old Lantern and shook it in his hand.