The King of Beast Trainers
Chapter 322 - 183 Principal Shi Zhen is Saved_1

Chapter 322: Chapter 183 Principal Shi Zhen is Saved_1

After familiarizing himself with the Dark Crow’s abilities, Lu Ran headed straight to the official shop in Infinite City.

Although almost no World’s Rare resources were sold, resources of rare quality and below were still plentiful in the various Infinite City branches.

Even imported resources from abroad were abundant, and Lu Ran, with a hefty sum of money, was there to spend again.

However, on the way, when Lu Ran saw that the Dark Crow had also made it onto the Divine Pet List and heard someone mention how Pluto was really pitiful, he immediately fell into deep thought.

"I don’t know anything."

With that, he coughed dryly and walked into the shop. First, he targeted the Clear Spirit Fruit, a resource that temporarily increased learning capacity—naturally, the more, the better, another hundred.

Although the more difficult the learning material became, the less effective the fruit was, Lu Ran had grown accustomed to having it.

Besides that.

He also bought 60 Dark Sea Octopus Eyes to supplement the Dark Crow’s diet. Next, its core recipe would be Dark Sea Octopus Eyes combined with Thousand-Year Soul Bone Soup.

And, he wouldn’t need Summer to cook anymore; Lu Ran planned to focus on training its Soul Power, laying the foundation for fusing it with the Undead Avatar attribute and awakening the necro system!

After that, Lu Ran bought 30 each of rare quality Water Energy Crystals, Ice Energy Crystals, and Thunder Energy Crystals as food for the Weather Spirit.

After all this effort, over two million crystal coins went flying out of his pocket, and Lu Ran was back to square one, his crystal coin balance once again below a million.

As for Mr. Husky and King of Sudden Death’s food, since there was still stock in his bag, Lu Ran didn’t make any purchases. Having completed all this, he then exited Infinite City and returned to the Green Sea, switching his phone off do-not-disturb mode.

...

"Manager Ying, where’s Summer?"

After Lu Ran returned home, he saw Manager Ying lying next to the Weather Spirit, resting with her eyes half-closed, and asked.

"She’s left. She asked me to tell you that she has returned to school first, probably to prepare for the challenge in the Legendary Secret Realm."

In the past month, following Lu Ran, the Water Dragon Team — comprised of Youxiong Anlin, Du Yuan, and others — had also successfully cleared the Legendary Secret Realm, and now that Summer had grasped Gun Intent, she certainly didn’t want to fall too far behind the others.

"Oh, right." Lu Ran nodded. To be honest, he had wanted to recruit Summer into the upcoming Water Dragon Team plan.

Gun akin to a dragon!

Although none of her Pet Beasts were close to the Dragon Clan, she could wait for the third one.

Unlike people like Pluto and Dog King, Summer was also a "commoner genius" like Lu Ran, without any significant background faction, simply a master of the gun arts.

"Manager Ying, want some soup?" Lu Ran suddenly asked.

"What soup?" Manager Ying poked her head out.

"Fish soup?"

"Rat soup."

"Scram!"

"Just kidding, it’s Pig Bone Soup, World’s Rare Soul Bone Soup, a resource I obtained in the Secret Realm. I’ll start boiling it soon and share some with you then!"

"That’s not too bad," Manager Ying curled her lips.

When Lu Ran declared action, he was quick to set up the Soul Stone Big Pot in the courtyard and start boiling!

These were all cooking equipment brought from the Secret Realm.

In his half-month cooking experience with the Necro Sect, Lu Ran had already tried boiling many soups with rare quality Soul Bones, so his experience was quite rich now.

Combined with the Soul Cooking Intent transformed from Mind Sword Intent, Lu Ran boldly stirred with his sword. He wasn’t afraid of ruining the good food and took the risk according to his own ideas, conducting small experiments.

Two hours later.

The rich aroma of the Pig Bone Soup penetrated the soul and spread throughout the whole city. Most of the citizens, for some unknown reason, suddenly craved pork, and pork was sold out in all supermarkets and butcheries.

"Finished!" Lu Ran lifted the lid of the pot, and golden light instantly filled the air; he laughed heartily, confirming that the quality of the bone soup was up to par based solely on its color—it was definitely touching the threshold of World’s Rare Cuisine.

At Lu Ran’s call, aside from the Weather Spirit who was still asleep, Manager Ying, Mr. Husky, King of Sudden Death, and the Dark Crow were all eager to taste.

"The King is indeed the King!!!" The Dark Crow saw that Lu Ran had served it the biggest bowl and was immediately overwhelmed with emotion.

Soon, these few individuals, along with Lu Ran himself, began drinking.

"Gurgle, gurgle." As the bone soup went down their throats, everyone instantly felt the delight of ascending to heaven.

At the same time, the bonus from World’s Rare Cuisine was also immediately felt by the several Pet Beasts.

As Manager Ying was much stronger, the improvement was not significant, but Mr. Husky, King of Sudden Death, and Lu Ran had a tangible experience.

This bowl of soup... it could fortify one’s back and knees, augment strength, replenish weakness, and enhance muscles and bones!

In an instant, both Lu Ran and Mr. Husky, along with King of Sudden Death, felt a growth in their muscular and skeletal strength.

Lu Ran looked towards Mr. Husky, who instantly showed a face full of question marks, baring his teeth and warning Lu Ran not to eye his bones.

Of course, apart from these basic effects, the most important was the enhancement of Soul Power!

This was most obviously felt by the Dark Crow, as it had never before encountered Soul Cuisine. Conversely, Lu Ran, Mr. Husky, and King of Sudden Death, having eaten a bunch of high-quality Soul Cuisine in the Necromancy Cult, only saw a modest boost from one bowl of Pig Bone Soup, as their souls had already reached the current level’s limit and it wasn’t easy to achieve a significant improvement.

"Ah~~~" The Dark Crow was tasting something so delicious for the first time, its gaze hazy with pleasure.

It didn’t take long for it to gulp down a large bowl.

And at the same time, it seemed to have an epiphany.

"King, I want more. I feel like I’ve tasted something different."

"Drink up, the rest is all yours," Lu Ran knew that he and Mr. Husky, along with King of Sudden Death, had already been fortified, and their souls had reached the limit for the current level; significant improvement wouldn’t be easy, so the rest of this pot of Pig Bone Soup was best given to the Dark Crow.

This was also the first time the Dark Crow had tasted a dish of World’s Rare caliber, and Lu Ran knew it would definitely be intoxicated.

"Wuu wuu————" The Dark Crow guzzled voraciously.

Meanwhile, it muttered, "It’s so delicious, my king, it’s not that I am greedy, I just really want to make progress."

"Woof!!" Mr. Husky and the King of Sudden Death glared at it, wanting to beat it up.

This crow, always greedy, claimed it wanted to progress. What was it trying to pull?

However.

As several large bowls of Pig Bone Soup were consumed, the Dark Crow’s gaze flashed with a sharp light. It spread its wings and declared, "My king, I’ve had an epiphany."

Lu Ran and Manager Ying, who were sipping the Pig Bone Soup, slowly turned their heads towards the crow.

"Hmm?"

"What did you realize?"

Lu Ran was taken aback, instinctively looking towards the Dark Crow’s Contract Card in his Sea of ​​the Mind.

At the time, the King of Sudden Death and Mr. Husky ate the World’s Rare Dragon Cuisine and gained new abilities. Perhaps it was the same now with the Dark Crow.

Lu Ran couldn’t fathom what epiphanies drinking Pig Bone Soup could bring to the Dark Crow.

Pig-killing Arrow Intent?

"Damn!" But upon a glance, Lu Ran was genuinely shocked to find that it had indeed realized something.

[Skill]: Pig Transformation Curse

[Introduction]: Can curse the enemy’s soul and spirit, shaping them to believe they are a pig and retain a pig’s habits.

Lu Ran: ???

"What has it realized?" Manager Ying asked. She wasn’t surprised that the Dark Crow, being a ’blank slate,’ had gained a lot from its first taste of such advanced resources. After all, the Dark Crow also had no small talent.

"Um..." Lu Ran fell into thought.

"This..." Lu Ran turned his head to face Manager Ying, saying, "It’d probably be more intuitive to find an experimental subject for a demonstration."

"I’d like to see it for myself, too."

"Really, you’re so secretive," Manager Ying said exasperatedly, before turning her gaze towards the King of Sudden Death.

The King of Sudden Death: ???

Lulululu!

The King of Sudden Death frantically shook its head.

"Let’s use that one." In the end, Manager Ying used "Telekinesis + Teleport" to temporarily drag out a criminal monkey from the Green Sea Prison.

"Wuu!! Wuu!!!" The monkey, appearing suddenly, showed extreme aggression. In various cities, there were indeed such extraordinary animals that became highly aggressive after evolution and could not be tamed.

"Yah!!!" This was indeed an oblivious monkey. Its bloodshot eyes instantly locked onto the "weakest" target, Lu Ran, and leaped at him with a scratching attack.

"How dare you!!!" Seeing this, the Dark Crow’s Eye of the Evil God suddenly shrank.

The next moment.

The leaping monkey jerked to a halt in mid-air and then crashed heavily to the ground. It slowly got up, its four limbs on the ground, with a bewildered look on its face.

"Pant, pant." Afterward, the monkey started to root around the ground with its nose like a pig, making unintelligible noises.

"Oink, oink, oink oink oink————"

"Huh?" Seeing this, Manager Ying was startled and turned to the Dark Crow, "An illusion technique?"

Seeing the monkey act like a pig out of the blue, she thought the Dark Crow had cast an illusion on it.

But after careful observation, Manager Ying was taken aback when she realized it didn’t seem to be an illusion.

Trying to dispel an illusion on the monkey, she found that her attempt had failed.

"It’s not an illusion," Lu Ran said, taking out a Soul Suppressing Stone Brick and smashing it towards the monkey. The next moment, a pig-shaped soul covered in monkey fur was knocked out of the body.

"Damn." Seeing this, even Manager Ying couldn’t help but curse while Mr. Husky and the King of Sudden Death also widened their eyes.

A pig-shaped soul inside a monkey’s body???

However, in a matter of seconds, once out of the body, the pig-shaped soul began to twist back into the form of a monkey, trying to dive back in.

"The new ability the Dark Crow has acquired seems to be a fusion of the Power of Curse with a special pig-like Intent, affecting the enemy’s soul and spirit to turn them into a pig!"

"Too bad it can only briefly affect the soul and spirit for now; the effect is a bit weak. If there were a way to turn the enemy’s body into a pig as well, that would be a great insult," Lu Ran cackled mischievously.

"Geez." Manager Ying felt apprehensive, exclaiming, "How can there be such a disgusting skill."

She instantly pictured the image of Lu Ran’s enemies acting like pigs, rooting in the ground with their noses—it was chilling to the bone.

Mr. Husky and the King of Sudden Death nodded furiously, eyeing the Dark Crow with dread, thinking becoming a pig and being humiliated was more terrifying than being gravely wounded in battle.

The Dark Crow: "Ga??"

Lu Ran said, "Manager Ying, don’t you think Principal Shi Zhen can be saved now!!!"

Manager Ying’s lips curved slightly, "Are you suggesting that once you figure out how to turn people into pigs, we could use the Pig Transformation Curse to override the Gender Change Curse???"

Lu Ran’s vision darkened, saying, "How could I use such a method to solve it? What if something goes wrong."

Principal Shi Zhen would rather stay a girl than become a pig. Besides, what if the curse couldn’t be lifted, or worse, merged and intensified? Lu Ran definitely didn’t want to be chased by a battle-type First Generation in the form of a mother pig.