Astral Pet Store (WN)

Chapter 239 Astonishment!

Venerable the Blade stood in disbelief at the sight of Su Ping in all seriousness. He wasn’t joking. Not only had Su Ping asked a titled battle pet warrior to teach a pet, but the pet was also of such a low rank. This would make people laugh their teeth off.

“Sir?”

Su Ping was curious why Venerable the Blade had not said a thing.

Venerable the Blade came back to his senses. He forced a smile and asked, “Brother Su, you must be a person that would always keep old friendships in mind. Is this skeleton your first pet?”

Su Ping nodded. In a sense, the Little Skeleton was indeed his first pet.

Venerable the Blade thought he had “understood the reason,” so he said nothing more.

He was a man that had gone through it all. He understood that, more often than not, the more sentimental people would find it hard to cut ties with their first pets. Even when those pets were too weak to match their abilities, those people would keep their first pets and even the contracts, even though those first pets would occupy a spot in their spirit for nothing

“I have been practicing saber play for my entire life and my skills can be a lot to take in. I’m afraid the skeleton won’t learn my skills so soon. But I will do my best to teach it.” Venerable the Blade said solemnly to Su Ping as if making a promise. The implication of this promise was so that Su Ping could trust the teaching to him and not limit him in any way, for example, requiring his stay with the skeleton at all times. That would be a tremendous waste of his time.

Su Ping was aware of the underlying meaning and he found it natural. Venerable the Blade was a titled battle pet warrior and it was unlikely that the Little Skeleton could learn all he had mastered in his life in a short time. After some deliberation, Su Ping said, “Venerable the Blade, you can just come here two or three times a week.”

Venerable the Blade breathed in relief. “No problem. I will try my best to come here more often when I am free.”

“Thank you, sir.”

“I am the one that should be thanking you. I was forced to come to your store with them today. I hope you can understand.” “Of course.”

While the two were gladly conversing, Joanna looked on coldly and then sneered at them.

“Should I take your pet to a nearby battle venue to train?” Venerable the Blade asked.

Su Ping nodded and sent a message to the Little Skeleton, telling it to follow that man and take the chance to learn.

The Little Skeleton raised its head and looked at Su Ping. Its eye sockets were flickering as if the Little Skeleton was trying to comprehend Su Ping’s intention. Venerable the Blade said goodbye to Su Ping, then he picked up the Little Skeleton and left.

Su Ping watched as they departed. He wasn’t afraid that Venerable the Blade might abduct his Little Skeleton. First of all, he didn’t think Venerable the Blade could defeat the Little Skeleton. After all, its combat strength had reached a score of 10. Second of all, the power of the contract allowed him to locate it, as long as the Little Skeleton wasn’t too far away.

“Hmm, skills of a mortal human being, what is there to learn?” Joanna said with haughty disdain.

Su Ping cast a glare at her. Of course, he remembered this “resourceful person” with him. He longed to learn the skills she had mastered.

But that wasn’t the priority for the time being. When time allowed, he would learn those secret techniques bit by bit.

“This matter has come to an end, finally. I hope that this old legendary battle pet warrior will not come back with more help on an impulse. Or else, I will teach him a lesson,” Su Ping said to himself.

Time zipped by. Everything Su Ping had arranged was moving forward as planned.

Wu Guansheng had taken Su Lingyue as a student. At first she thought he was a fraud when he approached her and proposed to teach her healing skills out of the blue. To gain her trust, he controlled objects remotely with astral powers, thus demonstrating a skill unique to titled battle pet warriors. Su Lingyue believed him after that.

She was both surprised and overjoyed to know this titled warrior that came out of nowhere. Unexpectedly, she had left a favorable impression on an “expert hidden amongst the civilians” who had retired from the public eye.

That’s right. True talent can never be concealed. I have been keeping such a low profile and yet people noticed that I’m a talent. Oh, how troublesome.

Having formally acknowledged Wu Guansheng as her teacher, Su Lingyue went to Su Ping’s store on purpose, mentioning her teacher “in passing.” But Su Ping kept a straight face. He even found Su Lingyue a bit too noisy.

Su Lingyue was hopping mad since she didn’t get to see the reaction from Su Ping she was hoping for. She went back to study.

Su Ping took her back from the barren area ahead of schedule, depriving her of the opportunity to train there. However, she currently had a titled battle pet warrior as her teacher. Her coming back early was a blessing in disguise.

At the same time, Venerable the Blade had taken the Little Skeleton to a battle venue.

Along the way, since he was carrying a skeleton, many people cast their eyes on him and their looks showed their contempt and ridicule.

Venerable the Blade had learned to be blind to other people’s opinions. Even so, at the moment, he felt a bit awkward.

As such, he bought out the entire battle venue.

Inside.

He told the staff working there to turn off all the surveillance cameras and then he took out his saber. He told the Little Skeleton to copy his moves.

If he were teaching an intelligent creature, like humans, he could explain the move and then demonstrate. But for a low-rank undead being like the Little Skeleton, he had no other choice but to let it copy him.

As for how well the Little Skeleton could perform, it would be up to luck.

Venerable the Blade didn’t use astral powers. He just slashed at the ground with pure physical force.

It was a simple move.

The Little Skeleton took out its bone blade and watched as Venerable the Blade moved. The Little Skeleton blinked and then like him, it hacked the ground as well.

Clang!

A dark aura oozed out. The ground cracked deeply.

Venerable the Blade almost jumped out in fear. He stared at the Little Skeleton, frightened.

Was this even a skeleton?

Venerable the Blade began to question his knowledge.

He even waved his saber more times without using astral powers. Clang! Clang!

The Little Skeleton imitated his actions. Several cracks appeared on the ground as if it had been plowed.

Venerable the Blade was stunned into stillness. Eventually, he understood why Su Ping chose to leave the Little Skeleton with him though it was just a skeleton. This Little Skeleton had demonstrated the skill that could only be mastered by those who had learned middle-rank saber plays!

Venerable the Blade no longer dared to be careless while teaching this Little Skeleton with such a superb power of understanding. He began to take a more serious attitude.

This time, he used a skill that he had developed

Clang!

A ray of light glistened. A hill that was over 10 meters tall was cut open and the cut was smooth.

The Little Skeleton tilted its head. The red glow in the Little Skeleton’s eye sockets kept on glistening as if deliberating. A moment later, the Little Skeleton quickly made its move.

Clang!

The second half, the thicker part, of the hill was halved and the cut was just as smooth as before.

Venerable the Blade was terrified. This was astonishing

The skill he had demonstrated was one that he had been practicing. This was the first part but it also took him one to two months’ practice to master, not to mention that he already had mastered the basics of saber play.

However, this skeleton had learned it after one look?

How strong was its power of understanding?!

That night, Venerable the Blade took the Little Skeleton back to the store.

He looked tired but he was reluctant to give the Little Skeleton back to Su Ping. He wanted to take the skeleton away with him, were it not for the scary girl with golden hair working with Su Ping.

The skeleton was outstanding.

He had never seen a pet this amazing. The Little Skeleton had even surpassed some human beings. It had displayed a more powerful combat strength than he had imagined. He even felt some pressure.

He wondered if this skeleton had mutated. After all, other skeletons didn’t have this kind of black bones.

After Venerable the Blade returned the skeleton to Su Ping, he took the chance to report to Su Ping about their lessons. The “Chaos Astral Sabreplay” he had mastered consisted of five moves. He had thought that for the skeleton, learning one move would be more than enough. However, the skeleton had learned three moves in just one afternoon.

Given the skeleton’s power of understanding, Venerable the Blade felt that it could master the most difficult two moves after seven or eight lessons.

Venerable the Blade found this progress unbelievable.

Fast progress would mean that he could be freed from this obligation earlier and he wouldn’t have to go there to teach the skeleton again.

However, he was frustrated after seeing that a skeleton could so easily master the saber play he was proud of and that he had been studying for years.

Su Ping was quite happy with Venerable the Blade’s teaching. He could already see the Little Skeleton’s interface. The Little Skeleton had a new skill and it had already mastered three moves, just like Venerable the Blade said.

Su Ping decided to ask around about the “Chaos Astral Sabreplay” and he would know if this was Venerable the Blade’s strongest move. On this front, Venerable the Blade would know better than to fool him.

The day’s lesson had ended. Su Ping sent Venerable the Blade off, and placed the Little Skeleton on the pet space so that it could go on absorbing the blood crystal.

He also placed the Moonfrost Dragon in a nursing pen. When time allowed, he would take the Moonfrost Dragon to a cultivation site. He was planning to give this dragon to Su Lingyue, along with the free ticket to the academy.

He didn’t need either of those two and giving them to Su Lingyue would be the best choice. She could develop further and he would worry less about her.

Sometimes, his sister left Su Ping speechless. That being said, they were both of the same family. Being in the same family meant that they could dislike each other, but they would think of each other when it came to important moments and benefits.

He believed this was true even though his sister was neither adorable nor gentle.

At the Longtai Mountain.

Yuan Tianchen had returned to the Mysterious Realm. That night, around 3:00 in the morning, Venerable the Blade, Lin Ziqing, and Wu Guansheng returned to the Mysterious Realm and went to meet with Yuan Tianchen.

Yuan Tianchen had been defeated and it was a humiliation. That being said, they wouldn’t dare to belittle him. After all was said and done, Yuan Tianchen was a legendary battle pet warrior. Killing them would be a piece of cake for him.

Yuan Tianchen was unhappy to see them return safely. He asked them what had happened after he left.

That unhappiness was subdued when Yuan Tianchen learned that all of them had been coerced by Su Ping and they could only get away after paying a huge price.