CHAPTER 53: CHAPTER 53: FIFTEEN DAYS OF TORMENT! THE FINAL RESULT! (FOUR MORE)

Shuhua City.

In the urban area lay a Pet Beast Breeding Base covering an enormous area.

Above the main entrance, two large characters shone brilliantly:

Wolf Den!

Next to this signboard stood an impressive sculpture of a Forest Wolf, a massive five meters tall, exuding valor and majesty. Anyone passing by couldn’t help but look on with envy.

This was the largest Forest Wolf breeding base in Shuhua City. Its owner was Sun Chaoju, an Intermediate Breeder and a student of Liu Fuhai, the vice president of the Jianghai Province Breeders Association. An Intermediate Breeder—such a status and ability commanded respect from anyone. In Jianghai Province, he was definitely a person of importance.

However, at this very moment, this renowned Sun Cultivator, who had made quite a name for himself, hadn’t been eating or sleeping well for the past few days. The deadline for the bet he’d made with Su Ping and Qin Xiaoxue was drawing ever closer. Although Sun Chaoju had good composure, it was unrealistic to expect him to remain completely unruffled by a gamble of this magnitude.

During this period, Sun Chaoju had been paying relentless attention to the Heart of Woods Pet Beast Breeding Base. After becoming an Intermediate Breeder and being registered by the Breeder Association, the constant stream of customers seeking Cultivation didn’t surprise Sun Chaoju. In fact, some of his own people were even among them. Nevertheless, Sun Chaoju refrained from resorting to any underhanded tactics or competition; his teacher had warned him once before. He simply wanted to see if Su Ping’s abilities and success rates were truly as high as he claimed. Such high success rates!

However, the outcome was beyond his wildest expectations. This kid only took in one customer per week for Cultivation, which was understandable; the five million price tag was also fairly reasonable. But what he hadn’t expected was that, over these past few days, only two Beast Tamers had sought Cultivation, and both attempts had been successful!

This made Sun Chaoju both thrilled and anxious. Thrilled, because if he could obtain such Cultivation techniques, his own Wolf Den would undoubtedly achieve further advancements! Anxious, because if Su Ping truly possessed such bizarre abilities and methods, did that mean he was genuinely capable? Was he truly able to improve the Self-Healing Skill of Qin Xiaoxue’s Forest Wolf, Woodhead, from Beginner to Proficient Level within a mere fifteen days?

Of course, this thought only flickered through his mind for an instant before he cast it aside. In fact, if it had been any other skill of Qin Xiaoxue’s Pet Beast that needed enhancement, Sun Chaoju would have felt genuinely uneasy. After all, someone of Qin Xiaoxue’s status wouldn’t choose anything but the best Pet Beasts. Moreover, with Miss Qin’s previous training, the Pet Beast might have been just a step away from a breakthrough in its skill level!

But for Woodhead, it was the Self-Healing Skill that needed Cultivation!

Firstly, Sun Chaoju had reason to believe that even with Miss Qin’s thorough training of the Forest Wolf, including multiple instances of practical combat, its training in Self-Healing was likely still unsatisfactory. After all, how many people could actually manage to injure Miss Qin’s Pet Beast? A little thought made it clear that such an occurrence was highly improbable. Indeed, that was the case; otherwise, Woodhead’s Self-Healing Skill wouldn’t still be at entry-level even after reaching the Elite Tenth Stage.

Secondly, and most importantly, as an Intermediate Breeder specializing in Forest Wolves, Sun Chaoju knew all too well which Forest Wolf skills were the hardest to improve. Apart from skills acquired later, among the Forest Wolf’s innate skills, Self-Healing and Sunlight Absorption were the two most difficult to enhance. Sunlight Absorption was easy to improve in the initial stages, but becoming Proficient in it, much less achieving Perfection, was extremely rare. It was generally not something a Breeder could cultivate to such a high level, much less to Perfection. The same went for Self-Healing.

Among the derivative attributes of the Wood Element, the most formidable was naturally the Life Series attribute. As a relatively rare attribute, the Life Series attribute might not be as directly powerful as the Psychic Element, Space Element, or even Time Series, but it was definitely a rare attribute. Ultimately, the Forest Wolf was a pure Wood Element Pet Beast. However, the Self-Healing Skill was a Racial Skill born from the Life Series attribute. This meant that compared to skills like Vine Strangling or Accelerated Growth, the cultivation of the Self-Healing ability fell within the domain of the Life Series.

Under these two conditions, Sun Chaoju truly couldn’t believe that Su Ping could train Miss Qin’s Woodhead to the Proficient Level from scratch within fifteen days! What a joke! What is skill level Cultivation? Child’s play?

Thus, as time marched on and the deadline drew nearer day by day, the excitement and agitation in Sun Chaoju’s heart grew harder to contain. The closer the fifteen-day limit approached, the greater he felt his chances of winning the bet became. However, it was precisely because of this that Sun Chaoju felt even more helpless. After all, when the bet was made, his own teacher had said that even if he genuinely lost, he would have to hand over his Accelerated Casting technique to the other party.

To be honest, Sun Chaoju wasn’t overly concerned about the incomplete Evolution Method for the Wanmu Wolf. Because only he knew just how flawed that thing was. Developing the Wanmu Wolf’s Evolution Method was like trying to fill a bottomless pit. Forget Su Ping, who was only an Intermediate Breeder; even for a Senior Breeder like his teacher, successfully developing it would likely be extremely difficult.

But Accelerated Casting was different. This was the cornerstone of his Wolf Den Pet Beast Breeding Base. It was a Secret Technique for Cultivation that couldn’t even be exchanged within the Breeder Association. Although he was confident that without his guidance, Su Ping would find it difficult to fully master it to the same degree as him, what if he did?

No! There could be no ’what ifs’!

With that thought, Sun Chaoju shivered involuntarily. What was I thinking? Why was I bolstering someone else’s prestige and diminishing my own morale?

With the fifteen-day deadline just a couple of days away, as long as he could endure these last excruciating days, he would undoubtedly get his hands on the Cultivation method of the Heart of Woods! By then, the Wolf Den’s reputation and profits would soar to unimaginable heights!

Thinking this, Sun Chaoju let out a slight sigh of relief. However, at that very moment, his phone suddenly rang.

He looked down, and his eyebrows shot up.

Caller ID: Teacher Liu.

The arrival of this call at such a time, for some reason, sparked a rather unpleasant premonition in Sun Chaoju’s heart.

He cautiously answered the call, "Hello?"

However, quite rapidly, the latest model mechanical smartphone in the hands of the locally renowned Sun Cultivator slipped from his grasp, THUDDING onto the ground.

It shattered into pieces.