classifiedscript Chapter 586 - 585: How Is That Brain Wired?
Chapter 586 - 585: How Is That Brain Wired?
’Not hacking them to death in the street, just taking them back to be tortured? That’s fine!’
The males behind Su Yan breathed a slight sigh of relief. About a dozen of them immediately stepped forward, advancing menacingly to leap up to the seventh floor.
But the twenty members of the Royal Guard stationed below weren’t just for show. They only now stood up lazily to block the way.
"Female Saint Su Yan, shouldn’t you ask our permission before making a move on our Divine Servant?"
The Royal Guard wore uniforms, and each member’s cultivation was high. Their intimidating presence was nothing the mere guards of Ningbei City could compare to.
Su Yan frowned. "Your Princess stole Leng Shi from me, and I’m not even holding that against her. I am simply displeased that Si Shuo, a Divine Servant, is abusing her authority.
So do me a favor. Let me teach her how to be a proper Divine Servant, and then I’ll return her to you. And her males clearly don’t understand the rules of our Ningbei City. They also need to suffer a bit to learn a long-lasting lesson."
As she spoke, she gave a nearby male a meaningful look. He immediately stepped forward with a heavy Beast Skin Bag of Crystal Stones and shoved it at the captain.
The captain weighed the Crystal Stones in the Beast Skin Bag, smiled, and tucked it away. "Thank you, Female Saint Su Yan." But before a happy expression could form on Su Yan’s face, he added coldly, "We’re not some naive city gate guards who’ve never seen the world. We wouldn’t toss aside the Princess’s orders for such a paltry sum.
The Si Shuo Divine Servant is our Princess’s honored guest. She’s supposed to go to Pingjing with her after spring, so we can’t afford a single slip-up."
Su Yan gritted her teeth in anger. "So she beats me to this state, and I’m just supposed to let it go?"
"Who was it that came looking for trouble, Female Saint Su Yan, and insulted her Beast Husband? She’s a Divine Servant, after all. It’s normal for someone with her skills to have a bit of a temper.
If it were me, I’d at least take my anger out on one of your Beast Husbands," the captain, a true rogue, said with a smirk.
Su Yan was about to explode with rage, but she understood one thing very clearly: this squad of guards was powerful. In a direct confrontation, her side wouldn’t stand a chance.
She narrowed her eyes, looked up at Si Shuo and her group, and then turned to leave with a cold sneer. ’Whatever,’ she thought. ’I’ll have plenty of chances to get even. The Late Autumn Grand Competition starts tomorrow!’
Once she was gone, Xiao Cheng turned to Si Shuo, looking a little anxious. "I’m sorry, Sister. I couldn’t stop myself from making a move."
Si Shuo patted his head. "From the moment we transferred Leng Shi’s Beast Mark, we were already in a fight to the death with Su Yan.
She came looking for us today with no intention of letting us leave in one piece. Knocking out her front teeth served as a deterrent, but it also escalated the conflict.
We don’t go looking for trouble, but we aren’t afraid of it either. I just suspect we’re going to be targeted in the Late Autumn Grand Competition tomorrow."
Gong You clenched his fists and chuckled. "It’s just two teeth. I wanted to gouge her eyes out. Let her try whatever she wants tomorrow. As long as it can be settled in the ring, we have nothing to fear!"
Wei Ce also sneered. "We still have one more night to raise our cultivation a bit. Right now, the person with the highest cultivation in all of Ningbei City is a personal attendant of King Rong, at the Seventeenth Level."
None of the other males were afraid either; in fact, they were eager for a fight. They were all battle-hardened, but they were also level-headed and would never let themselves get backed into a corner.
Speaking of the Late Autumn Grand Competition, Ji Liang shared the information he had gathered and consolidated. "This competition ranks males based on their combat prowess. Every city has something similar.
The top one hundred get special Identity Cards that set them apart from other Beastmen. The cards for the top eighty, fifty, thirty, twenty, and ten are all marked differently as well.
Whether you’re attending events, looking for work, or anything else, these Identity Cards are useful throughout all of Guanping City."
Zhi Le raised an eyebrow. "So, you’re saying that as long as we make it into the top one hundred, anyone who wants to start trouble with us will have to think twice about their own strength?"
"Exactly," Yin Jiang nodded. "Compared to the superpower Levels on our necks, people are more intimidated by and put more faith in these Identity Cards."
After all, many Beastmen from wealthy families can use Crystal Marrow to artificially inflate their cultivation and talent, but they can’t endure hardship. They neglect regular Cultivation and real combat, so they possess no real intimidating power.
It’s like having the finest ingredients but no cooking skill—the result is still just something to fill your stomach.
Hearing this, the males grew even more eager. The term ’college entrance exams’ suddenly popped into Si Shuo’s mind. ’It seems that no matter the era,’ she mused, ’selecting talented individuals always requires a rigorous test.’
"Sister, I think we brothers should all aim to get a top-one-hundred Identity Card, more or less. That way, we won’t be looked down upon wherever we go, like we are now," Xiao Cheng said with a smile. "We don’t have to be too conspicuous. We’ll see what things are like when we get to Pingjing."
Si Shuo nodded. She had already sworn an oath, so she wasn’t worried about others coveting her males. Since they were this motivated, she certainly wouldn’t hold them back.
Fueled by the urgency of the upcoming competition, the males put their all into their Cultivation that night. Moreover, Si Shuo could replicate Seventeenth Level attributeless crystal stones faster than they could consume them.
Given the special circumstances, they didn’t hold back.
Si Shuo’s spiritual power was immense. Even after exhausting her Replication Ability for the day, her spiritual power would be fully restored by the next morning. Once she had replicated enough crystal stones to cover the consumption of her males and the little cubs, she began to wonder if she could use the Sixteen-level and Seventeenth-Level attributeless crystal stones to figure out how to synthesize a Level 18 version.
They were called attributeless crystal stones, but they actually worked by taking a single element and, based on the five-element cycle of generation, bringing all elements into a new state of balance. The stone would then convert its energy based on the superpower of the Beastman using it...
The structure of the Spiritual Energy compressed into a crystal was crucial. With the two previous levels of crystal stones as a reference, Si Shuo felt like she was solving a complex problem that combined math, physics, and chemistry. She didn’t have any leads right now, but she had a faint feeling that the problem was solvable.
She took out a notebook and began scribbling and sketching, occasionally using her Replication Ability to try compressing and arranging Spiritual Energy according to her theories.
It was completely brain-frying. When the males finished a session of their Cultivation and went to find their female, they saw a disheveled little hamster with its fur puffed out in every direction.
Her adorably dazed appearance made them stifle their laughter. They didn’t dare point it out, afraid their little female would fly into a rage out of sheer embarrassment.
The males understood the importance of balancing work and rest. They took turns keeping their little female company, making sure she took breaks to clear her head and didn’t harm her body by overthinking.
In this rhythm of tension and relaxation, she thought about it by day and dreamed about it by night. Finally, on the eighth day, she actually managed to replicate a Level 18 attributeless crystal stone!
The whole family stared at her as if she were the Beast God, their eyes filled with joy and admiration. ’How in the world is her brain wired?’ they wondered. She had actually conquered such a difficult problem.
Everyone was a little numb from the shock.
Now that she had a template, replicating more was much easier.
Si Shuo magnanimously gave every member of the family a Level 18 attributeless crystal stone. The males had been using so many good resources lately that their foundations were incredibly solid, and one after another, they all achieved breakthroughs in their cultivation!