Chapter 18

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

[A new task has been issued: Accept Bibi Dong’s invitation and watch the competition…]

“Did little Sister Dong’er participate in the continental elite spirit master competition?”

Gui Mei, with the help of a little purple dog, successfully arrived at the small farm, bringing Bibi Dong’s letter to Su Zhe.

Gui Mei didn’t disappoint the purple dog. Using the excuse of taking out the trash, he threw the leftovers that Su Zhe had been eating and gave them to the purple hair.

Naturally, the little purple dog ran away with the garbage bag in his mouth and found a hidden place to enjoy the meal alone.

‘If those big yellow dogs know that I got my owner’s food, they’ll definitely come and snatch it!’

This was a hot cake!

After reading Gui Mei’s letter, Su Zhe was deep in thought. It turned out that the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament was about to be held, and Bibi Dong planned to participate. She was inviting Su Zhe to watch the match.

As she had just been promoted as the saintess, there were still many things that had to be settled. It was temporarily difficult for her to leave Spirit Hall and so, she could only entrust Gui Mei to come and inform Su Zhe about it.

“She’s only twelve years old?”

“Yes, the saintess has just turned twelve.”

“I remember that the age limit for the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament is under twenty-five years old. In other words, there’s a high chance that there will be adult spirit masters participating in it. Sister Dong’er is only twelve years old and you want to compete with them?”

Su Zhe sighed. As expected of a prodigy, her courage was something that ordinary people could not compare to.

“Actually, it’s all thanks to you, Your Highness.”

Gui Mei sneered and looked at Su Zhe’s bright eyes. Those who did not know the situation would definitely think that she had fallen in love with Su Zhe!

“Thanks to my blessings? I’m just a small farm owner.” Su Zhe said humbly.

“But, if it wasn’t for Sir Su Zhe’s third spirit ring and spirit bone, Her Highness might not have dared to rashly participate in the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament. With Her Highness saintess current realm, she can indeed participate and compete with the elite spirit masters of the entire continent, allowing herself to become stronger.” Gui Mei said respectfully.

He naturally hoped that Su Zhe would go. This reclusive expert was always active in this mysterious manor and rarely went out. It was a good thing to watch the prosperity of the empire.

“Alright, I’ll be there. Heaven Battle City, right? When is the competition?”

Firstly, he could complete the mission. Secondly, it had been a long time since he had gone out for a walk. He also wanted to see the various forms of life. Thirdly, he had a good relationship with Sister Dong’er. It was reasonable for him to accept the invitation.

“If your Highness has something to do, there’s no need to rush. In the last two Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament, His Holiness led us to win the championship once, proving Spirit Hall’s strength. With a guaranteed entry quota, we can directly participate in the ranking competition.

“Right now the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament is still in the qualifiers.”

Gui Mei explained.

The Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament was organized by the Heaven Battle and Star Luo Imperial families. It was the spirit master world’s grandest spirit competition co-organized by Spirit Hall. It would be divided into qualifiers, ranking competition, and the finals.

All the spirit master academies of the Heaven Battle Empire would participate. Amongst them, the Heaven Battle imperial family and the Heaven Luo imperial family both had a guaranteed place in the main finals. Due to how Spirit Hall is the tournament’s assisting organizer, and Bibi Dong had won the first tournament’s Championship, they also had a guaranteed spot in the finals.

“I see. Alright, I’ll clean up a few rooms for you to stay. Once I’m done with my things, I’ll leave with you.”

Su Zhe nodded and smiled warmly.

“I’ll have to trouble Your Highness then.”

“By the way, is the Ice Jade Scorpion on your shoulder a new pet? ”

Gui Mei had already noticed the Icy Jade Emperor Scorpion. The palm-sized Scorpion was perched on Su Zhe’s shoulder, and it was very eye-catching.

“Isn’t it beautiful? It’s very obedient. It’s probably a female Scorpion, so it’s more docile.”

Su Zhe spoke to Gui Mei as he tidied up an empty room for him.

After Bibi Dong and Gui Mei left last time, Su Zhe had rebuilt the rooms in the small farmyard, in case there would be no place for guests to stay.

By now, the house was more spacious and comfortable.

Now that there was electricity, Su Zhe planned to get a few air conditioners to keep things warm in the winter and cool in the summer. This would make it more comfortable to stay in.

“A female scorpion? I know how to differentiate between roosters and hens, but how do you differentiate between male and female scorpions?”

Gui Mei asked curiously.

“To be honest, I don’t know too.”

“But we can flip through the books.”

Well, he could also ask the system.

However, since Gui Mei wanted to know, it was more interesting to flip through the books.

A good memory was not as good as a bad pen. It was better to have books to refer to. People who read books would usually end up with great wisdom.

The golden ring that Su Zhe always carried with him was a soul tool. He took out a book titled ‘The characteristics of all living things: Douluo chapter.’

He checked the table of contents and turned to the page that described the Ice Jade King Scorpion.

[Scorpions are androgynous and the difference between the genders of adult scorpions is obvious. This is mainly reflected in their body length and pincers… ]

[Even with sharp vision, it would be impossible to observe a scorpion’s reproductive organs to determine the gender. This was because regardless of whether it was male or female, their reproductive organs were hidden under the chest. This meant death everytime they reproduced.”

Gui Mei read out the last part, which made Su Zhe feel a little awkward.

This was because Su Zhe was subconsciously looking at the butt of the Icy Jade Emperor Scorpion, trying to see if there was anything wrong.

However, it turns out that the scorpion’s biological structure was not on the back of the butt, but on the chest, where there was a cover on top of it!

Good Lord! This method of self-protection was seamless!

The Icy Jade Emperor Scorpion’s mouth opened slightly, ‘This is shameful, master!’

‘Why do they have such fetishes?!”

No! This was the spirit of exploration!

…

For the next few days, Su Zhe continued to improve the electricity supply project around the farmyard, until his super refrigerator could adjust the temperature on its own.

“Ten degrees!”

“Zero degrees!”

“Negative degrees!”

“Damn, Your Highness! What kind of treasure is this? It allows you to freely control the temperature!”

Standing in front of the euper refrigerator, Gui Mei was shocked.

To him and the entire Douluo continent’s indigenous people, this was definitely an impressive invention!

It could allow people to easily drink cool water in the hot summer!

It could preserve vegetables for a long time!

It could harden fruits!

“Eh? How did the temperature rise so quickly?”

However, the extremely low temperature of several hundred degrees below zero did not last long.

“It should be out of battery.”

Seeing that the indicator lights went off, Su Zhe had a vague idea of what had happened.

“Pikachu, get up and generate electricity!”

Su Zhe called out to the storage room.

“Pikachu, you must be slacking off. You ran out of power so quickly. You have to work hard.”

Su Zhe walked in and saw Pikachu eating the Thunder fruit. The storage device indeed showed that it was out of power.

“Pika~ Pika~”

Pikachu was a little embarrassed. ‘Hmmm, what was I doing? I was just slacking off for a while.’

“Pikachu, do you want to become a roasted hamster?”

“Pika! Pika!”

Pikachu shook her head and immediately crawled over to the machine and released the lightning.

The day of squeezing the mouse dry was about to begin again!

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“Alright, Pikachu, don’t worry. I’ve already started on preparing the long electrical wires and putting them in the lightning pool in the manor. This way, your workload will be less.”

As soon as Su Zhe said that, Pikachu was filled with spiritual power and began to generate electricity with all its might.

‘What a cute soul beast! And what terrifying lightning power!’

Gui Mei heard the sound and looked up. He was touched by Pikachu’s cuteness, but the thunderbolt power that it emitted still made him sweat.

Although it was not as powerful as the Thunder Divine Dragon, this yellow rat should have a cultivation base of hundreds of thousands of years, which was the lowest existence in the manor.

It seemed that even His Highness Su Zhe couldn’t get rid of the temptation of such a cute and handsome spirit beast!

Three days later.

In the pavilion of the small courtyard, Gui Mei was currently taking an afternoon rest. Suddenly, the spirit power in his body condensed, and he let out a muffled groan.

“Did I just break through another level?”

“Rank 70?”

Gui Mei opened his eyes. He had not cultivated much during the past few days when he was a guest at the Leisure Manor.

He was freeloading off Su Zhe’s food and drink every day as he did not have any cooking skills. He couldn’t even help because he could not chop those bones nor could he pick those celestial flowers.

Last time, after returning to Spirit Hall, he went to the library and trying to find more books about the celestial plants. Then, he found an ancient book called ‘Immortal Flowers and Herbs Record’. It was a small book but it recorded many immortal flowers and herbs across the entire continent.

In the past few days, he had compared the records in the vegetable field of Leisure Manor and found that many of them were listed in the records but there were still some that weren’t found inside.

In the recording, the one that helped with cooling the refrigerator was an immortal herb known as the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.

It was a rare cold flower, able to make one’s heart cold and numb.

Within ten meters of this grass, the cold air would be life threatening and after a long time, the cold poison would attack the heart, leaving the human incurable.

Ordinary spirit masters would be unlucky even if they were next to it, let alone eating it.

If one wanted to pick it, they would have to use gold and iron.

On the other side of the red soil, the Inferno Precious Apricot was the opposite of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass. It was a highly toxic immortal treasure with top-grade fire poison. This thing only grew on hot soil and could even survive in magma. All of its effects were the opposite of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass.

If he directly picked them up with his hands, he would definitely end up with his bones burned to ashes.

Even though Gui Mei had the cultivation of a spirit emperor, he still didn’t dare to easily touch it.

Only an amateur like Yu Xiaogang, who only knew that these flowers had miraculous effects, but didn’t know how to pick them, would try to pick them directly.

Therefore, Gui Mei only had the thought in his mind. Without the strength and abilities to do so, he could only wait for the food to be served.

Even though the food was delicious, he did not dare to eat too much. He didn’t put in any effort and so was only leaching off Su Zhe.

But even so, he still directly broke through to rank-70.

“Sir Chrysanthemum, I’m ahead of you again. You will never be able to beat me in this lifetime.”

Gui Mei laughed.

Last time, he gave the Velvet Skyreach chrysanthemum to Yue Guan. After absorbing it, his spirit received a huge sublimation and directly broke through to rank 67, almost catching up to Gui Mei. Now, there was a huge difference between them again!

“Hu! Forget it, when the time comes I shall go to the Great Star Battle forest to hunt for spirit beasts.”

He had wanted to take advantage of the situation at the Leisure Manor. Every time Su Zhe killed those chicks and ducks, a golden soul ring would appear on his body, just like the Divine Thunder Dragon that the saintess had absorbed. Although the aura was not as strong as before, it was enough to intimidate him.

Gui Mei knew that it would take a lot to do so. If it wasn’t for the spirit beast’s sacrifice, he definitely wouldn’t be able to withstand it and would only end up exploding to death.

He didn’t have a good life like the saintess, but he was content to have the Netherworld’s King as his spirit!