Chapter 316: West Lake Xisha, Fish Slaying Operation!

Chapter 316: West Lake Xisha, Fish Slaying Operation!

Dong Muchun, too, did not linger any longer.

Although her primary focus had long shifted from the Dong family's Heaven Cloud Corporation to the couple's Ping Yun Company, these two colossal enterprises were not places where one could simply turn a blind eye.

After mentioning it to Su Ping and chatting for a while, this woman with an unyielding drive for success returned to her endeavors.

Su Ping, on the other hand, rubbed Xiao Qing while deep in thought.

Was the situation in the East Sea really that serious?

It wasn't unreasonable for Su Ping to ponder this.

In fact, although Jianghai was close to the East Sea, there hadn't been any major water-related disasters or incidents of sea beasts attacking the shore and forming beast tides in many, many years.

Such events were mostly found in historical records.

There were various reasons for this.

Among them, the advanced pets and beasts in the ocean could survive on land due to their strength, but they were naturally less comfortable in this environment.

It was simple logic; pets that reached the Spirit Level could fly and break through the atmosphere, entering the starry sky above the clouds. However, the human beastmasters arranged in the starry sky were mainly special forces units for resource collection.

Although there were accidents, powerful beastmasters didn't settle in the starry sky all day long.

The same logic applied to the powerful beings in the ocean.

For them, there wasn't much conflict with humans.

Secondly, the ocean was vast, and compared to humans, the creatures in the ocean were the primary competitors of these pets and beasts.

Unless it was a high-level pet or beast leader, at least at the Spirit Level, with sufficient wisdom and leadership ability, they couldn't launch large-scale attacks on human territories.

However, over the years, the advanced beasts in the Endless Sea had gradually been unified by the Beast Empire in the Endless Sea, and this situation had never occurred again.

Why was it like this now?

Su Ping's eyebrows furrowed. The Heart of Ten Thousand Spirits was too close to West Lake Xisha. If there were wild pets appearing, would the Heart of Water and the Lingxi River leading to West Lake Xisha already have infiltrated beasts?

Although his intuition told Su Ping that the Dragon Country's legion stationed in the East Sea wouldn't be so easily breached, he couldn't help but worry. He picked up the phone and called Guan Qianshan.

From Guan Qianshan's mouth, he learned that the recent water disasters in the East Sea had caused a surge in pet breeding resources in Jianghai.

So, Su Ping directly instructed:

"Starting today, the Heart of Water will be temporarily closed and will no longer accept external guests! At the same time, dispatch underwater beastmasters to enclose the Heart of Water and the Lingxi River with an opaque material to prevent the scent of the coral worms from leaking out."

"Yes!"

After hanging up the phone, Su Ping continued to look up another number and dialed it.

"President Qin!"

The familiar voice of Jianghai Beastmaster Association President Qin Erlong came through the phone again:

"Su Ping? Haha, are you back from the Northern Plains?"

Old Qin and Liu Fuhai naturally knew about his departure from the Northern Plains.

However, compared to Liu Fuhai, who occasionally chatted with him when he was in the Northern Plains, Qin Erlong had little contact with him.

There was no way around it; the last time he messed up the Ten Thousand Flowers Secret Realm, it left the old man with some complaints.

Of course, Su Ping guessed that the more significant reason was the situation in the East Sea. As the president of the Beastmaster Association, Qin Erlong couldn't ignore it.

"Yes, I'm calling you as soon as I got back."

"I don't believe you, kid. Just tell me what you need. We agreed that borrowing the secret realm to test pet skills is off the table, but everything else is fine!"

Qin Erlong spoke straightforwardly.

Su Ping was left speechless, and he glanced at Xiao Qing, who looked a bit aggrieved.

It was clear that Su Ping's idea and thoughts had been nipped in the bud by Old Qin.

In fact, if Old Qin hadn't mentioned it, Su Ping would have had this thought. There was no better opponent than the Emperor Peony in the Ten Thousand Flowers Secret Realm.

He could adjust his realm at any time, from Overlord to Emperor, facing opponents of various strengths. More importantly, being a plant-type pet, it was perfectly compatible with Xiao Qing's current condition.

Additionally, due to being a plant-type pet, its movement efficiency and walking speed were extremely slow!

It was like a pure target, just sitting there.

The last time Qian Yi used the Rocket Sword Box and the Rain Pear Blossom Sword, it had left a deep impression.

Hearing Su Ping's silence on the other end of the line, Qin Erlong's eyelids twitched:

"You little brat, you're not seriously thinking about this, are you? I'm telling you, no way! Flower is still ignoring me because of this.

You, day after day, can't you focus on improving your realm and preparing for the professional beastmaster assessment during the summer vacation in two months? Stop messing around with all sorts of nonsense and focus on enhancing your own strength and your pet's strength. That's the way to go..."

"Um... This time, it was my contracted pet that completed the evolution! But I mainly wanted to ask, what's the situation with the water disaster in the East Sea?"

Su Ping rubbed his nose, feeling a bit embarrassed.

"Yes, it's normal for you to know about this. These past few days have been so busy because of this matter.

Along the entire Jianghai coast, there are many aquatic beasts lingering in the coastal areas. Some have even followed some river mouths and entered some rivers in Jianghai Province.

There have already been injuries, and although the news is being suppressed, it has caused quite a stir. All the registered combat beastmasters in the Beastmaster Associations across the region have been mobilized.

In various regions of Jianghai, especially along the coastline, everyone is on high alert, including the West Lake Xihai area, which has been like this for the past few days."

Qin Erlong spoke at length, but as he reached this point, he still showed signs of fatigue. It was evident that compared to the Legion's primary responsibility of border defense, the Beastmaster Association's internal adjustments, involving the people's livelihood, were even more troublesome.

However, before Su Ping could speak, Qin Erlong suddenly had a thought and blurted out, "Speaking of which, after your contracted beast completes its evolution, it's usually around this time that the beast needs to engage in combat. Not only does this allow the beastmaster to fully adapt to the beast's abilities, but it also lets the beast release the power accumulated during evolution!"

This was indeed correct. At this moment, the situation in Jianghai was quite suitable for his beast to gain combat experience, saving him from always thinking about the Ten Thousand Flowers Secret Realm!"

Su Ping's eyes lit up.

He also wanted to understand the true combat strength of Xiao Qing.

As for why he didn't let Qian Yi fight against the beast, the reason was simple.

The two were future battle partners, and in this beastmaster combat, they naturally needed to exert their full strength. Otherwise, it might affect their relationship if they accidentally unleashed their true fire.

If it were just a friendly sparring match, it wouldn't matter. But when it came to witnessing Xiao Qing's upper limit of strength, it was naturally inappropriate.

With this in mind, Su Ping quickly asked, "Where is this place?"

"You're aware of the current situation," Qin Erlong continued. "In fact, for Jianghai, those high-level water-type ferocious beasts are easier to deal with because the energy ripples are more noticeable. With the Legion's detection methods, it's easy to detect and capture them.

On the contrary, those relatively low-level water-type ferocious beasts with lower intelligence have a vast number, making it challenging to handle them underwater. Therefore, the Beastmaster Association has set up areas in various water sources to attract these aquatic ferocious beasts with resources or other means.

Or by using other methods to gather these aquatic ferocious beasts together.

Initially, the plan was to directly annihilate them with mechanical weapons, but after discussions, it was decided to temporarily leave these locations intact.

At the same time, beastmasters from various regions of Jianghai Province are encouraged to go there. Most of the resources obtained from the corpses of the beasts will belong to the beastmasters themselves, as long as they hand in a portion as an entrance fee. This is also a way to prepare the beastmasters in Jianghai Province for the possible outbreak of large-scale aquatic beast tides."

With a few words, Qin Erlong clearly explained the situation.

The Dragon Country has been peaceful for many years. Apart from the Beastmaster Legion, there are indeed many registered beastmasters who have rarely experienced life-and-death battles.

At most, they enter secret realms or explore uninhabited wildernesses, and although there have been some casualties, it's still different.

Indeed, Qin Erlong's words were something Su Ping wholeheartedly agreed with.

Peace, in fact, is often relative.

For so many years, on the entire Blue Star, except for the mechanical beast tide that erupted over a hundred years ago and the Blue Star-level war involving the stars beyond, it has indeed been over a hundred years since the last major war.

But no one can predict when the next full-scale war will occur.

Moreover, apart from the beastmaster wars, there's also the need to deal with beast tides, making it essential for beastmasters to get used to combat.

Indeed, he was worthy of being a man who could eat the mulberry saint's soft rice. He had some strategic awareness and vision!

Su Ping nodded:

"Since it's like that, where is the nearest place to attract these aquatic beasts?"

If it were any other beast, Su Ping might not have been interested.

But if it was about killing fish? Su Ping was indeed interested!

"It's not far from you. It's on West Lake Xihai, on an island called Crescent Island, which was previously controlled by the Dong Family's Tianyun Group. Now, the island belongs to the government. The Dong Family sold it during the first wave of the water disaster, stopping some of their losses.

The location and terrain of Crescent Island are excellent. About half of the ocean beasts entering West Lake Xihai through the dragon's mouth are attracted to that place."

West Lake Xihai, Crescent Island? It's indeed not far from here. Upon reaching the shore of West Lake Xihai, if they took a boat, it would only take less than two hours to reach the island. If they had a powerful aquatic beast, the journey would be even shorter.

Su Ping blinked.

He remembered that when Guan Lili was exiled to Crescent Island by Dong Muchun, it was probably this Crescent Island. When Dong Muchun mentioned it, wasn't it one of the projects under Tianyun Real Estate, a subsidiary of Tianyun Group? She sold it directly?

Su Ping clicked his tongue but didn't mind:

"Alright! I'll go check it out when I have time!"

"Come on, I've been at Crescent Island these past few days. You won't believe how lively it is there. If you need anything, give me a call, and I can send someone to pick you up..."

"..."

Speaking of which, Su Ping did notice that after returning to Linzhou, there were indeed many more customers at the Cloud Heart.

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Most importantly, the bus stop at the East Suburb Terminal had a constant flow of passengers.

But more importantly, there were also many rarely seen vehicles heading towards West Lake Xihai.

Were these people going to Crescent Island?

After chatting with Qin Erlong for a while longer, Su Ping finally hung up the phone, rubbing Xiao Qing's head, which was almost non-existent.

He then looked at Qian Yi and Xiao Huo beside him:

"Qian Yi, Xiao Qing, you two get ready. It's time for battle!"

Upon hearing this, Qian Yi's eyes lit up.

Ever since the New Year, Su Ping had been entirely focused on Xiao Qing. Now, Qian Yi was finally able to showcase his skills on the battlefield and challenge this wolf to a high-level duel?

Thinking of this, Qian Yi looked at Xiao Qing. Her paper-made 2D face with green eyes like burning flames in her green demon body glanced at him, but she didn't pay him any mind.

Previously, this mischievous creature who loved to roam around did indeed have some skills.

However, after evolving, even though many of its abilities might not be as visually impressive in combat as Qian Yi's, it still had the confidence to turn this into its domain!

Only Xiao Huomiao, with fiery red pupils, stared intently at these two creatures.

And over there, the smiling but emotionally unfeigned human, whose consciousness had only emerged for a short time, also had a thought that had never occurred to her before:

'Perhaps, becoming this human's pet isn't something I can't accept?'

However, as soon as this thought appeared, Xiao Huomiao quickly shook her head.

This is all fake!

She glared at the despicable human:

"Hisssss! (Humans... too treacherous...)"

Su Ping didn't bother with Xiao Huomiao, who was always imagining herself as a victim of persecution, and directly reached out to put her back into the Beastmaster Space.

From what he could see, Xiao Huomiao's progress was quite good.

Xiao Qing evolved, and they made contact with each other.

He noticed that Xiao Huomiao had an innate eagerness for strength enhancement, which was the best bargaining chip for Su Ping to attract this little creature to submit.

Hmm... when they reach Yueya Island, during the battle, he'll release this little creature to let it experience the power of Xiao Qing and Qian Yi as his pets.

With this thought, Su Ping became ambitious.

However, after glancing at the sky outside, Xiao Qing's evolution had taken up most of the day.

He got up early in the morning, but by now, the sky was already turning west.

Su Ping wasn't in a hurry to go to Yueya Island right away.

This water disaster had been going on for more than a day or two.

When he went to Beiyuan before, he had mentioned it to Chief Zhao on the phone, but at that time, it didn't seem too serious.

Now, after half a month, it wasn't something that could be resolved in a day or two.

Taking advantage of the remaining daylight, Su Ping inspected the other areas of Wan Ling Zhi Xin.

There wasn't much to see at the construction site of the Spirit Heart.

At the Soul Heart, he observed more.

The initial layout of the haunted house-style Ghost Beast base, which had been going on for half a month, was now in the final stages, thanks to the work of Bai Cang and the other woman with the same surname, whom Su Ping always referred to as Miss Bai.

Apart from the initial responsibility of setting up the Scarecrow Death Farm, the relatively simpler scenes had also reached the final stages in these half a month.

This made Su Ping very satisfied, but the tight schedule prevented him from checking on how Bai Cang was doing in manipulating the Ghost Beasts he had purchased.

However, Su Ping learned from Uncle Guan that this guy was making good progress, so he was also very pleased with Bai Cang's performance these days.

If possible, this guy could stay at the Soul Heart of Wan Ling Zhi Xin after this.

Although Su Ping wasn't a professional Ghost Beast breeder, his results were more attractive than most Ghost Beast breeders.

Moreover, in the future, the simple and elegant breeding master, Jian Yue, and Master Yin, from the Sky Tomb, would not be able to come.

Su Ping was very confident about the development of his Soul Heart.

Apart from that, what concerned Su Ping the most was undoubtedly the small commercial street composed of a row of storefronts, which had been built on the foundation and reached four stories high, directly across from the main street of Wan Ling Zhi Xin.

Speaking of which, Su Ping had also mentioned to Dong Muchun about building a Dream Heart virtual gaming experience hall here, and Dong Muchun agreed, even urging for the progress of the new batch of Dream Hearts.

Regarding the progress of the Dream Hearts, it's necessary to mention Fatty.

This guy seemed to have not come to find Su Ping for a while.

However, compared to Xiao Qing and Qian Yi's somewhat dull lives, this guy enjoyed a fulfilling and enjoyable life, stealing signals and networks on his own, except when he needed pocket money, he was nowhere to be found,

Indeed, Su Ping didn't need to worry about him.

Thinking of this, Su Ping didn't bother with this dreamless mechanical core.

Anyway, for him, creating the Dream Heart wasn't a difficult task.

In terms of combat, Xiao Qing and Qian Yi were enough.

Finally, another night passed.

Early in the morning, Su Ping appeared at the entrance of his Wan Ling Zhi Xin with a commanding presence.

Still wearing the same outfit!

The soft scale armor made from the Iron Rock Giant Lizard's scales was capable of withstanding direct attacks from some Monarch-level pet beasts.

Riding on Lao Sha, who was now at the second stage of the Monarch class, but with the Sun Heart's boost, he could contend with any pet beast below the Emperor class!

By his side, was Qian Yi, who had activated 'Feixian', and was flying like a fairy with a paper cloak fluttering in the wind.

On the other side was Xiao Qing, seemingly enveloped in a green flame.

What's more noteworthy was that, apart from Lao Sha and Su Ping's two pet beasts, there was another participant in this operation.

It was the mutated Fire Raven, YaYa, standing on Su Ping's shoulder, about to complete its atavistic evolution.

YaYa needed to consume Flame Fruits daily to aid its transformation into the Dark Flame Ancient Crow.

Su Ping wasn't sure how long he would stay at Yueya Island, but since it wasn't far, he decided to bring YaYa along, as it wouldn't be much trouble.

So, riding on Lao Sha, Su Ping held the mechanical weapon in his arms and shouted:

"Let's go! This operation is called 'Fish Slaying Operation'!"

"Woof!"

"Woof!"

"Wow!"

"Caw!"

(End of Chapter)

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