Beast Taming: Invincible Breeder-Chapter 420 - 405: Devouring Slime Goes Viral Again
The commotion of the battle attracted a group of Myriad God-devouring Butterflies to join in on the excitement. Both parties had the aura of the Godless Celestial Abyss Snake, so the Myriad God-devouring Butterflies did not attack them.
After collecting the spoils, Li Cunxu immediately left.
Not long after, a Godless Celestial Abyss Snake came to inspect, and the Myriad God-devouring Butterflies around backed off like sheep seeing a wolf.
The battle was already over, and the people were gone, nothing interesting to see.
The Godless Celestial Abyss Snake stared at the battle traces for a moment and then left.
There was an airship on the way here, and there could be an airship on the way back, but that depended on luck.
If lucky, a passing airship would appear within a day, and you could board it immediately to head to Longdu, the city closest to the Barbaric Mountain Range.
If unlucky, without a passing airship, you would have to walk back.
Logically, with Jiang Lingyun accompanying Li Cunxu, their luck should be good. However, Jiang Lingyun wasn’t in a hurry to go back; she took Li Cunxu treasure-hunting across the Barbaric Mountain Range.
The resources they gathered were more profitable than the Ice Body Pearls Li Cunxu sold each day.
And that’s just the resources Li Cunxu gathered on his own.
Jiang Lingyun collected even more with her treasure-seeking rat able to sense treasures, and they all shared her talent [Unmatched Fortune].
Before breaking through to Venerable King, Jiang Lingyun no longer lacked resources.
"It’s so enviable!"
Li Cunxu sighed.
After ten days of collecting, it seemed Jiang Lingyun had enough, and her good fortune promptly arranged for a passing airship.
Li Cunxu flew up, caught the ride, and returned to Longdu.
From there, he took the teleportation array, transferring to Shendu School.
As soon as he returned to school, a group of students saw him and immediately shouted, surrounding Li Cunxu and clamoring for the Devouring Slime, pleading for him to put more Devouring Slimes on sale.
"Senior Cunxu, please could you sell me a Devouring Slime, I’ll pay twenty times the original price."
"Senior Cunxu, I’ll pay a hundred times, sell me a Devouring Slime."
"Senior Cunxu, I I I I I..."
"There are so many of us wanting one, Senior, surely there’s not enough Devouring Slimes. I think it would be fairer to just put them up on the campus net and let everyone compete on speed."
"Sneaky rascal, you have a fifth-generation mechanical pet phone with that built-in enhanced internet speed device. When it comes to online buying, who could beat you at that, don’t listen to him, Senior?"
...
Li Cunxu was puzzled, what’s going on, how come after more than twenty days, the enthusiasm for buying Devouring Slimes only increased instead of decreased?
Seeing more and more people surrounding him, with many more outside seemingly having gotten word that he was there and rushing to join the crowd, Li Cunxu felt that given a day, he might not get out of the crowd unscathed.
Decisively, Li Cunxu entrusted the Void Turtle with teleporting him back to his dorm.
Before teleporting, Li Cunxu intended to teleport away with Jiang Lingyun.
But he noticed that Jiang Lingyun had somehow disappeared, and as he activated his Blood Lotus Eye to look around quickly, found she had already positioned herself on the outskirts of the crowd, nibbling on Spirit Gourd Seeds produced by a wild Sunflower Monster and watching the scene unfold.
In fact, the moment the crowd started closing in, Jiang Lingyun instinctively distanced herself from Li Cunxu.
Whoosh~
Li Cunxu teleported away.
"Ah~ why did Senior leave, I haven’t got my Devouring Slime yet."
"It’s probably because you guys scared him off."
...
Li Cunxu opened the campus net, and the headline hot topic was "Senior Li Cunxu is back; our Devouring Slimes have finally got a lead."
Li Cunxu was puzzled.
The Devouring Slime was indeed superior to ordinary pets and could be raised to go toe-to-toe with dragon pets.
But it still couldn’t compare to dragon pets; the Devouring Slime had one disadvantage of being very demanding on food.
Li Cunxu then opened Pet Sound, the top headline there also revolved around Devouring Slimes.
Many people were clamoring to contract a Devouring Slime.
After some searching, Li Cunxu figured out why Devouring Slimes were once again so popular.
The reason was still related to the Meng Monarch, who had previously caused the Devouring Slime to become a hit.
The Meng Monarch herself contracted the Devouring Slime, and that would have been fine, but she even recommended the Devouring Slime to her close female friend, and more crucially, her friend really took the Meng Monarch’s advice and contracted a Devouring Slime, high profile showing off online.
If the Meng Monarch says a contract is good, even recommending it to her sovereign friends, then this pet beast must be worth contracting.
As a result, the interest and demand for contracting Devouring Slimes grew even higher.
Add to that Li Cunxu’s limited supply strategy, creating a sense of scarcity, which further fueled the frenzy for contracting Devouring Slimes.
Her friend, a newly minted sovereign, shares a similar plight to the Meng Monarch, with a talent even the Four Gods feared, subjected to the same type of appearance-unchanging curse.
The friend is slightly better off than the Meng Monarch, as the curse was not particularly strong, preventing her from regressing to a child’s stature, instead fixing her permanently in the appearance of a maiden.
Li Cunxu found it strange, while it made sense for the Meng Monarch to contract the cute Devouring Slime, this explanation didn’t suit her friend, who didn’t care for cuteness in pet beasts.
Li Cunxu knew the friend well, she was all about power, contracting only very strong pet beasts.
Especially, after breaking through to Sovereign, her standards skyrocketed, contracting only ’small divine beast’ tier pet beasts like the Spiritual Energy Dragon.
The Devouring Slime had some strength, but it wasn’t that strong at all, definitely shouldn’t catch her friend’s eye?
"I always felt there’s more beneath the surface to her contracting a Devouring Slime."
An hour later, Li Cunxu realized he had underestimated the Devouring Slime’s popularity.
The online’s top trending topic was "After a Long Absence, Li Cunxu Reappears at Shendu University."
Jiang Lingyun poked Li Cunxu.
"Boss, look outside the window."
Li Cunxu took a glance, finding his doorway filled with students lurking around, with some even holding banners.
Fortunately, the students were well-mannered, not ringing his doorbell over this issue.
"I suppose it would be inappropriate not to respond to this level of interest."
Li Cunxu released two video responses.
The online video stated that the weekly supply of twenty Devouring Slimes would increase by ten more, and to combat purchases by those with exceptionally fast-speed mechanical pets, orders would be filled by random drawing.
The school video announced that he would put ten Devouring Slimes on the campus net for sale monthly, with the same random drawing method accounting for those with fast mechanical pets.
As for the price, Li Cunxu did not increase it.
Even if he raised the price of Devouring Slimes to one Purple Gold Dragon Coin (1.2 billion Alliance Coins) each month, it wouldn’t earn him as much as he did from selling Ice Body Pearls in a day.
After releasing the videos, Li Cunxu no longer paid attention to the online fuss and directly stepped into a small teleportation array, returning to Fertile Island.
Xiaoruan resumed the duty of exterminating noise eels below the King level, relieving Li Shiji immensely.
"Hope it can cleanse away its world-ending calamity aura."
Li Cunxu took out the butterfly egg enveloped in vibrant green light of life and used the Merit Golden Lotus leaf on the egg.
Theoretically, the world-ending calamity aura should be cleansed by the Merit Golden Lotus leaf.
The Myriad God-devouring Butterflies are unlike the original three demon dragons, whose world-ending calamity aura concentrated on one dragon. Meanwhile, the Myriad God-devouring Butterflies’ calamity aura is evenly distributed across all of them.
Theoretically, the butterfly egg only held a fraction, merely one amongst tens of thousands, of the world-ending calamity aura.
