Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle

Villa No. 001 in Lakeview Villas, Section Three.

First-floor bedroom.

Xiao Ye had fallen for Liu Ya's trick, he was only halfway through a massage before he found himself following her instructions completely.

Then he was shocked to discover Liu Ya never wanted a massage at all, she pulled him into her arms in a flash.

Xiao Ye became a puppet being manipulated again.

After some time had passed,

In the underground cultivation room, Liu Ya was energetic and her face glowed with satisfaction as she observed the two Summoned Beasts who had just reached Grandmaster One-Star and were currently cultivating.

"Not bad, their auras were stable and their foundations solid, the rapid cultivation hadn't made their realm flimsy."

"At this speed, in the Grandmaster stage, you two could break through a minor rank every two days and reach the limits of the Venerable Realm within two months."

Xiao Ye, exhausted and slumped against the wall, *had felt a bit frustrated at being messed with by Liu Ya, but hearing those words, his mood improved a lot.*

"Breaking through to the Venerable Realm in two months is fast, we should be able to hit the Great Venerable Realm within half a year!" he said, sounding excited.

Once he reached the Great Venerable Realm, he wouldn't have to submit to Liu Ya's power anymore and could finally call the shots.

Besides, being at the Great Venerable Realm would make him a powerhouse in Devil City, and his status would skyrocket.

But the next second, Liu Ya rained on his parade and shook her head, saying,

"Being able to break through to the Venerable Realm is just speculation, the hallmark of the Venerable Realm is forming one's own Power of Realm—a domain."

"To establish a domain, even SSS-level Summoned Beasts usually needed a year, and as for SS-levels, it'd take at least ten years to get past that bottleneck."

Xiao Ye's happy face froze and his eyelids twitched, "Wait, what?"

"One year? Just to break through to the Venerable Realm?"

Liu Ya tapped her flawless white chin, "Yeah, and that's just to hit the limits of the Venerable Realm. To break into the Great Venerable Realm takes even longer. What you said about getting there in a year is basically impossible."

Xiao Ye furrowed his brow into deep grooves.

*If Liu Ya was right, breaking through to the Great Venerable Realm would take at least ten years—just a few years at best.*

*That timeline was way too long; Xiao Ye couldn't wait that long.*

*Did that mean he'd spend the next decade suppressed by Liu Ya? Not a chance.*

*Even though Liu Ya became his Contractor, she was already at the Great Venerable Realm. She could handle him however she liked.*

Seeing how unhappy he was, Liu Ya rolled her eyes at him and snapped, "The Golden Dragon and White Fox are five times more talented than regular SSS-levels, so the time required gets slashed to a fifth. You can expect to break through to the Venerable Realm in four months."

"That speed might even alarm the Venerable Golden Dragons—just be grateful."

Five times?

Xiao Ye's eyes lit up.

*Right, how could he forget? The Summoned Beast's second form was five times the base SSS-level—the next form upgrade would be insane.*

*The third form would definitely overpower the second.*

So Xiao Ye urged his system in his head, "Divine-level Beastmaster System, hurry up and give me some missions with evolution point rewards."

This time, the system responded, but the reply was like a machine following a preset program,

[Remaining evolution points: 100]

[Encounter-driven missions trigger at random, mission rewards are randomly unlimited: evolution points, Transcendent Treasure, all sorts of Rule Fragment Crystals, Stellar Core, Rule Crystals, Chaos Qi, etc.]

[All rewards are at least at the Rule level, with no upper limit.]

Completing earlier missions had left him with 100 evolution points, but it took 200 to upgrade the Golden Dragon and Two-tailed White Fox to their second form.

Xiao Ye felt helpless.

The system's missions triggered randomly, and its rewards were random too—it never obeyed its master's wishes.

He could only try something else, aiming to upgrade both Summoned Beasts' template levels with the Template Adjuster.

[SSS-level Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Template] to [Mythical Level Five-Clawed Venerable Golden Dragon Template]

[SSS-level Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Template] (Upgradeable)

Requirements, (10 Fire Element, 10 Water Element, 10 Wood Element, 10 Earth Element, 10 Gold Element, 50 Creation Type, 50 Venerable Type)

[SSS-level Nine-tailed Celestial Fox Template] to [Mythical Level Nine-tailed Life Sovereign Celestial Fox Template]

[SSS-level Nine-tailed Celestial Fox Template] (Upgradeable)

Requirements, (50 Life Type, 50 Creation Type, 50 Destruction Type)

Xiao Ye looked over the conditions the Template Adjuster gave him and couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air.

Both needed 150 Rule Fragment Crystals, including a whole bunch of rare Venerable Type, Life Type, and Destruction Type ones.

By his calculations, the Five Elements Rule Fragment Crystals and Creation Type were the most common—he'd picked up a lot at the Practical Training Base last time.

Sixteen Creation Type, five Dark Element Type, one Gold Element, one Fire Element, and one Ice Element Rule Fragment Crystal.

Thinking it over, Xiao Ye decided to first collect the common crystals, then look around for Demon Beasts with any Venerable, Space Type, Life, or Destruction Attributes.

He could extract an Earth Element Rule Fragment Crystal from a Groundhog.

He could extract a Dark Element Rule Fragment Crystal from a Shadow Ghost Wolf.

With each Demon Beast matching its own crystal, Xiao Ye was starting to figure things out.

Since he was looking at his system panel the whole time, Liu Ya was right behind it.

Liu Ya's face flushed red as she followed Xiao Ye's gaze—only to realize he was staring at her, ahem, "magnificent asset."

"This devil, didn't get enough of a massage just now, huh," M|V|LEM*PYR is the home of this chapter

"Could it be that when he said he was tired and didn't want a massage, he was just pretending?"

*Liu Ya thought that was entirely possible.*

"Hmph!" she sniffed, glaring knowingly at Xiao Ye, "You say no, but you clearly want it. Geez."

Xiao Ye snapped back at her little snort, only to see Liu Ya's teasing, playful smirk.

Xiao Ye: "…"

*Why that look? Did Liu Ya think he just couldn't get it done?*

*That thought lit a fire in Xiao Ye's heart. Fuming, he grabbed the most beautiful teaching assistant's slender hand and dragged her straight out the door.*

The Practical Training Base covered a vast area.

Somewhere in a Demon Beast Forest, a handsome man and a beautiful woman touched down on the ground.

Liu Ya asked curiously, "What's the rush, why bring me here?"

Xiao Ye shot her a glance and joked, "To do you!"

Liu Ya's eyes widened in shock, and she hurriedly looked around. Only when she saw no one nearby did she finally let out a sigh of relief and gasp, "Are you crazy? You can't do that here."

Xiao Ye's expression turned serious as he kept an eye on the Demon Beasts circling in, explaining, "Why can't I?"

Liu Ya's face turned bright red and she shook her head hard, "No way, absolutely not."

She took it seriously, truly believing Xiao Ye dragged her here just for that.

A few Demon Beasts rushed at them, so Xiao Ye cut the chatter and said, "Hurry up."

Liu Ya glared at him, thinking *He's that eager? There is no way I'm doing anything like that here.*

"Boom!" Xiao Ye raised a fist the size of a sandbag, unleashing his Grandmaster One-Star aura, and slammed it like lightning onto a Demon Rabbit with fiery red eyes.

With a "bang!", the Tier Nine Mortal Realm Demon Rabbit took a fist straight to the face, got smashed into the ground, and blasted out a deep pit.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The other Tier Eight and Seven Mortal Realm Demon Beasts each got flattened in a split second by Xiao Ye's swift strikes.

In less than a second, all of them were badly wounded and totally immobilized!

"Extract Rule Fragment Crystal!" Xiao Ye activated the Template Adjuster's extraction function.