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

Xiao Ye turned his head to look.

As soon as Nangong Siyao stepped into the spatial tunnel, countless spatial blades slashed toward her.

In a flash of white light, the little Kunpeng pendant hanging from Nangong Siyao's chest shattered, instantly teleporting her away from here.

The little Kunpeng pendant was a life-saving item—it was also the "massage fee" Yunxi had given. Xiao Ye had told both Nangong Siyao and Cheng Bingxi to always wear it close to their bodies. Of course, he himself wore a little Kunpeng pendant on his chest too.

"Whew!" Xiao Ye let out a breath of relief; Nangong Siyao was okay, and that was all that mattered.

But right after, he clenched his teeth in anger. *So this damn spatial shield was actually single-use for one person?* He'd thought it would form an energy protection shield a few meters all around, enough to keep multiple people safe, but in the end, it formed a protective shield right on his skin's surface.

*What kind of weird brain circuit did Yunxi have to design such a bizarre protective tool?*

Xiao Ye glanced down, and oh crap.

Walking the bird?

All his clothes had been shredded by the spatial blades.

He quickly pulled out a pair of big boxers from his system space and put them on.

But damn, the moment he put them on, they were instantly sliced clean by the spatial blades again.

Xiao Ye, "..."

Totally helpless, he had no choice but to go bare and took a step through the spatial tunnel.

In a flash of white light—

He appeared in a dim, shadowy space. There was no sky, no ground, no living things—just endless gloom.

There were no spatial blades here, so it looked pretty safe.

Stepping onto thin air felt just as solid as walking on the ground.

He looked around, and at the center of the distant space, there was a pale figure holding something round, messing with a giant clump of chaos energy at the very center.

Xiao Ye's eyes narrowed, his face showing a bit of shock.

That was Mu Qingxue, currently not a single stitch on her body. Even from a distance, he could tell how tender and fair her skin was, not to mention those killer curves.

Of course, since she was facing away, he didn't actually get much of a view.

Xiao Ye pulled a big pair of boxers out from his system space and put them on. He wasn't the type to streak in public.

Once dressed, Xiao Ye sprinted over at top speed, shouting,

"Put that down and let me handle it!"

If he didn't act now, Mu Qingxue was going to snatch this treasure away!

A trace of helplessness flickered across Mu Qingxue's gorgeous face. *So this guy really did come to the Heart of the Secret Realm space with her, just as the divination skill had predicted.*

Swish—

Xiao Ye reached out to grab that enormous clump of chaos energy, but he came up empty—his hand just swiped at air.

Mu Qingxue said smugly, "You clueless idiot, you don't even know what this is. Why'd you come to the Heart of the Secret Realm then?"

Xiao Ye scratched his head. He really didn't know what it was.

The Heart of the Secret Realm, this kind of high-level thing could only be explained at higher tiers, and the school's public library didn't have any books about it—maybe those big forces' Scripture Pavilions would.

Out of curiosity, Xiao Ye took a closer look at the glowing round instrument in Mu Qingxue's hand.

This thing emitted thin threads of energy, wrapping around the chaos clump, looking like some kind of special ritual.

Looking at the chaos clump, he pointed at the round thing and said, "What's that?"

Mu Qingxue followed the direction he pointed—and that was her prime real estate.

Mu Qingxue quickly turned her back, snarled, "You'd better stop looking around, or I'll gouge out your dog eyes."

"!" Xiao Ye turned back, realizing he'd pointed at the wrong thing.

But after sneaking two peeks, his eyes betrayed a bit of disdain.

This? Not even close to the frightening bounty of a mature lady.

Those long legs weren't anywhere near as long as Cheng Bingxi's.

If anything, Mu Qingxue just had a golden-ratio figure, her skin dazzlingly white, like snow untouched by the world.

Mu Qingxue was stunned—*he was actually picky?*

"You've got some kind of exhibitionist kink? If you don't want people looking, then just put on some clothes!" Xiao Ye scoffed.

Mu Qingxue faced away from him, leaving only her back exposed in Xiao Ye's line of sight. Her beautiful eyes were full of disdain as she said, "This is the Heart of the Secret Realm, you can't use storage space at all. Do you even know the basics?"

"Exhibitionist? You think I want to be naked? I prepared a set of clothes before coming in, but they all got shredded by spatial blades!"

She hadn't even cursed, but her tone made it feel like she was talking down to an idiot.

Xiao Ye, …

He twitched at the corners of his mouth, glanced down at his boxers. Storage space—as in, storage ring—couldn't be used, but his system space still worked?

Looking at the chaos clump, Xiao Ye had a bold idea spark in his mind.

"Heh!" Mu Qingxue sneered. Don't be fooled by her standing still—she was silently working that round instrument in her arms the entire time, carving a contract array into the chaos clump.

In less than thirty seconds, she'd be able to use the contract array to make the Secret Realm Core recognize her as master—then it'd be all hers. My Virtual Library Empire (M V L E M P Y R) appreciates your readership at the source.

At that point, she'd control this Heart of the Secret Realm, and basically the entire secret realm too.

And she'd definitely make this pervert pay.

*What he saw, she'd see back…wait a sec!*

Something clicked in Mu Qingxue's mind. She whirled around, and her beautiful eyes caught sight of Xiao Ye's boxers over his skin drum.

"You actually wasted a high-level defensive treasure." She stared in shock.

The City Lord's Mansion also had treasures to defend clothing, but her prophecy had called for her to come alone to the Heart of the Secret Realm, so to avoid wasting defensive treasures, she'd only brought a simple protective shield—the kind that stuck close to her skin.

The round instrument had been taken out beforehand, and its material was tough enough to withstand the attacks of spatial blades.

Xiao Ye didn't care to argue, and focused his attention on the chaos clump.

"Collect!"

The chaos clump didn't budge.

Mu Qingxue snickered and said disdainfully, "The Heart of the Secret Realm has special rules—you can't use energy, power of realm, or spiritual power here at all. 'Collect'? You're wasting your breath!"

Xiao Ye scratched his head and tried sensing things. She was right!

To store an item in his system space, he'd usually need to wrap it with spiritual power or at least touch it. But the moment he tried releasing spiritual power just now, it instantly dispersed.

Then Xiao Ye put his hand on the chaos clump and asked his system in his mind, *You can store this thing, right?*

The system didn't answer.

But the next second, the chaos clump vanished in a flash, leaving behind only a few lingering threads of special energy still coming from the round instrument.

With the chaos clump gone, the round instrument's energy threads retracted and it let out a whirring shutdown sound.

Mu Qingxue stared in utter disbelief at Xiao Ye, "You actually put it away?"

Xiao Ye shrugged, "You saw it with your own eyes, so why even ask?"

Suddenly, his eyes went wide—Mu Qingxue was now facing him with zero cover, so he got a very real view of the scenery.

There were mountains, there were forests.

It wasn't the full picture, but it was deadly alluring.

"Hmph!" Now the chaos clump was gone, Mu Qingxue flung the round instrument aside, her pretty face blazing with fury as she lunged at Xiao Ye, her voice icy,

"Hand over the Secret Realm Core or you won't leave here alive!"

She swung her right leg high at an angle, slicing toward Xiao Ye with lethal momentum.

She was only Grandmaster Realm Ten-Star, but she'd reincarnated from an Ancient Saint Realm—and now, she'd already inherited some ancient techniques. If it was just about using physical strength, she felt totally confident she could handle Xiao Ye.

But Xiao Ye was the Contractor of the Mythical Level Five-Clawed Venerable Golden Dragon template, his realm still at Venerable, but his physical strength was far beyond any ordinary SSS level—by a ridiculous margin.

In his eyes, Mu Qingxue's moves looked like they were stuck in a lag, slow and choppy as hell.

"Swish!" Xiao Ye raised a hand and effortlessly caught her ankle, lifting it high and grinning, "What was that you just said? I didn't catch it. Say it again."