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

Mu Qingxue was furious, "Are you messing with me?"

Xiao Ye brushed her hand away, "Who's messing with you? You're the one with bad intentions, see you."

After tossing out these words, Xiao Ye walked off without looking back.

The stubborn supervisor almost burst out laughing, *You tried so hard to make him stay, but he didn't give you any face at all and still left.*

Cheng Bingxi became even more convinced that Xiao Ye needed another Beast Girl at his side, and couldn't help biting her lip, *The City Lord's Daughter chasing after him? Really?*

Jie Gangtai's face once again lit up with a heartfelt grin, he did not want Xiao Ye to participate in this underground crystal ore training at all.

Mu Qingxue furrowed her willow brows and sighed, "Forget it, the Divination Skill predicts a fixed future, a determined future that can't be changed. No matter how badly I want to alter it, it's pointless."

"What's meant to happen will still happen. If the male protagonist in that vision isn't Xiao Ye, even if I tie him up and drag him into the underground crystal ore, it wouldn't change what is destined to occur."

She felt a deep sense of helplessness.*

*Everyone in the world gossiped that space ruled, but time reigned supreme. Everyone yearned to have the time attribute, everyone wanted themselves to be a time attribute template.*

*But everything had pros and cons, like her Divination Skill.*

*Even if she knew what was going to happen in the future, there was no way to change the outcome, and that was so frustrating.*

*Maybe the fixed future predicted by the Divination Skill could be changed, but it wasn't something her current self could accomplish.*

At this moment, Mu Qingxue hadn't received all the memories and inheritance from her past life. She just knew a little bit about her previous self, like she had been a Great Power in the Saint Realm, but only inherited a small amount of skill comprehension. So right now, she had no idea how to change a fixed future.*

She let out a sigh, skirted around the others, and jumped onto the slide, ready to enter the underground crystal ore.*

Jie Gangtai hurried to catch up behind her, "Xue'Er, wait for me!"

But Mu Qingxue didn't wait for him. She rode down the slide at top speed, plunging more than a thousand meters underground.

When the slide came back up, only then did Jie Gangtai ride it into the underground crystal ore.

Cheng Bingxi clenched a glowing ring in her palm, her fist tightening, and she was the last to enter below.

The underground crystal ore—rather than calling it an underground space, it was a network of interconnected caverns, tens of thousands of caves branching out from the central corridor.

On the cavern walls, there were occasionally crystal stones radiating profound power. These were Conception Crystal Stones, though their purities varied. For Conception Crystal Stones to be traded on the market, they had to reach a certain purity, or else they'd be disqualified as subpar product.*

The denser the Conception Crystal Stones in a cavern, the more likely that there would be crystal essence there.*

If a cave possessed crystal essence, then there was definitely a Guardian Phantom Spirit Elf Beast present.*

A place with lots of crystal essence was basically a base, or even the lair, of the Phantom Spirit Elf Beast clan.*

Mu Qingxue stood at the central passage, looked at the already developed caves all around, then picked a direction at random and prepared to dash off.*

Jie Gangtai's cheerful voice reached from behind.

"Xue'Er, let's do this together. I'll find you some crystal essence."

"I'm not like that Xiao Ye, so damn ungrateful, actually refusing your kindness."

He was still quietly gloating over Xiao Ye's refusal of Mu Qingxue, although he didn't understand why she insisted on having Xiao Ye participate in this training.

*But who could have predicted Mu Qingxue's expression went cold as ice as she snapped, "Don't follow me!"*

"I'm warning you, this training is really important to me and I need to do it alone."

"Don't let me see you again after this, or don't blame me for acting like I don't even recognize you."

With that, Mu Qingxue stomped her right foot and leapt through the cavern like a phantom a few times, vanishing from Jie Gangtai's sight.

Jie Gangtai instinctively wanted to follow, but two seconds later, he realized he couldn't even see the shadow of Mu Qingxue anymore.

"Ah! Xiao Ye, I'm not done with you!" he shouted furiously.

He thought Mu Qingxue was mad just because he'd stopped the operator at the checkpoint from letting Xiao Ye pass, which led her to ditch him and go off on her own without a second thought.*

So Jie Gangtai blamed everything on Xiao Ye.*

Young Master Hong's villa—Hong Tao let out a sigh of relief after ending the call. That trash supervisor actually tried to block Xiao Ye, stopping him from joining the training. *Wasn't that about to ruin his whole plan?*

*If Xiao Ye wasn't there, how would they carry out the plan to kill him?*

But thankfully, in the end, he still passed the check.*

Just then, the communicator rang. Hong Tao glanced at it—it was that same supervisor again.

"Probably calling to apologize," Hong Tao thought, and hung up without a second thought.

Anyone who could get to a supervisor position had to be pretty crafty.*

After the scolding he'd just given, that supervisor had to be all nervous now, worrying about getting demoted.*

Hong Tao crossed his legs, relaxed into his dragon-hide sofa, hummed a little tune, obviously in a great mood.*

*If he could get rid of Xiao Ye, if everything went smoothly and Xiao Ye died, that'd make him really happy.*

But then, the supervisor's call came through again.

Hong Tao ignored it, snickered, "That dude's really scared I'm gonna sack him."

The ringing stopped, and two seconds later started again.

Hong Tao frowned, getting annoyed, picked up the communicator and barked, "You're supposed to use the family line to report important news. Enough already, I'm not firing you."

On the other end, the stubborn supervisor breathed a sigh of relief and laughed, "Yes, Young Master."

Originally, the stubborn supervisor had planned to report that Xiao Ye refused the Young City Lord, but it seemed like that was too minor to mention.*

"Mm." Hong Tao hung up.

Just then, his private communicator rang. It was the team leader in charge of the hit, and when Hong Tao answered, he said, "What is it?"

Plan Execution Leader, "Young Master, target Xiao Ye didn't join the training, he left. Only his Contractor entered the underground crystal ore."

Hong Tao shot up from the leather couch, and said in disbelief, "He left?"

Plan Execution Leader, "That's right, I saw it with my own eyes. Should we cancel the plan?"

Hong Tao's face darkened, and he barked, "Cancel it."

"The target isn't even there, what the hell are we still carrying out this plan for!" Sourced directly from MV6LEMP6YR.

Plan Execution Leader, "Roger!"

Hong Tao immediately called the stubborn supervisor's line. As soon as it connected, he yelled, "What the hell is wrong with you? Why did Xiao Ye still leave in the end!"

The stubborn supervisor broke out in a cold sweat and stammered fearfully, "You-Young Master, Xiao Ye refused to—"

He explained everything that had happened in detail.

After listening, Hong Tao's face turned as black as coal, rage rushing to his head. He cursed,

"Why the hell did you jump out to block him? Are you looking to die?"

"I only needed their Summoned Beast Realm to be Grandmaster Realm, and you turned it into all this bullshit?"

"From now on, your position is demoted. Go into the crystal ore and mine with the others. Dig for two hundred years and I'll see if I want to reinstate you!"

"Get into your mining uniform and start digging, right now, immediately!"

Hong Tao's barrage left the stubborn supervisor frozen in place, a wave of utter despair rising inside.* His cultivation was at the Venerable Realm, and he was already over five hundred years old, nearing his life span's limit. If he mined for another two hundred years, he might just drop dead before ever getting his job back.*

*Two hundred years from now, he'd probably be just a pile of dust, so what was the point of talking about reinstatement?*

*A Venerable Realm lifespan was typically around seven hundred years, a Great Venerable Realm was a thousand, and an Overlord's lifespan was about five thousand years.*