Chapter 421 - Xiong Er. Honey

Just as Zhang Che was examining the large ginseng in his hand excitedly, the frisky monkey suddenly looked at him with a fiery gaze and cried out in a stammer, “Baba, eat!”

Zhang Che was stunned. “You want to eat it?”

“Baba, eat, eat, eat!” the frisky monkey said, gesturing animatedly, looking at the ginseng in Zhang Che’s hand, almost going up to him and snatching it away.

“Eat my ass! Wouldn’t it be a waste to let you eat such good stuff!?” Zhang Che rolled his eyes back and directly stored the ginseng away in his spatial storage.

Zhang Che naturally didn’t doubt that a spiritual herb of such grade would allow the frisky monkey to rank up in level, perhaps even twice.

However, the three-star frisky monkey would only be five-stars even if he ranked up twice in level. There wouldn’t be much change to its strength.

However, if the ginseng was refined into medicine, its value would definitely increase multiple folds.

Only a wastrel would do something like feeding the ginseng directly to a pet. Zhang Che was obviously not one.

Seeing Zhang Che putting the ginseng away, the frisky monkey looked at him with his eyes wide, resentment evident in his eyes, -I was clearly the one who found it. Why can’t you let me eat it? How petty!-

Zhang Che reflected upon himself, thinking whether he was being too miserly when he saw the frisky monkey looking like he was on the verge of tears.

The frisky monkey was the one who found the ginseng, after all. Pocketing it for himself like that really seemed a little too stingy of him.

“Right, you searched in such a wide area earlier. Surely there are other spiritual herbs around, aren’t there? Come on, bring daddy to go look for them; I’ll give them all to you.”

The frisky monkey opened his mouth, thinking, -You think a spiritual herb of that grade is like the cabbage you see in markets? Finding as many as you want?-

As of now, the frisky monkey’s spiritual sense was incredible. After activating his skill, he could determine the grade of those spiritual herbs by judging how strong their spiritual signature was.

As such, although there were still quite a few spiritual herbs in this area, they were all low-grade stuff. None of them were able to increase his strength; it would be useless no matter how many of them he ate.

Alas, his baba had already said the word. The frisky monkey couldn’t do a thing about it. He could only bring Zhang Che to various places in the area to gather all the spiritual herbs he sensed earlier.

“We’re already so deep into the beast world, and yet there are still so few high-grade spiritual herbs. No wonder the prices of spiritual herbs in Mercury are so high!”

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The party swept through the area. Although they found more than ten spiritual herbs under the frisky monkey’s directions, none of them caught Zhang Che’s attention, leaving him lamenting.

On the other hand, the frisky monkey was looking at Zhang Che resentfully, as if he was saying, -Look, baba, like I said, those spiritual herbs won’t be useful even if I ate them all. Give me my ginseng baby!-

“What are you looking at? We’ll continue searching; it’s still early anyways. We’ll search deep into that direction later. Surely we’ll find a spiritual herb that can increase your level. Don’t worry.”

Having advanced to dark gold-quality, the frisky monkey could sense any spiritual herbs within fifteen hundred meters around him even without using his skill. His efficiency was actually very high, too.

Moreover, with that fellow the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, they’d be flying as fast as a commercial airplane. Their speed when searching for spiritual herbs definitely wouldn’t be too slow.

After hearing Zhang Che say that, the frisky monkey’s eyes immediately shone with excitement.

-Mhm, I’ll have to keep working hard. I’ll get a good meal if I find another high-grade spiritual herb!-

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Half an hour later, Zhang Che had scavenged every spiritual herb in the area. He set his sights further into the beast world, directing the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to fly deeper at a controlled pace, allowing the frisky monkey to scan the area like a radar.

They were already deep into the beast world, after all. There really were quite a few spiritual herbs around.

After advancing a few kilometers, Zhang Che added a few more spiritual herbs to the collection in his spatial storage. Although their grades weren’t high, that was only relative to the ginseng baby from before.

Each of those spiritual herbs could be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, if he wanted to!

The key point was that those things had far higher demand than supply.

During the process of his search for spiritual herbs, Zhang Che didn’t neglect to kill any exotic beasts they came across.

Although there weren’t many exotic beasts in this area, their level and quality were not bad, mostly consisting of mid-tier silver-quality or higher. Zhang Che even obtained a few mid-tier dark gold-quality beast cards.

In the past, this was all good stuff that greatly excited him. Unfortunately, at present he had set his sights too high up. Dark gold-quality beast cards no longer interested him as much, unless they were at high-tier.

“A pity I didn’t come across any mid-tier epic-quality exotic beasts. Otherwise, I’d have gotten another epic-quality subdued beast right away.”

The Demonic Energy Large Boar he had hunted earlier was at seven-star epic-quality. Although it was extremely powerful, Zhang Che was only a Tier Six beastmaster at present; he wasn’t able to utilize it, and could only store it in his spatial storage for later.

Even so, epic-quality exotic beasts weren’t something so easily found!

Zhang Che swept through a hundred kilometers, obtaining a large amount of spiritual herbs and beast cards. Let alone epic-quality, he didn’t even see a single legend-quality exotic beast.

-Should I just continue going deeper in this direction?- Zhang Che thought, narrowing his eyes as he looked at the gradually steepening mountains ahead.

Breaking through to Tier Seven beastmaster wasn’t something he could accomplish in just a few days. Since he had already come this far into the beast world, why not venture a little deeper? He would grow considerably stronger if he managed to get his hands on another mid-tier epic-quality beast card or two…

As for the dangers, Zhang Che wasn’t really worried or afraid.

In any case, he could transform into a green frog at any time. Once he came across any exotic beasts he had no hopes of winning against, he’d directly turn into the extremely trash-tier green frog. Those creatures that stood at the top of the beast world would probably not pay any attention to such an insignificant creature.

“Take a risk, your bicycle becomes a motorbike; make a gamble, your Chery becomes a Land Rover!” {TLN: Chery is a Chinese automobile manufacturing company.}

During one’s life in this world, who never had to take risks?

Zhang Che grit his teeth and immediately came to a decision. He’d continue exploring deeper into this mountain range and try to obtain another mid-tier epic-quality beast card or two before deciding on anything else.

Moreover, he had already promised the frisky monkey to look for a spiritual herb for him. There were still no signs of one. He mustn’t break his promise to his pet!

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The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon continued flying deeper.

Just as they flew over a mountain and continued flying along a long valley, Zhang Che suddenly heard intense buzzing sounds, like a fleet of planes were approaching from far away.

His face immediately fell.

This was surely a group of some kind of insect-type exotic beasts. -I’d better hide myself quickly. I can’t afford to provoke them.-

Those kind of insect-type exotic beasts would always be moving together in large groups, and would usually have poisonous attacks. Although Zhang Che was much stronger now, he didn’t dare to take the risk. He immediately directed the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to hide behind one of the hills to their side.

After a short while, the buzzing sounds grew louder and clearer. At the same time, a low, furious roar was heard.

“Hmm? What’s going on? There’s other exotic beasts around?”

Before his eyes, a huge lemon-yellow bear suddenly came running in his direction from the other end of the valley in a sorry state, chased by a large spread of closely-packed bees, each as large as a duck.

“Damn it, Xiong Er!” Zhang Che stared wide-eyed. He happened to see that yellow bear licking its palm while running for its life.

On its palm was an amber-colored layer of sticky stuff.

-What else could it be, if not honey!?- Zhang Che immediately thought of the children’s cartoon that kids loved the most in his previous life, and the character that loved honey and wouldn’t care if it was chased by bees: Xiong Er!

This ‘Xiong Er’ in his sight was really thick-skinned and durable. Although it was occasionally stung by the bees behind it, covering its whole body in blisters, it wasn’t slow in running at all.

Soon, it led the group of terrifying bees away and ran to the other end of the valley. Afterwards, it ran up the hill and soon disappeared from Zhang Che’s sight.

Zhang Che couldn’t help narrowing his eyes as he looked in the direction Xiong Er and the bees had disappeared to.

“I wonder how the honey in beast world tastes like..?”

Zhang Che immediately felt his heart burning up.

Honey was good stuff. Zhang Che remembered when he was young during his past life, he had the chance to try the honey his neighbor collected from his own bees. That feeling of sweetness to the heart was something he never forgot.

Ordinary honey was already irresistible. The honey produced by exotic beast bees in the beast world must taste a few times better at the very least, right?

Although those bees were a little far away earlier, leaving him unable to see their attributes, those little things’ level and quality wouldn’t be too high… probably? Otherwise, Xiong Er would have succumbed to their poison after being stung full of blisters.

Since those bees’ poisonous attacks weren’t very strong, their strength should be nothing impressive.

Most importantly, with the bees chasing after Xiong Er, there would surely not be many left at their nest. This was a chance!

“Let’s go, frisky monkey. Daddy will bring you to find some honey!” Zhang Che cried excitedly when he finished thinking. He directed the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to follow the tracks the fleeing Xiong Er left behind and flew into the mountain range.

After flying over a few mountains, a huge valley suddenly appeared in front of them. Vegetation was rich in the valley, and colorful flowers bloomed among the rich grasses, giving off a delightful sense of beauty.

-That’s it!- Zhang Che cheered. Since there were so many flowers in this valley, the bees’ nest shouldn’t be far from here.

As expected, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flew deep into the valley along the yellow bear’s tracks and arrived at a steep cliff.

Many slanted trees grew on the face of the cliff. The branches were dry and entangled, with many thick vines dangling to the ground.

It was obvious that Xiong Er had climbed those vines up to the trees and stolen the honey in the nest.

“Now, it belongs to me!”