Chapter 438 - The Application of Fire Crystals

After hearing the conversation between Zhang Che and the elemental queen, Huang Tielan’s eyes quickly went wide.

“Zhang Xiaoche, she can understand television dramas?”

The elemental queen was a pet Zhang Che had brought back from the beast world. She had been in contact with human society for less than two days and she could already understand dramas? Not only that, based on what she had just said, Huang Tielan could tell that this humanoid pet not only understood the drama, it seemed like she was hooked on it!

Heavens, this wasn’t making any sense!

Zhang Che nodded, smiling, “Yeah, I suppose there’s nothing more interesting to her than television.”

Huang Tielan was speechless, not understanding pets nowadays.

She turned back to look at the rainbow spider and the Four-Winged White Tiger playing around quietly at the side. She felt that those kind of pets were cuter.

Regrettably, those two little gluttons had to eat a lot everyday. But why weren’t they growing any stronger?

It couldn’t be helped; perhaps their potential was too high, and as a result it became especially difficult for them to grow..?

Thinking of pets, Huang Tielan remembered Zhang Che’s Umbra Wind God Leopard and asked curiously, “Hmm? Oh, right, Zhang Xiaoche, I remember you have a little pet leopard. Why didn’t I see you bring it back?”

Zhang Che was stunned for a moment after hearing that. He replied, “Oh, that little fellow really enjoys having freedom. I left him in the beast world. I’ll bring him back next time.”

Meanwhile, he was thinking he had really overlooked that point.

Nobody knew about him possessing the rainbow crystal, which allowed him to keep his pets in his spiritual sea. From the looks of it, he would have to bring the Umbra Wind God Leopard around at his side permanently. Otherwise, it could become extremely troublesome if others were drawn to this suspicious point.

“Hmm? How old is that thing? You left him in the beast world? Isn’t it dangerous?” Huang Tielan asked. Her rainbow spider and Four-Winged White Tiger were still very weak. If they were left in the beast world, they’d probably not survive longer than three days. Wasn’t Zhang Che afraid of an accident, leaving that little leopard alone in the beast world?

Zhang Che chuckled, “Nothing will happen to it. That little fellow ate a few powerful exotic beasts of the same attributes and is now at five-star dark gold-quality. I left him at a place close to the safety zone; he won’t be in any danger.”

Huang Tielan jumped in shock when she heard the Umbra Wind God Leopard was already at five-star dark gold-quality.

How long had it been, and that little fellow had already grown to that degree?

She cast another look at her own rainbow spider and Four-Winged White Tiger, feeling like their pets couldn’t be compared with one another. Zhang Xiaoche was really too enviable…

-Luckily I’m not pursuing the path of a beastmaster as my career. Otherwise, wouldn’t I lose all motivation to improve myself?-

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The next day, November of the Year 36 of the New Age, dawned on mankind.

Although it wasn’t a weekend today, Huang Tielan managed to apply for a day off school very easily. At present, she was far ahead of her peers, and had an extremely unique status in school.

After all, a freshman like her, who had enrolled into the university for only half a year was already an official beast card cultivator! There was no precedent in a top-tier major like beast card cultivation at Bei Du University!

As such, the ways of managing ordinary students were no longer suitable for her.

Despite not having to go to school, Huang Tielan woke up early and took out the few mid-tier beast cards she had gotten from Zhang Che yesterday night, then started attempting to concoct their respective cultivation fluids.

Of course, Zhang Che didn’t tell her the complete recipes. He withheld information on some key ingredients for every beast card’s cultivation fluid’s recipe, requiring Huang Tielan to figure things out on her own. It wouldn’t be very useful for Huang Tielan’s training if he gave her the complete recipes.

The elemental queen followed Huang Tielan into the lab, refining ingredients for her leisurely while watching television on her personal terminal.

Although she wasn’t focused on the task, the elemental queen was able to refine every ingredient easily and precisely according to Huang Tielan’s demands, leaving the latter in awe.

She realized her rejecting Zhang Che’s “gift” two nights ago was really a big loss. After getting used to letting the elemental queen doing the refining, it became scary to think of having to do refining herself, going through all the complicated steps on the machines.

That was truly too much work, not to mention the high chance of making a mistake!

However, Huang Tielan wasn’t someone who went against her words. Since she had rejected Zhang Che’s gift at the start, she would never bring it up again.

If she had to work a little harder, then so be it. Zhang Che wouldn’t stay in the beast world permanently, anyway. At the most, she’d just wait for Zhang Che to come back when she wanted to concoct cultivation fluids for mid-tier or higher beast cards.

——

Miss Tienan busied herself for the whole day. Meanwhile, Zhang Che spent his day leisurely.

Having gotten used to fighting in the beast world all the time, it left him a little unused to suddenly doing nothing.

Luckily, his future father-in-law called for him around noon.

After ending the call with Huang Juyun, Zhang Che was shocked beyond words.

It had only been a little more than a day, and the Huang family already had some discoveries on the fire crystals’ uses!

They truly lived up to their name as a large clan, having strength in all areas.

If it was Zhang Che himself, it really wouldn’t have been easy for him to research the use of a new mineral, not to mention the mountain of administrative work in the process!

—

Zhang Che rushed over to the Huangs’ place. Huang Juyun handed him a stack of papers and said, “After these two days of research, the basic function of those fire crystals was found. But we’ll definitely have to keep studying them to unearth all their applications.”

Zhang Che received the information and took a look, feeling impressed.

Although it had only been a short time and they hadn’t been able to find out all the uses of the fire crystals, the Huang family’s research institution had done many experiments, and had preliminary conclusions.

First, the fire crystals contain an extremely pure and stable fire elemental energy. It was so stable that there was no hidden dangers of the energy inside exploding even if the fire crystal was melted.

This point alone was very important!

Due to its high stability, the researchers speculated that the fire crystals could be used as energy crystals, acting as a power supply for some new equipment.

Take Zhang Che’s private sky shuttle, the Dijiang-hao, for example. If he used the fire crystals as its power source, the energy contained within was ten times that of the energy minerals he was using!

A kilogram of the original energy mineral could support Dijiang-hao’s flight for about fifty thousand kilometers. If Zhang Che used the fire crystals as the energy source instead, a kilogram of them would allow Dijiang-hao to fly more than five hundred thousand kilometers!

Such a powerful energy source would simply shock anyone who heard about it!

The fire crystals Zhang Che brought back this time weighed about a ton in total. If he used them to supply energy to Dijiang-hao, he’d never have to worry about any problems related to energy supply again.

Of course, there was no need to use the fire crystals so extravagantly, since Dijiang-hao was already supplied with energy minerals.

There were still other uses of the fire crystals waiting to be discovered.

On the other hand, the researchers had discovered that by mixing a certain amount of fire crystals into cold weapons, the weapons forged would add strong fire damage to their attacks. Even mid-tier gold-quality exotic beasts would be harmed by those weapons.

That alone was much better than simply using them as an energy source!

After all, not every beastmaster had powerful subdued beasts. Oftentimes, beastmasters had to participate in battles themselves. If they had a powerful weapon with them, their survivability would no doubt increase greatly!

“Only these two applications have been discovered for now due to the lack of time. There should be other uses for the fire crystals; their value is truly hard to estimate,” Huang Juyun sighed, “Oh, right, do you remember where you found the fire crystals? It’d definitely be a massive fortune if we can find more of them. Not only that, this type of new mineral is of epoch-making significance to humanity. With further research, it’s not impossible to produce weapons that can deal fire damage from a long distance. If it is realized, your contributions will become even greater!”

Zhang Che had already obtained a “pardon token” after handing over the information of exotic beast genetic evolution fluid. Almost no one in Hua Xia would dare to do anything against him in the open. If he could supply a large amount of this new mineral, his status would surely soar once more.

Even without relying on the Huang family, Zhang Che could form a powerful clan by himself, becoming one of the most important members among the large factions in Hua Xia.

Zhang Che had obviously garnered the meaning behind Huang Juyun’s words as well. He nodded, saying, “Uncle Huang, I still remember where the mine is located, but I’m not sure how many reserves are still there. I’ll definitely go back and explore carefully when I head out the next time, and try to bring more back.”

However, Huang Juyun waved his hand, saying, “No hurry regarding this matter. We still have to conduct further research on the fire crystals. The amount you’ve brought back this time is enough for now. The most important thing for you right now is still to advance to Tier Seven beastmaster as soon as possible. Your individual strength is what’s important.

“As for the fire crystals, it’s not too late for you to go back to dig for them after we’re done exploring their applications and pushing them into the market. There’s only three years left until the arrival of the fifth beast swarm, not to mention there’s still the hidden threat of the demons behind all this. You need to strive to raise your strength to a higher tier, so you have the strength to protect yourself and your family during the horde.

“Remember, your own strength is more important than any material possession!”

Zhang Che straightened his face, nodding heavily, “I understand, Uncle Huang!”

Indeed, Huang Juyun was right. At present, Zhang Che’s wealth was more than enough for him. It wasn’t good to invest much more effort in this area.

Without strength, what use was having a greater fortune?

If even stronger exotic beasts appeared in the fifth beast swarm, or the demons launched another large-scale invasion, in addition to their high-end combat forces being able to enter Mercury, the results would be unthinkable!

“Alright, go back and prepare yourself. Continue heading into the beast worlds tomorrow,” Huang Juyun waved his hand, shooing Zhang Che away from his place.

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After returning home, Zhang Che saw Miss Tienan was actually out of the lab.

She was chatting with Sun Lan and Sun Shaoying. When she saw Zhang Che had returned, she couldn’t help but exclaim excitedly, “Zhang Xiaoche, the elemental queen is really too powerful! I succeeded in concocting the cultivation fluid for two more mid-tier beast cards, and levelled them up!”

Zhang Che revealed a faint smile after hearing Huang Tielan’s slightly boastful words.

As long as Miss Tienan became an intermediate, or even advanced, beast card cultivator as soon as possible, there’d be hope for his subdued beasts to quickly level up.

Although an increase in level wouldn’t bring about an improvement as significant as an increase in quality, it was still an improvement, especially for six-star subdued beasts. If they could successfully advance to seven-stars, which was advancing from mid-tier to high-tier, their strength would soar!

“Not bad, we still have to continue working hard going forward!”