Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Yeah, Ye Xuan. Athina is a little different from us. She had been cultivation in the sacred land of our clan. This is her first time out of there.”
Before Ye Xuan could answer, one of the young men from the Dragon Horn Planet suddenly said, “She didn’t even take part in that competition between the Dragon Horn Planet and the Cerulean Planet.”
“There is even a monster on that high level in this Secret Realm. I have a hunch that something is wrong.”
“We are also are not so strong, you know. If we really run into any danger, I am afraid we won’t protect Athina. If you don’t mind, please let her go with you. What do you say?”
“What is that supposed to mean?”
Ye Xuan looked at them as if they were dumb.
“You cannot protect her, so you want her to follow me so that I can protect her?”
“Who is she? Are we even friends?”
“Do I owe you anything?”
He was completely dumbstruck.
He did not understand how those people from the Dragon Horn Planet had doped out such a genius idea.
There was no sign of this coming at all.
One of the young men from the Dragon Horn Clan seemed to read his thoughts. Getting a brainwave, he said, “Look, Ye Xuan, if you scratch our back, we will scratch yours.”
“If you agree to help us protect Athina, we will give you a Silver Star Fruit as a reward when this whole thing is over.”
Those three had done the math.
Although Ye Xuan was only a Beast Tamer on the Bronze level, he was not weaker than one on the Silver level.
If he went all out in the Secret Realm, who knew how many Silver Star Fruits he might get in the end?
Simultaneously, the more Silver Star Fruits Ye Xuan got, the less they could get. That was quite clear.
As a result, in such circumstances, they would rather give Ye Xuan one Silver Star Fruit as a reward so that Ye Xuan would agree to help them protect Athina.
Then Athina would try every way she could to slow Ye Xuan down.
At the same time, she might even figure some way out to win Ye Xuan’s affection. That was literally killing two birds with one stone.
“You will give me one Silver Star Fruit?”
This offer tempted ye Xuan.
That was such a slap in the face for him.
He had realized one thing just a minute ago…
That he might not need to do anything in the Secret Realm this time.
He only needed to wait until the four Tidal Treasure Snails had gone everywhere in the Secret Realm, and then he would tell them to take another stroll.
When they took the second stroll, the Silver Star Fruits they had failed to get might have been somewhere else, so it might be easier for the four Tidal Treasure Snails to get them this time.
In this way, he did not have to do anything at all.
When the four of his Tidal Treasure Snail had sought the Secret Realm for two or three times in dozens of minutes…
He gathered there would be very few Silver Star Fruits left in the Secret Realm.
In such circumstances, he just needed to stay with the teenage girl from the Dragon Horn Clan, whose name was Athina, talking to her, going around with her in the Secret Realm, and hanging out with her.
And he would get a Silver Star Fruit for that when the Secret Realm was closed. There was no easier way to earn a Silver Star Fruit than this.
“Okay.”
As a result, Ye Xuan agreed. He said, “Now that you insist, I can do you this favor.”
“But we have to make one thing clear in advance. She can stay with me, but she must listen to my order instead of going around at will. I wouldn’t stroll around with her aimlessly.”
“And I am not interested in going too far in the Secret Realm. I will look around in this area.”
“Fair enough.”
Seeing Ye Xuan agree, the eyes of one of the young men from the Dragon Horn Clan lit up. “Sure, we promise. From now on, no matter where you go, Athina will follow you there. She absolutely won’t make any request of you.”
And they were delighted to hear that Ye Xuan would stay nearby instead of going farther.
For them, it would be even better if Ye Xuan stayed here doing nothing but sleeping.
“Yes, I promise.”
At the same time, Athina, cupping her hands, also promised Ye Xuan.
“All right then.”
Ye Xuan finally agreed reluctantly after he had got those promises.
The two young men from the Dragon Horn Clan left Athina to Ye Xuan after he had said yes. They bid farewell to him right away and left.
“Ye Xuan, where are we going next?” Athina asked, approaching Ye Xuan after the two young men from the Dragon Horn Clan had left.
She was petite. Her black close-fitting clothes showed the curve of her body perfectly.
“Let’s take a walk nearby. If you want to go someplace, I can keep you company. Just don’t go anywhere dangerous.”
Ye Xuan did not want any troubles.
That being said, he was paid to do this bodyguard job after all.
So he figured he should at least treat her nicely.
“Taking a walk nearby?”
“Were you serious? All you want is to take a walk nearby?”
“So everything you just said, you were not just saying, but you meant it?”
Athina was dumbstruck by Ye Xuan’s reply. She looked at him in surprise.
She had no idea at all what Ye Xuan was thinking.
“What?” Ye Xuan asked.
“Nothing.”
Athina shook her head immediately.
Anyway, it would be the best for her if Ye Xuan really did not go anywhere.
At the thought of that, she immediately showed that cute pitiful look. Approaching Ye Xuan further, she asked with curiosity, “I am just curious. Ye Xuan, didn’t you come to this Secret Realm to look for Silver Star Fruits?”
“Somehow, I feel you are not very interested in those fruits, are you?”
“Not very interested?”
Shaking his head, Ye Xuan said, “It is an evolutionary resource that can make beasts level up drastically faster. How is it possible that I am not interested?”
“It’s just I already got four Silver Star Fruits. So I don’t care how many more I can get. I will just let it be.”
“You already got four Silver Star Fruits?” Athina opened her eyes wide upon hearing Ye Xuan’s reply.
“Well, not exactly. I only have three now instead of four.” Seeing Athina’s expression, Ye Xuan waved his hand, and three jade boxes instantly showed up in front of her. He said, “But you promised me you would give me one Silver Star Fruit when this is over, so technically, I have got four.”
Athina fixed her eyes on the three jade boxes in Ye Xuan’s hands as soon as he finished speaking.
“How did you get them?” she asked Ye Xuan with a questioning look after taking a deep breath.
“Well, it was pure coincidence. I happened to see them while walking, so I picked them up. Ah, yeah, one of them was in the belly of a Wind-Winged Double-Headed Wolf. That wolf was really dumb. How could it swallow this? I bet it didn’t know what it had swallowed.”
“One of the three Silver Star Fruits was actually spotted by the Beast Tamers from you Dragon Horn Planet, but they were scared off by a monster, so I picked it up. By the way, you won’t mind this, will you?”
“You’ve got good luck. That is unblameable. I certainly wouldn’t mind.” Athina was totally rendered speechless by Ye Xuan’s story.
It took her and those two teammates of hers a quite long time to find only one Silver Star Fruit since they had entered the Secret Realm. However, they still failed to get it.
But what about Ye Xuan?
In such a short time, he…
At that moment, she felt she had made a sage decision.
If Ye Xuan kept walking around in the Secret Realm without her, who knew how many Silver Star Fruits he might get simply thanks to his good luck?
However, by then…
She threw Ye Xuan a look.
Seeing Ye Xuan staring at her body from time to time, she was quite complacent.
She thought her beauty had conquered ye Xuan.
And that was the reason that Ye Xuan would rather stay with her than go on looking for more Silver Star Fruits.
“What is this woman thinking? Why does she look like she is always in a daze?”
However, at that moment, seeing Athina dumbfounded from time to time while he was speaking, Ye Xuan sighed to himself with pity.
What a nice girl!
However, she has such a problem. That’s too bad.
“Those Silver Star Fruits are so hard to find, but I’ve finally found one.”
In the forest, Tang Mengxia was standing on the back of her flying beast.
Her eyes lit up when she had seen a Silver Star Fruit shining on a big tree less than one mile away.
She maneuvered her flying beast toward that big tree immediately.
Boom!
However, she heard a blare come from behind when she had just flown half of the distance.
She was so shocked that she looked back right away.
She saw a tree suddenly fall where she had been for some unknown reason, which was quite strange.
And on the tree that had fallen to the ground, she saw something shining. She narrowed her eyes and found those were two Silver Star Fruits.
“Gee!”
Tang Mengxia exclaimed in a low voice right away.
Then she maneuvered the flying beast to turn around and fly toward the Silver Star Fruits at high speed.
If she had to choose between one Silver Star Fruit and two Silver Star Fruits, she certainly would choose the latter.
Swish!
However, maneuvering her flying beast, she was only nine hundred feet away from the tree when she saw a flowing light flash under the tree and fly away with the two Silver Star Fruits.
“What the hell?”
Tang Mengxia was instantly dumbfounded.
Then she was going to chase that flowing light right away.
However, at that moment, she looked back as if something had suddenly occurred to her.
She found that Silver Star Fruit she had found earlier was also gone.
“Prick!”
Tang Mengxia completely hit the ceiling.
“Don’t you let me find who you are? If I find who is tricking me like this…”
She was so angry that she even gnashed her teeth.
She knew immediately some Beast Tamer must be behind this.
Because a monster certainly would not know using decoy tactics, would it? That would be absurd.
She took a deep breath to calm down. Then, mounting her beast, she went on looking around in the Secret Realm.
“What the hell! Am I so out of luck?”
“How much time has passed? Shoot. If I am so out of luck that I can’t even find one Silver Star Fruit in this trip, I will be severely humiliated.”
Simultaneously, in the Secret Realm, Fang Luotian whooshed across the sky, standing on a verdant bamboo. He looked extremely frustrated.
“Gee, they are coming back already?”
On one side, most of the Beast Tamers in the Secret Realm were down in the mouth.
They found it extremely hard to find those Silver Star Fruits. They wondered where all of the Silver Star Fruits had gone.
On the other side, Ye Xuan shifted his consciousness and found all of his four Tidal Treasure Snails were flying back to him. They were already less than six miles away from him.
And they were approaching him at high speed.