Chapter 18: Strike It Rich! Garbage Traits Everywhere!!

“This junior brother is quite capable! All right, you pass. Fill out the registration form.”

The moment Gu Zichen saw that, his heart gave a jolt. He immediately put on an honest smile.

“Damn it, how did I run into a young prodigy the moment I got here? And I even offended him. What if he beats me up every few days after he gets into the school?”

That was what he was worrying about inwardly.

After saying that, he moved to withdraw his fist.

“CRACKLE!!”

Suddenly, a burst of electric current surged back along his fist.

“Ah!!”

Gu Zichen was instantly shocked into a scream and hurriedly snatched his hand back.

“Senior, what happened? Are you all right?”

Xiao Xuan asked with a smiling look of concern.

“I’m fine, I’m fine!”

Gu Zichen forced out a bitter smile. Good grief, the boy was even a lightning-type Ability User. He had really messed with the wrong person this time.

“As long as you’re fine! Then I’ll register now!”

After saying that, Xiao Xuan directly scanned his identity code on the machine.

“The exam is at eight o’clock tomorrow morning, so do not forget, Junior Brother and Junior Sister! The navigation route has already been sent to your Smartwatches!”

Gu Zichen hurriedly reminded them.

“Thank you, Senior. Xiao Xuan, shall we go first, then? Or are you planning to look for your sister?”

Su Qingwu immediately turned to Xiao Xuan and asked with a hint of anticipation.

“I’m going to the Beast Pet Market to buy a few things. As for my sister, I’ll wait until after the exam.”

Xiao Xuan replied.

The moment Su Qingwu heard that, her little face fell. It looked as though she would not get to see her idol again after all.

“It just so happens that I’m free too, so I’ll go walk around with you!”

Su Qingwu spoke again right after that.

If she could not see Xiao Xuan now, then she would definitely see him later. By then, she ought to at least become familiar to him, and if she was lucky, she might even get the chance to grow closer to Senior Mu.

At that thought, Su Qingwu drifted into a moment of fantasy.

“Su Qingwu? What’s wrong with you?”

Seeing the lovestruck look on Su Qingwu’s face, Xiao Xuan was speechless.

Just where had her thoughts gone?

“Ah? Nothing, nothing. Come on, let’s go to Beast Pet City!”

As soon as Su Qingwu said that, she hurriedly grabbed Xiao Xuan and dragged him away.

“No, wait, I never agreed to go with you!”

Xiao Xuan was helpless, but he did not say anything more.

In any case, he had nothing else to do, so he left together with Su Qingwu.

When Gu Zichen saw that scene, he was so envious that his teeth nearly cracked from grinding.

“Damn the heavens, I refuse to accept this! Why is it that I, so handsome and dashing, have to go bald, while that brat, ugly as sin, does not lose a single hair!?”

Gu Zichen felt utterly aggrieved.

Still, he did not dwell on it for long and threw himself back into the next round of registration screening.

Although it was already the last day and there were far fewer people coming to sign up, he still had to screen several hundred applicants over the course of a day!

He could not let those youngsters who had not even enrolled yet look down on him!

Of course, Gu Zichen was not the only one handling registration screening. Nanhai University had dozens of gates in total, and each one had a registration point!

And during the first few days, each gate had at least a hundred people assigned to conduct screening.

Only in the last day or two had each point been reduced to just one person.

Otherwise, with hundreds of thousands of applicants and only a few dozen people, they would have been worked to death.

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Before long, Xiao Xuan and Su Qingwu arrived at Beast Pet City.

The place was like the bird-and-flower markets of the twenty-first century.

Except what was sold here was all Ferocious Beasts.

Some had already been domesticated, while others had not.

The price of the domesticated ones was terrifying.

Even multiplying the price tenfold was not enough.

As for the undomesticated ones, their prices were relatively low.

Naturally, very few people bought them!

Only people with special talents, such as Beast Tamers, would dare.

Otherwise, bringing an undomesticated Ferocious Beast home was basically asking to die.

Since this place was large enough to be called a city, it was naturally enormous.

After all, some Ferocious Beasts stood dozens of meters tall.

Even when they were locked inside alloy cages, one still had to stay dozens of meters away to look at them!

“This Beast Pet City is definitely several times larger than Blackwater City! As expected of the provincial capital!”

Su Qingwu could not help exclaiming in admiration.

But in the very next moment, Su Qingwu was completely dumbfounded!

Xiao Xuan had already started darting about at high speed.

He was looking at nothing at all, only staring at the ground while moving everywhere.

“Classmate Xiao Xuan, what... what exactly are you doing?”

Puzzled, Su Qingwu walked over to Xiao Xuan’s side and asked curiously.

“Nothing. I’m a bit of a clean freak, and I’m afraid of stepping in dung on the ground! Don’t worry about me. Just go browse on your own!”

Xiao Xuan waved his hand. After saying that, he lowered his head again and continued moving everywhere.

That answer left Su Qingwu silent.

The way Xiao Xuan was acting, he seemed more likely to step in it.

And besides, were they not here to buy beast pets? Did Xiao Xuan look like someone who had come to buy a pet?

At that moment, however, Xiao Xuan had no mood at all to care what Su Qingwu was thinking.

“Damn, damn, there are so many Traits here, I can’t possibly pick them all up!”

As Xiao Xuan looked at the dense spread of Traits on the ground, his eyes practically turned green.

Every few steps, he could pick up another Trait Orb.

And many of them were even Green-rank.

At this rate, he could get at least twenty or thirty thousand Eco Points in an hour. With a harvest speed that terrifying, how could he possibly have the leisure to chat here with Su Qingwu?

To pick up Traits even faster, Xiao Xuan directly used the powerful movement art he had just learned, Flame-Dancing Lightning Flash!

Lightning and flames instantly poured into his legs, and his entire body turned into an afterimage as he began weaving rapidly through the crowd.

When Su Qingwu saw Xiao Xuan’s movements, her mouth fell open.

“Mastering both lightning and fire? Xiao Xuan actually awakened two kinds of talents at the same time! And judging by their level, both are at least Blue-rank, aren’t they?”

And Xiao Xuan is so fast. Could it be because of that movement art?

No, even with a powerful movement art, without Innate Realm cultivation there is no way his speed could be this terrifying!

Could Xiao Xuan already have reached the Innate Realm?

How is that possible!?

And on top of that, could it be that Xiao Xuan did not come here to buy beast pets at all? Is he only here to practice his movement art in a place with heavy foot traffic?

Could this be some special cultivation method Senior Mu taught him?

At that moment, Su Qingwu was utterly stunned!

When she had seen Xiao Xuan fight that bald senior earlier, she had only thought his strength was around the same as hers.

But now, after seeing Xiao Xuan’s terrifying speed, even she knew that his realm was far beyond anything she had imagined.

Then, very soon, her eyes lit up.

With Xiao Xuan being this strong, could it be that he had some unique cultivation method?

And that cultivation method had most likely been taught to him by Mu Xiying.

“I can’t let an opportunity like this slip away either!!”

Without any hesitation, Su Qingwu immediately used her own movement art and began chasing after Xiao Xuan’s footsteps!

The movements of the two quickly drew the attention of the surrounding Martial Artists.

“See? I told you the examination system these past few years has been a problem. Look, it has driven the children mad. There are even students coming to Beast Pet City to practice movement arts now. Such is life!”

“If you don’t work hard and I don’t work hard, then who is going to protect the future of the human race?”

“Excellent, that is the spirit! These are the rising suns of the new age! When I get back, I’m making my son come here to train too!”

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For a time, quite a few Martial Artists could not help sighing with emotion.

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Xiao Xuan naturally noticed Su Qingwu’s movements as well.

He was instantly speechless.

I’m using a movement art so I can pick up Traits faster. What are you doing using one too?

Even so, Xiao Xuan did not say anything. If Su Qingwu wanted to follow him, then let her follow. That was, of course, assuming she could keep up!

Xiao Xuan increased his speed and began weaving madly through the crowd.

It had to be said, the Ferocious Beasts here truly carried all kinds of Traits.

The most common of all, however, were Emotion-Type Traits.

Things like 【Depressed】, 【Angry】, and 【Fearful】, for example!

Xiao Xuan did not recycle all of those Negative Traits. Instead, he created a new folder in his Recycle Bin and kept ten White-rank copies of each kind!

As for some Negative Traits that were highly likely to be useful in battle, things like 【Weak】, 【Injured】, 【Pain】, and 【Essence-Blood Loss】 that could greatly weaken an opponent’s strength, Xiao Xuan kept even more of those!

Later on, he could use Eco Points to raise the rank of those Traits and then use them to inflict weakening effects on his enemies.

As long as the Trait rank was high enough, then if he hurled a whole pile of Negative Traits at someone, even a god would probably be dragged down from the divine altar!

Time passed quickly.

And Xiao Xuan’s Eco Points began to rise at a tremendous pace.

【Ding... Congratulations. You have successfully recycled the 2541st Trait! Eco Points +10000】

【Ding... Congratulations. You have successfully recycled the 2235th Trait! Eco Points +10000】

【Ding... Congratulations. You have successfully recycled the 2441st Trait! Eco Points +10000】

【Ding... Congratulations. You have successfully recycled the 2551st Trait! Eco Points +10000】

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One notification after another rang out in Xiao Xuan’s mind every twenty or thirty minutes.

His Eco Points skyrocketed wildly.

Naturally, he was delighted, but Su Qingwu, whom he had long since thrown so far behind that no one knew where she was, was having a miserable time.

Xiao Xuan was simply too strong. He was almost a whole major realm above her, and his speed was more than ten times faster.

Xiao Xuan’s route zigzagged madly through the crowds, weaving between everyone present, while Su Qingwu only chased in a straight line. The total distance each of them traveled differed by at least more than tenfold, and even so, Su Qingwu still had to use every bit of her strength just to try to catch up to Xiao Xuan.

And most importantly of all, Xiao Xuan seemed as though he could never grow tired.

Three hours had already passed, and he had not paused for even a second.

Yet after running for only a few dozen minutes, Su Qingwu was already utterly exhausted!

In the end, she could only rent a Shared Hoverboard and fly overhead while watching Xiao Xuan dart rapidly through the crowds below.

“This Xiao Xuan was practically at the bottom of the class back then. Who would have thought that after three years, his strength would become this terrifying? At this speed, even ordinary Innate Realm peak experts probably would not be a match for him, would they?”