Celestial Beast Taming

Chapter 302: Chapter 184: Tao En Returns to the Peak

Flower Venerable sorted through the myriad emotions in her heart and said softly to Zhong Yi,

”Since Suxin insists on awakening her Lifebound Phoenix, bearing the risk is a must!”

”Xiaoyi, words can’t express my gratitude.”

”In that case, I will leave Suxin here in Starlight City!”

Before leaving Starlight City, Flower Venerable made a point of asking Star Night to look after her younger sister.

In terms of age, Ren Suxin was from the same generation as Wen Tao and Lin Zhuo.

Even if she was younger than them, it wasn’t by more than a few years.

When you first met Ren Suxin, she gave off a very quiet and tranquil impression.

But after getting to know her better, you would discover her true nature was quite lively.

Within a few days, by frequently communicating with Zhong Yi through the Signal Cicada, Ren Suxin had become quite familiar with him.

Although she still lived at the Celestial Destiny Society, she would often come to Zhong Yi’s residence to hang out.

She would bring Zhong Ling, Sun Ya, and He Guoguo shopping all over Starlight City, looking for all the world like the leader of their pack.

These past few days, Zhong Yi would occasionally surf the web, and several times while browsing, he came across content related to Hong Ji.

Zhong Yi made a point of checking the Light Mirror live streaming platform and found that, surprisingly, Hong Ji still hadn’t ended her stream.

According to the recommended content, Hong Ji had already eaten seven Giant Horror Demons, three Snowstorm Apes, four Mire Snake Lizard Demons, and two Iron Armor Bulls during her streams over the last two or three days.

And right now, she was eating a Giant-Horned Rhinoceros from the Desert Secret Realm!

The long horn of the Giant-Horned Rhinoceros, which could easily pierce a Hundred-Forged Steel Plate, was like a crispy piece of candy between Hong Ji’s teeth.

Zhong Yi couldn’t help but facepalm. Hong Ji’s nonstop stream over the past few days had increased Yu Juanjuan’s follower count by nearly six million.

But the atmosphere in Yu Juanjuan’s stream room seemed to have been completely ruined!

As a model student, Yu Juanjuan was leading junior students from Starlight Academy on an expedition into a Secret Realm and wouldn’t be back for another half a month.

However, during that time, Zhong Yi had no intention of letting Hong Ji continue streaming as she pleased.

He was preparing to take Hong Ji to explore the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm!

Every night, Zhong Yi would use the Source Material Celestial Shuttle to enter the Virtual Source Network.

Zhong Yi had already read through most of the free literature available on the Virtual Source Network.

Tonight, when he entered the Virtual Source Network, Zhong Yi planned to leave the room provided by his Fate-Weaving Celestial Shuttle and take a look around outside.

”Young Lord, for the past few days, I’ve been leading the Craftsman Apprentices we recruited in cultivating the Iron-Eating Insect eggs.”

”We’ve purchased a good number of female Iron-Eating Insects about to lay eggs from the Craftsmen’s Guild.”

”Back when you were in Longya City, some factions already wanted to buy Juvenile Stage Iron-Eating Insects from us.”

”In the last couple of days, many Creators heard we had Juvenile Stage Iron-Eating Insects for sale and have also expressed interest in placing orders.”

”Our current Iron-Eating Insect production is enough to fulfill the Zhenchong Commerce Association’s order, and we’ll still have a significant surplus.”

”What do you think? Should we start accepting orders from other factions?”

Aside from improving his own strength, Zhao Kai’s focus lately had been entirely on cultivating the Iron-Eating Insect eggs.

The Craftsman Apprentices Wu Qing had recruited were mostly at the Two-finger level.

They were incapable of concocting Third Level Elemental Activation Potions, even under Wu Qing’s guidance.

So, Wu Qing simply had the apprentices he recruited go and help Zhao Kai.

Zhao Kai had been continuously receiving Zhong Yi’s help and was eager to do a good job on the tasks assigned to him as a way of repaying the favor.

Hearing this, Zhong Yi replied directly.

”Brother Zhao, you’re aware of the price we set for the Zhenchong Commerce Association. For large orders similar to theirs, you can quote the same price.”

”For smaller orders, just quote a price slightly below the market rate.”

The market demand for Iron-Eating Insects was enormous!

No matter how many Iron-Eating Insect larvae Zhong Yi released onto the market, they would be snapped up immediately.

Many factions needed large quantities of Iron-Eating Insects, partly to cultivate Silver-Eating and Gold-Eating Insects.

Zhong Yi had signed a massive order with the Zhenchong Commerce Association, and the association intended to leverage this deal to expand into new areas of business.

In essence, Zhong Yi was doing the Zhenchong Commerce Association a favor.

There was no reason to stop selling Iron-Eating Insect larvae to other factions just because of his deal with the association.

The Zhenchong Commerce Association alone couldn’t possibly absorb Zhong Yi’s entire production output of Iron-Eating Insect larvae.

Hearing this, Zhao Kai smiled and nodded.

”Young Lord, I know what to do now!”

”I have over twenty Craftsman Apprentices cultivating the Iron-Eating Insects, but that’s still not quite enough.”

”I’m hoping to expand the number of apprentices to forty.”

”Furthermore, Wu Qing’s work concocting Elemental Activation Potions is an excellent way to generate funds.”

”Young Lord, you previously mentioned wanting to open shops in the halls in front of the residence. The Iron-Eating Insect larvae I’m cultivating and the Elemental Activation Potions Wu Qing is concocting can both be sold as merchandise in those shops.”

”Wu Qing’s team will need at least twenty apprentices at the Three-finger Creator level.”

Before Zhong Yi could speak, Tao En, who was off to the side studying a Dragon Blood Rose, couldn’t help but laugh.

”Kai, I only took you on as my disciple a couple of days ago.”

”And here you are, right in front of the Young Lord, already assigning work to your old master.”

”Young Lord, weren’t you looking for Production-type Guardian Beasts that can yield Water, Earth, and Wind Attribute Materials?”