Liu Yi felt a blur before her eyes, and the surrounding scenery rippled like water.
The Ethereal Glow Forest, Ziyue, the Scaly Snake, the Little Dream Tapirs, the Phantom Dream Tapir—everything twisted and deformed, finally dissolving into pure white.
The pure white space began to reassemble, gradually forming a new scene.
As her vision cleared, Liu Yi found herself standing in the living room of her home.
Liu Yi looked around, confused.
“Yi Bao!” a familiar voice called from behind her.
Liu Yi whirled around, seeing Liu Ran standing in the doorway, a brilliant smile on her face.
“Sister?” Liu Yi tentatively called out.
Liu Ran walked over, affectionately ruffling her hair. “What are you spacing out for? Come see this!”
She pulled Liu Yi’s hand towards a table, where an exquisite incubator sat. Through the glass, a pet egg shimmered with colorful light.
Liu Yi: “This is?”
“A Little Dream Tapir’s pet egg!” Liu Ran said excitedly. “Little Dream Tapirs are pets whose racial potential can evolve all the way to the Supreme rank Senluo Dream Tapir! And…”
Like magic, she produced another incubator. “Here’s another pet egg whose racial potential is also Supreme rank. If you contract them, you’ll definitely become a top Beast Tamer in the future.”
Liu Yi: “Why?”
“Why what?” Liu Ran asked.
Liu Yi frowned. “Why are there two pet eggs whose racial potential is Supreme rank?”
She tapped her finger, feeling as if she had seen this scene before, but had her sister brought back two pet eggs that time?
And both were Supreme rank pet eggs?
Liu Ran: “Of course, it’s because the official Beast Tamer research institute discovered the special nature of the Silver Snow Fox. In exchange for giving up the Silver Snow Fox for research, the officials sent over two Supreme rank pet eggs.”
“Give up the Silver Snow Fox? In exchange for research?”
“Give up… Ziyue?”
Liu Yi’s voice was exceptionally clear in the living room.
She stared at the two incubators on the table, colorful light swirling across the glass, reflecting on her face.
“That’s right.” Liu Ran’s expression was matter-of-fact. “That Ice Fox’s racial potential only reaches the Sovereign rank. And now, this new Silver Snow Fox evolution chain might not even reach the Sovereign rank. No matter how much you train it, its potential is limited. These two Supreme rank pets can take you much further.”
She pushed the incubators closer to Liu Yi. “Come, put your hand on them and feel. This one is a Thunderous Griffin egg, and that one is a Little Dream Tapir egg. Both are top-tier pets.”
Liu Yi didn’t move. She closed her eyes and sensed through her Beast Taming Space, but she couldn’t feel Ziyue’s presence.
She opened her eyes and softly asked, “Where is Ziyue?”
“She’s already been sent to the research institute,” Liu Ran said, giving her a strange look. “Didn’t you agree? You even personally sent her there yesterday.”
“I… agreed?” Liu Yi’s tapping fingers stopped.
Memories shattered like a broken mirror, fragments flashing: Ziyue’s first jump into her arms, her glowing figure standing up at the last second of the finals, the dazzling light during her evolution…
But all these images were covered in a thin mist, blurry and indistinct.
“Yi Bao?” Liu Ran waved a hand in front of her eyes. “What are you daydreaming about? Hurry up and contract these two pets.”
Liu Yi took a step back. “No, I need to see Ziyue first.”
Liu Ran’s expression suddenly turned cold. “Don’t be childish. What’s so good about that Ice Fox? A useless pet that can’t even reach Sovereign rank, is it worth giving up two Supreme rank ones for?”
These words pierced Liu Yi’s chest like a knife.
She sharply raised her head, looking directly into Liu Ran’s eyes. “Ziyue was brought to me by my sister, and she would never say something like that.”
The air seemed to freeze for a moment.
Liu Ran’s expression became grotesque, her lips curling into an unnatural smile. “I am your sister, Yi Bao. Come, be obedient…”
Her voice began to distort, and her figure wavered like a reflection in water.
The entire living room also began to dissolve, the walls melting and dripping like wax, and the space once again turned pure white.
“You’re not,” Liu Yi’s voice was firm. “The Senluo Dream Tapir’s trial, is this the test?”
The face of ‘Liu Ran’ in the Illusory Dream Realm completely twisted. “Accept reality! What Beast Tamer would refuse to trade a low-grade pet for two pets with Supreme rank potential? Your Ziyue isn’t worth it at all!”
“Don’t you want to surpass your sister? Don’t you want people to say, ‘Liu Ran is Liu Yi’s sister?’ when they talk about you two? Don’t you want to participate in the All-Continent League Cup?”
“Shut up.” Liu Yi was exceptionally calm now.
“Ziyue is my first pet, my most important partner. I won’t exchange her for anything,” she said, enunciating each word. “No one knows better than me how hard she trains. How high her potential is, only I decide.”
The illusion began to shake violently.
“Huan?”
Liu Ran’s image completely disintegrated, transforming into a cloud of pink mist, from which the Phantom Dream Tapir’s voice emerged.
Even knowing this is an illusion, you are still so resolute?
Liu Yi calmly replied, “Precisely because it’s an illusion, I must speak my true feelings. In reality, I wouldn’t even consider such a choice for a second. It’s simply something that would never happen.”
“Huan… Huan.”
The pink mist condensed into the Phantom Dream Tapir, floating before Liu Yi, the gem on its forehead shimmering with a strange light.
Interesting… Few Beast Tamers can remain so clear-headed during the trial.
Liu Yi looked around, and the pure white space began to distort, like crumpled paper in an invisible hand.
She felt a slight dizziness, and the scene before her began to reassemble once more.
“Bingbing!”
A familiar sound reached her, and Liu Yi opened her eyes, finding herself still in the clearing of the Ethereal Glow Forest.
Ziyue pounced into her arms, the force so great that Liu Yi staggered back two steps before steadying herself.
“I’m fine.”
Liu Yi stroked the fur behind Ziyue’s ears, feeling her rapid heartbeat.
Ziyue’s fur was slightly bristled all over, and her two tails were tightly wrapped around Liu Yi’s arm.
Liu Yi then noticed that a circle of pink smoke filled the air above the clearing, and slowly dissipating within it were precisely the scenes she had experienced in the illusion—
The two incubators handed over by “Liu Ran,” the melting walls, and her resolute refusal to give up Ziyue.
“You all saw this?” Liu Yi asked softly.
“Bingbing!”
Ziyue nodded vigorously, her purple eyes glistening with moisture, as she nuzzled Liu Yi’s cheek.
Liu Yi gently stroked Ziyue’s fur, her gaze sweeping across the clearing.
The Scaly Snake watched her silently from a short distance, its ruby-like eyes brighter than before.
It seemed to want to approach, yet hesitated, stopping in place. Only the tip of its tail swayed gently, leaving faint marks on the Glowmoss.
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