Astral Pet Store

It took Su Ping a second to fully understand what the middle-aged man was asking.

He pulled a long face when he came to his senses.

Whoosh!

He dashed and moved closer to the middle-aged man.

“What did you just say?” Su Ping glared at the man coldly.

The middle-aged man felt a chill running down his spine and felt he was having difficulty breathing. The look in Su Ping’s eyes turned his mind blank.

“I, I…”

He was stuttering and at a loss about what to do.

He was surprised by his own reaction when he gathered himself. He, an eighth-rank battle pet warrior, was freaked out by a young man.

“My teacher told me to come and look for your sister Su Lingyue…” The middle-aged man finally managed to speak. Even though he tried his best not to look too embarrassed in front of a young man, the middle-aged man’s voice was still shaky.

“Isn’t she at the Valiant Academy? How come you cannot find her?” Su Ping bellowed.

He did not even try to contain his anger.

Su Lingyue went missing?

He trusted that the Valiant Academy would surely have surveillance systems.

Even if they didn’t have any security cameras, he trusted that they would have the strength and power to find her.

“I, I don’t know. My teacher thought she had gone back home. We heard about the beast strike on the Longjiang Base City. We thought she must have made the trip over upon hearing the news. So, my teacher told me to come here and…” The middle-aged man finally found his tongue. He felt that he was going to faint under Su Ping’s piercing stare.

Su Ping was losing his temper.

He couldn’t have known if Su Lingyue was back.

He told Han Yuxiang to take good care of her, but then she went missing.

Han Yuxiang deserves to die! He dropped the ball!

Su Ping had to calm himself down. The middle-aged man was stressed out. He was just the messenger; venting his anger on him would not get him anywhere.

Su Ping called the mayor Xie Jinshui at once. “Mr. Su?”

Xie Jinshui was surprised by the call. “Is there anything I can do for you?” “Sir, please look up the access records. See if my sister has come back,” Su Ping asked. “Sure thing.”

Xie Jinshui agreed. That was a strange request. But Xie Jinshui didn’t ask further questions because he could hear that Su Ping was not in a good mood.

Soon, Xie Jinshui informed Su Ping of the result.

No.

There was no sign of Su Lingyue ever going back.

She’s not here…

Su Ping’s mind was weighed down.

He had made the call knowing this was the answer he would get. After all, if she were back, she would have gone back home. She couldn’t have been hiding somewhere for so long that Han Yuxiang’s student would have to travel looking for her.

Su Ping’s face was even more clouded as he recalled that several base cities had suffered from beast strikes. If Su Lingyue had just happened to go through those base cities during lockdown, she would have had to stay in one those base cities and she would be in danger.

Su Lingyue had the Moonfrost Dragon, for sure, but what if she encountered beast kings?

Su Ping called the Qin family.

Soon, Qin Duhuang told Su Ping about the base cities that were under strike. Su Ping searched online and traced the path between the Valiant Academy and the Longjiang Base City.

Upon comparison, Su Ping noticed that those base cities were not on the way. That was to say, if Su Lingyue had tried to return home, she wouldn’t have encountered any beast strikes!

“How did she go missing and when?” Su Ping turned to stare at the middle-aged man, with a look that was cutting into the latter like a blade.

The middle-aged man felt his heart skip a beat. He didn’t think much of the young man a moment before. However, he became scared upon seeing the young man change into a different person.

He had finally understood why his teacher had repeatedly told him to be nice to Su Ping.

“That happened a week ago, shortly after the Otherworld Heavenly King came to the Longjiang Base City. Mr. Han said that your sister was in the Dragon Tower on campus the last time he saw her,” the middle-aged man said in a low voice. Before he knew it, he began treating Su Ping with more respect.

“A week?!”

Su Ping could not believe it.

The Force Field appeared behind him. The temperature dropped as the demons appeared.

They’re telling me now after she’s been missing for a week? Han Yuxiang is telling me now?! Su Ping took a deep breath and clenched his fist. He noticed Tang Ruyan and Zhong Lingtong were standing on the side and the two girls were scared. All of a sudden, the anger faded away.

“Take care of the store,” Su Ping said to them, “I have to be away. Do not tell my parents. I don’t want them to worry.”

“Where are you going? I can go with you,” Tang Ruya proposed.

“It’s okay. I’ll be quicker on my own.” Su Ping turned her down.

Tang Ruyan bit her lip. “I’m good enough to help you.”

“I know.”

Su Ping didn’t say more to her. “Show me the way. Take me to the Valiant Academy,” Su Ping said to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man was surprised. The killing intent coming from Su Ping was scaring him. “What do you think you can do there? My teacher is also worried. He’s been searching for her…”

“I told you to show me the way!”

Su Ping snarled.

Suddenly, the middle-aged man felt something had pierced into his brain. His mind was blank. He realized that he was drenched in a cold sweat when he came back to his senses. The young man was not a common battle pet warrior. He had never sensed that type of power, not even from his teacher.

But his teacher was at the peak of the titled rank, the Vice Principal of the Valiant Academy!

“I, I understand.” The middle-aged man was ghastly pale.

“Come with me!” Su Ping shouted to the pet room.

A figure came out. It was the Little Skeleton; it moved close to Su Ping and quietly stood next to him.

In the meantime, a hot stream of air was swept across. The Inferno Dragon stepped out from the pet room.

The middle-aged man widened his eyes when he saw the Inferno Dragon.

The third rarest dragon!

But that Inferno Dragon looked different from the textbook depictions; it also had some purple scales.

How come this young man has such a pet?

The middle-aged man was even more scared of Su Ping.

Su Ping stepped out of the door and the Inferno Dragon followed him. He jumped onto the Inferno Dragon’s shoulder and used his astral powers to hoist the middle-aged man up. “Let’s go.”

The Little Skeleton flashed to the other shoulder. Having received the order, the Inferno Dragon generated purple lightning bolts which lifted it to the sky.

After the Inferno Dragon gained a new body with the purple-blood dragons’ origin pool, the Inferno Dragon had gained the purple-blood dragon’s bloodline. It had learned to fly, a skill basic to the purple-blood dragons, and at quite a fast speed, even like the flying pets of the same rank.

The huge dragon swiftly flew away.

Across the street, Qin Duhuang jumped down from the second floor of his house and asked the two girls standing by the door, “Is Mr. Su going away?”

Tang Ruyan watched until she could no longer see Su Ping before she nodded.

She didn’t say where Su Ping was going. Qin Duhuang was a trustworthy man but one could never be too careful.

Qin Duhuang suddenly dropped his voice and asked. “Are you really the one who destroyed the Situ family and the Wang family?”

Tang Ruyan realized that the old man also had the intention of seeing her. She didn’t lie. “Indeed.” She nodded.

Qin Duhuang was startled. He remembered fully well that Tang Ruyan was just at the seventh rank before. A few days and she had reached the titled rank. She had destroyed the two families!

He would have never dared to boast that he could have destroyed the two families that easily!

After all, both families had once had legendary battle pet warriors and they had legendary battle pet warriors join the Tower. No one could anticipate how resourceful the two families were.

The fact that the girl could cause such a huge sensation made Qin Duhuang realize the girl couldn’t have been much weaker than he was.

But he was a legendary battle pet warrior!

On the other hand, the girl was merely at the intermediate position of the titled rank!

Qin Duhuang wished to speak but stopped on second thought.

Tang Ruyan guessed what he was going to say and told herself that she was glad the old man was smart.

She sensed that Qin Duhuang was going to ask her about her progress but she wouldn’t say either way. That was Su Ping’s secret; Qin Duhuang was smart enough to not let that question slip his mouth.

It was never a smart thing to ask about people’s secrets.

“Does Mr. Su need another worker? I want to have a try,” Qin Duhuang said all of a sudden.

Zhong Lingtong could not believe what she had just heard. She wasn’t interested in the cultivation path of battle pet warriors. Even so, she knew that this old man was at the legendary rank.

Not long before, Su Ping had claimed that one would have to be at least at the legendary rank if they wanted to work for him.

This man wanted to work for him?

He, a legendary battle pet warrior, wanted to work here?

Zhong Lingtong thought of something. She looked at the old man, alerted.

That old man must have heard what Su Ping had said in the store before. So, he must have been watching Su Ping’s store closely and would constantly eavesdrop!

No wonder the old man moved across the street. What a mean little man!

Zhong Lingtong turned hostile.

Qin Duhuang noticed that, which surprised him. Soon, he realized what went through that girl’s mind. He forced a bitter smile.

Tang Ruyan raised her eyebrows. She was also turning hostile but for another reason. She realized that… someone was going to grab her job!