Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle

Xiao Ye's line of sight was filled with pure white.

Even whiter than ice and snow.

Not a single hint of another color.

...

Two hours later.

Xiao Ye and Jiang Xue'an emerged from the bathroom.

Xiao Ye glanced at her and said,

"Little troublemaker, you went absolutely wild after a few days apart—are you satisfied now?"

Jiang Xue'an blushed shyly, "I'm satisfied, Master."

"Master, I need to cultivate now."

"Do you want to watch me practice?"

Xiao Ye nodded.

A minute later.

They sat atop the treacherous cliffs beside the Super Hall's peak.

Mist swirled all around, the air was thin.

Jiang Xue'an, clad in her golden broad-sleeved flowing immortal skirt, sat cross-legged on the cliff's edge and took out gem after gem from her storage, each one packed with the power of the starry sky and the starlight rules, scattering them around her.

Instantly, power of the starry sky blanketed the palisade, and starlight rules diffused everywhere.

Jiang Xue'an's body released a terrifying suction force.

She was like a super-powered vacuum cleaner, sucking the power of the starry sky and the starlight rules into herself.

Her dainty form, seated on the ground, shimmered with lines of divine patterns, dreamlike and surreal.

She looked like a fairy.

Xiao Ye found it odd that Jiang Xue'an, when cultivating, actually didn't turn into her Starry Sky Giant Beast form—she used her human appearance instead.

*Wouldn't cultivating in her true form be faster?*

An hour later, Jiang Xue'an opened her eyes, peeked at Xiao Ye in the distance, her pretty face flushing, and muttered to herself,

*Why is Master still here?*

*Does he like watching me cultivate?*

*Ugh, in front of him, I don't even want to switch to my true form—I don't want to gross him out.*

*But, cultivating in human form feels so awkward.*

Xiao Ye spoke up,

"Jiang Xue'an, you keep practicing, I'm heading off to find the Beast Girls."

"If you need anything, just call me. As long as I'm still in Space-Time Hall, I'll hear you."

He traversed the void, shooting off to the south.

Suddenly, he glanced back.

To his shock, Jiang Xue'an had already transformed into her Starry Sky Giant Beast form—a sleek black-and-gold behemoth, with a single foot spanning a kilometer in size. The body was a hundred thousand meters long, over sixty thousand meters tall.

He shook his head. Sure, her true form as a Starry Sky Giant Beast was impressive, but Xiao Ye felt that Jiang Xue'an's human form was the real little maid.

He wasn't the type of guy to judge people by looks.

He, Xiao Ye, never cared about appearances!

He didn't care about how the Beast Girls looked, or about their figures!

Sensing Cheng Bingxi's nine-tailed celestial fox aura, Xiao Ye teleported and arrived deep in the southern mountain range.

Here towered great, majestic mountains.

The tiny trail snaked through jagged, haphazard rocks.

Cheng Bingxi was walking barefoot along sharp stones, following a path that shouldn't exist, heading deep into the wilds.

Her dainty, pale jade feet pressed down on the jagged shards, the soft flesh indenting with each step, yet she showed no sign of pain. Her beautiful eyes calmly swept the area, constantly feeling for the surrounding auras of life and destruction attribute rule origins.

She was searching for the Galaxy Realm life attribute rule origin essence and destruction attribute rule origin essence.

But she'd been looking for hours and found nothing.

"Damn it!"

Cheng Bingxi, frustrated, lifted her jade foot and kicked a giant boulder.

The boulder shot into the air, taking with it another buried, hundred-meter-long slab of rock, and the both of them crashed down over ten thousand meters away in a thick forest, scattering flocks of birds.

"Ugh, the Galaxy Realm origin essences are hidden even more deeply than the Sovereign Realm ones. A million kilometers of area, all flooded with high-level life attribute rule power, but I still can't find it!"

"So what now?"

"Should I ask Xiao Ye for help?"

Cheng Bingxi sat down on a small stone, rubbing her faintly reddened, delicate jade feet, her face pinched with worry.

*If she turned to Xiao Ye, he'd definitely help her find the Galaxy Realm life attribute rule origin essence.*

*But she hated relying on Xiao Ye to solve everything.*

*As the big sister of the Beast Girl family, she'd set a standard for herself: whatever she did, she had to outshine every other Beast Girl and do it better.*

*Because of that, she'd suffered a lot, put in tons of effort.*

*All the sunk costs buried in boredom and monotony—nobody else saw them, and Xiao Ye didn't know either, but she embraced them, determined to improve herself.*

*She strove to earn the admiration of all Beast Girls, to truly deserve her 'big sister' status.*

Just then, a handsome young man appeared behind Cheng Bingxi, covered her eyes with both hands, and, voice muffled, said,

"Little sister, these wild mountains are dangerous. Come with uncle, and I'll give you cotton candy."

Cheng Bingxi's little face froze, and she sighed dejectedly,

"Xiao Ye, you still found me?"

"But I haven't awakened the Galaxy Realm origin essence yet."

"Am I just dumb?"

The handsome youth twitched his mouth, then plopped down beside Cheng Bingxi, a dogtail grass stem in his mouth, and said,

"Bingxi, aren't you scared I might be a wild man?"

"There's life now in the Super World of Space-Time Hall. Walking around barefoot like this, what if you're targeted by wild men?"

Cheng Bingxi sneered, put her jade feet on Xiao Ye's lap, and said,

"Wild men? I'm a fifth rank Sovereign expert. If one came, I'd kill one."

"Walking barefoot? Sounds to me like you're just drooling over my feet."

"Here, feast your eyes!"

Xiao Ye waved his hand, "Nah, I'll pass on feasting. Let me give you a massage."

"Where're your shoes?"

He grabbed her jade feet and started kneading.

Cheng Bingxi shook her head, "In Space-Time Hall, I like going barefoot."

"Xiao Ye, weren't you into feet before? Why don't you care about my jade feet anymore—not drooling even a little bit?"

Xiao Ye broke out in a cold sweat, speechless, "Drooling?"

"Bingxi, you're making me out way too dirty. I never drooled over anyone."

"As for 'being into feet,' come on, as long as it looks nice, what guy wouldn't like it?"

Cheng Bingxi huffed, getting up.

"I still need to find the origin essence, what are you even doing here?"

"You just wanted to rub my feet, didn't you?"

Xiao Ye waved his hand and immediately used the Space-Time Hall's privileges to move the life attribute rule origin essence from ten thousand meters away and the Galaxy Realm destruction attribute rule origin essence from a light-year out right to them.

The two origin essences hadn't been awakened yet, but he'd yanked them out of the void and broken their concealment.

Cheng Bingxi sighed, her voice low,

"Compared to you, I'm really way behind."

"Do I even deserve to be your primary wife?"

Xiao Ye, "?"

He gave Cheng Bingxi a hard slap on the butt, and complained,

"What's with all this talk about being 'way behind'?"

"Why are you overthinking everything, getting all sentimental?"

"You're my childhood sweetheart—my primary wife—because you're Cheng Bingxi. That's all that matters."

Cheng Bingxi fretted, "But I really am far behind you now, I can't stand on equal ground with you."

At her words, Xiao Ye's face clouded, his gaze turning serious as he looked at Cheng Bingxi.

*What's with these Beast Girls? Did something get into them? They're all acting like they've come down with something.*

*Jiang Xue'an looks like she's going yandere.*

*And Cheng Bingxi, she's become this gloomy, brooding housewife—eyebrows locked in a permanent frown.*

"Did something happen to you?" Xiao Ye asked seriously.