Beast Taming: Bloodline Golden Hand

"Th... Three minutes?!"

No one knew how much time had passed before someone swallowed hard and exclaimed, "Did this break the record?"

This voice was like a fuse that completely ignited the entire area.

Daoist Zhang flew forward directly on a crane and said to Lin Chen, who was resting on the ground, "Congratulations, you broke the record for the sixtieth floor of the Path to Immortality."

"Broke... broke the record?" Lin Chen was stunned.

He actually wasn't familiar with this part.

Daoist Zhang nodded.

Lin Chen immediately asked expectantly, "Is there any special reward?"

"Yes."

"What is it?"

"Your name will be recorded in the archives."

"...."

Lin Chen was speechless. Such a reward, might as well not have it.

But, passing is enough.

According to the rules of the Spirit Academy, passing the sixtieth floor allows one to enter the medicine storehouse to obtain an extra piece of evolution material.

Plus three pieces of evolution materials in the level six resource pack.

So now Lin Chen already had four evolution materials slots in his hand.

Lin Chen didn't go down because Xiaobai beside him was already lying exhausted, disregarding any image, with the Little Fox beside it furiously massaging it.

Below the Path to Immortality, the discussions had already swept across like a storm.

This included senior students...

If previously Lin Chen was only famous among freshmen.

Now that he broke the Spirit Academy record, Lin Chen's name would resound throughout the Spirit Academy.

After all, this was the sixtieth floor record on the Path to Immortality!

....

After a half-hour rest, Lin Chen brought the two Spirit Beasts down from the Path to Immortality. As he passed the entrance, he was tempted to ask Zhao Li how much he made this time, but after thinking it over, he held back.

Yet as he was about to leave, he saw Fang You's Nine Tribulation Beasts standing still, eyes tightly shut...

"What's up with this?" Lin Chen asked.

Fang You, upon hearing, said, "It tried twice to get past the sixtieth floor and failed. Now that you broke the record, it's feeling discouraged."

"..."

Lin Chen was speechless.

Turns out Fang You was using him as a tool to suppress his Nine Tribulation Beasts...

Oh dear.

He didn't even know he was working for free.

Lin Chen muttered in a low voice about whether to charge a suppression fee.

Back in the dormitory, Xiaobai and Xiao Hong, exhausted from battle, bathed and fell into a deep sleep.

At this momento Zhao Li arrived.

"How did it go?" Lin Chen asked.

"This time we earned a total of 1.5 million. Here's the profit." Zhao Li handed the money to Lin Chen.

Upon hearing this, Lin Chen was overjoyed.

This was already a tremendous fortune for Lin Chen.

Lin Chen was also straightforward, taking out a hundred thousand as a thank-you, but Zhao Li refused it, saying, "If Brother Lin really wants to thank me, just treat me to a meal."

Lin Chen didn't refuse, given that he really needed money right now.

He had cleared out all valuable yet unused items from his possession, acquiring four million, plus this 1.5 million, totaling 5.5 million.

In Lin Chen's eyees before, that was a huge amount...

But now, for the Little Fox, it was just enough to buy three or four evolution materials.

Spirit Beasts truly were money pits, indeed.

Before Xiaobai could wake up, Liu Gu had Bai Ling come over and inform him to head to the Mentor Hall.

When he arrived, Liu Gu shared some good news:

"The dean heard that you broke the record and highly praises you. He has allowed you to take one extra piece of evolution material."

"Really?" Lin Chen was overjoyed.

"Would I lie to you?" Liu Gu finished and handed him a list, saying, "The evolution formula for the Little Fox is already set. Tomorrow the medicine storehouse will receive a new batch of materials. I'll take you to the storehouse to pick out herbs, and you'll come along."

After speaking, Liu Gu also told Bai Ling, "You go along too."

Bai Ling nodded.

Lin Chen glanced at Bai Ling's list and felt a bit dumbfounded...

Is Bai Ling some relative of a high-ranking Spirit Academy member or something, why does it seem like she doesn't have to work hard?

Lin Chen wasn't jealous, just purely curious.

After all, Bai Ling's treatment was indeed unreasonably good.

However, if Lin Chen knew that the half-drop of Phoenix Essence Blood he obtained also came thanks to Bai Ling, he would be even more astonished, even suspecting Bai Ling might be the dean's long-lost daughter.

....

The next day, Lin Chen left the Three-Headed Spirit Beast at home and went to the Mentor Hall himself.

The Spirit Academy's medicine storehouse was very large, but the decor wasn't great, just a big house that didn't look impressive.

However, the contents of this single house were valued by someone to be possibly worth more than all the assets of a medium-sized city combined.

This wasn't an exaggeration; after all, the Spirit Academy was akin to a vampire, crazily sucking the nation's blood...

Materials for evolution there could easily cost a million, and more expensive ones couldn't be found outside, but you could find them here.

"Old Liu, you're here..." The mentor guarding the pharmacy was surnamed Xiao, and everyone called him Instructor Xiao.

When Liu Gu and the other two entered, Instructor Xiao pointed to the piles of neatly stacked herbs in front of him and said, "These were just sent from the Celestial Capital yesterday; it's what you specifically requested."

Lin Chen glanced and found that inside were all Bai Ling's herbs.

He couldn't help but become curious...

Celestial Capital?

Bai Ling?

Could Bai Ling's origins be linked to the Celestial Capital?

Lin Chen couldn't be blamed for thinking too much; after all, Bai Ling belonged to a custom evolution.

Liu Gu began counting the herbs and said to Instructor Xiao, "Lin Chen has five slots for herb materials. Set aside a portion of yesterday's new Wuhua Grass, Flame Stone, and Inch Heart Spirit Root, and let him choose the remaining two items himself."