Desolate Era: Hatching a Phoenix at the Beginning

Chapter 83: Cheating Under Cover of a Diversion

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Hearing this, Ye Chen was secretly shocked. It seemed that he had underestimated this world. There were all kinds of strange beast taming methods and humans could also use the abilities of mutated beasts. It simply opened his eyes.

He finally knew how this person called Gao Ming became the captain of the City Lord Residence’s guards. With this device that detected beasts, which superior wouldn’t like him?

However, he didn’t expect Gao Ming to go straight to the point and tell him why he came. Did Gao Ming have his number?

“F*ck, who are you looking down on?”

Before Ye Chen could say anything, the Kun Peng in his body directly cried out.

“That’s right. F*ck him. Teach him a lesson!” Monkey agreed with what the Kun Peng said and was extremely irritated.

The Immortal Phoenix and Little Purple didn’t speak but the spots where they were started to heat up. Apparently, they were angry as well.

Thinking of this, Ye Chen also frowned and said coldly, “What do you mean, Captain Gao?”

Upon seeing this, a sharp glint of light flashed across Gao Ming’s eyes. What kind of person was he? He had never thought that Ye Chen would still have such an attitude even after he told him his identity. He was immediately upset and he said directly, “I’ve taken a fancy to a beast you own. Let’s make a deal. I’ll offer you 50 Purple Crystals. How about that?”

Ye Chen sat in the original seat and chuckled.

“Captain Gao, you’re from the City Lord Residence. What good things don’t you have? I really can’t think of anything good that’s worth trading with you.”

He could tell that although Gao Ming’s words seemed straightforward and fierce, he had mentioned several times that he had the beast he wanted but couldn’t tell what it was. It was very likely that Gao Ming was deceiving him to reveal how many beasts he had and would snatch as many as he could.

The more he talked, the more mistakes he made. So, he would rather give Gao Ming the right to speak.

Seeing that he couldn’t make Ye Chen talk, Gao Ming was also furious. He picked up the Godly Sea Steadying Needle wrapped in the black cloth and went towards Ye Chen fiercely.

“Bastard, don’t be so shameless. Even if you don’t hand over the advanced water-type mutated beast, do you think I can’t take it myself?”

It happened too quickly and the two of them were close. Ye Chen was shocked. He wanted to dodge backwards but he didn’t have enough time. In an instant, the Godly Sea Steadying Needle touched his chest. He heard Gao Ming’s deep shout, “Come out!”

Nothing happened. Instead, when the people in the inn heard the noise, they all looked over. The air was filled with awkwardness in an instant.

Ye Chen looked at the Godly Sea Steadying Needle that was pointing at his heart speechlessly and reached his hand out to slap it away.

At this moment, the Kun Peng’s voice sounded in his mind.

“Master, the Godly Sea Steadying Needle seems to be a mutated beast!”

“Mutated beast? Idiot, are you sure?” Ye Chen was a little shocked. He had used the system to look at the Godly Sea Steadying Needle but it didn’t show any information. And now, the Kun Peng was telling him that it was a mutated beast, a mutated beast that could cheat the system? Was that a joke?

“That’s definitely right. I sensed that it wanted to use the power of the sea beast to call upon me. However, I have a higher ranking, so I couldn’t do so!” The Kun Peng’s voice was very proud. “Although it has the ability to hide its aura, I can recognize it when I touch it!”

Ye Chen’s eyes brightened as he looked at the Godly Sea Steadying Needle.

It’s indeed something that I have eyes on. What a good thing! It even has the ability to hide its aura from the system’s detection… If I can get this divine power, it would totally be awesome!

However, Gao Ming had already taken the Godly Sea Steadying Needle. Unless Gao Ming terminated the contract or died, no one else could get this strange mutated beast. Ye Chen felt that it was a pity. However, on second thoughts, as long as he could increase his strength, it would be very easy for him to force Gao Ming to hand over the Godly Sea Steadying Needle. So, he was happy again.

Of course, the premise was that he could protect his Divine Beasts from Gao Ming today.

Ye Chen knew that Fan City wasn’t like the Primitive Burial Ground from before. Even though it was definitely an unscrupulous behavior for Gao Ming to use 50 Purple Crystals to buy a mutated beast, it was very difficult for him to kill Gao Ming and then get away with it completely. So, he must be careful for now.

In front of Ye Chen, Gao Ming, who was holding the Godly Sea Steadying Needle, couldn’t believe what he saw.

“The Godly Sea Steadying Needle can’t be wrong. You must have an advanced water-type mutated beast with you.” His eyes suddenly widened and he lowered his voice. “Your mutated beast is above the SSS-rank?”

“Captain Gao, I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Ye Chen continued to play dumb. Gao Ming wouldn’t do anything to him in the inn in front of everyone anyway. However, he let out a long “oh…” deep in his heart.

It turned out that the Godly Sea Steadying Needle was an SSS-rank pseudo Divine Beast. Ye Chen started calculating. Although a mutated beast of this rank wasn’t as good as his Divine Beasts, it definitely had higher values than Little Purple had at the beginning. In addition, Gao Ming must have been raising his mutated beast longer than him. Judging from this, the values of the Godly Sea Steadying Needle should be quite impressive.

Then, Little Purple, who was the least talkative among the Divine Beasts, spoke in Ye Chen’s mind.

“Master, do you want to keep that Divine Beast? You can.” Its voice was soft and clearly different from the others. “I think Master’s blood has a very high authority. It’s higher than the person who created me. You should be able to surpass the Beast Spirit Contract of ordinary people.”

“Little Purple is right. I think so too!” Monkey also agreed.

“Do I have such an ability?” Ye Chen was a little shocked that he received the affirmation from his two Divine Beasts. However, thinking about how he took in this bunch of Divine Beasts without opening up any Beast Spirit positions, it seemed to be normal for him to have higher authority. Ye Chen was secretly happy. It looked like he only needed to find a chance to steal… to get the Godly Sea Steadying Needle.

Thinking of this, he suddenly had a good idea. He quickly called out to the Kun Peng in his mind and explained his plan.

Gao Ming was already extremely impatient at this moment.

“Don’t think that you can get away with this. My combat power is much stronger than yours.” Looking at Ye Chen who was playing dumb, Gao Ming started to panic. “You won’t be able to fight against me if you have an advanced mutated beast but don’t know how to raise it. I advise you not to force me to attack you. Hand over the mutated beast obediently and I will still spare you.”

If he had the intention of extorting money before, he would be robbing right now.

How rare were SSSS-rank or SSSSS-rank mutated beasts? He thought that he had struck gold this time and only wanted to quickly get the beast and leave.

At this moment, Ye Chen, who had been unresponsive to his threat, suddenly said, “I’ll sell it but can you give me more Purple Crystals?”

Gao Ming was overjoyed but his voice was cold. “No. If you say so much, I won’t even give you 50 Purple Crystals.” After saying that, he threw a bag of Purple Crystals on the table.

Ye Chen seemed to have given up. He glanced at Gao Ming in disgust and reached out to pick up the Purple Crystals. Then, he reluctantly put a palm-sized fish into Gao Ming’s hand.

It was a Kun Peng in the form of a fish.

Gao Ming snorted and shook off Ye Chen’s hand and checked the Kun Peng’s entire body. After confirming that there was no Beast Spirit Seal that indicated it had a master, he put away the Kun Peng and left as he laughed.

What he didn’t know was that Ye Chen was sneering behind him.

“He took the bait.. Now it’s up to the Kun Peng.”