Divine Beast Adventures

Edited by Aelryinth

When Dijiang-hao finally returned to Bei Du, it was already the morning of the 18th of November.

The repercussions of the secret plane’s sudden collapse was slowly spreading throughout the world. The aftermath of the incident was also slowly spreading.

Of course, this matter wasn’t of much concern to ordinary people, or even most of the beastmaster population. After all, those who participated in the secret plane were only from the mid-tier clan and factions and above from the various regions. The lower-tiered people didn’t even know about it.

After returning to Bei Du, Huang Juyun directly got on a military vehicle and rushed back to the military camp in a hurry. Although both the military and government had learned of the secret plane incident, it was very much necessary for someone who was at the site to go report the exact details.

Given Zhang Che’s Dijiang-hao’s insane speed, Huang Juyun was one of the first high-ranking officers to return to Hua Xia. Naturally he had to go to headquarters to give a report on the incident.

This would involve and affect the very important decision on whether Hua Xia would continue sending mid-tier beastmasters when secret planes appeared in the future. It couldn’t be taken lightly.

Regarding it, Zhang Che felt helpless about it.

He really wanted to tell them to not worry, and that actually the secret planes didn’t change much. The past two incidents were only due to the big boss rainbow crystal acting up. As long as he didn’t allow the rainbow crystal to play any tricks the next time, the secret plane would surely stay around normally for a period of time, and the beastmasters inside could earn a fortune before it faded into the void again.

However, Zhang Che couldn’t say this aloud, no matter what!

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Back at the villa, Sun Lan was glad to see Zhang Che return safely.

Zhang Che didn’t hide his trip to the secret plane from his mother. However, he didn’t tell her about the dangers he faced inside, either. He let her assume that entering the secret plane was like entering the beast worlds, and that there wouldn’t be any dangers as long as he didn’t venture too deep into inside.

Regarding the early collapse of the secret plane, Sun Lan sighed at the fact that her son wasn’t able to gain much.

As Zhang Che grew stronger and stronger, and with him being the kind of person to only talk about happy things, Sun Lan had the false impression that Zhang Che wouldn’t be in danger no matter where he went.

-I have to become stronger. That way, I won’t get into any danger in the future for real, and mom can rest  fully assured.- Zhang Che spurred himself inside. Going forward, he’d ignore everything else and enter the beast world to hunt exotic beasts, striving to advance to high-tier beastmaster as soon as possible!

After that General Mihill from Bei Mei actually acted so crazily, getting his men to bring miniature nuclear warheads into the secret plane to murder him, Zhang Che grew even more wary.

He wasn’t scared for his life. In any case, he wouldn’t leave Hua Xia. Even if he did, he would do so while assuming another identity. However, his mother and close ones were in Bei Du. He still had to worry about his enemies having ideas on them!

Last time, they made a mistake and the beastmasters they sent weren’t strong enough, leading to their capture in one fell swoop. If they were to strike again, it would surely be different…

As such, after pondering for some time, Zhang Che passed the two epic-quality beast cards with no False Domains he had recently obtained to Liu Gang’s squad.

With that gift, the three of them would have almost ten legend-quality beast cards, in addition to four epic-quality beast cards combined. With such a strong force, Liu Gang’s squad would be able to handle the situation even if a high-tier beastmaster with a high-tier epic-quality subdued beast attacked!

Zhang Che’s estimated that even he would find it difficult to take on Liu Gang’ squad alone, and would need some time to defeat them. Furthermore, they were in Bei Du. As long as the attackers couldn’t defeat Liu Gang’s squad swiftly, they would never get another chance to do so. They wouldn’t even be able to walk out of Bei Du.

In order to maintain stability in Bei Du, the military and the government had many experts lurking in every corner of the city in order to take care of any chaos mid or high-tier beastmasters might cause.

After Zhang Che gave them another two epic-quality beast cards after a short trip away, Liu Gang’s squad was simply at a loss, not knowing how to react to this.

Indeed, Zhang-shao was in a league of his own. To him, epic-quality beast cards were like ordinary beastmasters obtaining gold-quality beast cards; it didn’t seem very difficult at all!

Obviously they knew Zhang Che was thinking about the safety of the villa. As such, they didn’t reject the two epic-quality beast cards at all. Instead, they gave Zhang Che their word that they would ensure the safety of the villa and not let anything happen to Sun Lan and the others. Not unless they were dead.

“Old Liu, I’ll be counting on you guys then!” Zhang Che cupped his fist toward the three, his face filled with gratitude.

Truthfully speaking, as high-tier beastmasters, especially since they were once the elites of the Huang family, arranging for them to play the role of chaperones was indeed beneath them. If it were any other high-tier beastmasters, who would be willing to remain here as a nobody, even if Zhang Che equipped them with epic-quality beast cards?

The strong had their own pride. At their level, it truly wasn’t easy to get them to stand guard here day after day, year after year!

“Zhang-shao is too polite. This is our responsibility to begin with!” Liu Gang and the others hurriedly stood up and replied respectfully after they saw Zhang Che acting so formally.

All three of them were actually orphans adopted by Grandpa Huang. Their parents had lost their lives during the first two beast swarms. If it wasn’t for the Huang family, perhaps they’d have become food for exotic beasts long ago.

That was precisely why their loyalty towards the Huang family had remained unchanged, despite becoming high-tier beastmasters.

As for Zhang Che, it was obvious he would take the reins of the Huang family in the future. Being loyal to Zhang Che was akin to being loyal to the Huang family!

Zhang Che nodded at them gratefully once more. No further words of thanks needed to be said. When he became stronger, he’d definitely reward them with more good stuff!

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After dinner, Zhang Che went to the Huang mansion.

After his return, he had something very important to discuss with his father-in-law. Earlier, it had been delayed since Huang Juyun had to return to headquarters to report on the secret plane, and only now did he have the time.

“You’re saying we should relocate the herbal research institute south?”

After hearing Zhang Che’s suggestion, Huang Juyun began weighing the pros and cons. Indeed, as the climate turn colder, only the summer days would have a warm temperature. The rest of the months would be at least ten degrees celsius colder than before.

Although it could be argued that with the spiritual jade in the herbal field, the spiritual herbs would have less harsh requirements on the climate, it would still have a material effect.

“Uncle Huang, no one can predict how the climate will change in the future. It’s very possible that the climate in the north will become colder and colder. The growth of the spiritual herbs will surely be greatly affected, especially the production the spiritual honey. If the blooming periods of the spiritual herbs are shortened, or even stop blooming altogether, the losses would be too great.” Zhang Che nodded, then continued, “If we can relocate the herbal field to the south, this problem will be solved. At present, the scale of our herbal field isn’t very big, but it will surely continue to expand in the future. At that time, the production of spiritual honey would be affected even more severely!”

In order to convince Huang Juyun, Zhang Che even revealed the secret that he had a subdued beast which could sense spiritual herbs within a certain range, shocking his father-in-law. After thinking for a bit, the suspicions Huang Juyun had all this time were finally explained!

It was no wonder this brat brought back such large amounts of spiritual herbs every time he went into the beast world. It turned out that he had a subdued beast that had the ability to sense spiritual herbs. No wonder!

“Hmm, what you’ve said is very important. Although the weather doesn’t seem to have much of an effect on the spiritual herbs right now, in the future when we expand the herbal field, it’ll surely become ever more significant.” Huang Juyun nodded in agreement. He asked, “Then, Xiaoche, in your opinion, which city should we relocate the herbal research institute to?”

Zhang Che smiled. He didn’t answer directly. Instead, he said, “That depends on you, Uncle Huang. At the very least, our forces there need to be strong. Otherwise, when the scale of the herbal field increases, who can guarantee no one will be spurred on by their greed and target us?

“I’m not sure about all that, and can only wait for Uncle Huang to arrange it. I’m only responsible for gathering spiritual herbs in the beast world.”

Huang Juyun smiled and nodded, saying, “Alright. Since you’re so confident, I won’t hold you back. I’ll definitely find a secure place that no one will dare have any designs on, even if the herbal field expands tenfold, or even a hundredfold!”

“I’ll be troubling you then, Uncle Huang!”

Zhang Che finally relaxed after seeing Huang Juyun agreed to his suggestion. However, would the scale of the herbal field only increase ten or a hundred times in the future?

In the secret plane controlled by the rainbow crystal, spiritual herbs were as plentiful as the stars in the sky, completely countless. The only thing to worry about was having the time to dig them out!

After all, just in the floating mountain range where the rainbow crystal shard was found, the number of spiritual herbs was more than twice that in the current herbal field. Zhang Che had no idea exactly how vast the whole secret plane was. The amount of spiritual herbs he could find in the end was definitely at an unimaginable level!

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After they were done discussing the relocation of the herbal research institute, Zhang Che didn’t stay any longer. He directly drove home.

Meanwhile, Huang Juyun immediately summoned the relevant people and started discussing the matter in detail, seeing which southern city was the most ideal to relocate the herbal research institute to.

The climate there had to be warm and appropriate, and it had to be where the Huang family’s influence could reach. Otherwise, it’d really be as Zhang Che said: if the security wasn’t strong enough, it would lead to the herbal field being plundered both openly and covertly! Even ignoring the losses, it would be too much of an embarrassment for the Huang family!