Noticing the frustration of the golden-scaled turtle, Xu Ran probably guessed the reason for its loss, and gently patted its head.

"It's normal that your current strength can't compare to Ziyun, because it has completed an evolution, and its strength is stronger than you in all aspects."

"Cha?"

The golden-scaled turtle tilted its head, a little inquiring in its eyes.

Xu Ran shook his head helplessly.

In fact, there is no contract, and the transcendent beings who have come into contact with humans are able to communicate with humans to a certain extent, so he can get along smoothly with the residents of the foster care area, and they can also understand his own words.

However, the golden-scaled turtle had just hatched out of its egg, like a blank sheet of paper.

At this time, it is like a newborn baby, and it will be more difficult to communicate.

If you can't explain it, then comfort it with actions.

Xu Ran hugged the golden scale turtle and stroked its head.

Feeling the closeness and gentle touch he felt at the moment of birth, the trace of depression in the heart of the golden scale turtle was quickly thrown out of the clouds.

Enjoyment resurfaced in its eyes.

"Alright, that's all for tonight."

After reassuring for a while, Xu Ran gently patted the golden scale turtle's head.

Even with its shrinkage, the size of the Turtle is still not suitable for living on the second floor, and it can only live on the basement floor for a while.

However, the Golden Turtle does not stay in the basement layer forever.

As the skill proficiency of the shrinking increases, it will be able to become smaller, and by the time it reaches the Starlight level, it will be able to shrink to a size similar to that of Ziyun.

At that time, it will be able to go to the second floor to live with Xu Ran and Ziyun.

The same is true for the star, with its size, as long as it learns to shrink, even if it is only at the level of star chips, it is enough for it to shrink its size to one or two meters.

Xu Ran looked around, and next to the dark area belonging to the stars, he divided an area of the same size, and prepared an earth environment suitable for the Golden Scale Turtle.

"Alright, you'll sleep here tonight!"

"Cha!"

understood Xu Ran's gestures and meaning, and the golden scale turtle had a little reluctance in his eyes.

"Sigh Rhythm~" (I'm with you!) ）

Xingchen hissed, raised his hooves and gently tapped the scale shell of the golden scale turtle, and pointed to the dark area where he was, indicating that it was next to the golden scale turtle.

"Cha!"

The Golden Scaly Turtle was a little less resistant.

From Xingchen's body, it also felt its own familiar breath.

It was a lot of peace of mind.

Clever enough to vaguely guess why it couldn't go upstairs.

Is your size still too big...

Then work hard and make yourself smaller!

"That's good." Looking at the obedient appearance of the golden scale turtle, Xu Ran nodded with satisfaction.

As he expected, the personality of the newborn pet animal is like a blank sheet of paper, and it is almost impossible to get along with each other.

Judging from the current situation of the Golden Scale Turtle getting along with himself, Ziyun and Xingchen, after the power of the contract breaks through the third order, the contract with it is almost a sure thing.

"Xingchen, take care of it."

After a word of advice, Xu Ran returned to the store with Ziyun.

Looking at Tony, who was still trying to solicit guests after dark, Xu Ran dropped a sentence of "come on" and went directly to the second floor before he made wink.

Come on and meditate, in order to break through the third order! ——

Basement level.

Looking at the golden-scaled turtle with reluctance in his eyes and looking at the direction of Xu Ran's disappearance, Xingchen knew what he was going to do.

What should I do?

It thought about it for a while, and couldn't help but think of the first night it came, and the picture of Ziyun bringing its familiar environment with it came to mind.

Just hatching is also a newcomer, so this is the first night the Golden Scale Turtle has spent here, and now I am also a senior, and it is my turn to take the Golden Scale Turtle to get familiar with the environment!

With an idea in his heart, a glint of anticipation appeared in Xingchen's eyes.

It's the latest to come before, and I've never experienced the feeling of its predecessors!

"Sigh~" (Follow me, I'll take you to get acquainted here!) ）

Xingchen raised his front hooves and gently tapped the scale shell of the golden scale turtle.

"Cha?"

Watching Xingchen make a gesture to leave, and then turning his head to look at his own movements, the Golden Scale Turtle quickly understood what it meant, and finally glanced at the direction where Xu Ran and Ziyun had disappeared, and then followed in a hurry.

When it was born, it was very curious about everything, and its mind came and went quickly.

Soon, two pet beasts appeared in the area where the frost wolf was.

"Huh?"

Feeling the strange aura of the visitor, the frost wolf leaped a few times and came to the stars and the golden-scaled turtle from the other side of the snow hill.

Feeling the breath of the two elite-level pet beasts, it was still transcendental-level consummated, and it did not panic at all, and its grinning personality was the same as that of its beast master.

"Huh?"

What do you see!

Looking at the golden-scaled turtle that looked at him curiously, the frost-dusted wolf glared at him, carefully examined the golden-scaled turtle, and then a satisfied look appeared in his eyes.

What about being better than me? You're smaller than me!

It raised its head high, and the snow-white hair around it exploded, making its body appear stronger and stronger, and it looked quite bluffing.

Xingchen couldn't help but have a strange look in his eyes.

Because of the fact that it once raced with the Frost Dust Wolf, it is most familiar with the Frost Dust Wolf in the foster care area.

Seeing this guy's posture, Xingchen guessed its intentions.

But...

It's the wrong person this time.

Looking at the frost and dust wolf that showed contempt at him, and looked bigger than himself, the golden-scaled turtle was stunned at first, and then angry.

Shrinkage is lifted instantly!

Seeing that the size of the body quickly expanded, to the point where it needed to look up, and finally blocked its sight, even the artificial light source above the sky was completely obscured, and the huge golden-scaled turtle that shrouded it in shadows, the frost wolf swallowed his saliva, instantly shrunk his tail between his legs, and then screamed miserably, and fled.

"Whew... Woof! ”

There are beasts trying to murder Ben Wang!

"Cha!"

The golden-scaled turtle, which had shrunk back to its size, shouted triumphantly in the direction of the frost wolf, and then continued to follow the stars to the next place.

——

A week went by in a flash.

Two new additions to the store, Tony and Turtle, have gradually integrated into the family.

After letting Tony be in charge of the three businesses in the store for three consecutive days, Xu Ran had a clearer understanding of Tony's ability.

When he was in charge of washing and care, Tony's washing and care effect was comparable to Xu Ran's, although his appearance and washing process were a little magical, but the customer feedback was quite normal, and many even found it interesting.

For example, Liu Gu.

Because the cleaning and care has become a 24-hour operation, even if the income is halved, Xu Ran can get a harvest that is not inferior to the previous one.

But the downside is not without it.

That is, all the skills that Tony obtained through the hair will be automatically broken down into skill fragments, and then handed over to Xu Ran for half.

This is a little different from what Xu Ran expected.

Tony is in charge of foster care, and his help to Xu Ran is relatively limited.

Although the upper limit of foster care can be greatly increased, Qingzhou City is too small, the market is limited, and there are not so many beast masters who will foster pet beasts over unless they rob all the businesses of other families.

As for the sparring partners...

After Tony was in charge, the overall income was slightly lower than Xu Ran's own one-day maintenance, but increasing the training time by two hours was equally effective for Xingchen and Ziyun.

And Xu Ran has more time to devote himself to cleaning and foster feeding, and the income of the other two businesses will increase.

So...

After the three-day trial, Xu Ran finally decided to hand over the sparring business to Tony.

As for the golden-scaled turtle, it took a week for its relationship with one person and two pets to warm up rapidly.

After communicating with Xu Ran a lot, he was already able to understand the meaning of most human languages.

After one person and one pet could communicate effectively, Xu Ran decided to give the Golden Scale Turtle a name as well, and no longer call it by racial name.

After some discussion with Ziyun and Xingchen, and finally soliciting the opinions of the Golden Scale Turtle itself, its name was set as Cancan, which means "Golden Cancan".

And Xu Ran was the first person he saw when he was born, so Cancan's dependence on Xu Ran became stronger and stronger during this time.

Commonly known as sticky essence.

This made Ziyun's sense of crisis stronger and stronger.

The new little brother, he won't compete with it for the place in Xu Ran's arms in the future, right?

No way! Absolutely not!

However, despite the aggravation of the sense of crisis, Ziyun still fulfilled her duties as the eldest sister well, and after learning that Xingchen had taken Cancan to familiarize herself with the environment of the foster care area, she began to urge Cancan to train.

The thunder system was originally an attribute restrained by the earth system, but because of the huge disparity in strength between the two, Cancan's training was always in a painful and happy stage.

As a newborn baby with a body length of 27 meters, Cancan endured hardships that should not be endured at his age, and also initially felt a part of the team's culture.

Train hard!

In his spare time, Xingchen will take Cancan for a walk in the foster care area, and occasionally take Cancan to his dark living area, where one big and one small live in harmony.

Of course, the stone engraved with the 250 value points that Cancan owes him, it has been hidden in advance.

In the harmonious relationship, although one person and two pets did not mention it, they already faintly regarded Cancan as a new partner.

——

"Are you ready?"

In the foster care area on the basement floor, Xu Ran looked at the purple clouds, stars and cancan standing side by side in front of him, and spoke in a deep voice.

"Meow!" (Commander Rank!) ）

Ziyun's eyes burst with excitement.

During this time, it has never given up its own training and resource absorption, and at this moment, it is at the elite level on the surface, and it has accumulated a lot of strength in its body.

It had already begun to look forward to how high these forces would be able to push its strength to when it exploded at the moment of advancement.

The corpse of the giant beast that had been glimpsed before appeared in Ziyun's mind at this moment.

After breaking through to the Commander Rank, you must go to see if you can break through the barrier set by the giant beast before it fell and touch its body!

Thinking of this, a determined look appeared in Ziyun's eyes.

"Wow!" (I'm ready!) ）

The stars hissed, and the momentum around them converged, and they were ready to fight.

But what it was waiting for was completely different from Ziyun.

When the power of Xu Ran's contract breaks through the third order, it has already completed the elite level, and it needs to suppress its own advancement with its own strength.

Xu Ran had already consulted Gu Wu in advance, such a strength suppression was also a way of cultivation, which could exercise the pet beast's control over its own strength.

"Cha~"

Looking at the two of them who were like rainbows on the side, Cancan seemed to be affected, and shouted energetically.

Xu Ran had already told it in advance that after this breakthrough, it could be contracted, so that it would be the same as Ziyun and Xingchen.

is still a little ignorant, but Cancan understands that the relationship between Ziyun, Xingchen and Xu Ran is more intimate than the relationship between himself and Xu Ran.

In the past few days, Xu Ran has bathed it twice, and in order to achieve the best cleaning effect in the process of washing, it needs to be lifted and reduced.

Thinking of Xu Ran's hard work washing and caring for its huge body, just to make it feel more comfortable, Cancan felt a touching emotion in his heart.

Therefore, it also wants to have a closer relationship with Xu Ran!

Under the gaze of the three pet beasts, Xu Ran sat cross-legged on the ground and closed his eyes.

Breakthrough!

He was already only one foot away from the third order, and at this moment, he barely encountered any obstacles under the effect of the meditation acceleration card, and he stepped over smoothly.

His body was like a black hole, swallowing the surging supernatural power around him.

In his mind, the two light yellow vortices gradually deepened in color, turning into dark yellow and each parting out a part of its power, condensing into a third vortex.

This is... The third contract bit!

The power of the contract has reached the third order at this moment!

"Boom !!"

The majestic power was fed back from Ziyun and Xingchen through the Imperial Beast Contract.

With the increase of the power of the contract, it is not only the number of contract slots, but also the proportion of the power of each pet beast and the strength of the contract induction.

Xu Ran's momentum is rising under the new feedback.

And the one who has increased faster than his momentum is Ziyun!

At the moment when Xu Ran broke through, Ziyun sensed the shattering of his own shackles.

The Commander Rank is waving at it!

Ziyun did not hesitate to step on the ladder of the new growth level, and in the dazzling light of the advancement, his strength rose one by one, and the terrifying momentum rose to the sky, alarming a large number of residents in the foster care area.

Is that...

The momentum of the Command Rank!

In the light, Ziyun's body quickly grew larger with a crisp bone sound, and soon grew from about one meter in length to two meters in length.

Its body became more proportionate and powerful, as if it had regained its youthful stage.

Beneath its body, it seems that there is a terrifying power like a mountain torrent lurking, which makes people's hearts palpitate.

"Wow!"

The stars hissed, and the moment they felt the shackles disappear, an urge to advance unconsciously emerged.

However, with its tenacious will, this impulse quickly dissipated.

Thanks to the deliberate suppression of its own strength accumulation before, it feels good at the moment.

We have to keep it on until the moment of evolution.

The stars admonished themselves in their hearts that their desire for evolution grew.

Soon, soon!

"Whew-"

After the breakthrough was over, Xu Ran slowly opened his eyes, first looked at Ziyun, who had completed the advancement, and then turned his head to look at Cancan.

Until now, he still doesn't know what Cancan's skills are called, and can only be referred to by titles like skill 1 and skill 2.

You don't have to bother so much in the future.

"Now, we can make a contract."

(End of chapter)