Destiny Beast Taming

"Fried flaky pastries are three yuan each, or five yuan for two!"

"A bowl of glutinous rice is ten yuan, all freshly made with absolutely fresh ingredients!"

"The crispy fried cakes are cut into small pieces; anyone passing by can try them for free!"

A woman dressed simply but with the looks of a ripe peach was hawking her wares on the street in Liunan Lane in the Lower District.

Liunan Lane is one of the most densely populated areas in the lower part of Xingmang City, and its commerce is relatively developed.

The food stalls that set up on Liunan Lane at night are larger than the market at the entrance of a level three secret realm.

"Hey, weren't those an elderly couple running this stall? How come it's you today?"

The woman was all smiles when she saw a guest arrive, but when she heard the words "How did it become you?" her eyes suddenly turned ruthless.

But this ruthlessness was quickly suppressed, yet it still sent a chill down the spine of the guest in front of him.

"They were sick and it was inconvenient for them to set up their stall, so I came to help them."

The regular customer asked, his expression still somewhat strange.

"Didn't their daughter used to help them set up their stall when they needed something? Why isn't she here?"

The woman pursed her lips, clearly her patience was about to run out.

"Her daughter is also sick. They will naturally set up their stall after she recovers in a couple of days."

The regular customer didn't ask any more questions after hearing what the woman said, and pointed to the round, thick, flaky fried cake.

"Give me six, just enough for breakfast tomorrow."

Just as the woman handed out the six fried pastries she had prepared, a rough voice rang out beside her.

"What do you add to your glutinous rice?"

"It smells amazing, give me six bowls first."

The man who came to the stall was covered in blood. Not far behind him, five people were sitting at a table next to the stall.

All five of them looked weary from their journey, their eyes filled with weariness yet unable to suppress their excitement.

It was obvious that they were a team of beast tamers who had just returned to the lower city after exploring the secret realm.

Judging from their cheerful and talkative demeanor, they must have gained quite a bit in the secret realm.

"The fried dough sticks I add to this glutinous rice are all homemade, and the minced meat is made from the back meat of black-backed wild boar."

"I also added half a super-level firewing ostrich to the broth to ensure a delicious and rich flavor."

As she spoke, the woman noticed that the blood-covered man and several other members of the adventurer team were greedily eyeing her body.

The woman wasn't angry. As she lowered her head to prepare the glutinous rice, she glanced at the members of the adventurer team out of the corner of her eye, as if the adventurer team members were the glutinous rice.

Many diners and shop owners in Liunan Lane complained throughout the night that there were so many mosquitoes in the summer, and even the little spiders that usually hide in the corners of walls were no longer afraid of people.

How dare they brazenly lie on people's clothes!

As night deepened, the number of stalls in Liunan Lane gradually decreased.

Like the other stall owners, the woman packed up her stall and returned to her residence not far behind it.

The lights inside the house were on, but the food on the dining table directly opposite the door had clearly gone bad.

Inside the room, three people were lying on the bed, fast asleep. All three of them smelled of fried cakes and cooked glutinous rice.

The woman walked all the way to the warehouse behind the house, opened the cover, and went into the cellar before finally letting out a sigh of relief.

A faint, eerie light shone from the cellar, and a white skeletal centipede, nearly a meter wide and of inestimable length, crawled toward the woman.

A high-pitched, sharp sound, like thin pieces of bone colliding, rang out.

"Qin Ruyue's Night-Cutting Spider hasn't found this place yet, but it's only a matter of time."

"I can't eat this strange creature of rules. If I do, the anomalies it causes will definitely be detected by the Night-Cutting Spider."

"What should we do? Should we just keep hiding like this?"

Upon hearing this, cracks appeared on the woman's beautiful and charming face, and something inside seemed to writhe violently.

It's as if a beautiful face is just a thin film on the surface, but the cracks are quickly smoothed out.

"Hidden all along? How did you hide it?"

"That crazy woman Qin Ruyue is planning to let the Night-Cutting Spider hatch its offspring and cover the entire Starry City to find me. The Moon-Cleansing Gu in my body will take effect in eight days at the latest."

"Qin Ruyue knew I couldn't afford to delay!"

"Hmph, even if I can't get this strange embryonic form of rules, Qin Ruyue won't get it either."

At this point, the woman seemed to have made up her mind and asked a question.

"If I could create an undisturbed environment for you for an entire day, would you be able to refine this rule-based monster embryo?"

As soon as the woman finished speaking, a bizarre figure about three meters tall emerged from the far end of the corner. Its entire body was made of white bones and covered with the skin of a beautiful woman.

The figure was holding a wildly beating, black and red embryo with iridescent light in its arms.

The skeletal body suddenly moved, and the beautiful woman's face on it immediately stretched out.

This transformed the eerie, three-meter-tall figure into a humanoid creature that was both terrifying and beautiful.

Its gaping mouth revealed sharp, white teeth, and a sticky, saliva-like liquid, which could not be secreted by the tongue, dripped from time to time onto the black-red embryo in its arms, which shimmered with iridescent colors.

He glanced greedily at the throbbing embryo in his arms, and then a high-pitched, sharp sound, like bones colliding, rang out again.

"One day is not enough. The rules that this strange, bone-type devouring Order Beast previously mastered are completely different from my abilities."

"Fortunately, this Bone-type creature strangely absorbed the rules controlled by that Order Beast and gained corresponding authority, which is why I, being a Bone-type creature myself, had the opportunity to absorb it as well."

"If I were to absorb this rule-based monstrous embryo, it would take me at least seven days to digest it in order to ensure that the energy of the rule-based monstrous embryo would no longer leak out."

"It would take at least three months, and at most three to five years, to fully digest this."

Upon hearing this, the woman glanced at the strange fetus of rules that she had obtained through a life-or-death struggle with a complicated expression, and then spoke in a chilling voice.

"It seems that this rule-based strange fetus is truly not meant for us, but we can't let that bitch Qin Ruyue get away with it."

"I've instructed you to leave a Ji Gu clone outside Star City. Go and inform the Evil Blood Cult about the Ruling Monster, so they can get involved and muddy the waters."

"No matter how careful the Evil Blood Cult is with what they pick up under their noses, I don't believe they can resist the temptation of the strange and monstrous rules."

Upon hearing this, the terrifyingly beautiful Centipede Tomb Princess, who was over three meters tall, hesitated slightly.

"Since Shi Mi has brought the Evil Blood Cult here, the Chosen Ones of Star City will certainly not stand idly by."

"This bizarre entity bound by rules..."

Before Wugu Tomb Princess could finish speaking, Shi Mi interrupted her sharply.