Beast Taming: I have unique beast-collecting skills

"Then it's probably not possible..." Lin Su said "Oh" without changing her expression, and didn't ask how to prove that the method she provided was true.

Information exchange is inherently uncertain, including the authenticity of the information itself and whether one party lies or deliberately conceals information during the exchange process.

The second point is easy to confirm, but what if Sasagawa Kotoko's information is actually fake? Unless she tries it herself; and if Tu Zhiyi is prepared, he doesn't actually need to give the "all" information he has collected, he could just give a condensed version or something.

However, the decision-making power in this matter did not lie with her. To put it bluntly, the information she had was provided by Professor Tu... Lin Su looked away and turned to the entrance of the market.

Sasagawa Kotoko continued to stare at Tu Zhiyi, her dark eyes revealing no emotion whatsoever: "So? Want to change?"

If you want to use this method, you must prepare in advance; it will be too late once the River of the Underworld opens.

Tu Zhiyi pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "Change."

……

The exchange takes place in the trading room.

During the day, the Ghost Market is just an ordinary market, but at night, most of the vendors are ghost-type Beastmasters or pets, hence the name "Ghost Market".

No credentials are required here; just find an empty seat, put your things down, and you're good to go.

Because the stalls were too rudimentary and lacked security, local law enforcement agencies set up temporary trading rooms that could shield beast tamers from outside prying eyes and provide soundproofing in order to avoid transaction disputes.

There were only three trading rooms. After waiting in line, Tu Zhiyi and Sasakawa Kotoko left their pets outside the trading room and entered the trading room separately under the watchful eyes of the supervisor.

Lin Su didn't wait there; she took her pet to browse the stalls alone.

"Ghost Puppet~"

Xiaoying noticed that almost every stall had one or two Ghost-type pets around it, and the stalls were mostly filled with Ghost-type pet-related items. She immediately widened her eyes and exclaimed "Wow!"

"Just say what you want," said the wealthy Lin Su magnanimously.

"Ghost Puppet~"

Xiaoying affectionately took her beast tamer's arm, rubbed her cheek against her, and then let go, drifting towards the place where she sensed the strongest ghostly aura.

Lin Su followed leisurely behind it, looking at each stall along the way, not afraid of missing any good things.

She needs to personally inspect the items to be sure of finding a bargain, but these items, which are displayed openly, are basically what you see and what you get. If there are any rare resources that she needs, the small image will identify them and give her a notification.

Unfortunately, none of them look very appealing... The gap between the rich and poor in the old and new districts of Ronamo, especially Garuda, is huge. Perhaps she should change her approach and go check out the more upscale prop and supplies stores in the new district.

Lin Su adjusted her expectations, changing her mindset from that of a beast tamer searching for resources to that of a foreign tourist experiencing a local night market. Suddenly, she found the strangely shaped items quite interesting.

"Ghost Puppet!"

Xiaoying's voice came from behind.

Lin Su quickened her pace and saw it pointing to a purplish-red bead on the stall. She asked directly, "Boss, how much is the Netherworld Bead?"

120.

The stall owner, wearing a white headscarf, was sitting cross-legged in meditation. Seeing that the tourist was a young foreigner, he casually quoted a price.

Lin Su lost interest: "This Netherworld Pearl is at most a C-grade."

She had an A-grade Ghost Soul Bead at home. She had specifically looked into the market price before. An A-grade Ghost Soul Bead was only worth about three million. It would take at least five C-grade Ghost Soul Beads to achieve the same effect as an A-grade one, which would be worth at most 600,000 Alliance Coins. This price was more than double.

Even ripping off customers isn't done like this... Lin Su glanced at the other items on the stall, not even bothering to negotiate the prices, and pushed Xiao Ying's back with one finger towards the next stall.

"Wait, wait!"

Foreign tourists always like to haggle at these small markets, right? ... The stall owner quickly called out to his men.

the other side.

Sasakawa Kotoko reviewed the first two pages of the materials Tu Zhiyi had shown her, and confirmed that the electronic document he sent could be opened and that the total number of pages was the same, before speaking:

"The way to survive 100% is through sacrifice."

"Normally, even in a mobile secret realm, the exit location inside is relatively fixed. You can only leave safely once you reach a specific location, unless a spatial rift unexpectedly appears."

"The fixed exit of the River of the Underworld is located at the Pool of Rebirth at the end of the river. It can only be reached by passing all the tests. If you want to open a temporary passage midway, the conventional method is to use enough strong power to create a strong tremor in a local area of ​​unstable space, increasing the probability of spatial rifts. This is undoubtedly extremely difficult to achieve."

"The unique feature of the River of the Underworld is that, in areas other than the Pool of Rebirth, people or pets can willingly sacrifice their life energy and, with the help of the Yin Life Stone, temporarily open a passage for companions confirmed upon entry."

"You just need to find someone or a pet who is willing to make a sacrifice for you beforehand, and bring them into the River of the Underworld together."

As for how to get the other party to do it willingly, everyone has their own methods.

Tu Zhiyi was taken aback: "Then can the person who made the sacrifice still come out?"

"If he's still alive after you come out of the passage, that's possible, but he can only come out through the Rebirth Pool or through a passage opened by someone else's sacrifice," Sasagawa Kotoko added. "A 20-year-old F-rank Beastmaster, by sacrificing all his life energy, can probably open a passage big enough for one person to pass through for about half a minute."

Even half a minute is a lot, because it is dangerous to travel through a space when the passage is not stable. If you exclude the beginning and end, the best time is the ten seconds in the middle.

"That curse—"

"The curse cannot be lifted."

Kotoko Sasagawa interrupted the other's question, paused for a moment, and then said, "However, you can try having someone else bring some water from the Rebirth Pool, which can also delay the time when the life-burning process begins."

Burning life, one of the oldest curses, causes a person's bodily functions to decline sharply after reaching a certain point in time, leading to the end of life in a short period of time.

If she were a high-level Beast Tamer who had received multiple retribution, she wouldn't actually only have an eighteen-year lifespan. It's just that the curses on her and Tu Zhiyi were transferred from their parents. Tu Zhiyi inherited it passively, while she was transferred to her by her father after he learned that Professor Tu Zhongxing's curse had been transferred due to childbirth.

How unfair... Sasagawa Kotoko lowered her eyes, her face expressionless.

On the day she awakened her Beast Taming Compendium, the joy of contracting a rare pet beast provided by her family plummeted the moment she learned the reason. So she secretly found out about another person and maliciously went to find the source of her fate.

Silence fell over the trading room.

Tu Zhiyi asked for some more details, and half an hour later, he found Lin Su at a market stall and discovered that she had just bought a Yin Life Stone.