Inside the enormous airship, sixteen people stood on the floor, observing each other.

Among them, Shi Yu had only previously met Yu Shu and Yin Zhengfan.

He didn't know the others.

However, judging from their neat and tidy attire, as well as their spirited demeanor, they were undoubtedly the best of the best in this assessment.

Being able to maintain such a state after surviving in the wild for three days meant their strength was definitely considerable.

Out of the sixteen people present, twelve were male and four were female, a ratio similar to the gender distribution of those participating in the professional assessment. Shi Yu's gaze lingered on the four girls for a moment; after all, who looks at rough men when they can look at beauties…

That being said, apart from Shi Yu looking at the girls, most of the examinees were observing Yin Zhengfan, who was only twelve years old, since his age was just too exaggerated.

"Is it true that strength and looks are directly proportional?" Shi Yu found the four female examinees rather unique. Besides being attractive, perhaps due to cultural differences, the Beast Tamers in this world dressed quite flamboyantly.

For example, one of the four girls wore a golden outfit similar to a cheongsam but more like a mage robe, another wore black leather attire that covered only a small portion of her body, and another wore clothes similar to ancient martial arts costumes… What was all that about?

The men were the same. There were many abnormal ones. Yu Shu, with his black windbreaker and windproof cloak, wasn't so bad. But Shi Yu also saw a fool wearing metal-plated armor. Didn't he find it tiring?

"There aren't many normal Beast Tamers like me anymore."

Shi Yu glanced at his white panda short-sleeved shirt and black pants and immediately felt more approachable. In contrast, these guys looked like they were chuunibyou who had run out of an anime.

"Or are these guys' clothes special material equipment that can be used to add stats?"

Clothing in this world was also quite elaborate. For example, Green Silkworm silk could be used in the fabric industry to create clothes with many special effects. However, Shi Yu's money wasn't even enough for food and drink, so he hadn't paid much attention to equipment brands.

His outfit, it seemed, was a gift from the Bamboo Stone Martial Arts Hall…

"First of all, congratulations to you for passing this year's professional assessment, officially becoming professional Beast Tamers, and entering the door to the professional field."

While the sixteen were wondering why they were here, they didn't have to wait long. A middle-aged examiner in formal attire walked out of the hatch, clapping his hands and smiling at them.

"Hello, I'm Qu Jie, the chief supervisor of this professional assessment."

Master Qu Jie?

Everyone immediately recognized this person from his name. Qu Jie, a top-level professional Beast Taming Master.

Only those with a Beast Space level of six or higher had the opportunity to enjoy this top-level Master honor.

Beast Space levels one to three were manageable. As long as the Beast Tamer worked hard, they could accumulate experience over time.

However, after reaching level three, it wasn't so easy to improve. One's own talent, cultivation resources, and pet upgrade feedback all had to be up to par.

Therefore, a level six Beast Space was already a very high level.

One level higher would be the Legendary level, capable of taming overlord-level creatures.

"Master Qu Jie." Some of the examinees greeted him, while others remained silent, waiting for Qu Jie to speak.

Master Qu Jie smiled and said, "None of you are planning to give up the fourth ranking match, are you?"

"No." Everyone shook their heads. Although passing the third round already made them professional Beast Tamers, they all knew that the fourth ranking assessment was the most important.

This final assessment would determine their ranking among the new professional Beast Tamers of this year, and would, to a certain extent, decide the fate of that year's professional Beast Tamers!

"If not, then congratulations again to the sixteen of you for becoming seed candidates in this assessment. Based on your performance in the wild survival trial, you are entitled to bonus points and can skip the preliminary ranking round and directly enter the final ranking elimination battle."

"A total of 784 Beast Tamers passed the third assessment this time. In other words, you are the top 32 by default. You won't have to compete with the vast majority of examinees."

Master Qu Jie smiled. This was a preferential treatment for the 16 of them and a way to protect the other examinees.

Hearing this, Yu Shu, Miao Dongdong, and the others nodded without any surprise.

They all had enough confidence in their strength. If they were to participate in the preliminary ranking round and face ordinary examinees, it would be tantamount to slaughter. It was better to start competing directly from the top 32.

The 16 once again observed each other, understanding that these people around them were their real competitors.

"Alright, then you can relax and rest for the next three days. You can watch the subsequent assessments if you want, or not. Besides that, there's one more thing. Some of the battle footage from your wild survival trials will be edited into promotional videos for this year's Gudu professional assessment. This is also proof that you can become key seed candidates. Any problems with that?"

"No," the eccentrically dressed group said calmly, looking forward to the opportunity to be on TV.

What is face…!

Shi Yu also subconsciously said, "No problem," along with the majority. However, he suddenly realized that Master Qu Jie was looking at him with a strange expression, and his heart skipped a beat.

Damn it, wait, what did you just say?

They also recorded promotional videos???

"…" Shi Yu recalled what he had done during the wild survival trial, and his face darkened.

No way?

Just now, Shi Yu had said that these eccentrically dressed guys were chuunibyou, but now he realized that he was the chuunibyou himself.

Shi Yu hesitated, but at this moment, Master Qu Jie quickly coughed and said, "In that case, please take your seats. We should arrive at the second airport in a minute. Remember to pay attention to the subsequent assessment information."

After saying that, he quickly turned and left…

He couldn't give Shi Yu a chance to refuse. He was pulling off Beast Taming with this level of sophistication! He couldn't let just the examiners be speechless. When Shi Yu became a legendary Beast Tamer in the future, this promotional video would be his youthful black history. As the chief examiner of this assessment, he might even be able to share some of the fame… Pfft.

……

Not long after Master Qu Jie left, the airship shook, indicating that it had arrived at its destination. The speed was indeed very fast.

The sixteen key seed candidates weren't very familiar with each other, and there was no conversation throughout the trip.

Shi Yu wanted to go over to Yu Shu and ask him specifically how to use the Dragon Soul Grass, but he thought that doing so would stimulate Yu Shu. Just like he had lost Yin Zhengfan's friendship, he might also lose the friendship of this future Great Dragon Tamer. He thought he'd better forget it.

He would talk about it after returning to school.

After arriving at the destination, everyone quietly got off the airship. However, the second airport was in a chaotic mess, as thousands of examinees had arrived and landed here simultaneously.

Currently, most of the examinees didn't know their assessment results yet. Those who had completed the assessment tasks were fine, but the examinees who hadn't completed the assessment tasks and were planning to gamble on their ranking based on points were still very apprehensive.

"I'm leaving first." After getting off, Shi Yu waved to Yu Shu and Yin Zhengfan with a smile.

The other thirteen examinees glanced at Shi Yu. Yu Shu turned his head away unhappily, ignoring Shi Yu. As for Yin Zhengfan, after a moment of silence, he politely said, "See you in the ranking battle."

Shi Yu nodded, not lingering, and left immediately because someone was picking him up… He opened his phone, and there was a message on it.

The message also included a picture, showing Senior Panda's location. Just like the last time he came to Gudu, after Shi Yu completed the wild survival trial, Senior Panda had come to pick up Shi Yu in place of the Seven Heroes of Archaeology.

"Where is she…"

Shi Yu almost immediately walked out of the airport. However, precisely because of this, before he could find the car, he was stopped by a two-person reporter team who had been waiting for him.

One male and one female, the male wearing a blue hat, holding a large camera at Shi Yu, and the female reporter holding a red microphone, asked amiably, "Hello, handsome, we are reporters from Phoenix TV. May I ask…"

"The assessment was very smooth, and I think it was not difficult. I am very confident in the upcoming ranking battle. Thank you for your blessings, and I wish you all the best in your work." Without waiting for the female reporter to finish her question, Shi Yu, with a bewildered expression on both of their faces, quickly passed them, passing through the crowd.

Female reporter: ???

You've already answered. What am I supposed to ask?

"So uncooperative. I even picked the most handsome one to interview," she said indignantly.

"Cut this part out… It's worthless."

……

"Beep— Beep—"

"Here!!"

After passing through the crowd, Shi Yu finally spotted Senior Panda, who had opened the window and was waving at him from the window.

Shi Yu smiled slightly, quickly walked over, opened the car door, and sat down with a sigh of relief.

"Hoo—" After getting into the car, Shi Yu felt the cool breeze inside the car, as well as the aroma drifting in the air, and immediately felt relaxed.

It was still more comfortable to be in a car. It was a crystallization of human wisdom. Honestly, it was more comfortable than a panda mount. Eleven still needed to be optimized.

Eleven in the Beast Space: ???

"How was it?" At this time, in the driver's seat, Senior Panda was wearing large black sunglasses and asked with a smile.

"The research institute has prepared a celebration banquet for you, so don't say you failed the exam."

Shi Yu laughed and said, "How could I? And I seem to have become some kind of key seed candidate, so I don't have to participate in the tedious preliminary matches before the ranking battle. I'm directly in the top 32."

"Really??" Senior Panda was slightly surprised and said, "That means your performance ranks in the top 16 of this assessment committee's overall evaluation! Not bad!"

Although Shi Yu's basic test results were very good, everyone was quite worried because his second pet was a Green Silkworm after all.

So it seems? Eleven performed very well this time?!

Senior Panda didn't know that the best combat MVP this time was Shi Yu himself… Eleven and Worm were both support.

After the car started, Senior Panda drove while asking questions.

Shi Yu also asked.

"Any progress recently?"

Referring to research related to the evolution of the Iron-eating Beast.

Senior Panda said, "It's basically almost there, so we have to quickly determine the name of the evolved form of the Iron-eating Beast. And also… Master Guo sent us his training and cultivation secrets."

Currently, there are a total of three Iron-eating Beasts in the country that have completed their evolution. Master Guo is the Beast Tamer of one of the evolved forms of the Iron-eating Beast.

He is talented and once independently developed a set of skill training secrets for quickly improving the hardening proficiency of the Iron-eating Beast. Because of this, his Iron-eating Beast's hardening skill has reached the level of perfection.

Now, he has given this secret to the research institute. Senior Panda and the Seven Heroes of Archaeology in the Iron-eating Beast Research Institute are preparing to combine this set of training and cultivation secrets to study methods for quickly improving the hardening proficiency of the Iron-eating Beast.

After all, according to normal training, it would be difficult for the Iron-eating Beast to train its hardening to the proficiency level in a year, and it would be difficult to reach the level of perfection in twenty years, which leads to the evolution threshold of the Iron-eating Beast being too high.

Therefore, improving the training methods for hardening proficiency is also something that must be researched in the future, which can indirectly improve the status and value of the Iron-eating Beast.

"Oh, oh." Shi Yu didn't care about the high-efficiency training methods for improving hardening proficiency. He wasn't interested because there was no way it could be faster than adding points.

However, the tribe represented by the Iron-eating Beast ruins should also have similar training methods, otherwise, it would be difficult to imagine that there would be dozens or hundreds of Iron-eating Beasts possessing racial skills with proficiency levels above perfection at the same time.

Well… In short, he still can't help with this research. He can only cheer for Senior Panda and the others.

When he has time, he can use the skill index to study and reverse engineer the training and cultivation methods for quickly improving the proficiency of various skills. As for now… He has no time. Leveling up and adding points are important.

"By the way, you just said that you gained a lot this time?" Senior Panda asked curiously.

"Well, I gained some rare resources. By the way, Senior, are there any suitable places to sell them?" Shi Yu remembered the pile of miscellaneous low-level resources in the relic bead, as well as the ice-type energy crystal, and decided to find a place to sell them all together.

As for the ethereal stone, he definitely wanted to keep it first, because it was quite fast to use this thing to assist in cultivation, and it was an indispensable resource like supplements.

"Let me think…"

"Why don't you try contacting Director Li?"

Senior Panda suggested, "If you are a student of Gudu University, you often participate in training activities. The resources that students obtain during training activities are purchased by the school at prices slightly higher than the market price. In addition, the school also purchases some resources that students obtain from other channels at market prices, whether they are exchanged for money or credits."

"Then, students can also use credits to exchange for various resources below the market price. In short, it's very cost-effective. Although you are not yet a student of Gudu University, it feels like you can definitely go through the back door."

When Lin Xiuzhu thought that Shi Yu could become the person in charge of the Iron-eating Beast ruins, she immediately knew that he definitely had an unspeakable and unclear relationship with Gudu University! Then just sell it to the university!

"Is that so? Then I'll ask about it later."

Shi Yu nodded. It was still good to be at a prestigious school. They would try their best to let students take advantage. No wonder they said that the school was the best place for Beast Tamers to grow. The association's tens of trillions of educational funds every year were also the confidence of the Donghuang Ancient Kingdom's universities to continuously distribute benefits to students.

Soon, Senior Panda brought Shi Yu back to the research institute.

Coincidentally, the Seven Heroes of Archaeology were cautiously receiving their Mentor Ding and Director Li.

These two also knew the future of their archaeology department, the hope of their archaeology department. Shi Yu had just passed the professional assessment today, so they came to visit him.

"Director Li, Mentor Ding?" Shi Yu was surprised. Good, it saved him from looking for them. He could just ask here.

"Student Shi Yu, was the assessment smooth?" The slightly fat Director Li smiled cheerfully.

"Smooth, smooth." Shi Yu smiled.

After the three of them exchanged pleasantries, the Seven Heroes invited them to stay for dinner in a perfunctory manner. Director Li and Mentor Ding saw that the food was sumptuous, better than the cafeteria, so they took it seriously.

This… The Seven Heroes of Archaeology were dumbfounded. They had ordered a table full of high-end takeout and hired a chef to cook. Now that the teachers were here to freeload, they would have even less to eat. Their eyes filled with tears. They just didn't know how many exam points one meal could exchange for…

Inside the research institute, Shi Yu began to ask about what Senior Panda had said just now.

"Of course." Director Li laughed when he heard this. This kind of small matter was not worth mentioning at all.

"It seems that you really gained a lot. Well, I'll tell the resource library later, and you can just go exchange it then."

"Thank you, Director Li." Shi Yu thanked him.

Then, Shi Yu asked curiously:

"By the way, what is the highest level of resources in our school's resource library? Are there any resources with spatial attributes?"

The website that Rich Woman Lu gave him didn't actually have very rich resources. It was just a well-reputed, fast logistics, and highly secure shopping website commonly used by some professional Beast Tamers. In terms of resource richness, it might not be as high as Gudu University. For example, the ethereal stone was often out of stock on the website.

Shi Yu searched there for Worm's evolution materials, but he wasn't very satisfied.

"We have everything, even time-based resources," Director Li said with a smile. "As for the resource level, it goes up to level seven."

"Well, you can see the types of resources in the school's resource library from the school's official website. You can borrow their account to take a look." Director Li pointed to the group of eaters.

At the dinner table, individual Heroes of Archaeology were eating voraciously. Under the pretext of the celebration banquet, they ordered many delicacies that they usually couldn't bear to eat, such as the God Leaps Over the Wall worth 100,000 per pot, and lobsters with faint dragon bloodlines. They had to eat more.

"Use my account. Although I graduated, it seems like I can still log in," Lin Xiuzhu said after picking up a steamed bun.

"Okay." Shi Yu nodded.

Next, Shi Yu ate while looking forward to it, hoping that the Gudu University resource library had suitable evolution materials.

Gudu University would start school in February. At that time, he would be a freshman at Gudu University. If he really got a large sum of credits for the high ranking in the professional assessment, then maybe he could let Worm try to pupate next month!!!

……

After dinner, Director Li and Mentor Ding left.

During the lunch break, everyone went back to their respective places. Shi Yu asked for Senior Panda's account and ran to the room to study.

After entering the Gudu University official website resource library interface, Shi Yu immediately looked for the resources he needed.

Filter search: [Space Type] [Mental Type]

Sort order: [Level descending]

Shi Yu rubbed his small hands, looking forward to it.

The next moment, the page updated.

[Name]: Nine-tailed Illusion Fox Heart

[Attribute]: Mental

[Level]: Level Seven Resource

[Main Use Introduction]: The heart crystal of the quasi-overlord level creature, the Nine-tailed Illusion Fox. The Nine-tailed Illusion Fox is good at illusions, and its heart crystal is mainly used to strengthen the pet's talent in illusions… (Click to view all)

[Exchange Price]: 15,000 credits

[Remaining Quantity]: 1

[Name]: Tear of the Void

[Attribute]: Space

[Level]: Level Six Resource

[Main Use Introduction]: The eye of the void worm, a creature that lives in space cracks, used to enhance the pet's spatial affinity… (Click to view all)

[Exchange Price]: 18,000 credits

[Remaining Quantity]: 2

Shi Yu was slightly silent.

Alright, the resources are indeed quite rich and of good quality, but damn, they're so expensive! In terms of the ratio of credits to money, they're worth over 100 million!!!

"However, it doesn't seem to be very suitable for its illusory and phantom cultivation route. The level is not important, suitability is the most important. In any case, Worm can't fully absorb such high-level evolution materials, so it's a waste. Let's look at other things."

The pet's growth level and the resource level are actually corresponding, representing the absorption effect. It is not necessarily the higher the level of the evolution material, the better. It will overflow and waste a lot of energy, or burst the pet, so suitability is the most important. Shi Yu comforted himself in his heart.

[Level Seven Mental Gem] [Riftgrass] [Illusion Dream Fruit] [Mirror Stone]…

Next, Shi Yu picked them one by one. Damn it, damn it, the more he picked, the more angry he became. He wanted them all, but unfortunately he had no money.

……

In the afternoon, Shi Yu, led by Senior Panda, came to the Gudu University resource library, intending to sell the resources first, and then buy them, hehe.

Director Li had already contacted them, and Shi Yu didn't delay, after all, many resources in the relic space were not suitable for long-term storage, so it was better to sell them as soon as possible.

On the clean streets of the school, Senior Panda walked in front, and Shi Yu followed beside her. Suddenly, Senior Panda seemed to remember something and instructed, "Shi Yu, be polite later."

"Well, is the teacher managing the resource library very strong?" Shi Yu couldn't help but be curious when he saw Senior Panda reminding him like this.

Senior Panda crossed her arms, looking worried, and said, "It's indeed very strong."

"Top-level Master?"

"Higher than that."

"Legendary level?" Shi Yu stopped. No way.

How many treasures are there in the Gudu University resource library that a Legendary Beast Tamer needs to watch over it.

But even if there weren't, would anyone dare to rob it?

It was okay for a Legendary Beast Tamer to be the principal, but being in charge of the warehouse was too extravagant.

"Not really."

Senior Panda smiled and said, "It's Overlord level."