Light Spring Murmur
Chapter 217: Precognition
He had already received news when the exchange team from Gu Du University completed their registration and entered the campus for a tour.
However, he didn't pay much attention to it.
Because in past years, these exchange activities were always matters between the students themselves.
Therefore, the Gu Du University side didn't have any teachers accompanying them. Since they didn't have any teachers, he naturally didn't bother to receive them.
After receiving the news, he simply notified the students in his own club.
If any students were willing to receive them, then they could. It wouldn't matter if no one did and the Gu Du University team toured on their own. After all, the exchange competition day between the two universities' battle clubs was two days away.
Only at that time would he be interested in taking a casual glance.
Teacher Shen: [The battle club exchange team from Gu Du University has come to visit the school. If any of you are willing to be a guide, go ahead.]
He casually mentioned it. After all, the visitors were guests. Although the schools were in a competitive relationship, there wasn't any deep hatred. Many students were willing to do this kind of thing.
Even if not for the senior brothers and junior brothers from Gu Du University, they would do it for the senior sisters and junior sisters.
Perhaps the talented students from Capital University could lead the junior sisters from other schools on a tour of the campus, and maybe some sparks of love could be ignited. It wasn't unheard of for students from different schools to develop feelings during the national competition and enter the stinky halls of romance.
Zhang Yiming: [Oh no! Gu Du University has come to challenge us! Junior Brother Zhengfan is in a terrible state.]
Teacher Shen: [?]
Yin Zhengfan: [???]
Tang Yun: [...]
Teacher Shen: [What's going on?]
Somewhere in Capital University, Yin Zhengfan felt a bit downhearted when Senior Brother Zhang Yiming directly sold out the news of his defeat.
Although everyone would find out sooner or later, couldn't he at least have a good meal first since it had just ended?
Reserve Member Yin Zhengfan: [... I'll tell you myself. I... just ran into the exchange members from Gu Du University who came to the school. For some reason, I challenged one of them, and I lost to them.]
Many lurking senior brothers and sisters didn't care because Yin Zhengfan was a freshman. It was perfectly normal for him to lose when he met someone from the other side.
However, Yin Zhengfan's next sentence made these people unable to hold back.
[The opponent has a Ginseng Baby with an energy value exceeding 100,000. My Rock Mane Beast... was instantly killed in one move...]
Everyone: [?]
Teacher Shen: [???]
Teacher Shen: [A Ginseng Baby with an energy value exceeding 100,000?? Zhengfan? Are you confused?]
Zhang Yiming: [It's absolutely true. I was the referee... I was there. That Ginseng Baby is so strange and powerful. I feel like, apart from the team leader and the two vice-captains, the rest of us would be under a lot of pressure against that Ginseng Baby. The other side isn't here for friendly exchange. Should we be careful during the exchange competition...]
The team leader and two vice-captains of the Capital University team were all master-level beast tamers, possessing monarch-level pets. These three didn't care about this exchange activity at all because, apart from a beast-eared girl from Gu Du University, there was no one worth their attention.
For these masters, the real competitive stage was the national competition. These exchange activities were for those below the master level to train each other. Therefore, when Zhang Yiming said that apart from these three masters, no one else was guaranteed to win against the Gu Du University student who defeated Yin Zhengfan, the group instantly became restless.
Battle Club Member Jin Wei: [Who is it? Who at Gu Du University cultivated a Ginseng Baby? I don't remember there being such a person?? I still feel like something's wrong. Ginseng Baby?]
Yin Zhengfan: [Shi Yu... is a freshman from Gu Du University. He and I were candidates in the same professional assessment. However, he's already an advanced beast tamer now, and the Ginseng Baby is also at the commander level, a commander-level with 100,000 energy value...]
Everyone was shocked, and they suddenly felt that this name sounded familiar.
[The Iron-Eating Beast Knight who discovered the evolved form of the Iron-Eating Beast?]
Someone remembered something.
Wait, it's him? How is that possible? Isn't this growth speed too outrageous?
Four months, from a beginner beast tamer to an advanced beast tamer, possessing a Ginseng Baby with 100,000 energy value?
Yin Zhengfan's talent allowed him to have commander-level combat power in four months, which was already terrifying enough. What's going on with this Shi Yu?
Everyone was completely stunned. They didn't expect that the expert from Gu Du University that Yin Zhengfan and Zhang Yiming were talking about was a freshman. Although this freshman was very famous, Yin Zhengfan, as the son of a legend and a 13-year-old genius beast tamer, also had quite a reputation. Everyone has a reputation.
What the members of Capital University found outrageous was the high praise that Zhang Yiming and Yin Zhengfan gave him. What exactly did they see, what did they experience?
Teacher Shen: [Don't chat in the group for too long. Training as usual in the afternoon.]
At this moment, watching the chat log, Teacher Shen from Capital University was first surprised that Gu Du University had produced a super genius. He was shocked by the combat ginseng with such high energy value. Afterward, he didn't care too much, because no matter how strong a genius was, they couldn't be stronger than Capital University.
Just the team leader of the Capital University team, Qiu Miao alone, was enough to suppress his peers. A combat ginseng with 100,000 energy value sounded outrageous, but Teacher Shen thought about it. Apart from the three captains, the quasi-master-level students in the team could deal with it with their talent. There was no need for him, the teacher, to pay too much attention to it. He should let the students handle it themselves.
Obviously, he didn't know Shi Yu's identity at all...
Yin Zhengfan: [There's also... another piece of news.]
Another piece of news?
Tang Yun: [I'll say it! It's about that Ginseng Baby. It might not be Shi Yu's trump card. I just finished this morning's breeding conference with Professor Fang... You might not believe it when I say it, but Shi Yu, who I just mentioned, also participated.]
Everyone: ?
What's going on?
[I won't explain the breeding results for now. You'll find out after you watch the news later. The key is, the key is, during the breeding conference, that Shi Yu displayed one of his pets!!!]
[That pet, that pet, do you remember the Butterfly Transformation Conference in Divine Capital? During the Butterfly Transformation Conference, a middle-class overlord species, an Imaginary Butterfly, appeared. The beast tamer of that Imaginary Butterfly was Shi Yu. Middle-class overlord species, commander level... a space-type, Imaginary Butterfly! It's actually a college freshman's pet. I'm (sour lemon) (crying) (collapsing)...]
Imaginary Butterfly, Shi Yu's pet?
In an instant, the group fell silent.
Even Teacher Shen behind them had a startled expression, revealing an unbelievable look.
In this world, there are always some lives that become unique species due to special opportunities. Such species are all powerful overlords. They are the divine pets that beast tamers constantly pursue, and they are the symbolic pets that can make one a legendary beast tamer.
The Imaginary Butterfly is such a unique and ultra-rare pet. When most members of the Capital University Battle Club saw that news, they were extremely envious. However, when they now learned that such a creature was just the pet of a student who was the same age or even younger than them, they were instantly speechless.
"..."
Teacher Shen didn't care about this exchange meeting at first, but at this moment, his expression changed slightly. Wait, what kind of monster has come to Capital University this time? A student contracting an overlord-level pet during the student stage, there have only been a handful of such cases in the hundred-year history of the Nine Great Academies...!
"Who is this Shi Yu?" This thought emerged in everyone's mind at this moment.
At the same time, Shi Yu and the others had already been led by the beast-eared senior sister to one of the most remote places in Capital University.
"Is this near the Time Relic? Is there no one guarding it???"
On a stone forest path, the group from Gu Du University climbed a stone mountain, very curious about the surrounding environment.
"No, after all, without the permission of the Capital University School Committee, even legendary beast tamers can't find the entrance to the Time Relic. There's no need to guard it at all. Moreover, the owl we're going to see now is an overlord-level pet. Although it's said that its predictions aren't very reliable, it still has strength. With it watching, it's foolproof. If there's anyone here, it's not to guard the relic, but to serve it."
As Bai Xi finished speaking, two people walked out of the stone forest ahead. Judging from their age, they seemed to be students from Capital University. The two students were slightly stunned when they saw Shi Yu and the others, but they didn't pay attention to them and continued walking downwards, chatting as they walked.
"I'm done for. Even the Owl Lord said that my confession will fail this time. I think I should just give up..."
"Don't be a coward. What if it predicts wrong? How many things has it predicted wrong? Buy the opposite of what it predicts, and you might become a legend!"
"Come on. It should still be accurate about these small matters..."
The two students spoke one after another, walking further and further away under the dumbfounded expressions of Bai Xi, Shi Yu, and the other members of the Gu Du University Battle Club.
Vice-President Li Ze said blankly, "Does it even handle love fortunes??"
Bai Xi was silent for a moment, then said, "That's not the most outrageous thing. The most outrageous thing is that it once predicted that a beast tamer's best match was their own pet."
Everyone: "..."
Everyone had originally been looking forward to this time-type prediction owl, but now they suddenly felt that it was still mostly a scam. After all, if it took money, even if it didn't use super-level skills, it could just spout nonsense, and no one could say anything, as they wouldn't know if it was true or false.
The 90% success rate, could it be because it's been scamming like this all along?
The dozen or so people continued walking speechlessly, and soon arrived at the rumored habitat of Capital University's prediction owl.
It was a temple located in the stone forest, creating a strong charlatan atmosphere.
An owl with a deep blue body and a time hexagram pattern on its light-colored belly leaned inside, squinting its eyes and listening to the requests of the students in front of it.
Two students had just left, and there were still seven or eight students surrounding it. This owl's business was quite good...
"If nothing unexpected happens, your pet will be able to give birth in a year." It still squinted its eyes, but its beak moved as it spoke to a female student in front of it.
It can speak!!
To Shi Yu and the others, its voice sounded like a sharp-voiced old witch in her 50s or 60s.
Terrifying, this reassuring voice.
The female student: "???"
"Owl Lord, what I asked you to predict was where its opportunity to evolve lies, not when it will give birth." She pointed to a half-meter-tall yellow bear at her feet, which was an earth-type Wasteland Bear, and said in a collapsed tone.
The owl straightened its feathers and said helplessly, "I only saw this image. Maybe there's some connection? Destiny is set. Next, it's up to you to figure it out."
The female student received the prediction and looked mournful. The students next to her wore expressions of watching a show.
This owl's predictions were just that outrageous, but the strange thing was that it had indeed used extremely outrageous predictions to allow some beast tamers to see the correct future. Over the decades, no one knew whether this guy was reliable or unreliable.
Because of its predictions, many Capital University students changed their fate in advance.
Also because of its predictions, many people took the wrong path and only realized it after a long time, crying and turning back.
However, the good thing was that this owl charged Capital University students a low price and was originally a pet of a legendary beast tamer. Therefore, the students were still willing to come to it to predict their future, just in case it was right, just in case?
Look at the results with a dialectical mindset!
"Maybe it's, the mother relies on the child to become noble?" Her friend guessed.
The Wasteland Bear: "..."
"Oh, there are a lot of people. Do you want to have your fortune told?" The prediction owl squinted its eyes, raised its head, and looked at the group of Gu Du University students standing in a neat row behind.
"Let's get one to check it out. Not one person missing."
"..." Many of the Gu Du University students felt that it was a bit unreliable.
However, some people thought it was quite interesting. For example, Gu Du University Vice-President Xu Ze asked, "Um, how much does it cost to predict the future once?"
He wanted to know where his opportunity to break through to the master level and for his pet to advance to the monarch level lay. Judging from the current progress, it felt like it was a long way off.
The owl turned its head and said, "You're not Capital University students. One level-five energy crystal."
"Level-five energy crystal, money-grubber..." Xu Ze was instantly furious. It's robbing people, but considering that the thing in front of him was a dominator-level creature, he said timidly, "After thinking about it, I've decided to pass. Destiny is undecided and must be fought for."
He wasn't so prodigal as to spend millions on a prediction with unknown accuracy.
Outrageous.
Too expensive!
The other Gu Du University students had the same idea.
Everyone suddenly felt that this guy was probably richer than the Gem Cat, a complete black-hearted merchant.
"Who are they?" During the exchange between the two, the Capital University students present looked at Shi Yu and the others who had suddenly appeared, revealing puzzled expressions. Not Capital University students?
Where did they come from?
"How much would it cost if we were Capital University students?" A long-haired senior sister from the club asked.
Prediction Owl: "Sometimes it's free, sometimes it's infinitely high."
"Listening to you is like hearing nothing." The long-haired senior sister said.
Obviously, this owl didn't plan to offer a cheap prediction of the future to people outside of Capital University.
All of a sudden, the Gu Du University students looked at each other. A level-five energy crystal was equivalent to a monarch-level resource. In the field, there was only Bai Xi, a master. Apart from her, probably no one could afford to take out so much money.
It's so expensive, only a dog would get their fortune told.
"Don't look at me. I already had my fortune told once when I was a kid. It wasn't accurate." Bai Xi shrugged.
As for what was calculated, her face turned red. Although it wasn't accurate now, in the future… she hoped it would be right!
Huh?
The owl shook its head. Who are you?
Never mind. Forget it.
It said, "It's only natural for it to be inaccurate sometimes."
Everyone: "…"
"Don't you have any level-five energy crystals? Will more rare level-four resources work?" At this time, Shi Yu suddenly said from the crowd.
"What? Level-four resources?" The owl was about to say that you were cutting too much off when its expression suddenly froze.
Without anyone seeing what was going on, Shi Yu suddenly took out a fruit.
When everyone showed a confused expression, the owl fell silent.
It looked at Shi Yu's wrist.
This guy has a relic space with him?
In addition, this fruit...
[If I didn't sense wrongly, this is a fruit that contains weak power of time. It has been a long time since I saw a spiritual fruit of this quality. Although the energy level is a little weak, the internal life force is incomparably pure. It seems to be able to enhance the potential of creatures below the commander race... If it is thrown into the Time Relic and subjected to the baptism of the power of time, its level might be able to grow to a very, very high level.] The owl looked at the nourishing fruit and was extremely surprised.
What a promising spiritual fruit, a variety never seen before!
The prediction owl revealed an interested expression and said, "Deal."
"I'll calculate one time for you!"
Shi Yu's mouth twitched and said, "Five times. Although this fruit is only at level four, its value definitely exceeds a level-five energy crystal. The first time we're strangers, the second time we're familiar. I have a bunch of these spiritual fruits over there. Maybe I'll come here to tell fortunes next time."
This was the best nourishing fruit that Ginseng Baby had condensed at the cost of exceeding its limits, allowing Ginseng Baby to condense a nutrient-type pet, and it could change the evolution potential of a pet and enhance the effect through the power of time. It was definitely not comparable to ordinary level-four resources. It would be too black-hearted to only give one prediction.
"Five times?!?!" The prediction owl had never seen such a black heart before, thinking that the super-level time skill was Chinese cabbage...
However, at this moment, the prediction owl vaguely felt that the Shi Yu in front of him was very special, as if, as if he was someone favored by time. His body was surrounded by weak but pure time power. Generally speaking, if he didn't have a time-type talent, then it would definitely be because he had been in contact with the power of time often that he became like this.
Who is this guy?
Where did he come from?
After thinking for a moment, adding the relic space and this special spiritual fruit, the prediction owl nodded and discovered that Shi Yu's identity was not ordinary. Since that was the case, it said, "Five times it is, give it to me."
Before Shi Yu could react, the nourishing fruit in his hand disappeared. It was controlled by a telekinetic force and flew out of his hand into the house behind the owl.
At this moment, everyone looked at all this in a daze.
What, what, what. What happened? What did Shi Yu take out? How did the prediction owl agree to give him five predictions?
However, although they didn't know what it was, judging from the owl's reaction, Shi Yu had definitely taken out something extremely rare and valuable.
"The boss is muddled!!" The senior brothers and sisters from Gu Du University all looked at Shi Yu. Even the Capital University students around him looked at Shi Yu with the expression of looking at a spendthrift.
"Hoo! Hoo!" The little Wasteland Bear who had just been predicted that giving birth was the key to evolution also looked at Shi Yu with grief.
If you don't want money, you can give it to me.
"Alright, what do you want to predict?" The owl patted its wings, with a Buddha-like expression.
Judging from all sorts of signs, the predictions here could be directed.
"I want to predict the future for myself and four of my pets, one at a time. Let's start with myself."
Shi Yu said, "Actually, I am an archaeologist. I am more curious about which ruins I will encounter a life-and-death crisis in the future?"
Although the reason he came here for predictions was to get familiar with the prediction owl and facilitate skill replication later, there were some things that Shi Yu wasn't unwilling to know.
For example, if he really started to return to his old profession and became obsessed with ruins, then one day, he would definitely encounter danger. If he walked by the river often, how could he not wet his shoes? If he could know in advance which ruins would bring danger to him, then he would...
It's impossible not to go, but he would wait a little longer to develop before going.
Well, he would wait until Eleven and the others reached the mythical level before going and smashing their way in.
"Archaeologist?" The prediction owl revealed an interested expression, as if it knew what was going on with the power of time on Shi Yu...
It paid even more attention to Shi Yu's prediction.
It only had one super skill, which was predicting the future. However, its proficiency was only at the proficiency level.
The super skills of a normal dominator-level creature were basically at the perfect level, but this owl had lived for at least a hundred years and its growth level had broken through the racial limit. Its super skill was only at the proficiency level. It was really unscientific, but this also indirectly explained the difficulty of the skill of predicting the future.
Actually, the prediction owl could easily predict some future fragments related to its battles and use them to easily avoid the enemy's attacks. It fought against its opponents from a god's perspective, like a chess player, but it was impossible to improve the proficiency of the predicting the future skill by only predicting things related to itself.
Moreover, it wasn't the future it wanted to see by just predicting the short-term future.
It wanted to have a feeling of seeing through the fate of all creatures. Therefore, in order to train this skill, it had stayed in Capital University for a hundred years and calculated countless fortunes for others. Unfortunately, the skill was still far from the perfect level.
However, what made the prediction owl happy was that every time it correctly predicted a future, it would gain some indeterminate skill proficiency after that future actually happened. Although it wasn't much, it was better than nothing. Moreover, it could also earn some extra money, so it wasn't a loss.
"Um."
"Alright, I'll predict for you..."
The time hexagram on the prediction owl's chest slightly lit up. Everyone looked at it for a while and then at Shi Yu.
The boss is still muddled!!
Good guy, you're just predicting this?
Ruins are definitely dangerous. Why are you exploring ruins when you're so rich?
If you have money to look at future crises, it's better to change your fate by paying to power up!!
"Eh..."
As the owl revealed a puzzled sound, everyone had an expression that said, "Sure enough, look, he ruined it."
At this moment, sensing Shi Yu's traces in front of it, the prediction owl's expression became more and more strange.
Actually, predicting the future of others was like drawing a lottery. Even if the direction was fixed, it might still be wrong because of its skill proficiency problems. This also led to it sometimes predicting some extremely outrageous results.
Some of these wrong results were correct, and some were completely wrong, because the future had an infinite number of possibilities. However, this time, the prediction owl was planning to predict Shi Yu's future properly, but it didn't expect that at the very beginning, it had a feeling that it was going to be wrong.
"So blurry."
"Never mind. Let's just take a look."
The prediction owl instantly immersed itself in a dark world and began to see blurry fragments. It had predicted for many beast tamers, and some of them had even become legends now. When it looked at their future, the prediction owl had never felt so blurry.
Soon, the prediction owl captured the ruins and crisis-related images based on its "prayer".
Countless images flashed by. Some of them were collapsing, and some couldn't be seen clearly, but some were quickly seen by the owl.
Finally, with the owl's spirit fully focused, it saw Shi Yu's figure and saw him coming out of a blurry relic space.
In the next moment, the relic collapsed, and a ray of light shot straight into the sky.
In the pitch-black future scene, the prediction owl saw pairs of eyes open, a total of dozens of eyes. The owners of the eyes exuded a terrifying aura. Each creature's aura was more than ten times stronger than its own, extremely terrifying, and their gazes were locked on the ray of light and Shi Yu!
After a moment.
"Ah!!!" The prediction owl, with a voice like an old witch, suddenly opened its eyes. Its fur stood on end, and its squinted eyes directly opened, looking extremely panicked.
"W-w-w-what's wrong..."
Shi Yu was startled by the prediction owl's sudden outburst.
The others were also startled by the prediction owl's actions.
"You, you, you, you..." At this moment, the prediction owl looked at Shi Yu with shock and joy, its emotions constantly churning.
"What's the result?" Many people stared at the owl and Shi Yu.
The prediction owl said in a trembling tone, "What, what, what... Why are you being stared at by a dozen totem creatures at the same time after you come out of exploring the ruins???"
"Damn it!!" It cursed directly.
It hadn't seen so many totems even when it participated in the last totem battle with the first president of Capital University!
"What the hell." Everyone's heart was shocked when the prediction owl finished speaking.
Bai Xi and the others' small mouths opened slightly.
Shi Yu himself was stunned on the spot, dumbfounded. Damn, what the hell? Is this accurate or not?
"T-t-t-this... As expected, it's wrong again." At this time, the girl from the Wasteland Bear said with a twitching mouth, "Owl Lord, can't you only predict things that don't exceed your strength? How can there be more than a dozen totems..."
"Whether there are so many totems around our Dong Huang's totem area is another matter..."
"Ah, this." The owl was also at a loss. So, was its skill about to improve, or was this time completely wrong?
It looked at Shi Yu and said, "No matter what, should we rather believe it? Child, don't explore the ruins. It feels like you're going to trigger the next totem war..."
Shi Yu's mouth also twitched and said, "So, which ruins is it?"
"Didn't see clearly."
"Which totems are they?"
"They should all have eyes, and the colors are red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet."
"Can I ask you for mental damage compensation..." Shi Yu cursed in his heart, regretting making the prediction. What the hell is all this?
"Huh?" The prediction owl tilted its head, pretending to be stupid.
At this moment, everyone stared at Shi Yu, not knowing what to say. So, was it wrong or not? It should be wrong, right?
"I..."
"Next, next, next." At this time, the prediction owl felt that its power seemed to have improved. It urged Shi Yu.
Let's not talk about totems and ruins first. What do you want to predict next?
Well... It also felt that it was wrong. How could there be such a future?
Let's see if the next one is reliable first.
Shi Yu: "..."
Shi Yu had countless things to complain about in his heart. This owl had completely confused him, and it further strengthened Shi Yu's determination not to go abroad before he became a legend!
"Let me think..." Shi Yu's mouth twitched. Let's put aside whether it's accurate first. He can't waste the opportunity.
Eleven... Should he predict Eleven's inscription clues?
Chong Chong, Ginseng Baby, Chi Tong, what can he predict in a targeted way...