When the light dispersed, everything around Bai Ye had changed.
There were small Western-style houses all around, very cozy buildings. The streets were not empty, but not crowded either. Then Bai Ye turned around and saw several large characters almost in his face.
Big Mouth Gull Express!
"It seems to be correct, we have arrived at the Beast Taming area."
Big Mouth Gull Express could deliver things to any area, but Big Mouth Gull Express itself only existed in the Beast Taming area. Therefore, if you wanted to send something, you could only do so in the Beast Taming area.
Naturally, seeing this place, one knew it must be the Beast Taming area.
Bai Ye entered the door, placed the Nine Revolutions Universe Wheel on the table, and said, "Sending something, uh, cash on delivery."
Returning something, and needing to pay cash on delivery…
Bai Ye felt that having a thick skin was useless, it couldn't be exchanged for money.
After sending the item back, Bai Ye left Big Mouth Gull Express and headed straight for the Beast Taming Trading Market.
Bai Ye didn't know much about beast taming, but he had interacted with some beast tamers in his previous life, and he knew some common knowledge.
Although beasts were living creatures, they were also goods in a sense, and a related industry chain could be formed.
It's like raising a pet. If you want to raise a cat, do you just need to buy a cat?
A cat bed, a cat mat, cat food, a cat-eared girl, all cost money!
Huh? Did something strange sneak in?
In short, beast taming also had a related industry chain, and a huge market naturally formed.
The quickest way for Bai Ye to obtain a beast was to buy it directly from the trading market.
Of course, if you buy a beast, its loyalty will be relatively low, and it will require some time for cultivation.
However, beasts captured on your own also have low loyalty and require some time for cultivation. The only way to have extremely high loyalty is to hatch them and train them from cubs.
But in that case, their combat power would be very low.
Moreover, the personality of a beast is actually very important. For example, Gengar and Goodra are very clingy. Although trading will reduce their loyalty, it is easier to cultivate their loyalty. As long as you play with them, their loyalty will grow rapidly.
To take a step back, Bai Ye actually didn't need very high loyalty. He just needed to find a beast that could take him out to sea.
…
Entering the Beast Taming Trading Market, this place was much more crowded than the streets.
There were stalls from native residents, as well as a Chosen Market opened by the Chosen Ones.
Moreover, Bai Ye thought that the most traded items would be beasts or their daily necessities, but to Bai Ye's surprise, the number of beasts was much smaller than he imagined.
The trading volume of daily necessities and cultivation supplies was indeed large, but the bigger item was actually beast equipment.
Beasts have equipment?
This touched upon Bai Ye's blind spot, but fortunately, Bai Ye didn't need it.
Bai Ye's first target was Dragonite, followed by Lapras and Gyarados.
The former could carry Bai Ye to fly, and was very fast. The latter were beasts that could roam the sea.
But after inquiring, Bai Ye found that things were more troublesome than he imagined.
First of all, Dragonite was basically out of the question. This guy was a pseudo-legendary like Goodra, and even higher among pseudo-legendaries than Goodra.
Native residents did not sell them at all. The Chosen Ones had them, but they were not stupid, so how could they easily sell beasts of this level?
Secondly, there were beasts that could be ridden out to sea among the native residents, but the native residents had a Beast Taming Association. If Bai Ye wanted to adopt or purchase one, he would need to obtain a Beast Tamer qualification certificate first.
Bai Ye was numb to this. He clearly had two beasts, and he had trained them quite well, but now he was being asked to take a Beast Tamer qualification test?
It was like a child turning eighteen and being asked if they were biologically theirs.
In fact, with Gengar and Goodra, Bai Ye could definitely obtain the Beast Tamer qualification certificate, but Bai Ye didn't want to be a Beast Tamer. He just wanted to go out to sea, and getting a Beast Tamer qualification certificate would take too much time.
As for the Chosen Ones, there was no problem with trading, but it was a casual transaction, and riding beasts were not that easy to catch.
Secondly, it was also the fault of the Hidden Dragon Society.
Liu Shiyue, while capturing beasts at sea a while ago, was also acquiring them. As a result, the riding beasts in the hands of the Chosen Ones in this area were basically gone, and it was not easy to successfully seek a transaction.
"This is a headache!" Bai Ye patted his forehead and said, "Do I really have to go and catch one?"
If he couldn't trade for one, Bai Ye would have to catch one himself, but…
Bai Ye was really not familiar with this matter!
Bai Ye had never played with beast taming in his previous life. In this life, he had beasts, but one was traded with Jin Sha, and the other was exchanged. Bai Ye had never caught a beast, and he didn't know how to catch one.
"Mr. Bai?"
While Bai Ye was having a headache, a soft call suddenly sounded.
Bai Ye looked back and saw a petite woman wearing a T-shirt and shorts, with short chestnut-colored hair.
Bai Ye asked doubtfully, "Are you?"
The woman said, "Mr. Bai, are you looking for a riding beast? Do you need to go out to sea?"
Bai Ye nodded, "Yes, why?"
The woman took out a beast ball and said, "There is a Lapras inside."
"Oh?" Bai Ye raised an eyebrow and said, "What do you want to exchange for it?"
Lapras was not a very powerful beast. Although it was named "Dragon," Lapras was not of the Dragon type, but a Water and Ice type beast.
It had extremely high intelligence and could easily understand human language, and it was very gentle, disliking combat. Its greatest hobby was to carry people to roam the sea, and it would also help people who encountered misfortune at sea.
Therefore, Lapras was only a blue-quality beast. However, quality for beasts represented combat desire and combat ability, not rarity.
Although Lapras was a blue-quality beast, due to its gentle nature and dislike of combat, it would mostly flee when attacked, leading to large-scale hunting and a drastic decrease in its numbers, making it very rare at present.
Although the Beast Taming Association had them, they did not trade them, only allowed adoption, and the adoption conditions were quite strict.
The Chosen Ones had them, but not many. Compared to pseudo-legendaries like Dragonite, they were naturally slightly more common, but they were still not easy to trade, usually requiring several times the premium.
Bai Ye was prepared to trade with red-quality items.
But…
"No need." The woman smiled and shook her head. "My boss asked me to give this to you. Mr. Bai doesn't need to pay any price."
"Hmm?" Bai Ye asked doubtfully, "Boss?"
The woman nodded, "Yes."
Bai Ye asked, "Who is your boss?"
The woman said, "My boss said that although she feels it is not suitable to meet at the moment, if Mr. Bai wants to see her, she will be waiting at the tea house in the market."