When the light faded, everything around Bai Ye had changed.
Surrounded by small Western-style buildings, a cozy architectural style, the streets were populated but not crowded. Bai Ye then turned his body and saw a few large characters that almost collided with his face.
"Giant Seagull Express!"
"Looks like it's correct, I've arrived at the Beast Taming area."
Giant Seagull Express could deliver items to any region, but the express service itself only existed in the Beast Taming area. Therefore, if you wanted to send something, you could only do so within the Beast Taming area.
Naturally, seeing this place, one knew it must be the Beast Taming area.
Bai Ye entered and placed the Nine Revolutions Qiankun Wheel on the table, saying, "I want to send something. Hmm, cash on delivery."
Returning something and having to pay cash on delivery...
Bai Ye felt that shame was useless; it couldn't be exchanged for money.
After sending the item back, Bai Ye left Giant Seagull Express and headed straight for the Beast Taming Trading Market.
Bai Ye wasn't very knowledgeable about beast taming, but he had encountered some beast tamers in his previous life, so he knew some common sense.
Although beasts were living creatures, they were, in a way, also goods, and they formed a related industrial chain.
Just like raising pets, if you want to raise a cat, is buying just the cat enough?
Cat beds, cat mats, cat food, catgirls—all cost money!
Huh? Did something strange slip in?
In any case, beast taming also had a related industrial chain, naturally forming a huge market.
The quickest way for Bai Ye to obtain a beast was to buy it directly from the trading market.
Of course, purchased beasts would have lower loyalty and require time for cultivation.
However, self-captured beasts also had low loyalty and required time for cultivation. The only way to achieve extremely high loyalty was through hatching and training them from a young age.
But that would result in very low combat power.
Furthermore, the personality of a beast was also very important. For example, Pokémon like Gengar and Goodra were very clingy. Although trading would reduce loyalty, cultivating loyalty was relatively easy; as long as you played with them, their loyalty would grow rapidly.
To put it another way, Bai Ye didn't actually need extremely 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.
Among them were stalls of the natives and a "Chosen One Market" opened by the Chosen Ones.
Moreover, Bai Ye expected the most traded items to be beasts or their daily necessities, but to his surprise, the number of beasts was much smaller than he had imagined.
While daily necessities and breeding supplies had a high trading volume, the main commodity was actually beast equipment.
Beasts had equipment?
This was a blind spot for Bai Ye, but luckily, he didn't need it.
Bai Ye's first target was Dragonite, followed by Lapras and Gyarados.
The former could fly with Bai Ye and was very fast, while the latter were beasts that could roam the sea.
However, after inquiring, Bai Ye discovered that the situation was more troublesome than he had imagined.
First, Dragonite was basically out of the question. This guy, like Goodra, was a pseudo-legendary, and among pseudo-legendaries, it was even higher than Goodra.
The natives didn't sell them at all. The Chosen Ones had them, but they weren't fools; why would they easily sell beasts of this caliber?
Second, there were beasts that could be ridden out to sea among the natives, but the natives had a Beast Tamer Association. To adopt or purchase one, Bai Ye would first need to obtain a Beast Tamer license.
Bai Ye was numb to this. He clearly already had two beasts, and they were actually trained quite well, yet now he had to take an exam for a Beast Tamer license?
It was like having a child who was already eighteen and being asked if they were your biological offspring.
In fact, with Gengar and Goodra, Bai Ye was sure he could get a Beast Tamer license, but Bai Ye didn't want to be a beast tamer; he just wanted to go out to sea, and getting a license would take too much time.
As for the Chosen Ones, trading was not a problem, but it was a matter of luck. Riding beasts weren't that easy to catch.
Furthermore, it was also the fault of the Hidden Dragon Society.
A while ago, Liu Shiyue, while capturing beasts to go out to sea, was also acquiring them. As a result, the riding beasts in the hands of the Chosen Ones in this area were basically empty, and it wasn't easy to successfully negotiate a trade.
"This is giving me a headache!" Bai Ye patted his forehead. "Do I really have to go and catch one?"
If he couldn't get one through trade, Bai Ye would have to catch it himself, but...
He was really unfamiliar with this matter!
Bai Ye hadn't 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 redeemed. Bai Ye had never caught a beast before and didn't know how to do it.
"Mr. Bai?"
As Bai Ye was agonizing, a soft call suddenly sounded.
Bai Ye turned his head and saw a petite woman, wearing a T-shirt and shorts, with short chestnut-colored hair.
Bai Ye asked in confusion, "Who are you?"
The woman said, "Is Mr. Bai 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's a Lapras inside."
"Oh?" Bai Ye raised an eyebrow. "What do you want in exchange?"
Lapras was not a very powerful beast. Although it had "Dragon" in its name, Lapras was not of the Dragon type but a Water and Ice-type beast.
It possessed high intelligence, could easily understand human language, and was very gentle. It disliked fighting and its greatest hobby was carrying people on the sea, often helping those in distress.
Therefore, Lapras was only a blue-quality beast. However, quality, for beasts, represented their combat desire and ability, not their rarity.
Although Lapras was a blue-quality beast, due to its gentle nature and dislike for fighting, it would mostly escape when attacked, leading to large-scale hunting and a drastic decrease in its numbers, making it very rare currently.
The Beast Tamer Association had them, but they didn't trade them; only adoption was possible, and the adoption conditions were quite stringent.
The Chosen Ones had some, but not many. Compared to pseudo-legendaries like Dragonite, they were slightly more common, but still not easy to trade, often requiring several times the price.
Bai Ye had already prepared to trade items of red quality.
But...
"No need," the woman said with a smile, shaking her head. "My boss asked me to give this to you. Mr. Bai doesn't need to pay any price."
"Hmm?" Bai Ye asked in confusion, "Boss?"
The woman nodded. "Yes."
Bai Ye asked, "Who is your boss?"
The woman replied, "My boss said that although she feels it's not appropriate to meet yet, if Mr. Bai wishes to see her, she will be waiting at the teahouse within the market."