When the light faded, everything around Bai Ye had changed.
There were small Western-style houses all around, warm and cozy buildings. The streets were populated, but not crowded. Then Bai Ye turned around and saw a few large characters almost pushed into his face.
"Big Mouth Gull Express!"
"It seems to be correct, I've arrived at the Beast Taming Area."
Big Mouth Gull Express could deliver items to any area, but the express service itself only existed in the Beast Taming Area. Therefore, if you wanted to send something, you could only do so from the Beast Taming Area.
Naturally, seeing this place, he knew it was definitely the Beast Taming Area.
Bai Ye entered the building and placed the Nine Revolutions Qiankun Wheel on the table, saying, "I want to send something, and it's cash on delivery."
Returning something, and it's cash on delivery...
Bai Ye felt that pride 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 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 things.
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 wanted to raise a cat, was buying just the cat enough?
Cat beds, cat mats, cat food, cat ears... all cost money!
Huh? Did something strange slip in?
In any case, beast taming also had a related industrial chain, which naturally formed a huge market.
For Bai Ye to obtain a beast, going directly to the market to buy it was the quickest method.
Of course, if purchased, the beast's loyalty would be relatively low, requiring a certain amount of time for cultivation.
However, beasts caught independently also had low loyalty and required cultivation time. The only way to achieve extremely high loyalty was through hatching and raising them from their young stage.
But then their combat power would be very low.
Moreover, the personality of a beast was actually very important. For example, Gengar and Goodra were very clingy. Although trading would reduce loyalty, cultivating loyalty was easier. As long as you played with them, their loyalty would grow rapidly.
Putting that aside, Bai Ye didn't actually need very high loyalty; he just needed to find a beast that could take him out to sea.
...
Entering the Beast Taming Market, there were many more people here than on the street.
There were stalls run by natives, as well as areas opened up by the Chosen, the Chosen Market.
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 imagined.
While there were indeed many transactions of daily necessities and cultivation supplies, the bigger item was actually beast equipment.
Beasts had equipment?
This fell into Bai Ye's blind spot, but fortunately, he 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 it was very fast. The latter were beasts that could roam the sea.
However, after inquiring, Bai Ye found that the matter was more troublesome than he had imagined.
First of all, Dragonite was basically out of the question. This guy, like Goodra, was a pseudo-legendary, and among the pseudo-legendaries, it was even higher than Goodra.
There were no sales from the natives at all. The Chosen had them, but they weren't stupid; why would they easily put beasts of this level up for sale?
Secondly, beasts that could be ridden out to sea were available from the natives, but the natives had a Beast Tamer Association. For Bai Ye to adopt or purchase one, he first needed to obtain a Beast Tamer's License.
Bai Ye was numb to this. He clearly already had two beasts, and they were even cultivated quite well. Now he had to take an exam for a Beast Tamer's License?
It was like a child turning eighteen and being asked if they were biologically related.
In fact, with Gengar and Goodra, Bai Ye was sure he could obtain the Beast Tamer's License, but Bai Ye didn't want to be a beast tamer. He just wanted to go out to sea, and getting a beast license would take too much time.
As for trading with the Chosen, there was no problem, but it was a casual trade. Beasts that could be ridden were not that easy to catch.
Furthermore, it also had to be blamed on the Hidden Dragon Society.
A while ago, Liu Shiyue, while catching beasts for going out to sea, was also acquiring them. Consequently, the riding beasts held by the Chosen in this area were basically all gone, and it wouldn't be easy to successfully negotiate a trade.
"This is a headache!" Bai Ye patted his forehead and said, "Do I really have to go and catch one myself?"
If he couldn't trade for one, Bai Ye would have to catch one himself, but...
He was really unfamiliar 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 from Jinsha, and the other was exchanged. Bai Ye had never caught a beast before, and he didn't know how to catch one.
"Mr. Bai?"
As Bai Ye was agonizing, a soft call suddenly sounded.
Bai Ye turned around and saw a petite woman wearing a T-shirt and shorts with short chestnut-colored hair.
Bai Ye asked, confused, "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 and said, "Yes, why?"
The woman took out a beast ball and said, "There's a Lapras inside."
"Oh?" Bai Ye raised an eyebrow and asked, "What do you want in exchange?"
Lapras was not a very powerful beast. Although it was named "Dragon," Lapras was actually not of the Dragon type, but a Water and Ice type beast.
It had extremely high intelligence and could easily understand human language. It was also very gentle and disliked fighting. Its greatest hobby was taking people to roam the sea and helping those who were in distress at sea.
Therefore, Lapras was only a blue-quality beast. However, quality, for beasts, represented their fighting desire and combat ability, not their rarity.
Although Lapras was a blue-quality beast, due to its docile nature and dislike of fighting, it would mostly just flee when attacked, leading to large-scale hunting and a drastic reduction in its numbers, making it very rare currently.
Although the Beast Tamer Association had them, they did not trade them; they could only be adopted, and the adoption conditions were quite strict.
The Chosen had them, but not many. Compared to pseudo-legendaries like Dragonite, there were naturally slightly more, but they were not easy to trade, generally costing several times the price.
Bai Ye was already prepared to trade for items of red quality.
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, confused, "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 appropriate to meet at the moment, if Mr. Bai wishes to see her, she will be waiting in the tea house within the market."