Speaking of which, the four of them were already standing at the entrance of the largest beast pet egg store in Xia Capital.
Ye Lingyue had visited one or two beast pet stores when she was in Li City, but most of what they sold there were adult beast pets. However, this beast pet store was different.
Inside, it resembled a large zoo with various wild beasts, spiritual beasts, and a large assortment of beast eggs piled up like small hills on one side.
After all, beast pets were something only a small number of wealthy people could afford to play with, so most people in the store were either rich or noble.
"Princely Heir Qinghai, welcome to our shop. Are you here to pick out beast pets again?" Princely Heir Qinghai seemed to be a regular customer of this beast pet store. As soon as he entered, a ruddy-faced old man came over.
"Boss Xia, I am here to buy beast eggs today. These are my friends. Bring out the best beast eggs in your store, so they can choose," said Princely Heir Qinghai, who, besides practicing martial arts and running businesses, had another hobby, which was collecting various beast pets.
He had a Treasure Beast Garden in his mansion that was no less grand than the royal family’s.
Nearly every beast pet store in the country was connected to him. The moment there was a rare spiritual beast or a high-quality beast pet egg, he would purchase it at a high price without delay.
Ye Lingyue watched, smirking disdainfully. It was indeed a world she didn’t understand, being filthy rich, keeping so many beasts more precious than people, to what end?
She wondered what kind of expression Princely Heir Qinghai would show if he knew that Ye Lingyue once possessed a phoenix egg.
However, when Ye Lingyue heard the owner bring out a pile of top-grade beast pet eggs, each claiming to be worth 500 taels of gold, she, Liu Cheng, and Feng Xue were instantly stunned.
A beast pet egg is actually worth that much?
"That’s too expensive, Ling Yue; these beast pet eggs are too expensive, we dare not choose," Liu Cheng and Feng Xue were both dumbfounded—the annual salary of both their fathers might not even match the price of one beast pet egg.
"No problem, since I, the Princely Heir, have promised, you three can pick as you please," laughed Princely Heir Qinghai.
The beast pet store owner said a large part of these beast pet eggs were from third or fourth-stage spiritual beasts. There was about a fifty percent chance they could hatch into beast pets.
A fourth-stage spiritual beast could match an Innate Expert. A thousand taels of gold was indeed not expensive.
"Boss, we don’t want these eggs. Do you have any other beast pet eggs?" Who knew Ye Lingyue would walk forward, touch a few, and quickly come back with an indifferent interest.
What a joke, the highest was only fourth-stage, and inside, only a few had a chance of successful hatching—just foxes, wolves, sparrows, no slightly better bloodlines.
In Ye Lingyue’s eyes, a fourth-stage spiritual beast could only be considered average. Even her Dahuang was stronger than these so-called fourth-stage spiritual beasts, not to mention Little Zhiyo or Little Wuya.
If it were any other day, the shop owner would undoubtedly have flown into a rage, but with Princely Heir Qinghai there, the old man couldn’t very well lose his temper.
"Miss, apart from these top-grade eggs, our shop also has some advanced beast pet eggs, intermediate beast pet eggs, and basic level beast pet eggs, respectively corresponding to third, second, and first-rank spiritual beasts. There are also some ’fate eggs’, whose grade is unclear," the owner explained patiently.
The eggs sold at the beast pet store were varied, and even the most experienced old boss could not be certain what would hatch out of them.
As for the fate eggs, they are even harder to confirm.
"Fate egg? What is that?" Ye Lingyue didn’t even care for Third Rank Spiritual Beasts, let alone eggs of Spiritual Beasts that were lower than Third Rank.
Nevertheless, the words of Heir Qinghai just now did give her a new idea—perhaps she could try raising Spiritual Beasts in the Hong Meng Heaven.
The so-called fate eggs are the ones that even the owners cannot determine the grade of. They also have a chance, albeit very low, of hatching Spiritual Beasts that exceed the Fourth-stage, but most of the time, fate eggs can only hatch deformed or dead Spiritual Beasts.
"It’s really funny that someone would want to buy fate eggs. Heir Qinghai, you should be careful. There are quite a few deceitful women in Xia Capital, who rely on their looks to seduce men."
Heir Qinghai was just about to persuade Ye Lingyue, when someone approached from the side.
Seeing the newcomer, Ye Lingyue raised an eyebrow.
The speaker was a young girl with bright eyes and a cool smile, tenderly beautiful like blossoming peach, only thirteen or fourteen years old, yet already a full-fledged beauty.
Ye Lingyue felt she looked familiar and immediately remembered—this girl was very similar to Hong Yulang from the Hongwu Hall, even their height and build were identical, it was clear they were twins.
Ye Lingyue didn’t know what luck had brought her today; first Hong Yulang, and now she had run into Hong Yulang’s overbearing little sister.
It turned out that Hong Yuying was still unaware that her brother’s Red Horse had been lost to Heir Qinghai.
Earlier, upon hearing that her brother had gotten a Fifth Rank treasure horse, she made a fuss at home, crying and throwing a tantrum, until Zhuge Rou could no longer handle it and had to promise to take her to the Beast Pet Store to pick a Beast Pet of the same grade.
Who would have known that today, the Beast Pet Store just so happened not to have any Fifth Rank Beast Pets, and she could only angrily come to select Beast Pet Eggs.
As soon as she entered, she saw Heir Qinghai.
Heir Qinghai, young and wealthy, was the dream of most unmarried girls in Xia Capital, and Hong Yuying also had a fondness for him. Unfortunately, Heir Qinghai had always been very polite and distant with her.
But today, he was being very caring towards a strange woman, which made Hong Yuying furious.
"Miss Yuying, please mind your words. This is the second young miss from the Invincible General Mansion." Noticing Hong Yuying’s unfriendly tone, Heir Qinghai frowned.
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"Yuying, how many times has mother told you, you must not be so rude. Heir Qinghai, ladies and gentlemen, my daughter is still young and may not behave properly, please do not take offense," spoke a beautiful woman as she approached with grace.
Following her were two elderly matrons and several maids.
The beautiful lady wasn’t tall, but she had a well-proportioned figure, with slightly upturned almond eyes—Hong Yulang’s eyes resembled hers. Her voice was melodious, ringing like music, very pleasant to hear.
This person was Zhuge Rou, wife of Hong Fang. Despite having three children, she maintained herself very well. Her skin was as smooth as mutton fat jade, her physique was slimmer than slim, with a face round like the full moon, gentle and virtuous, she appeared to be a newly wed in her early twenties rather than a mother, standing beside Hong Yuying, she looked more like her sister than her mother.
At the sight of Zhuge Rou, Heir Qinghai felt Ye Lingyue beside him tremble slightly, but as he looked in surprise at Ye Lingyue to seek understanding, he saw that she had already returned to her normal composure.