Chapter 240 - The Second Evolution Realm Opens!

Lu Ran teleported to the Arctic Ocean Public Limitless City directly from a Limitless City located in Xia. After the last trip, he knew better than to visit Antarctica directly on the Blue Planet.

He walked into the local Cat Maid Cafe upon arriving.

"The main character has arrived!"

Gu Qingyi cheered and felt relieved when she finally saw Lu Ran enter. She had been messaging him nonstop.

Several first-generation members of Xia who were sipping coffee in the shop also focused their gazes on him. Due to the special occasion, they were the only customers.

"Sorry, the last-minute training took longer than expected. I made everyone wait."

Lu Ran then found a place to sit. He wasn’t actually late—there were still two hours before the evolution realm opened.

"Manager Tang~! Lu Ran is here, so please bring him a cup of cat poop!"

Lu Ran had just sat down, but Zhu Kaixin's words almost made him get back up and leave.

"Do you have Coke?" Lu Ran quickly asked.

"But cat poop coffee is delicious!" Zhu Kaixin said.

Lu Ran couldn’t help but feel disgusted.

Soon, a waitress in a cat-maid outfit appeared. She was tall and walked in an appealing way—greatly different from how Gu Qingyi and Lin Nian upheld themselves.

"Lu Ran, let me introduce you to my contractor—Tang Changpu."

Lu Ran only just then discovered that Manager Ying was there. It had been curled up in a corner napping when it got woken up by Lu Ran’s arrival.

"Um, hello Manager Tang.” Lu Ran quickly stood up to greet her.

"Hello. I have long since heard of you as well,” Tang Changpu replied.

She was Manager Ying’s beastmaster, but in reality, Manager Ying was the one training her. She also happened to be its top employee. She had been helping Manager Ying gather intel and expand the business abroad.

"Teacher Ying told me many times that your talent is unmatched." Manager Tang smiled at Lu Ran.

"Huh?" Manager Ying immediately jolted up. "You can drink whatever you want, but you can’t just say whatever you want. Little Tang, you can chat him up but leave me out of it. When did I ever say anything like that?"

"Manager Ying is wise." Lu Ran sighed.

Soon, the store was filled with a cheerful atmosphere. With Manager Tang there, Lu Ran was able to get a glass of iced soda instead of cat poop coffee. That would have been too rich for his tastes.

Since there was still some time left before the evolution realm opened and everyone was already gathered, they decided to chat.

Lu Ran soon discovered that the Rat was a horrible role model. There was such an important task at hand, but he was actually drinking vodka.

"Did the crow eat the Mandragora Flower?" he asked.

"Yes," Lu Ran answered.

"That's good!"

"It should be thanks to my Agate of Devouring," Wu Ma bragged.

"It looks like your Dark Crow’s evolution potential is pretty decent. With the evolution energy and the Blessing of the Stars, it has hopes of becoming a Low Overlord!

"I'm so jealous. If we first-generation beastmasters want an Overlord familiar, then we’ll have to wait for stronger evolution realms." He sighed.

Lin Nian didn't join in on the discussion and was getting bored.

"Limitless City hasn’t introduced evolution realms for second evolutions yet? It should have..."

"It hasn't and I’m not sure if it will,” Shi Zhen commented.

"To begin with, our familiars still have a few levels to go before they can undergo their second evolutions. After all, the higher levels are really hard to scale.

"Not even eating a Treasure-grade resource can easily help our familiars level up at their levels."

Shi Zhen was also looking forward to evolving his familiars again. If one of his familiars gained a powerful species talent, he could have it help him break the curse. That way, he wouldn’t have to rely on someone else.

"The president's familiar reached level 60 a while back.

“I’ve also heard that a group of beastmasters from the International Alliance's raid team recently got their ace familiars up to level 60 as well. However, it doesn’t look like any of them have evolved their familiars yet.

"Lu Ran is still the only one on the Overlord rankings.

"Since there are evolution realms for level 30 familiars, evolutionary realms for level 60 familiars should be coming in the near future. There are a lot of people waiting for it," Gu Qingyi explained while sipping a grape smoothie.

"Also, the population of beastmasters should be approaching 10 million. I wonder what the next update will be," Zhu Kaixin pondered.

"I think a major change will be coming to the profession of beastmasters. Do you think that there will be updates to secret realms on the Blue Planet?"

"Didn't those secret realms come from a Limitless City update during ancient times? Once there are 10 million beastmasters, there might be another update."

"There is also the possibility of an area being opened for training wild creatures. The Merfolk King and Guardian Panda could one day enter Limitless City without being contracted by a beastmaster," Manager Ying added.

Everyone was shocked by Manager Ying’s guess.

"What?" The Rat shouted. "Where did you hear that?”

Manager Ying shrugged.

"No, I just feel that something like Limitless City couldn’t have been created by the power of humans alone. It would take power on the level of the Four Supreme Divine Dragons. Such an existence wouldn’t be biased towards humans.

"Now that spiritual energy has revived, transcendent creatures are gradually gaining intelligence. Maybe one day, even 'beasts' will be able to enter Limitless City to train."

Everyone remained silent. Manager Ying's hypothesis was a bit bizarre, but not impossible.

It was still essentially a masterless transcendent creature itself. It thinking that other creatures may be able to enter Limitless City one day wasn’t too farfetched.

If that day really came to pass, the very survival of mankind could be threatened.

Lu Ran, on the other hand, found the idea quite interesting. If that happened, then even if mankind suffered, he wouldn’t come out short.

His development path was pointed towards raising a familiar army. If uncontracted beasts could also enter Limitless City, it would only help him achieve that goal.

"I hope Limitless City introduces hospital facilities—especially ones that can cure any disease." Shi Zhen, or Shi Xia, since he was in his female form, joined in.

He didn’t want to be there but he already promised Lu Ran that he would be one of his bodyguards.

Everyone looked at him as if he was being a spiteful shrew.

Is this guy never going to give up? He’s pretty good the way he is now

.

If Shi Zhen lifted the curse with the help of some resources but could keep his female form, Xia would have another goddess of war.

"I’m bored. Let's talk about the next evolution realm." Li Nian finally lost her patience.

"Let’s have Lu Ran evolve his familiar alone while we hide somewhere. If we just clump around him then no one would dare to attack him. That would be so lame."

"This..." Lu Ran's mouth twitched.

What are you thinking?

"I like that." The Rat agreed.

"Interesting." Pig God was also excited by the idea.

These people were clearly bad influences and troublemakers.

Lu Ran looked over to Dr. Gu for help but saw that she also had a pensive expression.

"Not a bad idea," Gu Qingyi said.

"We need to teach a lesson to whoever dares to take action."

"..."

Lu Ran forgot that she had been the target of multiple assassinations. She had finally grown up, so the hunted was now the hunter. She must be very excited.

So, I am going to be bait.

"Okay, okay, as long as y’all can guarantee my safety, then y’all can do whatever you want. As long as I have the cat by my side, everything should be fine."

Lu Ran looked at Manager Ying.

"Right." Gu Qingyi agreed. "Manager Ying has many clones and hasn’t revealed much of its strength to the public. Besides Xia’s senior officials, not many people know about it. Letting it follow you wouldn’t ruin the surprise."

"Hey!" Manager Ying, who was originally minding its own business, shouted.

There are so many first-generation beastmasters here, but y’all still want me to follow Lu Ran onto the front lines? Are y’all kidding me?

"Then it's decided," Lin Nian said. "Lu Ran, when the time comes, act arrogant and bait them into attacking you. Don't worry. With me here, you won't be in any danger."

Lu Ran smiled bitterly.

Manager Ying was also helpless knowing that it couldn’t escape the fate of being a bodyguard.

"Okay, then I'll stay beside Lu Ran. Don't underestimate me. I can also be a major deterrent!"

Everyone expressed doubts.

***

Soon, it was time to set off since they needed to enter the evolution realm early. It was also good to let Lu Ran stand around for a while.

It would ruin their plan if the people who wanted Lu Ran dead didn’t know that he was there. With so many bodyguards around him, he didn’t need to wear a disguise like last time.

He just wore a casual black suit and walked into Beastmaster Square by himself. With so many people present, it would be hard to recognize someone in the crowd—but Lu Ran was too famous for no one to notice him.

Many people turned around to stare at him as he passed by.

"Lu Ran? Is that Lu Ran, the famous Pedestrian A?" someone asked in English.

More and more people began to focus on Lu Ran.

"Oh! It's Lu Ran! It's really him!"

"He actually came to this evolution realm!"

"Lu Ran, can you give me an autograph? Sign my boobs!"

"Sorry, I have to prepare for the evolution realm. Maybe next time," Lu Ran responded.

He soon arrived at the portal and teleported directly into the evolution realm.

In an instant, the news that Lu Ran appeared at the Arctic Ocean Limitless City went viral on the internet.

Lu Ran appeared again!

It wasn’t unexpected, however. Many of the Golden Generation who cleared a legendary secret realm were there this time. Lu Ran's other familiars had yet to evolve, so it wasn’t strange that he would come.

Everyone was curious about which familiar he was there to evolve next.

After Lu Ran entered, he summoned all three of his familiars.

Roar!

Returning to the place of its ascension, Sudden Death King looked up at the starry sky in reminiscence.

Woof.

Captain Doofus looked at Dark Crow in silence, wondering how far the crow could evolve. Captain Doofus wasn’t even concerned that it wasn’t him evolving this time. So what if Sudden Death King and Dark Crow evolved before him? Captain Doofus was a firm believer in saving the best for last.

It had a very wise expression on its face.

It was just letting Sudden Death King and Dark Crow do the legwork and gather better resources for its evolution.

Captain Doofus was proud of its brilliance.

"Sudden Death King, find us a quiet spot."

Lu Ran climbed onto its back along with his two other familiars as Sudden Death King pouted.

Roar!

Regardless of its feelings, Sudden Death King still followed Lu Ran's command and immediately took off, flying towards a sparsely populated area.

Many gazes locked onto the Shieldwing Dragon soaring through the skies. By now, everyone had realized that Lu Ran was back.

***

The second evolution realm was significantly more competitive than the first.

Many first through fourth-generation beastmasters arrived before Lu Ran.

These youthful talents of various backgrounds squinted as they watched the domineering dragon fly by before shaking their heads slightly.

Some of the more curious ones followed him to get a closer look. Three people even approached him after Lu Ran landed.

Boom!

When Sudden Death King landed, its majestic eyes swept across the trio. Lu Ran stood on the dragon and also looked at them along with his other familiars.

The three people consisted of a man and two women. The young man wore blue trousers with a floral shirt and had curly hair. One of the two women had brown curly hair and looked like the man. Both women wore white saris and had an exotic air about them.

"What do y’all want?" Lu Ran asked.

"Mr. Lu Ran, my name is Jialan. This is my sister Jiana and our teammate Manasa," the young man introduced.

"My sister and I both have special abilities, and I heard that you had one as well so I want to get to know you."

"Oh, it's y’all."

Lu Ran remembered that these three were the Golden Generation members of Ahsan who cleared a Legendary secret realm. They were a very powerful team.

"Hello."

The two girls smiled as they greeted him. As the pride of a great nation, they were bound to be prideful but didn’t dare show off in front of Lu Ran.

另外和外国妹子一起耍，会让家里人担心的，万一是美人计间谍啥的咋办。能不接触，就不接触。

三人没想到路然这么不给面子:“......”

Lu Ran could single-handedly suppress an entire generation, so they were in awe of him. Until someone else solo-cleared a Legendary realm, Lu Ran was the undisputed champion amongst fourth-generation beastmasters.

"I know you, but I’m not here to make friends. If you don’t need anything then I must ask you to leave." Lu Ran waved them off.

Sorry, I only play with first-generation beastmasters.

Besides, messing around with foreign girls would cause his family to worry.

What if this was all a honey trap? It was better to just avoid them altogether.

"..."

The trio didn't expect Lu Ran to be so rude.

"Boss Lu Ran, don't be in a rush to send us away. Do you want to know what special abilities represent? Our country is a nation of gifted individuals. We have ten people gifted with abilities, and we also do advanced research on special abilities,” Jialan hurriedly explained.

Caw!

When Dark Crow saw that the other party kept talking it wanted to drive them away, but Lu Ran motioned for it to stop.

"Let's talk about it after the evolution."

Since the three didn’t want to leave, it wouldn’t be his fault if they got scared later.