Celestial Beast Taming

Chapter 500: Chapter 283: The Moon Empress’s Slight Move

The hundreds of Servants responsible for her daily care, along with the two personal maids who combed and styled her hair, were kneeling by her bed with their heads bowed.

Her mother was sitting on the edge of the bed, her expression filled with concern. As she looked at her, her worried eyes also held a hint of surprise and a complex mix of emotions.

Xie Liansi glanced with a touch of envy at her mother’s tall crown and the seven magnificent jade hairpins adorning it, then prepared to rise.

The Hair Princess Race placed great importance on etiquette. Upon seeing her mother, she was required to curtsy by lifting her robe.

As for fathers, noblewomen of the Hair Princess Race had no contact whatsoever with men before conceiving children.

Even for the sake of procreation, once a successful conception was confirmed, the father would be discarded, and only the child would be kept.

This was why Xie Liansi, and in fact all the maids in the room, had never met their fathers.

Before rising, Xie Liansi subconsciously touched her hair.

Upon feeling the upright crown on her head, Xie Liansi froze.

’I was clearly just at the Double Bun Level. Even if my Bloodline advanced, it should have only reached the Piled-up Hairdo Level.’

’How could I be wearing a crown that can only be styled by someone with a Crown Level Bloodline?’

Xie Liansi hurriedly channeled her Bloodline and confirmed that it had indeed reached the Crown Level.

After her brief astonishment, Xie Liansi quickly rose and performed a respectful, elegant curtsy for her mother.

After Xie Liansi completed her curtsy, the woman with the seven jade hairpins spoke in a gentle voice.

"Lian’si, did you have some sort of fortuitous encounter in the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm?"

"For your Bloodline to advance multiple Levels in a row!"

"I plan to go to the clan’s Elder Council and have a few Elders reassess your Bloodline potential."

"As long as your Bloodline potential is rated ’Perfect’..."

"I can arrange for you to have a teacher at the Divine Fire Tier."

"Let them help you disrobe and bathe."

"Come find me if you feel unwell in any way."

Xie Liansi watched her mother’s departing figure and respectfully bowed her head.

Xie Liansi had always idolized her mother for having ’Perfect’ rated Bloodline potential.

Her mother was now a true Eighth Level Divine Kingdom Tier expert.

She was an influential Elder in the Hair Princess Race’s Elder Council, overseeing the race’s reproduction.

Her mother had always been the person Xie Liansi was closest to and admired most.

Her mother was her role model, and that hadn’t changed.

But while the person she admired most was still her mother, the person she felt closest to seemed to have changed.

In the few minutes since she had awoken, the face of that young man had already flashed through her mind no less than five times.

Xie Liansi guessed that her Bloodline’s advancement by two full Levels to the Crown Level must be related to the seed that young man had fed her.

Xie Liansi clearly remembered the string of numbers. She planned to log into the Virtual Source Network shortly, go to that Soul Fighting Bar, and wait for him to get some clear answers.

Whatever the reason, Xie Liansi was deeply grateful to Zhong Yi.

Within the Hair Princess Race, the offspring of Divine Fire Tier and Divine Kingdom Tier experts with ’Perfect’ Bloodline ratings had a high probability of inheriting that same ’Perfect’ rating.

Yet when Xie Liansi had been assessed previously, her Bloodline rating had only barely reached ’Excellent.’

This made Xie Liansi feel deeply ashamed and that she had let her mother down.

Because of her Bloodline rating, in the Bloodline-obsessed Hair Princess Race, those other influential Elders at odds with her mother had publicly questioned her mother’s Bloodline purity.

Her mother’s powerful Bloodline made Xie Liansi proud.

But her own Bloodline rating had always made her feel inferior.

’But now, with that young man’s help, I might finally be able to change things.’

As Xie Liansi began to disrobe for her bath, Yin Song opened his eyes in a filthy, dilapidated junkyard.

As Yin Song got to his feet, he could see several motionless bodies lying in the distance.

Just then, a rat-shaped Artifact Puppet on patrol in the junkyard stopped in front of Yin Song.

An arrogant sneer echoed from within.

"Since you’re awake, scram. Don’t be an eyesore."

"Heh. To think a lowlife sent over from the Secret Realm could actually survive."

"What a jinx."

With that, the patrol officer piloting the giant rat Demonic Puppet departed.

The patrol officer’s words made Yin Song press his lips together tightly.

’Lowlifes like me, who haven’t awakened a Puppet Soul or activated their Artifact Race Bloodline... In the eyes of those who have, we’re nothing but filthy untouchables.’

’Even if we collapse, no one helps. We’re just tossed into the junkyard like garbage.’

’Once we stop breathing, the patrolling rat-shaped Demonic Puppet will swallow our bodies and grind them to dust.’

’Then, we’ll be incinerated inside it, turning into a wisp of smoke that never should have existed in the first place.’

Numbly, Yin Song rose to his feet, preparing to head back to his dwelling.

Just then, Yin Song suddenly felt a throbbing pressure in his head.

The throbbing pain caused a bizarre, kaleidoscopic world to unfold before his eyes.

Yin Song knew this well. It was the exact phenomenon that occurred when one activated their Artifact Race Bloodline and awakened a Puppet Soul.

He had experienced a simulation of it at the academy, before the mass Puppet Soul awakening ceremony.

The sensation was overwhelming; Yin Song couldn’t suppress it at all.

Yin Song collapsed, lost within the kaleidoscopic world unfolding before his eyes.

An unknown amount of time passed—or perhaps, it wasn’t long at all.

After all, no patrol officer had come to chase him off again.

When Yin Song came to his senses, the phantom of a star had appeared within his soul.