Chapter 19

Huan Liuli came to the kitchen, still muttering to herself.

"Damn humans, stinky humans! How dare you ride on this grandma's head! If it weren't for my lack of strength, I would have swallowed you whole long ago! How could I let you be so arrogant?"

A voice came from the living room, belonging to Ye Xiao.

"What are you mumbling about?"

Huan Liuli's expression changed, and she immediately said,

"Um... nothing! I'm washing fruit."

Hearing no further sound from the living room, she patted her chest and let out a sigh of relief.

But soon, when her gaze fell on the fruit, a mischievous smile appeared on her face.

Then, she took a bunch of grapes, peeled them one by one, first licking each with her tongue, and then taking off her small shoes to rub them on her sock-covered feet.

"Hehehe... for bullying this grandma, just wait and see what I'll do to you!"

However, when she smiled and carried the fruit plate out of the kitchen, she met Ye Xiao's piercing gaze.

"If you don't eat all these grapes today, I'll skin you and make a scarf out of you."

Huan Liuli: "..."

...

That night, Ye Xiao stayed in the rented house.

The place was very clean, thanks to Huan Liuli, and there were fresh fruits, cooked food, and drinks, making life quite comfortable.

However, the next morning, Huan Liuli was picked up by the back of her neck and taken to the library by Ye Xiao.

It was Monday, and he had to go to work.

"I still want to sleep, I don't want to go to work. This is abuse, I protest! I protest!"

Ye Xiao ignored her. Although she had established a connection with him, she was still an untrained star beast, and a Master-level one at that!

She had already killed several tenants, and Ye Xiao couldn't guarantee she wouldn't go on a killing spree outside.

If she did, and was targeted by a major sect, they might trace back to him, causing a big problem.

So, Ye Xiao had to take her to the library and keep an eye on her.

A Master-level star beast can take human form or revert to its original form. When they left, Ye Xiao made her transform back into a Phantom Cat, with fur similar to a blue cat, small and incredibly cute.

Ye Xiao bought breakfast from a breakfast shop outside the library, including a cup of soy milk, a steamer of small buns, and a tea egg.

But when they arrived at the library, he was surprised to find Huan Liuli holding a large beef bun and eating it with relish.

This made Ye Xiao quite astonished.

"Where did you get that beef bun?"

Huan Liuli gave him a lazy glance and said,

"While you were buying breakfast in the shop, I used an illusion to confuse them and took it."

Ye Xiao raised an eyebrow.

"You stole it again?"

It seemed that everything in the house was stolen by Huan Liuli.

"Stole? What's stealing?"

As a star beast, Huan Liuli had no concept of stealing.

"Stealing is taking something without the owner's permission. You're not allowed to do that anymore."

"Hah! Why so troublesome? We star beasts follow the rule of the strong. Whoever has the ability to take something, it belongs to them."

"You're not a star beast anymore; you're my star pet. If you steal again, don't blame me for being harsh."

Ye Xiao cared about basic moral principles.

If it was stealing from bad people or enemies, he wouldn't be so righteous, but stealing from ordinary people was too much.

After all, everyone earns their money through hard work.

"Fine, fine, I get it. Humans are so troublesome!"

Huan Liuli grumbled and continued to enjoy her beef bun.

Ye Xiao shook his head. From this, he knew Huan Liuli wouldn't easily listen, and he would have to be more vigilant in the future.

There was no meeting today. After breakfast, Ye Xiao started reading.

This time, he was reading mental cultivation techniques.

Beast masters need to cultivate two things.

The main focus is on mental cultivation techniques to enhance their mental power, so they can control star beasts without being controlled by them.

The other is the method of feeding and enhancing the star beast's strength.

Ye Xiao didn't plan to be a beast master; he would only keep one or two strong star pets like Huan Liuli.

So, he needed to enhance his mental power to prevent the star beast from rebelling.

Pure martial cultivation could only indirectly increase mental power to a slight extent.

A Grandmaster in martial cultivation definitely wouldn't have as strong mental power as a Grandmaster in mental cultivation!

He still needed to specifically cultivate mental techniques.

In the morning, Ye Xiao read through four hundred mental cultivation techniques, selecting two fundamental techniques to record in his divine soul, allowing the Golden Book's divine soul to start cultivating on its own.

With the increase in mental power, Ye Xiao suddenly gained a special sense.

This was a more precise perception ability than the perception of spiritual energy.

After reaching the Grandmaster level, one could perceive everything around them by releasing spiritual energy.

However, this perception was only of the outline.

Mental power, on the other hand, could perceive every hair on the other person's body, even the slightest change in expression.

This was like the difference between a black and white TV and a color TV!

After lunch, the first fundamental mental cultivation technique recorded in the Golden Book had been cultivated to perfection. As a result, Ye Xiao's mental power and his ability to control it had improved significantly.

For example, he could use his mental power to bend a metal spoon used for eating.

This was not easy to do.

Martial artists control spiritual energy because it has mass, like air.

Mental power, however, is intangible, like electromagnetic waves.

To convert mental power into a tangible force required far more than a little mental power.

"Mental power and spiritual energy are two completely different forces.

Mental power attacks can only be blocked by mental power or electromagnetic waves, while spiritual energy attacks cannot be blocked by mental power.

Now that I am cultivating both types of forces, I should have a better chance in battles.

In battles of the same level, I will definitely have an absolute advantage, and in battles against higher levels, I might not lose.

I wonder what level my mental power has reached?"

Taking advantage of the absence of people around, Ye Xiao focused his gaze on a boulder over three meters tall by the roadside.

Mental power activated, and with a flash of lightning and a rumble of thunder, the boulder shattered into a pile of sand grains the size of mung beans!

"Amazing!"

Ye Xiao couldn't help but be slightly surprised.

The Golden Book had only perfected one basic mental cultivation technique, yet it could produce such a level of attack, which he hadn't expected.