Beastmaster: I don’t want to be a breeder!

If, during the most difficult initial stage of his business, Li Cunxu would have wanted that important sum of money, but someone helped him get through it—Chen Xi's help—he no longer needed it.

Her one million, the ranch she gifted, the mech hunters and guard dogs she hired, all brought immense convenience and assistance to Li Cunxu, allowing him to quickly accumulate initial capital.

He wasn't so short on money now.

Naturally, there was no need to join the family and sell his future.

What method could he use to make Xiao Ruan's transformation into a stronger being seem reasonable without exposing the Blood Lotus Eye and arousing excessive suspicion from others?

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Li Cunxu.

“Perhaps, I can do this: disguise my Blood Lotus Eye as a Saint Lotus Eye.”

“That way, Xiao Ruan being so strong as a mere slime could be understood.”

“It just so happens that the pupil technique 'Blood Banquet Feast' of the Blood Lotus Eye and the pupil technique 'Holy Communion' of the Saint Lotus Eye have roughly the same abilities. Blood Banquet Feast can be used to imitate Holy Communion and deceive others.”

As for the other pupil technique, what if the Blood Lotus Eye's Crimson Lotus Bloodfire and the Saint Lotus Eye's Saint Lotus Protection were different?

Simple, just don't use it.

When a pupil technique bloodline awakens, there's also a very awkward situation called 'One-Eye,' or 'Half-Eye.'

The so-called Half-Eye is when a person awakens the Saint Lotus Eye, but it's only a partial awakening. One eye is the Saint Lotus Eye, and the other eye is a normal eye. The pupil techniques are also half of what a complete Saint Lotus Eye would have, with only one technique, and the pupil power is also halved.

Disguising himself as a Half-Eye had one advantage: he wouldn't have to join the Saint Lotus Li family.

The Saint Lotus Li family would still extend an invitation for Li Cunxu to return to the family, but the invitation wouldn't be too forceful. Basically, if he refused once, they wouldn't invite him a second time.

The attitude of aristocratic families towards Half-Eyes was generally indifferent; they wouldn't grant them core member status.

Before the Great Cataclysm, the term for Half-Eyes was 'One-Eye,' a very contemptuous term. Aristocratic families believed that One-Eyes damaged the family's image and were a disgrace to the family, generally banishing or humanely eliminating them.

People who awakened complete pupil technique eyes looked down on One-Eyes with only half the pupil techniques and half the pupil power, while those who hadn't awakened any pupil technique eyes would be jealous of those who awakened One-Eyes. Therefore, the status of One-Eyes in the family was neither high nor low, very awkward.

In addition, some people deliberately slandered One-Eyes, claiming that Half-Eyes were caused by impure bloodlines, leading all pupil technique aristocratic families to be ashamed of 'One-Eyes.'

After the Great Cataclysm, the Old President stepped in to manage the situation, and One-Eyes were liberated from their predicament of being hunted down, and the less discriminatory term 'Half-Eye' was adopted.

Even so, Half-Eyes were still unwanted and unloved.

The family would extend an invitation, but only because they didn't want them using their abilities outside, making a fool of themselves.

As for how to disguise the blood-red Blood Lotus Eye as the golden Saint Lotus Eye, Li Cunxu thought of colored contact lenses.

These colored contact lenses were naturally not simple colored contact lenses.

Special colored contact lenses were needed to disguise the Blood Lotus Eye as the Saint Lotus Eye, and the other contact lens also had to meet the condition of disguising the Blood Lotus Eye in his left eye as a normal eye.

The first person Li Cunxu thought of who could make colored contact lenses of this caliber was Master Jia of the Senmu District Black Market.

This Master Jia could make anything. He had made colored contact lenses for the Saint Lotus Eye, which were lifelike. Even the brilliance and flow of the Saint Lotus in the eye were imitated perfectly. Except for the fact that they couldn't release pupil techniques, they were no different from a real Saint Lotus Eye.

He had also forged Imperial Arms. To this day, a group of Kings are still fighting over his fake Imperial Arms.

The most important reason for Li Cunxu to find him was that Master Jia had extremely high confidentiality.

Master Jia never inquired about the origins of his customers. No matter who it was, as long as they paid, he would make it, even if it was a cultist of the Evil God. He was absolutely neutral. Moreover, when making confidential items, Master Jia would drink memory-erasing potion after finishing the item to erase the memory of making it.

The only drawback was that his fees were a bit high, and he only accepted cash.

“Forget about the Golden Slime for now.”

Li Cunxu exchanged all the gold nuggets he mined from the mineral vein secret realm and the gold confiscated from Zhang Chiqian into money, totaling seven million.

Looking at this sum of money, Li Cunxu sighed.

“It's quite a lot, but it doesn't last long.”

Senmu District, Black Market, a corner alley.

Li Cunxu, wearing a mask and a black cloak, turned the vending machine. The wall behind the vending machine slid open, revealing a door.

People who didn't know the rules would be electrocuted if they pushed the door, regardless of whether they were Gold or Silver rank.

If you were electrocuted within the Black Market, there was a high probability that you would wake up with all your belongings gone.

The correct way to enter was to say “Open Sesame” in pure Mandarin, and then bump into the wall to the left of the door to enter.

If your Mandarin wasn't standard, the harder you bumped, the more it would hurt.

Inside was a dim space. Dim yellow streetlights were sparsely arranged on both sides of the commercial street. A few cloaked figures hurried through the dim street, their shadows lengthening and shortening under the light, like ghosts wandering in the night.

This was the Black Market space, the real Black Market.

Inside a dark tailor shop.

Li Cunxu said to the old woman who was knitting clothes:

“Truth resembles falsehood, falsehood resembles truth, truth and falsehood intertwined, falsehood and truth reversed, I want to find Master Zhen.”

The old woman knitted clothes intently, without turning her head, and said: "Second cloakroom, in the mirror."

Master Jia, an old man with silver hair and wearing silver-rimmed glasses, was holding a wrench and tapping a wooden goldfish. The wooden goldfish rudely slapped Master Jia twice with its tail.

Li Cunxu revealed his Blood Lotus Eye and got straight to the point: "Master Jia, I want a colored contact lens to conceal my left eye and disguise it as a normal eye, and another to change the color of my right eye from red to gold, so that I can disguise it as a Saint Lotus Eye."

Master Jia saw the Blood Lotus Eye without any desire to investigate.

Just a mutated eye; he had seen countless of them in the past thousand years.

He wasn't short of money either. He opened a shop in the Black Market just to use the strange requests of customers to stimulate his inspiration for creation and invention.

Although the memory would be erased, the inspiration generated during this period would not disappear with the memory.

The two types of colored contact lenses Li Cunxu requested were too ordinary and had no technical difficulty.

Master Jia was unenthusiastic and said, "Two million for one contact lens, a total of four million."

“Okay.”

Li Cunxu paid readily.

Master Jia took out two fish eye membranes and added various potions to them for mixing in less than two minutes before and after.

“It's done, try it on!”

Li Cunxu put on the colored contact lenses made by Master Jia and looked in the mirror. The pupils of his left eye, which had turned into a Blood Lotus, returned to their original appearance, while the Blood Lotus in his right eye changed color, shimmering with gold, like a real Saint Lotus Eye.

It perfectly met Li Cunxu's requirements.

Li Cunxu took out five hundred thousand and put it on the table, "Master Jia, please keep it confidential."

“You know the rules very well, unlike people who come here for the first time.”

Master Jia glanced at Li Cunxu and said.

Is being too knowledgeable about the rules also a flaw?

Isn't that a bit convoluted?