Da Sheng immediately took it and gulped down two mouthfuls.
In less than five seconds, its body became unsteady.
Yi Tian quickly grabbed the wine back and capped it. If Da Sheng drank another sip, he would probably pass out.
"Now is the time to verify the results."
When Yi Tian looked at Da Sheng's data panel, he froze on the spot.
[Name: Da Sheng]
[Race: Stone Monkey]
[Level: Infancy (10% → 30%)]
[Potential: Bronze]
Just two sips of wine, and Da Sheng's level grew directly from 10% to 30% in the Infancy stage??
Feeling the bottle in his hand, he suspected that if Da Sheng finished this bottle, he would go straight to Bronze.
This speed could no longer be described as just fast.
In his memory, his sister Yi Ying took two months to raise her Fluffy Sheep to Bronze.
He wasn't even a fraction of her time.
"Yi Tian, what are you laughing at? Contracting a Stone Monkey isn't worth being this happy, is it?"
Suddenly, someone patted Yi Tian on the shoulder from behind.
Turning around, it was his classmate Zhao Liang.
"Stop giggling. The leading teacher wants us to gather at the gate quickly."
"Oh."
After everyone completed their contracts, they gathered at the base gate.
The leading teacher was named Liu Zheng. Yi Tian knew him well; he was one of the subject teachers for his class.
Liu Zheng cleared his throat and spoke to the somewhat depressed crowd.
"Congratulations everyone. From today on, you are Beast Tamers."
"Starting today, the next month is free activity time."
"I hope everyone won't slack off and will supervise your beasts' cultivation diligently."
"If your beast breaks through to the Bronze rank, report to the school immediately. There will be teachers on duty every day to record the breakthrough times."
"Afterward, rankings will be made based on the breakthrough times, and rewards will be issued to the top 100."
Hearing the word "reward," quite a few people instinctively looked up, but quickly looked down again, their heads drooping even lower than before.
Rewards had nothing to do with them.
With thousands of people in the whole school, getting into the top 100 with a Stone Monkey was simply a fantasy.
The moment they chose the Stone Monkey, their future was pretty much set.
Liu Zheng shrugged, feeling somewhat helpless. He knew that students who chose the Stone Monkey basically had both poor talent and poor family backgrounds.
If the principal hadn't ordered him to emphasize the rewards, he wouldn't have wanted to bring it up.
But seeing everyone like this, as a teacher, he felt a bit unbearable, so he comforted them.
"Ahem, don't be discouraged. As long as you can help the Stone Monkey resist its instinct for alcohol..."
"If you focus all your time on cultivation, it is possible to break through to Bronze in a month. Getting into the top 100 isn't entirely impossible."
"In the class before yours, there was a senior who contracted a Stone Monkey. He completed the breakthrough in just 20 days and achieved the good rank of 80th place."
"He received resources worth 10,000 Dragon Coins."
Hearing this, many students looked up again.
"Just don't let the Stone Monkey drink and force it to cultivate?"
Just then, a smell of alcohol wafted over. The students sniffed and turned their heads in confusion.
Then they saw Da Sheng, drunk and lying on Yi Tian's shoulder.
Immediately, someone recognized it.
"Isn't that the monkey that plays with the stick?"
Everyone was speechless.
Who is this handsome guy?
He picked the monkey that hates brewing the most, and got it drunk right after contracting it.
Is he giving up on himself?
Several students who knew Yi Tian and were in his class shrank back, pretending not to know him.
Yi Tian was also speechless, and he couldn't explain.
Liu Zheng also followed the students' gaze and saw Yi Tian and Da Sheng.
The corner of his eye twitched slightly. I just finished saying you need to fight the instinct to drink, and you do this? That's too disrespectful.
Based on his understanding of Yi Tian, wasn't he a sensible kid at school?
However, he didn't say much. Their relationship wasn't close. This was Yi Tian's own choice, so he had to bear the cost himself.
He had seen plenty of students who let themselves go; Yi Tian was just one more.
Instead of thinking about Yi Tian's motives, he'd rather think about how to slack off during his duty shift tomorrow.
Liu Zheng gave a few more instructions and dismissed the students.
Yi Tian got on the bus back.
Feeling his phone vibrating in his pocket, he couldn't help but take it out to look.
It was the class group chat; classmates were chatting.
Messages popped up rapidly one after another, which Yi Tian found a bit unusual.
"The classmates are exceptionally active today."
Yi Tian scrolled to the top to see what had happened.
Homeroom Teacher Old Wang: [Students, the school administration just announced the rewards for the top 100 to break through to Bronze. I've uploaded the file to the group files.]
Monitor Zhang Hao: [!!!]
Diving Dog: [!!!]
If You Don't Love, Don't Hurt: [!!!]
Crazy Steamed Bun: [Good lord, the school is bleeding money this time! The rewards are too generous!]
Crazy Steamed Bun: [Especially the first place, it's ridiculously good.]
Diving Dog: [Ahem, don't blame me for being a wet blanket. Our school has four thousand students in one grade. Getting into the top 100 isn't easy.]
If You Don't Love, Don't Hurt: [True. I'm trash who contracted a Stone Monkey. No matter how good the rewards are, they have nothing to do with me.]
If You Don't Love, Don't Hurt: [I'm out, I'm out.]
Diving Dog: [@Monitor Zhang Hao, The class's reputation depends on you. Confident in getting top 10?]
Monitor Zhang Hao: [It's not that simple. I heard several treacherous guys in the elite classes contracted beasts that were already in the late Infancy stage! There's even one at Infancy Perfection! (Bitter smile)]
Monitor Zhang Hao: [I'm only at the middle stage of Infancy. I can't compare!]
Beast levels were divided into four small stages based on progress: Early, Middle, Late, and Perfection.
Before 30% was Early, before 60% was Middle, before 90% was Late, and after that was Perfection.
Diving Dog: [Only Middle stage? Hehe, I'm out too.]
The school Yi Tian attended had 50 students per class and a total of 80 classes. Two were elite classes, and the rest were ordinary classes.
Students in the elite classes generally had better Beast Taming talent than others.
Contracting a beast required mental endurance. The previous talent test was actually testing everyone's endurance.
Continuing to scroll down, the chat was basically about similar topics.
He opened the group files and downloaded the document.
Yi Tian made a sound of surprise.
"The rewards really are generous."
In the file, the rewards were divided into two tiers. Tier 2 was for 11th to 100th place.
Students in the second tier would each receive a 100-gram Spirit Stone.
Spirit Stones could aid beast cultivation. 100 grams was worth over 10,000 Dragon Coins at market price.
The first tier was even more incredible. 10th place got 200 grams of Spirit Stones, 9th place 300 grams, increasing with rank.
First place got a whopping 1100 grams of Spirit Stones!
And that wasn't all. Aside from Spirit Stones, First Place had an even more precious reward:
A copy of an Evolution Path and a set of Evolution Materials.
When a beast's potential was exhausted and it couldn't level up anymore, the only way to continue improving was evolution.
A Beast Tamer needed to find the evolution path for their beast and then prepare materials according to the path's requirements.
Take the Stone Monkey for example. After reaching Bronze, if one wanted to reach Silver, it had to evolve into a Stone Monkey King.
The official path for a Stone Monkey King cost 50,000 Dragon Coins, and the evolution materials package cost over 200,000 Dragon Coins.
Yi Tian's eyes lit up.
One simplification plus buying wine had depleted all his savings.
He was worrying about how to get money, and then the reward file came down. Wasn't this tempting him to take first place?