You Ditched an R-Rank, Now That I’m an SSR, You Wanna Cry?-Chapter 21: This spirit is too cool!

The Abyss Instance matter has come to an end.
Inside the villa.
Mo Shiyu took out all the spirit stones stored in her contracted spirit space and happily counted them.
Ever since she lucked into contracting Xia Yuan, the spirit stones she possessed had begun to grow explosively.
So far, she had earned nearly twenty thousand spirit stones!
Adding the initial gacha resources of twenty thousand spirit stones distributed by the Mo family to their members, she now had a total of forty thousand spirit stones!
"Forty thousand spirit stones—if I use them all for gacha, with each ten-pull costing 1680, I can pull a total of 242 times!"
"A guaranteed contracted spirit appears every 180 pulls, so I might even get two contracted spirits!"
Mo Shiyu calculated excitedly, giggling foolishly nonstop.
There were also the special materials dropped by the Abyss BOSS!
Mo Shiyu chose "Dragon Heart" and "Black Dragon Horn"—the breakthrough power for contracted spirits contained in these two materials was exceptionally high!
She planned to save them for Xia Yuan's breakthrough.
When Xia Yuan heard her words, he said in a melancholy tone:
"Fatty Yu, I can barely make do with the spiritual energy you provide me now, and you're already thinking about pulling new characters?"
"Using the spirit stones earned thanks to me to pull for new favorites, tsk..."
He let out a fake sob, looking utterly heartbroken, and stood up as if to leave, "Ah, as expected, women really do favor the new and neglect the old. I should just go..."
Seeing this, Mo Shiyu panicked immediately. She quickly stood up, pushed him back onto the sofa, and diligently began massaging his shoulders with her soft, boneless hands:
"Ah... Xia Yuan... Handsome Yuan!"
"I was just talking, that's all. I definitely won't use these spirit stones for the gacha pool."
"I'm saving them all to cultivate you. Breaking through SSR and inscription sets both cost a lot of spirit stones!"
She raised one hand and swore:
"I, Mo Shiyu, even if I go bankrupt, even if I have to go out and perform... perform arts and beg, will give you the best!"
Xia Yuan crossed his legs, finally nodding with satisfaction, "Put more strength into it, haven't you eaten?"
Mo Shiyu's eye twitched slightly, her small fists unconsciously clenching.
This guy completely blossoms into a whole garden with just a little sunshine!
Since childhood, she had always been the young lady of the Mo family—when had she ever served someone like this!
A mere contracted spirit really thinks he's some big master!
Xia Yuan: "Why did you stop? Keep going."
Mo Shiyu: "Right away! Is this pressure okay?"
Xia Yuan hummed comfortably, "Mmm, not bad."
Remembering Xia Yuan's nearly invincible combat power, Mo Shiyu stopped being angry completely and submitted entirely.
Little Black jumped from Mo Shiyu's shoulder into Xia Yuan's lap, affectionately rubbing against his hand while meowing.
Xia Yuan smiled while petting the white-winged black cat, "Mmm... Little Black is already level 50. Is it time for a breakthrough?"
Mo Shiyu looked at the fawning Little Black, finding it hard to imagine it was once a proud spirit. Now it too had yielded to Xia Yuan's mighty influence, "That's right, but its breakthrough requires at least 3000 spirit stones and will consume some breakthrough materials..."
Xia Yuan said generously, "Give them to it."
Little Black seemed to understand, its jewel-like eyes sparkling brightly, and it obediently licked his palm with its tongue.
Mo Shiyu nodded, muttering, "I know, I already planned to do that."
Xia Yuan rubbed the cat's head and laughed, "Fatty Yu, Little Black is so useful, don't be stingy with investing resources in it. If you're short on anything, just tell me, and I'll go fight for it."
This black cat spirit's hidden trait was too useful—the spiritual energy boost was exactly what Xia Yuan needed most right now.
Mo Shiyu rubbed her sore, soft hands, "Mmm, I understand. I'll go to the breakthrough platform to breakthrough it now."
Xia Yuan frowned slightly, "Why did you stop? Did I tell you to stop? Massage for a while longer before going!"
Mo Shiyu, furious, almost used all her strength to pinch his shoulder hard, making a gritted-teeth grunting sound, "Yah...!"
Unfortunately...
Her demonstration only earned a comment from Xia Yuan: "Now the pressure is good."
............
The contracted spirit breakthrough platforms have always been set up not far from the location of the origin card pool.
There are three such places within Chuanbei Academy.
However, because leveling contracted spirits is difficult and breakthrough materials are quite expensive,
usually not many spirit tamers bring their contracted spirits for breakthroughs.
Most are senior students within the academy.
First-year students—almost none.
Thus, the appearance of Mo Shiyu and Xia Yuan was quite conspicuous, attracting many other students hoping to change their fate through gacha to gather and watch:
"No way, is God Yuan going to breakthrough?"
"How is that possible? SSR leveling can't be that fast!"
"Are you blind? Can't you see God Yuan is only level 38? It must be for that level 50 C-rank little black cat!"
"True, it's a support-type contracted spirit. It's been leeching experience from God Yuan, this SSR, so its level must have skyrocketed!"
"They seem to have been soloing three-star instances these past few days. With an SSR, their instance clearing efficiency is too high—one week for them equals several months for us..."
"God Yuan is really strong, handsome, and stylish. I envy junior Mo Shiyu, getting such eye candy every day!"
Every time Xia Yuan appeared, the young female spirit tamers in the academy couldn't help but become infatuated, screaming, staring, and secretly taking photos.
By now, he had long become the top-ranked most handsome contracted spirit at Chuanbei Spirit Tamer Academy.
Some secretly taken photos posted online had gained quite a reputation, with many fans.
Even female students from other academies were attracted.
After all, they're young girls—even if Xia Yuan is taken, it doesn't stop them from secretly admiring him.
"Oh my god, he's really super stylish!"
"God Yuan, look here!"
"Can you take off your sunglasses?"
Xia Yuan didn't mind at all; he even enjoyed it.
He took off his sunglasses, revealing his Cang blue eyes, causing a wave of screams from the females!
When others took photos, he could even strike a few cool poses—not introverted at all.
Mo Shiyu watched resentfully from the side, muttering quietly:
"Usually powerful contracted spirits are aloof, so how can there be one so fond of showing off..."
She placed Little Black on the breakthrough platform, and the conditions required for the breakthrough appeared:
[Contracted Spirit: C-rank Black Cat Spirit (Level 50 condition met), First Breakthrough]
[Please provide 3000 spirit stones]
[Please provide breakthrough materials worth 10000 breakthrough power]
When they saw the 10000 breakthrough power requirement, the surrounding senior students exclaimed in surprise:
"Damn, a C-rank support contracted spirit needs 10000 breakthrough?!"
"That much? I remember my B-rank main DPS contracted spirit only needed 8000!"
"Contracted spirit breakthroughs require different breakthrough power based on their own rank and strength. This shows the white-winged little black cat isn't simple—its abilities must be really strong!"
"No need to question Mo the school belle's eye for contracting spirits. She contracted God Yuan when he was just an R-card, and who knew he could become SSR!"
"......"
Mo Shiyu took out 3000 spirit stones from her contracted spirit space and placed them on the platform, then one by one took out the breakthrough materials dropped from previous red-name boss fights and placed them there.
After adding two [Red-name Crystals] and [Dark Cores], she finally met the standard and could proceed with the breakthrough!
The peculiar inscriptions at the bottom of the breakthrough platform began to rotate.
Immediately, Little Black started to glow, as if evolving!
The image of the double-winged black cat actually began to change!
It started to condense and shrink.
Finally, it transformed into an even smaller cat-eared girl spirit.
She slowly opened her large, watery eyes. On her head were two fluffy black cat ears, and the wings on her back transformed into the agile wings unique to spirits—exceptionally cute!
"Wuwuwu...!"
"Finally reached true spirit form—it wasn't easy!"
The cat-eared girl spirit was moved to tears and immediately flew towards Mo Shiyu and Xia Yuan.
She hugged Xia Yuan's leg tightly, crying gratefully:
"Xia Yuan-sama!"
"Wuwuwu... Thank you so much! If not for you, I probably would have taken much longer to assume human form!"
"From now on, I'll be your exclusive support and will definitely repay you properly!"
Xia Yuan pulled her off his leg, lifted her up, and examined her carefully together with Mo Shiyu. Both looked quite surprised:
"Can contracted spirit breakthroughs change forms? Not gonna lie, this little cutie looks quite unique!"
"Contracted spirit breakthroughs do have a chance to change forms, but I never expected our Little Black could turn into a cat-eared girl spirit!"
The onlookers were envious again!
Whether cat girl contracted spirits or spirit-type contracted spirits, both are extremely rare.
Forget strength—their appearance alone is truly appealing!
The cat-eared girl spirit put her hands on her hips, looking proud:
"Master, originally I planned to leave you after becoming human."
"But you're really lucky—you contracted Xia Yuan-sama. So, I can still stick with you."
Mo Shiyu felt insulted and immediately grabbed the little spirit's face with both hands, staring at her with a kind expression, "Little Black, what... did... you say? Dare to say it again!"
The cat-eared girl spirit immediately backed down, her big eyes filling with tears, apologizing in a muffled voice:
"Sumimasen..."
"Master, I didn't mean it, I was just talking..."
Mo Shiyu snorted coldly, finally satisfied, and released her.
As the master, her status in front of Xia Yuan was already too low.
How could she let some small fry like you ride over her head?
Xia Yuan remembered what the Ice Cream Lady said about inscriptions and asked:
"Fatty Yu, after Little Black breaks through at level 50, can it equip inscriptions now?"
Mo Shiyu nodded, "Right, but buying inscriptions on the official website is too expensive. Even a one-star inscription costs thousands of spirit stones. So today's goal is to go to the monster dungeons and farm a usable inscription set for Little Black!"
Monster dungeons are different from monster instances.
After successfully clearing them, besides rewarding some experience, they also grant inscriptions that enhance various abilities of contracted spirits.
Their characteristics also differ.
Monster dungeons are generally extremely stable and don't actively erupt in human society.
Most exist in remote, uninhabited places and refresh at fixed intervals.
Monster instances can be stable or berserk unstable.
For example, the instance area behind Chuanbei Spirit Tamer Academy is a permanently stable safe instance where monsters don't come out of the portal on their own.
After clearing, they automatically refresh randomly after a certain time.
Berserk unstable monster instances, like the Abyss Instance that suddenly appeared last time in the South District of Northern Chuan,
appear suddenly all at once!
Monsters swarm out of the portal, actively attacking humans, posing the greatest danger!
Currently, this is one of the disasters with the highest frequency of occurrence and the most fatalities worldwide.
Countries around the world deeply detest this, finding it a major headache, and have specifically established the Spirit Tamer Alliance to deal with such sudden disasters.
Hearing about inscriptions, Xia Yuan felt an inexplicable ache in his liver.
In the gacha cultivation games he played in his previous life, he had grinded these things endlessly!
But if inscriptions can enhance Little Black's ability to reduce blue consumption, then they must be farmed.
Xia Yuan thought to himself that if he pulls templates of other top-tier characters in the future, he could switch between various top-tier combat powers to handle different situations.
Especially those outrageously exaggerated ultimate skills of certain characters!
The spiritual energy consumed would be unimaginably huge!
Even draining Mo Shiyu dry probably wouldn't be enough...
So, spiritual energy is his primary need right now!