Free Web NovelChapter 106: Chapter 106: Echo Egg Evolution
The Floor 13 settlement confirmed another SSS evaluation.
At this point, the academy no longer reacted with simple surprise. The instructors became more serious. Students became quieter. Rumors became more intense.
The settlement record read:
[Floor 13: Hollow Beast Valley]
[Main Mission: Hunt 3 Hollow Beast Leaders — Completed.]
[Sub-Mission: Defeat 30 Hollow Beasts — Completed.]
[Sub-Mission: Map 5 echo caves — Completed.]
[Sub-Mission: Avoid false voice lure beyond limit — Completed.]
[Hidden Objective: Valley Echo Heart purified — Completed.]
[Hollow Echo Beast Egg purified.]
[Final Evaluation: SSS]
Rewards:
[SSS Evaluation Rewards]
EXP +4,000
Tower Coins x50,000
S Grade Hollow Beast Valley Chest x1
A Grade Purified Hollow Echo Beast Egg x1
A Grade Echo Heart Crystal x1
A Grade Voice-Guard Talisman x3
A Grade Hollow Beast Hide x1
Special Mark: Echo Purifier
Qin Mo’s name was again highlighted for hidden objective contribution.
This time, he did not even complain.
He simply looked tired.
At the Qin Estate, Qin Xue’er was fascinated by the egg the moment Qin Yuheng showed it from a distance.
"It sounds pretty," she said.
Everyone turned to her.
Qin Yuheng asked, "You hear it?"
She blinked.
"Yes. It is quiet now. Like... a little bell sleeping in water."
Qin Yuheng exchanged a glance with Mu Qinglan.
Qin Xue’er’s perception was indeed unusual.
The egg was not given to her immediately. She was too young, and beast contracts had risks. But Qin Yuheng made a note: future companion possibility.
In private, he enhanced the Hollow Beast Valley Chest.
[S Grade Hollow Beast Valley Chest]
↓
[SSS Grade Ancient Echo Sovereign Beast Chest]
Opening it produced:
[SSS Grade Echo Sovereign Core x1]
[SS Grade Skill Book: Thunder Echo Step x1]
[SS Grade Voice-Soul Guard Crystal x1]
[S Grade Echo Beast Contract Scroll x1]
[S Grade Soundless Communication Stone Set x1]
The communication stones were immediately useful for team coordination.
He enhanced the set.
[S Grade Soundless Communication Stone Set]
↓
[SSS Grade Silent Soul Communication Jade Set]
Effect:
[Allows short-range silent communication between bound members through intent pulses. Strong resistance to sound distortion, illusion voices, and low-grade interception.]
Qin Yuheng smiled.
This solved many previous problems.
He bound four jades to the core team.
Qin Mo held his jade and stared.
"So now you can give instructions inside my head?"
"Only simple intent pulses."
"That is worse."
Qin Lian tested hers.
A faint pulse transmitted: left.
Qin Yuchen received it and nodded.
Useful.
Very useful.
Next, Qin Yuheng inspected the Purified Hollow Echo Beast Egg.
[A Grade Purified Hollow Echo Beast Egg]
[Effect: Can hatch into a companion beast with sound, echo, perception, and anti-illusion abilities.]
[Eligible for Primordial Origin Evolution.]
He did not choose immediately.
Quality Enhancement could create a stronger egg.
Quantity Multiplication would create many A-grade eggs, but beast contracts were not something to distribute casually.
He chose Quality Enhancement.
[A Grade Purified Hollow Echo Beast Egg]
↓
[SSS Grade Celestial Echo Spirit Beast Egg]
The egg transformed.
It became smaller, smoother, pale silver-blue, with faint star-like dots beneath the shell.
Panel:
[SSS Grade Celestial Echo Spirit Beast Egg]
[Type: Rare companion beast egg]
[Potential:
Sound perception
Echo defense
Soul communication
Illusion breaking
Long-range danger resonance]
[Compatibility detected:
High compatibility with individuals possessing strong perception, pure spirit sense, or sound/echo affinity.]
Qin Xue’er.
Almost certainly.
But Qin Yuheng stored it away.
Her awakening was years away.
Or perhaps not years. In this world, preparation began early, but contracts should wait until foundation stabilized.
Mu Qinglan agreed.
"Let it sleep. A good beast egg does not lose value by waiting."
Qin Yuheng nodded.
The Voice-Soul Guard Crystal was given to the family treasury after enhancement.
It would strengthen protection against voice-based illusions and soul calls—especially important after so many floors used voices as lures.
The Silent Soul Communication Jades, however, became part of the core team’s standard equipment.
Their coordination improved immediately.
During training, Qin Yuheng could send simple pulses: hold, left, retreat, strike, wait.
Qin Lian used it best.
She could transmit enemy movement without speaking.
Qin Mo complained but secretly liked it because it reduced shouting. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ
Qin Yuchen saw its battlefield value instantly.
Meanwhile, Xue Rong received another report.
Qin Yuheng had obtained sound and echo-related rewards.
Then, within days, his team’s coordination improved in silent drills.
Xue Rong’s expression darkened.
"He turns every floor into preparation for the next."
That was the pattern he now feared.
Not luck.
Not mere talent.
Conversion.
Qin Yuheng converted danger into tools.
Xue Rong decided that ordinary observation was no longer enough.
He sent a message to a higher Blood Sun contact.
Subject Qin Yuheng may possess reward-path abnormality.
Request permission to escalate from observation to controlled acquisition plan.
The reply did not come immediately.
But when it did, it contained only five words.
Do not damage the vessel.
Xue Rong smiled slowly.
Vessel.
So the higher level was interested too.
Qin Yuheng did not yet know that Blood Sun Hall’s view of him had changed.
From target.
To possible asset.
That was more dangerous.
