Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 24 The Unexpected Trip To The Bazaar

After being criticized and punished by Mia, Rocky felt rather depressed. Since his training wassuspended, he returned to his room. The moment he entered his room, he saw Uriah, his war beast,in bed kept kicking its left hind limb. All of a sudden, Rocky seemed to understand what Uriah wastrying to do. Immediately, he picked up Uriah and helped it remove the strip of cloth and the twotwigs that were used to cure the injured hamstring in its left hind limb. As soon as it felt that its hindlimb was free, Uriah jumped out of Rocky's arms on to the ground. It landed steadily on the groundwith its limbs. There seemed to be no pain anywhere. In an instant, it began to jump back and forthjubilantly. It was evident that its injured hamstring had been completely cured.

"Look at you! How happy you are!" Rocky said with a smile. Seeing Uriah jumping on the groundjubilantly, Rocky felt that his depression was all gone. It was replaced with the joy of seeing Uriahjumping around.

At that very moment, Flint, Rocky's roommate, came in. He saw Uriah jumping with ease. With aslightly startled and puzzled look on his face, Flint asked, "Wasn't your war beast born with adisability? How is it able to move normally now?"

"No, it wasn't born with any disability. It just had a hamstring injury in its limb. Now it hasrecovered,” Rocky replied casually.

"But how did you know it was injured?" Flint was even more puzzled on knowing about Uriah'sinjury and healing.

"I happen to have gained some knowledge about medicine." Rocky made up a random excuse. Theera in which he was living now, there were no professional veterinarians at all, so his war beast wascommonly considered as a disabled beast since it was born. Modern medicine was a subject existingonly in the era of his previous lifetime. He was lucky that he still had his memory from his previouslifetime. Thus, equipped with some common knowledge about modern medicine, he was able toreplace out that his war beast was not disabled but just injured.

"That's good! My war beast, Cloud Tiger, seems to have a poor appetite. It seldom eats anything.Can you help me with it?" Flint said, pointing to the tiger in his cage.

"Yes, but on one condition,” Rocky said and winked at Flint with a wicked smile.

"What's the condition?" Flint asked at once.

"After your Cloud Tiger is cured, I want to borrow it for study purpose,” Rocky told Flint. He hadgreat interest in learning everything about Flint's tiger, so he had to make use of such a goodopportunity.

Seeing Rocky's wicked smile, Flint hesitated for a while, but finally nodded in agreement. Other thanrelying on Rocky, Flint had no other good option now.

Rocky immediately walked near the tiger's cage. He saw Cloud Tiger lying inside in low spirits. Itsface was listless. Its body was much fatter than it had been a few days ago, and from time to time itwould open its mouth and spurt a bad smell. After the careful observation, he seemed to replace outthe reason why the tiger was not feeling well. He asked Flint at once, "For how many days have youkeep it in the cage?”

"I've been busy training these days. And at nights, I need to have more practice. I had no time totake care of it, so I've been keeping it in the cage from the last few days,” Flint explained carefully."No wonder it is not feeling well. I think it probably suffers from indigestion as it has eaten toomuch and lacks exercise. How much do you feed it every day?" Rocky asked after making hisdiagnosis.

"In addition to its own share, it also ate your war beasts share. I saw that your war beast wasn'teating, so..." Flint told with a little hesitation and embarrassment.

"I told you earlier also to stop feeding it so much raw meat. You just don't listen to me. Fromtomorrow, you should go to the kitchen and get some sweet potatoes and vegetables for it. Don'tlet it eat meat any more. Also, at lunch time, take it out for a walk and let it bask in the sun for sometime. In this way, your time of training or practicing will not be affected and your war beast will be ingood shape,” Rocky suggested.

"But, is that enough?" Flint seemed unsure about Rocky's simple suggestion.

"You just take care of your tiger like I told you. After three days, your tiger will be energetic again!"Rocky said with great confidence.

At that point, they heard the drum, which indicated that it was dinner time.

"Don't forget what you have promised me," Rocky reminded. He quickly picked up Uriah who wasjumping happily on the ground and walked out of the room for dinner.

At the dinner hall, Uriah didn't stop jumping. He behaved like a child with hyper-kinetic syndrome,which soon attracted the attention of the other young people dining in the hall. They all had knownthat Rocky's war beast was born with a disability. But after a few days, suddenly, it was bouncing sohappily.

"Hey, wasn't your war beast supposed to be disabled since it was born? How is it able to movenormally all of a sudden?" someone, who couldn't control his curiosity, asked Rocky.

"It's a secret!" Rocky said softly and left them in suspense intentionally.

Not long ago, Rocky had defeated a young man with a crew-cut hairstyle and a stout young man.He had shown the strength possessed by one at the second grade of Mortal Stage, which hadsurprised all of them. Now, on seeing Rocky's disabled war beast suddenly moving normally, theybegan to look at Rocky in a different way. But it was still not enough to make them look at Rockywith respect, because the idea that Rocky was a good-for-nothing person had been deeply rootedin their minds.

After dinner, Rocky went to the kitchen to ask for a small empty bottle. Then he went directly to theclear pond in the depths of the bamboo grove with Uriah in his arms. He wanted to store Uriah'smagical saliva. He wanted to directly store it in the small empty bottle, which would be convenientfor his current use and could also be used in the future. Earlier, he had to take the magical salivafrom Uriah's mouth before each practice and he found it very troublesome, so he came up withsuch an idea.

But after he dropped three drops of saliva from Uriah's mouth into the small empty bottle, hecouldn't get any more, and Uriah was now looking a little listless.

"Does it mean that I can get only three drops of the magical saliva per day?" Rocky frowned andimmediately began to feel a little distressed. Had he known the fact earlier, he would have collectedmore of the magical saliva at the beginning.

Unaffected by the distress, Rocky diluted the magical saliva with a little water. He drank it andbegan to practice as usual. After the practice, he also studied the Dragon Spirit Mark on his left arm.He was making an effort to replace out what was the special part about his dragon spiritual power.

In the blink an eye, the night passed off. Early next morning, Rocky didn't go back for training. Topunish him for his brawl, Mia sent him to the kitchen to do the scouring work for three days, so hewent straight to the kitchen.

"So, it is you who's been punished to do chores at the kitchen,” one of the two cooks commentedthe moment Rocky entered the kitchen. The cook's name was Jerry. He was always nice to Rockywhen he saw Rocky have dinner with Uriah.

"Is there anything I can do for you?" Rocky asked with a bitter smile.

"Well, the ingredients in the kitchen are running out. I'm going to the bazaar outside the palace tobuy some. I need a person to help me. If you don't mind, you could come along with me for theshopping,” Jerry suggested politely.

"Outside the palace?” Rocky repeated and his eyes flickered with excitement. He didn't have anychance earlier to see the world outside the palace as he had been staying in the palace since hissoul came to this era. Thus, he was eager to get onto the unexpected trip outside the palace. Atonce, he replied, "I'd love to go with you."

After some quick preparations, Jerry drove an empty carriage, accompanied with Rocky and his warbeast, Uriah. They headed towards the bazaar immediately. After passing through the dragon fieldand several gates of the palace which were heavily guarded, they got out of the palace. Then theycrossed the moat surrounding the palace across a huge stone bridge, and passed through anextremely magnificent gate. Finally, Rocky saw ancient business streets bustling with people makingit quite noisy. It was really like what was shown in the famous painting, Along the River During theQingming Festival*.

(*TN: A famous painting in China. It captures the daily life of people and the landscape of the capitalduring the Northern Song.)

As Jerry was driving the carriage along one of the streets, Rocky was dazzled by the many things hesaw. He saw carriages, horses, a vast crowd, and the straight, spacious and crisscrossed streets madeof ancient stones, rows of ancient buildings extending all the way to the end of the street, and theshops on both sides of the street, which were selling all kinds of stuff.

Soon, Rocky spotted many spirit manipulators carrying their own war beasts. Some of them wereeven inferior to a one-star war beast. Also, some of the manipulators didn't even reach the firstgrade of Mortal Stage, but they had the nerve to swagger at the street with a proud look on theirfaces. Rocky even noticed that when the ordinary crowd saw them, they immediately stepped asideto make way for them. They didn't dare to provoke them.

"Wow! I never expected that spirit manipulators with such low strength could be so arrogant! Then,as a spirit manipulator at the second grade of Mortal Stage, I can be much more arrogant, ' Rockythought, secretly laughing.

Along the way, Rocky also saw a lot of shops selling various war beasts. Unfortunately, he could notget off the carriage to have a look at them.

Before long, the carriage entered a very lively bazaar, which had a supply all kinds of food andingredients. The bazaar was full of people.

"Basil, help me hold the horse," Jerry said as he got out of the carriage.

"All right!" Rocky replied energetically. Quickly, he got out of the carriage, took the rein of the horse,and followed Jerry, who began to buy ingredients.

After an hour or so, the carriage which had been empty was now filled with a variety of ingredients."Basil, our shopping is almost finished. Now, I just need to go east of the downtown to buy rice andgrains, which I can finish on my own. If you want to hang around on the streets and buy something,you can do it now. We'll meet an hour later at the large gate near the moat. Have fun but don'tforget our meeting time," Jerry instructed him.

"Thank you so much, Jerry!" Rocky expressed his sincere appreciation. It was a pleasant surprise andhis eyes were gleaming with joy. Soon, he left Jerry and began to wander around leisurely.