Light Spring Murmur
Chapter 196: Your Cocoon Is Unscientific!
Beneath the Shenyu Mountains, Butterfly Town, at the registration site for the Butterfly Transformation Conference.
Others registered and were in and out in minutes, one after another.
When Shi Yu registered, he was immediately invited inside.
"Please have some tea. Our person in charge will be here shortly."
"By the way, our person in charge is Legend Hua Xiajin."
The registration lady poured Shi Yu a cup of tea, using respectful terms, which showed the great mental impact Chong Chong had on her.
A caterpillar cocoon at the Commander level with eyes... I don't understand, but I am greatly shocked.
"Thank you," Shi Yu said.
At this moment, Chong Chong was also on the table.
As Shi Yu took a sip of tea, Chong Chong looked at the tea and sighed slightly.
It hadn't eaten or drank anything for 100 days.
Although it could absorb nutrients through sleep, it was quite bland.
It wanted a change of pace!
Chong Chong had decided that after evolution, it would first drink ten barrels of juice!
Shi Yu put down his teacup, and the registration lady's gaze remained on Chong Chong.
The atmosphere in the room suddenly became quiet.
Actually, it was only a few minutes before the person in charge the registration lady mentioned arrived.
A beautiful woman with black hair and a colorful qipao with butterfly wing patterns came into the room.
"Legend Hua."
The registration lady breathed a sigh of relief at the arrival of the beauty and greeted her.
Shi Yu also stood up and looked at the Legend Beast Tamer with a smile on her face.
Hua Xiajin, one of the Legend Beast Tamers of Shendu, specialized in Butterfly Beasts, and possessed a Overlord Race, Overlord-level pet, the "Myriad Flower Butterfly Elf King."
Her other pets were said to have reached Quasi-Overlord combat power.
This was the team configuration of most Legends: one Overlord + many Quasi-Overlords.
Overlord-level pets were extremely difficult for Legend Beast Tamers to obtain.
Generally speaking, a Legend only had one Overlord-level pet.
Only the top Legends were likely to have multiple Overlord-level combatants.
"I just received a call. I was wondering who it was, but it turned out to be student Shi Yu."
Legend Hua Xiajin's voice was like the warm sun of spring, and she spoke gently after entering the door.
"Legend Hua, hello," Shi Yu greeted back.
"Legend Hua..." The registration lady looked at Hua Xiajin, then at Shi Yu.
Judging from Legend Hua's tone, it seemed she knew this Beast Tamer?
Then... then... she looked at the Azure Cotton Insect Cocoon on the table again.
Could this cocoon really be the evolution of an Azure Cotton Insect?!
The registration lady's heart surged. It was truly a rare sight!
"My student showed me the battle video of your professional assessment before," Legend Hua Xiajin said. "I have a deep impression of your Azure Cotton Insect. Has that Azure Cotton Insect pupated now?"
These words once again confirmed in the registration lady's mind that this cocoon's predecessor might indeed be an Azure Cotton Insect.
At this time, Legend Hua looked at the Azure Cotton Insect Cocoon on the table, very surprised.
As a Legend who specialized in Insect-types, she naturally paid more attention to the Insect-type domain.
After learning from her student that a newcomer had contracted a special Azure Cotton Insect, it was impossible for someone like Legend Hua not to pay attention.
In her opinion, Shi Yu's Azure Cotton Insect definitely had more potential than that Ice Phoenix Moth.
She thought that after four months, Shi Yu's Azure Cotton Insect might have evolved immediately after the professional assessment, but she didn't expect Shi Yu to have caught up with the Butterfly Transformation Conference? His luck was really good.
"Yes, it's that Azure Cotton Insect," Shi Yu said, looking at Chong Chong.
Chong Chong looked at Legend Hua. It felt that the aura on this aunt was very pleasant.
Even better than the fragrance created by Ginseng Baby!
Didn't Shi Yu feel it?
Beast Tamer!!! Attach yourself to this rich woman!!!
"With eyes... incredible." Legend Hua Xiajin looked at Chong Chong with great surprise.
"!!!" Chong Chong shook its body to show friendliness.
This action surprised Legend Hua even more.
Generally speaking, after an Azure Cotton Insect pupated, it would enter a state of absolute deep sleep within the cocoon, quietly absorbing the power of evolution, and be in a completely silent state...
Then, relying on instinct to absorb all the power, it would naturally break out of its cocoon and evolve. But Shi Yu's could remain conscious in the cocoon state? Furthermore, it had broken through to the Commander level, possessing a terrifying energy value of nearly 40,000?
How did Shi Yu nurture it...
With her many years of nurturing experience, she couldn't even see what this cocoon would be after evolution...
In addition, with eyes, it was completely different from other Azure Cotton Insect Cocoons. Could it still be called an Azure Cotton Insect Cocoon?
At this time, the registration lady silently retreated, leaving the room to Legend Hua and Shi Yu.
"Is this cocoon form... like this after pupation?" She looked at Shi Yu, wanting to ask for more information, but she didn't know if Shi Yu was willing to answer.
"Yes, and..."
"I think that compared to the ordinary insect cocoon form, it is actually more like a new race of over-evolution."
"Oh?" Legend Hua was quite curious.
Shi Yu looked at Chong Chong, who was looking at the teacup.
The next moment, a wave of blue mental energy enveloped the teacup out of thin air.
Immediately afterward, water flowed from the teacup and floated quietly in mid-air.
Under Legend Hua's shocked expression, the water changed into several shapes, turning into water butterflies that flew before falling back into the teacup.
"In this state, in addition to Bug Silk, it can still use other skills. In addition, it has awakened a new racial skill, Mind Power... replacing Bug Silk as its hands and feet at this stage."
"Judging from its energy value, perhaps this cocoon form is a Commander Race."
After Shi Yu finished speaking, Legend Hua Xiajin didn't react for a moment.
But after careful consideration, she suddenly looked at Shi Yu and realized what Shi Yu meant.
One of the rules of race evolution: A pet cannot cross two major race levels in one evolution.
But if the cocoon was also considered an over-evolved race, and it had already crossed a race level compared to the Azure Cotton Insect, then theoretically, the maximum race after it broke out of its cocoon again would not be a Monarch, but an Overlord!
Of course, evolving to an Overlord Race was still too difficult. Overlord Races were the darlings of nature and not so easy to create. But even so, the Commander Race cocoon undoubtedly greatly enhanced the Azure Cotton Insect's evolutionary potential, allowing it to reach a higher race after evolution!
"Inconceivable." She stood up.
"It is said that your Azure Cotton Insect obtained the inheritance of an Overlord-level Mirage Clam from an ancient ruin?" She looked at Shi Yu and murmured, "Could this be the key to its evolution into this over-evolved race?"
This cocoon state was too important, greatly enhancing the potential of the Azure Cotton Insect race after its first evolution.
Although, according to the rules of evolution, the Azure Cotton Insect could still evolve infinitely after transforming into a butterfly, evolving from a butterfly to another form.
However, subsequent evolutions were undoubtedly more difficult than the first evolution. From insect to cocoon to butterfly was a natural law, but from butterfly to another butterfly or creature belonged to racial mutation evolution. There were very few Beast Tamers who could nurture to this point. For most Beast Tamers, one stage of evolution was the limit for the Azure Cotton Insect.
However, if other Azure Cotton Insects could evolve like Shi Yu's Azure Cotton Insect, evolve one more time, and awaken one more racial skill, continuously raising their life level twice, it would definitely be a ground-breaking discovery with great significance for the Beast Taming domain.
This would mark that the Azure Cotton Insect had completely stood up!
The cost for ordinary people to become Beast Tamers would be greatly reduced, and their growth potential would be greatly increased.
However, considering the special nature of Shi Yu's Azure Cotton Insect, she also felt that this was almost impossible to replicate.
"That's a possibility. I'm also researching it," Shi Yu said.
In fact, he felt that Chong Chong's form might have nothing to do with Mirage, nor with space-type skills. The most likely related skills were Absolute Sleep and Intimidation, these pure mental-type skills.
The cocoon was a special sleeping state, and because his Azure Cotton Insect was too good at sleeping, and also had Absolute Sleep, and its mental strength was off the charts, it was not so difficult to understand that it could control consciousness in the cocoon state and materialize its mental strength into Mind Power.
"You have the idea to research it?" Legend Hua was surprised.
"This is a very meaningful research. If there are any results, it will be a revolution for the entire Dong Huang Beast Taming domain. If there is anything I can help with, student Shi Yu, you can contact me at any time." Legend Hua revealed a smile and said, "By the way, what evolution plan are you using for your Azure Cotton Insect?"
Legend Hua didn't doubt that this was not an Azure Cotton Insect Cocoon, but now she was curious about which route Shi Yu had chosen for the Azure Cotton Insect to evolve into.
"The Void Crystal Butterfly?"
Thinking of the nature of Shi Yu's Azure Cotton Insect's Bug Silk, she couldn't help but judge that with Shi Yu's potential, it shouldn't be difficult to get the Void Crystal Butterfly evolution plan, just like that little Yin Zhengfan.
Shi Yu smiled awkwardly and said, "I didn't prepare evolution materials for it according to known evolution paths. Instead, I plan to research the evolution route myself, like the seniors."
Legend Hua's expression froze.
Huh?
"After all, it mastered attack skills before evolution, so breaking out of the cocoon shouldn't be difficult. So it's better to choose some evolution materials that I like."
After Shi Yu finished speaking, Legend Hua's expression relaxed. That was the logic, but was this really scientific?
People used evolution materials to awaken new racial skills and break out of the cocoon.
You practiced the skill of breaking out of the cocoon before evolution and then fed it a bunch of materials it liked to evolve? No, this was definitely against common sense and was a special case! After all, the Azure Cotton Insect was one of the races least likely to learn other skills. Legend Hua silently looked at Shi Yu and Chong Chong.
The country has produced outstanding people in every generation…
"Legend Hua…"
"Just call me Aunt Hua," Legend Hua said.
Shi Yu was stunned, then said, "Aunt Hua."
Beside him, Chong Chong glanced at Shi Yu. You're calling her aunt after she asked you to?? You should be calling her sister!! You've narrowed your path!
"Should there be no problem with me bringing it to the Butterfly Transformation Conference?"
"No problem," Legend Hua Xiajin nodded and said, "Even if you don't want to participate, I will drag you to participate. Right now, I might be even more eager than you to know what race it will be after it breaks out of its cocoon."
"And maybe, it will have a chance to obtain the only gift from the Butterfly God."
During the Butterfly Transformation Conference, every cocoon could receive the Butterfly God's ascension blessing, increasing their evolutionary potential, and accelerating the evolution process under the Butterfly God's blessing.
And it was said that the creature with the greatest potential after evolution would receive an additional gift from the Butterfly God.
Shi Yu asked curiously, "Do you know what this gift is?"
Legend Hua Xiajin smiled and said, "Of course I know, because I have received one myself."
"My 'Myriad Flower Butterfly Elf King' evolved into an Overlord Race because of that gift."
"At the same time, it is the first and only Myriad Flower Butterfly Elf King in the world. I named it myself," Legend Hua Xiajin said with a slight smile.
Shi Yu was stunned.
"You should know that the Butterfly God is a pet that was nurtured by that Evolution Talent senior. That senior made many attempts on the Butterfly God to break it through to the Mythical Race, so he prepared a lot of evolution materials."
"Of course, the end result was still a failure, and some of these evolution materials were used, and some remained. The remaining evolution materials are the gifts prepared by the Butterfly God."
"Although it is useless to it now, these evolution materials, after being transformed by it, can give the evolved creatures a second chance at evolution. After all, they are materials prepared to break through to the Mythical Race. Even if the power dissipates somewhat, just the remnants are invaluable treasures for races below the High Overlord."
"Is that so…" Shi Yu was shocked. Evolution materials prepared for evolving a Mythical Race?
He suddenly became more interested in the so-called gift.
But, speaking of which.
Shi Yu suddenly looked at Chong Chong. After Chong Chong broke out of its cocoon, wouldn't the remaining cocoon shell also be an extremely rare material?
Could it be used as fertilizer for Ginseng Baby?
Chong Chong:?
"In short, I look forward to you appearing at the Butterfly Transformation Conference," Legend Hua Xiajin said with a smile as she looked at Shi Yu and the others.
"We will definitely go. Thank you for making a special trip," Shi Yu said.
"You're welcome," Legend Hua Xiajin said with a slight smile.
…
Next.
Shi Yu and Legend Hua Xiajin chatted for a while.
After a moment, Shi Yu completed his registration and left.
Next, Shi Yu only needed to wait for the opportunity to copy the mutant body in two days and the Butterfly Transformation Conference in three days.
But with a few days left, Shi Yu didn't plan to be idle.
After chatting with Legend Hua, Shi Yu suddenly had a whim.
Could he really research an evolution plan that would allow other Azure Cotton Insects to evolve into Cocoon Race?
If he could research it, it might be a super rare knowledge that was not inferior to the Iron-eating Beast's final evolution plan.
The Iron-eating Beast's evolution plan was powerful because it had the potential to evolve into an Overlord Race and become the only channel that could stably breed Overlord Races.
But the disadvantage was that the evolution materials were limited and belonged to the mid-to-high-end market.
The advantage of the Azure Cotton Insect Cocoon's evolution plan was its universality.
As long as the required materials were not so expensive, its universality would definitely be very good. After all, Azure Cotton Insects were everywhere, and there was no difficulty in capturing, raising, or contracting them.
Indeed, as Legend Hua said, if such pets could have one more stage of evolutionary potential, and the threshold to achieve it was not high, it would definitely have a huge impact on the current Beast Taming domain.
It would greatly improve the grassroots strength of the Beast Tamer domain.
Sometimes, universality was the most rare thing. Quantitative change could lead to qualitative change.
What many people lacked was an opportunity to become a professional Beast Tamer with a relatively low threshold.
If a country could achieve the degree of everyone being a Beast Tamer, the probability of producing strong individuals would definitely be much greater than before due to involution. When wars broke out, there would also be more wartime power, and not all people would be completely unable to resist invasion.
After leaving Butterfly Town and entering a small path, Shi Yu entered the ruins space.
He opened the Skill Index and turned to the page for Absolute Sleep.
"If I use the materials used to teach Absolute Sleep, as well as some other skills that enhance the mental system, as evolution materials for an ordinary Azure Cotton Insect, will it also evolve into a Cocoon Race first?"
Thinking about it, Shi Yu felt that he could give it a try. After all, if he succeeded, one Iron-eating Beast and one Azure Cotton Insect would directly change Dong Huang's national strength in the future and greatly avoid the recurrence of disasters that had occurred in history!
During the Totem War period, there was no difference between the rations of ordinary people and wild beasts. This was also a disaster-ridden country.
Shi Yu shook his head. Although he was not from this world, and accurately speaking, his soul was not from this country, he had stayed here for so long and didn't have much of the initial sense of alienation. After learning about the history here, he had slowly integrated into it.
"You all laugh at me for being an Iron-eating Beast Knight, but when everyone has an Iron-eating Beast and an Azure Cotton Insect, this will be the mainstream…!"
"Alright, skill teacher, evolution planner, it seems like I'm really going to become a breeder."
Shi Yu felt that if he hadn't been so chatty and gone to find that statue and been caught by Lu Qingyi, maybe he would have already implemented his initial plan, made a fortune by selling bug silk, and then become a Legend-level breeder and happily retired.
After digging another pit for himself, Shi Yu's gaze returned to his Azure Cotton Insect.
Approaching evolution, Shi Yu once again confirmed its information.
[Name]: Azure Cotton Insect's Cocoon
[Attribute]: Bug
[Race Level]: Evolving
[Growth Level]: Commander Level
[Skills]: Bug Silk (Skill Approaching Dao), Absolute Sleep (Perfect), Mirage (Masterful), Intimidation (Perfect), Super Vision (Perfect), High-Speed Healing (Perfect), Spatial Shackles (Masterful), Instant Transmission (Masterful), Void Concealment (Perfect), Mind Power (Skill Approaching Dao)
Energy Value: 38869
These were the results of Shi Yu's three months of skill point allocation.
Shi Yu had maxed out its mid-level skills, "Super Vision" and "High-Speed Healing", to the Perfect Level.
The high-level skills "Absolute Sleep", "Intimidation", and "Void Concealment" had also been maxed out to the Perfect Level.
As for the two major attack skills, "Mirage" and "Spatial Shackles", and the space-type divine skill "Instant Transmission", they had been maxed out to the Masterful Level, which was the maximum level for non-racial skills.
In other words, in these three months, the Masterful Level in Shi Yu's pets' skills was no longer limited to low-level and mid-level skills. It was finally the turn of high-level skills.
Below the Perfect Level, skills would not change much. They still belonged to the ability and scope of the skill itself and were at the peak of a skill. After the Masterful Level, they would be upgraded to have some other characteristics.
Chong Chong's new abilities were probably…
Perfect Level Super Vision: Energy Vision, illusion nemesis, sees through the opponent's energy scale, identifies the enemy's strength.
Perfect Level High-Speed Healing: After paying a huge amount of energy, it can restore ordinary injuries on the entire body and ordinary injuries on designated group targets within 1 second. The word "high-speed" is fully reflected, almost instant healing.
Of course, this skill only targets ordinary physical injuries and is ineffective against mental and soul damage and some special states.
Perfect Level Absolute Sleep: It digests the nutrients in its body and excavates and breaks through hidden body limits, transforming them into physical energy at a faster speed, less than a minute. Of course, it can only be used once in a short time or in a battle.
Perfect Level Intimidation: The momentum can cause substantial physical damage, and even interfere with the weather and boost the morale of teammates.
Perfect Level Void Concealment: It can be in a Void Concealed state for a long time, until the physical strength is exhausted, and the maintenance time reaches the extreme.
These had qualitatively changed Chong Chong's strength, but because there was too little time, Shi Yu didn't have time to max them all out.
He was more looking forward to Void Concealment after reaching the Masterful Level. At that time, Chong Chong could not only Void Conceal itself, but also take items and teammates to Void Conceal.
What really made Shi Yu feel that Chong Chong's strength had undergone a qualitative change were the three Masterful high-level skills, Instant Transmission, Spatial Shackles, and Mirage.
Masterful Instant Transmission: It can transmit instantly over ultra-long distances. If the energy is sufficient, Chong Chong can instantly bring a large number of items and lifeforms from one end of the city to the other. This distance will continue to grow with the increase of strength. This is just a conventional ability. The most exclusive feature of Masterful Instant Transmission is that Chong Chong can instantly transmit skills!
Create a Mind Power ball and transmit it instantly, allowing it to descend thousands of meters away!
Strike the enemy across ultra-long distances!
The prerequisite is to have accurate locking methods. At this point, the super Mind Power perception field with the maxed-out Mind Power can be used in conjunction.
Masterful Spatial Shackles: In addition to the greatly improved Spatial Shackles strength and Spatial Shock damage, Spatial Shackles can be preserved for a long time and advanced into a sealing technique. Chong Chong can make Spatial Shackles leave its control and exist in the outside world for a long time. With the increase of strength, it can even last almost permanently.
It can use Spatial Shackles to seal something and seal it in a different space. Creatures inside will suffer Spatial Shock damage if they try to struggle, and creatures outside will suffer Spatial Shock attacks from the spatial domain if they try to open the shackles.
At first, Shi Yu immediately thought of using this skill to save Ginseng Baby's nutrients regularly and create a ruins treasure for future generations to play with…
Masterful Mirage: It can allow the created illusion to exist outside the body for a long time, equivalent to a program, allowing it to complete certain guardian tasks. Even if the main body dies, as long as the energy is not exhausted, the illusion still has a chance to maintain. The Mirage of the Mirage Clam in the Pingcheng Ruins space should belong to this level.
Shi Yu increasingly felt that he had the potential to build ruins… Now he even had a guardian illusion.
Currently, so many divine skills were added to shape Chong Chong's rich foundation.
Perhaps, the cocoon state could not show anything, but Shi Yu believed that his investment was worthwhile, and all of its foundation would explode perfectly during evolution!
Thinking of Chong Chong's luxurious attributes, even Shi Yu, the Beast Tamer himself, had to sigh… His cocoon was indeed unscientific…