Divine Beast Creator
Chapter 1019 - 102: The Special Aspect

Chapter 1019: Chapter 102: The Special Aspect

"Here you go, if there are any issues, contact me again."

Feng Yuan casually handed over the documents that Yun You had helped to copy to Meng Binglan. The other party had meticulously arranged the files in the order originally specified by Feng Yuan and had them bound, Feng Yuan briefly flipped through to confirm the order was correct before handing them directly to Meng Binglan.

"Why don’t you come over to start with, although I don’t specialize in Spirit Beast evolution, I do know that the toughest part is always the first few evolutions. It gets less troublesome once you gain some experience."

Meng Binglan took the documents and browsed through them with some surprise, saying, although her main research was on mechanics and not Spirit Beast evolution, she knew about these matters. Doing it this way meant they wouldn’t have to worry about researchers accidentally upsetting Feng Yuan, but it seemed... prone to failure?

"Let’s talk about it when you find a Little Green Snake willing to participate in the trials. I can’t just stand there and do nothing, right? Instead of that, I might as well go on a trip with them."

Feng Yuan said, looking over at Qi Chen and the others, the post-graduation trip sounded quite interesting—a group of people making a racket as they piloted the mothership haphazardly until finally being stopped by the guards to write a report... okay, writing a report wasn’t fun.

"A trip? That’s right, you guys are graduating this year. How about this, if you help us with the initial rounds of research and get the evolution of the Homeward Snake on the right track, the Great Xia Research Institute will cover your trip expenses."

Meng Binglan offered generously, and Feng Yuan glanced at her and after thinking it over said,

"That sounds pretty good; let’s do that."

"Is... Is that really okay?"

Qi Chen asked somewhat guiltily. It seemed Meng Binglan meant that the Great Xia Research Institute would cover all their travel expenses. But no one knew where they would go, right? She didn’t limit their destination, and if Feng Yuan wanted to buy anything strange, the costs could be scary.

Dou Yanlan gently patted Qi Chen’s shoulder and shook her head at him; she understood that Meng Binglan was trying to please Feng Yuan. Besides, they couldn’t possibly be too unreasonable, right? According to her offer, even if later on they wanted to buy some special Spiritual Medicine and Materials, it seemed the Great Xia Research Institute would have to foot the bill, but wouldn’t such actions potentially impact their views?

"However, I don’t know how long it will take for you to get on the right track, because, let’s face it... it’s quite troublesome."

Feng Yuan scratched his head, feeling somewhat troubled. In the evolution conditions for the Homeward Snake, the Little Green Snake’s strength is a strict standard, which can only be higher, not lower. That benchmark is quite difficult for most Little Green Snakes to reach, as they typically evolve before achieving that level of strength.

As for those who keep amassing strength, they are likely aiming for a transcendent evolution and probably won’t evolve into a Homeward Snake. At that point, Meng Binglan said with some surprise,

"Have you already figured out how to cultivate Dolomon Grass?"

"Not exactly, this is just using a companion-planting method. At best, we can associate two Dolomons Grass plants with one Little Green Snake, which isn’t very significant."

This method was toughed out by Kong Qing. Although it’s currently unnecessary, long-term exposure to Dolomon Grass can enhance a Spirit Beast’s sensitivity to space series powers. If every Little Green Snake had its own plant, the difficulty of evolving into a Homeward Snake would decrease further, and their strength would increase too.

"That’s impressive already, but won’t this be harmful to the wild Little Green Snakes? After all, once people know about this..."

Meng Binglan asked with some concern. Although her primary research was on machinery, she cared about Spirit Beasts. If such actions could negatively affect the Little Green Snake population, she felt she would need to find a way to prevent Feng Yuan from publicizing these research findings.

"Would they dare? If they really did that, wouldn’t the Divine Beasts intervene? Moreover, Dolomon Grass alone isn’t enough for them to stoop to such low deeds."

Feng Yuan replied unconcernedly. Without considering it, he wouldn’t dare to include that stuff in the documents. If people really did dare to farm Little Green Snakes forcefully because of Dolomon Grass, they’d have to prepare for Kong Qing’s retaliation. Besides, although long-term contact with Dolomon Grass can improve a Spirit Beast’s spatial sensing, it’s not a scarce item. It just can’t be cultivated outside of the Audric region, and those from big families could simply train their Spirit Beasts in the Audric region while exposing them to Dolomon Grass.

Moreover, this was a major source of income for the Audric region. If any family dared to misuse this technique, the people from the Audric region would probably harm them.

As for ordinary people using it? They actually didn’t care, because even a Little Green Snake could only sustain one Dolomons Grass, and in order to keep that stuff, one had to take care of the Little Green Snake all the time unless one was already considering whether to raise a Little Green Snake; otherwise, they wouldn’t go out of their way to do so.

"That seems about right, if there were no quantity restrictions, it would be even more troublesome. But I guess it’s unlikely to be that easy; if it were, this thing wouldn’t only be found in the Audric region."

Meng Binglan nodded in agreement and said, after thinking it through carefully, indeed, it didn’t make much of an impact. As for mass-cultivating Little Green Snakes for Dolomons Grass? Did people really think that raising Spirit Beasts had no costs? Little Green Snakes weren’t like Plant-type Spirit Beasts that were relatively easy to keep alive by directly absorbing nutrients from the earth. They needed to eat meat, and Dolomons Grass itself had no other use aside from that specific characteristic.

The Spirit Beasts of the Cotton Orchid series at Cotton Orchid Manor could at least collect fallen leaves to make Cotton Orchid Flower tea. As for planting Dolomons Grass in bulk, could you possibly even sell them along with the Little Green Snakes? If it was just to provide a service for long-term contact with Dolomons Grass, Feng Yuan doubted whether it would be possible to keep those Little Green Snakes alive.

For the rich, why not consider taking a trip directly to the Audric region? For those without money, could they really afford the expense?

"Anyway, there’s no need to worry about this matter. If anything comes up, we’ll deal with it then."

Waving his hand, Feng Yuan seemed not to want to talk about this anymore. Although it looked like there probably wouldn’t be any problems, he also didn’t dare guarantee there wouldn’t be some special circumstances. Meng Binglan yawned and said,

"Fine, I’ll take this thing to show them first. I guess even if we hurry, we probably won’t be able to start preparing until tonight. If we’re lucky, we might be able to carry out a new evolution experiment tomorrow."

"You guys handle this. After all, Agunas will definitely be with me for the time being. You also know what things to pay attention to."

Feng Yuan glanced at Meng Binglan and casually said that if they dared force the Little Green Snakes into an experiment, although he was confident the likelihood of failure was not high, Agunas still had a great chance of getting furious due to their disregard for the Spirit Beast’s wishes. Meng Binglan flicked his tail wordlessly, giving Feng Yuan a glance, although this was a fact, but was it really okay for him to say it so directly?

"If there’s nothing else, how about we make a cake? Today is the day to collect Cotton Orchid Flowers, right?"

Stretching, Feng Yuan looked at Yun You with obvious excitement, and Yun You replied with a slight smile,

"You remember quite clearly. Today is indeed the day to collect Cotton Orchid Flowers. Are you also going to help?"

"Of course~ How about we use them to make a cake right after we collect them?"

"Hey, at least save some, okay? We still need to use those for making flower tea."

Cen Chudie, somewhat dissatisfied, said to Feng Yuan, though it wasn’t a huge issue, it also didn’t take that many Cotton Orchid Flowers to make a cake.

"I didn’t say we’d use them all."

Feng Yuan glanced at Cen Chudie and made a face, and seeing Cen Chudie chasing Feng Yuan around in disarray brought a smile to Yun You’s face.

"It’s a pity Nagna isn’t here right now, or else we could have had it help with the fertilizing~"

Feng Yuan said with a mischievous grin while picking the blooming flowers off the Cotton Orchid, and Qi Chen, speechless, glanced at Feng Yuan and said,

"What do you think you’re treating them as?"

"Hehe~ When there’s demand, there’s no helping it~"

Feng Yuan said brightly, just joking. Although some special Spirit Beasts with the abilities of Spirit Plants were raised as Spirit Plants, most were being taken care of in the manner of Spirit Beast masters. Don’t look at those Mianlan series Spirit Beasts providing so many materials for Cotton Orchid Manor; even the staff and Granny Mianlan would spend a lot of time every day caring for them.