The King of Beast Trainers
Chapter 403 - 237 Evolution Preparation Complete_1

Chapter 403: Chapter 237 Evolution Preparation Complete_1

After one class, the students had reaped a great harvest, and with the ringing of the dismissal bell, Lu Ran was the first to leave.

"Not bad," someone said.

Just as Lu Ran reached the corner, a woman leaning against another wall slowly began to speak, causing Lu Ran to stop in his tracks.

"Dr. Gu, you’re eavesdropping too," Lu Ran said, surprised to see the woman.

"Too?"

"Yep, lots of people are eavesdropping," Lu Ran shrugged. "Like Sister Shi Zhen, Manager Ying... they’re pretty brazen about it."

"After all, it’s your first class. They surely wanted to know what you’d teach," Gu Qingyi said with a smile.

"But your perceptive ability is not bad."

"Of course," Lu Ran replied confidently. To be precise, it was Dark Crow’s sensibility that was impressive. As the team’s scout, aside from its long-distance visual scouting, it also had a BUG-level ability.

As an undead being from the Overlord Clan, its perception of souls was currently unmatched.

Even if some experts could hide their presence, limited by their superficial understanding of souls, their soul fluctuations remained very exposed. At this stage, with Dark Crow’s keen sense of soul power, discovering them was a cinch.

Lu Ran got a lot better at sensing soul fluctuations by letting Raven of Death possess him and then playing the game "The King and the General" with Dark Crow.

"By the way, Dr. Gu, how far is your Sea Blue Dragon from Level 60?" Lu Ran asked while walking alongside Gu Qingyi.

"It’s currently at Level 58. These last 2 levels are tough to gain. I have no idea how long it’ll take," Gu Qingyi replied helplessly.

"I remember it was at Level 58 before the newcomer competition started," Lu Ran commented. "Is it that hard to level up afterwards?"

"There’s also a scarcity of advanced Dragon Clan resources," Gu Qingyi noted.

"Well, once Mr. Husky has finished evolving and before we enter the Breakthrough Secret Realm, let me help cultivate the Sea Blue Dragon’s Dragon Soul and see if it can undergo some qualitative change," Lu Ran proposed. "And I’ll prepare more of that Dragon Intent cuisine."

With a radiant smile, Gu Qingyi said, "Actually, the reason I came here was to ask for your help in cultivating the Sea Blue Dragon using Dragon’s Cooking Intent and Soul Cooking Intent. But there’s no rush. I won’t make it for the first phase of the Evolutionary Secret Realm."

"Besides, the ’blessing quota’ for the second phase Evolutionary Secret Realm is ’only one’. Let the Senior Chairman and the others compete for it this time. I won’t interfere."

"After you break through to the third tier, let’s talk about it when you come back from the Breakthrough Secret Realm."

"By then, I’ll trouble you to be my personal chef for a while."

"No problem... Infinite City is really getting stingier," Lu Ran nodded. In the first phase of the Evolutionary Secret Realm, there were still 10 Star Blessing quotas, but in the second phase, there was only one on offer.

Clearly, wanting a perfect evolution under the blessing of Infinite City was setting a higher demand on Evolvers’ potential.

"Maybe they’re trying to concentrate their efforts on cultivating ’Legendary Species’?" Gu Qingyi suggested.

"Legendary Species..." Lu Ran shook his head and said, "Really, I have no idea what Infinite City is up to. With such intensity in cultivation, it’s believable if they’re preparing reserves to invade other worlds."

"If it’s just to continue the Beast Training heritage, this intensity seems a bit abnormal."

"We’ll just take it one step at a time," Gu Qingyi contemplated. "It’s estimated that the global Beast Trainer population has already exceeded 9 million."

"It shouldn’t take long to reach 10 million. When that happens, Infinite City will update again, and perhaps then we might get some clues to new findings."

"However, the current focus of the International League has temporarily shifted away from Infinite City."

"Infinite City is too high-end; it’s too difficult to study. Instead, ancient creatures pose the main threat to humanity right now."

Lu Ran and Gu Qingyi exchanged glances. "Has another ancient creature awoken?"

"Yes, in the deep Amazon Rainforest, a few days ago there was a powerful energy burst, indicating a battle between two Overlords over Level 60."

"At the Antarctic Glacier, where the International Beast Training Alliance’s headquarters is located, some terrifying energy fluctuations signifying the revival of ancient creatures frozen within the glacier were recently detected. But because they’re buried too deep, it’s impossible to investigate further."

"In addition, an exploration team consisting of four Level 5 Beast Trainers has been missing in the Sahara Desert for a long time. With their strength, they should’ve been able to escape even from Overlord creatures over Level 60 unless the danger they faced was beyond this level..."

"And then there’s the deep sea where the situation for the Fishman Empire seems dire too. They’re even loosening conditions, wanting to ally with humans. The Fishman King’s reluctance to invade the land has its reasons. The situation in the deep sea is likely more severe than on land. Whether this so-called Fishman Empire can dominate the deep sea is questionable. Perhaps, additional sea monsters are awakening, putting great pressure on them."

"In the face of the revival of spiritual energy, humans had a three-year lead and decades of accumulated military weaponry as a foundation. The newly evolved beings couldn’t stir trouble in the short term," Gu Qingyi sighed. "But with the awakening of ancient vicious beasts, the problem becomes severe. It’s normal for the International Beast Trainer Alliance to be troubled. This crisis could truly bring about a disaster for humanity."

"Do you think that odd dream you had was actually about ancient creatures invading human cities?" she looked at Lu Ran.

"That..." Lu Ran paused, "It’s not out of the question. If that’s the case, it would be troublesome."

Why doesn’t Lu Ran, like other Beast Trainers, only train two or three Pet Beasts? Wouldn’t that be easier?

Isn’t it because, in the future, there might be many unknown dangers?

To prepare for a rainy day, Lu Ran could only arm his power as much as possible, relying not just on quality but also on quantity.

Having now learned from Doctor Gu about the severe situation of the resurgence of ancient creatures, Lu Ran sighed and felt that the speed of his strength improvement was still too slow.

Moreover, the most troublesome issue right now was, if humans really went to war with Evil Beasts in a struggle for the sovereignty of Blue Star, then Lu Ran would definitely be in danger.

Being the strongest of the fourth generation, the pioneer of the Overlord Era, the father of necromancy studies... If the Evil Beast forces intended to target humans, they would certainly aim at a talented fourth-generation Beast Trainer like Lu Ran first.

With a twitch of his lips, Lu Ran said, "Enough talk, I’m going to train with Mr. Husky!"

Gu Qingyi gave a slight smile, indeed sensing Lu Ran’s predicament. In her time, a genius only had to worry about the attention of enemy countries. In Lu Ran’s era, while conditions are better, it seems the risks of growth are greater too, including the threat of other races.

...

Yesterday, Lu Ran had already obtained many Ice Attribute Evil Beast carcasses through Beast Training University, almost all of them Level 20 or 30, none too low.

Lu Ran separated their souls and stored them in the Soul Binding Bottle.

With resources in place, Lu Ran also returned to the Training Secret Realm, where he let the King of Sudden Death and the Dark Crow run free, while he began training Mr. Husky and the Sword Spirit.

In the remaining few days, domain-specific training was definitely the focus.

Although Mr. Husky had an easy time activating his domain with the Sword Spirit’s possession, on his own, he clearly struggled a bit.

In these few days, Lu Ran’s training goal was to enable Mr. Husky to activate the Sword Field with his own power, even without the Sword Spirit.

For this, Lu Ran used the second Enhancement Card to strengthen the Clear Spirit Fruit before giving it to Mr. Husky.

Besides, Lu Ran made a well-considered decision. Didn’t spatial attribute weapons provide a bonus to Mr. Husky’s use of his domain?

He directly took out the "World’s Rare Resource·Void Flower," a resource that could help a Pet Beast awaken spatial attributes.

Of course, it wasn’t for Mr. Husky’s use, but directly for the confused Little Sword Spirit.

[Species]: Winter Sword Spirit

[Attribute]: undead, Ice, Space

[Species Level]: Middle Monarch

[Growth Level]: Level 17

The purpose was simple, to further lay the foundation of the spatial attribute for Mr. Husky and to accelerate his mastery of domain techniques.

Although this meant Mr. Husky was without Level 40 awakening resources, Lu Ran still had a long way to go before Mr. Husky reached Level 40. There was plenty of time for him to find another Void Flower.

Lu Ran directly entrusted this task to Manager Ying.

After all, Manager Ying still owed Lu Ran the difference for the Ant Queen’s Egg. Although the Void Flower was as valuable as the Ant Queen’s Egg, Lu Ran could just add some other resources to make up for it.

With this, Mr. Husky’s evolution setup was enhanced once again.

With only three or four days to go, Lu Ran could say he had used up all the resources he could. As his first Pet Beast, Lu Ran had a slightly different feeling towards Mr. Husky.

Although there was a time when Mr. Husky was very disobedient, and Lu Ran even thought of stewing him, since becoming a Beast Trainer, Mr. Husky’s company gradually became Lu Ran’s most important partner.

With 4 days to go before the last Evolutionary Secret Realm opened, Mr. Husky could already activate the domain at a thought with the possession of the Space Sword Spirit and the enhancement from the Clear Spirit Fruit.

Countdown 3 days. The effect of the Clear Spirit Fruit wore off, but the proficiency in territory techniques, assisted by the Sword Spirit’s possession, was perfectly inherited by Mr. Husky.

Countdown 2 days. Even without the Sword Spirit’s possession and using his own Sword of Wind, Mr. Husky could still activate his domain normally. Although the effect was slightly weaker, it counted as truly mastering the domain as his own.

Countdown 1 day... The Winter Sword Spirit also reached Level 20 under Lu Ran’s nurturing. With that, Lu Ran felt the preparations were more or less complete.

He took Mr. Husky and the others out of the Training Secret Realm and contacted protectors like Doctor Gu and Manager Ying, informing them that he was preparing to go to the Evolutionary Secret Realm to evolve Mr. Husky.

"Another evolution, eh? How high could the species reach this time?" Shi Zhen and others asked one after another over the communicator.

They planned to brace themselves at Lu Ran’s first to avoid getting startled by Lu Ran’s surprises like what happened with the Dark Crow.

"I have no idea," muttered Lu Ran. Although Mr. Husky’s evolution was somewhat novel compared to the King of Sudden Death and the Dark Crow, considering Mr. Husky’s King of Swords Talent, Lu Ran wouldn’t be greedy; having a regular state of Lower Overlord would be a windfall!