Chapter 439 - 407: More Than a Month
Chapter 439: Chapter 407: More Than a Month
After pinning Zahar down and roughhousing for a moment, the three finally stopped their "battle." With Li Qian playing host, they calmly began to drink tea.
Of course, this calm was probably just for show; in reality, there was undoubtedly a hint of sour grapes.
Lu Tianjiao spoke with a hint of jealousy, "Some people start school and are still cautiously poring over books, while others already have their own research bases. The difference between people..."
Hearing this, the corner of Li Qian’s mouth twitched. "Can’t be helped. It’s just talent. It’s like a pregnancy—when the time comes, you can’t hide it even if you want to."
Upon hearing that, the look on Lu Tianjiao’s face was even more priceless.
Seeing Li Qian’s smug look, he fought the urge to throw a punch.
"Qianzi, you’re a cultivation teacher now. Hurry up and help me evolve a Three-legged Golden Crow!"
"Me too."
Li Qian gave the two of them an exasperated look as they clamored on.
"What do you think Three-legged Golden Crows are? You think they grow on trees?"
He retorted, "Setting aside the complexity and difficulty of its evolution, even I don’t have much confidence. To be honest, last time in Mo Yuan City, luck played a huge part."
Li Qian began to pour cold water on their enthusiasm. "Even if you could actually evolve one, the moment it succeeds, it will have reached the Legendary Level."
"Legendary Level... can either of you even form a contract with one?"
After deflating their swollen egos a bit, Li Qian finally proposed a more practical plan. "Alright, listen. If you really want to contract a Three-legged Golden Crow, you can start with a Sunbird."
"I can help each of you evolve a Sunbird."
"Start with a Sunbird and raise it slowly. In the future, if you really reach that point, I’ll figure something out and help you give it a try. Even if it fails, a Sunbird’s Potential isn’t low, so it won’t be a waste of a Contract Position for you."
This was Li Qian’s heartfelt advice, and both Fatty An and Lu Tianjiao nodded in agreement.
Without hesitation, they asked Li Qian to help them cultivate two Sunbirds.
Naturally, Li Qian didn’t refuse.
Just as he had said, a Sunbird’s Potential wasn’t low—it could reach Emperor High Rank. In the future, even if it couldn’t evolve into a Three-legged Golden Crow, it would still be a decent fighter.
The two of them surely understood this, which was why they had asked for Li Qian’s help without a second thought.
After explaining the situation, Li Qian took them on a tour of the research base and the Third Secret Realm.
It was a real eye-opener for them.
That evening, to soothe their wounded egos and celebrate Li Qian getting his own research base, they went out for a big meal at Sha City People, a restaurant by the back gate.
At Fatty An’s suggestion, they invited Tu Jiaojiao and Li Lanying.
After the two women heard Fatty An’s description of Li Qian’s situation, they inevitably responded with the classic trifecta of shock, awe, and congratulations.
After dinner, everyone went their separate ways. Li Qian vaguely noticed that a new distance seemed to have formed between him, Tu Jiaojiao, and Li Lanying.
Li Qian thought about it for a moment but didn’t pay it much mind.
’This... might not be a bad thing. On the contrary, it might be a good thing.’
After the dinner, time flew by, and soon, more than a month had passed.
It had been an incredibly fulfilling month for Li Qian.
He was completely immersed in a rhythm of work and study, his life a straight line between the Jade Research Base and his dorm.
Li Qian had long since mastered the school-provided evolution method for the Four-tailed Cat to the Five-tailed Cat, and had already successfully evolved ten Five-tailed Cats.
As for the evolution method from the Five-tailed Cat to the Six-tailed Cat, Li Qian had already set it up as a research project.
The project was currently 98% complete, with just 2% left to finalize the evolution.
Although Li Qian was sitting on a fortune of twenty-two Achievement Points, he wasn’t in a rush, so he had no intention of using them to instantly complete the rest.
The project was already 98% complete, just a hair’s breadth from success. Completing it would earn him at least two Achievement Points.
All told, that was a difference of at least four Achievement Points.
Four Achievement Points was not a small sum, which was the second reason Li Qian didn’t intend to use them to complete the project.
Through his experiments, Li Qian had already confirmed that the evolution method from a Five-tailed Cat to a Six-tailed Cat followed his first hypothesis.
Specifically, the evolution was achieved by increasing the proficiency of the "Leaping Dance" Skill and having the Pet Beast consume a Silver Qilin Starfish, the evolved form of the Starfish.
Li Qian believed that as long as he had the main framework, figuring out the finer details was just a matter of time and patience.
He would figure them out sooner or later.
As for his second hypothesis, since it could also trigger the Light of Evolution, Li Qian suspected it might be related to an alternative evolution method for the Four-tailed Cat into a Five-tailed Cat.
Li Qian was quite interested in this topic.
However, he didn’t have time to research it at the moment, so he had to put it on the back burner.
Of course, it wasn’t completely forgotten; Li Qian would mull it over from time to time.
Aside from the Five-tailed Cat, Li Qian had evolved a significant number of other Pet Beasts over the past month.
First, there were family matters. He helped his family’s Jiaoyang Cultivation Base evolve Cyan-Scaled Flood Dragons, Frostfire Salamanders, and Extreme Fierce Storm Eagles.
Currently, these three were the most common Evolutionary Pet Beasts at the Jiaoyang Cultivation Base back in his hometown of Lingshui City. The base had a considerable number of their base forms, namely Koi Carp and Gray Bean Doves!
In the future, Li Qian also planned to make Pet Beasts like the Rock Giant and Five-tailed Cat available to the Jiaoyang Cultivation Base.
As for Pet Beasts above the Dominator rank, such as the Extreme Fierce Sky Escape Eagle, Tidal Sea Spirit, Sunbird, and Three-legged Golden Crow, Li Qian didn’t plan on sharing them for the time being.
After all, the Jiaoyang Cultivation Base was just a small base in a small city like Lingshui City. Producing Pet Beasts that were too High Level was not necessarily a good thing.
Not unless the Cultivation Base had a Stabilizing Needle Level power guarding it in the future, one that could guarantee absolute security.
Since Li Qian couldn’t easily travel for the time being, his parents simply teleported the base Pet Beasts to him once they met the requirements.
He would then teleport them back after completing their evolution.
Besides the Pet Beasts for his family’s Jiaoyang Cultivation Base, Li Qian also evolved a considerable number of Pet Beasts at the Jade Research Base.
He had evolved Cyan-Scaled Flood Dragons, Frostfire Salamanders, Extreme Fierce Storm Eagles, Extreme Fierce Sky Escape Eagles, Golden Pearl Buds, Tidal Sea Spirits, Four-tailed Cats, Five-tailed Cats, and Rock Giants.
The waterfall in the Third Secret Realm was the perfect place to evolve Cyan-Scaled Flood Dragons.
With the exception of the Three-legged Golden Crow, he had evolved nearly every type of Pet Beast he had currently mastered.
Tidal Sea Spirits were the most numerous, with five pairs—ten in total. This was mainly because he wanted to quickly improve the quality of Pet Beasts at his research base, so he had directly purchased five pairs of Golden Pearl Buds whose Racial Potential had already reached its limit.
Beyond these five pairs, evolving more Tidal Sea Spirits would be a much slower process.
This was because any future ones would have to be evolved step by step, starting from the Pearl Bud stage.
As for the Sunbirds and Extreme Fierce Sky Escape Eagles, he had only evolved two of each. It couldn’t be helped; both of these Pet Beasts required rather demanding prerequisites, making them impossible to mass-produce in a short period.
In fact, being able to evolve two of each in just over a month was already a stroke of good luck for Li Qian; he had managed to find high-potential Red Feather Chickens and Gray Bean Doves through screening.