Celestial Beast Taming

Chapter 442: Chapter 254: The Mutated Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl and Dragon Rose Seed

A man has his pride!

Even though Liu Shu was still enthusiastically offering to let Zhong Yi take an advance on his Divine Origin Value, Zhong Yi wasn’t going to do it again!

Having looked through nearly all the Production-type Guardian Beasts in the Pursuing Light Dragon Palace Treasure Vault, Zhong Yi’s eyes settled on a plant-type Demon Spirit Guardian Beast.

This plant-type Demon Spirit Guardian Beast was called the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl.

It looked like a succulent composed of chubby, pinkish-gold, rounded leaves.

The entire plant was not even as big as Zhong Yi’s palm.

Zhong Yi could gently lift the flowerpot it was planted in with one hand.

The booklet recorded the data for this Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl.

[Guardian Beast Name]: Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl

[Guardian Beast Species]: Crassulaceae/Graptopetalum

[Guardian Beast Level]: Mortal Beast Tier (3/10)

[Guardian Beast Type]: Demon Spirit Element

[Guardian Beast Quality]: Ordinary Quality

Skills:

[Root Strangulation and Promotion]: Strangles the roots of other plants in the soil and absorbs the energy from them to promote its own rapid growth.

This Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl’s Basic Skill was Root Strangulation and Promotion.

This seemingly delicate little thing, the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl, relied on Root Strangulation and Promotion to sever the roots of other plants in the soil.

It would then claim the energy within those roots as its own.

Through this predatory method, which disregarded the survival of others, it accelerated its own growth.

This kind of skill was very useful for a Production-type Guardian Beast.

It could significantly shorten the production cycle of a Production-type Guardian Beast.

This allowed the Production-type Guardian Beast to create value more frequently.

However, a skill that relied on predation like this was not usually the Basic Skill of a Production-type Guardian Beast.

This Guardian Beast, the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl, had most likely undergone some kind of mutation.

The reason Zhong Yi was interested in this Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl was because its leaves could be used as a supplementary ingredient.

When added to Potions concocted by Creators, they enhanced the fusion of the medicinal properties of various ingredients.

For a Six-finger Creator like Tao En, this was exceptionally valuable.

The leaves of the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl were a catalyst and possessed no medicinal properties of their own.

Adding them to any Potion would not affect the Potion’s original effects.

Enhancing the fusion of the ingredients’ medicinal properties could greatly increase Tao En’s success rate when concocting Sixth Level Potions.

After all, a single Sixth Level Potion required over a hundred different ingredients.

These hundreds of ingredients contained numerous medicinal properties, some of which even conflicted with one another.

The most difficult part of concocting a Potion was using Soul Power to make the medicinal properties of all these ingredients fuse together.

The slightest oversight or lapse in concentration would result in all one hundred-plus ingredients being destroyed.

Even though Tao En was now a Six-finger Middle Tier Creator, his success rate for concocting Sixth Level Potions was still less than thirty percent.

Because the main ingredients for Sixth Level Potions were hard to find, and the hundreds of supplementary ingredients were also extremely expensive, Tao En had virtually no room for trial and error.

This Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl was a living Guardian Beast.

If Zhong Yi acquired and cultivated it, the success rate for concocting all High Tier Creation Master Potions in his Soul Soil would increase significantly.

In Zhong Yi’s eyes, this Fairy Element Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl was a true Foundation Level Guardian Beast.

Now that Zhong Yi had access to the Virtual Source Network, his perspective had broadened considerably.

Never mind 4,500 Divine Origin Value; Zhong Yi would have bought this Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl without hesitation even if it cost 20,000.

Seeing that Zhong Yi was about to exchange for the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl, Liu Shu quickly reached out and patted his shoulder.

"Ah Yi, if you want to trade for this Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl, you must be careful."

"It’s a good thing I’m here with you today, helping you choose a Guardian Beast."

"If you had come to the Pursuing Light Dragon Palace Treasure Vault by yourself to exchange Divine Origin Value for a Guardian Beast,"

"You definitely would have suffered a huge loss today!"

Hearing this, a look of surprise appeared on Zhong Yi’s face.

He didn’t understand why Liu Shu would say he’d suffer a huge loss for exchanging his Divine Origin Value for this Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl.

Seeing the questioning look in Zhong Yi’s eyes, Liu Shu explained.

"This Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl isn’t really an independent Guardian Beast. It was propagated from a leaf that fell from the mother plant."

"Once it’s sent to your world via the Energy Transmission Platform and separated from the mother plant’s nourishment,"

"these propagated Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls will quickly rot and turn to mush."

"The items in the Pursuing Light Dragon Palace Treasure Vault have always only been partially available to internal members."

"The resources in three of the booklets are not available for other members to exchange with Divine Origin Value."

"However, all three of those booklets have been made available to you."

"The reason this Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl is listed in the Treasure Vault is because its Basic Skill is different from the mother plant’s."

"Under normal circumstances, the Basic Skill of a Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl should be Awakening Fragrance."

"This one had only just taken form when it strangled seven or eight of the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearls around it."

"After I discovered it, I just casually collected it."

"I’d completely forgotten it existed. I only found it the other day when I was adding materials to the Pursuing Light Dragon Palace Treasure Vault and tossed it in on a whim."

"The Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl is a Guardian Beast from the Radiant Ecosystem that isn’t available to the outside world."

"Getting it for 4,500 Divine Origin Value is an absolute bargain!"

"It’s just that after you buy it, you’ll only be able to get six or seven of its leaves."

"Before its Tier is raised to the Third Level, the Golden Lotus Brocade Pearl’s effect of promoting medicinal fusion isn’t that great."

"You have to wait until it reaches the Third Level for the effect to reach its peak."

"Further Tier increases after that won’t enhance the effect any more, but it will significantly increase the leaf yield."