My tamed beasts can't be demons.

Chapter 313 Finding New Ways to Exploit Freebies

This wave of pollen division spread over a very wide area, and not all places were as fortunate as Xin'an.

Although most cities have branches of fireworks for protection, the aftermath of the battle still caused huge damage to the cities because the branches of both sides were so powerful.

Casualties are inevitable.

Since the era of beast taming, the real world has never been plunged into such a catastrophe.

Perhaps similar scenes occurred in New South Wales during the major disasters of the past, but back then people did not know that it was the work of immortals like Yan Gui, so there was not much panic.

But now things are different. A powerful enemy has appeared so openly in the city, and with a gentle sweep of its vines, decades of urban development have vanished.

The destructive tension of this force has a tremendous impact on people's perceptions.

People were gripped by a rare wave of widespread panic.

This panic is even greater than the panic caused by the reappearance of the immortals.

Although immortals are powerful, by the time their existence was revealed, the authorities had already dealt with the situation quite thoroughly. In addition, immortals had already been defeated by beast tamers once in history, so there wasn't much to panic about.

But this time was different. They had never seen such an enemy before, and the fighting they displayed was simply too fierce.

Before the arrival of the Fireworks' offspring, it often took the combined efforts of all the city's high-level spirit pets to slightly slow its progress.

Not to mention, it appeared in multiple cities at the same time, which caused panic among residents of cities that had not yet been affected by pollen.

"Basically all the pollen divisions showed the same purpose." At this time, Zhou Lu had returned to the Veterans' Home.

Here, he can use the Seeking Truth Tree as a springboard to instantly travel to any city in the real world, as long as there are knowledgeable fairies associated with the Seeking Truth Tree there.

The branches of Dream Rain Flower Fairy mostly aim to become knowledgeable fairies, and almost all of them show a desire to go to the nearest Beast Taming Academy.

Of course, there were also cases where they advanced towards the settlements of the pioneering army. This often happened because there were still modern immortals in that settlement who hadn't yet been sentenced.

In other words, the main goal of this trip to Dream Rain Flower Fairy is still to have a good meal.

The knowledgeable fairy is an excellent alternative to the immortal for it.

Of course, the process of these pollen divisions changes the moment the division of the flower occurs.

Fireworks begins to have spirit beasts of the same kind as Dream Rain Flower Fairy. The desires of the [Fairy] will drive these pollen-producing branches to attack Fireworks' branches madly, thus forgetting all their original targets.

Thanks to the fireworks attracting the fire, the pollen disaster was successfully averted.

However, Zhou Lu was well aware that as the Dream Rain Flower Fairy's damage to the seal gradually increased, its ability to exert external influence would also gradually increase.

Similar disasters will only escalate, and it is very likely that before they can truly break through the seal, the entire human civilization will suffer enormous damage in the process of dealing with the disasters caused by these offshoots.

The time for the final battle has come.

Without needing to ask the Seeking Wood, Zhou Lu had already made his decision.

Dream Rain Flower Fairy would never let Fireworks go, just like it ate all the Nine-Lives Immortal Grass.

Regardless of whether it was a hero who fought against immortals before, it was deeply affected by the [Immortal] skill and went crazy trying to eat Hanabi when it discovered Hanabi, a spirit beast of the same kind.

This is not something that can be changed by Zhou Lu's personal will.

"It's time to break the seal," Zhou Lu said to the Seeking Dao Wood.

Qiu Daomu gave Zhou Lu a deep look and said, "You should be aware of the risks involved."

"I am more aware of the risks involved."

The reason why the Dream Rain Flower Fairy releases so much pollen is to make up for the deficiencies in her body after being sealed for a thousand years.

Its urgency means that it is indeed at its weakest point after breaking through the seal.

If the pollen continues to cause harm, even if it doesn't eat any knowledgeable fairies or immortals, eating spirit beasts or even beast tamers would be enough to make up for some of its physical deficiencies.

In a match where the enemy is already stronger than us, giving the enemy a chance to recover at this point further reduces our chances of winning.

With this wave of pollen invasion, it's already extremely difficult for Qiudaomu to locate each individual pollen grain.

Although the pollen that invaded the city was accurately located, some pollen that fell into the mountains and forests was missed.

Now, Zhou Lu and Hua Huo are dealing with the pollen that has been scattered in the mountains and forests.

They feed on wild beasts and have grown to a terrifying size.

Looking at the tall plants weaving through the mountains, Zhou Lu couldn't help but say, "At this point, the disadvantages of protecting the environment become apparent."

Thanks to human efforts to protect the wild environment, these forests are home to a large number of mythical creatures, which allows pollen division to have ample time to develop.

Of course, this was just Zhou Lu's casual complaint.

As he said this, he took out a bottle of potion and tossed it to Hanabi, saying, "Hanabi, prepare for battle."

Hanabi, understanding perfectly, rolled up a leaf to make a cannon barrel.

With a slight thud, the reagent was fired into the target's body like a cannonball.

The plant that had consumed a large amount of pollen from spirit beasts had indeed become quite powerful; even after taking a direct hit from the firework, it only managed to retreat a step or two.

It roared, intending to find the culprit, but suddenly found its entire body rapidly turning purple.

This is one of Wu Xiaoqing's many research projects, and it involves a harmless cancer-causing mold.

Yes, harmless cancerous mold.

Wu Xiaoqing used the genetic technology of Yushou Technology to modify a type of mold with high carcinogenicity.

Although the modified mold can still cause mutations in all the target genes, most of the genes involved are not life-threatening.

This can be considered one of Wu Xiaoqing's experimental tools.

She used this tool to extensively mutate the genes of various experimental samples, and then screened out interesting shapes for research.

However, Zhou Lu's purpose in using this mold for pollen division is actually very simple:

After widespread genetic mutations throughout the body, the pollen stalks in front of us are no longer considered to have been the source of the fireworks at the biological level.

This means that fireworks can repeatedly extract high amounts of attributes from these branches.

Zhou Lu skillfully summoned Benben.

As the eggshell shatters once more, the [Misfortune Egg] skill is activated.

Fireworks jumped off the cloud without hesitation.

The pollen stalks, completely mutated after being infected by mold, fell into a state of panic and rage, and the fireworks falling from the sky naturally became their main enemies.

Having devoured a large number of spirit beasts, it might be able to easily suppress the branching of the Fireworks.

Unfortunately, what it is facing now is the fireworks themselves.

In no time, the scene turned into a situation where fireworks were dominating.

The outcome of the battle was no longer in doubt, and Zhou Lu took out a map to mark the next target.

A considerable amount of pollen fell into the wild this time. Some of it was from trees that had been located by the Seeking the Way Tree, but was not dealt with due to the city-priority protection strategy. Others were from trees that had not been located by the Seeking the Way Tree, but were discovered by patrolling Beast Tamers.

While Zhou Lu was dealing with the enemy, the beast tamers of the pioneering army and the nursing team were blocking the attacks on the city by the missed branches.

Zhou Lu plans to use the mutated mold to transform all these pollen divisions into a source of stronger fireworks.

With the fireworks becoming stronger, Zhou Lu had more confidence to break the seal.

"Do you think it's possible to completely seal off the secret realm?" Zhou Lu asked the Seeking Wood.

Qiu Daomu certainly understood Zhou Lu's meaning.

If one could block the entrance and relentlessly exploit Dream Rain Flower Fairy, then on an infinite timescale, Fireworks could indeed come very close to or even surpass Dream Rain Flower Fairy in terms of strength.

"I know what you're trying to do, but it's not stupid. The real world is probably too far away for it to perceive, which is one thing, but you're trying to fleece it right under its nose. That's really disrespectful of it," said the Seeking Wood.

"It now knows of Hanabi's existence. Once it discovers that Hanabi's strength has increased in the process, it will probably be able to guess that Hanabi can repeatedly absorb attributes from its offspring."

What Qiudaomu said makes perfect sense.

A spirit beast that wandered alone for a thousand years, pursued by immortals, before meeting its master may be arrogant, but it is definitely not a fool.

While they were talking, Hanabi had already taken care of the division of the plants below.

Watching Benben rapidly recover under the Beastmaster skill, Qiudaomu asked, "Benben's about to evolve too, right?"

Zhou Lu nodded.

That's the good thing about the Nine Difficulties Candle Dragon.

Especially when it can recklessly and harmlessly commit suicide, its advantage of rapid evolution becomes apparent.

If Zhou Lu's evolution to the fifth tier was done while he was still under the influence of his incomplete growth, then Benben's fifth-tier evolution was a completely natural progression.

It doesn't even need to go through any battles; all it has to do is buff the fireworks, and it can just lie back and accumulate growth points.

Benben is now just one step away from evolving to the fifth tier.

In Zhou Lu's plan, if anyone else could participate in the battle between Fireworks and Dream Rain Fairy, it would probably be the Nine Difficulties Candle Dragon faction.

After hatching, the Nine Difficulties Candle Dragon is unaffected by other skills.

This also means that it will not become the target of the "fooling" reselection.

This is also one of the reasons why Qiudaomu asked the couple Jiunan Zhulong to guard the seal of Mengyu Huaxian.

Zhou Lu must ensure that during the time when both sides are exchanging skills, within the range of Mengyu Huaxian's [Fooling] skill, there is only one target that Huahuo can choose from.

In this way, Fireworks can "fool" the instant-death effect that Dream Rain Fairy had "fooled" back onto Dream Rain Fairy.

After that, it becomes a competition of the number of skills in each race's skill pool.

And that is precisely the advantage of fireworks.

Zhou Lu's strategy has only one core: not to give Mengyu Flower Fairy any opportunity to leverage its own attribute advantages.

With this in mind, guided by the Seeking Truth Tree, the group arrived at their next destination in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, a group of beast tamers are struggling to stop the advance of pollen division in this area.

The power of pollen-producing plants is already stronger than that of ordinary mythical beasts. In addition, with the enhancement of various skills absorbed by Dream Rain Flower Fairy, its combat power is indeed terrifying.

Let alone quasi-divine beasts, even the relatively young divine beasts in the Veterans' Home could suffer a great loss if they were not careful when facing these offspring.

Fortunately, although the founding mythical beast was old, it still retained some of its strength.

With their help, these divisions were successfully contained.

Humans have even had the opportunity to kill some of the saplings.

However, at the behest of the Truth-Seeking Tree, the official Beast Tamers demonstrated remarkable obedience. Even though they couldn't understand the Truth-Seeking Tree's instructions, they didn't kill the pollen stalks that were already immobilized.

Fireworks quickly arrived at these areas and then skillfully used the same set of techniques as before.

First, a mutant fungus initiates an infection, causing the pollen spores to mutate and be identified as new individuals. Then, the pollen is released to complete the process.

Although the fireworks display had increased its speed as much as possible, there was still a considerable amount of pollen falling into the real world. It took the group two days to clean up all the pollen in the real world.

Having finished all this, Zhou Lu didn't even have time to rest and immediately rushed to the secret realm where the seal was located.

Nobody knows when the next wave of Dream Rain Flower Fairy's pollen will be released.

If we can prevent them from being released, that would be the best outcome.

If the Dream Rain Flower Fairy has already been generated and released, then we must do our best to block these pollen flowers in the secret realm.

The moment Zhou Lu entered the secret realm with Huohua using the Seeking Dao Wood as a springboard, he happened to encounter Mengyu Huaxian tearing open the seal again.

Countless pink pollen grains were released from the cracks.

"Fireworks! World Tree!"

Zhou Lufei quickly issued the order.

The World Tree, one of the racial skills that Hanabi absorbed, grants her the ability to interfere with space.

The moment Zhou Lu gave the order, Hanabi had already taken action.

Its root system grew wildly and was no longer confined to the soil, but extended its roots into the space.

Almost instantly, the snow-white roots spread throughout the entire secret realm like cracks in lightning.

The roots firmly gripped the barriers of space.

At this moment, let alone pollen emerging from the secret realm into the real world, it's impossible to even leave or enter the secret realm through a regular spatial passage.

Thousands upon thousands of pollen grains were thus kept out of the real world.

But Dream Rain Flower Fairy clearly didn't focus on the fact that her pollen was being blocked.

The crack in the seal suddenly widened a little more, and its voice, almost frantic with joy, rang out:

"I think I smell something incredibly delicious! It's from one of our own kind! The smell of one of our own kind! Who's out there?!"

"Who's outside!"

Several vines tried to tear open the crack, but were quickly blocked by the seal.

"Aaaaaah! Seeking the Way Wood! I hate you!!!" Dream Rain Flower Fairy's distorted voice rang out again.