My tamed beasts can't be demons.

Chapter 75 Let's aspire to become a master of hard work!

Zhou Lu felt a warmth and then woke up from his sleep.

As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw a green figure standing by the fire, stirring something in the stew pot with vines.

Zhou Lu was startled and sat up abruptly. He looked around and found that the rain in the dream had already stopped.

Hanabi, who was cooking for her owner, saw that her owner had woken up and immediately ran over happily.

The snow-white roots wriggled rapidly on the ground, and the swaying leaves made it seem like a graceful young girl walking.

Hanabi skillfully shrunk her body and climbed into her owner's arms.

A vine grew out from between its leaves and touched Zhou Lu's forehead.

At this moment, Zhou Lu realized that his forehead felt cool; it was because Hua Huo had applied a layer of cooling mucus to it.

(*^▽^*) Master is awake!

Fireworks pattered against the leaves and hugged Zhou Lu's shoulder.

Only then did Zhou Lu realize that the blooming flower in front of him was his own Firework.

Its shape is completely different from the original Dream Rain Flower; apart from its snow-white root system, there is hardly any resemblance.

The flowers still bear a resemblance to the Dream Rain Flower, but are far more beautiful.

It's no exaggeration to say that even in a spirit beast beauty pageant, Huobi could get a pretty good ranking now.

As Zhou Lu was thinking, Hua Huo noticed his silence and assumed that he was not fully recovered. She touched Zhou Lu's cheek with a leaf with concern.

"I'm fine now," Zhou Lu said with a genuine smile. "I feel great now."

After Hanabi woke up, Zhou Lu's supplies were no longer in short supply.

Fuel, food, and camping equipment even allowed Zhou Lu and Hua Huo to enjoy a leisurely, travel-like life in this icy land.

Zhou Lu's illness was also quickly cured by the Cursed Frog's healing spit.

He feels great now.

With a joyful expression, Zhou Lu picked up the fireworks in his arms and examined them closely.

The evolved firework looks like a blooming flower.

Three large leaves form a skirt, covering the main stem below, leaving only the snow-white root system exposed.

Above the leaf skirt, six flat, elongated leaves form a high-necked trench coat, enveloping the flowers of the firework.

There should have been many more leaves between them, but Hanabi plucked them, leaving only two long leaves on the left and right.

The two vines left on the left and right sides of the firework form the firework's "hands," which is the result of the firework intentionally imitating Zhou Lu's form.

In addition, a green runner, like a tail, grew from beneath the leaves of the flower.

The other end of this runner, at the top of the tail, is a white jade snail shell.

(I tried to use AI to draw, but it seems to be beyond the AI's imagination.)

In fact, after the second stage of metamorphosis, Firework no longer needs the White Jade Snail Shell to serve as its flowerpot.

However, as a gift from its owner, Hanabi has no intention of abandoning it.

So after emerging from the dream, it sculpted a tail specifically to carry the white jade snail shell.

And the items it carried were all stuffed into this snail shell.

Fireworks seemed very proud of its design. As Zhou Lu examined it, it wiggled its runner tail, showing off its work to him.

"Yes! It's very beautiful," Zhou Lu said with a smile. "And it can also be used as a weapon."

Given the sturdiness of the white jade snail shell, it is definitely a powerful weapon for attack.

I wonder what the result will be if Hanabi uses [Headbutt Grass Attack] again.

If he can no longer use Headbutt due to evolution, he will have to find another main damage-dealing skill for Hanabi.

With this in mind, Zhou Lu finally took out Huohua's Beast Taming Card.

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Name: [Nine-Lives Immortal Herb]

Attributes: Grass, Poison

Level: 20

Rank: Second Rank (Growth Stage)

Skills: [Fooling], [Absorbing], [Transporting], [Walking Stem], [Wild Growth], [Entangling Vines], [Earth Escape]...

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Does it have an added poison attribute?

Is it the poisonous attribute inherent in the Nine-Lives Immortal Grass itself, or is it because after the second-stage abnormal metamorphosis, the Dreamy Rhizobium left the soil along with the Fireworks, so it was counted as the Fireworks' attribute?

Zhou Lu glanced at the roots of the firework subconsciously.

As Wu Xiaoqing said, the Dreamy Rhizobium did not damage the beauty of the Fireworks root system.

Seemingly sensing that its owner was scrutinizing its "feet," Hanabi shyly curled its roots back under the leaves.

"Alright, alright, I won't look at your roots anymore," Zhou Lu said with a smile.

Then, he activated the Nine Lives Herb's racial skill, [Fooling].

Both effects of [Fooling] require the removal of one [Racial Skill] to be used.

If Fireworks wasn't a special evolution of Dream Rain Flower and retained its original racial skill [Absorb], then for Nine Lives Herb, which only possesses one racial skill, this would undoubtedly be a one-time skill.

Therefore, of the two effects, effect ② should be the most practical.

①The effect of eliminating skill effects is not worth it compared to its activation conditions.

There are many purification skills, and many spirit beasts even possess racial skills that are unaffected by specific skills, such as the Cursed Frog.

Once Fireworks is equipped with these skills, there will be no need to use the [Fooling] ① effect to avoid the effects of other skills.

But the effect of ② is different.

Any skill that is activated within Hanabi's attack range can be redirected to a target designated by Hanabi by canceling a racial skill.

This sentence contains a lot of meaning.

Most importantly, if you want to trigger a skill, you need to know if there are any skills available within your attack range, right?

Real-world battles are not like beast-taming contests; neither side shouts out their skill names before launching an attack.

Therefore, the prerequisite for this skill to be possible is that Hanabi has the ability to recognize skill activation.

Zhou Lu had some thoughts in his mind; perhaps "fooling" had brought some potential passivity.

However, he must verify this through actual combat.

Zhou Lu has always been a person with exceptional action-oriented abilities.

He planned to test the skill of "Fooling".

Of course, he didn't have that many racial skills to burn.

This is a non-renewable resource, and every use of it must be carefully considered.

But no matter what, after Hanabi acquires the skill [Fooling], Zhou Lu is destined to become a hardcore grinder.

He needs to ensure that Fireworks has enough racial skills in reserve, just in case.

After returning this time, Zhou Lu must contact Jiang Shuqi. Even if it's just to work for free at those farms, it would be a very profitable thing for him.

To get back to the main point, the cost of being fooled is paid last.

That is, after the Fireworks designates the targets of those skills, the skills are then canceled, and then the effect of [Fooling] is executed.

This gave Zhou Lu a lot of room for testing.

As long as I don't pay the final price and don't sneak in, it's as if there's no price to pay.

As they were talking, Hanabi brought over the cooked instant noodles.

Several days later, the feeling of drinking the first sip of hot soup even brought tears of emotion to Zhou Lu's eyes.

For the first time in his life, he felt that instant noodles could be so delicious.

I can't be so greedy for convenience next time. Even if fireworks can help me carry a lot of things, I should at least have a small emergency bag with me.

Otherwise, if Hanabi loses her ability again, she will be in trouble again.

(End of this chapter)