Beast Taming: I can evolve indefinitely

Chapter 108 The Chicken That Lays Golden Eggs

Finally, under the watchful eyes of countless people, the light of evolution on the first skeleton soldier gradually faded, and a skeleton covered in chilling energy appeared before everyone.

Name: Ice Bone

"Attributes: Ice, Undead".

"Bloodline level: Medium-level servant."

The moment Ice Bone appeared, its data immediately appeared on the screen next to it.

"It evolved into Ice Bone using only a single ordinary-grade Froststone?"

Upon seeing that the skeleton soldier had successfully evolved, all the masters present exclaimed in surprise.

Unlike growth levels, which can be continuously improved through training, pets need certain materials to change their bloodline.

Because of the differences between different races and levels, the recipes for pet evolution are almost never the same, making each recipe incredibly precious.

Now, Bai Qi actually used only the most ordinary Cold Light Stone to facilitate the evolution. Although it was only the lowest-level skeleton soldier, it was still surprising enough.

Wait, didn't they just talk about rune evolution?

There were quite a few masters of necromancy present, and they quickly recalled Bai Qi's action of pressing the Cold Light Stone against the skeleton soldier's spine.

If I'm not mistaken, the runes they mentioned must have been inscribed on the spines of the skeleton soldiers beforehand, right?

Aren't runes only used when crafting treasures and secret realms? How come they can be used for evolution now?

I definitely have to try it when I get back!

Seeing the surprised expressions of the crowd below, Bai Qi continued his actions, repeating the same process with the remaining three skeleton soldiers. With three flashes of evolutionary light, three skeletons with distinct auras appeared before the crowd.

"Fire Claws, Hidden Spikes, Poison Breath—can skeleton soldiers really evolve into so many branches?"

The lecture hall fell silent as the four undead creatures before them, with attributes and appearances vastly different from the previous ones, stood in stark contrast.

Although it only upgraded them to low-level servants, and the attributes attached to these evolutions were pitifully weak, this rune evolution undoubtedly broke the notion that low-level servants were all useless.

These skeleton soldiers already possess attributes, and with proper training, further evolution is not impossible.

But the most crucial question is whether this so-called rune evolution can be used on high-level undead creatures.

More broadly, can this be applied to all pets?

"Are there only low-level display items? If they can only be used at the servant level, they don't seem to have much value to ordinary beast tamers."

Finally, one of the beast tamers couldn't help but ask.

"Of course."

Bai Qi and President Qin exchanged a glance, and immediately two beast tamers from the association went up on stage and summoned their pet beasts.

Both ends are perfectly round, but their auras are completely different.

One was completely cold, the Ice Demon, the guardian of the first level of the Tower of Lamentation, while the other was completely hidden in the shadows.

[Name]: Ghost

[Attribute]: Undead

[Bloodline Level]: Mid-Elite

"This is a Tier 1, Level 9 Ghost Spirit. According to the normal evolutionary path, Ghost Spirits can evolve into Shadow-type Oni Warriors."

Bai Qi pointed at the Ghost Spirit, then looked at the Ice Ghost, and said, "This one is the Ice Ghost in the Tower of Lamentation in Gusu City. It has both undead and ice attributes and is a high-level elite."

After listening to Bai Qi's introduction, many audience members were confused, but even masters of the Undead system like Duan Meng had a vague idea in their minds.

Seeing the puzzled expressions below, Bai Qi took out a Soul Stone and Ice Spirit Iron, quickly engraved runes on them with a rune engraving knife, and then threw them into the ghost spirit's body.

Although the undead have no physical form, that doesn't mean they can't come into contact with physical entities. These two things were left behind after entering the ghost's body, and the runes on the two materials slowly began to flicker.

Finally, the light of evolution reappeared, and the originally eerie ghost slowly moved closer to the ice ghost beside it. After the light of evolution dissipated, the originally shadow-type ghost evolved into an ice-type ice ghost.

However, no one is paying attention to the changes in the ghost attribute anymore.

Mid-level elites directly evolve into high-level elites. Although it is also a level advancement, this is completely different from the evolution of skeleton soldiers into ice bones.

This means that both branches of the Necromancer faction have taken on new evolutionary directions, and the strength of the Necromancer faction will be qualitatively improved.

Looking at the group of beast tamers and media below the stage who were discussing animatedly, President Qin's face immediately broke into a wide smile. He leaned close to Bai Qi and whispered, "Good lad, I was worried you would mess it up, but I didn't expect you to actually succeed."

"Well, I didn't expect to succeed either, considering the success rate was less than 10% when we tried yesterday. We're lucky today."

President Qin: "..."

The experiment with the Undead type was actually a spur-of-the-moment thing for Bai Qi. After seeing the Slime evolve explosion resistance after absorbing the power of explosion, Bai Qi thought of a way to help the Undead type counter the runes.

Since we can't carve runes on the undead, we can carve the runes on the materials we need beforehand, and then let the undead absorb them.

When Bai Qi told President Qin about his idea, President Qin was somewhat incredulous. However, with a "let's give it a try" attitude, President Qin still had some undead creatures captured for Bai Qi to try.

Fortunately, Bai Qi's wild idea actually succeeded, although the success rate of evolution was somewhat pitiful, and the strength was also slightly lacking.

According to Bai Qi's estimation, in order to improve the quality and success rate of evolution, in addition to improving the completeness of the runes, the evolution environment may also have an impact.

In comparison, the Evolutionary Egg is more practical; aside from being easily drained dry, it has no other requirements.

Most importantly, there will be no situation where evolution fails or is incomplete.

However, Bai Qi was too lazy to care about any of this. Now that the evolution was successful, his mission was complete.

"President Qin, I have a question, but I'm not sure if I should ask it?"

Just as the group was pondering the value behind the Ghost Spirit's evolution into the Ice Ghost, Duan Meng suddenly thought of something and asked loudly.

"sure."

Upon hearing Duan Meng's question, Chairman Qin immediately smiled knowingly, and then burst out laughing.

"A few days ago, a new evolved form of the Ice Shadow Sword Servant, the Withering Dragon Lord, was introduced in Gusu City. Could it also have evolved using this kind of, um, runes?"

As soon as Duan Meng said this, the audience fell silent.

Withered Dragon Lord, a mid-level lord, with attributes of ice, shadow, and dragon.

Dual-attribute creatures are not uncommon, but three-attribute creatures are different, especially since one of these three attributes is dragon-type.

They hadn't thought much of it at first, but now that they saw these evolved forms, they couldn't help but let their imaginations run wild.

"That's right, the Withering Dragon Lord did indeed evolve using runes, and his Beastmaster is this young man in front of you, Bai Qi."

As soon as Chairman Qin said this, all eyes in the room immediately focused on Bai Qi, while Lu Yuan and the others outside the room gaped open, unable to calm their excitement for a long time.

Has that skeleton of his evolved again?

Upon hearing President Qin's introduction, Bai Qi summoned Alpha at the opportune moment, and only when that faint dragon's might swept across the entire venue did everyone realize what was happening.

It truly possesses dragon attributes!

"This is my main pet, the Withering Dragon Lord. Before evolving, it was a high-elite Ice Shadow Sword Servant, which also evolved using runes."

Bai Qi pointed to Alpha and said, "However, the materials and runes I used are somewhat special, so they may not be reproducible."

Bai Qi didn't make any overly confident statements. After all, legendary-grade materials were relatively easy to obtain, but it seemed that he was the only one with an evolution egg. If some wealthy person tried to evolve using legendary-grade materials and failed, they would surely hunt him down throughout the Federation.

"Is it not repeatable?"

Upon hearing Bai Qi's words, some beast tamers silently suppressed their thoughts.

"So, does that mean the evolution from elite to lord level is still uncertain?"

Duan Meng frowned and continued to press for an answer.

President Qin nodded and said, "Due to time constraints, Bai Qi hasn't had time to conduct more in-depth research yet. However, our Gusu City Beast Tamer Association, in conjunction with the Star Machinery Academy, has decided to establish a special research group on rune evolution, with the participation of the Necromancer Department and the Rune Department. Minghuang and Professor Dong from the Rune Department are among the members."

"As for the team leader, he is Bai Qi, the discoverer of this evolutionary method."

Why make a student the group leader and a legendary player the group member?

Upon hearing the announcement from Chairman Qin, those watching on the screen were no longer surprised for some reason.

It's not that it wasn't shocking enough, but rather that they've become numb to it.

Bai Qi is defying the heavens...

Finally, amidst the bewildered gazes of countless people, the opening ceremony of the Necromancer Department officially ended, though many people remained in the auditorium.

They all wanted to inquire about the specifics of rune evolution, and many also wanted to join the rune evolution research group.

Although it might be a bit beneath them to be a teammate of a young man who has just become a professional beast tamer, since even a legendary figure like him doesn't mind, they have no right to be pretentious.

Most importantly, if this so-called rune evolution can really become widespread, putting aside the possibility of being remembered for eternity, their pets will also receive a significant boost.

However, President Qin clearly had no intention of wasting words with them, and after the event, he directly teleported away with Bai Qi.

As for Bai and Guang, although they haven't left yet because of the dean's status, do you dare to go up and ask them?

……

"Phew~ This kind of thing is really inhuman, President. If this kind of thing happens again, I won't go up there anymore."

Bai Qi ripped off his suit jacket and complained to the president, "President, didn't you say there weren't many people coming? I think there are almost a hundred Sun-level masters in the lecture hall, right?"

"That's not up to me. If you don't want to do this anymore, just stop causing trouble."

President Qin rolled his eyes, seemingly already anticipating Bai Qi causing trouble again.

"Isn't this what you, President, made me do...?"

Bai Qi muttered something under his breath, then saw President Qin suddenly throw something over, and he quickly tried to dodge it.

"With your patent certificates, federal certification, and core patents, as long as you don't act too recklessly, you shouldn't have to worry about retirement."

Upon hearing Chairman Qin's words, Bai Qi's expression immediately changed. He hurriedly put away the certificate, making sure it was undamaged before finally leaving it.

With core patents, we've got another golden goose to lay our eggs!

(End of this chapter)