Chapter 213 — Yin Huan's Challenge

A moment later, Shi Jin stepped down.

He stepped down with his perfect score.

Xia Yan followed behind, along with the Mind Crystal Butterfly, the White-Eyed Butterfly, and the White Star Flash Butterfly, all silent.

Long after Shi Jin had descended, the audience was still mired in shock, unable to recover.

Endless discussion about Ancient Capital University's breeding achievements poured forth, people expressing their complicated feelings to one another.

On the Imperial Capital University exhibition team's side, student Du Yan murmured, "Is this research result really that smooth?"

Displaying evolutions from transcendent species to overlord species one after another—please, have some mercy on us mortals.

Fellow team member Guo Mingrui said, "My girlfriend has always wanted a butterfly-type pet beast... I think this White Star Flash Butterfly is pretty good."

"It's just that master-tier insect silk is hard to come by..."

A Green Silk Worm with master-tier insect silk is rarer than a monarch-species pet beast cub.

The Green Silk Worm's lifespan of only a year or two simply doesn't give breeders much opportunity to cultivate them.

Next, all they could do was wait and see whether the nation would provide a high-level relic space and invite a professional team of skill instructors to cultivate Green Silk Worms on a unified scale.

If a breeding chain could be established, then people like them would still have a sliver of a chance to get one.

Still, the price probably wouldn't be cheap. A Green Silk Worm cub that had mastered master-tier insect silk—even if it ended up cheaper than a monarch-species cub in the future, it wouldn't be cheap by much.

After all, it took over a year of cultivation using all kinds of top-tier breeding methods just for a chance to produce one. Even Zuo Heng's research institute produced no more than five per year.

The venue fees for the high-level relic breeding space, the labor costs for skill instructors, the nutrition costs for the Green Silk Worms...

Not counting anything else, just the base annual salary for a skill instructor of that caliber couldn't possibly be under a million.

This still wasn't something prepared for grassroots beast tamers—the Mind Crystal Butterfly was.

Moreover, if it reached scale, such Green Silk Worms definitely wouldn't be put up for sale; they would first be used to arm the Beast Taming Corps.

"Why not start with a White-Eyed Butterfly as a compromise? What if we study it and figure out a way to evolve it into a White Star Flash Butterfly?" suggested Jiang Tong of Imperial Capital University.

They had already defected—one coveting someone else's pet beast, the other coveting someone else's research.

Hearing this, Professor Fang Lin beside them twitched at the corner of her mouth.

They had already lain down and conceded. Though, to be fair, they had indeed already lost.

Guo Mingrui: "Not really... she definitely wouldn't want a White-Eyed Butterfly."

"Low-tier commander species—that's not low at all. If we can't research anything out of it, worst case, dissolve the contract later and swap it out."

"That's not the problem." Guo Mingrui turned his head and said, "The White-Eyed Butterfly's species name is just too ugly. My girlfriend definitely wouldn't accept it..."

Everyone: "..."

At this moment, throughout the breeding convention venue, everyone was discussing the Green Worm Cocoon, discussing Shi Jin.

And at this moment, Shi Jin had already returned to his seat.

"Next, the beast taming field of Donghuang is about to open a new chapter."

After Shi Jin sat down, Zuo Heng smiled and said, "If nothing unexpected happens, after this, the Beast Taming Association, the Beast Taming Corps, the Third Bureau, and the Breeding Association will definitely invest funds to establish a massive Green Silk Worm breeding base."

"And when that time comes..."

Shi Jin let out an "ah" and said, "That should have nothing to do with me, right? You all can handle it."

Everyone: ???

Xia Yan said, "Didn't you want to become a legendary breeder?"

This was absolutely a national-level mega-project!

Shi Jin: "That's a dream—dreams are for talking about. I have plenty of dreams, like legendary mechanic, legendary dragon tamer... but a person's energy is limited."

Everyone: ?

Shi Shuo kept a straight face, feeling that what he said made perfect sense.

Right now, he just wanted to quickly raise his own strength.

In this world, one's own strength was the foundation of everything.

Only with strength could one go and do all the various things one wanted to do.

Judging by his current strength and perspective, his transmigration, the connection between Earth and Blue Star, the transition from mythology to the beast taming era—all were shrouded in countless mysteries.

But what if he became a legendary beast tamer, or even a mythical beast tamer?

At that time, most of the fog before his eyes would disperse on its own.

Back then, mythic ruins, totem ruins, forbidden ruin zones, the Moon Palace ruins—they were all like a backyard garden. You could go whenever you wanted. Nothing like now, clutching a mythic ruin key left behind by the Time Emperor and yet not daring to go look for it.

"You still think you're human?"

Left Heng and Hua Che felt their teeth ache.

And on top of that, you damn well want to be a legendary mechanist too?

A breeder or an archaeologist would be one thing—the threshold isn't high.

But a mechanist isn't something you can just become on a whim; its threshold is higher than any other profession's.

Contracting a mechanical beast and becoming a mechanist are two entirely different concepts.

Only a beastmaster who personally cultivates and upgrades mechanical beasts truly counts as a mechanist.

Those who pay others to upgrade their mechanical lifeforms aren't recognized as legitimate.

"Ahem—which display team is next?" Shi Tang asked.

He swiftly changed the subject.

"Some research institute that studies breeding," Left Heng said with a sigh.

At present.

The breeding convention was still underway.

The third team to take the stage turned out to be the team of that three-eyed human Shi Jin had seen in the cafeteria.

They weren't from a company or a school, but a well-known biological breeding research institute.

And their product was a "high-race beast conception aid"...

As the name suggested, it was a drug to raise the pregnancy and birth rates of beasts of the commander race and above.

Naturally, it was also effective on the more difficult-to-breed transcendent races.

The Iron-Eating Beast was overjoyed.

This too counted as a fairly mainstream area of research.

The higher a creature's race tier, the harder it was for it to reproduce.

Take overlord races—they generally passed down a single line, able to bear only one offspring in a lifetime, and even that depended on luck.

Worse still, some overlord races, because the individual was so unique—the only one of its kind in the world—and reproductively isolated from similar races, could even go directly extinct.

This was also why no country had a stable breeding channel for overlord races.

One could only rely on luck to occasionally evolve a few irreproducible overlord races.

"A conception aid, huh..."

"It really is good research..."

Still, Shi Jin thought about his own Eleven—it probably wouldn't have any problems, so it likely wouldn't need this.

Breeding among the Iron-Eating Beast clan, though rather difficult, was certainly still relatively stable—otherwise the ancients wouldn't have assembled the Nine Li War Beast Legion.

Besides, Shi Jin felt that his Eleven was a steel-straight bear; love would only slow down its training speed.

Eleven needn't be worried about, but Buggy... Buggy...

Ah, Buggy!!!

Just what on earth did you evolve into? It feels a little dangerous.

The Butterfly of Imagination—you couldn't find a second one...

Could it reproduce normally with other butterflies?