It appeared to have not made a move, but it had secretly launched an attack on Zheng Dong, using its ultimate skill, Enchanting Dream.
Zheng Dong's vision blurred, and alluring figures seemed to appear before his eyes.
Anyone else might have fallen prey to it, falling under the control of the Hellfire Banshee and issuing incorrect attack commands to their own beasts, thus swiftly losing the match.
However, Zheng Dong's mental power was strong, and he reacted quickly, using the combination skill, Phantom Mastery, to launch an attack on the Hellfire Banshee and Bai Wenxuan.
Unlike Enchanting Dream, which aimed to control Zheng Dong, Phantom Mastery created illusions of what the opponent desired, trapping them in an inescapable mire.
Upon seeing the illusions that appeared before him, Bai Wenxuan revealed a look of disdain. He possessed the beast-taming talent of Spirit Enhancement, and his spiritual power was naturally not weak, nearing the advanced level.
Therefore, he easily resisted the combination skill, Phantom Mastery.
Furthermore, he used Spirit Enhancement and Flame Enhancement, dual talents to strengthen the Hellfire Banshee.
However, Zheng Dong's attack was not over.
Just as Bai Wenxuan was using his beast-taming talent to strengthen the Hellfire Banshee, Zheng Dong also employed the combination skill, Infinite Parasitism.
Seeds of division were condensed by Zheng Dong and, along with the surrounding illusions, surged towards the Hellfire Banshee.
The Hellfire Banshee did not notice the seeds of division hidden within the illusions.
It was still attempting to control Zheng Dong.
Upon contact with these seeds of division, they rapidly parasitized its body, absorbing all its attribute power and growing swiftly.
The grown division bodies then condensed into shadow clones, launching attacks on the Hellfire Banshee.
This time, not only Bai Wenxuan was stunned, but everyone around was also dumbfounded.
In their eyes, as soon as the Hellfire Banshee came into contact with the surrounding illusions, its body gradually weakened. Subsequently, Zheng Dong's division bodies emerged one after another, becoming more numerous and uncontrollable, rapidly surrounding the Hellfire Banshee.
The Hellfire Banshee collapsed onto the ground in frustration, its energy completely depleted, sucked dry by Zheng Dong's division bodies.
It had originally intended to fight a great battle.
However, it lost before it even began.
Bai Wenxuan's mouth twitched, finding the outcome difficult to accept. Many of his backup plans had not even been used yet!
Moreover, the Hellfire Banshee was currently his strongest pet.
Yet, it was powerless to resist against Zheng Dong.
He was unwilling, but he had no stronger pets to bring out.
Seeing Zheng Dong's division bodies and shadow clones surrounding him, he was helpless.
His beast-taming talent was not suited for combat, so he could only concede in frustration.
Consequently, he harbored resentment towards Zheng Dong and planned to find an opportunity for revenge.
As someone from the esteemed Bai family, he could not afford to lose so disgracefully.
Furthermore, he coveted Zheng Dong's beast-taming talent and pets.
He also possessed a talent bead that had not yet been used to plunder a beast-taming talent, which he had acquired at an auction.
He intended to seize Zheng Dong's beast-taming talent, eliminate Zheng Dong, and steal his pets.
As for whether he would be discovered, he was not worried at all.
After all, this was not the first time he had done such a thing; he knew how to cover his tracks.
Zheng Dong, you dare to offend me, prepare to die!
Zheng Dong was unaware of Bai Wenxuan's thoughts. He looked at the other students from the Imperial Capital University Combat Club.
"Anyone else want to challenge?"
The students from the Imperial Capital University Combat Club exchanged glances.
Among them, Bai Wenxuan was actually the strongest.
Since Bai Wenxuan had lost in such a muddled fashion, they would only lose more embarrassingly if they stepped up.
However, not stepping up seemed to cost them face as well.
Finally, as the captain of this challenge, a rather plump man, nearly two meters tall, stepped forward.
Although he was the captain, his strength was inferior to Bai Wenxuan and Cao Teng.
He simply did not want the challenge to end too disgracefully.
However, Zheng Dong showed him no mercy, having Xiao Zi quickly deal with his pet and drive him off the arena.
"Anyone else? Are there no capable fighters among you who came to challenge the Magic Capital University Combat Club? Are you all weaklings!"
This immediately enraged all the students from the Imperial Capital Combat Club, and a hot-tempered male student jumped onto the arena.
However, he did not last long before he was defeated.
Subsequently, the remaining members also stepped onto the arena one by one, only to be defeated by Zheng Dong.
In this way, the Magic Capital University Combat Club managed to save face.
Principal Yu would not have to lose face in front of his love rival.
After the matches concluded, Zheng Dong had a brief chat with Meng Xuan, Fang Qin, and others from the Magic Capital Combat Club before returning to his villa.
Instead of cultivating, he began deducing the next evolutionary direction for the Dragon Vine Grass.
Zheng Dong wished to further enhance the racial level of the Dragon Vine Grass to enable it to cope with the Azure Dragon bloodline power within his body.
However, there was currently no clear evolutionary direction.
He also did not want to follow Qin Di's old path and evolve the Dragon Vine Grass towards the direction of the Life Dimensional Tree.
He hoped that the Dragon Vine Grass could not only assist but also attack, and that its offensive capabilities would not be weak.
For the Dragon Vine Grass to evolve comprehensively, the most perfect direction would undoubtedly be the World Tree.
But the World Tree was merely a legendary existence.
It seemed that not even a single mythical-grade resource had been left behind.
Zheng Dong did not know what the World Tree looked like.
He could not even determine whether the legends about the World Tree were true or false.
In this regard, it was like a blind man touching an elephant, relying solely on guesswork.
Fortunately, his beast-taming talent, Infinite Evolution Simulation, could still be used for deduction.
He collected legends about the World Tree and prepared to verify them one by one based on the information passed down.
First, the World Tree possessed all natural attributes.
That is, it must possess at least the attributes of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Ice, Wind, Thunder, Poison, Light, Dark, Spirit, Undead, Life, Time, and Space.
It was difficult to imagine what it would be like for so many attributes to appear on a single pet.
It was highly likely that they would restrain each other, affecting the pet's combat effectiveness.
It was even more possible that the pet would be unable to control so many attributes and would collapse or die.
Zheng Dong dared not attempt to bestow all natural attributes upon the Dragon Vine Grass.
However, he wanted to try giving the Dragon Vine Grass the Water attribute, followed by the Ice attribute.
Finally, and most crucially, was to bestow the Fire attribute upon the Dragon Vine Grass.
If successful, it might enable the Dragon Vine Grass to master attribute balance and acquire more attributes.
However, this series of attempts would require the Dragon Vine Grass to mutate at least three times.
This made it difficult for Zheng Dong to grasp.
Without a specific plan deduced, he was not prepared to act.
Of course, this was also one of the directions Zheng Dong was considering for the Dragon Vine Grass's evolution.
If it did not succeed, he would try other directions, such as the Time Divine Tree, Space Divine Tree, Starry Sky Divine Tree, and so on.
For several consecutive days, Zheng Dong remained confined to his villa, which greatly anxious Bai Wenxuan.
He could not find an opportunity to make a move.
He could not possibly attack Zheng Dong within the Magic Capital University.
Damn Zheng Dong, don't you have any entertainment activities at all!
Bai Wenxuan stayed at a hotel near the Magic Capital University. Looking out the window of his hotel room, he could see the main entrance of the Magic Capital University.
He had also arranged for several students within the Magic Capital University to keep him informed of Zheng Dong's movements at all times.
The news he received was that Zheng Dong had not left his residence.
As for the other students from the Imperial Capital University Combat Club, they had already returned to the Imperial Capital.
Bai Wenxuan could not wait for Zheng Dong indefinitely.
Therefore, he decided to lure Zheng Dong out and began inquiring about any information related to Zheng Dong.
He soon learned that Zheng Dong was searching for time-element resources, as well as Mimic Crystal Stones and chips that could awaken top-tier intelligence.
Typically, chips capable of awakening top-tier intelligence were referred to as super-intelligent chips.
While these were difficult for others to obtain, they were not difficult for Bai Wenxuan. He had previously applied for a super-intelligent chip from his family.
He planned to return to the Wu Capital Bai family, obtain the super-intelligent chip, and use it as bait to lure Zheng Dong into a trap.
It could only be said that Bai Wenxuan's luck was somewhat poor.
As soon as he left, Zheng Dong departed from the Magic Capital University and headed towards the Chong Island Breeding Base.
According to the agreement between Zheng Dong and Professor Xue Yin, after Professor Xue Yin completed the necessary procedures for Zheng Dong's part-time position at the Breeding Bureau, she would wait for Zheng Dong at the Chong Island Breeding Base with the super-intelligent chip.
Zheng Dong rushed over as soon as he received a call from Professor Xue Yin early in the morning.
Chong Island was quite a distance from the Magic Capital University.
Zheng Dong took a taxi and then a ferry to reach the breeding base.
He soon met Professor Xue Yin and obtained the super-intelligent chip.
It was a diamond-shaped transparent crystal, resembling a brilliant diamond. It was indeed a super-intelligent chip engraved with vast amounts of information. If the data on the chip were printed into books, it would likely fill an entire library.
This chip had not yet awakened and required complementary materials and specific equipment to awaken its top-tier intelligence and become a mechanical life form.
"Zheng Dong, I've gone to great lengths for this chip. Don't disappoint me!" Professor Xue Yin said.
"Don't worry, I will do my best and quickly deduce the evolutionary plan for the Dragon Star Sea Urchin," Zheng Dong replied.
He was also very pleased to have obtained this chip. With it, his mechanical pet was half-secured; the other half required obtaining the Mimic Crystal Stone.
"Also, I know you want to cultivate in the Abyssal Ruins, but I can only help you apply for it after you complete your deductions and achieve specific valuable results. It's not the right time yet; applying now would only invite criticism!" Professor Xue Yin continued.
Zheng Dong nodded.
He could understand Professor Xue Yin, as spots for cultivation in the Abyssal Ruins were highly sought after.
Following that, Zheng Dong, led by Professor Xue Yin and the person in charge of the Chong Island Breeding Base, arrived at the experimental base for breeding Dragon Star Sea Urchins.
This experimental base was larger than a residential complex.
It housed over a dozen varieties of Dragon Star Sea Urchins, each with different requirements for temperature and humidity.
Zheng Dong still had to select which variety was more suitable for evolution.
These Dragon Star Sea Urchins were cultivated by the laboratory base, and the Dragon Gallbladder Fruits they produced were more abundant than those from wild ones, but they did not meet the minimum requirements for mass production.
Zheng Dong did not need to select the good or bad ones; he only needed to simulate and deduce which ones were more likely to evolve.
As for the resources required for evolution, they were provided by the Breeding Bureau, in whatever quantity was needed and were quite comprehensive.
This made the deduction process go smoothly.
After about ten days, Zheng Dong deduced and perfected the final evolutionary plan, which could evolve the Dragon Star Sea Urchin into a Dragon Star Sea Urchin King, increasing its racial level from Extraordinary to Lord, and enabling it to stably produce Dragon Gallbladder Fruits.
However, the cost of breeding the Dragon Star Sea Urchin King had also doubled.
If it could be bred on a large scale, it would allow most people to consume Dragon Gallbladder Fruits, greatly increasing their chances of awakening their beast-taming talents.
As for how to breed them on a large scale, that was not Zheng Dong's concern.
Next was the second project that the Breeding Bureau was primarily researching: the stable evolutionary route for the Silkworm Moth.
The Silkworm Moth was the most common extraordinary creature in Yanhuang and the pet contracted by the largest number of ordinary beast masters.
The reason was simple: they were ubiquitous and did not need to be purchased.
However, Silkworm Moths did not live long. They could evolve into various butterfly-type extraordinary creatures, but the racial level of these evolved butterfly-type extraordinary creatures was at most Lord level, lacking strong combat power, and could only be used for assistance.
The Breeding Bureau hoped to find a stable route for the Silkworm Moth to evolve to the Monarch level, thereby enhancing the combat power of Yanhuang's lower-tier beast masters.
Furthermore, if everyone became a beast master in the future, the price of pet cubs would inevitably skyrocket. The Breeding Bureau also needed to provide lower-tier beast masters with a pet that was both cheap and capable of continuous evolution.
This project was not easy. If he could deduce it, Zheng Dong would likely be sought after by lower-tier beast masters and become a public hero.
Zheng Dong did not think too much about it.
He only wanted to obtain the opportunity to cultivate in the Abyssal Ruins.
For him, the most fundamental thing at the moment was to become stronger himself.
Therefore, after understanding the Silkworm Moth project, Zheng Dong decided to give it a try.
Unfortunately, this project was not located in Magic Capital but at the Duanshan Breeding Base in Wu Capital.
After Zheng Dong requested leave, he accompanied Professor Xue Yin to the Duanshan Breeding Base in Wu Capital.
It was now almost early December.
It was still a bit cold on the mountain, and the gusts of wind made his ears ache.
Zheng Dong followed Professor Xue Yin step by step towards the Duanshan Breeding Base halfway up the mountain.
"Professor Xue Yin, why doesn't anyone co-exist with plant-type pets? Wouldn't that immediately solve the problem of not being able to contract pets for most people?" Zheng Dong asked.
"It's not that simple. Even if the problem of co-existing with plant-type pets is solved, we still need to research how plant pets evolve. If the evolution fails, the entire research result will be a complete failure, as plant pets with no combat power for co-existence are meaningless!" Professor Xue Yin explained.
Then, before Zheng Dong could speak, Professor Xue Yin added.
"If you were willing to research it, young man, there might be hope for success, as you have already co-existed with Dragon Vine Grass!"
Zheng Dong had no time to research such things.
He still had to focus on his cultivation and the future evolution of Xiao Qing, Ling'er, and Mao Mao.
Unknowingly, the two arrived at the experimental base for breeding Silkworm Moths.
The Silkworm Moths were plump and tender, appearing no different from ordinary silkworms.
However, the silk they produced was more resilient and possessed a certain degree of lethality.
But it could only bully ordinary insects; it had little effect on other extraordinary creatures.
After understanding the entire experimental base, Zheng Dong began selecting Silkworm Moths that could evolve and attempted to simulate and deduce their evolutionary routes.
To deduce step by step and evolve the Silkworm Moth to the Monarch level was a complex process.
Moreover, the evolution had to incur the least cost, as most lower-tier beast masters had little money to purchase resources.
Just as Zheng Dong had been deducing for two consecutive days.
He was about to take a break when Ning Wei called.
"Brother Dong, I've found out that Mimic Crystal Stones will appear at the auction in the Magic Capital Black Market next week!"