As for Li Yangchuan, he rubbed his temples with a headache. His wayward son still didn't have a partner, let alone a granddaughter.
Afterward, he summoned two King-tier pets, the Seven-Colored Meteor Butterfly and the Three-Tailed Dark Sheep.
Both of these pets had a high-level King-tier racial grade. Without an evolution plan that could break through the racial limit, they would never become Emperor-tier pets.
Therefore, it would also affect Li Yangchuan's strength.
Although he could switch to pets with greater potential and train them again, they had already reached this stage and had developed a deep bond with Li Yangchuan, so he did not intend to switch.
Zheng Dong looked at the two pets and used his Beast-Taming Talent, Infinite Evolution, to activate the Evolution Eye.
Instantly, the information of both pets, including their hidden bloodline information and the hidden evolution routes they produced, appeared before Zheng Dong's eyes.
The reason why hidden evolution routes were unknown was that some pets possessed special bloodline powers that had not been activated. They would only appear under specific environmental stimuli, thus giving the pets the possibility of further evolution.
Soon, Zheng Dong discovered that the Seven-Colored Meteor Butterfly had no hidden evolution routes, but the Three-Tailed Dark Sheep could evolve.
The Three-Tailed Dark Sheep possessed the bloodline power of the Abyssal Black Demon Sheep and could evolve into the Nine-Tailed Black Demon Sheep.
However, evolution also required continuous stimulation through killing the Three-Tailed Dark Sheep, and sufficient dark and death-element resources.
Zheng Dong informed Li Yangchuan of the Three-Tailed Dark Sheep's evolution route.
He also explained that simulating and deducing the Seven-Colored Meteor Butterfly's evolution plan would require a large amount of resources.
Of course, these resources would not be used up directly but would serve as auxiliary tools for simulating and deducing the evolution plan.
After the deduction, they would be returned to Li Yangchuan.
Li Yangchuan had quite a few resources on him.
Fearing it wouldn't be enough, he borrowed some from Professor Xue Yin and Professor Huang Cheng.
Then, Zheng Dong used Infinite Evolution to activate the Evolution Domain.
The Evolution Domain covered the Seven-Colored Meteor Butterfly and continuously simulated and deduced the Seven-Colored Meteor Butterfly's evolution plan.
The entire process lasted for a long time.
Fortunately, the Seven-Colored Meteor Butterfly's evolution plan was finally successfully deduced, allowing it to break through the racial limit and evolve into the Seven-Colored Star Emperor Butterfly.
Moreover, through this operation, Zheng Dong also understood that the Evolution Light, Evolution Eye, and Evolution Domain were all different degrees of activation of Infinite Evolution, resulting in different effects.
Li Yangchuan was overjoyed upon learning the evolution plan.
His Seven-Colored Meteor Butterfly could finally evolve.
This was his earliest contracted pet.
If it didn't evolve soon, the Seven-Colored Meteor Butterfly itself would probably develop psychological problems, as its companions had all grown into Emperor-tier pets while it was still King-tier.
Li Yangchuan felt that everything was worth it and, without a word, handed over a Star Core to Zheng Dong.
"Zheng Dong, you've worked hard. Call me if you need anything in the future."
Zheng Dong took the Star Core. It was only the size of a fist, looked like a piece of black coal, felt warm to the touch, and was quite heavy. It had gold and earth attributes, which could be used for Xiao Zi's evolution.
This Level 8 resource Star Core was not cheap. More importantly, Zheng Dong had gained Li Yangchuan's friendship. He should not be given a hard time when applying for legendary-tier resources.
Next, Zheng Dong handed the relic key to Professor Huang Cheng.
As for the Burden Xuan Turtle, Professor Xue Yin stated that the breeding bureau had a large turtle pet breeding base in Modu.
Zheng Dong could take the Burden Xuan Turtle there then.
Zheng Dong felt that it was fine; it was convenient for him to go to Modu University.
After resting for a night, Zheng Dong bid farewell to Li Yangchuan and others the next day and left the town with Xiao Lin, Shen Bing, and Shen Xue, heading to the airport to go to their respective destinations.
Shen Bing and Shen Xue were going to Shendu University. Their choice to attend Shendu University was mainly for practicing at the Shendu Ancient Battlefield and for the convenience of contracting death-element pets.
As for Xiao Lin, he was returning to the Rencheng Beast Tamer Association.
After parting ways with them, Zheng Dong boarded the plane to Modu University.
He planned to return to Modu University to cultivate as soon as possible, upgrade his Beast Taming Space to Level 3, and then consider letting Xiao Zi break through its racial limitations and evolve again.
The Burden Xuan Turtle had been staying in the relic space of the relic bead, keeping the Gem Cat company.
It was not until Zheng Dong got off the plane and arrived at Modu University that he released the Burden Xuan Turtle.
The Burden Xuan Turtle was not interested in Modu University; it spent most of its time sleeping. The only thing it cared about was leaving offspring.
Of course, if Zheng Dong took it for a swim in the sea, it would be very happy.
Zheng Dong could tell that it was a homebody turtle, which was why it could stay in the relic space with Emperor Qin for so long.
It was now October.
Modu's Combat Department was preparing for the departmental freshman competition.
Teacher Liu Xia was very happy to learn that Zheng Dong had returned and insisted that he participate.
Zheng Dong agreed in order to have the freedom to attend classes in the future.
Since it would not take too long, the entire competition would only last for one day.
However, the competition would not start for a few more days.
Zheng Dong then stayed at home to cultivate.
In addition to upgrading his Beast Taming Space level, he also assisted Xiao Zi, You You, and Dragon Vine Grass in improving their mastery of skills.
It was worth mentioning that Zheng Dong could use his Beast Taming Talent, Skill Domain, to assist multiple pets in cultivating simultaneously without affecting each other, which greatly saved time.
The new skills Xiao Zi had learned, as well as the advanced and super-tier skills You You had mastered, had not reached the perfect level.
Moreover, You You's three quasi-divine skills were all at the beginner level.
As for the Dragon Vine Grass, since it had only recently evolved, all its skills were at the beginner level.
Therefore, the workload for cultivation was still quite large.
While cultivating, Zheng Dong also imprinted all the low-tier skills mastered by the Dragon Vine Grass. At the Dragon Vine Grass's strong request, he also gave it a name, Ling'er.
After all, Xiao Zi and You You both had their own names, so the Dragon Vine Grass's request was not excessive.
As for the Gem Cat, since it had not been contracted yet, Zheng Dong lazily continued to call it "Meow Meow."
In addition to cultivation, during his breaks, Zheng Dong also tried to use the skills mastered by Ling'er.
Only by becoming familiar with these skills could he command it better in battle.
Among them, the low-tier skill "Absorption" was to absorb various elemental energies to form elemental crystals or replenish his own consumption.
This skill was inherited from the Spirit Gathering Grass.
After Zheng Dong imprinted the Absorption skill, he could also condense elemental crystals, which could be sold for money.
Of course, if Zheng Dong was so poor that he couldn't make ends meet every day, he could consider it.
Next, Zheng Dong also tried to use the "Wood Whip" and "Wood Spike" skills.
Immediately, a vine grew from Zheng Dong's left hand and whipped towards the ground in the villa's yard, with decent power.
The "Wood Spike" skill was similar to "Ground Spike," where sharp wooden cones suddenly emerged from the ground, but its power was not as good as "Ground Spike."
"Lush" was a support skill that could make the surrounding plants grow rapidly and become more lush.
"Fragrance" could attract surrounding life forms.
"Death Qi" could cause discomfort to non-death-element life forms and make them stay away from the area where it was located.
As for the intermediate and advanced skills mastered by Ling'er, although Zheng Dong had not imprinted them, he had learned about them.
"Parasitism" allowed Ling'er or its split bodies to parasitize other life forms and extract various attribute powers from the host.
"Splitting Body" was similar to "Shadow Clone." Ling'er could release seeds to form splitting bodies, which were completely obedient to the main body.
These two skills also piqued Zheng Dong's interest.
If he were to imprint Parasitism and Splitting Body in the future, could he parasitize other life forms?
Also, what kind of combination skill ultimate would be formed by combining Splitting Body with Shadow Clone?
And could Splitting Body continue to use skills like Shadow Clone?
Unfortunately, he could not imprint them yet, so he could not try.
This also forced him to cultivate even harder, hoping to upgrade his Beast Taming Space level as soon as possible to imprint more skills.
At the same time, Zheng Dong also tried to combine skills imprinted from different pets to form combination skill ultimates.
Everything went more smoothly than he had imagined, as the imprinted skills were equivalent to his own skills and could be used at any time.
He could easily combine the "Phantom" skill imprinted from You You with the "Fragrance" skill imprinted from Ling'er to form the ultimate "Phantom Fragrance."
Using the combination skill ultimate "Phantom Fragrance," the illusions condensed were more realistic and could simulate the scent of various life forms.
If he condensed numerous phantom illusions and transformed them into angels and elf beauties, it would surely stun many beast tamers on the spot.
Zheng Dong suddenly wanted to use the Burden Xuan Turtle for an experiment.
However, he did not know what the Burden Xuan Turtle's aesthetic preferences were and was afraid of backfiring.
In this way, Zheng Dong could master many combination skill ultimates that even many pets could not use.
After all, You You had not mastered the "Fragrance" skill, and Ling'er had not mastered the "Phantom" skill, so neither could learn the "Phantom Fragrance" skill.
Next, Zheng Dong also combined the "Wood Spike" and "Ghost Fire" skills to form the ultimate "Ghost Fire Trap," and the "Flame Ball" and "Wood Whip" skills to form the ultimate "Thorn Flame Ball," and several other combination skill ultimates.
These combination skill ultimates formed from low-tier skills had great power, consumed little energy, and, more importantly, took little time, and could even be executed instantly.
At critical moments, they could inflict fatal damage on opponents.
Time passed quickly during cultivation.
It was not until Teacher Liu Xia's call that Zheng Dong stopped cultivating.
Because the Combat Department's freshman competition had already begun.
The competition adopted a擂台 (leitai - arena) format, with only one arena set up. Students from all classes could go up to contend for the arena.
If they successfully defended the arena until no one challenged them, they would win the championship.
Not only would they receive 100 campus points, but other students in their class would also receive 15 points.
As for the supervising teacher, there were also generous rewards.
In fact, even without rewards, there would always be people competing on the arena in the Combat Department every day.
After all, students in the Combat Department were generally more combative.
Upon receiving Teacher Liu Xia's call, Zheng Dong also got up and headed to the Combat Department.
The competition was held in the Combat Department's square, and all freshman classes would participate.
There would also be many senior students from the Combat Department watching.
There were a total of fifteen freshman classes in the Combat Department this year, with twenty-four students in each class. Zheng Dong's class was Class Seven.
Teacher Liu Xia led the students of Class Seven on the east side of the square, not far from the arena.
Zheng Dong walked over.
Although there were not many students in his class, there was no one Zheng Dong was familiar with.
This was because he had never attended a proper class.
After greeting Teacher Liu Xia, Zheng Dong looked around, wanting to find a friendly classmate to chat with and inquire about the situation.
However, it seemed that everyone had their own cliques.
At this moment, a female student in sportswear walked towards Zheng Dong.
She looked somewhat familiar, but Zheng Dong did not recognize her.
"Hello, classmate Zheng Dong. I'm Fang Qin. My sister is Fang Yao. You should know her, right?" Fang Qin said with a sweet smile.
Zheng Dong did remember Fang Yao.
When he first arrived at Modu University, it was Teacher Song Qing who asked Senior Fang Yao to guide him in.
Therefore, Zheng Dong also politely greeted her and started chatting with Fang Qin.
Fang Qin and her sister Fang Yao had completely opposite personalities. Fang Qin was lively and active, enjoyed participating in various activities, and was also the class monitor of Class Seven. Teacher Liu Xia would inform her first about any class activities, and she would then notify others.
At the same time, she had also joined the school's Combat Club to recruit new members.
Ever since she saw Zheng Dong's Gold-Devouring Rat defeat Teacher Liu Xia's Fiery Monkey last time, Zheng Dong had become her target.
She wanted to recruit Zheng Dong into the Combat Club.
To this end, she had inquired about Zheng Dong from various sources.
Unfortunately, Zheng Dong seemed to do nothing but cultivate and rarely participated in other activities, nor did he join any clubs.
After chatting for a while, Zheng Dong also got a grasp of the current competition situation.
Students from each class could freely challenge others on the arena until the competition ended.
The defender had to accept the challenge and had no time to rest.
However, they were allowed to switch pets.
As for the challenger, they were not allowed to challenge again after failing.
And each challenge only allowed the use of one pet.
Currently, a student from Class Twelve was on the arena.
Coincidentally, the supervising teacher of Class Twelve had previously pursued Teacher Liu Xia, but later fell in love with someone else.
In Fang Yao's words, their Class Seven and Class Twelve were naturally at odds.
Therefore, Teacher Liu Xia quickly asked someone to challenge.
However, after winning one match, they were defeated by Class Twelve.
Then, Teacher Liu Xia asked several more people to challenge, but they all failed.
Zheng Dong then looked up at the arena.
Unexpectedly, it was an acquaintance, Zhao Yang, the dragon tamer he had met at the Rencheng Rookie King Competition.
Zhao Yang stood on the arena, looking smug.
His summoned Thunderclap Flood Dragon also let out excited roars.
"Anyone else from Class Seven?" Zhao Yang taunted.
Teacher Liu Xia was contemplating whether to let Zheng Dong go on stage.
After all, she intended to keep Zheng Dong, her trump card, for the end.
But Zhao Yang provocatively extended his middle finger towards the location of Class Seven.
Clearly, he also knew about the past relationship between their supervising teacher and Teacher Liu Xia.
This immediately angered Teacher Liu Xia.
"Zheng Dong, go and throw this kid down for me!"
Zheng Dong nodded and calmly walked towards the arena.
He felt that Zhao Yang was purely a case of "the scar forgetting the pain."
Previously, at the Rencheng Rookie King Competition, both of his pets had suffered psychological trauma.
It hadn't been long since then, and he was already so arrogant. Wasn't he afraid of encountering a tough opponent and getting hurt?
Zhao Yang did not know that Zheng Dong had also come to Modu University, and was in Class Seven, otherwise he would not have dared to be so arrogant.
It was only when Zheng Dong walked out from the Class Seven team.
Zhao Yang was stunned.
Not only Zhao Yang, but his pet, the Thunderclap Flood Dragon, almost fell from the sky.
The Thunderclap Flood Dragon immediately remembered the miserable experience at the Rencheng Rookie King Competition, where it was sat on the ground by a giantized Gold-Devouring Rat and lost its combat effectiveness.
This was utterly humiliating.
Zhao Yang swallowed his saliva and quickly comforted it:
"Thunderclap Flood Dragon, don't be afraid. You are already a Lord-tier now, so you don't need to fear that Gold-Devouring Rat anymore. Our chance for revenge has come."
Zhao Yang was also comforting himself.
In reality, he had no confidence at all, because he was not stupid. His own strength had improved significantly, and with Zheng Dong's talent, it was impossible for him to stand still.