After imagining the future, Shi Yu was pulled back to reality. Besides feeding the snow wolf pack, he had many other tasks in the morning, which kept him busy all morning.

He didn't have any free time until nearly noon, and his afternoon was just as packed.

After lunch and a nap, the interns in Shi Yu's dormitory building all had the same task in the afternoon.

They had been doing this job for a while now.

It was the one written on the job sheet, observing and recording the behavior and growth of the Green Cotton Worms...

Afternoon.

Shi Yu quietly followed the group to the forest filled with Green Cotton Worms.

The forest was lush and dense, with little light penetrating through.

Green Cotton Worms were the most common pet beasts here. The Icefield City Pet Beast Base only had over 50 snow wolves, but there were over a thousand Green Cotton Worms.

They could be described in five words: common as dirt.

Their strength was also pitifully weak. Compared to snow wolves, which could reliably awaken four racial skills during their growth stage, Green Cotton Worms only had one skill: Silk.

Moreover, even when Silk was used perfectly, its strength was only comparable to that of steel wire, making it a low-grade skill.

Beast Tamers divided the abilities mastered by transcendent creatures into different levels based on their power and effect. From low to high, they were No Rank, Low-Level Skill, Mid-Level Skill, High-Level Skill, Super-Level Skill...

The Silk mastered by the Green Cotton Worms wasn't even considered a Low-Level Skill and had no rank at all.

Therefore, it was considered a pity to classify the Green Cotton Worms' race level as Low-Grade Transcendent. After all, Green Cotton Worms couldn't even beat most ordinary animals. Their only advantage was their potential for growth.

However, depending on the training method, the Silk produced by Green Cotton Worms had many uses.

But the pet beast breeding base didn't raise Green Cotton Worms for the sake of producing Silk.

The reason for raising such weak pet beasts was that Green Cotton Worms were one of the few pet beasts in nature that could naturally evolve once.

After absorbing enough nutrients, they could evolve into Wind Crystal Butterflies and had a chance to awaken a new racial skill, Wind Blade, thereby increasing their combat power.

Although their race level was still classified as Low-Grade Transcendent after evolution due to their lifespan, Wind Crystal Butterflies were one of the easiest insect pet beasts to raise and were the best initial transition choice for most ordinary Beast Tamers.

Next, Shi Yu's job was to record and observe the growth status of the Green Cotton Worms to determine when they could evolve successfully.

Compared to snow wolves, Green Cotton Worms were much more harmless, after all, they were only the size of a palm.

They had a fluffy green body, innocent eyes, and two yellow antennae on their heads, very similar to the larvae of citrus swallowtail butterflies on Earth.

After personally interacting with them, Shi Yu understood why they were known as the weakest of the weak in the pet beast world...

Because the Silk used by these untrained Green Cotton Worms could be easily broken with a light pull of his hands...

During the observation, Shi Yu's hand was covered in Silk.

Compared to snow wolves, Green Cotton Worms had lower intelligence, and Shi Yu's telepathic talent was also not proficient, so the communication between them wasn't very good, causing the Green Cotton Worms to resist.

But this resistance... was too harmless.

But that wasn't what made him most speechless.

What made Shi Yu most speechless was that the stone encyclopedia in his mind showed that the High-Level Psychic Skill, Intimidation, could also be taught to Green Cotton Worms?

A Green Cotton Worm with the qualifications of a king???

Was the standard for this so-called compatibility so loose?

Shi Yu's gaze towards the Green Cotton Worms changed.

It seemed that the skill encyclopedia was really not simple. After all, Green Cotton Worms were known as the lowest-level pet beasts that could never learn other skills besides Silk before evolution...

While Shi Yu was sighing, a Green Cotton Worm slipped out of his hand, and the encyclopedia changed again.

At this time, the stone encyclopedia opened to the second page.

This time, a new image of a Green Cotton Worm was added.

Below were still a bunch of words.

[Skill]: Silk

[Skill Level]: No Rank

[Introduction]: Bug-type skill, may be a little useful when used to the extreme.

[State]: No teaching target yet

Shi Yu: ???

What's with this introduction?

Forget it... So it copied and recorded the Silk skill again?

It seemed that the three conditions were met.

Currently, the skill encyclopedia had successfully recorded a second useless skill, Silk... However, Fang Ran wasn't happy because this skill seemed really useless.

No, that's not right... Such a weak skill might be used for experiments to test the physical consumption.

Next, all afternoon, others were observing and recording Green Cotton Worms, and Shi Yu was also observing and recording, but his job actually had one more thing, which was to continue studying the skill encyclopedia in his mind.

The only valuable discovery was that besides the copy target, he could also teach Silk to other Green Cotton Worms who had already learned the Silk skill.

They had already mastered Silk, but they were still teachable!

Shi Yu studied it, and the information fed back by the skill encyclopedia was that teaching the same skill repeatedly could increase the skill's proficiency!

He understood, but unfortunately, Shi Yu didn't dare to experiment here...

...

Until evening.

After dinner, Shi Yu went straight back to the dormitory.

After returning, he took out a handbook and looked it up.

This wasn't a guide, but another book.

This handbook recorded the 51 pet beasts raised by the Icefield City Pet Beast Breeding Base and their racial skills.

Obviously, Shi Yu was starting to choose a target to steal skills from.

He planned to see if there were any skills suitable for his Iron-Eating Beast to learn.

The skill encyclopedia couldn't create skills out of thin air. He had to find a way to record new skills himself.

However, as long as he successfully recorded a rare skill, the skill encyclopedia would be invincible.

Which Beast Tamer had ever raised a Green Cotton Worm that knew the Intimidation skill?

Shi Yu tentatively regarded the skill encyclopedia as his second Beast Taming talent. With this talent, his next goal was easy to predict.

Find a way to copy skills with relatively high levels and store them for cultivating his own pet beasts after becoming a Beast Tamer...

Unfortunately, after looking at the 51 pet beasts in the breeding base through the handbook, Shi Yu didn't find the perception-type skill he needed...

The skills that pet beast cubs here could potentially awaken were basically low-level, common skills that weren't worth copying.

Of course, the more skills recorded, the better, just in case.

However, after copying Silk, Shi Yu suddenly thought of a question: was there a limit to the number of skills that the skill encyclopedia could record?

Before figuring out the recording limit, Shi Yu didn't dare to waste pages. It was better to focus on Mid and High-Level Skills first.

"It seems I have to change targets."

In fact, the place where Shi Yu was now, the Icefield City Pet Beast Breeding Base, not only had a large number of wild pet beasts, but also many Beast Tamers...

Their pet beasts' skills could also be used as copy targets, just like copying the snow wolf king's Intimidation.

The probability of Beast Tamers' pet beasts mastering rare skills was much higher than that of the pet beast cubs raised here...

Thinking of this, Shi Yu pondered for a moment, and he had a bold idea.