"That Iron-Eating Beast cub should be your initial pet, right?"

"As for this Green Silkworm, is it an extra pet you're raising?"

Lu Qingyi planned the gifts based on these two pets, having noticed the Iron-Eating Beast and the Green Silkworm long ago.

The Iron-Eating Beast was fine; Shi Yu's profile mentioned it as his initial pet. But the Green Silkworm was a discovery beyond the information provided.

She could tell that this Green Silkworm probably hadn't formed a contract with Shi Yu, meaning it was currently in a wild state.

Raising wild pets wasn't unusual, actually. Besides the various breeding bases doing it, many Beast Tamers with telepathic talents enjoyed it.

Some Beast Tamers were limited by their level, unable to contract more pets, but still wanted to cultivate them. The solution was simple: don't contract them.

With telepathic talent, they could communicate with wild pets without barriers. As long as the relationship was good, a contract was optional. The only downside was not being able to enter the Beast Taming Space for rapid growth.

In Lu Qingyi's view, this Green Silkworm was probably a pet Shi Yu was additionally nurturing.

Maybe he wanted to keep it as a pet, or maybe he wanted to cultivate it into a Wind Crystal Butterfly for future contracting...

At least from her current perspective, this Green Silkworm was very well nurtured. Its silk level should be quite high, and a successful evolution was definitely possible. Shi Yu truly deserved to be a graduate of the pet breeding major.

"Skill secret manual... evolution method... pet cub?"

Shi Yu would have been satisfied with the 10 million RMB, but now that the other party was offering gifts, Shi Yu fell into contemplation.

It's not good to receive gifts without doing anything in return, and is it not a little inappropriate to frequently accept gifts? Forget it, I've already accepted 10 million RMB, what's the point of being reserved?

The Iron-Eating Beast's skill secret manual is acceptable... Although my Eleven doesn't lack skills, the more the better.

And having a skill with a normal source relieves some pressure when using it.

As for the Green Silkworm's evolution method, that's also acceptable.

Shi Yu was originally planning to release Wormy, but now it seems like listening wouldn't hurt.

I've taught it so many times and raised it for so long, it's a little wasteful to just release it.

I've raised it for so long, and haven't sold a single silk, what a loss... But if the Green Silkworm can evolve into a good species, it can continue to work for me.

High-species pet cub... Shi Yu also wants to open his eyes with a special pet, preferably a creature of fantasy recorded on Earth.

Like a Dragon Girl, a Flower Fairy, or a Mermaid...

"Must I choose only one?" Shi Yu asked.

Lu Qingyi: ?

"You want everything?"

"I must become stronger quickly to contribute to the archaeological cause..." Shi Yu said.

Lu Qingyi also fell into deep thought, carefully studying Shi Yu's face. She didn't expect him to be so shameless.

"Okay." Lu Qingyi nodded. Very well, consider it an advance payment of your salary.

"You can't contract a high-species pet cub now anyway. We'll talk about it after you become a senior Beast Tamer."

Shi Yu is currently a trainee Beast Tamer, only able to contract one pet. After becoming a junior Beast Tamer, he can contract a second one.

Although the number is enough, a junior Beast Tamer wanting to contract the high-species pet cub she mentioned is still not enough. The Beast Taming Space's level can't maintain the accelerated growth of a high-species pet cub.

Shi Yu: "..."

Indeed, he's currently unable to contract any extra pet cubs.

"The Iron-Eating Beast's skill secret manual... I don't know much about Iron-Eating Beasts, but I heard that the Zhushi Martial Arts Hall in Pingcheng has two skills suitable for Iron-Eating Beasts to learn."

"Tomorrow, I'll give you a letter of recommendation at the same time. You can go to the Zhushi Martial Arts Hall to learn from the master at any time."

Shi Yu: "..."

This was already within his planned scope!

However, the previous plan was to challenge the martial arts hall and secretly learn their skills.

But now it has become a master-level Beast Tamer personally teaching, with a formal and legal learning path.

The Zhushi Martial Arts Hall's skill secrets are only taught to inner disciples who join the martial arts hall. The number of people who know them is small, belonging to internal inheritance. However, since the Eleventh Bureau has so much energy, it's not impossible for Shi Yu, an outsider who hasn't joined the martial arts hall, to learn.

"Okay." Shi Yu nodded. It's fine. Having a reasonable learning path is always better than copying secretly.

"Then there's the evolution method... By the way, you're nurturing the Green Silkworm, are you planning to cultivate it into a Wind Crystal Butterfly and then contract it?"

Lu Qingyi asked, taking one last look at the Green Silkworm in the birdcage.

"No, it's just that the Green Silkworm is one of the most malleable pets, so I couldn't help but want to nurture it."

In human language, it means the Green Silkworm's silk has strong plasticity. The silk has different buyers depending on the cultivation method. He is very short of money, so he couldn't help but cultivate it.

Green Silkworm: ...

Shi Yu has one way of understanding, while Lu Qingyi has another.

The Green Silkworm is indeed one of the most malleable pets. In the currently known evolution routes, the Green Silkworm can evolve into the most kinds of pets.

As a completely metamorphosing pet, based on different cultivation plans, in the first evolution, it can evolve into most moths and butterflies. There are dozens of known species.

Almost every researcher who studies evolution uses the Green Silkworm as the initial experimental subject.

The reason is simple: the Green Silkworm has a short cultivation cycle, and the process of emerging from the cocoon is like a lottery. Everyone is a gambler, and no one knows what will emerge from the cocoon. That sense of anticipation is very exciting.

"I won't tell you about the routes where the species level after evolution is Extraordinary. I know three Commander-level evolution routes. You can choose one."

"After successful cultivation, this Green Silkworm's potential can surpass that of the little Iron-Eating Beast, making it very suitable as your second pet," Lu Qingyi said.

Eleven: (｡・`w´･) Awoo.

Eleven next to it faintly sensed that someone was saying bad things about it, like that bad woman...

"Ji—"

The Green Silkworm is still silly and doesn't seem to have high intelligence. It doesn't care about evolution. After all, you can't expect a worm to have the intelligence of a mammal. Perhaps only evolution can make it smarter.

"Which three?"

"The three evolution routes represent Low-Level Commander, Mid-Level Commander, and High-Level Commander, respectively. The evolution conditions range from easy to difficult."

"First is the Ice Crystal Butterfly, Low-Level Commander, a Wind and Ice dual-attribute pet. The strongest racial skill it can awaken is Blizzard."

"Second is the Ghost Beauty Butterfly, Mid-Level Commander, a Dark-attribute pet. It excels in curse-type skills and is proficient in ambushes and assassinations."

"Then there's the Light Goddess Butterfly, High-Level Commander, a Light-attribute pet. It can control various light rays and is proficient in illusions."

"In addition to some specific materials and food, the minimum requirement for evolving into these species is for the Green Silkworm to reach proficiency in silk before pupation. Perfect level is best, so that the pet potential can be maximized during evolution."

"However, it is too difficult to cultivate perfect-level silk proficiency, so don't force it. After all, the Green Silkworm has limited lifespan and talent."