Shi Yu: Aba aba aba...

The moment Lu Qingyi spoke the names of her seven pets, Shi Yu was immediately conflicted!

How was he supposed to choose!

He hadn't expected that there would be four monarch race pets.

Picking any one of these would make 99.99% of plant controllers envious.

"Sigh."

Bai Xi shook her head beside him.

Shi Yu probably didn't realize what kind of sugar mommy he had just latched onto.

A suitable monarch race pet cub for a contract was something that even ordinary master-level Beast Tamers couldn't come across easily.

But for Lu Qingyi, who possessed an Eleventh Bureau identity and knew many legendary Beast Tamers, finding one wasn't difficult.

In summary, Shi Yu was truly lucky to have such a happy selection space!

"Some pets might not exactly match your initial requirements. Let me introduce them to you one by one, and you can choose for yourself," Lu Qingyi said.

"Okay," Shi Yu nodded obediently.

"The Dragon Blood Willow is an evolved form of the Blood-Draining Willow after absorbing dragon blood."

"It's a special breed cultivated by a top plant controller who doesn't particularly like dragons, and it grows by consuming dragon blood."

"At the same time, its sap can be used to bathe ordinary plants to create spirit plants favored by dragon-type creatures. These are used as bait to hunt dragons."

"This master cultivates a Dragon Blood Willow every few years and gives it away. This one should currently be at the transcendent level, close to the commander level, and in a newborn state, having just evolved recently."

"It is the strongest in combat potential among these seven pets, mastering the super-level racial skill 'Divine Willow.' It's a war machine that can fight with monarch-race dragons, is very restraining against dragon types, and can greatly enhance the Beast Tamer's combat power."

Lu Qingyi smiled slightly.

"This one is good, very strong in combat," the beast-eared girl senior had clearly seen the Dragon Blood Willow fight before.

That touch of blood-red willow branch could directly pierce through the scales of a giant dragon; it was very violent!

"Next is the Tree of Life. You're familiar with it, right?" Lu Qingyi asked, "Isn't there an Ancient Tree of Life monarch in Icefield City?"

Shi Yu nodded.

The Ancient Tree of Life was the evolved form of the Tree of Life.

And the Tree of Life was also a descendant of the Ancient Tree of Life.

Apart from the first batch of Trees of Life that were born for unknown reasons, most Tree of Life saplings came from the Ancient Tree of Life sacrificing itself and turning into seeds after its life force was exhausted.

"This Tree of Life sapling was born after an Ancient Tree of Life died. Its growth level has just reached the transcendent level."

"The Tree of Life is a typical healing pet. Its own life energy is very strong. It has the power to revive some ordinary plants. It also has very powerful effects when used to treat humans and other life forms, mastering the super-level racial skill 'Gift of Life.'"

"After signing a contract, it can greatly enhance the Beast Tamer's life force and can increase the Beast Tamer's lifespan by several years."

Lu stated the benefits of contracting the Tree of Life.

Shi Yu was immediately tempted when he heard this.

Because he currently had the super skill Plant Manipulation.

Gift of Life combined with Plant Manipulation was also a war machine, and the strongest gardener.

Imagine, an immortal and indestructible sea of trees descending...

The Tree of Life and Ancient Tree of Life, compared to the Dragon Blood Willow, were not particularly skilled at combat. Their main classification was still healing pets. However, the reason why the Ancient Tree of Life monarch in Icefield City could become the guardian of Icefield City was because, in addition to the racial skill Gift of Life, it had also learned the wood-type super skill Plant Manipulation in its long life.

If he chose this, Shi Yu could use Auntie Ancient Tree of Life's growth template to cultivate the little Tree of Life sapling.

Secondly, the benefits that contracting a Tree of Life brought to the Beast Tamer were also not possessed by other ordinary plant pets.

A pet's growth and evolution would provide the Beast Tamer with some feedback of power.

And the proportion of feedback power actually mainly depended on the type of pet.

Like the Iron-Eating Beast's growth, the power fed back to Shi Yu was mostly basic physical strength.

And if it was a mental-type pet, the power fed back to Shi Yu after growth would be mostly mental power.

As for contracting a Tree of Life, the feedback would definitely be more life force. Therefore, Beast Tamers who contracted healing pets generally had longer lifespans.

"This one is also very good," the beast-eared girl senior nodded.

The Tree of Life, the most reliable partner!

It could fight, it could garden, it could heal, perfect!

"The Blue Spider Lily is active in a dangerous place. I've been there to investigate before. It's a very dangerous ferocious plant that possesses the ability to create illusions and illusions. It's extremely restraining against undead creatures and masters the super-level illusion racial skill, Blue Purgatory."

"Contracting this is more dangerous, but its illusion ability is very reliable. The most important thing is that its seeds can parasitize in the Beast Tamer's body, allowing the Beast Tamer to maintain their form even if their soul leaves the body. After contracting it, even if the body accidentally dies, the consciousness can still maintain itself in soul form for a period of time, which is very good and very suitable for high-risk workers."

"Indeed, not bad," the beast-eared girl senior nodded, as expected of Senior Lu.

Shi Yu: "..."

Damn, it sounded kind of scary.

What was so good about it?

"Next is the mutated Ginseng Baby," Senior Lu said.

"How did the Ginseng Baby reach the monarch race?" Shi Yu asked.

Wasn't this a transcendent race tonic!

After hearing this name, he became very concerned.

"Mutation..." Lu Qingyi.

Shi Yu: "..."

"This is a special pet that a senior from the Eleventh Bureau recently discovered by accident during an inspection in the restricted area."

"It was originally an ordinary Ginseng Baby. In a place like the dangerous Maze restricted area, its destiny was basically to become food for other ferocious beasts."

"But the restricted area represented danger, but also opportunity."

"In that kind of place, it accidentally ate a masterless level eight resource, the Fruit of Life, and survived with a very small chance. Its body underwent a mutation, and it awakened a super-level wood-type skill 'Source of Life.'"

"Its current form is still a Ginseng Baby, but its life force, physical strength, energy value, and racial potential have all undergone tremendous changes. It can be said that it has undergone an alternative evolution."

"According to the comprehensive judgment of the senior from the Eleventh Bureau, its racial level should currently be judged as low-level monarch, no, it might be even higher, but mainly considering that the Ginseng Baby race has almost no combat power, it was rated so low."

There were three main types of transcendent plant creatures.

Combat type, mostly evolved from some more ferocious plants like carnivorous plants such as Venus flytraps.

Healing type, mastering healing skills, and with their own life force also being relatively strong, but with slightly weaker combat power.

Tonic type, this was the kind of creature that was a nourishing plant before its own evolution. Its combat power was the weakest among the three types, and it was also the most favorite food of other ferocious beasts. Often, this type of tonic plant pet had the highest nutritional value.

The Ginseng Baby was a typical tonic-type pet, with low combat power, but it could create nourishing tonics for Beast Tamers and other pets to eat. Therefore, there were many places that had Ginseng Baby farms.

"This mutated Ginseng Baby has a life force comparable to that of a Tree of Life sapling, and its energy value is also very high, not inferior to other monarch race pet cubs. Its own nourishing effect is also very good, and it has the super-level skill Source of Life, which can super-fast recover life force and physical strength. It can quickly self-produce high-quality tonics at the lowest cost, and its recovery power is strong, making it very suitable for Beast Tamers with strengthening talents whose physical consumption is huge."

"If you contract this pet, it's actually equivalent to giving up combat power and enhancing your ability to protect your life. Although you don't have a strengthening-type Beast Taming talent, and you don't need to consume physical energy, it can greatly extend the time you use the Relic Bead to phase. When you reach the legendary level, using your own Beast Taming Space to phase will have a more obvious effect."

Shi Yu was stunned for a moment.

Source of Life? A super-level recovery skill? Infinitely self-producing high-quality tonics at the lowest cost?

If he contracted a tonic-type plant pet, the pet's level-up would give feedback to the body's recovery ability…

Shi Yu was tempted again. Damn it, right now, the Dragon Blood Willow and Spider Lily were okay, but the Ancient Tree of Life and Ginseng Baby were what he needed.

Although the former couldn't directly produce tonics, as long as there were seeds, Gift of Life combined with Plant Manipulation could quickly ripen high-quality tonics.

The latter, itself, was a super tonic, and also had the ability to produce at high speed. And the most important thing was that after contracting the Ginseng Baby, his physical recovery ability would undergo a qualitative change, which was very compatible with the skill index.

"This one is also good," the beast-eared girl senior suggested.

Shi Yu: ???

Had she come to help him choose?

It was clear that she wanted them all!

Senior Lu continued to introduce the remaining three.

The remaining ones were pets that didn't have super-level skills, and weren't monarch races, but were special in their own right.

"The Forest Spirit is a plant spirit evolved and nurtured from an entire forest, and is conceptually similar to the Soul of the Mountain and the Spirit of the Lake. It can possess ordinary plants, accelerate the plant's growth speed, help it evolve into a spirit plant, and give it combat abilities. As it grows, it can control the entire forest. When the types, quality, and number of plants it possesses reach a certain upper limit, it has the potential to evolve into the Forest Monarch, a monarch race pet, and can awaken the Plant Manipulation skill."

"This one is also very good," the beast-eared girl senior praised. Senior Lu was amazing, having found so many rare plant pets.

Shi Yu: "..."

It was indeed very good. It could also create an army of tonics. The most important thing was that it could form a plant legion according to its own ideas.

Contracting one was equivalent to contracting a group.

"The Seven-Star Clover is a very special plant pet. All of its skills are defense-oriented. It has defensive skills to resist all types of attacks, and because of its small size, it can perfectly cooperate with the Beast Tamer to protect the Beast Tamer."

"In addition, it also has the Danger Perception, a mental skill containing a bit of time properties, which can help the Beast Tamer turn bad luck into good. Therefore, it is also known as the Lucky Clover. This one is very suitable for some unlucky people who like to court death."

Lu Qingyi was referring to those colleagues who died during archeology.

Shi Yu swallowed and was tempted again. Time, time, he had finally encountered his first time-type skill!

He wanted it!!!

"I want it!" the beast-eared girl senior also said.

Shi Yu: ???

"As for the Straw Magician, it is a rare space-type pet, mastering the magical ability 'Straw Substitute'. If an enemy attacks the Straw Magician's master, then it is very likely that the damage will be transferred to the straw substitute created by the Straw Magician, or the enemy's target, from beginning to end, is the scarecrow substitute."

"This is also a pet that can enhance the Beast Tamer's ability to protect their life."

This time, before the beast-eared girl senior could speak, Shi Yu said, "Do you want this too?"

Bai Xi shook her head. "It's too ugly, all gloomy."

Shi Yu: ???

"So, what have you been considering?" Lu Qingyi looked at Shi Yu with a smile.

Apart from the Blue Spider Lily, which she needed to capture herself, these pets were all in different places. She needed to use her favors and connections to buy, exchange, and ask for them. She just didn't know which one Shi Yu was more interested in.

Shi Yu fell into deep thought.

Based on his preferences, he first eliminated the Dragon Blood Willow, Blue Spider Lily, and Straw Magician.

He wasn't short of purely combat-type pets.

The Blue Spider Lily sounded like it was dangerous to obtain and contract, so forget it.

The life-saving ability given by the Straw Magician wasn't that urgent either. The Relic Bead was actually enough for now.

The most important thing was that Buggy was about to have a space-type ability, so space-type skills weren't very attractive to him anymore.

As for the Tree of Life, Mutated Ginseng Baby, Forest Spirit, and Seven-Star Clover...

Shi Yu once again eliminated the Lucky Clover. He'd see if he could copy the Danger Perception skill later, but he wouldn't contract it. He was such an excellent boy, his luck wouldn't be bad.

Afterwards, he eliminated the Forest Spirit. The main reason was that the cultivation cycle was too long. Moreover, this kind of DIY pet seemed to require a bunch of advanced spirit plant followers for its evolution. Cultivating one was equivalent to cultivating a group, which was a huge expense. He had no money! Moreover, the Plant Manipulation skill that it awakened after evolution wasn't fresh enough.

In other words, whoever he taught Plant Manipulation to would be the Forest Monarch, so there was no need to deliberately pursue the orthodox one.

Finally... there were only the Tree of Life and Mutated Ginseng Baby left to choose from.

Shi Yu thought about the advantages of the Tree of Life. First, it still had a stage of high-level monarch race evolution. Although the conditions were unknown, there was indeed a possibility of evolution.

Secondly, the Tree of Life was very suitable to be used as a gardener. Combined with Plant Manipulation, it could plant all kinds of spirit plants in the Relic Bead, not limited to tonics.

But the downside was that it needed a cultivation cycle. The current Tree of Life sapling's level was too low, the gardener level wasn't high either, and he couldn't teach it Plant Manipulation. Perhaps in one or two years, he wouldn't be able to experience the joy of quickly self-producing high-quality spirit plants, and self-sufficiency might not even be possible, let alone making money from it.

The advantages of the Mutated Ginseng Baby were that after contracting it, it could immediately provide feedback on the speed of physical recovery, and the effect was excellent when paired with the skill index. He could gain a good experience of stat points in the short term.

In addition, even before contracting it, it could quickly self-produce high-quality tonics for the current Shi Yu to use, which could save Shi Yu a lot of money.

The downside was that it had no combat power at all. It was a mutated variety, and its future development route was unknown.

"Senior, do you have any suggestions?"

Shi Yu looked at Lu Qingyi.

"I suggest... the Tree of Life sapling, Mutated Ginseng Baby, Forest Spirit, and Seven-Star Clover."

Lu Qingyi smiled, "The word 'lucky' in Lucky Clover isn't just for show."

"The Forest Spirit can be used with the Relic Space. There are many possible cultivation routes. It can be used for combat, healing, and recovery."

"From the current potential, the Tree of Life sapling can grow up to a high-level monarch. Although the conditions for evolution are very harsh, at least there's a path to follow."

"However, considering your own situation, I still recommend that you contract the Mutated Ginseng Baby."

"As a monarch race pet, it will definitely be easier to contract than the other monarch race pets."

"And don't forget, your Iron-Eating Beast and Green Silkworm are still going to evolve."

Shi Yu nodded...

"After they evolve, their racial level may reach the monarch race, and your Beast Taming Space is only at level two. Even if they give your Beast Taming Space a huge feedback after they evolve, and give you yourself a huge feedback, theoretically speaking, it will still be very difficult for you to bear, even if the Beast Taming Space reaches level three."

"And the Green Silkworm is most dependent on the Beast Tamer's own Beast Taming Space during its pupa form. If a pupa-state pet is kept in the outside world, and it doesn't absorb the nutrients provided by the pupa and the Beast Tamer, it is easy to affect the contract between the two. And if you let it sleep in the Beast Taming Space, based on its current potential... you may have a hard time."

"At that time, the Beast Taming Space will not be able to withstand their growth rate, and the nutrient supply will be insufficient. Your state will be greatly affected. But if you contract the Ginseng Baby, there will be no such impact. The recovery feedback it brings to you can greatly share this impact. And in the future, as you contract more and more pets, the value of the Ginseng Baby will become greater and greater."

"In short, although you have the Relic Bead, which can replace your Beast Taming Space, I suggest you don't do this for a long time. After all, the Beast Taming Space is the best place to maintain the bond between the Beast Tamer and their pets."

Shi Yu fell into deep thought. Would it? It seemed that Eleven and Buggy spent more time outside than in his Beast Taming Space, but their relationship was very good!

However, the best place for a pupa to stay was the Beast Tamer's own Beast Taming Space. This was indeed true. All kinds of academic papers had proven it.

Since Senior Lu had said so, it seemed that the Ginseng Baby was indeed more useful.

"Then I'll choose the Mutated Ginseng Baby," Shi Yu finally decided.

The Mutated Ginseng Baby's life force wasn't inferior to that of the Tree of Life. As long as he copied the Gift of Life, it would have the same effect. If he taught it Plant Manipulation then, it could do what the Tree of Life could do. It wasn't a problem that its combat power was weak!

Moreover, it could completely digest a level eight resource and transform itself, becoming the first mutated Ginseng Baby. This Ginseng Baby was also very unscientific. Although its future potential was unknown, it didn't necessarily mean that it was weak. Perhaps it meant that its talent was ridiculously good, Shi Yu continued to analyze.

However, if a tonic Ginseng Baby had explosive combat power... that wouldn't be easy to explain and would be unscientific. It would be even more ridiculous than Buggy. True food that hits people!

"Are you choosing directly? Actually, you can choose two or three to see with your own eyes whether they're suitable for you before making a decision," Lu Qingyi said.

Shi Yu was stunned. Was she giving him a chance to copy their skills first?