Beast Taming: the More the Better

"Xiao Qing, do you have any thoughts on the Skill Cultivation of clone-type Skills?"

"AWOO!"

Through Psychic Communication and soul connection, Su Ping grasped the meaning of Xiao Qing's roar with incredible precision. This realization left him silent.

Very well, it can clone... plant sunflowers...

Su Ping's brow finally furrowed, then he looked at Xiao Qing with a strange expression, "Xiao Qing, when did you start liking to plant these things?"

Xiao Qing's tail swayed. "AWOO!"

"After advancing to Elite Level? And you really like the scent that these things give off?"

Su Ping blinked. This made sense. Only after Xiao Qing's advancement to Elite Level had Su Ping's Beast Taming Space acquired the 'ecological cycle' Trait, allowing these basic plantable resources to grow.

But why?

At this moment, Su Ping felt that he clearly didn't know enough about Xiao Qing.

During this period, while focusing on the in-depth Cultivation of his other Pet Beasts, he had neglected to analyze the reasons behind Xiao Qing's Poison Type Mutation.

Now, after summoning the little creature and having a detailed chat, Su Ping realized some peculiarities.

He thought for a moment and glanced at the Forest Wolf Catalog, which he hadn't checked in a long time:

[Catalog: Forest Wolf]

[...]

[Current Catalog Level: 3 (16,952/20,000)]

Known Evolutionary Atlas, special Cultivation:

[Wanmu Wolf:...]

[Crown Wolf Emperor:...]

[...]

Preferences, habits:

[Likes basking in the sun, likes playing in the forest, prefers group actions, stronger in daylight or within the forest.]

Log records:

[...]

[...]

[Poison Type Mutation in Forest Wolf breakthrough: Further analysis on the causes of the Forest Wolf's Poison Type Mutation is available. Consume 40,090 Experience Points from this Catalog to forcibly analyze the Forest Wolf's Poison Type bloodline Mutation causes and obtain the Mutated Cultivation method.]

[...]

[Poison Type Mutation in Forest Wolf breakthrough: Further analysis on the causes of the Forest Wolf's Poison Type Mutation is available. Consume 27,090 Experience Points from this Catalog...]

[...]

[Using Plague Orb, mutated Poison Type Forest Wolf's Level increased, Poison Type Abilities further enhanced. Consume 19,980 Experience Points from this Catalog...]

[...]

Su Ping focused mainly on the log records concerning Xiao Qing's bloodline Mutation.

On closer inspection, he realized he had indeed overlooked a lot of information.

Moreover, during this period, the Experience Points required to analyze Xiao Qing's Poison Type Mutation had decreased significantly.

However, Su Ping suddenly felt invigorated.

He felt like he might have found some key insights regarding Xiao Qing.

The joy of planting might be closely related to the origins of Xiao Qing's Mutation!

And this might also be related to Xiao Qing's native Wood Attribute. Xiao Qing's Poison Type and Wood Element both seemed to be correspondingly enhanced.

Xiao Qing's liking for planting wasn't actually about the enjoyment of harvesting fruits.

Could it be purely because of the strong Wood Element aura in these plantable resources?

Could this alleviate the relative imbalance between Xiao Qing's intermingled Poison and Wood Attributes?

With this thought, cold sweat beaded on Su Ping's forehead.

He had almost made a critical mistake! One that could have affected his first contracted Pet Beast!

Indeed, the Cultivation of Pet Beast Attributes is relative. He had been too focused on cultivating Xiao Qing's Poison Attribute, neglecting the enhancement of its Wood Attribute.

Su Ping leaped out of bed and went to the computer. He rubbed the head of Xiao Qing, who was lying on his lap, then began his search.

Wood Element, Poison Type resources.

Instantly, a vast array of answers appeared before Su Ping.

He then glanced at the time and directly called Lao Guan.

Soon, Lao Guan came in with quite a few items.

He brought Elite Level and Commander Level Life and Wood Element resources.

Lao Guan didn't hurry to leave but looked at Su Ping somewhat curiously.

Su Ping didn't mind. After a moment's thought, he took out the most frequently used Commander Level Wood Element resource: the Heart of Woods.

Qin Xiaoxue has a mutated Pet Beast, that Life Ancient Tree.

That Life Ancient Tree had mutated a rare Death Attribute, the absolute antithesis of the Life Attribute.

But precisely because of this, its Life Attribute was too overwhelming, suppressing the Death Attribute.

Unable to achieve a balance between the two, Qin Xiaoxue had to periodically make the Life Ancient Tree release Life Energy while simultaneously replenishing Death Energy.

Back then, Su Ping had relied on the Life Energy discharged by the Life Ancient Tree; pine nuts had used this energy to illuminate the Luozisong Catalog.

However, this was not the case with Xiao Qing.

Su Ping had never cultivated Xiao Qing's Wood Attribute, focusing mainly on its Poison Attribute.

This meant Xiao Qing's Wood and Poison Attributes were not like the two forms of Life and Death, but were instead interconnected and interdependent. Otherwise, Xiao Qing might truly have encountered problems under such conditions.

However, it was precisely for this reason that Su Ping hadn't noticed Xiao Qing's peculiarities.

Of course, the fact that nothing detrimental had occurred might also be due to the effect of Xiao Qing's 'Heart of the Poison Wood' Mutated Skill.

This Mutated Skill could absorb both Poison Type and Wood Element energies, converting them to some extent.