Chapter 5
Red-Clad Hibiscus and Glazed Crystal Scorpion
While Zhongyi was busy picking through the remains of these ordinary beasts, Hongji was not idle either.
Although the Stand doll didn't have much fighting power, its strength was much greater than that of Zhong Yi, a sixteen-year-old human boy.
"Hongji, please help me remove the venom glands and cavities from these three red-coated vipers. Be careful not to damage the venom glands."
The scales of the red-bellied viper are extremely tough, making it difficult to use scissors to cut along the snake's mouth to the abdominal cavity and remove the venom glands and body even with strong hands.
The venom and body cavity of the Red-Cavity Viper are used as materials to cultivate Insect-Catching Hibiscus during the quality improvement process, and there is a certain probability that the Insect-Catching Hibiscus will evolve into the Red-Cavity Hibiscus.
The insect-catching hibiscus is an ordinary beast placed indoors to attract and catch mosquitoes; it has little fighting ability.
The insects are harmed by the corrosive acid secreted between the flowers. However, by using the cavity of the red-coated viper and its venom to induce the insect-catching hibiscus to successfully evolve into the red-coated hibiscus.
The flowers of the red-flowered hibiscus can spray out acidic liquid by contracting their flower cavities, much like a red-flowered viper.
The venom of the red-bellied viper can also enhance the strength of the digestive fluid of the insect-catching hibiscus and make the digestive fluid toxic.
Among all mortal-level snake-type tamed beasts, the Red-Cavity Viper's combat power is only at a medium level.
However, the red-coated viper can swallow creatures more than ten times its own size by venom and digest them in a very short time.
Its digestive ability ranks first among ordinary snake-type beast tamers, and even many extraordinary snake-type beast tamers cannot compete with the Red-Cavity Viper in terms of digestive ability.
After the Insect-Catching Hibiscus evolves into the Red-Cavity Hibiscus, it can perfectly inherit the digestive ability of the Red-Cavity Viper.
At that time, the Insect-Catching Hibiscus will no longer need to feed on small insects such as mosquitoes, but will be able to devour large creatures up to 20 times its own size, using flesh and blood energy to rapidly improve its quality.
Looking at the neatly categorized remains of ordinary beasts, Zhong Yi released the Soul Control Flower rooted in his soul.
At this moment, air, time, and space seemed to freeze in three ways, and an eerie blue-purple flower phantom appeared behind Zhong Yi.
This blue-purple flower has thousands of spiky strands that flutter around it like the tentacles of a sea anemone, protecting Zhongyi in the center.
Faced with the corpses of ordinary beasts on the ground, the Soul-Controlling Flower, which was in dire need of replenishing its life and soul energy, was extremely thirsty.
However, the Soul-Controlling Flower did not immediately wave its ribbon-like petals and swarm towards the corpses of these mortal beasts to feed on them. Instead, it asked Zhongyi for her opinion.
Just like a child who sees something delicious and asks their mother if they can eat it.
Zhong Yi arranged these beast corpses into categories precisely to determine the palatability of the Soul-Controlling Flower and to ascertain which beast corpses the Soul-Controlling Flower preferred to eat.
"Eat up, I'll prepare more for you if you're still hungry."
Upon receiving Zhongyi's command, the filaments that had originally swarmed towards Zhongyi ceased their movement, while the remaining filaments continued to extend, like tentacles that swept up the corpses of ordinary beasts on the ground.
Blue-purple light shone continuously among these filaments, and with the surging of the light, the life energy and soul energy of these mortal beast corpses were constantly being drawn out.
Zhongyi could feel the Soul-Controlling Flower in her soul swaying contentedly and wriggling its roots after absorbing this life and soul energy.
A dark, ink-like substance faintly appeared among the roots, surrounding the roots of the Soul-Controlling Flower like soil.
Through the connection established with the Soul-Controlling Flower, these dark substances seemed to grow out of Zhongyi's own body.
Zhong Yi has an extremely clear understanding of these dark, inky substances.
This substance is called Soul-Breathing Soil, which is a substance that naturally forms on the roots of the Soul-Controlling Flower during the process of absorbing life energy or soul energy.
On one hand, the Soul-Breaking Soil can be used as a protective measure to help Zhongyi resist attacks at the soul level.
On the other hand, this Soul-Breaking Soil is actually a unique substance that can promote the evolution of all things and leap in quality.
It can greatly increase the evolution probability of a beast when it breaks through its quality!
Zhong Yi couldn't help but look at the Insect-Catching Hibiscus, whose quality was about to undergo a transformation, and prepared to experiment with the effect of the Soul-Flowing Soil in promoting the evolution of beasts.
In less than three minutes, the Soul-Controlling Flower had absorbed all the life and soul energy from the more than three hundred catties of mortal beast corpse, but the Soul-Controlling Flower was still in a state of hunger.
He then spoke to Hong Ji, who had already separated the venom glands and cavity of the red-coated viper.
"Hongji, go and tell Uncle Huai to try to get as many beast carcasses as possible."
"If you find any extraordinary-grade beast corpses, don't hesitate to buy them as well; buy as many as you can."
In Zhong Yi's view, hoarding money is far less important than improving one's own strength.
Furthermore, making money in this world of beast taming is an extremely easy thing for Zhong Yi.
Right now, nothing is more important than ensuring the Soul Flower absorbs enough energy.
Although the Soul-Controlling Flower did not absorb enough energy, during the process of absorbing life and soul energy, it not only secreted Soul-Flowing Soil from its roots, but also grew a lump-like organ on one side of the flower.
A large portion of the life and soul energy absorbed by the Soul-Controlling Flower through its flower head converges into this newly grown, lump-like organ.
Not long after, Hong Ji returned to the warehouse with the storage bag.
"Master, there are over 1700 jin of ordinary beast corpses here, and only one extraordinary beast corpse, which is a relatively complete Glazed Flame Crystal Scorpion."
"Apart from the left scorpion pincer being completely shattered, there were no other obvious injuries."
Zhong Chenghuai supported this beast-taming shop for many years. Although he didn't achieve much, he accumulated some channels and connections.
These channels and connections are coming in handy right now; otherwise, finding so many beast carcasses in a short period of time while ensuring their freshness would not be an easy task.
After emptying the remains of the beasts, Zhong Yi's gaze fell on the enormous scorpion, which was nearly two meters long and was decorated with crimson and black stripes.
The Crystal Scorpion is a fire-rock dual-element insect-type beast that attacks by manipulating flames. The rock element within its body condenses into dark red crystalline armor under the burning of the fire element.
Crystalline armor adhered to its carapace, giving the Flame Crystal Scorpion extremely strong close-combat capabilities.
It's unclear how the left pincer of this Flame Crystal Scorpion shattered, but it's clear that the Flame Crystal Scorpion died from a dimensional reduction attack.
The Soul-Controlling Flower wasn't picky about food, so this time it was fine not to bother cleaning up the dumped beast carcasses.
However, it is clear that the Soul-Controlling Flower is more interested in the extraordinary beast corpse of the Glazed Flame Crystal Scorpion than in the corpses of other ordinary beasts.
The Soul-Controlling Flower devoured the more than 2000-pound beast corpse, and life energy and soul energy surged into the Soul-Controlling Flower like a tide, making it even more alluring.