Chapter 7
Red-Cheung Hibiscus
Every beast at the mortal level has a basic skill, which is bestowed by its race and bloodline.
As their strength increases, the skills granted by this race and bloodline will continuously improve.
If the bloodline can be transformed during the process of improving quality, this basic skill will also change according to the transformation of the bloodline.
The skill possessed by household beasts like Stand Dolls is called Memory Enhancement. This skill allows Stand Dolls to remember things they have seen or done.
It can be used as a memorandum for contractors in daily life and has no combat capabilities.
The skill mastery gained after transforming into a Fusion Puppet allows the Fusion Puppet to incorporate the combat techniques of other creatures into its own combat style through observation, thus transforming them into its own combat power.
Different creatures have different fighting styles. In addition to their superb fighting skills, what allows these creatures to defeat their enemies in dangerous environments is their innate fighting instincts.
Benihime can also learn this fighting instinct through observation.
This allows Hong Ji to become a combat master who integrates the strengths of hundreds or even thousands of creatures, thanks to her mastery of skills and combat techniques.
Each time a beast's quality is improved, regardless of whether it evolves or not, it will gain a unique trait.
Unlike basic skills, exclusive traits can vary even among the same type of beast after its quality is improved.
The exclusive material absorption obtained by Red Princess when she reached the Bronze quality turned her body into a giant furnace.
It can absorb materials and metals from various beasts into its body, making them a part of its body.
The exclusive trait gained from advancing to Silver quality allows Red Princess to reconstruct her body using absorbed materials during battle, making her combat style more versatile.
Zhong Yi smiled as he looked at the corpses scattered on the ground, their life and soul energy absorbed by the Soul-Controlling Flower.
The corpses, having had their life and soul energy absorbed, can no longer be used as food for other beasts, but they can be used as materials to form the body of the Red Princess.
"Red Princess, use your unique material absorption ability to clean up all the spiritual materials here."
Zhong Yi noticed that Hong Ji's gaze was fixed on the two-meter-long Glazed Crystal Scorpion not far away, her eyes lingering on the red crystalline scales covering the scorpion's body.
Zhong Yi added with a smile.
"This corpse of the Flame Crystal Scorpion is also yours."
Upon receiving Zhongyi's instruction, Hongji remained outwardly calm, but her movements as she raised her hands were faster than usual.
The palms of Hong Ji's hands cracked, forming two external mouths. These two mouths swallowed the various materials scattered on the ground into Hong Ji's body at an extremely fast speed.
After swallowing the more than 2000 kilograms of ingredients, Hong Ji's body did not change at all, but her movements became sluggish.
Hong Ji's body was like a huge spatial sac, and at this moment, she was classifying and absorbing the materials that had been placed inside her.
It would take Hong Ji some time to sort and classify these materials, so Zhong Yi simply took two steps forward, picked up the pot of insect-catching hibiscus whose quality was about to change, and placed the separated venom glands and cavity of the red-lance viper directly into the flowerpot.
Normally, to induce a beast to absorb materials, the materials need to be carefully processed and mixed.
Ideally, one should be able to mix the materials into a potion, which falls within the capabilities of a creator.
However, because of the existence of the Soul-Breaking Soil, it can be used directly as a medium between materials and beasts.
In addition to promoting the evolution of tamed beasts during the quality transformation process, it also allows tamed beasts to perfectly absorb unprocessed materials.
Zhong Yi took out a drop of Soul-Flowing Soil, which had a mercury-like texture in his palm.
The inky, soul-flowing soil seemed to be absorbing the light in the room!
Unlike the splendor of the Soul-Controlling Flower, this Soul-Flowing Soil gives off an extremely evil feeling.
Zhong Yi dripped the Soul-Breathing Soil from his palm into the flowerpot where ordinary hibiscus was planted. The Soul-Breathing Soil directly dissolved the venom glands and cavity of the Red-Spear Viper, causing the soil to boil.
The venom glands of the Red-coated Viper, along with the viscous liquid formed by its cavity and the Soul-Breathing Soil, enveloped the Insect-Catching Lotus.
The six or seven palm-sized leaves of the Insect-Catching Hibiscus withered rapidly upon contact with the viscous liquid created by the Soul-Flowing Soil.
In just two minutes, the insect-catching hibiscus turned into a pot of withered grass.
But at the end of withering comes new life!
Three or four tender leaves emerged from the boiling soil, and these leaves quickly grew to the size of a washbasin.
The dark green leaves were covered with winding, dark red snake-like patterns.
In less than five minutes, new leaves kept growing, and more than a dozen leaves the size of a washbasin completely covered the flowerpot.
Two flower stalks emerged from the leaves like nimble snakes, and after growing to nearly a meter tall, they produced two flower buds larger than Zhong Yi's fist.
Once these two buds are fully open, the diameter of each red hibiscus flower will likely be no less than eighty centimeters.
Having achieved a quality upgrade, the Red-Cavity Hibiscus possesses extremely strong combat capabilities, and its cavity inherits the tough characteristics of the Red-Cavity Viper's cavity.
Even if its strength is slightly weaker than that of the red-cavity viper's cavity, the difference won't be significant.
However, Zhong Yi would be willing to use the Soul-Breaking Soil to cultivate the Insect-Catching Hibiscus and induce it to evolve into the Red-Cavity Hibiscus, which has nothing to do with the Red-Cavity Hibiscus's own strength.
It should be noted that the Soul-Controlling Flower's root system secretes very little Soul-Breathing Soil.
Zhong Yi was willing to consume Soul-Breaking Soil to cultivate Red Lotus because Red Lotus is a high-quality production-type beast that produces poison-type materials.
Firstly, the daily production of digestive juices by the Red-bellied Hibiscus is extremely large, and these digestive juices can be secreted again as long as the Red-bellied Hibiscus eats flesh and blood after use.
In addition to being highly acidic, the digestive juices it secretes also possess the same toxicity as the red-bellied viper.
Fifty milliliters of venom from the red-coated viper can fetch nearly twenty thousand federal dollars.
The red hibiscus that Zhong Yi is currently cultivating is very promising. Zhong Yi has just discovered the data of this red hibiscus.
[Beast Name]: Red Lotus
[Beast Species]: Malvaceae/Hibiscus
[Beast Taming Level]: Mortal Beast (9/10)
[Beast Taming Type]: Wood/Poison
[Beast Taming Quality]: Bronze
skill:
[Acid Spray]: The acid is compressed through the strong calyx cavity and then sprayed out in one go towards the designated location.
Exclusive Features:
【Concentrated Acid】: Concentrate the toxic acid produced in the body to increase the concentration and acidity of the toxic components in the acid.
The exclusive trait gained by this Red Lotus when it is promoted to Bronze quality is Concentrated Acid. By concentrating the toxicity of digestive fluids, the digestive fluid produced by the Red Lotus is not only no less toxic than the venom produced by the venom glands of the Red Viper of the same rank and quality.
It might even be several levels more toxic!