System Bro Earns Flame Immunity

Jiang Xing could tell that System Bro had probably just come from the set of some urban spirit novel. Right out of the gate, it threw out the standard two-hit combo—spirit evolution and Energy Cubes.

In the usual urban spirit novel formula, this was much the same as Minecraft's "Want to get rich? Punch trees first."

The problem was...

This was overpowered. This wasn't the Spirit World!

What was he supposed to do with a Berry Blender as a reward? Pull a couple of Berries out from under his pants and make Energy Cubes for it?

Jiang Xing truly couldn't take it anymore.

That said.

Although System Bro's second quest reward was ridiculous, the quest itself was quite simple.

To save on research costs and better control the research data, Jiang Xing usually bought the ingredients himself and made food for the Golden-Veined Koi.

He couldn't say much about other spirit foods, but making a batch of high-quality fish feed was easy enough.

Borrowing the lab equipment, he produced a large basin of fresh, high-quality fish feed in less than twenty minutes.

[Quest complete. You have received a reward.]

[Name: Portable Automatic Berry Mixer]

[Effect: A portable Berry Blender that requires no manual operation. After any Berry is placed inside, it can automatically produce the corresponding type of Energy Cube... However, its quality cannot be guaranteed, and it can only produce ordinary-quality cubes.]

[Placed in the exclusive Spirit Item Storage. Can be deposited or retrieved at any time.]

Jiang Xing remembered that the Berry Blenders in the Pokemon World required manual operation.

The Berries placed inside, their proportions, and the spinning speed... all affected the quality of the resulting Energy Cubes.

If incompatible Berries were used, the process could even fail.

So, although the Energy Cubes produced by an automatic Berry Mixer were only average in quality, it could save a huge amount of trial-and-error costs for someone who knew nothing about the recipes.

But Jiang Xing had to say it again.

This was the Beast Taming World!

Even genuine Berries from the Spirit World required the right recipe and proportions to produce Energy Cubes.

Even if Jiang Xing found some vaguely similar fruits and put them into the Berry Blender, there was no way they could make real Energy Cubes—

They simply weren't the same thing.

So while the Berry Blender looked wonderful, it was actually just junk.

"Forget it. It's still an advanced device from the Spirit World. Later, I'll see if I can crack its technology and reconstruct the theory behind making Energy Cubes..."

"The Beast Taming World also has resource fruits and various resource crops that contain energy and are used as Pet Beast food."

"If I grasp the technical principles, perhaps I can turn them into Energy Cubes as well."

Jiang Xing set the Berry Blender aside and focused on thinking through his experimental plan, looking for areas that could be optimized.

Yet before he realized it, his gaze had drifted back to it.

Maybe... I should try it?

After all, it was a reward from the system. Never using it at all would be too wasteful.

Besides, while high-quality resource fruits were expensive, the cultivation problems for many common resource fruits had already been solved by agricultural Doctors, allowing them to be grown on a large scale.

The cheapest varieties were even less expensive than many ordinary fruits.

Jiang Xing might be poor, but he wasn't so poor that he couldn't afford to try.

So he went to a fruit shop, spent a hundred yuan on seven or eight cheap resource fruits, then hurried back to the laboratory building and stuffed them into the Berry Blender.

The Berry Blender could hold up to four types of Berries at a time.

To save money, Jiang Xing chose the two cheapest kinds. He figured that if it failed, he could keep the remaining fruits for himself. After all, humans were essentially magical creatures too, and could eat Pet Beast food...

However, before he could even touch the resource fruits—

With a ding, six Energy Cubes popped out from the Berry Blender's dispensing slot.

The cubes were pale yellow, like neatly shaped candies, and gave off a faintly tart apple scent.

Holy shit!

Jiang Xing immediately picked up the Energy Cubes and placed them into the lab's instruments.

Their nutritional value was high, and the energy they contained was high too... No, that wasn't right. The energy index of a single cube already far exceeded that of the two resource fruits used as raw materials. Together, the six cubes contained nearly ten times the total energy!

Not to mention that, according to the test results, as concentrated energy, they were easier for Pet Beasts to absorb than fruits and offered greater cultivation efficiency.

This wasn't scientific!!

What? It was system-produced?

Then never mind.

Come to think of it, the Pokemon World even had a miraculous item called Leftovers. As long as a spirit carried it, it could eat endlessly and recover stamina without limit. It was a true perpetual food machine.

Compared to that, Energy Cubes only increasing nutritional value severalfold after synthesis was already quite conservative.

And the key point was...

Resource fruits from the Beast Taming World could actually be placed into the Berry Blender to make Energy Cubes!!

The item rewarded by the system was actually useful!

System Bro, I'll never call you trash again!

"Great! With the Berry Blender, I can make specialized Energy Cubes to cultivate the Golden-Veined Koi and complete my research..."

"Although resource fruits containing Dragon Attribute energy are also very expensive, they're far, far cheaper than true Dragon Attribute resources!"

"It can greatly ease my financial burden!"

With the food problem solved, all that remained was move learning.

Dragon Attribute moves were extremely precious. They were secret teachings of many Dragon Tamer Clans and were never shared outside.

However, Jiang Xing didn't need any particularly precious moves. As long as they had some effect and were even slightly related to the Dragon Attribute, they would meet the requirement—the Golden-Veined Koi was only a Low-Transcendental Pet Beast. Truly powerful Dragon Attribute moves would be beyond its ability to learn anyway!

That would greatly reduce the cost.

After pondering for a moment, Jiang Xing took out his phone and made a call.

When the call connected, he heard the sound of crashing waves from the other end, followed by a pleasant female voice.

"Jiang Xing, why are you suddenly calling? Did you run into a problem with your thesis?"

"Senior Sister, you guessed right." Jiang Xing said sheepishly, "I want to test whether the Golden-Veined Koi can evolve into a dragon-type Pet Beast, but I'm still missing a Dragon Attribute move... I remember you raised a Dragon Attribute Pet Beast. Could you lend me some materials?"

Even the weakest Dragon Attribute move, even after cutting costs as much as possible, would still cost no less than a million!

Ordinarily, Jiang Xing would never ask Senior Sister Su to "lend" him resources of this level.

Now that he had the [Berry Blender] and [Energy Cubes], even if the experiment ultimately failed, he could repay Senior Sister Su's favor in the future by making Energy Cubes.

That was why he had shamelessly asked Senior Sister Su to lend him the move materials.

"Carp Leaping Over the Dragon Gate? Not a bad idea."

"I'll send the file to your email later. Finish your thesis properly, and don't let your advisor down."

Jiang Xing breathed a sigh of relief and smiled. "Thank you, Senior Sister!"