Is Your Grass Even Decent?

At noon, hundreds upon thousands of students streamed out of Xin'an Beast Taming Academy's gates and into the surrounding restaurants.

Their faces still carried the innocence of high schoolers, their damned youthful vigor practically overflowing.

Zhou Lu cradled a potted green plant as he leaned over the dorm balcony, watching the young women passing below.

He had to admit, young people these days really dressed boldly.

These first-year freshmen who had just enrolled were lucky. A new Spirit Beast secret realm had just been discovered, meaning they had more possibilities when choosing their Spirit Beasts. They no longer necessarily had to be bound by Spirit Beast breeding companies and forced to accept their exorbitant breeding formulas and Evolution Materials.

Of course, brand-new Spirit Beasts also meant unknown evolution paths, which would greatly increase a Beast Tamer's burden.

But none of that had anything to do with Zhou Lu.

He was just there to look at legs.

As a transmigrator, Zhou Lu was not surprised in the slightest by his predecessor's orphan status. His only regret was probably that his professor father had sold off all the family property and poured everything into research, only to suddenly die in the laboratory. What should have been a wealthy family had not left him a single asset.

Fortunately, the Beast Taming Academy had been quite decent, and his father's students had taken good care of him. Otherwise, with his predecessor's quiet and taciturn personality, he might have starved to death alone in his room one day without anyone ever noticing.

Thinking of this, Zhou Lu turned his gaze back toward the school gates in the distance. Since transmigrating into this utterly unfamiliar world, this was one of the few ways he had found to ease the gloom in his heart.

After all, whether in his previous life or this one, breasts were still breasts, and legs were still legs.

Since things had come to this, he might as well look at black stockings.

The green plant in his arms seemed to sense its owner's shifting emotions. Its emerald leaves swayed gently, while the tender bud atop its stem lifted like a little head toward Zhou Lu.

Zhou Lu noticed the movement in his arms and lowered his head for a look.

The green plant, which looked just like roadside weeds, shook its stalk. Then the soil beneath it stirred, and a snow-white root broke through the earth.

Having done all that, the little grass patted its leaves as though inviting Zhou Lu to look at its legs.

Fine. Even though he had accepted the fact that he had transmigrated, he still could not accept a blade of grass acting cute at him and showing off its legs.

The little grass found its master's reaction very strange.

Its master clearly loved looking at legs. Why would he not look at its?

So it exerted great effort and finally stretched another thick root out of the soil.

Then it raised its head and looked proudly at Zhou Lu. Mine are whiter than theirs!

"N-No... I mean, there's no need, Huohuo." Though Zhou Lu had no idea what the little grass named Huohuo was trying to say, he somehow felt that he understood it. "I may like looking at legs, but usually girls' legs... or at least human legs. My tastes aren't that bizarre yet."

Huohuo swayed, confused by Zhou Lu's words. But it could hear the rejection in its master's voice, and it drooped its leaves in disappointment.

In a Beast Taming world, it was understandable for a blade of grass to be so spirited.

But the protagonists of other Beast Taming novels started with pandas, tigers, lions, and the like. At worst, they got cats or dogs. Why had it turned into a blade of grass when it came to him?

Let me think... who was the last protagonist to use grass as a weapon? ...Fine, why did that make me feel even worse?

Damn it. Who knew what madness had possessed his father, insisting that he contract a blade of grass and waste his only Beast Taming Card slot?

Plant-type Spirit Beasts simply could not stay away from soil for long before evolving to the second tier and completing metamorphosis. Although many Beast Taming Technology products now attempted to solve this problem, they still could not compare with other types of Spirit Beasts.

He could have been ruthless and pulled Huohuo out directly. Before evolving to the second tier, most Plant-type Spirit Beasts had no ability to walk. Some were so weak that they could not even beat humans. But looking at the lively little green fellow in his arms, Zhou Lu could not bring himself to do it.

Forget it. I don't have the talent to be a Beast Tamer anyway, nor am I chasing after strength. Raising it is still raising it.

In this world, where all existing resources had already been claimed, even a transmigrator probably could not carve out a place for himself in a world with such mature systems and rigid advancement paths without a cheat, could he?

As Zhou Lu thought this, his phone suddenly rang. He glanced at the caller ID, hesitated briefly, then answered. "Hello, Sister Xiaoqing."

"Do you have time now? Come to my laboratory for a simple meal?" A woman's pleasant voice came from the other end.

Wu Xiaoqing was one of his predecessor's father's students, as well as one of the graduate students who had been in the laboratory at the time.

After his predecessor's father died, she had taken especially good care of him.

But... Sister Xiaoqing, are you sure you can cook?

Zhou Lu recalled the terrifying experience from not long ago.

Just as Zhou Lu was about to decline tactfully, a voice suddenly rang out in his mind.

Ding! A qualified candidate has been detected. Beginning detection procedure.

At first, Zhou Lu thought he was hallucinating, but he quickly realized:

Could it be... my transmigrator benefits had arrived?

Ding! Beginning attachment procedure.

Ding! Congratulations, Host, on obtaining the World-Saving System.

It's here! It's here! My golden finger is here!

Ten years from now, Zhou Lu, the strongest, most wicked, and most terrifying Demon God in history, will destroy the entire world. Beneath his Endless Rose, everyone's consciousness will sleep forever, while their bodies will be enslaved by him for all eternity.

The Spirit Beasts he raises will become demonic gods that destroy the world, and all living beings will wail beneath their vines.

To prevent this tragedy, Host must use every possible means to stop the Demon God's growth and awakening.

The system will guide the Host through missions.

Current optional mission one: Kill Wu Xiaoqing.

Mission description: Wu Xiaoqing, a graduate student at the Xin'an Beast Taming Academy Breeding Research Institute, is one of the people who guided Zhou Lu onto the path of a Beast Tamer. She has repeatedly saved Zhou Lu's life at the most critical moments and is a great enemy on the Host's mission path. Should an opportunity arise, the Host may eliminate this obstacle.

Mission reward: Random Permanent Spirit Beast Skill Card (A-rank) ×1

Current optional mission two: Obtain materials related to the Endless Rose's Special Evolution ahead of time.

"..."

Zhou Lu... isn't that fucking me?

What was wrong with this system? How had he become the world-destroying Demon God?

"Hello? Xiao Lu, are you listening?" Wu Xiaoqing's voice on the other end carried a hint of anxiety.

"Ah, I'm listening, I'm listening." Only then did Zhou Lu come back to himself. "No problem. I'll definitely be there on time."

"That's good." Wu Xiaoqing breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh, right. Bring me some salt when you come."

"...Do you want me to bring some millet peppers too?"

"No need. The senior next door specializes in Solanaceae Spirit Beasts. There are definitely plants from the pepper genus over there. Maybe we can even pick peppers from a pepper plant that has already awakened into a Spirit Beast."