Pagoda as a Home, Lin Yuan's Hopes

[Pagoda LV1]: The pet beast takes its body as a pagoda and the pagoda as a home. Entities recognized as family by it gain a series of small-scale boosts around it, including growth speed, recovery speed, learning speed, and so on.

The pagoda is nurtured by emotions. The more exuberant the pet beast's emotions and the more true they are to its true self, the higher the probability of condensing a [Treasure Fruit], with its quality relating to the gestation duration and emotional concentration.

Lin Yuan looked at the description of this "bonded trait" on the panel.

To a certain extent, he also understood the characteristic features brought by the [Bonded Enlightenment Art]—the influence of the pet beast's personality.

Different pet beast species generally possess fixed traits when in their unique forms, with only a small number producing new traits due to special bloodlines or attribute mutations.

Yet overall, they still fell within a certain scope—the Chenlong Kingdom's official authorities had specialized trait description books, which were also content to be studied in senior-year general education classes.

Therefore, even if Lin Yuan had previously seen some "different" traits, he was not surprised, because he knew of the existence of such traits.

However, a "bonded trait" was far too unique and true to the self, and Lin Yuan had every reason to believe that the bonded trait produced by each individual would be different, and perhaps even a trait that had never appeared before.

Not to mention that it also possessed growth potential.

It was hardly any wonder that it was marked with a special color in the [Trait] column.

This scene and setting involuntarily brought to Lin Yuan's mind a picture from the past, when his mother had stood right here in this plant room, speaking to Zilan, to him, and to his father: "The place where you are is home."

The "pagoda" seemed to be the exact inheritance of this spirit, as well as the manifestation of the unique character cultivated in Zilan by his mother.

This prompted Lin Yuan to gently stroke Zilan's petals as he spoke, "Zilan, the place where you are is home."

Upon hearing this, Zilan could not help but have its emotions condense.

The pagoda phantom behind it also appeared tangible in that very instant.

The joy brought by Zilan's evolution still lingered and hovered around.

Yet business that needed attending to still had to be attended to.

Because Linghuan had stood guard for Lin Yuan for over an hour and had not finished the tasks on its hands, it also hurried to leave the plant room to continue working.

Zilan had just evolved; it needed to adapt to its energy, its bodily changes, and the reasonable application of its new trait.

It had always known its importance to this family and to Yuanming Pet Food Shop.

It kept firmly in mind the impact that those two previous failed evolutions had brought to this household's finances, and for this evolution, the young master must have spent quite a bit of money.

Fortunately, its abilities had also improved, and it had to exert its energy to quickly help the young master earn that money back and continue using its abilities to guard this home.

Baishi, on the other hand, was not quite so listless anymore; it remained by Zilan's side, but many images began to leap across its little brain.

It also began to repeatedly ruminate on the few sentences Lin Yuan had spoken today.

"Do you want to be a lion? I'll help you."

"Zilan, I'm still here."

"Zilan, the place where you are is home."

It was half a year old and still grew like a little kitten, yet this time it seemed it was finally brought back to a place with warmth. Was it really okay to just loaf around and slack off as it had in the past?

Its heart began to grow scorching hot, and it could not help but wave its paws and begin training.

Although its body was still somewhat frail, for some reason, this time it felt exceptionally strong.

Lin Yuan was at this moment also busy in his own room.

Bringing Zilan to a successful evolution was merely the first step in his plan.

There were still many official procedural matters to attend to.

What it originally produced was ordinary high-grade [Purple Dew], but now it was the transcendent high-grade [Spirit Dew], and the effects were much better as well; naturally, it could also fetch a better selling price.

It was just that graded goods, if one wished to sell them through the Chenlong Kingdom's official store channels, all required certification.

They would arrange professional certification personnel to analyze and evaluate the merchandise, and then provide an estimated price.

The merchant's final selling price could only fluctuate up or down by ten percent of their pricing; this was the rule of the Pet Beast Alliance, and also a means by which they maintained market balance.

Moreover, the Pet Beast Alliance required samples to be re-tested every month and re-evaluated to prevent any decline in quality.

This was also the fastest channel Lin Yuan could currently rely on, and he basically had no need to worry about unfair phenomena occurring.

Their previous listed price for [Purple Dew] in the stores was 1,500 Alliance Coins for thirty drops, which was roughly Zilan's production volume for one week.

Under most circumstances, [Purple Dew] could be sold off completely every month, which also guaranteed Yuanming Pet Food Shop a fixed monthly income source of 6,000 Alliance Coins.

Coupled with the sales of [Purple Star Vine] and other ordinary pet foods, Yuanming Pet Food Shop's monthly sales volume generally fell between eight thousand and ten thousand.

After deducting daily expenses, expenditure on cultivating Zilan and Linghuan, Qin Bailing's wages, Lin Yuan's expenses at school, and the expenditure needed to temper his spiritual power, he was still able to save around two thousand every month.

This was the reason why he had saved 40,000 Alliance Coins over the past two years.

However, transcendent high-grade floral dew was completely different.

Lin Yuan understood that there were currently two most precious types on the market: one was called [Azure Dew], which was the specialty of the transcendent high-grade plant pet beast [Azure Water Star Lotus].

There was also another kind called [Butterfly Fragrance], which was the specialty of another transcendent high-grade plant, [Butterfly Feather Tulip].

However, their efficacy differed from that of Zilan's Spirit Dew; arguably, in the Transcendent High-Grade market, Spirit Dew could hold its own.

The price of the two was ten thousand Alliance Coins for ten drops.

Yes, a higher price for fewer drops.

Zilan now bore eight flowers. The flower dew that it had just casually flicked to Linghuan and Baishi amounted to twelve drops.

This showed that his current output was definitely much higher than before its evolution.

Before evolving it, Lin Yuan knew that once the evolution succeeded, he would reap all the corresponding returns in a short time.

This was also why, despite not having many savings, he still bought Baishi today.

His next goal was to save twenty thousand Alliance Coins in a short time and buy all the medicine needed by Linghuan and Baishi.

In fact, Spirit Dew was, to a certain extent, an upgraded product of Purple Dew.

And the only things that could produce Purple Dew were the extremely rare one percent Purple Ghost Orchid and its evolved form after reaching Transcendent Mid-Grade, the Purple Dew Orchid.

Therefore, Lin Yuan also had to put some effort into the data application and filling out for this product.

After all, the pet beast breed known as the Purple Spirit Treasure Orchid had never appeared in this world before Zilan's evolution.

At this moment, Lin Yuan had finished filling out the application form on the official page.

He made simple optimizations or annotations in two places.

For the product name, he described it as Spirit Dew (Transcendent High-Grade) (Purple Dew mutated product), with a quality of Transcendent High-Grade.

The resulting pet beast was the Purple Dew Orchid (attribute and trait mutation).

In this world, special attributes and traits were not uncommon, and cases were frequently reported.

After the application form was sent out, as long as it passed the review, a Courier Bird would come to pick up the sample within about two hours.

According to Lin Yuan's past experience, he would receive news within one working day.

The fastest time was when he even received an official reply two hours after submitting the sample.

Official certification of the quality of Spirit Dew and giving a certified marked price was only the first step.

Once the sales volume of the pet food shop reached five hundred thousand Alliance Coins and it possessed at least one Transcendent High-Grade, or three Transcendent Mid-Grade, or five Transcendent Low-Grade pet beast products, it could be officially certified as a Two-Star Pet Food Shop.

As long as this certification was achieved, Yuanming Pet Food Shop could have more permissions and channels to purchase more special products.

Everything was just beginning...

Lin Yuan came to the plant room and gently took two drops of Spirit Dew from the flower pot beside Zilan, placing them in a water bottle.

Having roughly understood Zilan's situation, it could now condense about twenty drops of Spirit Dew a day. However, having just evolved today, with the blessing brought by the Spirit Energy Burst, it condensed a full fifty-four drops. Subtracting the twelve drops given to them earlier, plus these two test samples, it still had a stock of forty drops.

Lin Yuan was very satisfied.

In less than an hour.

The Courier Bird arrived.

Just like the one seen yesterday, it still dragged a tired body, but its eyes were filled with drive.

Every Courier Bird of the Pet Beast Alliance had its main responsible area.

So Lin Yuan and it were considered familiar "strangers."

He still habitually held a cup of water and the sample to be couriered as he waited at the door.

Today seemed a little different.

Courier Birds were extremely dedicated pet beasts. Their mission had only one focus: pick up goods and deliver goods, without wasting time on too many unnecessary things in the process.

Yet today, this Courier Bird, after drinking the water, actually stood in front of Lin Yuan and blanked out for a full five seconds.

As for pet beasts like Courier Birds, their thinking content was very simple: if one Courier Bird wasted five seconds, then sixty wasted a full five minutes. Cherishing this time well, they could have delivered another half trip of goods.

So this extra "waste" of five seconds was something Lin Yuan had never seen before.

He looked at its status panel.

[Status]: Why does this good-looking person seem a little different somewhere today? Where on earth is it different?

He had felt this kind of emotion several times today.

What was the root cause? Was it that he had learned the Bonded Enlightenment Art, or that he had accepted the Gift of All Spirits today?

The Courier Bird put the sample into the Treasure Pouch and hurriedly flew away.

It felt a little strange itself.

Moonlight fell on the flying Courier Bird, dragging a faint arc. Lin Yuan's gaze drifted away with it, and the hope in his heart also merged into this romantic moonlight.

How much would the Alliance price Zilan's Spirit Dew at?

Was Yuanming Pet Food Shop finally going to start getting better...