Lu Ran took the Dragon Birth Stone Manager Ying handed him and sank into thought.
Setting Manager Ying's ideas aside, this really was a good item.
"Never mind the rest. I'll take this."
Lu Ran looked at Manager Ying and spoke calmly.
First of all, he definitely couldn't use it himself. He hadn't abandoned his humanity to that extent.
Granted, Star-Moon did have plenty of humanoid pet beasts.
The Elf Race and Angel Race, for instance, though they were already extinct.
But as far as Lu Ran was concerned, he definitely still preferred humans.
As for Manager Ying's suggestion of giving it to General Ha and the others, Lu Ran wasn't particularly in favor of that either.
Leaving aside whether General Ha and the others wanted to reproduce, even if they did, surely their tastes would lean toward their own species!
Apart from a few perverts, most creatures' aesthetic preferences definitely leaned toward their own kind.
He couldn't force his pet beasts to do something they disliked just for an exceptional offspring.
Besides, the stronger a pet beast was, the more reproducing cost it. It was no less taxing than a major battle, and reproduction wasn't even guaranteed to succeed. It took too much energy.
Even if they did produce offspring, the first batch's aptitude might not be satisfactory.
So this definitely wasn't something to feed his own contracted pet beasts.
To maximize its value, he would have to feed it to a breeding machine and pursue specialized crossbreeding.
For example, he could raise a mother with a strong reproductive drive, like an Insect Queen, feed it this, and have it handle laying eggs and producing offspring while he kept capturing creatures with superior bloodlines to breed with it.
Even the wrong sex wouldn't matter. He could just have Dark