"What do you think degeneration is?"
Back at the academy, Su Ping had not hurried back to Sage Sang's quarters.
There was still an hour until dinner, so he had followed Ye Zhou to the campus café.
Unfortunately, Su Ping really could not get used to drinking this stuff, and he had not come for coffee anyway.
Faced with Ye Zhou's question, Su Ping thought for a moment.
"In this world, wherever there is death, there is new life. The opposition between life and death represents the opposition between the positive and negative poles of all things, so naturally, wherever there is evolution, there is degeneration. Degeneration is a decline in a being's own life form and level.
"Of course, it might also result from adjustments to the living environment. During ecological development, if a certain trait threatens a population with extinction, that trait will gradually disappear as the population develops.
"In the age of pet beasts, it means a decline in their own energy and rank. At the same time, if we had to put it another way, another relatively suitable term might be atavism."
Ye Zhou nodded.
"The prevailing view in pet beast history is that all pet beasts in the world are constantly evolving. Under the rules of evolution, this process can be very slow or very fast.
"Through coincidences and modern human intervention, pet beasts can undergo many successive evolutions within decades or a century. Most evolutions bring a substantial increase in strength through the accumulation of energy resources!
"But in the Ancient Era and ancient times, before human Beast Tamers had fully occupied the land—or even appeared—this evolution was built up through the accumulation of time!"
Su Ping's brows furrowed slightly.
"But under those circumstances, there are still things that don't add up!"
Ye Zhou