Hearing Fang Yuling's startled cry, Xu Ran followed her gaze toward Fighting Hairball, and something stirred within him.
Over the past few days, he had indeed sensed some unusual fluctuations coming from Fighting Hairball. However, he had never encountered such fluctuations before and could not say what they were. All he could confirm was that they had no negative effect on its condition.
Judging by Fang Yuling's reaction, she seemed to know what was happening to Fighting Hairball, and...
She had called it an "evolution sign." Could this change have something to do with evolution?
If that were true, this would be quite extraordinary.
Fighting Hairball was a Marshal Rank contract beast, which naturally meant it belonged to a monarch species.
If it had a chance to evolve again...
At that thought, Xu Ran could hardly sit still. He could not help asking, "What do you mean by an evolution sign?"
"You don't know?" Fang Yuling glanced at Xu Ran, then spoke after a moment's consideration. "I'll tell you, but you have to tell me what's going on with this contract beast."
"All right." Xu Ran nodded slightly.
After receiving his agreement, Fang Yuling paused before slowly speaking. "An evolution sign is what happens when a supernatural creature finds an opportunity to evolve."
"The Cloud-Gathering City Beast Tamer Association has a department dedicated to researching the evolution of supernatural creatures, called the Transcendent Evolution Department. Their job is to study supernatural creature evolution and discover more of the patterns behind it."
"Their research has found that every supernatural creature has more than one possible direction of evolution. Each has many possible evolved forms, and two factors determine which of those forms it evolves into."
"The first is the resources required for evolution."
"During evolution, a supernatural creature rises to a