Given the relationship between Lin Yuan and the Shell Pump, the process of recognizing him as its master went very smoothly.
Soon, a feeling of their souls connecting reached Lin Yuan's mind, somewhat like signing a High-Level Crew Contract.
The Shell Pump's newborn soul was like a newborn baby at this point. It had little intelligence and could not speak, so it could not yet communicate freely with Lin Yuan.
However, Lin Yuan could still sense its general thoughts, much as human adults could roughly read a child's emotions.
"Advance... pearls... choose?"
Sensing the Shell Pump's thoughts, Lin Yuan soon understood what it meant.
Previously, because Gem-Cured Meat was highly compatible with the Shell Pump, eating it had granted the Shell Pump a special ability: it could produce a special pearl each time it advanced in rank.
When the Shell Pump had advanced from D-rank to C-rank, it had produced a Blood Pearl, which had been used on itself.
Now that it had jumped from C-rank to A-rank, it could produce two pearls, one for each rank.
Because the Shell Pump now had a soul of its own, it could control what types of pearls it produced and let Lin Yuan choose.
However, the information the Shell Pump conveyed was somewhat vague, so Lin Yuan could only get a rough understanding of the different pearls' properties.
He carefully sensed the information coming from the Shell Pump and began thinking to himself.
An Energy Pearl containing vast amounts of transcendent energy. This seems similar to an Abyssal Sea Fragment, but with even more energy. The Abyssal Sea Research Department's technology could convert it into more A-rank Transcendent Cores.
*But Abyssal Sea Fragments aren't that hard to come by, while the pearls the Shell Pump forms are much rarer. Having it form