Are you going or not?
Seeing that Luo Yu didn't react, Shui Wuyue asked again.
"Go." Luo Yu didn't want to spoil Shui Wuyue's good mood, so he did her a favor. Of course, building warships was indeed the important matter.
"Okay, okay." Shui Wuyue clenched his fist. Love, it had arrived.
"I want to go too..." Yu Wan said anxiously when she saw that Shui Wuyue was going to take Luo Yu to meet her future aunt.
How could Yu Wan be absent from something like this!
She's too lazy to do work-related things, but this is something she absolutely can't be absent from!
"No, if you go, feeding the Ink Fish is easy, it's not a technical task, but what about the Water Devil Beast?" Luo Yu said, "These three Water Devil Beast probably only recognize you, after all, you've fed them since they were chicks."
Yu Wan said, "It's alright. Let the Guardian God use his freezing power to freeze them for a few days. They won't cause any trouble, they don't need to eat, they can just hibernate peacefully, and we can come back to the Guardian God to unseal them."
Luo Yu, Shui Wuyue:??
"You living devil!" Shui Wuyue looked at Luo Yu with affection. "My old injuries haven't fully healed yet, and I might need a few more treatments. Once I'm almost fully recovered, I'll take you to Dragon Boat Island and help you build your own warship..."
"Okay?" Luo Yu chuckled. He had been wanting to see what the Kung Fu Seal were all about, and wondered if there was any way to bring back a couple.
After the birth of the Healing Water Devil Beast, Luo Yu gained a loyal follower.
Luo Yu felt that if this healing Water Devil Beast could truly heal the soul backlash perfectly once it reached a higher level, its value might be immeasurable.
Although there are no exact figures, it is estimated that the number of Beast Taming who suffered soul backlash due to their inability to fulfill their Obsession with ghost pets is probably not small.
Resources for healing soul injuries, or rather, pets, are extremely scarce. Otherwise, Shui Wuyue wouldn't have wasted so much time and still be in a one-armed state.
So... if the Mercy Ink Fish merely brought Mirror Moon Island's medical level down to that of an ordinary Mirror Moon Island, ensuring its medical conditions weren't too bad, then the Healing Water Devil Beast... made Mirror Moon Island's medical care one of the best among all the islands in the Alliance.
Who knows... Mirror Moon Island might really become a major island for education and healthcare, with its education and healthcare industries becoming as renowned as the shipbuilding industry on Dragon Boat Island.
"Luo Yu Scholar."
In the evening, Luo Yu received a call from Deacon Qian Lai.
"I've found two of the space-element plant seeds that we agreed on before."
"Which one would you like?" "One is the seed of the Space Vortex Tree..."
One type is the seed of the Space Escape Grass.
Space Vortex Tree... Space Escape Grass
After obtaining the space plant seeds from the Seven Stars Chamber of Commerce, Luo Yu crammed on the relevant information.
After thinking about it carefully, I realized that neither of these things are easy to keep.
Sure enough, Deacon Qian Lai presented him with two options instead of giving him one directly, probably because he didn't know which one to choose.
After all, neither of them is destined to survive, so it's better to let Luo Yu choose for himself, like a disclaimer.
"Let me think about it..." Luo Yu said.
The Space Vortex Tree is a very powerful plant. As a space-type treasure tree, its trunk has the property of "void vortex" after it matures, just like the space-type sponge he encountered in the Sea of Ghosts.
That spatial sponge possesses the ability [Damage Absorption], which allows it to transfer damage that poses a strong threat to itself to another dimension.
It's similar to the Intangibility skill, but the way it's manifested is different.
Intangibility conceals oneself in subspace, leaving only a void afterimage, causing enemy attacks to miss. Damage Absorption, on the other hand, creates a portal to another dimension on oneself, transferring attacks there. This void vortex property can be seen as a low-end version of damage transfer.
The Space Vortex Tree can automatically sense whether external attacks will cause it damage. If there is no damage, nothing will happen. If there is damage, a protection mechanism will be triggered, causing the attacks that fall on it to be transferred to another dimension.
Because of this characteristic... the wood of the Space Vortex Tree is one of the twelve top-grade shipbuilding woods on this sea, ranking tenth.
Imagine riding a warship made of Space Vortex Tree wood, encountering enemies at sea, and having your attacks land on the hull, only to have the hull... absorb the attacks and send them to another dimension. It's practically the coolest warship ever!
Of course, the ship built by the Space Vortex Tree also has a drawback... that is, it can only convert most of the ranged "elemental damage", such as "lightning", "waves", and "storms". When facing physical damage caused by a living being's own limbs, such as a whale hitting it with its huge body, it cannot transfer the force of the impact. It does not have the ability to transfer "life force".
Even so, the Space Vortex Tree can be considered a top-grade shipbuilding wood. After all, apart from its spatial properties, it also possesses other properties, such as the ability to bear souls, and these properties are all top-notch, with no obvious shortcomings.
In addition, the mature leaves of the tree can slightly increase spatial affinity, but the increase is very small, almost negligible. It is almost impossible to expect a pet to learn spatial abilities by relying on the Space Vortex Tree. However, it can increase the speed at which low-level Beast Taming strengthen their Beast-Taming Space, which is somewhat useful.
Unfortunately... it's very difficult to raise them to maturity!
To date, there has only been one successful case of cultivating Space Vortex Tree. Apart from that, the Space Vortex Tree that people have cut down are basically wild ones. A group of experts and professors in the Department of Agriculture and Forestry at Canglan Ocean University have even managed to cultivate some time-related plants, but they have not found a way to stably cultivate Space Vortex Tree.
That one and only example cannot be replicated. The reason that tree could survive was because its owner planted it on a ship, and then... the entire ship unexpectedly encountered the "Sea of Void," allowing the Space Vortex Tree sapling to undergo the baptism of the Sea of Void, thus preventing it from dying halfway and allowing it to grow strong all the way.
Under normal circumstances, only a handful of people would have the opportunity to encounter the Sea of Void with Space Vortex Tree...
As for the Space Escape Grass, it's also a trap. It's a kind of grass that can "Spatial Movement." During its growth stage, it will "Spatial Movement" at random times. Originally, it might have been planted on "Island A," but overnight, it might have teleported to "Island B."
If it simply teleports to "B Island" and finds a new place to grow itself, that's fine. But more often than not, the Space Escape Grass will accidentally get lost, teleport itself to the sea, and then die because it loses its growing soil.
It can be said that this kind of grass, as a spatial resource, is the best resource for teaching mutated beasts the "Spatial Movement" skill. At the same time, humans can use it to enhance the speed of summoning pets, just like Shi Qianqian did.
The problem is, even normally, it won't last long enough to train it properly before it runs away on its own.
To keep an eye on it, you might need to find a pet with spatial sealing capabilities to watch over it 24 hours a day, which shows that... the cost of raising it is ridiculously high!
"There's nothing we can do, Scholar Luo Yu, all space-type plants have some problems to some extent..."
"If they were easy to raise, they'd be everywhere..."
"Plants with these rare attributes are mostly difficult to grow, as I mentioned before... If these two don't work, I'll try to find some more for you?"
Luo Yu thought for a moment and said, "It's alright, these two will do. Thank you, Steward Qian Lai."
"Hmm? Two kinds?"
Qian Lai was taken aback. Hadn't we agreed on just one kind?
Luo Yu said, "I'm afraid I won't be able to raise one kind. Let's try both. Maybe one of them will survive. That way, if one of them does, we can get priority to sell it to the Seven Stars Chamber of Commerce!" Qian Lai was silent. Why don't you just rob them!
However, these two types of space plants do have significant problems, and he couldn't find better ones for the time being. He knew Luo Yu definitely couldn't keep them alive, so he said, "Alright, in that case, I'll give both seeds to Scholar Luo Yu."
"If Scholar Luo Yu truly survives, let us not forget him!"
"No problem, no problem..." Luo Yu smiled.
After hanging up the phone, Luo Yu got up early the next morning and called out to the Bee Empress. In order to prepare for the two new "QQ Farm core products", they had to select the best farmer butterflies in advance.
"Bee Empress, fly around the island and order every 100 of the Dripping Rain Butterfly you find to come to the research institute."
Buzzing
The Bee Empress flew away to find the Dripping Rain Butterfly, a special mutated beast that possesses "Growth Fluid".
Before long, the first batch of 100 Dripping Rain Butterfly flew in neatly.
Like a talent show, Luo Yu conducted a detailed observation of these 100 Dripping Rain Butterfly.
Among them, one possesses the "Light Element Affinity" talent, which is the only Senior Level talent. However, it is obviously not very useful for cultivating space-type spirit plants. If the main focus is on cultivating light-type plants, then it might be somewhat useful.
"Change the batch." After looking through them, Luo Yu kept only one, the one with the Senior Level talent, and released the rest back into nature.
The second batch of 100 Dripping Rain Butterfly also arrived one after another...
This time, I found a Water Element Affinity individual. Not bad, the Growth Fluid will definitely be more effective, but it's not top-tier enough...
However, among the ordinary Dripping Rain Butterfly in this batch, one with a special talent appeared.
[Individual Talent]: Pistachio (Normal talent; when in a happy mood, the superpower's ripening effect on plants is better!)
"You stay, the rest, get a new batch."
Luo Yu continued his search. Although Mirror Moon Island was a small island, there were still many common insect-type creatures like the Dripping Rain Butterfly.
Another batch of newcomers...
He doesn't have a single Senior Level talent, but...
[Individual Talent]: Forget-Sorrow Grass (Normal talent, can turn sorrow into motivation, increasing the ripening effect of supernatural abilities on plants!)
Luo Yu:? There's something here. Keep it, then bring in another batch!
This time, we discovered a Senior Level talent with Ice Element Affinity. We kept it, and then... [Individual Talent]: Mimosa Flower (Normal talent; after mating, the ability to accelerate plant growth is even better!)
"These Dripping Rain Butterfly all have such strange talents."
Only four batches... Luo Yu has already discovered three individuals with different emotional states that positively influence the ripening effect of plants.
Could it be that this talent for determining the ripening effect based on "emotions" is a special talent of the Dripping Rain Butterfly clan?
After changing to a different batch, Luo Yu found another one that was similar...
[Individual Talent]: Heartbreak Grass (Senior Level Talent: When in sorrow and grief, it can make the plants that have been ripened become Deadly Poison...)
Holy crap, this is even worse...
The previous three only increased the effects of their abilities when their emotions were different, but this one can actually change the properties of plants, causing them to undergo toxic mutations!
Luo Yu suddenly had a guess.
Could "emotional energy" be related to the evolution of the Dripping Rain Butterfly?
In theory, every mutated beast has the potential for infinite re-evolution, as long as the right method is found.
This talent, which enhances one's abilities through emotions, appears unexpectedly frequently in the Dripping Rain Butterfly, leading Luo Yu to speculate that Dripping Rain Butterfly evolution might be related to "emotional energy." "The Dripping Rain Butterfly's species level is still too low; it's only Low-Rank Ordinary Species. If it could evolve once, it would definitely be more effective as a gardener."
"In order to become the god who governs agriculture... it is necessary to study the evolution of the Dripping Rain Butterfly."
Luo Yu changed his search again. Although the talents of the previous Dripping Rain Butterfly were all novel and related to emotions, what he was looking for right now was not those, but rather Dripping Rain Butterfly that could help him raise the "Space Vortex Tree".
After all, it seems that even if the ripening effect is improved, it won't really help keep the Space Vortex Tree alive. You know, those big shots in the agriculture and forestry field probably even have grass-type pets from the Abyss Species. If they can't keep them alive, it's definitely not something that can be solved by simply increasing the strength of the ripening effect.
It must be a "match to their specialty," like the Healing Water Devil Beast, which can heal soul wounds and possesses talents that other Senior Level medical pets do not have.
After going through batches of people, Luo Yu's eyes lit up as he discovered yet another extraordinary talent.