The rest was simple; the Empress was already very skilled at evolving Honey Water Bee into Knight Bee.
Not long after, the Bee Empress gained her second Soul Dependent, the Self-Destruct Knight.
Of course, the most excited person was Lin Li, whose Honey Water Bee also successfully evolved into Knight Bee through this resonance.
Her Honey Water Bee possesses a "Wind Element Affinity Talent" and an "Ice Element Talent" enhanced by her guardian deity. Now that her base stats have also improved, her combat strength is no longer weak on this small island.
It can also be used as a portable air conditioner on the ship.
"Take this with you, and take this with you too."
To ensure Luo Yu could enjoy good food on his trip to Future Town, she prepared a lot of long-shelf-life delicacies in advance, which Luo Yu could simply have July heat up later.
After all, Luo Yu said that the last time he went out with Shui Wuyue, he ate a lot of unpalatable instant noodles, self-heating boxed meals, and hot pot.
"Lin Li, you're too good to him..." Yu Wan clicked her tongue as she watched Lin Li packing large bags of luggage for Luo Yu. "Yu Wan..." Lin Li said, "If you help my Knight Bee evolve again... I'll not only cook for you every day, but also do your laundry!"
"I'm not capable." Yu Wan understood Lin Li's feelings. Once Luo Yu evolved her Water Devil Beast, she would absolutely follow Luo Yu lead. Even if Luo Yu became a pirate, she would accept it and be willing to be the navigator of the pirate crew!
"Ahem." Luo Yu coughed lightly. The Knight Bee really could evolve again...
"But I need to reach level 40." Yu Wan asked curiously, "I haven't seen Chen Bo these past few days. He hasn't even come to eat with us. His schedule is so irregular."
"It seems like he's been in the lab the whole time," Luo Yu said. "Never mind him, he might be doing some big research..."
The next morning, Luo Yu set off, Shui Wuyue was already waiting for him on the Raging Blue.
It was just the two of them going to Future Island this time.
After receiving the mission, Shui Wuyue learned from Yu Lei about Luo Yu's research on the Water Devil Beast... He was naturally shocked to learn this.
However, he hasn't gone to see Luo Yu these past few days because the Yu Lei has given him a ban, forbidding him from disturbing Luo Yu's research. He said they can talk about it on the ship, where the two of them will have plenty of time to be alone.
"My goodness, what are you carrying on your back?"
At the port, Shui Wuyue was slightly taken aback when she saw Luo Yu. Luo Yu was carrying a huge black box on his back and pulling two suitcases in his hands! Shui Wuyue could understand the suitcases; he was carrying some daily necessities, just like Luo Yu had brought them last time.
But what was that large box on its back...? Shui Wuyue sensed two life forces emanating from it, seemingly from mutated beasts! Anyone unaware would think it was a "mutated beast smuggling ship" smuggling people to other islands!!
"Let's talk on the boat." Luo Yu boarded the boat and then opened the beehive.
Looking at the two "Knight Bee Puppets" inside, Shui Wuyue fell into deep thought.
"What kind of mutated beast is this? I've never seen it before..." "The evolved form of the Honey Water Bee, the Knight Bee. Didn't I contract a Ghost Honey Water Bee in the Sea of Ghosts? I took the opportunity to research the evolution method of Honey Water Bee when I came back."
Shui Wuyue:???
"You figured it out just by casually looking into it?"
Bee Empress: Shock from Shui Wuyue +10.
"Otherwise, how long would it take to research the evolutionary methods of a Low-Rank Species?"
Bee Empress: From...
Luo Yu's inhuman words caused several fluctuations in Shui Wuyue's heart.
"I feel like they're... like puppets, as if they have no soul!" As expected of Beast Taming with Soul Talent, Shui Wuyue immediately saw through the state of the two Knight Bee.
Luo Yu said, "Hmm, this is a bit complicated to explain..." He was afraid that the distance between his physical body and soul would be too great and affect the Bee Empress's performance, so he had no choice but to bring her along. "Never mind, no need to explain." Shui Wuyue wasn't very concerned about the Honey Water Bee; he was more concerned about the Water Devil Beast!
He estimated that this Knight Bee was at most Mid-Rank Ordinary Species, which was no longer what he was after.
"I heard from the bureau chief that the ' Dependent Evolution Method ' might allow Common Species to evolve...?"
"Hehe, when the time comes, I'll also let my ' Giant Strength Crab ' condense Commander Heterogeneity. Uncle has been good to you, hasn't he?" "You have to arrange a Water Devil Beast for Uncle... Uncle won't take it for free, just give me a discount." He put his arm around Luo Yu's shoulder. After all, his initial main pet, that big crab, was only Upper-Tier Common Species. If he could have a chance to evolve it, he would accept it even if he had to raise another pet.
This Giant Strength Crab has traveled all over the world with Shui Wuyue for many years and has reached level 40, the limit for Common Species. They have a deep bond. With such a high level, Shui Wuyue believes that the Giant Strength Crab should be able to withstand the baptism of the Blood of the Abyss.
"That's nothing..." Luo Yu said. Shui Wuyue had given him soul resources the moment they met and even wanted to teach him how to pilot a ghost ship—it was just a Water Devil Beast...
"However, even if you have Water Devil Beast, do you have the Blood of the Abyss?" Luo Yu asked suspiciously. "I'm just worried that the guardian deity won't be willing to shed so much blood. Your Giant Strength Crab is so big... how much Blood of the Abyss would you need to drown it?!"
Thinking of this, Shui Wuyue felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. Yes, this was the most troublesome thing...
The guardian deity is willing to offer an experiment and the blood of the Commander Heterogeneity in July, but... it's impossible for him to help.
"This... this is indeed something I cannot trouble the guardian spirit with; I'll have to find a way myself..."
"Actually, I've been visiting a lot of relatives and friends these past few days, borrowing quite a bit of money. Plus, I have some savings of my own... I'll go see if there's any cheap Blood of the Abyss for sale in Future Town." Shui Wuyue smiled bitterly.
Luo Yu couldn't help but sigh, money is still too important, otherwise, even with the opportunity to evolve a pet right in front of him, he wouldn't be able to seize it!
The two didn't chat for long before setting off. It was still a dual-core system driven by Shui Wuyue and Ghost Shark, which made July, who had escaped, curse and throw a few balls of lava into the sea to blast fish.
As for Luo Yu, having broken through to the Junior Level Beast Taming Master, he didn't waste any time during this voyage and focused entirely on cultivation.
Calm your mind and concentrate... focus your thoughts... let the Beast-Taming Space resonate with the void, then absorb the Power of the Void to strengthen the Beast-Taming Space. Currently, Luo Yu's Beast-Taming Space is like a small, dark room, not much different from Beast-Taming Space of Apprentice Beast Taming Master. To break through to the Intermediate Level Beast Taming Master, generally speaking, two conditions need to be met...
1. Absorb the Power of the Void to strengthen the Beast-Taming Space to the point where it resembles a garden, with a volume approximately 10 times that of Trainee Level Beast-Taming Space. 2. The pet reaches level 21.
Generally speaking, becoming Beast Taming is the first condition to be met. After all, at this stage, Beast Taming Tamers just need to wait it out, as there are no bottlenecks. Although the speed of cultivation varies depending on the "Space Talent," that is, the degree of perception of Power of Space, even the slowest Beast Taming can basically achieve it by simply waiting it out.
Reaching level 21 for a pet is generally more difficult.
For Upper-Tier Common Species, it's not too bad, but for low-ranking and Mid-Rank Ordinary Species, breaking through level 20 will be extremely difficult.
Especially for Low-Rank Species, reaching level 21 is a huge bottleneck, even with a lot of resources. For example, Lin Li is stuck on her pet's level, and her Honey Water Bee has been unable to reach level 21 for a long time.
However, now that it has evolved to the Mid-Rank Species, it may be able to break through soon.
Of course, if the contracted pet is a pet that grows faster, and the pet is close to level 21, but the Beast Taming's Beast-Taming Space has not been strengthened to the proper level, at this stage, the Beast Taming seems to have two choices, one of which is...
1. Let your pet ignore you and continue to grow.
2. Limit the pet's level to suppress its growth.
The former carries a very high risk. After all, if the pet's level exceeds the Beast Taming's level by a large margin, the pet will have the ability to break free from the contract and rebel. The Beast Taming's control over the pet will be greatly reduced. But that's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the Beast-Taming Space may not be able to withstand the high-level life force and may collapse, unless the pet is not taken back into the Beast-Taming Space.
Although Luo Yu felt he treated July and the Empress very well, and that they wouldn't betray him even if their levels surpassed his, he still needed to cultivate... He couldn't let anything happen to the space. Furthermore, once these two conditions were met simultaneously, the Beast Taming Tamer would awaken a new ability, namely Partial Beast Transformation, using the power of their pet beasts. This was essentially equivalent to...
Beast Taming can also utilize some of the special abilities of their pets.
Just as the Bee Empress uses the power of the Knight Bee, the Bloodline Master uses the power of his followers.
The relationship between Beast Taming tamers and their pets is actually similar.
Of course, due to the limitations of the human body, it is impossible to unleash the full power of a pet's abilities... Generally speaking, Beast Taming can achieve about 5% of the pet's power, which is already considered quite good.
Only by reaching the Senior Level Beast Taming Master stage and mastering the technique of fusion can one unleash more power.
Not long after Luo Yu left Mirror Moon Island.
Luo Yu Research Institute, Chen Bo's exclusive laboratory.
Chen Bo, dressed in a white lab coat, stared intently at the table, which was covered with a dense array of enhanced toxins. He took out a bottle of synthetic toxin, sucked it into a syringe, and then looked at a White Stream Rat in a cage next to him.
In the past few days, in order to avoid being stung by the Knight Bee, he has been working hard to research ways to enhance the toxins and see if there is a way to retain most of the enhancement effect even without direct needle pricks.
The method is also very simple and crude: combining some basic toxicology, other ingredients are added to the toxin to strengthen it, and then experiments are continuously conducted on mice.
He gently injected the "Hardness Enhancement toxin" into the mouse's body. The next moment... a layer of solidified black armor suddenly appeared at the injection site, looking incredibly hard, causing Chen Bo to let out a soft "Huh?". What's going on...?
"Little mouse, do you feel anything special?" he asked Telepathy.
"...(***)" The white mouse used very offensive language.
After Chen Bo observed for half a minute, the black hard armor disappeared again, and the white mouse also appeared somewhat weak.
"Could it be..." Chen Bo took several more test subjects and experimented on them, then his hands trembled.
"I knew it! I, Chen Bo, am a genius too!"
Although it deviated somewhat from the original research goals, he stumbled upon a method similar to "stimulants," which could temporarily and significantly enhance a living organism's certain attributes by injecting "synthetic bee venom."
The magnitude of the increase... is terrifying.
A weak level 1 white mouse, temporarily granted "hard armor," possesses a defensive capability comparable to a level 8 Iron Pincer Shrimp!!!
But the cost, it seems, is only a brief period of weakness after using performance-enhancing drugs!
"Ha ha ha ha..."
"Luo Yu, I've succeeded! I, Chen Bo, have succeeded!" "From today onwards, I, Chen Bo, will usher in the era of Needle 2.0. You've researched how to permanently enhance someone's attribute using bee venom; I, Chen Bo, have researched how to temporarily and significantly enhance a certain attribute using bee venom." Chen Bo had a premonition that from now on, every Beast Taming would have to give him a "Chen Bo Brand Enhancement Agent" injection before battle!