"Goodbye, teacher!"
"Goodbye, Big Brother Jiang Xing!"
After selecting the Golden-Patterned Koi, Chang Feng quickly left with the children.
As the bus started moving, the children all pressed against the windows and waved enthusiastically.
Jiang Xing smiled and waved back as well. Only after the bus disappeared into the forest did he stretch lazily.
'Having a battle once in a while to relax isn't bad either.'
As long as the one getting beaten up wasn't him.
Battles existed for one purpose—to win!
Once the bus had completely vanished, the system panel appeared.
[Trainer Little Red has completed his rest and resud his journey.]
[Settlent for the previous journey's results: Won the Rookie Tournant Championship. Achievent Points 1.]
[The breeding mission has achieved phased results. You received a reward: Item Lottery Ticket.]
Li Lingyin had already co back and made a round through the place, yet the system still hadn't appeared.
Jiang Xing had even thought the Rookie Tournant Championship simply wasn't worth ntioning.
Turns out it had just been waiting for settlent.
'So it really is Journeying Little Red?'
Jiang Xing complained inwardly while casually using the Item Lottery Ticket.
As expected, this lowest-grade lottery ticket still produced an ordinary item.
However, the item itself imdiately caught Jiang Xing's attention.
[Na: Soothe Bell (Ordinary)]
[Effect: A pleasantly ringing bell. A Pokémon carrying this item will feel soothed, making it easier to grow close to its trainer.]
I hereby declare: there are no trash items in the Pokémon world!
Jiang Xing excitedly took out the bell.
The history of the Pokémon world was far longer than that of the Beast Taming World, and its developnt ti was much greater as well.
Because of that, not only did it possess all kinds of black-tech creations, but even many ordinary items were superior to the Pet Beast items of the Beast Taming World.
The previously obtained Focus Band, which could forcibly let a Pet Beast survive with 1 HP, belonged to the category of utterly broken items.
It was just that Jiang Xing had no imdiate use for it, and since he was still studying craftsmanship skills, he had simply left it aside.
Now, however, his craftsmanship skills had already reached beginner level, and he had also gained so understanding of Friendship and emotional energy. An item capable of increasing Friendship had arrived at the perfect ti!
It was ideal as a practice project in the field of craftsmanship—a chance to attempt creating Friendship-enhancing items!
Jiang Xing hurried back to the research institute and placed the Soothe Bell into the energy analyzer, studying its energy distribution, composition, and other structural details.
Then, using his craftsmanship knowledge, he began attempting to imitate its techniques and create a corresponding item.
Although the process was extrely difficult, Master Jian and Dr. Amru provided trendous help—
The forr was China's top craftsmanship master, unmatched in the field of item creation.
The latter, aside from being a ghost-type researcher, also specialized in item evolution. His understanding of how items integrated with Pet Beast powers and how items could promote Pet Beast evolution was beyond compare.
With two "Yao Lao" figures living inside his phone and teaching him heaven-tier techniques without reservation, Jiang Xing, the "Xiao Yan" of the craftsmanship field, advanced at a terrifying speed.
In only a few days, he successfully imitated the principles and structure of the Soothe Bell and created a brand-new item!
The item's core principle used the "affinity power" contained within the Auspicious Cloud Qilin's fur. Using it as the energy core, he wove a ribbon, then guided the ribbon's power into a bell.
Whenever the bell vibrated and emitted its pleasant sound, it released affinity power, improving the mood of Pet Beasts within a certain range.
Not only did it make Friendship easier to increase, it also made Pet Beasts gentler and friendlier.
Of course, that was only the theoretical effect.
Because of crude craftsmanship and imperfect design, the bell's actual performance was still inferior to even an ordinary-quality Soothe Bell. At best, it could only be considered a "low-quality" version.
Even so, this low-quality product was the very first brand-new item Jiang Xing had created by using an item from the Pokémon world as a template!!
This was a breakthrough from zero to one.
It ant that as long as he fully understood the principles and combined them with the extraordinary powers of Pet Beasts, Jiang Xing could likewise create all kinds of black-tech items within the Beast Taming World.
That was what truly made him happy!
'This really is a Soothe Bell (Parallel World Version) now.'
'Still, to avoid suspicion—and since its core power cos from the Auspicious Cloud Qilin… I'll call it the "Auspicious Chi Bell."'
The birth of the Auspicious Chi Bell carried enormous significance.
Jiang Xing went all out, investing huge amounts of resources, and barely managed to craft five ordinary-quality bells.
He gave those five bells respectively to the Auspicious Cloud Qilin, the Rainbow Dragon Hatchling, Abyssal Water Phoenix Fledgling, the Honey Attendant, and the Magnet Orb.
They were the five core Pet Beasts of the research institute, as well as the five Pet Beasts Jiang Xing valued the most.
The Pet Beasts were extrely happy after receiving the bells as well, treating them like treasured possessions and carrying them everywhere.
As they moved around, the research institute was constantly filled with clear, pleasant jingling sounds, like wind chis swaying in the breeze.
Amid those pleasant chis, Senior Li visited the research institute once again.
This ti, he had co to deliver more Ugly Waterfowl—
After receiving Jiang Xing's request a few days earlier, he had once again traveled throughout the rural regions of Jiangnan, searching everywhere for traces of Ugly Waterfowl.
Unfortunately, Ugly Waterfowl were already notoriously difficult to breed and extrely rare to begin with. The previous batch of over three hundred he had delivered had already practically emptied out all their commonly known habitats.
On top of that, after Jiang Xing posted his update, many Beast Tars had also begun paying attention to this species of Pet Beast.
Even after rushing day and night, Senior Li had only managed to find ninety-three Ugly Waterfowl—not even enough to make a full hundred.
Fortunately, Jiang Xing had not devoted all his energy solely to item crafting.
Over the past few days, besides studying craftsmanship, he had also organized the evolution data from the previous batch of Ugly Waterfowl.
By comparing their states and attributes before and after evolution, he had made preliminary deductions regarding the conditions for the three evolution forms—
The evolution conditions for the Clouddown Bird were most likely Level Friendship.
Beauty remained uncertain.
After all, the two talents it evolved with were both related to emotions and emotional states, not Beauty.
Reasoning backward from the results, a Friendship Evolution was more likely.
The sa logic applied to the Mysticfeather Peacock. The two talents it evolved with were both related to beauty and seduction, making Beauty Evolution the more likely explanation.
Furthermore, the data showed that only Mysticfeather Peacocks with strong-willed or stubborn personalities had completed evolution.
Therefore, its evolution conditions were most likely Level Personality Beauty.
Friendship remained uncertain.
Finally, there was the Abyssal Water Phoenix Fledgling. Reasoning backward from its evolution result, Beauty clearly played a major role in its evolution as well.
However, Jiang Xing had previously estimated and recorded the Beauty values of the Ugly Waterfowl through the effects of the move Seduction. Many Ugly Waterfowl had Beauty values that were no lower than Inky's before evolution.
Yet they still failed to evolve like Inky had.
That ant Beauty alone was not a sufficient condition—additional requirents had to exist.
As for that, Jiang Xing already had a few hypotheses—
After such a long period of research, he had already gained a fairly deep understanding of "Contest Appeal," as well as the included attributes like Beauty.
He discovered that Contest Appeal was far less stable as a value than Friendship.
Aside from being closely related to the coordination of a Pet Beast's own power, it was also heavily influenced by the Pet Beast's current condition, appearance, moves, and other factors.
For example, if a Pet Beast's Beauty value was two hundred, then injuries, poor rest, or a bad condition could lower it below two hundred.
However, if it was in peak condition, carefully grood, and combined with effects from moves like Seduction, its Beauty value could potentially rise far above two hundred.
It was a highly fluctuating value.
Because of that, Jiang Xing made a more refined classification for "Contest Appeal" and its five subcategories—Beauty, Cool, Cute, Clever, and Tough.
He divided them into two separate values: [Base Contest Appeal] and [Additional Contest Appeal].
Through this thod, a Pet Beast's Contest Appeal could be calculated with much greater precision.
Following that line of thought, Jiang Xing arrived at a better hypothesis regarding the evolution conditions of the Abyssal Water Phoenix Fledgling.
There was a high probability that Chickie had raised its Additional Beauty through the combined conditions of "Mysticfeather Peacock feathers" and the move Phoenix Grace.
At the mont right before evolution, its "true Beauty value" had already reached an extrely high level.
That was why it evolved into the Abyssal Water Phoenix Fledgling, a Pet Beast representing ultimate beauty!
As for the other Ugly Waterfowl, due to various reasons, their true Beauty values failed to et the required standard, preventing evolution.
Of course, this was still only Jiang Xing's hypothesis.
The evolution conditions of the Abyssal Water Phoenix Fledgling might also be Level Personality Contest Appeal Move Item.
It might specifically require mastering Phoenix Grace while wearing the Hundred-Bird Garnt in order to evolve.
That possibility also existed.
Still, these deductions helped Jiang Xing greatly narrow down the testing range.
They allowed him to establish control groups with far greater precision and conduct targeted testing on specific conditions.
So although the number of Ugly Waterfowl Senior Li brought this ti was quite small, it was still barely enough.
And if it still wasn't enough...
The offspring produced by evolved-form Pet Beasts were still base-form Pet Beasts.
Autumn was approaching—the season when all living things reproduced.
Jiang Xing felt that the Mysticfeather Peacocks and Clouddown Birds should probably start laying eggs too.
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