10: Chapter 10 Azure Dragon, Mythical Evolution Path
The hospital room was deathly silent.
Li Yu bolted up from his chair so abruptly that he stumbled over the bucket by his feet.
He braced himself against the wall with one hand to steady his balance, beads of sweat covering his forehead, his chest heaving violently, yet his eyes were terrifyingly bright.
Looking closely, a glimmer of golden light was indeed swirling deep within his pupils, flickering like crushed gold sinking into a pool.
"I... succeeded."
At the very last moment, his fingertips had finally touched that high-hanging golden light.
Blinding light flooded his vision, and he hadn't had time to see what was actually inside the light.
But he knew that an existence capable of hanging at the very top, causing those things in the darkness to fear it, was by no means ordinary.
Li Yu slowly exhaled and looked down at the bucket.
The water in the bucket was still sloshing, and a finger-thick Bubble Fish was being rocked dizzy by the waves, blowing tiny Bubbles.
And the moment Li Yu's gaze landed on it, lines of text appeared out of thin air:
【Beast Name】: Bubble Fish
【Beast Quality】: Elite (F)
【Beast Level】: Black Iron Level 3
【Beast Attribute】: Water
【Beast Talent】: Bubble
【Beast Introduction】: A common ornamental fish. The meat is firm but lacks flavor; better to keep it as a pet than to eat it.
"This is..." Li Yu's breath hitched.
Can my eyes see attributes now?
He immediately thought of that golden light that had merged into his eyes.
Was it an ability brought by that?
This was a huge win.
You have to understand, Beast Tamers usually rely on combat bracelets to identify beast information, but the data provided by the bracelets is extremely brief.
Only the precision instruments in the breeding room can detect detailed information like quality, level, and attribute.
Some hidden talents cannot even be detected by instruments.
But now...
He could see through everything with just his eyes.
Wait, the information wasn't finished.
Li Yu's thoughts stirred, and the text before his eyes scrolled, revealing more content:
【Final Evolution Goal】: Azure Sky Divine Dragon (Mythical)
【Next Evolution Goal】: Silver Scale Bubble Fish
Evolution Scheme: Continuously feed it premium food, and when the scales stretch to the point of cracking, expose it to the light of evolution.
Azure Sky Divine Dragon?!
The golden light that pierced through the darkness flashed through Li Yu's mind.
The existence that made those things fear it, hung at the very top, and sat at the end of the Bubble Fish's evolution chain, was actually a dragon.
What transmigrator could refuse a dragon?
What transmigrator with the memories of Huaxia etched into their bloodline could refuse a divine dragon that rides the clouds and mists?
The fanaticism only lasted a few short seconds before rapidly cooling down.
The reason was simple.
He, Li Yu, had a damaged Mental Energy and could not grow.
This meant he could not control powerful beasts.
Let alone a dragon, even an ordinary beast was more than his weak Mental Energy could bear.
The reason the Bubble Fish could be contracted by the original owner was precisely because it was at the bottom of the beast hierarchy—small in size, weak in energy, and with a memory of only seven seconds.
In other words... it had no brain.
The difficulty of contracting it was effectively zero.
"Forget it, I'll take it one step at a time." Li Yu shook his head, comforting himself, "It's not like I'm ascending to the heavens and owning a divine dragon immediately; the next evolution is just a fish, I should... be able to handle it, right?"
He glanced at the silly fish blowing Bubbles in the bucket, then looked at that absurd evolution scheme, the corner of his mouth twitching.
"Feed it premium food until its scales crack? Are you serious?"
Returning the Bubble Fish to his beast space, the hospital room returned to silence.
The person on the hospital bed breathed steadily, and outside the window, the outline of a towering building came into view.
Bright Moon Company.
Li Yu felt the two evolution card in his pocket—one low-grade general-purpose, one low-grade fire.
They should be enough to handle tomorrow's breeding.
...
The next day.
Li Yu got up early and took out the food he usually fed the Bubble Fish.
The Bubble Fish had never had much of a brain; it ate when there was food, stopped when there wasn't, rested when full, and kept eating when not.
In the past, it would consume a big spoonful of food every day.
However, this time, when he poured the food for the Bubble Fish, it just leaned in, sniffed, and turned away to continue swimming.
Gurgle, gurgle...
A few blue Bubbles were spat out from the fish's mouth, and Li Yu understood what it meant—so unpalatable.
"Could it be that after selecting the evolution scheme, it had some effect on the Bubble Fish? It already looks down on this ordinary food?"
Li Yu pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said, "Forget it, I have to change its food anyway. If it won't eat, it won't eat. Let it go hungry for a bit, it'll taste better later."
Having made up his mind, Li Yu put away the fish, which was looking blank and bewildered, and turned to leave.
8:50 AM.
At the entrance of Bright Moon Company, Supervisor Song was already waiting. From afar, he saw Li Yu get off the bus and jog over.
"Sorry for the wait." Li Yu panted slightly.
"I just arrived too, and besides, there are still 10 minutes until work starts, no rush." Supervisor Song gestured for Li Yu to head inside, "Several Beast Tamers have already arrived, let's go take a look."
"Alright."
The two passed through the turnstile one after another, and as they entered the elevator, several people came running over in a hurry.
"Wait!"
"Please wait."
"Oh no, we're going to be late..."
They were ultimately a few steps too late. The group blamed each other—one complaining about the other dawdling while buying things, another blaming someone else for going the wrong way.
At this moment, one of them said suspiciously, "That figure that just got into the elevator looked familiar, wasn't it that technical school student from yesterday?"
The others burst into laughter upon hearing this.
"That's impossible, Brother Quan already eliminated him." A boy said.
"Exactly, everyone saw it, that idiot was acting like he'd lost his mind later on." A girl said.
"It must be a hallucination. Damn it! Take the stairs! It's the first day of the internship, don't be f***ing late..."
Seventh Floor.
It was the same breeding room as yesterday.
When Li Yu followed Supervisor Song inside, a silver-gray figure lunged over with a "whoosh," moving extremely fast, and knocked Li Yu to the ground.
"Awoo, awoo..." Starlight Wolf King excitedly licked Li Yu's cheek, its enthusiastic demeanor more like a dog than a wolf.
After the brief shock, Li Yu recognized the Starlight Wolf King and gave it a couple of annoyed pats.
"Brother Li!"
While holding back the Starlight Wolf King, Li Yu turned his head and asked with a smile, "Song Jiang? Why are you here?"
Supervisor Song explained with a smile, "It's this guy's four teammates who specifically requested for you to help them train their beasts."
"So that's what they were waiting for."
Li Yu nodded in understanding and looked behind Song Jiang, where three men and one woman were indeed standing. He nodded at them.
The group nodded back in response.
And just like that.
The three people and one dog exchanged pleasantries.
Song Jiang's four teammates also gathered together, looking at each other, their eyes full of unease and suspicion.
"Is it really him? So young?"
"He doesn't look like it at all. Which of those capable Breeders isn't a bit older? Let alone a Breeder who cultivated an s-rank new species."
"Captain, what do you think?"
The three looked in unison at a man in his 30s with a mature appearance. The latter pondered for a moment and said, "The Starlight Wolf King's reaction wouldn't be fake; it should be him."
Hearing this, the three looked at Li Yu again, and seeing his appearance, which looked too young to be an expert, the worry on their faces deepened.
"I don't know why, but I kind of want to back out."
"Me too..."
The group whispered to each other, their gazes filled with doubt as they looked at Li Yu.
They had assumed that someone capable of cultivating an excellent beast like the Starlight Wolf King would at least be an experienced Breeder over 30 years old.
Even if not very famous, they would at least have their own unique strengths.
They didn't expect it to be a guy who looked ridiculously young.
If they didn't know Song Jiang well enough, they would have suspected that he and Bright Moon Company were working together to scam them out of their meager balance.
Even the captain, who believed in Li Yu's identity, frowned tightly.
So young...
Is he reliable?