28: Chapter 28 Preparing for Evolution

Bai Muxue did not hide anything and told the whole story of what had just happened, even including the fact that class had not ended yet.

"Does Wan Kang want to follow us? That works too. When he holds a mace and rides a Pink Pig, it will definitely be visually striking; he can be considered a decent combat unit."

Qin Ding gave his assessment of Wan Kang. A person riding a pig like that couldn't possibly be weak. It wouldn't even require the Beast Tamer to exert any effort; just disrupting the opponent's Beast Tamer would be enough.

The Pink Pig would knock over the enemies in front of it.

As for the fact that class hadn't ended yet... Qin Ding wasn't stupid. With so many people in the class, if it had really ended, they would have already run off in a flash.

But he didn't care. Either way, he would just be sitting there cultivating if class wasn't over.

Suddenly, thinking of something, Bai Muxue said directly, "Right, I need to go to the bookstore later to buy some books on breeding. Is there anything you need me to bring for you?"

"No. However, you should be taking the exam for the Junior Breeder certificate soon, right?"

Bai Muxue hummed and nodded, "Tomorrow, Saturday."

Saturday, huh? Then there are no classes tomorrow, that's just perfect...

"Then I wish you success."

Watching Bai Muxue leave, Qin Ding also turned and got into a vehicle heading to Beast Taming Street.

Before long, having bought all the materials, Qin Ding returned home decisively. As soon as he entered, he smelled the fragrance of cooked food.

My house, the smell of food?

His gaze instantly locked onto Black Dog, who was frantically devouring food in front of its dog bowl.

"Is Aunt Zhao working overtime today?"

Qin Ding muttered to himself.

This had happened before. When Zhao Min needed to work overtime, she would come home early to prepare dinner and bring a portion for Qin Ding.

Qin Ding glanced at the steaming food on the table, and after a few minutes of contemplation, decided to eat first.

While eating, he looked at the extraction method for the Sha Jin Wolf evolution liquid in Black Dog's Life Records.

[Method 1: Normal extraction...]

[Method 2: Household appliance extraction...]

[Method 3: Fire element extraction...]

Fire element... extraction?

Although he didn't understand what it meant, this extraction method was firmly etched in Qin Ding's mind. For no other reason than it being extremely rare.

Just as Qin Ding was engrossed in looking at Method 2, causing his eating speed to slow down, Black Dog, having licked its bowl clean, couldn't help but look at Qin Ding, who hadn't finished eating and was sitting there in a daze.

After getting stronger and bigger, I get hungry so fast...

Huh? Why is Boss sitting there in a daze? Is he not eating that bowl of meat?

Thinking of this, Black Dog stuck out its tongue to lick its nose, stepped lightly toward the dining table, slowly climbed onto a chair, and finally met Qin Ding's calm eyes.

Black Dog: ?

Hiss... what's going on? This trick usually works.

Qin Ding didn't give Black Dog any time to react; he yanked it off the chair next to him, his tone carrying a hint of displeasure.

"I don't understand, why do you want to eat the food in my bowl so much? You aren't full?"

Black Dog's eyes darted away, and it didn't dare to speak.

A trace of helplessness flashed in Qin Ding's eyes. "I've eaten enough, you can have it."

"Now, I need to be busy, do not enter the kitchen under any circumstances."

After saying this, Qin Ding got up, took the materials he had bought, and walked into the kitchen. Black Dog just took a curious look and then decisively stopped paying attention.

Woohoo, more to eat!

Inside the kitchen, Qin Ding took out two Vajra Fruits of different sizes and processed them according to the steps.

He cut the two Vajra Fruits of different grades into pieces, poured them into a pressure cooker, added a liter of water, brought it to a boil over high heat, then turned it to low heat to simmer for an hour. Afterward, he poured it into an iron pot, added the minced Flood Dragon Saliva Grass and wolf bone marrow, and simmered it over low heat for five minutes.

"It's quite a strange method. Compared to the other two, although this one is convenient, it doesn't include the step of simmering with an inner core. Is it because it's afraid the power of the inner core will blow up the house?"

Qin Ding muttered to himself, feeling that this Life Records was a bit too incredible. "So user-friendly?"

After completing all the steps for Method 2, the next step was to drink the medicinal soup and the residue, then wait for the medicinal effect to spread throughout the body.

In the living room.

Black Dog, having licked all the bowls clean, lay in its kennel, covering its nose tightly with its paws.

Huh! What is Boss doing in the kitchen? Why did the smell start off fragrant and then turn stinky?

Although Qin Ding could smell some stench after adding the Flood Dragon Saliva Grass, it wasn't severe. However, since a dog's nose is much more sensitive than a human's, Black Dog could smell a distinct, fishy stench.

It was like something's saliva being heated and reduced over a high flame.

This situation only lasted for ten minutes before the kitchen door was pushed open. Seeing this, Black Dog immediately straightened its body and darted over.

It had to see what its big brother was up to!

As it turned out, just as Black Dog darted to the kitchen doorway but hadn't entered yet, Qin Ding carried the iron pot out and placed it on the floor, revealing the yellowish-green liquid inside, along with some floating, unknown debris.

Black Dog widened its eyes in terror, looking at Qin Ding in disbelief.

"Woof?!"

[Brother, is this for me to drink?!]

"Yes, after you drink it, you can evolve."

As he spoke, Qin Ding deliberately pointed at the unknown liquid in the iron pot, although his own gaze was somewhat evasive.

Is this stuff, made strictly according to the method given by the Life Records... really considered evolution liquid?

This thing... can evolve?

Having never seen evolution liquid before, Black Dog blinked in astonishment after hearing Qin Ding's words, but it was only astonishment.

Black Dog had always trusted Qin Ding unconditionally.

So it opened its mouth and devoured it. It was a bit hot, but that didn't matter; it could endure it.

It was just the taste—one moment it was like chewing grass, the next it was like drinking stinky water; it was very strange.

However, this stuff had an effect as soon as it hit its stomach, just like when it ate that red fruit last time; its stomach felt very comfortable.

Qin Ding didn't speak, just watched Black Dog quietly.

This left Black Dog confused, and even its originally straight spine slumped a bit.

It couldn't... it couldn't really be some kind of poison, right? Is Boss trying to poison me?

Just at this moment, its stomach, which had been warm and cozy, suddenly felt an incredibly strange itch. But the problem was, how could it be itchy inside its stomach?!

Before Black Dog could ask Qin Ding what was going on, its body seemed to set off a chain reaction. It wasn't just its stomach that was itchy; almost in an instant, its whole body was unbearably itchy.

It collapsed to the ground in pain, rubbing itself continuously, trying to relieve the itch.

"Woof woof."

[Boss, I'm so itchy, my whole body is so itchy. Did I get poisoned?]

[Beast: Black Dog (Evolving)]

Only when he saw Black Dog's status bar update did Qin Ding, who had been holding his breath, finally relax, and his tone became much lighter.

"It's not poison, and you haven't been poisoned. It will be fine after a while; it's just like the blood spirit fruit from before."