Chapter 384 - 354: Silver Crowned Red Feather Chicken

Chapter 384: Chapter 354: Silver Crowned Red Feather Chicken

Not long after the scrawny student’s presentation ended, another new student opened their Cultivation Room.

This time, he was showcasing the results of cultivating a Skill for his Bone Bird.

The Bone Bird was an Undead Element Pet Beast, and through his cultivation, it had surprisingly mastered a rather Powerful Poison Element Skill.

This was a pretty decent achievement.

Overall, however, it still couldn’t quite compare to the Enlightenment Potion from earlier.

Li Qian stayed in his Cultivation Room, and only when he felt the time was right did he begin the evolution process.

Evolving a Three-tailed Cat into a Four-tailed Cat presented no difficulty for Li Qian.

And sure enough, the Light of Evolution flared up smoothly. Li Qian watched as the evolution entered its final stages. Once all the steps were complete and all that was left was for the process to conclude naturally, he suddenly slammed a button inside the Cultivation Room.

As the button was pressed, the flower-bud-shaped room instantly opened, revealing the dazzling Light of Evolution to everyone.

"Is that an evolution?"

"It looks like a Four-tailed Cat..."

"Nice. We’re on the third Cultivation Room, and we finally get to see a Pet Beast evolve."

"A Four-tailed Cat... Interesting, very interesting..."

"..."

The evolution Li Qian was conducting was already in its final stages, but the Light of Evolution was still unmistakable, and the entire audience had a clear view.

After seeing this, the audience immediately broke into discussion.

The audience members who didn’t understand its significance were just there for the show, enjoying the spectacle.

Those who did understand, however, wore thoughtful expressions.

The Four-tailed Cat was no ordinary Pet Beast. Its Potential for growth was extremely high, and currently, many cultivation organizations, companies, and even government agencies were researching it.

Many of these organizations and Cultivation Bases had already mastered the method for evolving a Three-tailed Cat into a Four-tailed Cat, but that didn’t mean it was easy.

In fact, mastering this evolutionary path had cost them considerable effort and a great deal of Extraordinary Resources.

Furthermore, revealing this method in the preliminary round clearly suggested that Li Qian’s mastery of evolution wasn’t limited to just this.

Thus, in the stands, the faces of many "spectators" lit up with interest.

One after another, orders to investigate were issued without hesitation.

They all wanted to find out everything they could about Li Qian, and quickly.

By the time it was nearly noon, all the Cultivation Rooms in their group had been opened. The most valuable reveal was Li Qian’s method for evolving a Three-tailed Cat into a Four-tailed Cat.

The scrawny student’s entry, the Enlightenment Potion, also demonstrated impressive value.

Finally, there was a variant evolutionary method presented by a new student from Mizhou Beast Taming University.

Although the Potential of the Pet Beasts that resulted from this method wasn’t high, the method itself held immense research value.

Consequently, his evolutionary method also ended up receiving a good score.

It was enough to be mentioned in the same breath as Li Qian’s Four-tailed Cat evolution and the scrawny student’s Enlightenment Potion.

As expected, Li Qian advanced to the final round on the second day. After the competition ended, he didn’t leave immediately. Instead, he stayed backstage to watch the live broadcast.

’I don’t have anything to do if I go back now anyway,’ he thought. ’Might as well stay and see if there are any other noteworthy results.’

’After all, we’re all studying cultivation. One can learn from the work of others. Who knows, I might gain some insight.’

Li Qian watched the rest of the competition with this goal in mind, and as it turned out, his decision paid off.

In the next group, the third one, he saw something that truly piqued his interest.

"This is the Silver Crowned Red Feather Chicken, something I’ve researched. Although its current Potential isn’t high, I believe it possesses immense research value," a young man with dyed-yellow hair announced, speaking with great confidence.

After hearing his presentation, many in the audience couldn’t help but jeer.

"That Silver Crowned Red Feather Chicken of yours must have evolved from a Fire Chicken, right?"

"Don’t tell me it’s like the Golden Crowned Red Feather Chicken—evolves once and is still completely useless."

"Hey, there’s some value in discovering another useless Evolutionary Form, I guess."

"..."

Clearly, the audience didn’t think much of this evolutionary achievement. After all, the reputation of the "Four Great Duds" was just too well-known.

Thanks to Li Qian, the Koi Carp was starting to shed that title, but the other three duds remained unchanged.

It would be a miracle if they thought highly of it.

Faced with the crowd’s ridicule, the young man with yellow hair looked mortified. His expression turned ugly, and he simply resorted to practicing Silent Meditation.

In the end, after the Cultivation Masters judged it, he received an evaluation of "passable," but even that was a bit of a stretch.

It was largely influenced by the fact that many people researched the Red Feather Chicken, so his work could at least serve as a partial reference.

Li Qian, watching from backstage, narrowed his eyes slightly.

When he left Changfeng Cultivation Base, Li Qian had taken Chicken Hair and his mate. Using Fire Cloud Grass, Li Qian had evolved Chicken Hair into a Golden Crowned Red Feather Chicken.

This was a well-known evolutionary path for the Red Feather Chicken.

Unfortunately, when he later tried to replicate the process and evolve Chicken Hair’s mate into a Golden Crowned Red Feather Chicken as well, he found it was completely impossible.

Chicken Hair’s mate, Caiyun, was completely unable to evolve into a Golden Crowned Red Feather Chicken using Fire Cloud Grass.

At the time, Li Qian had suspected that male and female Red Feather Chickens must follow two completely different evolutionary paths.

For a female Red Feather Chicken to evolve into its next form, Fire Cloud Grass wasn’t the key ingredient. And as it turned out, his guess was correct.

Because just now, the very moment he saw the Silver Crowned Red Feather Chicken, Li Qian keenly sensed that his Inspiration Value for Task Two [Red Feather Chicken’s Evolutionary Method] had increased by three percent.

Now, his task progress had reached ninety-five percent.

A wave of joy washed over Li Qian as he saw the Task Value increase.

’I’ve been stuck on this task for so long,’ he thought with delight. ’Finally, I’m making some progress.’

Without the slightest hesitation, he went directly to the yellow-haired new student’s backstage dressing room to wait.

The wait didn’t last long. About ten minutes later, the yellow-haired new student appeared in the dressing room.

Ignoring the surprised looks from the other contestants, Li Qian walked straight up to the yellow-haired student.

"Hello, I’m Li Qian, from Shazhou Beast Taming University," Li Qian said, taking the initiative.

The yellow-haired student, Huang Xin, smiled. "I’m Huang Xin, from Thunder Beast Taming University."

Huang Xin sized up Li Qian, a flicker of curiosity flashing through his eyes.

He wasn’t sure why Li Qian had come to find him at a time like this. He remained patient, narrowing his eyes and waiting for Li Qian to get to the point.

He didn’t have to wait long. Li Qian wasn’t one to beat around the bush. After the brief introduction, he got straight to the point: "I want the evolutionary method you’ve mastered for the Silver Crowned Red Feather Chicken!"