Beast Taming: the More the Better

Chapter 653: Chapter 301 Perfect! The True Body of Fire Phoenix? Little Flame’s Demands!

This was a small, thin book that exuded an antique charm. However, it clearly wasn’t a volume passed down from ancient times but purely a modern creation. Written within this book was the Cultivation Method for the “Thorn Wolf”!

Su Ping lay on the guest room bed of the Anling Tree House, opening the Cultivation Method Zhao Lintian had directly given him, along with Zhao Lintian’s cultivation insights from this period.

The Thorn Wolf was an evolutionary direction of the Forest Wolf at Commander Level, adept at physical combat, and extraordinarily strong in both attack and defense.

Su Ping flipped through the pages, reading every word. He had to admit, after reviewing just a small portion, Zhao Lintian hadn’t been as fortunate as Sun Chaoju. Unlike the Wanmu Wolf, which had undergone spontaneous changes and self-evolution, Zhao Lintian had arrived at his hypothesis about the Thorn Wolf’s evolutionary path through an accidental discovery.

In these notes, Zhao Lintian had recorded that some Forest Wolves, in addition to eating tree fruit in the forest, also liked to rub their bodies against a common plant called the Iron Thorn Tree.

Since then, Zhao Lintian had kept watching. He slowly discovered that the Forest Wolves that frequently rubbed against the Iron Thorn Tree not only developed harder bodies and sharper claws, but even the vines summoned by Vine Strangling became more robust and sharp.

Thus, from this perspective, Zhao Lintian began the Evolution of the Forest Wolf into the Thorn Wolf.

After various trials and tests, he finally developed the Evolution Cultivation Method for the Thorn Wolf.

Although the resources consumed were quite expensive among Commander-Level Evolutionary Bodies, otherwise, it wouldn’t have only secured seventh place in that Cultivation Contest.

However, the combat power of the Thorn Wolf was quite impressive among Commander-Level Pet Beasts.

At the very least, it was much stronger than the Forest Wolf’s two relatively common evolutionary forms, the Forest Wolf and the Elf Wolf.

[Thorn Wolf]

[Attribute: Wood]

[Racial Potential: Commander Tenth Rank]

[Skills: Sunlight Absorption, Thorny Tail, Spike Shell, Thorn Spear, Self-Healing, Accelerated Growth.]

Among the Thorn Wolf’s Racial Skills, Sunlight Absorption, Self-Healing, and Accelerated Growth were retained. Vine Strangling, however, had disappeared, or rather, evolved into the other three skills.

Thorny Tail referred to the Thorn Wolf’s highly attractive long tail, which was also its main attack method in its regular state.

Spike Shell was, as seen in the video, a carapace of thorny barbs that the Thorn Wolf could erect all over its body. It not only significantly enhanced its physical defense but also provided partial damage immunity and rebound—an immensely powerful skill.

The final skill, Thorn Spear, hadn’t been seen in the previous video. However, according to these notes, it was undoubtedly the Thorn Wolf’s “Ultimate Ability.”

It’s this creature’s super finishing move!

It involved transforming all the thorns on its body into a single thorn spear and then charging forward to impale its target.

Just from the description in these notes, I can imagine the scene when this ability is unleashed, Su Ping thought.

However, while its combat power was acceptable, the requirements for Evolution were extremely high.

For one thing, the Evolution required a total of five Commander-Level resources.

In a Breeder’s judgment, that was five times the conventional consumption.

Moreover, that wasn’t even the most critical issue.

The crucial aspect was the selection requirement for suitable Evolutionary Bodies: Forest Wolves needed to proactively rub against Iron Thorn Trees to determine their suitability for evolving into a Thorn Wolf.

Otherwise, if unsuitable, there was a chance they would get stuck at one of the steps, unable to complete the process.

Furthermore, a Forest Wolf that failed to complete this subsequent Evolution could not attempt other Evolution Laws. In a sense, its future potential would be completely severed.

It was precisely because of these numerous stringent conditions.

That was why, in that particular Cultivation Contest, despite relatively few new Evolutionary Bodies appearing, the Thorn Wolf only managed to rank seventh.

Such a result also illustrated the difficulty of evolving the Thorn Wolf and the challenges in popularizing it.

Su Ping remained unfazed. In a mere twenty minutes, he finished reading the entire evolution manual.

Then, as expected, a special message alert appeared in the deepest recesses of Su Ping’s soul.

[Myriad Spirit Beast Atlas: Special evolution route for ’Forest Wolf’ discovered – Thorn Wolf.]

[Spend 1,200 Catalogue Experience points to improve and strengthen this evolution route?]

The strength of the Myriad Spirit Beast Atlas lay in its ability to thoroughly perfect various imperfect Evolution Laws. It could even improve the Cultivation Methods of the Forest Wolf and the Elf Wolf, which had been practically standardized over many years, let alone that of the Thorn Wolf, which hadn’t existed for very long.

Moreover, Su Ping had come to understand the enhancement mechanism of the Myriad Spirit Beast Atlas quite well over time.

The more data he collected, the fewer Experience Points the Myriad Spirit Beast Atlas required to improve an Evolution Law. These notes contained all the experience Zhao Lintian had summarized from his research into the Thorn Wolf’s Evolution.

Naturally, the consumption of these Experience Points is within my expectations, Su Ping mused. After all, this is just an Evolutionary Body at the Commander-Level Peak.

Su Ping wasn’t overly concerned. Once the Myriad Spirit Beast Atlas’s feedback appeared, he promptly chose “Yes.”