My beast can't be a demon.

Chapter 286 Influence
Zhou Lu let Qi Lin go.

The moment Qi Lin appeared in front of him, he could no longer escape.

The micro-branches had already parasitized Qi Lin's body without anyone noticing.

The concealment racial skills awakened by various spirit beasts in order to avoid natural enemies produced a very magical chemical reaction on Huo Huo.

Qi Lin had no idea that he had been parasitized by the branches of Huo Huo.

Zhou Lu just watched Qi Lin leave.

"Did you forget to use your skill just now?" Zhou Lu asked Hua Huo helplessly.

If Hua Huo had enabled the concealment skill on Fenzhi, Qi Lin would not have detected his whereabouts the moment he climbed up the wall.

"Isn't it you, the master, who controls the branch?" Hua Huo expressed contempt for Zhou Lu's behavior of shifting the blame.

amount……

Ok.

As expected, I still lack combat experience.

Since Hua Huo had too many skills, without enough combat experience, it was really difficult for Zhou Lu to realize the timing of releasing some skills.

However, this problem will soon be solved.

The clones of Hanabi are iterating madly in the illusion of the Truth Seeker.

According to Qiudao Mu's calculations, in just these few days, the combat experience accumulated by the branches of Fireworks is more than three hundred years.

And this number is still growing.

Fireworks is like an AI that is constantly learning and iterating, madly accumulating practical experience.

And because they are clones, these accumulated combat experiences are even real life-and-death battles.

Zhou Lu was looking forward to seeing what kind of combat power Huo Huo would be able to demonstrate after receiving these combat experiences.

Of course, the most important thing at the moment is the mess in front of us.

Judging from the conversation between Qi Lin and Tian Buhuo, the core personnel of the Immortal Kingdom seemed to have evacuated successfully.

However, as long as I follow Qi Lin's trail, it shouldn't be difficult to find these people.

While they were talking, Hua Huo and Zhou Lu finally arrived at the scene.

Similar to what he sensed through empathy, the high temperature of the flames made Zhou Lu feel a burning sensation.

This was probably not an ordinary fire. Even though it burned down the entire house, it showed no sign of extinguishing.

However, Hanabi was quick to act and rescued the dead immortal's body from the fire.

What surprised Zhou Lu was that many of them were familiar faces, all big names he had seen on TV or online news.

He is actually an immortal?

Every time Hua Huo brought out a new corpse, Zhou Lu couldn't help but sigh.

He even saw a nationally famous Beast Tamer star in it.

A beastmaster who set a record for consecutive wins in competitions is actually an immortal?

This is indeed an ironic thing.

"This is normal." Qiu Daomu was not surprised by this. "During the war to destroy the immortals, many immortals disguised themselves as beast masters and sneaked into our team to cause trouble."

Apart from the unique skills of the Beastmaster, such as adding spirit pets to the Beastmaster Card and other skills that work with spirit pets, the essence of the Beastmaster is interactive combat with spirit pets.

There are similar schools among the immortals. They would snatch the offspring of divine beasts and raise them from a young age. When these young beasts grow up, they will serve as mounts to assist them in combat.

If one does not demonstrate one's extraordinary strength and merely commands one's pet to fight, one's performance is indeed no different from that of a Beastmaster.

This is also a sign that many immortals feel they are superior to beastmasters.

However, immortals disguised in this way will still have some flaws that are difficult to conceal.

For example, when they command their spirit pets to fight, the communication between them and the spirit pets is not smooth.

And the most crucial thing is that the evolution speed of spirit pets is almost natural speed, which does not show the accelerating effect of the beastmaster on the evolution of spirit pets at all.

Therefore, when immortals are disguised as beastmasters, they are often in their strongest state as soon as they appear.

This was the case with the celebrity beastmaster who had passed away before us.

He is a beastmaster from a quasi-god family. When he first appeared, he inherited the status of his own quasi-god pet. It was also with the help of this quasi-god pet that he achieved a record-breaking winning streak.

"He was clearly enjoying the glory of the times, yet he chose to betray."

"There is no shortage of such people among humans." Qiu Daomu sneered, "You just haven't seen enough of them."

"Hey, that's not necessarily true," Zhou Lu had seen many people on the Internet in his previous life who were fed by the country but hated the country.

Compared to the corpse at their feet, they just lacked an opportunity.

Since they were already dead, Zhou Lu didn't plan to waste it and nodded to Hua Huo.

Amid the cheers of fireworks, these unlucky guys instantly became fertilizer for fireworks.

"But even so, Fireworks' growth is still not enough." Zhou Lu looked at Fireworks, who was madly absorbing growth, and showed a worried expression.

If it were in the past, when Zhou Lu showed such urgency, Qiu Daomu would comfort him and tell him not to be so anxious as there was still a lot of time left.

But this time, Qiu Dao Mu remained silent.

"Your silence makes me even more scared." Zhou Lu said with a smile.

Qiu Daomu heard Zhou Lu's words and smiled bitterly: "You are testing me, right?"

No wonder Zhou Lu would show anxiety in front of him from time to time.

The power of fate gives Qiudao Mu a certain ability to touch the direction of the future.

Most of the time, knowing part of the future would make Zhou Lu feel more calm when Zhou Lu expressed anxiety.

But when Qiu Dao Mu did not show such behavior, it meant that the future that Qiu Dao Mu saw should have undergone some unfavorable changes.

Based on Qiu Dao Mu's attitude, Zhou Lu was able to judge the general direction of the situation.

Obviously, fate cannot be described.

But humans always try to obtain information about their destiny from themselves in various roundabout ways.

It was like this then, and it is still like this now.

Zhou Lu chuckled and said, "Don't worry, I plan to go to the ancient city of the fairyland again and gather enough growth for the evolution of Fireworks there."

After a pause, Zhou Lu continued, "If it's not enough, I will let Hua Huo try to evolve."

Hearing Zhou Lu's words, Qiu Dao Mu was slightly surprised: "If the growth is insufficient, the success rate of evolution will not be high."

"Success rate... Do you think the success rate of this evolution is related to the luck of the beastmaster or the luck of the spirit beast?" Zhou Lu asked for no reason.

To his surprise, Qiu Daomu answered without hesitation: "It has something to do with both. The luck value of the beastmaster will have a high blessing on this, so the success rate of the evolution of the spirit beast that becomes the spirit pet of the beastmaster is very high."

"Huh?" Zhou Lu didn't expect Qiu Dao Mu to actually answer this question.

As if he had guessed the reason for Zhou Lu's surprise, Qiu Daomu said speechlessly: "This is already a relatively normal project for you human researchers to study. I even have papers on the effects of different animal body fluids on the growth rate of female mice. He even used his own body fluids. Are you interested in listening?"

A drop of cold sweat instantly flowed down Zhou Lu's forehead: "Forget it, forget it."

I thought my senior’s research project was weird enough, but I didn’t expect it to be even weirder.

No! What kind of perverted researcher could come up with this topic?
"So is there an impact?" Zhou Lu couldn't help but ask.

Damn! I really care about this result!
Qiu Dao Musheng said helplessly: "I haven't seen any strong correlation in statistics."

"Ah...it's okay?" "You're not expecting something, are you?" Qiu Dao Mu showed an expression of looking at a pervert.

Zhou Lu coughed twice and quickly changed the subject: "So, as long as the beastmaster's luck value is increased, the success rate of evolution can be increased?"

"That's the theory."

In fact, in the wild, even if a spiritual beast reaches the peak realm of its own rank, its success rate for evolution is only about 80 percent if all materials are gathered, far from the amazing 99 percent success rate of a spiritual pet.

For those who have not yet grown to the peak level, the probability of evolution is even lower.

“But it’s still a bit difficult to increase the Beastmaster’s luck.” Qiu Daomu looked at Zhou Ludao.

Although it felt that Zhou Lu should still have some solutions.

"We'll see when the time comes." Zhou Lu looked at Xu Fangfang and his group who were rushing towards them from a distance.

The fire here has attracted official attention.

As the official strongest beastmaster of Suizhou, Xu Fangxiang naturally came here first.

Looking at the raging fire in front of him, Xu Fang was stunned for a moment, and then he saw the corpses on the ground.

Unlike Zhou Lu, Xu Fangfang had been in the upper-class social circles before, and had a deeper understanding of the identities of these people on the ground than Zhou Lu, so he was inevitably shocked.

"What happened here?!" His voice couldn't help but tremble as he spoke.

If the situation here were to get out, the whole world would be shaken in an unprecedented way.

Many of them are the heirs to rulers of certain key industries.

Compared to Xu Fangxing, Zhou Lu seemed very calm: "They are all immortals, belonging to the Immortal Kingdom. Hurry up and find your boss, I'm afraid you can't handle this matter anymore."

The next day, Zhou Lu woke up from his sleep and opened his mobile phone to browse the web.

Just as he expected, there was no trace of the fire in the suburbs last night in the public opinion field, as if it had never happened.

But looking at the 99+ missed calls on the phone, it is not difficult to see that this matter is by no means as simple as it seems.

Zhou Lu picked up the phone and called Ye Qingyu back.

The call was connected as soon as the ring sounded.

"What did you do last night?!" Ye Qingyu asked in a low voice.

The sound of a meeting can be faintly heard from the other party's background.

"Qi Lin did it." Zhou Lu said, "He disguised himself as Ouyang Xiao and led me away. When I found the Tian family's private residence, it was what you know."

"Is Xiaoxiao okay?"

"It's okay." Zhou Lu lied.

He hasn't gone to find Ouyang Xiao yet.

But if Wu Xiaoqing didn't react, it meant that the mushrooms on Ouyang Xiao's body had not withered, and there was no danger to his life.

He was preparing to go to the place Qi Lin mentioned today to find the other party.

"This has become a big deal." Ye Qingyu said with a headache.

"I can see that many of them are heirs of beast taming families, right? It seems that many of them control key industries." Zhou Lu recalled the list he and Xu Fangchang compiled together, and his scalp tingled at the thought.

This batch of dead immortals basically came from big families.

Some of them control the world's shipping, and some control the breeding of spiritual pets.

Clothing, food, housing, transportation...

Almost every industry you can think of has been affected.

This is the era of Beast Tamers. Basically, all industries are inseparable from spirit pets. Either they need the abilities provided by spirit pets, or they need the raw materials provided by spirit pets.

Once the Tian family incident was exposed, and after it was confirmed that all the corpses present were immortals, it meant that these beast-taming families were no longer trustworthy.

Thinking about the fact that they are involved in so many industries, if Zhou Lu were the leader, he would probably have a headache.

"If you need anything, I can help." This was all Zhou Lu could say.

He is still not good at arguing with others.

"There's nothing you can do about this kind of thing..."

"It's still okay to send those who oppose it to be used as fertilizer for the flowers."

“Don’t be so extreme.”

"Okay, then just kill them all."

"This is no different from using it as fertilizer for flowers!" Ye Qingyu complained helplessly.

However, after Zhou Lu's intervention, his irritable mood was relieved a lot.

What Ye Qingyu didn’t know was that Zhou Lu could actually do this - of course, excluding the interference of the divine beast.

Zhou Lu didn't want to explain too much, he needed to rescue Brother Ouyang first.

Fortunately, the place Qi Lin mentioned was not far from Suizhou.

Zhou Lu and Hua Huo arrived here quickly.

"I didn't expect that there would be such a barren mountain in the real world..." Looking at the surrounding environment, Zhou Lu couldn't help but mutter.

Thanks to humans' protection of the natural environment in recent years, groups of wild spiritual beasts have gradually appeared in the real world where natural spiritual beast resources were almost exhausted.

In just this short journey up the mountain, Hua Huo caught quite a few wild beasts.

They are generally not strong and are not afraid of people.

When he saw Zhou Lu, he looked like he was asking for food.

After walking for a long distance into the mountains, Zhou Lu arrived at the place Qi Lin mentioned.

This should have been a cave originally.

But at this time the entrance of the cave was blocked by stones.

"There's someone inside." Huo Huo's roots had already felt the vibration inside.

Waving the vines to move all the stones away, the master and servant walked into the cave.

Here, he finally saw his senior whom he had never met before.

"Hey! It's little Zhou Lu~!" A beautiful kitten saw Zhou Lu and made a happy sound.

In memory, this kitten was Ouyang Xiao’s pet, named Beaker.

Just based on the name of this spiritual pet, it was difficult for Zhou Lu to evaluate it.

The kitten looked at Zhou Lu, his eyes seemed to turn into flowing water: "Didn't you bring a cotton swab?"

Snapped!
Before it could finish its words, Hanabi wrapped the cat up with a vine.

"Meow~!!"

"Can I make it into a cat cake?" Hanabi said angrily.

Its intuition told it that when a cat says something like this, it is almost like seducing someone!
Zhou Lu's mouth twitched slightly.

The predecessor only did some necessary work on the beaker under Ouyang Xiao's guidance...

This is also the reason why my predecessor didn’t like Ouyang Xiao very much.

This guy's train of thought is always weird.

(End of this chapter)