My beast taming system has absolutely no problems!

Since what happened last night, she has been feeling a little anxious and tense.

She was no longer content to be just Xia Yu's housekeeper and assistant.

She wanted to become stronger so that she would have enough power to protect her young master when the next enemy came.

"Aunt Xue."

Xia Yu spoke softly, not wanting to startle her by suddenly interrupting her meditation.

"Could you come over and help me test the effect of the aptitude block?"

Lady Xue Ling slowly opened her eyes, the spiritual light fading little by little from the depths of her pupils, revealing her clear and cold eyes once more.

She stood up from the cushion and walked to Xia Yu. "Eek?"

Xia Yu handed over a box of qualification blocks marked as "premium" by the system.

Lady Xue Ling gently picked up a piece with her slender, snow-white fingers, put it in her mouth, and chewed it softly.

Pets have a huge energy requirement, and a box of eight energy cubes was quickly devoured.

After finishing her meal, Lady Xue Ling closed her eyes, seemingly sensing the flow and changes of energy within her body.

Xia Yu also tried opening the Pokédex to see if there were any changes to Lady Snow Spirit's information panel.

Pokémon: Gardevoir (Lady Snow Spirit)

[Gender: Female]

[Attribute: Ice/Spirit]

[Energy Level: 41 (Transcendent)]

[Race Rank: Overlord (Advancement Progress: 1%)]

【Trait: Charming Bones (Reduces damage taken from opposite-sex pets by 20%)

[Skills: Ice Cone, Ice Mirror Reflection, Ice Mist, Demonic Energy Bomb, Snow Spirit Dance, Enchanting Voice, Trick Space, Provocation]

[Affection Level: 99 (You are the only one)]

[Status: Chewing~]

[Evolutionary Pathway: No normal evolutionary path]

Xia Yu raised an eyebrow slightly.

The panel information actually shows the progress of race level advancement?

It's very comfortable.

A visualization process allows you to compare the effects of different grades of attribute blocks on pets of different races and levels.

However, to be fair, using eight high-quality quality blocks only increased the progress by one percent, which is somewhat slow.

After all, Lady Snow Spirit's racial level is only that of a hegemon.

If it takes a hundred boxes of premium quality quality blocks to complete the quality upgrade, how many would a natural disaster or even an immortal-level pet beast need?

After pondering for a moment, Xia Yu came to a more reasonable conclusion.

The eight aptitude cubes that were just eaten have most likely not been fully digested yet.

The absorption of energy cubes is not instantaneous. Pets need to gradually convert the absorbed energy into their own potential through energy circulation.

To verify his hypothesis.

Every hour thereafter, Xia Yu would check Lady Xue Ling's information panel.

Sure enough, each time I checked, the progress bar would increase by 1%, until it stopped changing after ten hours.

The final result was 10%.

Xia Yu silently noted down the conclusion.

[A pet of the Overlord rank can increase its progress by 10% by using eight Superior Quality Qualification Cubes at once.]

If this linear growth trend can be maintained, ten boxes will be enough to elevate Lady Snow Spirit from the Overlord rank to the Calamity rank.

What was the cost of ten boxes?

He did a quick mental calculation and found that the raw material cost for one box of premium quality cubes was a little over 30,000 yuan, so ten boxes would cost around 300,000 yuan.

Two hundred thousand Donghuang coins were used to elevate a once-dominant pet beast, whose life was essentially over, to the level of a calamity.

This price-performance ratio is practically charity in the beast breeding market.

Of course, Xia Yu's selling price to the public cannot be based on cost price. A price five times, ten times, or even more would be a reasonable market price.

At the same time, Xia Yu did not forget the Lan Yi Guang fish in the control group.

Ten hours later, with the same box of aptitude blocks, the progress of Lanyi Guangyu's improvement remained unchanged at only 1%.

Xia Yu was not discouraged. The second time, he fed the Lan Yi Guangyu ten boxes of premium quality blocks at once.

That sounds like a lot.

But for the Calamity-level pets, who are all big eaters, it's just an appetizer at best.

Xia Yu even felt that if he threw the box in directly, the Lan Yi Guangyu would swallow it whole without even chewing it.

During the same time period, on Lady Xueling's side, Xia Yu fed her a "top-grade" quality cube made of [Mysterious Water Drop].

It's not that Xia Yu is stingy, but a single Mysterious Water Drop can only produce three Qualification Blocks.

He still needs to keep the top-quality blocks for more comparative experiments.

This time, the progress of both pets has accelerated significantly.

On Lanyi Guangyu's side, the progress bar jumped from 1% to 11% in ten hours!

The efficiency of ten boxes is exactly the same as that of one box, which is ten times more efficient.

This proves that the absorption of aptitude blocks by cataclysmic-level pets is basically linear, and at least at this stage, there is no obvious marginal decrease.

Lady Snow Spirit's percentage was even more exaggerated, soaring from 10% to 60%!

A 50% increase means that just one top-tier quality cube is five times more effective than a box of premium quality cubes!

This terrifying effect further solidified Xia Yu's resolve not to sell top-quality quality blocks to the public.

Over the next few days, Xia Yu's life became extremely regular and monotonous.

The first thing I do every morning when I wake up is to open the Snow Sweeper Lady and Rippling Light Fish panels in the encyclopedia and record new data.

Then adjust the feeding amount for the day based on the previous day's digestion.

He discovered that a cataclysmic level pet beast could only digest a maximum of ten boxes of superior quality cubes at a time.

One digestion cycle takes ten hours.

In theory, this would be true if there were no diminishing marginal returns.

One hundred hours, one hundred boxes of premium quality blocks.

This can elevate a pet beast that was originally at the Calamity level to the Immortal level!

A set of three types of psionic stones, along with various tree fruits, can produce five boxes of quality blocks, while the "quality block output rate" of the energy block machine is approximately 20%.

In other words, even if both good and bad products are discarded, the cost of 100 boxes would only be around three million.

It's nearly twenty times cheaper than the [Spiritual Marrow Elixir] that Tianyan Group sells for 50 million per vial!

Not to mention that these three million also produced slightly lower quality aptitude cubes, which could still be effective against both extraordinary and overlord-level beings.

They've made a fortune!

After calculating all of this, Xia Yu only had this one thought in his mind.

However, the excitement was only fleeting, because soon, something even more important was about to happen.

The countdown to the Elf Incubator is down to just one hour!

Chapter 71 The Little Nebula is Born!

Although it wasn't the first time Xia Yu had hatched a Pokémon, he was much more excited than he had been with the Spirit Serpent.

There's no way around it, this is the Cosmog from the Minor Nebula.

The legendary space Pokémon!

No Pokémon fan could resist the temptation to catch Nebula, right?

Oh no, this is the world of beast taming, or rather, the world of contracts.

In any case, with only one hour left in the twenty-day wait, Xia Yu's anticipation had reached its peak.

Lady Xue Ling knew that this was a moment that belonged only to Xia Yu.

She turned to look at the spirit beast that was squatting at the door, peeking out, bent down, and gently stroked its little head with her snow-white palm.

"Eee?"

The Spirit Velvet Beast blinked its large, pale pink eyes and tilted its head in confusion.

Lady Snow Spirit didn't explain much, she just waved to it and then walked gracefully towards the door.

The Spirit Velvet Beast glanced at Lady Snow Spirit's retreating figure, then turned to look at Xia Yu, who was intently focused on the incubator.

Its ears twitched slightly, but it still managed to suppress its instinct to stick to Xia Yu's side and turned to run towards Madam Xue Ling.

Time passed second by second.

In the last minute of the countdown, Xia Yu could even faintly feel the tiny life inside the eggshell swaying slightly.

On the surface of the eggshell, the nebula-like patterns began to flicker, like a miniature universe awakening.

Finally, the timer on the incubator reached zero.

The hatch opened automatically, and the eggshell, which seemed to have starlight flowing on its surface, swayed slightly.

Then, it began to crack.

Cracks spread out from all sides of the eggshell simultaneously.