Dr. Amru's research achievements let Jiang Xing truly witness what it meant to be a Pet Beast doctor.
He thought about how Dr. Xu and Su Muli would also be participating in this Friendship Evolution Conference...
Since these top scholars had chosen to attend the conference, the research achievements they brought definitely wouldn't be something as simple as "proving that a known Pet Beast's evolution condition was Friendship."
They would definitely be important, groundbreaking research achievements!
Thinking about that scene, Jiang Xing felt both excited and a little smug.
The more sensational and shocking everyone else's research achievements were, the more it would highlight the importance of the newly discovered Emotion attribute!
It was just like competitive matches—
Compared to stomping weak opponents in some rookie tournament, obviously nothing felt better than defeating a Champion-Class Beast Tamer head-on and crushing a powerhouse beneath your feet!
...
No matter how much Jiang Xing looked forward to it, the Evolution Conference was still four days away.
He brought Dr. Amru into the research institute and gave him a proper reception.
During that time, Dr. Amru also met pets like the Auspicious Cloud Qilin, the Rainbow Dragon Hatchling, and Inky.
He was a Necromancy-type doctor, but the emphasis was on doctor, not Necromancy-type.
As a Pet Beast doctor, he was naturally very interested in these rare and powerful Pet Beasts, so he opened his luggage, took out several boxes of desserts, and handed them to the pets—
Jiang Xing's Energy Cubes only had an absurdly advanced production process.
The cubes themselves were not some one-of-a-kind delicacy.
As long as someone spent more than ten times the resources and paired them with exceptional craftsmanship, they could create food comparable to—or even surpassing—the Energy Cubes.
The Pet Beast food made by Dr. Amru was clearly this type of product.
This brand-new flavor left the little Qilin and the others completely satisfied.
That behavior instantly triggered Jiang Xing's competitive spirit.
Normally, he was the one bribing other people's Pet Beasts with delicious food—now he had actually run into a fellow professional?!
He absolutely had to strike back and let the other side witness Pokémon technology!
So Jiang Xing took out the Energy Cubes and thoroughly spoiled the Pet Beasts Dr. Amru had summoned.
Mm, those three Pet Beasts named Bone-Soul Lion were merely Dr. Amru's research subjects. His true contracted Pet Beasts were all resting inside his Beast Taming Space.
Those contracted Pet Beasts were either Monarch Tier, Overlord Tier, or even included a Demi-God Tier existence.
Just from the strength of those Pet Beasts alone, Dr. Amru could already be called a Legendary Beast Tamer!
Which was perfectly normal.
Pet Beast doctors never lacked resources, and they also possessed core knowledge. Combined with years of accumulation, raising Demi-God Tier Pet Beasts was completely ordinary.
Just like Dr. Xu also owned several Demi-God Tier Pet Beasts—this was the depth of the doctors.
Once the Pet Beasts had also been properly entertained—
Jiang Xing brought Dr. Amru into the study and began discussing the real matter at hand.
...
"So this is the Honey Attendant..."
Dr. Amru held the tablet and patiently browsed through the information on it.
Recorded there were the Honey Attendant's data, as well as its growth and changes during this period of time.
During this time, while Jiang Xing was raising the Ugly Waterfowl, he had not neglected the Honey Attendant's development.
Or rather, the very process of raising the Ugly Waterfowl was indirectly raising the Honey Attendant as well—
As Bug-type Pet Beasts, their upper limits were extremely low. Since they had already come from the school system, their Power Level growth had long since reached its limit.
If Jiang Xing wanted to continue developing them, he could only start from other aspects.
The very first thing he did was Aspiration.
He strengthened the Honey Attendant's confidence, making it first believe that it could evolve. Only then could it erupt with powerful evolutionary energy under various conditions.
Without a doubt, this had gone extremely well.
Even the weak, ugly, overlooked Ugly Waterfowl had all completed their evolution.
And they had evolved into three different forms in a single step—one of which was even a phoenix representing ultimate beauty!
This undoubtedly injected the Honey Attendant with immense confidence!
If even Ugly Waterfowl could evolve, then it—trusted by Jiang Xing—must also possess evolutionary potential!
The clearest outward manifestation of this was that the Honey Attendant's honey was becoming sweeter and sweeter. Every day, it happily wandered around feeding others while looking forward to its own evolution.
With Aspiration completed, the second thing was Training.
Here, "training" referred to compensating for the Bug-type's innate defects—
No matter how confident Jiang Xing was, he could not ignore the objective reality that Bug-types simply sucked.
Even if there were some Overlord Tier Bug-attribute species, nobody would believe that the Bug attribute could stand against the Dragon attribute.
Bug-type Pet Beasts truly did possess innate shortcomings.
But this was the world of Beast Taming, where anything was possible.
Even innate deficiencies could be compensated for through tools, environments, and all sorts of external methods.
For example, if there were a Bug-type Plate representing the power of creation, Jiang Xing was confident that even a Caterpie could evolve into a green dragon!
So, Jiang Xing planned to prepare some items and use external means to compensate for the Honey Attendant's Bug-type weaknesses.
In addition, Jiang Xing suspected that the Honey Attendant was very likely an evolution tied to Contest Appeal—though not necessarily Beauty-based evolution alone.
The first burst of momentum is strongest, the second weaker, the third exhausted.
If they wanted to evolve, then naturally the first attempt would produce the best effect.
To increase the probability of evolution, during this period he had been gifting it an Auspicious Chime Bell while also feeding it Beauty Cubes.
Just like when he raised the Ugly Waterfowl, he intended to push every available resource to the limit.
Only then came Will-Tempering.
Through a ritual, he would guide the Honey Attendant's spiritual power into resonating with all the various conditions, triggering an explosive release of evolutionary energy.
When that moment came, it would depend on itself.
Originally, for the item-preparation step, Jiang Xing had planned to conduct the research himself and consult the two "old grandpas" whenever he encountered something he didn't understand.
But now, one of those "old grandpas" had literally jumped out of the phone and appeared in person.
Naturally, Jiang Xing wasn't going to be polite about it. He explained his ideas to Dr. Amru and asked him to help analyze what kind of evolution item should be created.
During the explanation process, Dr. Amru also came to understand Jiang Xing's development philosophy.
He deeply agreed with it.
After all, concepts like emotions, bonds, and the soul—everything he had been researching recently—had all been inspired by Jiang Xing in the first place.
Naturally, he could understand and follow Jiang Xing's train of thought.
In fact, he even felt Jiang Xing was being too conservative.
Since the goal was to stimulate the power of the soul, illusions were still lacking. They should just use the real thing directly. With a Demi-God Tier Pet Beast supervising things, nothing would truly go wrong anyway.
Besides, even if the Honey Attendant failed to evolve and died, it wouldn't matter.
He was a Necromancy-type doctor specializing in the domain of death. He was currently researching revival conditions anyway. If they revived into a second life, they might directly skip over the Bug-type's innate limitations and have a ceiling reaching all the way to Demi-God Tier.
There was never any need to obsess over life and death in the first place. The two were not so clearly separated to begin with...
Of course, Dr. Amru also knew that his "view on life and death" might be a little too advanced. A young man like Jiang Xing might not necessarily understand it.
So he refrained from saying too much. Instead, he followed Jiang Xing's philosophy and helped him conceptualize the evolution item.
Developing a brand-new evolution item...
That was also one of his research fields.
...
After entering research mode, Dr. Amru changed his travel plans, moved into Jiang Xing's research institute, and focused entirely on thinking about and designing evolution items—
After receiving inspiration from Jiang Xing, he had finally stepped out of the dead end he had been trapped in for years and entered an entirely new field.
Not to mention a small favor like this—even if the problem had been much more difficult, he still would not have refused.
'Does this count as having a doctor work as my research assistant?'
Jiang Xing had not even officially become a researcher yet, but he could already have a doctor act as his assistant and help share the workload on a research project...
This was probably a one-of-a-kind situation.
And in order to prove that he deserved such an honor—
Jiang Xing also began organizing the research achievements from this period of time, summarizing them into papers in preparation for the Friendship Evolution Conference a few days later.
Once he started sorting through everything, he realized that he had actually produced an absurd number of research achievements recently—
The Power Formula of the Return Move, The Detailed Classification of Friendship, The Evolution Conditions of the Clouddown Bird, The Type Effectiveness Reactions of the Return Move, The Hypothesis and Proof of the Emotion Attribute, Methods for Detecting the Emotion Attribute...
Just the rough topics and paper outlines alone already amounted to this many.
And if he really subdivided them further, things like Hypothesis and Verification of Emotion-Type Moves and Hypothesis and Verification of Emotion-Type Pet Beasts could each become multiple additional papers.
'You want me to write this many papers in less than four days?!'
'Just kill me already!'
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