Jiang Xing decided that once he finished dealing with the tasks at hand, he would take the little dragon hatchling to visit the Azure Dragon and complete an even further transformation!
As for now, after using the little dragon hatchling to limit the growth of the Golden-Patterned Koi population, he gathered all the leaders of the wild Pet Beast groups and established territorial boundaries and approximate population limits with them.
The leaders of the various Pet Beast groups were quite happy about this arrangement as well.
Pet Beasts possessed strong territorial instincts, and territory itself gave them a sense of security.
The current state—where everyone was mixed together in a giant overlapping mess—only existed because the research institute's territory covered all of their habitats, forcing them to put aside their barriers and live around the institute.
That situation was manageable when the numbers were small, but once the population grew too large, problems would inevitably arise.
Now, Jiang Xing was acting like a king, dividing up the land around the research institute and assigning territories to them.
At last, they could return to their normal routines and live within their own domains.
As for food, the Flower Fairy Attendants would periodically feed them, while they could also forage for wild fruit, small insects, and other things on their own.
If necessary, Jiang Xing could summon them again later.
'Once new Pet Beast species move in, I can assign different territories and neighbors based on their habits and strength levels...'
After making the adjustments, Jiang Xing could clearly feel that the area surrounding the research institute had become far more orderly.
Although the various Pet Beasts were no longer all piled together in one giant affectionate mass...
This more natural, wilderness-like environment—while still remaining relatively harmonious—actually felt much closer to the atmosphere of Dr. Xu's research institute.
Whenever Jiang Xing visited Xu Hai's research institute, it certainly did not look like some giant banquet with every Pet Beast crowding around the entrance.
...
After tidying up the backyard, Jiang Xing shifted his focus back to research itself.
He had no intention of hiding the existence of the Flower Fairy Attendants.
The Flower Fairy Attendants were currently the only Fairy-type Pet Beast in the entire Beast Taming world. Aside from them, there were no related moves, items, or resources whatsoever.
As a result, as long as Jiang Xing did not publish their entry in the Pet Beast Compendium, then even if he openly brought the Flower Fairy Attendants around everywhere, nobody would be able to guess the existence of the Fairy attribute.
At most, people would simply be shocked that this species could completely negate Dragon-type energy and grow curious about their racial talents...
However, Jiang Xing planned to play dumb for now and keep a hidden trump card in reserve—
First, he would conceal the Fairy attribute while using the Fairy Slate to mass-produce Fairy Stones, monitor the progress of Fairy energy generation within the world itself, and continue gathering various Fairy resources, moves, and Pokémon...
Then, once the timing was right and he had already eaten his fill, he would finally unveil the Fairy attribute to the world at an academic conference.
Well, putting everything else aside, this was a cake personally rewarded by Big Bro System.
If he did not take the very first bite, that would practically make him a saint.
Since he planned to temporarily suppress the Flower Fairy Attendant's Pet Beast Compendium entry, Jiang Xing naturally could not apply for research funding through that project either.
So Researcher Jiang first completed the project on the evolution conditions of the Little Healing Fairy.
Using that as a foundation, he applied to the authorities for five hundred million in research funding.
Most of those funds were invested into Light-attribute Secret Realm Stones.
The material Jiang Xing used to create Golden Sunflowers was low-grade Sunlight Stone worth around two hundred thousand.
Meanwhile, high-grade Sunlight Stones could sell for over two million.
Beyond that, there were even rarer Light-attribute Secret Realm Stones, along with cheaper, lower-quality, renewable Light-element energy stones.
The Little Healing Fairy's evolution conditions were clearly related to Light-element energy.
Jiang Xing wanted to run tests and see whether lowering the cost and quality of the evolution item would still satisfy its evolution conditions...
And whether increasing the evolution item's cost and quality would produce a stronger evolved form.
All of these were experimental objectives.
As for conveniently skimming a few rare Secret Realm Stones along the way, that was absolutely not happening.
The project application was approved very quickly. The Secret Realm Stones arrived on time, and Jiang Xing began crafting items, attempting the Honey Attendants' second round of evolution.
This time, Jiang Xing had brought two hundred Honey Attendants from the school.
Although these Honey Attendants were not top students, their Power Levels had basically reached their Species Tier limits, greatly reducing the time needed to raise their strength.
While Jiang Xing crafted the evolution items, he also assigned Xiao Xian a task, having it help fill in the remaining conditions.
As the research progressed in an orderly fashion, group after group of Honey Attendants completed their evolutions.
Jiang Xing successfully summarized the Little Healing Fairy's evolution conditions.
[Namely: Level + Golden Sunflower + Friendship ≥ 220]
The Little Healing Fairy was a triple-attribute Pet Beast: Bug, Light, and Emotion.
Sure enough, its evolution conditions also involved a Friendship value, and the requirement was quite high.
Considering that the Beast Taming world had contract bonuses, though, it was not too difficult to achieve.
As for the Golden Sunflower, Jiang Xing confirmed that even using the rarest evolution item would not change the Little Healing Fairy's form or talents. At most, it would slightly increase its growth potential—which was simply the basic effect of the Secret Realm Stone itself.
Conversely, Golden Sunflowers made from Light-attribute energy stones worth as little as around one hundred thousand could satisfy the Little Healing Fairy's evolution conditions.
'Factoring in spiritual weaving and the artisan's manual labor costs...'
'One hundred thirty thousand to one hundred eighty thousand should be a fairly reasonable price range.'
Compared to ordinary-attribute Secret Realm Stones, this evolution item was definitely much more expensive.
However, considering that Honey Larvae were basically extinct in the wild and counted as exclusive Pet Beasts from breeding houses, meaning they had to be purchased, plus the resources needed to raise one to the Commander Level and evolve it into a Honey Attendant...
A Beast Tamer capable of doing all that should still be able to grit their teeth and scrape together enough for one evolution item.
If they could not even manage that, then Jiang Xing's advice was simply not to raise one.
He was just a researcher. He had already pushed this to the limit.
On the other side, although Jiang Xing had not applied for funding, he still relied on the Fairy Slate's selfless sponsorship to cultivate a second batch of Flower Fairy Attendants and summarized their evolution conditions.
[Level + Pink Fae Flower]
Yes. After Xiao Xian was born as part of the first batch of Flower Fairy Attendants, the Honey Attendants seemed to have already adapted to Fairy energy.
As long as they possessed enough strength and were paired with a Pink Fae Flower, they could evolve directly without requiring any additional factors!
This path known as Fairy had now been completely opened to the Honey Attendants!
'Neither of the two evolved forms requires Beauty...'
The evolution results had deviated drastically from Jiang Xing's original conception.
He did not feel disappointed because of it.
After all, when research had only just begun, initial hypotheses being wrong due to limitations in conditions, information, and other factors was perfectly normal.
Even the Pet Beast Compendium would be revised over time to correct mistakes.
The design and logic of an evolution plan were, in essence, only an entry point and method for exploring evolved forms—not the objective itself.
The important part was evolution, not the conditions.
As long as the evolution was ultimately completed, all the mistakes made along the way were nothing more than groundwork laid for success.
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