Chapter 151 — Collecting the Energy-Storing Beam

In the botanical garden, inside the combat zone...

Shi Jin walked on. Inside his beast-taming space, Ginseng Baby was sniffling and whining.

"Don't be so impatient."

Shi Yan said, "I'll take you to find a powerful spirit beast right now."

This time, with the "Codex" in hand, Shi Jin disdained to use Eleven's super-vision.

He simply activated the Codex's energy-detection function.

Instantly, the dense, clustered energy fluctuations across a vast area were detected before his eyes.

"Energy value 790—trash."

"Energy value 1093—boring."

"Energy value 2195—isn't there any powerful spirit beast around here?"

"Uh, 15843? What's a commander-level doing crashing the party?"

"Oh, there we go—3033, you'll do." After standing still for a moment, Shi Jin locked onto a spirit beast whose energy value fluctuated around 3033 and decided to take Ginseng Baby to challenge it.

That value might well mean a transcendent-level spirit beast of a monarch race.

Of course, it could also be a well-cultivated spirit beast of a commander race.

Shi Zhuo mused briefly, then summoned Ginseng Baby on the spot.

The next moment, a white summoning array appeared in midair, and Ginseng Baby tumbled straight out of it—caught by Shi Shuo's hand and set onto his shoulder.

"Eeya!!!"

Seated in Eleven's spot, Ginseng Baby was thrilled, tiny hands pointing forward, urging Shi Jin to charge, charge, charge.

Today was the first battle of Its Excellency Ginseng, the Celestial Emperor—it absolutely had to find a worthy opponent.

"Let's go."

Shi Huan gave a chuckle. Today Eleven and Bug-Bug were resting, so it was Ginseng Baby's turn to show off!

The main reason was that if Eleven and Bug-Bug came out, it would be more than just a battle against a transcendent-level creature.

...

Because Jue never did anything decent, the senior watching the monitors had him dead in his sights.

As for Jue punching the Tyrant Wood Lizard flying, he reserved judgment for now—after all, there were simply too many strange beast-taming talents and spirit-beast skills out there.

Before long, as Shi Jin chose to summon a spirit beast, the senior gradually began to feel Shi Jin was normal after all.

"White array—an intermediate beast tamer."

"The spirit beast is..."

"Ginseng Baby???"

Yet barely seconds after he'd decided Shi Jin was normal, Shi Jin stopped acting human again, summoning Ginseng Baby right there in the combat zone and tossing it onto his shoulder. The senior had no idea what to say.

If all of this could still be explained by Shi Jin having thrown a punch and needing Ginseng Baby to restore his stamina, then the next scene convinced the senior completely that Shi Jin was truly abnormal!

For there was Shi Jin, running into the territory of a combat-division senior's spirit beast...

And moreover, having the tonic Ginseng Baby jump down from his body to face off against the spirit beast before them.

"What the hell is wrong with this guy?"

"Don't tell me he plans to have Ginseng Baby fight a Giant Sunflower!!"

...

"Energy value 3033..."

After wandering in circles for quite a while, Shi Qi found his target and turned toward the spirit beast before him.

It was a bipedal flower-type spirit beast, half a meter tall.

It had a green, bulb-like body and legs, and atop its head bloomed a giant golden flower that gave off a faint glow.

Now the giant flower narrowed the eyes upon its body—as for its mouth, that grew inside the flower itself, making it a very strange creature.

This creature, whose mouth grew above its eyes, looked unexpectedly at Jia Qi, who had trespassed into its territory.

At that moment, its full data appeared before Shi Jin's eyes as well.

[Name]: Giant Sunflower

[Attribute]: Light

[Species Rank]: Mid-tier Commander

[Species Skills]: Flower Dance, Flash, Solar Power, Light Screen, Charge Beam, Sunset

"Not bad luck at all."

Shi Zhao was overjoyed.

This stroke of luck... he had come to the botanical garden precisely to find a pet beast that knew Charge Beam.

According to his research, there were roughly five common species of wild plant-type pet beasts in the botanical garden that knew Charge Beam, and he would have to search for them one by one.

The Giant Sunflower, as it happened, was not among those five. He could only say the heavens had smiled on him, saving him no end of time searching for Time Accumulation.

"How about a battle?" Shi Jue invited, looking at the Giant Sunflower.

With any other beast tamer lacking the telepathy talent, he might well have just launched straight into the fight.

But with Jue, he was still in the habit of talking a little first.

This Giant Sunflower was probably some senior student's pet beast; otherwise, there was no way it could have been cultivated to such a high energy value.

"Sun..."

At that moment, hearing Shi Ying's telepathic message, the Giant Sunflower froze for a beat, then nodded.

Fine by it—it had come to the battle zone for the sake of battle. Otherwise, wouldn't it be better to just sleep in the sunlight zone?

However...

Looking at the Ginseng Baby bounding eagerly off Shi Jin's body, looking at the Ginseng Baby baring its fighting spirit at it, the Giant Sunflower was suddenly at a loss.

Are you serious??

A battle was all well and good, but against *it*?

It knew perfectly well what a Ginseng Baby was!

Pitting a Ginseng Baby against it???

The Giant Sunflower's face twisted with undisguised contempt, convinced that this Shi Jin and his Ginseng Baby were both fools.

"Eee!! (I'll attack first!)"

Seeing that the Giant Sunflower had no will to fight, the Ginseng Baby had already condensed a little ginseng in its hand.

At Shi Ying's instruction, it had deliberately condensed one of small yield first, afraid that too much power might blow the other to bits.

After all, the Ginseng Baby's energy value was more than twice the Giant Sunflower's and then some, and the skills it used were high-tier techniques of massive destructive force...

At its height of a dozen or so centimeters, one could imagine just how small this "little ginseng" it had in mind really was. And so, with a toss from the Ginseng Baby, the little ginseng flew straight at the utterly bewildered Giant Sunflower.

"Sun..."

From this little fruit, the Giant Sunflower sensed only fragrance—the kind that relieved fatigue when eaten.

It gave a cry, unable to make sense of what it was seeing.

"So the other side isn't here to fight—they're here to feed me? This isn't a zoo!"

Meanwhile, the senior student watching the monitors froze. That skill looked awfully familiar.

It didn't seem like something a Ginseng Baby could learn; rather, it was a skill of the Ginseng Baby's evolved form—Nutrient!

So Shi Jin and the others really had come to feed it—

The fruit dropped at the Giant Sunflower's feet, and the Giant Sunflower still wore a look of utter disregard.

Like the senior student, it thought the Ginseng Baby was just clowning around.

But then again, the fruit did smell rather nice, incredibly tempting—enough to make the Giant Sunflower swallow unconsciously.

Hey, it was no worse than the Nutrient it had eaten before.

It even had a certain unique charm.

"Sun!! (Then don't mind if I do.)"

The Giant Sunflower stared at the fruit, seemingly set on eating it.

At this, Shi Yan and the Ginseng Baby fell silent.

True, they had once imagined trying this tactic.

But Shi Jin had truly never expected that a pet beast with a beast tamer of its own could be this foolish—could believe it and genuinely intend to eat.

Was it because they were in the botanical garden, and so it assumed there was no danger?

But they had clearly agreed just now that this was to be a battle!

"Time to teach it a lesson."

Seeing that the Giant Sunflower had not the slightest sense of danger, Shi Jin was truly at a loss.

"I'm tired. Destroy it."