Chapter 200: Chapter 160: Giant Rock Butterfly, Arrives
[Name: Thunderlight Butterfly]
[Gender: Male]
[Trait: Rapid Thunder]
[Level: Tier Four Level One]
[Mastered Skills: Electric Flash (Skilled): Attacks the opponent at incredible speed; once the opponent touches its body, they will fall into a paralyzed state.
Insect Chirping (Skilled): Emits piercing sound waves from its mouth to attack the opponent.
Thunder Light (Skilled): Entwined in thunder light, crashes fiercely into the opponent, with a one-third chance of inducing paralysis.
Electromagnetic Wave (Beginner): Flaps its wings, emitting diffuse electromagnetic waves; all exotic beasts in contact with the waves will fall into paralysis.
Thunder Clone (Beginner): Gathers and forms a clone covered in lightning.
Thunder Burst (Beginner): The clone covered in thunder rushes towards the opponent and, upon nearing them, directly detonates itself.]
[Evolutionary Path 1: None, special conditions must be met.]
After seeing the detailed information about the Thunderlight Butterfly, Ye Bai immediately had another idea.
It was whether the clones mimicked by the Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm could evolve.
The clones of the Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm, theoretically speaking, can maintain this form as long as they are not actively broken by the enemy.
Since it maintains this form, could the clone evolve if it meets the same evolutionary conditions?
If all clones can evolve, then the Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm would become incredibly formidable.
However, the biggest limiting factor for the Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm is still its level.
Once the Thunderlight Butterfly appeared, the Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm canceled its record of the Dark Butterfly.
It only retained the Light Goddess Butterfly Clone, Poison Dragon Butterfly Clone, and Thunderlight Butterfly Clone.
The Light Goddess Butterfly Clone can heal, the Poison Dragon Butterfly Clone can absorb toxins, and the Thunderlight Butterfly Clone possesses formidable combat capabilities.
This means one Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm has the power of an entire legion.
Once the Giant Rock Butterfly Clone appears, the Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm can switch between offensive and defensive positions.
The name Giant Rock Butterfly suggests it possesses formidable defensive capabilities.
However, currently, the Ten Thousand Changes Silkworm only has three mimic clones, and must break through to Tier Four to continue recording.
"I didn’t expect that you managed to research the Thunderlight Butterfly."
"You’ve opened a new evolutionary path for the Hundred-Change Silkworm to reach Tier Four."
"Let this experiment become your personal accolade, leaving a bold mark in your career."
"Ye Bai, don’t tell me you want to keep a low profile; you can’t stay low-key anymore."
"The upper levels are already paying attention to you; now is the time for you to compete."
"The squeaky wheel gets the grease; experiment materials, elf advancement potions—you have to fight for them."
Zhang Lingxue said earnestly.
Ye Bai nodded: "Alright, teacher, I’ll first sort out the information, and then write a paper."
"But I first need to figure out the evolutionary path for the Giant Rock Butterfly."
Because soon, the Beautiful Country will internationally announce that they have discovered the earth attribute evolutionary method for the Hundred-Change Silkworm.
If Ye Bai can publish his findings first, it will be a heavy blow to the Beautiful Country.
It’s not as complicated as imagined for the Hundred-Change Silkworm to evolve into the Giant Rock Butterfly.
Overall, it’s quite straightforward, with the Sunflower Emperor providing protection. Whenever there’s a minor deviation in the Hundred-Change Silkworm, the Sunflower Emperor will absorb the earth energy within the silkworm.
After a round of experiments, the Sunflower Emperor ended up much sturdier.
Since the Sunflower Emperor did much early groundwork, Ye Bai easily got into the flow.
He had the Hundred-Change Silkworm consume the evolution materials and then applied a concoction of rare earth, calcite, and various expensive materials to the silkworm’s body.
The Hundred-Change Silkworm felt an icy cool sensation flowing within its body and soon fell asleep.
The concoction gradually formed a thick, earth-toned giant cocoon on the silkworm’s body.
Ye Bai quickly recorded the change, with sixteen high-definition cameras focusing on the silkworm’s evolution.
Once cocooned, unless unexpected, the Hundred-Change Silkworm will certainly evolve into the Giant Rock Butterfly.
At this moment, two giant cocoons suddenly cracked, revealing the Gray Poison Moth.
"Big Gray, help control the Gray Poison Moth, don’t let it affect the other cocoons."
Big Gray raised his hand and pointed towards the Gray Poison Moth, releasing an arc of electricity from his fingertip.
With a flick, the arc hit the two Gray Poison Moths.
The Gray Poison Moths were paralyzed by the electricity, and before touching the ground, Ye Bai retrieved them with the Beast Card.
"It seems your experiment with the Giant Rock Butterfly isn’t going as planned."
"You must excel at analyzing the causes of failure to learn from them."
Ye Bai reflected and realized that the two Hundred-Change Silkworms were rather skinny, possibly causing them to evolve into Gray Poison Moths.
He added this reason to the list awaiting verification.
"Let’s continue the experiment."
"I’ll carefully think things through to ensure no mistakes occur."
Fortunately, the remaining Giant Rock Butterflies successfully hatched.
[Name: Giant Rock Butterfly]
[Gender: Male]
[Trait: Thick Earth: Increases Earth Attribute skill power by 1.5 times.]
[Level: Tier Four Level One]
[Mastered Skills: Rock Defense (Skilled): Summons a giant rock floating in the air to block the opponent’s attack.
Insect Chirping (Skilled): Emits a piercing sound wave from its mouth to attack the opponent.
Falling Rock (Skilled): Summons a massive rock to crash onto the ground, delivering a heavy blow to the opponent.
Gravity Wave (Beginner): Flaps its wings to release a dispersing gravity wave, binding all Exotic Beasts that come into contact with it.
Earth Clone (Beginner): Condenses an earth-colored clone for reconnaissance and opening a second perspective.
Rock Shield (Beginner): Uses Earth Energy to create a shield covering itself, enhancing its defense.]
[Evolutionary Path 1: None, requires special conditions to be met.]
"Teacher, I’m counting on you."
"The Giant Rock Butterfly needs to undergo a reproducibility experiment, but I don’t have the time."
Zhang Lingxue was not busy recently, so she could help out.
"No problem, just organize all the data for me."
"Shall we also conduct the reproducibility experiment for the Thunderlight Butterfly?"
"For the paper, you can be the first author, and I’ll be the second."
If the entire experiment plus the reproducibility experiment were completed by Ye Bai alone, Zhang Lingxue naturally wouldn’t be the second author.
But since Ye Bai couldn’t find the time now, Zhang Lingxue had to ’reluctantly’ take the second author spot, which was essentially a great advantage.
It’s just that taking advantage of her student made Zhang Lingxue feel ’a bit’ embarrassed.
"The reproducibility experiment of the Giant Rock Butterfly is crucial. Once reproducibility is confirmed, immediately report the evolution path and publicly disclose the evolution path of the Giant Rock Butterfly internationally."
"Teacher, I got a tip from the dark web: the Beautiful Country has also researched the Giant Rock Butterfly and is about to complete it. We must publish our research before they disclose the evolution path publicly."
After hearing Ye Bai’s words, Zhang Lingxue looked worried.
"Ye Bai, do you think the Giant Rock Butterfly’s evolution materials will overlap with yours?"
"I’m worried the Beautiful Country might accuse you of stealing their data."
Ye Bai confidently smiled.
"No, I guarantee it, Teacher. You should quickly publish this evolution path."
"There are plenty of experimental materials, enough for you to conduct dozens of experiments."
"I’ll leave Big Gray and the Sunflower Emperor here!"
Upon hearing Ye Bai’s words, Zhang Lingxue shook her head: "No need, Big Gray should protect you and not leave your side. I have already found a Pet Beast that can help me gauge the current intensity."
Zhang Lingxue daintily pointed to the Thunderlight Butterfly.
"Its experience may be even more extensive than Big Gray’s, given it’s been struck by lightning countless times along its journey."
"It’s more aware of the current intensity’s effect on the Hundred-Change Silkworm."
"I’ll contract with it later."
"As for the Sunflower Emperor, just leave a clone that can take my commands."
"Romeo and Juliet are currently excellent assistants for my experiments."
Zhang Lingxue is excellent at experiments, and she observed closely while Ye Bai conducted his experiments, so she knew precisely what to do.
"No problem, Teacher, once you have made a decision, let’s proceed."
"The Young Qilin Cup starts tomorrow."
"If Master Jiang hasn’t returned, I won’t go to Anbao Hall yet and will discuss it after the competition."
At this moment, the Divine Stone permeated by Ye Bai’s spirit fell away, transforming into a torrent of abundant energy that flooded Ye Bai’s sea of consciousness.
This energy surged vigorously, filling Ye Bai’s entire mind, and before he realized it, his strength rapidly increased, crossing several levels in succession.
This was indeed excellent news.
"Did the Divine Stone fracture?"
Ye Bai’s heart raced, this was a great thing.
The crucial items inside could now be revealed.
Ye Bai remembered the intelligence system mentioning that inside the stone were Celestial Peaches and branches of the World Tree.
Celestial Peaches can extend the lifespan of humans or Exotic Beasts, and Master Jiang, who taught him Healing at a low cost, likely needs Celestial Peaches for longevity.
While the World Tree branches require copious amounts of Life Crystal Dew to take root and sprout, forming a towering tree in his mind, which would also help transform Ye Bai’s Pet Beast Space towards the Secret Realm, though it would take a long time.
Ye Bai hastily bid farewell to Zhang Lingxue.
Zhang Lingxue watched Ye Bai’s departing figure, opening her mouth but ultimately saying nothing, instead, seeing Ye Bai off.
The Young Qilin Cup was about to start, and Ye Bai naturally wouldn’t spend much time here.
Moreover, the Young Qilin Cup was a closed training session, which is why Ye Bai couldn’t balance both the Young Qilin Cup and the Phoenix Cup.
The Young Qilin Cup required nearly a month of closed assessment.