"What's gotten into you, kid? You're in a daze. Did the breakthrough leave you stupefied?"

Early in the morning, when Su Ping arrived at the Paperman's temporary cultivation studio, Liu Fuhai greeted him with a teasing remark and a smile. Beside them, Zhu Hong, who was watching Su Ping take notes on yesterday's battle, also gave Su Ping a surprised look. They all knew about the young fellow's promotion, but indeed, why did he seem so absentminded since arriving this morning?

Su Ping shook his head, though it was quite obvious he wasn't fully present, still lost in thought, as if pondering something. The two Breeders exchanged glances, both slightly puzzled.

What Su Ping was thinking about was none other than the Flame Fruit he had been struggling with ever since completing his breakthrough. This very morning, he had experimented with it numerous times.

This Flame Fruit... this morning, it's no longer my Flame Fruit; it's damn well become Schrödinger's Flame Fruit! What is this, quantum entanglement? As long as I'm not observing it, the Flame Fruit disappears within the Beast Taming Space. But as soon as I focus intently on it with my spiritual power, the Flame Fruit just sits there obediently.

Later, he speculated, Could something be sneakily eating it?

However, he had thoroughly searched the entire Beast Taming Space, inside and out, to the point of feeling quite dazed, yet he found nothing.

In the end, Su Ping helplessly condensed several more Flame Fruits. He then had Xiao Qing, who was training with the Forest Wolf, take them into the Beast Taming Space to keep a close watch and figure out what exactly was going on with them. But this whole affair is too bizarre and involves my personal secrets, so I can't really discuss it with others.

"Alright, come over and let's talk about yesterday's Five Elements Paper Diagram," Master Zhu Hong said, clearly more concerned about this matter.

Su Ping nodded and recounted the events of the previous day. Liu Fuhai and Zhu Hong quickly focused, fully acquainting themselves with the details of the Five Elements Paper Diagram battle.

After some discussion, Master Zhu Hong stated decisively, "Barring any unforeseen issues, I can now officially declare that the research on the Great Five Elements Cycle Super-Rank Skills should be entering its final stage!"

Liu Fuhai and Su Ping exchanged a glance, and both couldn't help but smile. As collaborators in the research, how could the three of them not know? Now, once the Great Five Elements Cycle, the most crucial target, was completed, it would likely trigger a qualitative change.

Su Ping let out a long breath.

After all, the time left for me isn't plentiful. It has been some time since the new year. According to the Gregorian calendar, less than two months remain before mid-March. That's when I'm scheduled to go to Beiyuan Province for the selection of the Special Beast Taming Forces at the Heavenly Tomb.

Speaking of which, I wonder what my old man is up to at the Rong Family's place in Beiyuan? Heh, will I surprise the old fellow when I sneak off to Beiyuan to find him at the Rong Family's? The old fellow was formerly with the Legion, right? If I succeed this time, I'll become a Breeder with the Special Beast Taming Forces! Maybe the position could even be higher than his? I wonder if there will come a day when the old fellow will salute me and call me officer?

Chuckling to himself, Su Ping then discussed yesterday's Secret Realm with Zhu Hong and Liu Fuhai.

"By the way, would either of you two be interested in these items?" Su Ping suddenly brought out the Sea Python Command and the cultivation insights scroll of the Ten Thousand Snake Saint. "These are the items from the Mysterious Snake Secret Realm yesterday!"

The two were taken aback but took the items. Upon inspecting them, they looked at Su Ping in surprise. "Su Ping, these are no ordinary items!"

Indeed, they were not ordinary, but they weren't very useful to Su Ping. The Serpentine Script on the back of the Sea Python Command described a special and exclusive Skill for serpent-class Pet Beasts: 'Serpent Swallowing Elephant.' During his time in the Mysterious Snake Secret Realm, it seemed the Blackwater Mysterious Snakes used this ability to significantly speed up their recovery by devouring Pet Beast corpses, which also allowed them to digest a greater number of rare treasures. It was quite an impressive Skill.

The cultivation insights scroll contained the cultivation methods for two Pet Beast evolutionary bodies. These were somewhat similar to the cultivation insights of Fengdu Sword King Yu Liangqing for the Extinguishing Spirit Yama Sword and the Immortal White Bone Sword. However, as the Ten Thousand Snake Saint with deep ties to the Snake Nation, the directions of cultivation he focused on were naturally even more formidable. The cultivation insights mentioned were for the Emperor Level evolution of a Blackwater Mysterious Snake: the Overlord Sea Snake, and the Emperor Level evolution of a Cloud-Patterned Tree Python: the Cloud Wing Wooden Jiao.

However, as the Heart of Myriad Spirits currently had no cultivation plans for snake-type Pet Beasts, the items were not of much use to Su Ping.

Zhu Hong and Liu Fuhai, on the other hand, looked at each other. The former smiled. "Your luck is truly good, kid. For the Overlord Sea Snake, its evolutionary body is already documented in the Breeder system, but a perfected and concrete cultivation method for this Cloud Wing Wooden Jiao has yet to be fully developed. This information is very valuable."

Su Ping shrugged. "I don't have much use for it. This item was originally from the Qintian Monitor, intended for the Breeder Association anyway, so Master Zhu, you can record it when the time comes."

"No problem. I'll give you a hefty amount of cultivation credits for it, but..."

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