"It seems the Slime cannot use the alternate tactic paired with the Spiritual Energy Spring talent."
The alternate tactic is the best tactic for the Spiritual Energy Spring, but the prerequisite for the successful use of the alternate tactic is that our pet with the Spiritual Energy Spring can defeat the opponent's pet. The overall stats of the Slime are too low, making it difficult to defeat other pets.
If it can't even win, how can it alternate?
[Talent]: Growth Aura
[Level]: Blue Rare
[Effect]: Accelerates the growth speed of surrounding creatures, plants, and minerals
[Note]: In battle, it can accelerate the growth of plant-type skills.
Aura-type talents are extremely rare, and the rarity of the Growth Aura is even higher than the purple epic talents.
If a Slime with a Growth Aura and a Slime with a Spiritual Energy Spring were sold online, the Slime with the Growth Aura would fetch a higher price than the one with the Spiritual Energy Spring.
[Talent]: Digestion
[Level]: Green Elite
[Effect]: Enhances the pet's digestive ability
[Note]: A Big Eater, be careful with your wallet.
The Digestion talent is the lowest quality among the three, but Li Cunxu knows the evolution method for its superior talent.
Talents can evolve, provided you know the method of evolution and gather the resources required for talent evolution.
Digestion talent evolution chain: Stomach Enhancement (White) — Digestion (Green) — Rapid Digestion (Blue) — Big Eater (Purple) — Devour All Things (Gold)
Li Cunxu leans towards choosing between the Growth Aura and Digestion, with the Spiritual Energy Spring being the first to be ruled out.
While the Spiritual Energy Spring is a good talent, it cannot help a weak Slime defy fate.
It's not that higher quality talents are better, but those that are more suitable.
A Slime with a Digestion talent can evolve into a very powerful Devouring Slime, as a mischievous top player in a previous game managed to cultivate one.
The Devouring Slime is formidable, with few rivals of the same level.
The cost is that it consumes too many resources, using enough to cultivate ten lord-level pets, only to produce a single gold-level Devouring Slime.
That playful top player blogger only nurtured the Devouring Slime to the gold level and then stopped.
The reason is that it was too resource-intensive, and continuing to cultivate it would leave the blogger without resources to develop his main pets, dropping him from the ranks of top players in the game "Divine Taming."
After some hesitation, Li Cunxu picked up the Slime with the Growth Aura.
The cost-effectiveness of cultivating a Devouring Slime is too low. If he were a tycoon, he would definitely choose the Devouring Slime, but he is not.
Besides the low cost-effectiveness of the Devouring Slime, there are two other reasons to choose the Slime with the Growth Aura.
First: Li Cunxu knows a secret about aura-type talents.
Creatures with aura-type talents are more likely to comprehend domains, making it easier to break through from gold-level to lord-level.
There is a chasm between gold-level and lord-level; crossing this chasm earns you the title of a strong one.
This chasm is extremely difficult to cross, with many outstanding individuals stuck at this stage, never to progress.
Second, Li Cunxu knows a way to add a second talent to a pet.
Later on, Li Cunxu might have the opportunity to give the Slime with the Growth Aura an additional Digestion talent.
Of course, it's only a possibility, not guaranteed success. The method to add a second talent is very dangerous, requiring retrieving an item from the notoriously perilous forbidden area [Fog Sea], with success purely dependent on luck.
Li Cunxu closed his eyes tightly, focusing his mind, and recited the Beast Master's contract document.
The contract document holds the power to communicate with the heavens and earth. Upon finishing a recitation, the power of the heavens and earth surrounds him, and a mysterious ancient light array appears on the ground, connecting Li Cunxu with the Slime.
Three contract slots manifested, and Li Cunxu chose the one slightly smaller than the other two, like a moon with a missing bite taken out by a dog.
Then came the final and most critical step in contracting a pet.
The pet's consent.
The contract is a matter for the Beast Master and the pet, and both parties must consent to the contract.
In this phase, Li Cunxu was not worried.
Extraordinary creatures of high life quality disdain contracting with humans, with the most representative being the proud Dragon Race. Their growth, even without the help of a Beast Master, leads them to become very strong.
If a Beast Master's potential is lacking, it would instead hinder them, as the pet and Beast Master's levels are linked; a breakthrough by the Beast Master delays the pet's breakthrough.
Extraordinary creatures with low life quality are particularly eager to contract with a Beast Master, as the Beast Master aids them in breaking through racial limits and helping them evolve.
This newly born Water Slime doesn't understand what a contract signifies, but its subconscious and genes tell it that signing the contract brings great benefits, so it signs without hesitation.
It was as if Li Cunxu's mind had been struck by lightning, causing immense pain.
This is the power of the heavens and earth helping Li Cunxu establish a Beast Taming Space.
His entire body was bulging with veins, gripping the sofa tightly to keep from collapsing to the floor, as waves of pain washed over him like tidal waves crashing on a beach.
Inside, a voice urged, "Sleep! Once you fall asleep, you won't feel the pain."
Li Cunxu struggled to maintain his will, resisting the urge to sleep. He knew that if he slept now, the establishment of the Beast Taming Space would halt.
Although the space had already been established, falling asleep would make the Beast Taming Space noticeably smaller.
The establishment of the Beast Taming Space lasts for ten minutes; holding on for one minute is commendable, three minutes displays strong will, and five minutes shows an iron will.
Holding on for ten minutes is rare across the whole alliance.
The pain blurred Li Cunxu's perception of time, making every minute and second feel like years.
In reality, once five minutes pass, the Beast Taming Space will no longer expand.
Persisting further helps stabilize the Beast Taming Space and increases the number of carrying points.
Carrying points are crucial, indicating the stability of your Beast Taming Space and the number of extraordinary items it can hold.
Extraordinary items have various functions; they can alter the blank environment of the Beast Taming Space and impart special effects.
For instance, the Beast Taming Space doesn't generate Spiritual Qi by itself; it needs extraordinary items that produce Spiritual Qi for the space to begin generating it.
Likewise, a volcano item can create a volcanic environment suitable for fire-element pets in the Beast Taming Space, whereas an ocean item can create an oceanic environment suitable for water-element pets.
Once the establishment was over, Li Cunxu found himself sitting on the floor with a pool of water beneath.
Sweat poured like rain.
Li Cunxu's clothes were soaked through, as if fished from water.
Checking the time on his phone, he realized the establishment of the Beast Taming Space took twenty minutes.
"Normal people take ten minutes, but I took twenty. Could it be due to the fusion of my two souls?"