Beast Taming Patrol

On the issue of the relationship between Beast Tamers and their Guardian Beasts, the two men had a significant gap in understanding, so Lin Su decided not to continue with this topic and sensibly chose to change the subject.

"Brother Zhou, which evolutionary path is your Green Light Thunder Dragon preparing to take?"

If Lin Su remembered correctly, the Green Light Thunder Dragon should have two evolutionary paths, both of which point to higher sovereign species, but the characteristics after each evolution are different.

"My Green Light Thunder Dragon will follow the fire attribute evolutionary path," Zhou Qiyi said with a smile without concealing it, as Lin Su would naturally see once the evolution was complete.

"The fire attribute evolution results in a Storm Flame Dragon, which is more powerful in attack. If it evolved through the thunder attribute into a Green Light Thunder Dragon, it would be much faster, but such an evolution type would reduce the synergy with my other Guardian Beast, thus decreasing the overall strength."

"I see," Lin Su suddenly nodded in realization.

After contracting the first Guardian Beast, subsequent contracts not only had to consider whether the Guardian Beast itself was strong, but also how it cooperated in battle with other Guardian Beasts, a point that combat-oriented Beast Tamers in the divine martial world paid close attention to.

They referred to the level of understanding between different Guardian Beasts as "compatibility" and, over the course of many years, some fixed Guardian Beast combinations with high compatibility had evolved.

For those unable to cooperate with Guardian Beasts, having multiple Guardian Beasts coordinate in battle under the assistance of Telepathy in the Guardian Beast Contract, and producing a combat strength greater than the sum of their parts was key to Beast Tamers' combat.

There had also been some research in this area on the Blue Star, but after the advent of Guardian Beast Co-operation in combat, such research had become much less prevalent.

After all, Guardian Beast Co-operation in combat generally involved merging with a specific Guardian Beast during battle, so the coordination between multiple beasts wasn't emphasized, just the strength of a single Guardian Beast was sufficient.

Some Beast Tamers even focused on training one Guardian Beast, treating it as their main, while the other beasts tended to serve functional roles and were seldom used in battle.

Because he could travel between two different worlds, Lin Su could master Guardian Beast Co-operation in the future, and he had some plans for choosing his future Guardian Beasts, such as those he had previously thought of for recovery Spirit, carrying items, etc., but he would not strictly choose based on compatibility as long as each of the Guardian Beasts had different functional roles.

"The Storm Flame Dragon is already very strong," Lin Su said with a smile, "Being originally a higher sovereign species, undergoing evolution in the Nirvana Pool, who knows, it might even become an imperial species?"

"That..." Zhou Qiyi's expression turned a little strange as he glanced at Lin Su and shook his head, "You might be thinking too much, the Nirvana Pool cannot achieve that."

"Ah?" Lin Su blinked, "Isn't it said that evolution within the Nirvana Pool might evolve into a stronger species?"

"That's true," Zhou Qiyi said with a somewhat helpless laugh, "but the Nirvana Secret Realm is just a Yellow-Rank Secret Realm, the supernatural resources produced there only go up to level five, and the core of a Yellow-Rank Secret Realm, depending on the specific secret realm, mainly benefits those at the sovereign level and above..."

"Wait a moment!" Lin Su waved his hand, interrupting Zhou Qiyi, and massaged his temples, "Let me sort this out..."

"What does Yellow-Rank Secret Realm mean?"

"You don't know?" Zhou Qiyi gave Lin Su a "How can you not know anything?" look and patiently explained.

"Secret Realms are classified into four orders: Heavenly, Earthly, Mysterious, and Yellow, corresponding respectively to the immortal, imperial, sovereign, and leader levels. The Nirvana Secret Realm is a Yellow-Rank Secret Realm, which means the highest supernatural resources it produces do not exceed level five, and its core mainly targets the leader level."

Lin Su frowned slightly, as he had not heard Qi Yunhan mention this before; of course, it was also possible that Qi Yunhan had only given a brief introduction that day and did not mention these detailed classifications.

The so-called core of the Secret Realm, Lin Su could somewhat understand; it should be the most important location within a Secret Realm, like the Nirvana Pool in the current Nirvana Secret Realm.

The Cold Heart Jade Marrow he had obtained was a level five resource, seemingly confirming the sayings about the Yellow-Rank Secret Realm.

Resources at levels four and five are precisely targeted at the leader level.

No wonder when the great competition of using beasts had occurred, the champion could only obtain a level six resource, yet the top three were all allowed into the Nirvana Secret Realm.

At that time, he had thought that the Nirvana Pool, capable of evolving Guardian Beasts to higher levels, seemed more precious than a level six resource, and wondered if the organizers had made a mistake.

A slight heaviness settled in Lin Su's heart.

If the core of the Secret Realm was so...

"Then if my Guardian Beast evolved into a lower sovereign species, wouldn't the Nirvana Pool be ineffective?" he couldn't help but ask.

"That's not the case," Zhou Qiyi started to explain, "Your Frost Flower Dream Shadow evolves from Xue Henqing, right? Because it's originally of the elite class, the benefits it can get from the Nirvana Pool are still quite significant; and while the Nirvana Pool mainly benefits the leader level, that doesn't mean it has no effect on the sovereign level at all, there's still some effect."

For instance, if the chance of evolution improvement at the leader level is twenty percent, then the sovereign level might have a ten percent chance."

"For my Guardian Beast, the Nirvana Secret Realm can at most help it enhance some foundation, increasing the success rate of its future evolution by a bit; it cannot directly elevate it to the imperial class, but your Frost Flower Dream Shadow still has a chance," Zhou Qiyi earnestly spoke, though his expression seemed to be consoling Lin Su.