Chapter 1252 - 514: The Dragon-Patterned Bamboo’s Plea! Summoning the Crystal Dragon!

Chapter 1252: Chapter 514: The Dragon-Patterned Bamboo’s Plea! Summoning the Crystal Dragon!

Su Ping felt like he was a beast of burden.

He was supposed to be the Dragon Nation’s most talented Breeder and genius Beastmaster. In the eyes of others, his life was probably filled with nightly revelries, and his persona was that of someone focused and aloof. Yet, why was he spending his days run off his feet, serving these Ancestors like a full-time nanny?

However, it had to be said that Su Ping still enjoyed it.

This was especially true after seeing the changes in the Dragon-Patterned Bamboo before him, which he hadn’t paid much attention to previously.

The Dragon-Patterned Bamboo was a Pet Beast with a Commander Level race limit. It wasn’t actually considered high. Its status and value in the Pet Beast Market were roughly equal to, or even less than, Pet Beasts like the Forest Wolf.

After all, the Forest Wolf had seen a massive surge in value following Su Ping’s promotion.

However, while a Pet Beast like the Dragon-Patterned Bamboo had the word "Dragon" in its name, it truly was inferior to the Forest Wolf. Its Ability was primarily used to stabilize the soil and prevent erosion.

It wasn’t completely devoid of combat power, but it certainly wasn’t strong. Compared to a purely combat-oriented Elite Peak Pet Beast like the Forest Wolf, it lacked significantly in terms of Ability.

But from today onward, that might no longer be the case!

Standing atop the peak of the Forest Heart, bathed in the moonlight, the green bamboo radiating a faint azure halo gave Su Ping a sense of profound isolation and independence for the first time.

This was a Pet Beast that, most of the time, was given away as a freebie for large purchases. Yet, it was being watered with the incredibly precious Divine Dragon Essence Blood. Su Ping could guarantee that he was probably the only person in the entire Dragon Nation who would do such a thing.

And most importantly, it had actually produced results!

Dragon-Patterned Bamboo.

Its name came from the subtle patterns resembling Dragon Scales on its green stalk. Of course, calling them "Dragon Scales" wasn’t entirely accurate and was mostly for aesthetic appeal; one could easily call them snake scales or even fish scales. After all, they were just tiny fan-shaped patterns. Therefore, it was merely an embellishment. Fundamentally, it was just a prominent visual feature.

However, over the past few days of Time, under the irrigation of Dragon Blood, setting aside other changes, the patterns on the Dragon-Patterned Bamboo had already become vastly different.

It wasn’t that the patterns had changed color or become more conspicuous. The biggest difference lay in the fact that these "scales" had developed a sense of layered depth.

Indeed.

On the originally smooth stalk of the Dragon-Patterned Bamboo, there were now extremely Rule-shaped protrusions, as if it had contracted some sort of disease. And the protruding areas perfectly aligned with those piece-by-piece Dragon Scale shapes.

Although the traces of the protrusions weren’t obvious, they were enough to prove that absorbing the Dragon Blood was definitely not due to the Dragon-Patterned Bamboo’s insatiable greed. Instead, much like the Wanmu Wolf that underwent Evolution initially, it had purely sensed the slight changes and differences within its own genetic physical constitution. This sparked a longing that originated from the deepest parts of its genes.

A longing felt by the Pet Beast itself—a longing that influenced Evolution!

Aside from the changes in the patterns on the Dragon-Patterned Bamboo, what truly prompted the guarding staff member to find Su Ping was the Dragon-Patterned Bamboo’s abnormal behavior.

A brand new Evolution couldn’t possibly be as simple as just consuming resources; otherwise, it would have been discovered by countless Breeders long ago.

The harder an Evolution Breeding path was to uncover, the higher its Evolution difficulty. This was an unchanging truth in the world of Breeders!

Although the Dragon-Patterned Bamboo before him had arguably completed the most difficult first step by unlocking the True Dragon Essence Blood, what followed would undoubtedly not be easy either.

Fully drawing on the experience and lessons of Sun Chaoju’s Wanmu Wolf, human intervention from a Beastmaster at this stage could sometimes be detrimental. What was better was to communicate more with the Pet Beast.

On this point, Su Ping had a lot of authority to speak.

The communicative effect of Psychic Communication was still very good, as it was, after all, an upgraded Beastmaster Talent. Even though the Grade of the Dragon-Patterned Bamboo wasn’t high, Su Ping could still use this Psychic Communication to faintly figure out its meaning. Setting everything else aside, if an ordinary Beastmaster had faced the situation where the Dragon-Patterned Bamboo previously came to snitch, they probably wouldn’t have understood it easily, even with Telepathic Communication.

Thinking of this, Su Ping stepped forward. He recalled what the staff member had told him, and only then did he ask through Psychic Communication:

"Dragon-Patterned Bamboo, did you say you want to make contact with a Dragon?"

Indeed, this was the Dragon-Patterned Bamboo’s next demand.

Of course, this demand wasn’t something the guarding staff member had understood; it was something Su Ping had repeatedly confirmed.

Starting today, the Dragon-Patterned Bamboo had become extremely restless, as if searching for something. Even as a Plant System Pet Beast, its roots hadn’t managed to Take Root in the ground for almost the entire day, which was almost an impossible occurrence.

And after Su Ping arrived, he had finally verified this answer through multiple inquiries.

The Dragon-Patterned Bamboo wanted a Dragon to make contact with!

Su Ping wasn’t stingy. Or rather, in the current situation, withholding the use of massive resources wasn’t his style.

Zhu Hong seemed to have made a breakthrough this time and was still researching the progress of Haina Baichuan. However, since Da Huang was the first Divine Dragon Codex that Su Ping had lit up, this big fellow was obviously duty-bound to provide this bit of help.

However, half a Xiaoshi later, Su Ping, who had arrived leading Da Huang, absolutely never expected what would happen next.