Chapter 1429: Chapter 1430: The Path of Evolution

While Feng Yuan and his group rested in Meteor Valley, the upper echelons of Drochkar were engaged in all-night discussions about how to handle the newly appeared Divine Beast. Given its special nature, it was bound to stay in Meteor Valley of Soretcher, so how should Drochkar manage its relationship with this new Divine Beast?

Should they become friendly or merely offer convenience? Could the Divine Beast truly have a favorable impression of Drochkar? They were unsure of these matters, and also of Soretcher City’s view, as they were the ones directly interacting with the new Divine Beast. If they were unwilling, they might secretly cause trouble.

Morenas was unaware of the impact it had caused, quietly guarding the meteorite Spirit Beast babies. It had learned that new meteorites would fall later, but they wouldn’t all transform into meteorite Spirit Beasts like this time.

Apart from Spirit Beasts, those meteorites also had functions for supplementing special materials. Morenas had little interest in these unless they could become evolution materials for the meteorite Spirit Beasts.

And with Morenas guarding them, those unruly soldiers couldn’t make moves against the newborn meteorite Spirit Beast babies. Although most of the ill-intentioned individuals had been driven away by Agunas during the day, some still hid among the soldiers, waiting for the chance to act.

However, in the latter half of the night, an order came down, allowing the soldiers who were still waiting for an opportunity to finally breathe a sigh of relief. After all, stealing a Spirit Beast from a Divine Beast was too dangerous. Agunas might just punish them lightly and not care, but they didn’t know what the Divine Beast guarding the meteorite Spirit Beasts might do.

In Soretcher City, one debate after another never ceased, from meteorite materials to those meteorite Spirit Beasts and then to Morenas. They had so much to discuss that by the next day, when Feng Yuan and his group woke up, many matters were still undecided.

“So, how is your collection of Spiritual Medicine and Materials going?”

Feng Yuan stretched and looked at Qi Chen, who was managing Ah Mu and the Flower Leaf Tree Three Spirit Beasts, asking him. Qi Chen thought for a moment and said,

“It’s pretty much sorted, we can leave.”

“No rush, if it’s not finished, we can stay a few more days. We can’t leave any regrets~”

Feng Yuan chuckled and said, seeing Qi Chen, he guessed that it might not be completely done. Long Boduo walked over and asked Feng Yuan,

“It looks like Morenas wants to reclaim Meteor Valley. Do you think it could succeed?”

“Reclaim Meteor Valley?! Well, that’s really hard to say. Though you Divine Beasts have privileges, Meteor Valley is a very important place for Soretcher. To hear it suddenly said like that, I really don’t know if it would work.”

Scratching his head, Feng Yuan looked around curiously. Agunas wasn’t around, otherwise, he could ask it what was going on. Long Boduo asked Feng Yuan curiously,

“Can we Divine Beasts ask for territories?”

“It’s possible, but the key thing is how the humans think. If it’s an unimportant area, they might give it up since they might not be able to use it anyway. But doesn’t this have nothing to do with you?”

Looking at Long Boduo, Feng Yuan said, puzzled. As a Ghost-type Divine Beast, Long Boduo inherently wouldn’t settle in the real world. What was it trying to do?

Reminded by Feng Yuan, Long Boduo realized that taking land in the real world was useless to it. It had its own little nest and didn’t need to occupy land in the real world.

“Even if it’s Meteor Valley, it’s probably not much, but it’s quite close to human cities.”

Veronia handed food to Little Lizard and Little Droplet, saying, Little Lizard, just like Little Ice Cream, didn’t want to return to its own group. Veronia didn’t mind this, as it treated Little Lizard like a pet. Where Little Lizard was didn’t seem to matter much as long as power wasn’t needed.

As for evolution? Even Agunas didn’t know which evolution path was correct. Evolution for Spirit Beasts couldn’t naturally complete just by reaching a certain stage. Except for very special Spirit Beasts like Native Level ones, they all had to try on their own.

“So even Little Lizard didn’t leave?”

Watching the happy Little Lizard eating, Feng Yuan said in surprise. He thought only Little Ice Cream didn’t want to return to its group, especially since Veronia didn’t release Little Lizard when she returned last night.

“Yes, it seems to like staying with me, just like Big Cat with you. Anyway, for now, it’s not essential where they are as their evolution needs might not be solved soon.”

Glancing at Little Lizard, Veronia said casually. Feng Yuan, looking at Veronia in surprise, said,

“Do you plan to have other Komms find a suitable evolutionary path for it? You’re not planning to help?”

“What help could I offer? I’m not Little Crocodile, and even if it used vision of the future, it might not get the right result, let alone me.”

Pointing to Little Lizard’s head, causing it to look at her puzzled, Veronia said. If it were that easy to find the right evolutionary path, Kong Qing wouldn’t have such headaches.

Beside them, Kong Qing hissed as if agreeing with Veronia. Seeing this, Feng Yuan looked at Kong Qing with curiosity and asked,

“Aren’t you doing something similar? Why don’t you support Little Lizard in this?”

“What do you think? It’s not the same as Little Lizard.”

Glancing at Feng Yuan, Veronia said, a bit out of patience. No matter what happens with its evolution, Kong Qing, as a Divine Beast, would be fine. Little Lizard is different; it’s a regular Spirit Beast. If it fails to evolve, it could impact it greatly. After all their time together, Veronia naturally didn’t want to see it in trouble.

Kong Qing, although not having much contact with Little Lizard, still saw it as a friend. Having tried new evolutionary paths itself, it knew how dangerous this road was. Besides, it couldn’t ask Feng Yuan for help because of this.

It was well aware that if Feng Yuan were to act, it could only leverage the status of a Divine Beast. Summoning a bunch of Divine Beasts from nowhere would certainly impact Feng Yuan. Beyond that, there seemed to be no other possibilities. As for using the vision of the future? If it were that simple, Agunas would have helped long ago.

The drawn-out evolutionary path cannot be settled with just one evolution. No one knows which evolutionary path leads to greater achievements. Increasing the complexity for more power or lower complexity for better chances across the group is an important issue for these pioneers to consider.

And the vision of the future cannot help them solve this.

“That makes sense, but their main task is still to reproduce, right? With Morenas protecting them, the need for force isn’t that great. But if the population doesn’t keep up, it becomes a very troublesome issue, doesn’t it?”

Feng Yuan said, looking at Veronia, then remembered something and looked around confusedly, asking,

“Speaking of which, where did Agunas go? Why haven’t we seen it?”

“It went to see the newborn Spirit Beasts. You know what Little Crocodile is like, it doesn’t feel safe with Morenas.”

Veronia said, curling her lip. She didn’t really understand Agunas’ thinking. Since Morenas declared its duty to protect the newborn meteorite Spirit Beasts, why would it do anything that would harm them?

“Ah, Agunas really is… But whatever, today I should help Qi Chen and the others. Otherwise, if Morenas takes Meteor Valley back, it might not allow us to collect Spiritual Medicines and Materials.”

Saying this, Feng Yuan scanned around, touching his chin with a quirky smile and said,

“Speaking of which, what would happen if I raided all of the Spiritual Medicines and Materials here?”

“Whether Morenas takes over or Soretcher continues to manage it, they would both be angry.”

Glancing at Feng Yuan, Yang Hongzhi said crossly. Najia, sitting on Xiao Hei’s head, looked at Feng Yuan speechless and said,

“You really can’t help looting everywhere you go.”

“Hehe~ It’s just that it would be a waste not to take the opportunity~”

Scratching his head, Feng Yuan said with a guilty heart, to which Najia just rolled her eyes and couldn’t be bothered to comment further.