Chapter 78: Mandrake & Recovery Potion

【6. The Insight Eye is not omnipotent; some hidden routes require fulfilling prerequisite hidden conditions to be seen.】

【7. The Sunflower has a hidden evolution route and shares a symbiotic relationship with the Sunflower King, which can increase the probability of the Sunflower King evolving into a Sunflower Emperor.】

【8. Among the stone materials in the secret vault of the Pet Beast Union in Stone Wisdom City, there lies sealed a longevity treasure that extends life, known as the Heavenly Peach.】

【9. The branch of the World Tree is very inconspicuous, looking just like a charred piece of firewood; it is Indestructible, and only Life Spirit Seed can allow a branch that has lost its vitality to bloom with new life.】

【10. The Iron Chicken Kingdom has begun researching weather weapons, but the Ninth Rank treasure capable of manipulating celestial phenomena is stored in the exhibition hall of the Central Museum of the Yan Kingdom Alliance; six months later, researchers from the Iron Chicken Kingdom will discover it and secretly steal this treasure.】

【11. Inside the body of an Ancient Lantern Fish, a Three-Tier thunder-type treasure called a Thunder Gall will gestate; slamming the Thunder Gall hard onto the ground can produce a violent explosion, comparable to a Three-Tier Sky Thunder Seed.】

【12. A mole from the Fusang Kingdom has infiltrated Su Qingxian's security team; he is skilled in using poison, and his Pet Beast is a Nine-Poison Giant Scorpion, which carries nine types of peculiar toxins on its body; the Blood Poison Moth can grant immunity to these nine toxins.】

【13. A Four-Tier Secret Treasure resembling a turtle shell has appeared in the black market of Jiaying City; if you concentrate while holding the shell and ask your question, the shell will guide you to the answer; this shell comes from a Destiny Turtle, which leaves behind a shell every time it advances a rank, and these shells possess special abilities.】

【14. Principal Zhang Dashan knows the location of the Hellfire; he will only tell the location of the Hellfire to a Pet Beast Master he truly considers outstanding.】

【15. A Four-Tier Fire Lizard grows up in volcanoes; its tail can grow back at any time and can treat fire poison; if you discover that the Fire Lizard has grown horns on its head, please flee immediately, as this horned Fire Lizard possesses a Dragon Bloodline and is inherently ferocious.】

After seeing these fifteen pieces of intelligence, Ye Bai narrowed his eyes.

He remembered that the place the Sunflower King had gone to included Stone Wisdom City.

He had not expected that Stone Wisdom City would actually have the Heavenly Peach, which could extend one's life.

He wondered if Dahui could make up for its lost lifespan after eating this thing.

Ye Bai had always felt that the inhuman experiments Dahui had endured had already affected Dahui's lifespan.

It was Ye Bai's luck to have just happened upon the Life Spirit Seed; as for the Heavenly Peach that could replenish life force, Ye Bai planned to find a time to go to Stone Wisdom City to obtain it, so that if Dahui's lifespan truly reached its end, he would have a way to extend Dahui's life.

As for the twelfth piece of intelligence, one could only say that the enemy was too cunning and must have planned it long ago.

Combining this with the second piece of intelligence, Ye Bai felt that it must be the Fusang Kingdom and the Beautiful Country working together.

It was likely a project led by Grandmaster Su Qingxian that had terrified them; they did not want this achievement to be released to the world, so they joined forces to kill the Grandmaster.

Just as Ye Bai got up and washed, he heard a knocking sound coming from the front door of the Breeding House.

He opened the door to see that it was Director Su Na; she was wearing a Polynesian dress today, and on her feet were a pair of black high heels.

After the Sunflowers saw Director Su Na, they all surrounded her in a circle; it was evident that the Sunflowers seemed to like Director Su Na very much.

"Your Breeding House has so many cute Sunflowers."

"Ye Bai, today is the day of our competition with the First Middle School."

"The content of our competition this time is to prepare a Recovery Potion."

"The Mandrake plants at the First Middle School have already matured on a large scale."

"They sent an invitation this time to compete with us, but in reality, they are secretly observing our contestants participating in the Young Qilin Cup."

"The reward this time is very generous; for first place in this competition, our Shenshan Middle School will award a Three-Tier Earth Puppet."

"It is similar to my Earth Puppet; it has no thoughts of its own and must be commanded by a Pet Beast Master to be activated."

Ye Bai shrugged his shoulders: "Director Su Na, with my current abilities, I probably wouldn't be able to activate an Earth Puppet."

Su Na smiled: "Haha, are you worried about the contract issue?"

"Don't worry, because you wouldn't be able to contract it at all."

"The Earth Puppet is a Clone of the Earth Puppet King, just like the Second-Tier Sunflowers split off from your Sunflower King."

"You can usually keep your Earth Puppet in your Pet Beast Space, and when you encounter a strong enemy, you can release the Earth Puppet to take the hits for you."

"Moreover, the Earth Puppet has another advantage, which is that it can plant various rare vegetables, such as Ruby Carrots, Emerald Kale, and so on."

At this moment, Ye Bai felt his pant leg being tugged; he looked down and saw the Changeable Silkworm with a hopeful expression and drool at the corner of its mouth.

"What's wrong, did you take a liking to the Earth Puppet being able to grow vegetables?"

Ye Bai covered his forehead; this glutton couldn't even walk once it saw food.

"Haha, giving someone a fish is not as good as teaching them how to fish."

"After your Pet Beast gets the leftover Ruby Carrots from Li Chen, I can teach you how to cultivate them."

"But the prerequisite is that you must take first place this time."

"Let's go, we're just waiting for you now; the other students have all arrived."

There were twenty students in total participating in the Young Qilin Cup, all of whom were considered to have top-tier academic performance, and their practical skills were also quite good.

The preliminary round of the Young Qilin Cup did not limit the number of participants; as long as you were a senior high school student, you could sign up, but one could only sign up once, which was for the sake of fairness.

Only after passing the written test would one enter the next round of practical operations.

After the rankings for the practical operations were out, they would be combined with the written test scores to produce an overall ranking.

The top ten people in the rankings could enter the provincial finals.

The rest would follow in the same manner; the top three in the province could enter the Yan Country competition.

This time was actually equivalent to a diagnostic test.

"By the way, Director Su Na, I saw in the library that there is actually a Mandrake King."

"I want to know what the difference is between a Mandrake King and a Mandrake."

"What are the specific effects of a Mandrake King?"

Upon hearing Ye Bai's question, Su Na said slowly: "The Mandrake has quite a lot of effects; it is both the main ingredient for making Recovery Potions and one of the medicinal materials for making Awakening Potions."

"And the Mandrake King has even better effects; the Awakening Potions and Recovery Potions made from a Mandrake King are several times more effective than those made from ordinary Mandrakes."

"As for how to distinguish a Mandrake King, as you asked, the two actually look very similar."

"It's just that there is a faint golden line on the leaves of the Mandrake King."

"In terms of rank, the Mandrake King belongs to the Three-Tier medicinal herbs, but in terms of value, it can rival a Five-Tier treasure."

"Because the Mandrake King is very difficult to appear; it is actually considered a genetic mutation of the Mandrake, and you might not even get one Mandrake King out of a million Mandrakes."

Su Na sighed with a bit of emotion.

"To be honest, for healers like us, the Mandrake King only exists in legends."

"If I could see a Mandrake King before I die, I would have no regrets in life."

"My rival at Jiaying No. 1 Middle School specializes in growing Mandrakes, but she has been growing them for so long and hasn't even seen a shadow of a Mandrake King."

"Serves her right."

After hearing Su Na's words, the corners of Ye Bai's mouth twitched.

Whether she deserved it or not, Ye Bai did not know; he only knew that Director Su Na's rival had actually managed to grow a Mandrake King.

It was just that she didn't know it herself.

The school bus from Shenshan Middle School carried the students toward Jiaying No. 1 Middle School.

Jiaying No. 1 Middle School was built on the edge of the old city district; the campus was very old, but it occupied a large expanse of land.

They also possessed a small Secret Realm for cultivating Pet Beasts, though the variety was not as comprehensive as that of Shenshan Middle School.

Twenty minutes later, the school bus arrived at the entrance of Jiaying No. 1 Middle School.

"Su Na, you've finally come."

At the school gate, a woman appeared wearing a long red dress and a rose on her head.

Her right eye was covered by her long hair, and her left eye revealed an expression of disdain.

"You don't need to look; our Jiaying No. 1 Middle School will definitely win this duel. The contestants from our Jiaying No. 1 Middle School were all meticulously cultivated by me."

"Unlike you, hanging onto the title of director without doing any work. If I were Principal Liu, I would have fired you long ago to save you from occupying a position and doing nothing."

This must be Director Su Na's rival, the students thought to themselves.

"Hmph, Tian Tian, are you worried about losing to my students, which is why you are using words to provoke me?"

Su Na sneered; she knew exactly what this person was up to.

"Let's go, let's go, don't waste time, let's settle this quickly."

"However, this time we aren't preparing anesthetized Mandrakes."

"You can go into the medicinal garden and pick them yourselves, then formulate the Mandrakes into a Recovery Potion."

"A friendly reminder: the better the quality of the Mandrake, the better the effect of the Recovery Potion."

Upon hearing Tian Tian's words, Su Na's expression changed drastically.

"Tian Tian, the danger level of Mandrakes is close to three. If a student pulls out a Mandrake and something happens, can you bear that responsibility?"

After being pulled out, a Mandrake will let out a piercing shriek; this kind of shriek can stimulate a person's heart, causing it to beat violently, leading to cerebral ischemia and causing the person to fall into a state of fainting.

Furthermore, there is a very important step in processing a Mandrake, which is to pull the leaves on top of the Mandrake in a specific order.

Every time one is pulled, the Mandrake will let out a piercing shriek.

Therefore, to prevent the Mandrakes from affecting the students, Jiaying No. 1 Middle School has always had Tian Tian paralyze the Mandrakes before letting the students conduct experiments.

"Don't worry, I have soundproof earplugs here that can fully block out the sound of the Mandrakes."

"Would I have made such arrangements if I didn't have foolproof preparations?"

"Su Na, you are still as cowardly as you were before."

Tian Tian mocked coldly.

She led the many students to a vast medicinal field, where countless Mandrakes were planted densely.

The leaves on their tops looked somewhat like radishes.

"The competition time is one hour."

"This includes the time for finding the Mandrakes and formulating the Recovery Potion."

"Except for the Mandrakes, I have already prepared the other raw materials for the Recovery Potion and the laboratory benches for you."

"Everyone, be careful."

"When picking the Mandrakes, you must wear the earplugs and also wear the health Bracelet we have prepared."

"The health Bracelet can detect your heartbeat; if it becomes abnormal, it will immediately sound an alarm and transmit it to the health Bracelet's terminal, and we will also send people to check urgently."

Tian Tian was also afraid of the students having accidents, so she had made foolproof preparations.

"Su Na, my students have been following me to grow Mandrakes since they entered the school; they have an intuition for the quality of Mandrakes that far exceeds that of ordinary people."

"Haha, the first place this time will definitely be a student from our Jiaying No. 1 Middle School."

"Thank you for the Earth Puppet from your Shenshan Middle School."

At this moment, Ye Bai heard the students standing to the side whispering to each other.

"Our school rewards an Earth Puppet for first place, so what does Jiaying No. 1 Middle School reward?"

"I heard that Jiaying No. 1 Middle School rewards any one herb picked from the medicinal field, plus a thumb-sized piece of Shennong Soil."

"This kind of Shennong Soil and an Earth Puppet are simply a perfect match."

"That would be equivalent to having a portable medicinal field."

Shennong Soil is equivalent to the super red land in QQ Space; it can improve the fertility of the soil, allowing seeds planted in it to quickly take root and sprout, shortening the planting time.

Once the Shennong Soil is fully absorbed by the plants, that piece of land will return to its original state.

"Alright, the competition is about to start, everyone put on your protective gear first."

Ye Bai discovered that the protective gear even included steel wire gloves, which was prepared quite thoroughly.

The leaves of the Mandrake exposed above ground look like radishes, while the part buried deep in the soil looks like a newborn baby.

It possesses sharp teeth, and once it bites down, it will absolutely not let go.

Ye Bai remembered that the center of the Mandrake's brow is its weak point; as long as you use your fingernail to poke the brow hard, the Mandrake will fall into a paralyzed state.

The standard for judging the quality of a Mandrake is to look at the part buried in the soil.

If it is scrawny, it is underdeveloped and of poor quality.

If it is white and chubby like a New Year picture doll, then it is of excellent quality, a Mandrake of top-tier quality.

Ye Bai wore rain boots and stepped into the mud; the mud here was very soft and fine, without even a single small pebble, which showed that someone was carefully tending to these Mandrakes.

At this moment, a classmate had already grabbed the leaves of the Mandara grass and was pulling upward with all their might, just like pulling a radish.

He used all the strength he could muster, his face turning red from the effort, yet it remained completely unmoved, as if it had merged into one with the ground.

"Your method for pulling the Mandara grass is wrong."

Ye Bai walked over, patted the classmate on the shoulder, and said loudly.

The classmate wore a puzzled expression; wearing super earplugs, he could not hear anything Ye Bai said.

Ye Bai pointed at the Mandara grass, then mimicked the action of pulling the Mandara grass, and made a large 'X' sign with his hands.

This classmate immediately understood what Ye Bai wanted to say.

Ye Bai was seen grasping one of the leaves of the Mandara grass and giving it a light tug, and the Mandara grass was pulled out from the ground without any effort.

Begging for votes, begging for votes, this chapter was rushed a bit, typos will be fixed tomorrow.

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