Beast Taming: the More the Better Chapter 1199 - 494: Su Ping’s Method! Evolution! Evolution!
Previously on Beast Taming: the More the Better...
"Su Ping, what kind of stunt are you pulling this time!"
Zhu Hong looked at Su Ping, who was excitedly dragging him up toward the Heart of Phoenix, and quickly asked.
"You’ll know once we get there. I’ve got a new idea—come listen, give me your thoughts and opinions, and by the way see if there are any problems with putting it into practice."
Borrowing the wind power buff from the Divine Wind Sparrow perched on Su Ping’s shoulder, the two of them half ran, half bounced all the way to the very top of the Heart of Phoenix, arriving beside the Phoenix that had just finished its Evolution.
"Tsk, so this is the Phoenix that’s finished evolving? Not bad, the potential on this one of yours is very high! The Evolution and Breeding of Phoenix itself isn’t hard, but the Hundred Birds Wutong Tree required by the Phoenix’s Evolution Talent is extremely rare.
Your kid’s luck has always been pretty good!"
Only, Su Ping wasn’t in the mood to show off this Parasol just then. Instead, he looked up at the sky and blew a whistle.
"Gaga-ga!"
Yaya’s figure appeared on the Parasol’s branches, looking toward Su Ping.
"Yaya, come here!"
He beckoned, and Yaya flapped its wings, quickly landing on Su Ping’s other shoulder. Then those eyes glared once at the Divine Wind Sparrow to the side, which was already busy grooming the feathers Su Ping had messed up.
Out of habit, Su Ping rubbed Yaya’s head a few times before saying:
"Master Zhu, do you know Taiji?"
As soon as he said it, Zhu Hong’s brows furrowed slightly. He thought for a moment:
"Of course I know it, and not just know it. To tell you the truth, after New Year in the Imperial Capital, I even read some Books on it and consulted Elder Feng."
This time it was Su Ping’s turn to be surprised: "Oh?"
Zhu Hong cleared his throat: "Well of course. At the beginning of the year, the appearance of that Great Revolution Five Elements Physique gave me some ideas too. But after researching for a few days I gave up, just like Elder Feng said back then.
The Five Elements have the principles of mutual generation and mutual restraint; you can work from this flow, the in and out of Energy. But Taiji Yin and Yang—what do they have? Setting aside how you’d even form Skills from it, even if you match it to the Yin-Yang fish and form Skills, what effects would they have?
Pet Beast Breeding, a lot of the time, doesn’t go from cause to effect, but infers the cause from the effect.
If you don’t even have the effect, just one supposed cause by itself, then clearly that ’cause’ simply doesn’t exist. So your idea may not be very suitable.
I won’t deny, Taiji is a very profound discipline, the crystallization of ancient wisdom in the Dragon Nation, but it’s much more like a philosophy than Pet Beast Breeding science!"
The more Zhu Hong spoke, the more serious he became, to the point that Su Ping’s brows also knit slightly.
What would the Skill manifestation of Taiji Yin and Yang even be?
If you really bred a Skill out of it, what kind of Ability would you be trying to display?
Back then, with the Great Revolution Five Elements Body, in the Five Elements Birth and Destruction Diagram that Xue Hongluan left behind, the array was drawn clearly: the generation and restraint within the Great Revolution Five Elements was all for the endless circulation of Energy.
And that idea, looking at it now, has indeed succeeded.
But what would the Skill manifestation of Taiji Yin and Yang be?
Thinking of this, Su Ping once more recalled, from his previous life, that saying he’d seen about Taiji Yin and Yang.
Taiji produces Two Principles, Two Principles produce Four Symbols, Four Symbols produce Bagua.
Almost every step is full of Xuan Ji, containing the supreme laws of heaven and earth.
And the key point, without a doubt, lies in that one word: ’produce’.
"Produce..."
Su Ping wasn’t the slightest bit discouraged by the negation in Zhu Hong’s words. Instead, he slowly breathed out this single word, and his eyes became incomparably determined.
So-called authority, so-called doubts—none of that meant anything to him.
The authorities he’s shattered already are too many to count!
Bringing Master Zhu here wasn’t for that!
He had his own judgment.
That was something Su Ping had never once doubted.
Besides, who said there’s no so-called ’effect’?
He turned his head to look at Zhu Hong:
"Master Zhu, how is your recent research progress on Haina Baichuan?"
Once he said this, Zhu Hong was slightly taken aback, but seemed to understand—Su Ping looked like he’d given up on that Breeding notion that came from who knows where, and turned back, wanting to work with him again on Breeding Haina Baichuan?
That was a good thing. Zhu Hong smiled:
"It’s good to give it up sooner. As for Haina Baichuan, it’s still not there yet. I’ve used your Illusionary Heart to run complete Elementalization simulations many times, but in the Breeding results, the Energy still can’t perfectly integrate..."
Before he could finish, Su Ping had already continued:
"Then, Master Zhu, have you ever considered whether the form of Taiji could match the Skill Traits of Haina Baichuan?"
Once he said this, Zhu Hong froze, instinctively blurting: "How is that possible?"
"How is it not possible? Two Principles, Yin and Yang, as Taiji describes them, are almost like a universal homogeneity for all Energy. From a certain perspective, they can convert any Energy. Then if we reverse the process, any Energy conversion—couldn’t it also be converted into Yin and Yang?
In an Energy form of Yin and Yang, under equal quantity, if we convert through other Elemental Energy, wouldn’t it be child’s play to magnify an ordinary Energy Skills effect several times, even tens of times, into a qualitative leap?"
Hearing this, Zhu Hong was stunned, blinking.
Because in that instant, he realized that the idea he’d thoroughly negated in himself before was, right now, actually being argued into plausibility by Su Ping.
From the perspective Su Ping had just laid out, it really did seem possible for such a special Skill to exist.