"I remember now! Earlier, didn't the authorities publish a new Green Silk Bug subspecies called the Green Bug Cocoon?"

Some of the beast tamers present suddenly recalled something and blurted it out, some even thinking of the Butterfly Transformation Convention!

At this point, Shi Jin continued: "The Green Bug Cocoon is a transitional subspecies that comes before the Green Silk Bug becomes a butterfly. This subspecies can effectively strengthen the potential foundation the Green Silk Bug possesses after evolution."

"This is the crux of the entire research."

"But this evolution does not end here. Although it has now evolved once and broken through to the extraordinary tier, the Green Bug Cocoon can still continue to evolve, just like an ordinary cocoon!"

To answer the crowd, Xia Yan activated his growth talent and laid his hand on the Green Bug Cocoon. Moments later, the cocoon underwent a second-stage evolution. A single Green Silk Bug evolving twice in succession right before their eyes left many people thoroughly disoriented.

Beneath the dazzling light of evolution, the cocoon transformed dramatically. With a "boom," crushed by psychic force, the cocoon burst apart outright, scattering into swirling white threads that flew in every direction.

At the same moment, a butterfly smaller than a palm, its body crystalline and pure white, its wings dotted with bright spots, appeared before the crowd—breaking free of the cocoon!

"Nee~" The butterfly danced high in the air, psychotropic powder drifting around it, its bearing magnificent. Its wholly new appearance left many mouths hanging slightly open.

At the same time.

The butterfly's data appeared on the screen.

[Name]: Psy-Crystal Butterfly

[Attribute]: Psychic

[Species Tier]: High Extraordinary

[Species Skills]: Bug Silk, Psychic Power, Psychotropic Powder, Absolute Sleep

[Energy Value]: 574

[Evolution Material Cost]: 100,000

In that moment, many beast tamers froze at the sight of the data on this new species of butterfly, their eyes snapping wide open.

Professor Fang Lin of Imperial Capital University was among them, utterly stunned.

A hundred thousand?

Had they read that right?

"To evolve a Green Floss Worm into a Green Worm Cocoon and then into a Thought Crystal Butterfly, the evolution materials cost roughly a hundred thousand as well."

"As for the silk requirement, it only needs to be at the proficient level."

"In exchange, you get a high-tier extraordinary species of the psychic type—a beast that commands the universal skill Telekinesis, the psychic powder of immense tactical and medical value, and Absolute Sleep, which drastically cuts breeding costs."

"It respectively commands low-, mid-, and high-tier psychic skills."

Shi Ying's voice echoed in everyone's ears, drawing gasps from many.

Truly a hundred thousand?

Certain it's a hundred thousand?

They had thought Battle Roar was astonishing enough, but now this Thought Crystal Butterfly, worth a hundred thousand, left them dumbstruck. Unlike Battle Roar, which was good only for war, the Thought Crystal Butterfly offered far greater value for its price. Telekinesis could be used not only in combat but held immense potential in medicine and many other fields; psychic powder, besides its extreme tactical value, was a resource desperately scarce in the medical world—much anesthesia work required it.

As for Absolute Sleep, needless to say, it at least halved a beast tamer's cost of raising a Thought Crystal Butterfly and doubled the breeding cycle's speed. No wonder Shi Jin had called this evolution he discovered incomparably powerful.

Never mind that it was merely a high-tier extraordinary species—this was a species form meant for the masses, and what mattered most was its skill loadout. Telekinesis could attack, defend, and even speed up its user; psychic powder could be sold for money; Absolute Sleep sped up the breeding cycle and eased the burden of raising one... and on top of all that, the absurdly low evolutionary threshold...

If a Thought Crystal Butterfly evolution had existed back then, Shi Jin would never have taken out a loan of several hundred thousand to buy an Iron-Eating Beast—raising Green Floss Worms and buying evolution materials would have gotten him off the ground far faster.

In that moment, as the Thought Crystal Butterfly's data was made public, many drew a deep breath and looked toward the young man.

"But now, we have finally found it—an evolutionary path with an extremely low threshold whose evolved species is nonetheless extraordinarily powerful!"

"Its birth will rewrite the landscape of Donghuang's beast-taming field!"

Everything Shi Jin had just said was true.

If Battle Roar's role was to strengthen the existing beast-taming legions,

then the birth of the Green Worm Cocoon and the Thought Crystal Butterfly could turn all of Donghuang into soldiers—ten years from now, everyone could be a beast tamer!

After all, Green Floss Worms... outnumbered humans.

And Battle Roar could be given to the Thought Crystal Butterfly as well!

By now, everyone at Imperial Capital University was in shock.

Was this still the Ancient Capital University that was good for nothing but its archaeology department?

This was a discovery that could rewrite the landscape of Donghuang's beast-taming field even more than the Battle Roar Fruit!

By now, quite a few breeding teams were numb. First Imperial Capital University, now Ancient Capital University—how were the people coming after supposed to compete?

Over at Ancient Capital University, Feng Jin burst out laughing. Scared you, did we? But did you think that was all?

Hua Che and Zuo Heng wore smiles as well.

At this moment, Shi Jin turned toward the judging panel.

There, the three top-tier breeding masters had fallen into a storm of thought.

If the breeding cost Shi Jin had given was real, then this truly was an incomparable discovery.

It was not an innovative field, but it was a tremendous revolution of the existing landscape!

"This achievement... I can give it full marks!"

Though he was a doctor of Imperial Capital University, Dr. Lu Qi was utterly dumbstruck at this moment. The species grade of the so-called Green Worm Cocoon and Thought Crystal Butterfly was worlds apart from the evolved forms in the evolution plans he had researched—yet Dr. Lu Qi understood now that his own breeding achievements were nothing at all compared to this.

This was what evolution studies should pursue: taking the most common beast and evolving it, by the lowest-threshold means, into the beast with the greatest potential!

Not taking a top-grade beast and spending enormous sums to evolve it into a stronger one!

He looked at Cen Yu. This kind of achievement—could a student really have researched it??

No wonder Zuo Heng and Hua Che were willing to assist him.

Still, he kept feeling there was something he had failed to notice.

Beside him, Dr. Tian Xiu's mind was likewise a mess from the sheer scale of the achievement. Someone had actually used a Green Floss Worm's evolved form to solve the greatest difficulty ordinary people faced in becoming professional beast tamers?

At this point, Shi Jin spoke. "Thank you, Dr. Lu. But my presentation is not yet over."

"This evolved form only demonstrates universality and applicability."

"It is far from touching on potential. The Thought Crystal Butterfly is only the evolved form when silk proficiency reaches the proficient level. What if the silk were at perfect proficiency—or even at the transcendent level?"

Shi Jin continued, and at this, everyone was stunned once more.

The next moment, the two larva cocoons were teleported onto the display platform by some unknown force.

Still the same big-eyed larva cocoons!

Shi Li: "Now, everyone, please watch closely."

"The one on the left is a larva cocoon with perfect-grade proficiency in Insect Silk."