Beast Taming: Starting From Zero-Chapter 706: Feeling Ghost

Take a look? Qiao Sang’s eyes lit up and she immediately formed a hand seal.

An orange-gold star array lit up, and Lubao quickly appeared within it.

Orange-gold… Dosharila’s pupils slightly contracted.

Yesterday, all her attention had been on Ice Xilu, so she hadn’t noticed the color of the star array.

Although she had prepared herself after reading the information, seeing with her own eyes that a 16-year-old’s brain domain had reached this level still sent a jolt through her.

Combat power aside, just this brain domain talent alone explained why those folks from the Imperial Beast University had come looking for her...

"Lu."

Lubao quietly stayed in place, looking at the human in front of her with none of the irritation she had shown yesterday.

"Can I touch you?" Dosharila smiled gently and asked.

As an expert on pet beast emotional energy, she was always sensitive to beast emotions. She could tell Ice Xilu wasn’t rejecting her.

"Lu."

Lubao glanced at her hand and responded.

She must’ve overheard yesterday’s conversation and understood that Dr. Dosharila might help her evolve… Qiao Sang translated, "She says you can."

Dosharila’s smile deepened.

She crouched down and began gently petting Ice Xilu while observing her.

Lubao fully cooperated.

You've sacrificed too much just to evolve… It was just a few strokes, but Qiao Sang somehow got the feeling Lubao was compromising for the sake of evolution.

After about ten seconds, Dosharila stood and said: "Your Ice Xilu is the quiet, introverted type. It might be difficult for it to feel true despair."

Whoa, as expected of an expert! Just a few touches and she already figured all that out… Qiao Sang was seriously impressed and asked,

"Then what should we do?"

"Lu..."

Lubao’s tail tensed slightly as she stared at the human who had just touched her, a hint of nervousness in her eyes.

Dosharila smiled and said, "It’s not a big issue. There are many ways to induce despair in a pet beast. First, you need to understand what it cares about most."

Qiao Sang thought for a moment and said, "Right now, she probably cares most about when she can evolve."

"Lu."

Lubao nodded, confirming it.

"Then make her understand that she won’t be able to evolve." Dosharila said.

Lubao was stunned on the spot.

Qiao Sang glanced at Lubao and asked in a low voice, "She overheard everything we just said. Wouldn’t that make it impossible for her to feel despair?"

"No." Dosharila smiled.

"Don’t forget. Besides emotional energy and despair, Ice Xilu needs to be in a sandstorm environment to evolve."

"As long as you don’t expose it to a sandstorm, it doesn’t matter how much despair it feels, it won’t evolve."

"Lu..."

Lubao had trouble processing that.

What did that mean? That her own beast master shouldn’t find a sandstorm-skill pet beast?

Then what if she managed to feel despair midway? What was the point?

Thinking of this, Lubao became slightly irritable.

Dosharila had been observing Ice Xilu and smiled when she noticed the change: "Looks like your Ice Xilu really does care about evolving. I just barely brought it up, and its emotions already shifted."

Of course she cares, just let you pet her for ages without resistance just for the chance to evolve… Qiao Sang muttered internally and sighed, "Recently, my other pet beasts have all evolved one after another, so she’s eager to catch up."

"Lu..."

Lubao heard her beast master and wore an expression that said: Was I really that obvious?

Seeing its face, Dosharila suddenly added to an earlier point: "You're right. Since Ice Xilu overheard our conversation, if it doesn’t evolve for a long time, it may just end up blaming me for giving this idea."

"Lu."

Lubao looked at the so-called emotional energy expert.

Glad you realize that.

Dosharila continued: "A pet beast trying to evolve via emotional energy doesn’t just need to feel the emotion. The emotion has to reach a certain vibrational frequency. From what I see, your Ice Xilu may feel despair over not evolving, but its despair won’t reach the frequency needed to trigger evolution into a General-level beast."

Despair isn’t hard, but despair intense enough to trigger evolution is.

If even not evolving doesn’t push Lubao to that level, then what else possibly could...?

Qiao Sang and Lubao exchanged mutually hopeless glances.

Seeing Qiao Sang’s enthusiasm wilt at her explanation, Dosharila gently said: "Your Ice Xilu probably doesn’t have enough internal energy to evolve yet anyway. So there’s no rush about the despair part. Even if it did reach that state now, there’s no sandstorm environment."

As she spoke, she paused to think, then asked: "Do you know a pet beast called Feeling Ghost?"

Qiao Sang nodded: "It’s a high-level ghost-type from Chaosu Star. I’ve heard it can swap emotions between people."

"Exactly." Dosharrila confirmed.

She continued: "For Ice Xilu to evolve, the despair must be self-generated, that’s the only way to trigger its internal energy to resonate."

"Feeling Ghost has a trait called Emotion Swap, which allows two targets to switch feelings temporarily. During the swap, emotional residue is left in both parties."

"In other words, once the feelings switch back, your Ice Xilu may experience emotions it never had before."

"I suggest you find a Feeling Ghost and then find someone currently in deep despair. Let Ice Xilu swap emotions with them and see if the despair can slowly accumulate."

"Lu..."

Lubao struggled to process everything she had just heard.

Qiao Sang’s eyes suddenly lit up.

"Professor, do you know if anyone in our school has a Feeling Ghost?"

Dosharila already had someone in mind: "Charles Coppola, senior in the Outdoor Exploration Department. He has one."

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T/n: Advanced updates because I have a feeling I wouldn't have the time to update tomorrow. 😔