Yang Lin drove Lu Yuan back to the Divine Beast Pavilion first.

“Mr. Lu, we really owe you a lot for this mission. In addition to the jade pendant I gave you before, I will prepare other gifts to thank you and send them to you in a few days.”

Along the way, Lu Yuan saved their lives several times.

Moreover, without Lu Yuan's command and intelligence, this expedition would very likely have failed.

Therefore, Lu Yuan can be said to be the biggest contributor to this expedition, and both morally and logically, he should prepare an even more generous gift as a token of gratitude.

"No need, Captain Yang, there's no need to be so polite..."

Lu Yuan smiled and waved his hand, "But if the Divine Martial Pavilion can give me some convenience in Yandu and grant me some special privileges, that would be even better."

Yang Lin couldn't help but chuckle after hearing this.

"You're quite bold, but don't worry, I won't forget what I promised you. I'll try my best to get you what I can."

Hearing this, Lu Yuan chuckled.

"Then thank you in advance, Captain Yang!"

...

"Manager, you're back! Did you have fun these past few days?"

Zheng Meng was packing up the shop to close when she saw Lu Yuan push the door open and walk in. She immediately greeted him with a smile.

"That was really exciting!"

Lu Yuan smiled slightly.

He didn't tell Zheng Meng when he left that he was going to participate in a punitive expedition; the girl probably thought he was off having some fun.

really.

After hearing Lu Yuan's answer, Zheng Meng scratched her head in confusion.

What does it mean to have a really exciting time?

Could it be that the store manager went to participate in some extreme sports?

Back in his room, Lu Yuan began to organize his gains.

He had already divided the five monster corpses among Chi Lin and Xiao Yi as an extra meal. In addition, he had one earth-type spirit pill, one fire-type spirit pill, three wood-type spirit pills, and one healing-type spirit pill that he had obtained from Lin Manman.

The five spirit pills with earth, fire, and wood attributes were given to Chi Lin, while the healing spirit pills were naturally left for Xiao Yi.

"After devouring the corpses of those five demonic beasts, Crimson Phosphorus showed signs of leveling up. It's estimated that after digesting these five spirit pills, it will level up at least twice!"

Lu Yuan divided the elixirs among himself and then turned and walked into the training room.

After battling the Grey Wolf King and the Black Feather Tiger Beast, he gained a lot of valuable combat experience. If he trains hard tonight, he might be able to break through the shackles of the Profound True level in one fell swoop!

Time flies when you're practicing.

Inside the training room, Lu Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.

"call!"

Slowly exhaling a breath of stale air, Lu Yuan looked down at his hands.

"This trip to the Scorching Sun Forest was definitely worthwhile. I didn't expect to not only break through to the Earth Spirit level in one fell swoop, but I even skipped two levels. I have now become a second-level Earth Spirit Beast Tamer!"

Feeling the significant increase in spiritual power within his body, Lu Yuan was overjoyed.

There are fewer than ten Earth Spirit-level Beast Tamers in the entire Ling'an Continent at the age of only twenty. What's more, he only recently awakened his Beast Taming talent and has only been cultivating for a little over two months. Such an exaggerated cultivation speed would definitely scare a lot of people if word got out!

After finishing his training, Lu Yuan did not leave the training room, but instead took out various medicinal herbs that Chu Xing had picked.

During the few days of missions in the Scorching Forest, a batch of herbs in the herb field ripened, with the most abundant being the Strengthening Grass, followed by Dragon Snake Grass and Fire Pattern Fruit.

He was very satisfied with the price of these three herbs, so he didn't bother to plant other varieties. He also negotiated the purchase price with Wei Zheng, which saved him a lot of trouble.

Previously, due to insufficient spiritual energy reserves in his body, he could only purify half of the medicinal liquid.

Now that he has broken through to the Earth Spirit level, he wants to see how many bottles of medicinal liquid he can purify with the spiritual power in his body.

With that thought in mind, Lu Yuan's hands immediately got busy.

He threw one herb after another into the medicine furnace, and the medicinal liquid slowly flowed out.

After most of the day, Lu Yuan had finished purifying all the medicinal liquid.

The final harvest consisted of thirty-five bottles of body-strengthening herbal liquid, twenty bottles of dragon-snake herbal liquid, and fifteen bottles of fire-patterned fruit liquid.

"I accidentally extracted all the herbs into a medicinal liquid. I wonder if Mr. Wei will accept it all..."

Lu Yuan scratched his head.

He hadn't expected that his spiritual power would increase so much after breaking through to the Earth Spirit level. After purifying all the medicinal liquid, he only felt a little empty, and at least one-third of his spiritual power remained.

If other Earth Spirit-level alchemists heard about this, they would definitely be green with envy.

With the spiritual power in a normal Earth Spirit level pharmacist's body, they can only refine about forty bottles of medicinal liquid at most. The fact that Lu Yuan refined seventy bottles of medicinal liquid in one go without any failures can be called a miracle in the medical field!

After putting away the purified medicine, Lu Yuan was about to leave the Beast Taming Space when he was stopped by Chi Lin.

"Why aren't you holding your golden egg anymore?" Lu Yuan teased with a smile.

Wherever Red Phosphorus goes, its tail always curls around that golden egg, as if it's holding some kind of treasure. Anyone who doesn't know better would think the golden egg is its cub!

Lu Yuan had become accustomed to the sight of the red phosphorus and the golden egg combined, but today the red phosphorus unexpectedly left the bushes without the golden egg, which was simply too strange.

"Hiss~"

As if understanding Lu Yuan's teasing, Chi Lin flicked its tongue, then stepped forward, grabbed Lu Yuan's pants, and pulled him forward.

"Hmm? Where are you taking me?"

Lu Yuan raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised.

It wasn't until Lu Yuan followed the red phosphorus to the thicket where it often stayed that he finally understood what had happened.

"Has the thing inside the golden egg finally hatched?"

Looking down at the tiny fledgling at his feet and the broken golden eggshell beside it, Lu Yuan was overjoyed.

The fledgling bird lay on a clean, tidy pile of grass, its pale red downy feathers contrasting sharply with the green grass. When it saw Lu Yuan approaching, it instinctively shrank back, as if it were very frightened.

Red Phosphorus crawled over, tapped the fledgling's head with the tip of its tail, and then pointed at Lu Yuan.

His expression seemed to be telling the fledglings not to be afraid, that Lu Yuan wouldn't harm them.

The fledgling glanced at the red phosphorus, then raised its little head to examine Lu Yuan carefully before tentatively opening its mouth.

"Chirp chirp~"

"..."

Lu Yuan fell silent.

He swore he didn't connect it to the man who was so good at basketball.

Lu Yuan crouched down and rubbed the baby bird's head with his index finger.

Just a moment later.

A string of data immediately came to mind.

[Race: Fire Phoenix]

[Attribute: Fire]

[Level: Tier 1]

[Potential: Earth Spirit Tier 1]

[Bloodline: Earth Spirit Rank 7]

[Talent: Flame Weaving]

[Skills: Fireball, Blaze, Sparks]

[Status: Childhood, very healthy]

Looking at the baby bird's exaggerated attribute data, Lu Yuan couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"Born with the potential and bloodline of an Earth Spirit level? Just who is this little guy?!"