"I heard that you, Professor Ye, brought back a long-leaf sword grass from the breakthrough secret realm..."

"I am more interested in the plant called long-leaf sword grass, so I hope to visit it."

"Oh." In a research institute, Professor Ye was watering the flowers while answering the phone and nodded, "I see."

She almost understood.

Lu Ran's dog is good at using sword weapons.

Now, Lu Ran must have had a sudden idea and wanted to try whether the long-leaf sword grass could be used as a sword.

"It should be fine." However, facing Lu Ran's request, Professor Ye said regretfully: "If Professor Lu had found me earlier, maybe there would still be a chance."

"What's wrong?" Lu Ran was surprised.

"I almost killed that long-leaf sword grass. It has withered now. It has lost its toughness and sharpness and has become soft."

"If you want to see the long-leaf sword grass, you're definitely not here at the right time."

Lu Ran: ??? Grass (a kind of plant).

Aren’t you a botanist? How could you feed it to death!

"It's okay, Professor Ye, are you free now?" Lu Ran still wanted to take a look.

"Okay, then come over to my place. We should live pretty close."

Professor Ye and Lu Ran are both professors in the cultivation department, but one majors in cultivation and the other majors in cooking.

The research institutes of both sides are not far from each other.

After a while, Lu Ran came to visit.

Professor Ye was about 27 or 28 years old, wearing a white coat, with a round face, light freckles, and glasses under his short brown hair.

When the other party saw Lu, he said to this young and promising younger brother who was 10 years younger than him: "Hello, nice to meet you."

"Hello."

After the two shook hands to show their friendship, Professor Ye turned around and led the way: "If you want to see the long-leaf sword grass, follow me."

As she spoke, she led Lu Ran toward the huge open-air research institute that looked like a botanical garden.

Along the way, Lu Ran saw many special plants planted in pots. As for why they were not planted on the ground, Lu Ran understood when he saw the information about the soil.

[Red Soil]: Suitable for the growth of fire-type vegetation...

[Black Soil]: Suitable for the growth of dark vegetation...

The soil used for each plant is different and colorful. Obviously, the ordinary soil on Blue Star cannot meet the growth environment requirements of Professor Ye’s experimental subjects.

"That's it."

Soon, Professor Ye led Lu Ran to a separate area where there was only one plant with a special light source hanging above it to provide nutrients. However, it still could not stop the plant from withering.

Lu Ran looked at the long-leaf sword grass.

Its appearance is very similar to the Chinese herbal medicine "sisal" on the blue planet.

Of course, the difference is that sisal has many leaves, dozens or even tens of them, and each one looks very much like a sword.

But this long-leaf sword grass only has one piece.

[Name]: Long-leaf Sword Grass [Level]: Rare [Introduction]: A rare and dangerous plant in the world, with a very small chance of giving birth to intelligence and starting the road to evolution.

really!

The introduction of dangerous plants is very different from the supplement resources suitable for pets.

"What a pity." At this moment, Lu Ran also understood why Professor Ye was so regretful, because the green sword-like leaves that should have been extremely upright were now mostly withered and yellow, and the sharpest parts also showed a tendency to wilt.

This is already a dying plant.

"After I transplanted it from the secret realm to here, I immediately simulated its living environment through various means and provided it with the nutrients it needed..."

“But we still can’t let it grow smoothly like it did in its original growth area.”

"Let alone cultivating it to the point where it develops intelligence, it's even a question whether it can survive as an ordinary plant." Professor Ye said self-deprecatingly, "I'm really aiming too high. For the next plant pet research, let's start with some extraordinary plants from ordinary species."

The main thing is that if a rare and ferocious plant were to die, the loss would be too great and no one could afford it.

"indeed."

"I wonder if Professor Ye can sell me this dying long-leaf sword grass?" Lu Ran suddenly asked at this time.

"Hmm?" Professor Ye's glasses reflected a light, and he asked in confusion: "If it is a long-leaf sword grass in good condition, I am not surprised that you made this request. Many people wanted to buy my long-leaf sword grass before."

"But you can see that it is in this state now. I have tried various methods, such as nourishing it with plant pets and using special resources to revive it, but none of them can stop it from withering. It should be completely dead in less than a month. What are you going to buy it for?"

"Wait, you don't want to use long-leaf sword grass to cook, do you?" Professor Ye was incredulous. That was absolutely not possible. After all, she had been raising this sword grass for a long time. Even if it died, she still had some feelings for it. It would be too tragic for it to become food at the last moment of its life.

"How is that possible?" Lu Ran's mouth twitched. Everyone knew that dangerous plants were not suitable as food.

The nutritional value may not be as high as some rare resources.

It would be fine if they had low nutritional value, but most of these dangerous plants are the kind that can actually cause harm to your body if you eat them.

Just like some common plants on the blue planet, some are delicious and nutritious, while others are unpalatable and harmful to the body.

"Let's be frank. I am indeed interested in the long-leaf sword grass. If Professor Ye feels that it cannot be saved, why not let me give it a try?"

"If I can save him, it means I am very capable, it's like picking up a loose end."

"If I fail to save her, I will admit my defeat. Professor Ye, your loss will also be compensated to some extent."

"I wonder if Professor Ye can sell it at a low price."

Lu Ran spoke up. If it was a normal long-leaf sword grass, he would definitely not be able to afford it unless he sold his most valuable resources, even if this long-leaf sword grass had not yet developed intelligence.

However, a dying long-leaf sword grass gave Lu Ran hope.

Can the Soul-Turning Pot restore vitality to this lifeless long-leaf sword grass?

Lu Ran had bought a lot of plant ingredients that were about to rot in Infinite City before. After throwing them into the Soul-Transforming Pot, they soon became fresh and plump again.

Although the long-leaf sword grass is not an ingredient, Lu Ran feels that awakening it does not conflict with the operating mechanism of the Soul-Turning Pot.

The only difficult thing is that the quality of the long-leaf sword grass is too high, almost close to that of the Soul-Transforming Pot. It will probably take a long time to awaken its vitality. During this period, Lu Ran will no longer be able to use the Soul-Transforming Pot.

But it doesn't matter too much. He has no shortage of food or crystal coins recently anyway. The dragon food prepared for him by the Beast Taming University is all extremely fresh, so there is no need for the Soul-Transforming Pot.

Lu Ran really liked this sword grass. It was of moderate length and it shouldn't look weird for Mr. Ha to hold it in his mouth.

At this moment, hearing Lu Ran's words, Professor Ye frowned, looked at the long-leaf sword grass, and then looked at Lu Ran.

Lu Ran said that it has a way to reverse the state of the long-leaf sword grass? To be honest, although she bought intelligence from the cat-ear maid cafe and knew several suspected methods that might reverse vitality, it was impossible to achieve it with the current means of Blue Star.

Therefore, she was not very optimistic about Lu Ran.

"Of course you can." Professor Ye has indeed given up on the long-leaf sword grass. According to what Lu Ran said, doing so can indeed minimize the losses.

In addition, Lu Ran is young and promising, so Professor Ye is willing to do Lu Ran a favor.

However, if he used the long-leaf sword grass, even the withered long-leaf sword grass, to exchange for some crystal coins or some ordinary resources, Professor Ye still felt that he was losing out.

After all, she had spent a lot of effort in order to obtain this sword grass and cultivate it.

"But can I make a request?"

"I don't need crystal coins."

"Dragon-type cuisine???"

If it can be exchanged for dragon food, it can be said that this is the most painless way for Lu Ran to buy it.

Sure enough, in this era, having money is not as good as having a unique skill.

"Almost. I would like to ask Professor Lu Ran to use your culinary skills to help me make some fertilizer."

Lu Ran: ? Okay, okay, all the botanists in your cultivation department play cooks like this, right?

"I also have a few special plants that contain dragon power. I usually water them with dragon blood. After seeing you, Professor Lu, I suddenly had an idea. What changes will the fertilizer made from dragon food have on their growth?"

Professor Ye pushed his glasses and became more interested. The cultivation of sword grass had failed, but other experiments were still in progress.

"No problem." Lu Ran agreed immediately.

Next, Professor Yeh was his partner, and the two of them were studying dragon plants together… and throwing in a little dragon cooking, which made sense.

…………

Just like that, Lu Ran himself did not expect that with such an development, he could easily get the long-leaf sword grass.

Although, it is a sword grass that is about to die.

After leaving Professor Ye, Lu Ran put the long-leaf sword grass into the Soul-Transforming Pot.

In fact, it won’t take too long. After about a day or two, Lu Ran will be able to tell whether the Soul-Turning Pot has any effect on the long-leaf sword grass by observing the changes in it.

If there is no effect, Lu Ran can only accept it. If there is an effect, even if it takes a few months to nurture, it will still be a huge profit.

Of course, Professor Ye did not suffer any loss either. He could obtain dragon fertilizer from the only dragon chef to minimize his losses.

Lu Ran likes this win-win result.

“Okay, as for weapons, let’s bet on this first.” Lu Ran got everything ready, and planned to make some further preparations in order to conquer the legendary secret realm.

He took out his cell phone and this time contacted Fang Lan.

"What are you doing?" Lu Ran asked immediately after the call was connected.

"Doing an experiment! Waiting for the reaction..." Fang Lan said.

Fang Lan also applied to the Beastmaster University for a laboratory of his own.

For the Beastmaster University, Fang Lan is also a super talent. Although her ranking in the freshman competition is not top-notch, the problem is that she is not a combat major.

She is a toxicology major in the medical department.

There were only so many beastmasters in the first three generations of the Xia Kingdom.

Among them, most of them are combat-type.

Even if there are secondary positions, most of them are cooks and blacksmiths.

Like doctors, this is a scarce profession.

And those who are proficient in poison are even fewer, very few.

After all, how could a normal beastmaster not cultivate the domineering thunder and fire attributes and instead choose a dangerous attribute like poison?

You know, if you study poison, you might end up killing yourself if you're not careful.

Even if there were people doing research at the beginning, most of them died on the road of research. Creating a field of knowledge from scratch is the most difficult process of development.

Unlike Fang Lan, he received a systematic toxicology textbook when he was a newcomer.

At present, there are no more than ten beastmasters in Xia Country who are proficient in poison.

How could the Beastmaster University not pay attention to the birth of a poison genius like Fang Lan who comes from a medical family?

Her training level might even be higher than that of combat geniuses who are more powerful than her.

"Have you seen the news about the Snowfield Federation's attack on the legendary secret realm?" Lu Ran asked.

"I see! Are you also eager to conquer the first-level legendary secret realm? Take me with you!! Let's team up together." On the other end of the phone, Fang Lan's sleepy voice became energetic.

"I refuse." Lu Ran said.

Fang Lan: ??? "The Legendary Secret Realm is different from the Abyss Secret Realm. It's too dangerous inside. I can't guarantee your safety. Even I have to be extremely careful. If you're careless, you might not be able to get out."

"Moreover, according to my intelligence network, the more people you have when challenging a legendary secret realm, the worse the rewards. If you don't have very suitable teammates, it's safer and more cost-effective to challenge it alone."

"Okay." Fang Lan pouted. She was not the kind of person who would make trouble for no reason. She knew that when challenging a powerful secret realm, if the team's strength was uneven, it would be more dangerous than challenging it alone.

The most terrifying teammates are the ones who are bad at dealing with others.

It is very likely to be used as a breakthrough point for the team by a powerful BOSS.

When a companion is in crisis, once teammates come to rescue, it will affect the rhythm of the entire battle.

Fang Lan obviously didn't want to be Lu Ran's "spider teammate".

"However, although you cannot personally participate in the secret realm strategy, you can still participate indirectly. Can you mix some venom for me like you did last time when I conquered the secret realm of the abandoned test site?" Lu Ran said with a smile.

"Oh." Fang Lan said, "No problem."

"But dragon creatures are very resistant to poison. Their dragon blood has a certain detoxification function. It is very difficult to prepare a poison that is effective against them."

"If I can also enter the secret realm and use poison energy to strengthen the properties of the venom, it will be much easier to take effect. But carrying only poison may be a bit harsh."

"So, there is a way, right?" Lu Ran said.

"Well, I need a blood sample from the Diamond Dragon. The more the better. Only in this way can I prepare a highly targeted venom."

"Can I get it?" Fang Lan asked.

"Yes! But give me some time. I will send it to you within half a month."

"Okay." Fang Lan said, "I'll wait for your dragon blood."

…………

Two days later.

The Beastmaster University officially opens.

But Lu Ran, it seems, doesn’t have to go to class or give lectures.

In the Forging Department, Lu Ran, who had mastered the Fire Spirit, was more skilled than some forging masters in smelting mineral materials. However, taking classes with ordinary freshmen would waste his talent, so Master Lin chose to give Lu Ran special training and let him learn inscription engraving first.

As for the culinary major, we don’t want the teaching to take up too much of Lu Ran’s research time.

Although Lu Ran could also teach the basics, it was also unnecessary as it was a waste of his talent. The training department directly made Lu Ran's knife skills and fire skills courses advanced courses, which could only be taken by elite students selected at the end of the semester.

In this way, Lu Ran was no longer disturbed by trivial matters and focused on studying cooking and training pet animals.

During this period, he also continued to try complex dishes, such as dragon beard noodles, meat dragon, spicy lobster, squirrel dragon fish, abandoning the original barbecue and adding different extraordinary ingredients and condiments.

Among them, there are cases of overturning and cases of surge in nutritional value.

But Lu Ran enjoyed trying it out. After all, he was happy to have something to eat. Even if he failed, at most the nutritional value did not reach the estimated standard of 1+1+1+1+1+1 greater than 10, but the taste was still good.

Having just finished drinking the dragon blood vermicelli soup, Lu Ran observed the situation of the long-leaf sword grass as usual...

"Hmm?" After two days, the long-leaf sword grass finally had some changes. It wasn't for the worse. On the contrary, compared to when Lu Ran just took it back, its life form was much better. The withered places were stained with a hint of green again! "Grass, give me some strength. I'm not like Professor Ye who expects you to be born with intelligence. You just need to recover the vitality of a normal sword grass... When the time comes, I will let the beast masters of other countries see what it means to kill a real dragon with a blade of grass!" Lu Ran tried to use telepathy to talk to the long-leaf sword grass, regardless of whether the long-leaf sword grass, which had not yet been born with intelligence, could understand.

(End of this chapter)