At the same time.

Somewhere in Tree World City.

Lu Ran also found an inn and checked in.

At this moment, Lu Ran, like another group of people, was very eager to know the situation in the other side's world.

He even came up with the idea of ​​letting the Dark Crow eavesdrop from a distance through the Eye of the Evil God.

However, considering that the situation in Shujie City was unclear, Lu Ran did not dare to act rashly.

In the Star-Moon Continent, the Evil God's lineage was undoubtedly hated by everyone. As for what the Evil God's power represented in the Divine Tree Continent, Lu Ran still didn't know.

Therefore, without clarifying the situation and without a death-avoidance mechanism, he didn't dare to let Dark Crow take action easily. If he was discovered by the local strong men, he would be doomed. There was still a lot of time, and Lu Ran planned to investigate slowly.

Now, he has one more main task, which is to find out as much information as possible about the other side's world.

Dong! Dong! Dong! Not long after entering the inn, Lu Ran wanted to find some books to learn about the Divine Tree Continent and the Tree World City. However, before he started, there was a knock on the door outside.

"guest."

"Are you there, guest?"

Lu Ran opened the door and looked at the apologetic shopkeeper. The other party said, "Sorry to bother you, sir. There is someone outside who wants to see you. Let me report it."

"See me? Are you sure?" Lu Ran was surprised. Who is it? It can't be those three beastmasters from other worlds.

"No."

"Then lead the way." No matter who it is, since someone has followed, Lu Ran must meet him. He said, and then followed the shopkeeper downstairs. Then he saw a young man in luxurious clothes, who greeted him with a smile.

This person was definitely not a trial-taker, and Lu Ran didn’t know where he came from, but as he introduced himself, Lu Ran soon found out what was going on.

"Is it Mr. Lu Ran?"

"I am Shi Ze from the Royal Dog Family of Tree Realm City..."

"Is there something wrong?" Lu Ran raised his eyebrows. A family of imperial dogs?

What a coincidence, I am also from the Dog Taming Clan! "I would like to invite Mr. Lu Ran to visit the Shi family." Shi Ze said with a smile: "There are very few beast tamers now. I heard that you are from the Beast Taming House and have come from afar to sign up for the Plant Beast Competition. I want to do my best to be a good host."

"The environment of these inns is still a bit shabby, not suitable for you to prepare for the competition."

The news spread quickly...

This Royal Dog Family is probably also one of the organizers of the Plant-Beast Contest, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to get information about him so quickly and send someone to make an invitation immediately.

"Okay, I'll be polite then." Lu Ran said, "Thank you."

Naturally, Lu Ran would not be polite about this matter. If he really stayed in the inn all the time, the information he could access would be limited. It would not hurt to make some contact with the local tyrants.

"Brother Lu Ran is so straightforward." Shi Ze was in a good mood seeing that he had invited Lu Ran so easily.

The Beast Taming House is one of the few remaining top-level beast taming inheritances on the Shenshu Continent. Since Lu Ran came from there, his strength must be strong.

The Beast Taming lineage is weak now, so they must unite all the forces they can and stick together for warmth, so that they can survive on the Divine Tree Continent.

………

After a while, Lu Ran left the inn and went to Qi Shi's house with the other party.

Along the way, Shi Ze was also introducing the situation of Tree World City to Lu Ran.

"Tree World City is divided into nine major families."

"Among them, six are mainly based on plant control power, and three are mainly based on the beast control system."

"Our Shi family is one of the three beast-controlling families, and we mainly train dog beasts."

"Apart from the nine major families, the City Lord's Mansion is the largest force in Tree Realm City. As the City Lord who is a legendary imperial plant master, he is also the strongest person in Tree Realm City."

"This Plant-Beast Competition was originally proposed by her."

Lu Ran walked beside the other person and said, "Oh?" and said, "Apart from the superficial competition between plant life and beast life, does this competition have any special meaning?"

Shi Ze smiled and said, "You are an outsider and you don't know that the city lord actually held this competition in the first place because of her own struggles."

"The city lord actually comes from a family of beast tamers, but as the beast taming system declined, she eventually chose to switch to plant taming. It is said that the city lord made a great decision when she made this choice, and even after making the choice, she still couldn't forget about beast taming."

"Therefore, after she took power in Tree Realm City, she did not suppress the Beast Tamers like other big cities did. Instead, she gave the Beast Tamers a lot of convenience. For example, this Plant Beast Competition is provided to our three Beast Tamers to compete for rights and interests." Shi Ze said with emotion: "The City Lord is a good person."

Lu Ran asked curiously: "What's there to be obsessed about? Since Yu Zhi is stronger, then choose Yu Zhi. At worst, practice both."

Shi Ze looked at Lu Ran in surprise, not understanding why Lu Ran said that. He said, "Brother Lu Ran, why did you choose to control beasts instead of plants?"

Lu Ran said seriously: "Because my beast pets are very strong, ordinary plant pets are no match for them, so I chose to control the beast."

"Well……"

Lu Ran was at a loss for words for Shi Ze, it made so much sense that he couldn't refute it.

He gathered his emotions for a moment and said, "The reason why the beast taming lineage is persisting now is more because of sentiment and heritage. Just like our family, we have been taming beasts for generations for hundreds of years, and we have a complete dog taming system passed down. Now, if we suddenly switch to taming plants, wouldn't it be an ungrateful act to what our ancestors left behind?"

"The Lord City Lord is probably the same. She was born into a beast taming family, but she abandoned the skills that had been passed down for a long time and went to learn other things. She is still a little nostalgic... Some deep-rooted concepts are still difficult to change. There have been rumors that the Lord City Lord actually wants to find a genius who is proficient in beast taming to be his apprentice and pass on his family's beast taming power."

"Changing cultivation rashly is like gambling. If it succeeds, you will naturally become stronger, but if it fails, you may be worse off than you are now."

"So, this is a battle between innovation and conservatism."

"As for dual cultivation, that's even more impossible. The plant control space suitable for plant life and the beast control space suitable for beast pets are not interoperable."

"Well, but you, brother Lu Ran, don't need to worry about these. The Beast Taming House itself is the top inheritance force of the Beast Taming system. Even if the overall talent and potential of plant pets are stronger than beast pets, that is only for ordinary people. The beast pets cultivated by the Beast Taming House should have no problem crushing ordinary plant pets in combat power." He looked at Lu Ran eagerly and said:

"Brother Lu Ran, why don't you represent our 'Shi Family' in the battle this time?"

"Although the Plant Pet Contest welcomes participants from all factions, it is essentially a competition among the nine major families in Tree Realm City to compete for related interests. If you represent the Beast Taming House and get good results, it will at most increase the reputation of the Beast Taming House. However, the Beast Taming House is already very famous and does not need this kind of ranking to prove itself."

"But our Shi family is different. If you represent our Shi family in the competition and achieve good results, we can definitely get a lot of benefits, such as land and the right to mine secret areas."

"Of course, I won't let you, brother Lu Ran, help us in the competition for nothing. No matter what the result is, we will give you a generous gift. If the final result is excellent, the benefits obtained by the Shi family will be shared with brother Lu Ran. How about that?"

As the conversation progressed, Shi Ze began to reveal his real purpose of inviting Lu Ran to be his guest, which was to invite Lu Ran to represent the Shi family in the Plant Beast Competition.

Lu Ran was not surprised by this. He shrugged and said, "Brother Shi, I don't have to represent the Beast Taming House to participate in the competition. However, I am not a member of your Shi family. Isn't it the same as cheating to do this?"

Shi Ze saw that Lu Ran had no aversion, and showed a happy expression, saying: "Hey, what's the big deal, this is all allowed by the rules."

"Also, if Brother Lu Ran is really worried, I have a cousin who is outstanding in appearance and talented..."

"That's not necessary." Lu Ran said, "Since the rules allow it, I don't care. As long as your Shi family doesn't let me suffer any loss, then it's okay for me to represent you in the competition."

"Brother Lu Ran is so straightforward!!" Shi Ze's eyes were filled with tears. It was the first time he met such a realistic and unpretentious person who was not at all shy about asking for benefits.

However, Shi Ze felt very comfortable talking to Lu Ran like this.

I just don't know how strong Lu Ran is and how much benefit he can bring to the Shi family.

If Lu Ran was born in the Beast Taming House, his strength shouldn't be weak, right?

"Don't worry, Brother Lu Ran, we will definitely not let you suffer any loss. By the way, I wonder what Brother Lu Ran wants, and what kind of results do you expect to achieve in this plant-beast competition?"

Lu Ran pondered for a moment, looked at Shi Ze, and said, "32 to 16."

"I can't say for sure what the results will be. I don't know much about the Plant Beast Contest. Brother Ishizawa, can you tell me about the past events?"

“Top 16? That’s pretty good!” Shi Ze was quite satisfied when he heard it. It seemed that Lu Ran was very confident in his own ability.

The reason why Lu Ran was so sure that he could make it to the top 16 was because the threshold for passing the breakthrough mission was the top 32.

Lu Ran thought to himself that it was impossible for him to fail the breakthrough mission with his own strength, right? Infinite City would not issue breakthrough missions that were impossible to pass to the trial-takers. If they were issued, they would definitely be of a difficulty that a Level 2 Beast Tamer could achieve.

Since the threshold for the breakthrough mission is the top 32, he feels that he will have no problem making it into the top 32. Considering that his strength is just a "little" stronger than that of a normal Level 2 Beast Tamer, it shouldn't be an exaggeration to modestly say that he is in the top 16.

Shi Ze continued, "It's like this. The Plant Beast Contest has an age limit of 25, so the overall level is not very high. Last year's winner was a level 4 plant master who had a level 41 high-level monarch plant pet..."

"The top 16 in previous years were basically only level 3 beastmasters, and their pets were around level 35."

"Brother Lu Ran, I haven't asked you about your strength yet..."

“Are the top 16 in previous years all level 3 Beast Tamers?” Lu Ran was surprised.

"The champion is also a level 4 beastmaster?"

"What's wrong, Brother Lu Ran?" Shi Ze saw Lu Ran's surprised look and suddenly had a bad feeling.

“Haha, I’m only level two. This is going to be challenging…” Lu Ran laughed.

Shi Ze: ??? “But it’s not a big problem.” Lu Ran said: “My beast pet is quite powerful, so it shouldn’t be a problem to fight against a higher level beast…”

"You're only level 2 if you're not my brother?" Shi Ze was dumbfounded.

"Yeah." Lu Ran looked at him cheerfully and said, "Don't worry, an ordinary third-level beastmaster wouldn't be my opponent."

Even if he was a fourth-level beastmaster, there was nothing to be afraid of as long as the pet was of the royal race.

His goal must be to get an SSS score. If he wants to get an SSS score, he has to win the championship and defeat a fourth-level beastmaster.

"Okay, okay..."

Since Lu Ran was so confident, Shi Ze couldn't say anything. After all, Lu Ran came from a top beast taming force, so he couldn't question his strength.

"Then Brother Lu Ran, do you have any other needs..." Shi Ze said with a wry smile.

"Yes. If I want a method to help the unawakened evil plants awaken their intelligence, does your Shi family have it?" Lu Ran asked.

"This?" Shi Ze looked confused and said, "We really don't have this."

"If you want to take care of a bitch after giving birth, we are good at that, but plants..."

"Brother Lu Ran, aren't you a beastmaster???"

Lu Ran shook his head and said, "Plant pets are so powerful, we must learn more about them. Besides, who says that animal masters can't study fierce plants?"

"Have you ever heard of a dog carrying grass? One piece of grass can cut off the sun, moon and stars. We have also been innovating in the Beast Taming House recently."

Ishizawa: ??? Why does he feel that the beastmaster of the Beast Taming House is different from what he thought! (End of this chapter)