Laid out before Su Ping were more than a dozen containers.
Inside each vessel was a dark green substance.
Even Su Ping himself couldn't help feeling a surge of excitement as he looked at these dozen-plus bottles of Wood's Heart magic potion.
The production cost of these items alone had already reached several million.
And if calculated by market profit, their total value would have soared into the tens of millions.
Such an astronomical sum—whether in his previous life or this one—was something Su Ping had never come into contact with.
Yet now, it was all sitting right in front of him.
Still, Su Ping didn't rush to pour them all down his Lin Wolves' throats.
He wanted to refine his own grasp of cultivation knowledge.
The Myriad Spirits Codex was like having the answer sheet handed directly to him—but without showing the problem-solving steps or reasoning.
What Su Ping needed to do now was to work backward from those answers, reconstructing the logic and process bit by bit.
These magic potions could help him do exactly that.
He placed several bottles into the freezer for storage, saving them as reserves and future capital for cultivating other pet beasts.
That still left more than ten bottles.
At the same time, Su Ping opened two of them.
These two would be used for experimentation.
Even just these two bottles represented an enormous experimental cost.
Su Ping took a spoon and carefully scooped out one-tenth of a bottle.
From the other bottle, he poured out fully half.
This was his first time formally cultivating pet beasts in this manner, and he lacked experience.
However, after becoming an Intermediate Breeder and gaining a clearer understanding of how various pet beast cultivation bases operated, Su Ping knew one thing very well:
Pet beasts weren't cultivated that way.
Mu Tou and Qin Xiaoxue might be fine—but what if he encountered someone with ulterior motives?
What if they sent a pet beast over and, through communicating with it, attempted to steal cultivation techniques and methods?
This wasn't wild speculation—it was entirely possible.
Therefore, even for something like Wood's Heart magic potion, it was best not to administer it all at once to allow instant comprehension.
Using it in batches, paired with some unusual training methods, not only stretched out the cultivation time—making it seem more reasonable—but also ensured that the method itself wouldn't be so easily leaked.
That said, Su Ping needed to test whether batch consumption would affect the potion's efficacy.
He called over two Lin Wolves.
The one-tenth dose of the potion was administered first.
There was no noticeable effect.
Then Su Ping summoned another Lin Wolf and gave it the half-bottle dose.
This time, something different finally happened.
Faint specks of light flickered across the Lin Wolf's body—only to fade away shortly after. Clearly, comprehension hadn't been achieved.
Su Ping wasn't discouraged.
At the very least, there was an effect.
He could continue experimenting slowly over the next few days.
With that thought, Su Ping took out paper and pen, quickly recording the observed changes in the Lin Wolves.
Li Shu, who was tending to the Falling Pine nearby, finally couldn't hold back and asked:
"Brother Ping, this is…?"
Su Ping glanced at him.
When Su Ping had been brewing the magic potions earlier, Li Shu had been trying to interact with the Lin Wolves—an essential step for Junior Breeders.
If possible, helping his only real friend take fewer detours wasn't a bad thing.
But Wood's Heart magic potion didn't just represent the Su family's long-standing legacy—it also represented unimaginable wealth and temptation.
Su Ping had no intention of testing human nature with something like this.
He wasn't that kind of person.
So he answered vaguely:
"Specially formulated food for Lin Wolves. It speeds up their growth."
Strictly speaking, it wasn't a lie.
Li Shu nodded without pressing further, even agreeing enthusiastically:
"That makes sense. I was wondering—only Lin Wolves would like that kind of smell!"
At those words, Su Ping froze slightly.
In his mind, a flash of insight suddenly struck—an odd yet illuminating direction.
Su Ping blinked.
It felt like he had suddenly understood something that wasn't actually all that complicated.
Why did his Wood's Heart magic potion undergo such a qualitative change after adding Wolfsmoke Grass?
Sure, the Myriad Spirits Codex's optimized recipe played a role—but achieving such an effect with just one added ingredient meant that Wolfsmoke Grass itself was far from ordinary.
Then was it possible that, fundamentally speaking, Wolfsmoke Grass already had some innate effect on Lin Wolves?
Su Ping's eyes lit up.
This was precisely the joy of pet beast cultivation—discovering a direction or possibility, then testing it, experimenting with it, and refining it.
This was the proper path of growth for a pet beast cultivator.
Even if testing this possibility on his own little fellows was somewhat… inhumane.
Su Ping firmly believed that, for the sake of helping their master become a truly great breeder, they would absolutely be willing to make a tiny sacrifice.
Immediately, Su Ping looked toward the eager Lin Wolf pack, his eyes glowing with an eerie green light.
At that moment, Su Ping seemed even more wolf-like than the wolves themselves.
Including Old Sha, every Lin Wolf subconsciously tucked its tail and avoided the little master's gaze.
Just then, however, a clear whimper sounded.
The owner of that whimper wasn't any ordinary Lin Wolf.
It came from the most special one in the entire pack—
Mu Tou.
Qin Xiaoxue's precious darling, the top-tier Lin Wolf who had now fully integrated into Su Ping's pack.
At this moment, Mu Tou's entire body trembled as soft white halos of light enveloped him.
He still bore some injuries.
His gray-green fur was in disarray, with traces of blood beneath it. To an outsider, it might look as though Su Ping had been abusing him.
But compared to the other sixteen Lin Wolves, Mu Tou's injuries were actually the lightest.
Especially under the coverage of those soft white halos, the scabbed wounds on his body were visibly healing at an astonishing speed.
That recovery rate rivaled even elite-tier professional healing-type pet beasts.
Clearly, Mu Tou wasn't like this because of his injuries.
Extremely familiar with Lin Wolves by now, Su Ping instantly understood what was happening.
As expected—
When the soft light faded, Mu Tou's injuries had recovered almost completely.
This level of recovery was absolutely impossible for Beginner-levelSelf-Healing, even if Mu Tou was already an elite peak Lin Wolf.
There was only one possible explanation.
And sure enough, under the Eye of Truth, Mu Tou's skill panel revealed that the large Self-Healing skill label had changed—
From Beginner to Proficient!
The wager was complete.
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