After ensuring there was nothing else and reminding Lin Chuan not to forget to send Guoguo and Sakura's body data daily, Lin Xuédòng hung up the phone.
"Flower scent? Smell?"
Lin Chuan murmured.
This talent direction was truly a bit strange.
Guoguo's extraordinary talent in energy was easy to understand: for any energy-related skill, Guoguo would gain more proficiency from the Reincarnation of Inheritance, and when used in reality, the release speed and power would slightly increase.
As for flower scent and smell?
What type of talent was this again? Lin Chuan admitted he really couldn't figure it out.
Since he couldn't figure it out, he would conduct a body check on the spot!
At this moment, Sakura was happily playing in the small fountain at the center of the sunroom, celebrating her victory over Guoguo 5 times in their sparring match, cheering excitedly and uncontrollably.
"Sakura, come here for a moment."
Lin Chuan called out.
Sakura was puzzled but didn't think much of it, trotting over to Lin Chuan on her short, chubby legs.
Ying ying ying, Sakura made an affectionate inquiring sound.
"Nothing much, just checking your body."
Checking her body?
Was this to collect data?
Hadn't they already checked it when they woke up this morning?
Puzzled, but Sakura didn't ask. Well, even if she wanted to, she couldn't speak human language.
Sakura obediently stood still in front of Lin Chuan and relaxed her body.
The next moment.
With a puzzled expression on Sakura's face, Lin Chuan picked her up, noting that she was a bit heavy.
By now, Guoguo and Sakura's weight had reached 40 jin, far exceeding ordinary Flower Leaf Leaf on the farm. This was normal, as they were being cultivated as battle pets.
Lin Chuan held Sakura up high.
Then, he looked left and right, but couldn't see anything.
Next, Lin Chuan pressed his face close, sniffing left and right, but didn't smell any special flower scent.
Finally, Lin Chuan simply buried his face in Sakura's small belly and took a deep, forceful sniff.
Sakura: ???
The first two steps were normal, but what was with this last one?
Sakura, being pressed against the belly and sniffed forcefully by Lin Chuan, trembled all over, feeling extremely ticklish, letting out shy yet excited ying ying ying sounds.
This sound caught the attention of Guoguo, who was drawing circles in the dirt, sad about her recent sparring defeat.
Seeing the situation here, Guoguo froze for a moment, then jumped up and down, crying out, "Yi ya yi ya ya!"
Guoguo was consumed by jealousy.
She had only turned around to draw a circle, and this little green tea, Sakura, was letting her master sniff her belly! Such an intimate display, something she had never experienced!
Angry! Trembling! Cold!
Guoguo wished she could throw a Bomb Fruit at that little green tea, Sakura, right then and there.
However, Guoguo ultimately held back.
After all, the sparring just now was fair; she lost, Sakura won, so it was only natural for Sakura to enjoy the fruits of victory.
Clenching her small chubby fist, Guoguo stomped hard.
At this moment, she made a vow: for the upcoming special training, she would put in one thousand percent effort. As long as it didn't kill her, she would train until she dropped!
In future sparring matches, she would never lose again!
Lin Chuan didn't know that his action was equivalent to pouring another super-sized, super-concentrated bowl of chicken soup into Guoguo.
He was merely verifying Lin Lao Deng's words.
After sniffing Sakura's belly vigorously for a while, Lin Chuan smacked his lips, not sensing any special scent, only the taste of dirt.
After all, when Sakura and Guoguo weren't training, they usually planted themselves in their nutrient pots.
Subsequently, Lin Chuan took a deep sniff of the pink flower on Sakura's head. It had a faint, slightly sweet floral scent, which was not much different from the ordinary Flower Leaf Leaf cultivated for daily life and production on the farm.
So, where did Lin Lao Deng deduce that Sakura had a talent for floral scents?
Lin Chuan suspected Lin Lao Deng's words were wrong. After all, Lin Lao Deng himself said on the phone that it was just his guess and might not be accurate.
However, Lin Chuan decided to trust Lin Lao Deng one last time.
After all, Lin Lao Deng had focused on studying Flower Leaf Leaf for 30 years. Although it was just a guess, it must have been supported by a lot of evidence and data, making it much more accurate than him fumbling around by luck.
There was only one last possibility, the only one Lin Chuan could think of with his current level of knowledge.
Sakura wasn't showing any signs right now, perhaps because she hadn't learned any skills related to floral scents yet.
Skills involving floral scents.
Among the skill materials Lin Chuan currently possessed, there was one suitable.
Not the fairy spirit flower; that was a 'High-Level Skill Book' containing fragments of many skills, which he wasn't yet able to inherit and use.
Lin Chuan was referring to Healing Aroma.
Regarding healing skills.
Rooting, Photosynthesis, Sweet Fruit, and Healing Aroma were all healing skills that Flower Leaf Leaf could learn.
Rooting and Photosynthesis could only self-heal.
Sweet Fruit, on the other hand, was a branched mutation skill of Bomb Fruit, belonging to single-target powerful healing. It could be used on oneself or others and could also remove all abnormal statuses.
When it says 'all', there is actually an upper limit.
Whether an abnormal status can truly be removed depends on the skill proficiency, the attribute ability that caused the abnormal status, and most importantly, the levels of both parties.
Taking the current Guoguo as an example, if the current Level 16 Guoguo mastered Sweet Fruit and its skill proficiency reached Expert Grade, then she could remove abnormal status effects from spirit beasts up to Level 29 with skill proficiency below Expert Grade. However, for abnormal statuses like tearing and bleeding caused by Metal Attribute skills, she could at most remove effects from Level 19 spirit beasts with skill proficiency below Expert Grade.
Finally, regarding Healing Aroma, in terms of healing output, Healing Aroma is far inferior to Sweet Fruit, and its self-healing effect is not as good as Rooting plus Photosynthesis. However, it is an area-of-effect healing skill, and when Healing Aroma's skill proficiency reaches the Master Grade, it will produce a new effect: it can remove some abnormal status effects.
Here, 'some' specifically refers to mental abnormal statuses, such as confusion or loss of control, and does not include physical abnormalities like poisoning or paralysis, unlike Sweet Fruit which can remove all.
Any Baby Cup, whether small, medium, or large, uses a 1v1 restricted match rule.
Even if a Beast Master has contracted multiple spirit pets, they can only choose to send out one during the competition, which makes Healing Aroma quite useless in such situations.
Its self-healing effect is not as good as Rooting plus Photosynthesis, and it might even heal opponents due to its area-of-effect nature.
Only its ability to remove abnormal statuses when it reaches Master Grade is somewhat effective, but few Beast Masters in the Baby Cup play abnormal control builds. Well, mainly because three months of cultivation time is too short to build a sufficiently effective abnormal control skill set. For low-proficiency abnormal status skills, Lin Chuan can directly tank the damage with healing, and other Beast Masters can even endure it with a Rejuvenation Roar.
Because of this, Lin Chuan had placed Healing Aroma far down on his skill inheritance schedule. It was only after the skill set was constructed in a simplified version, with gaps filled and patched, that Healing Aroma would be considered for inheritance during subsequent expansion and development. According to his estimated timeline, it would likely be added during the final week of intensive cultivation, just before the college entrance examination.
But now, to verify if Sakura's talent truly lay in floral scents, Lin Chuan decided to advance Healing Aroma's inheritance to the present.
The relevant material package was stored in the Beast Space. The two petals containing the Healing Aroma skill inheritance were there. Lin Chuan picked out one of them and held it in his hand.
The petal was shriveled, but it still had a faint purple hue.
If Lin Chuan was not mistaken, this should be a petal from a Purple Moon Rose.
The Purple Moon Rose is a spirit beast of Upper-Tier Soldier Rank bloodline, whose overall appearance resembles a purple rose. It is a purely healing-type spirit beast.
It is very rare and almost never encountered in the wild, primarily found only in certain medical spirit beast breeding bases run by humans.
Unless one decides from the outset to pursue a medical path, new Beast Masters generally do not easily choose the Purple Moon Rose as their initial spirit beast.
Although the Flower Leaf Leaf is also a support-type spirit beast, it can learn many offensive, control, and damage-type skills.
The Purple Moon Rose, however, is a truly complete healing spirit beast; it knows nothing but healing.
Before reaching Tier 3, aside from Rooting and Photosynthesis, its two innate basic skills, the Purple Moon Rose has only one other skill: Healing Aroma, which it automatically learns when it reaches normal adulthood. Of course, certain exceptionally dull individuals are excluded.
While not suitable as an initial spirit beast, it is an excellent choice as a third or fourth contracted spirit beast.
Why not the second one?
Because the second one often complements the combat weaknesses of the first spirit beast.
It's usually only with the third spirit beast that most Beast Masters consider a support or logistical spirit beast.
Well, let's not discuss these now; the key is the inheritance.
Seeing Lin Chuan take out the skill material, Sakura understood the situation. She clenched her small chubby fists, looking eager to try.
Like Guoguo before her, Sakura also viewed skill inheritance as a grand dream adventure of transforming into another spirit beast.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Chuan activated his Beast Master talent, Reincarnation of Inheritance. A wisp of black-and-white, invisible energy, imperceptible to the naked eye, emerged from Lin Chuan's spiritual sea, flowed along his meridians, down his arm, and entered the shriveled purple petal he held in his hand.
In an instant, the shriveled purple petal seemed to come back to life, becoming plump and full of vitality. A subtle but extremely pleasant and sweet floral scent emanated from the petal. Lin Chuan inhaled it and immediately felt his body relax.
Without hesitation, Lin Chuan immediately pressed the purple petal onto Sakura's forehead.
The mental hammer arrived as expected, and Lin Chuan, already accustomed to it, endured it without a sound.
Purple light slowly enveloped Sakura's entire body.
It brought Sakura into a waking dream-like skill inheritance state, experiencing the memory fragments within the petal.
Just as Lin Chuan had anticipated, Sakura transformed into a Purple Moon Rose in her dream, a small, delicate, and adorable spirit beast barely twenty centimeters tall, with a purple rose atop its head.
There was no grand and magnificent memory like Guoguo's inheritance of Bomb Fruit. The Purple Moon Rose that Sakura transformed into had been in a certain breeding base since its birth.
It developed properly and grew normally.
However, unfortunately, this Purple Moon Rose was not outstanding. Its talent was not high, ranking among the lower-middle and bottom of its peers.
Thus, it was not chosen and contracted by any new Beast Master, eventually becoming an assistant spirit beast at a certain spirit beast medical center.
Not being cultivated for battle specialization, ordinary daily life cultivation could not raise the Purple Moon Rose's level to Tier 2, nor could it break through its limits, naturally preventing it from increasing its lifespan.
So, after a mundane 10 years, this moderately talented Purple Moon Rose died of old age.
The main body of the Purple Moon Rose was carefully buried by the hospital staff.
The two remaining essence petals, however, were sent to the medical center's herbal medicine room, originally intended to be ground into powder to make healing potions.
Unfortunately, due to improper preservation by a staff member, the petals lost their medicinal properties and could only be sold to Beast Master shops as ordinary spirit beast materials, like other spirit beast materials left after hospital treatments, such as nails, fur, or bone fragments from surgeries.
Then, Lin Chuan stumbled upon them.
Ten minutes later, the purple glow on Sakura's body disappeared. She opened her eyes, looking as if she had just woken up and was still groggy.
It wasn't until she saw Lin Chuan that Sakura gradually became clear-headed.
"Ying ying ying ~"
Sakura let out happy cries. Although she couldn't recall what she had experienced in this dream adventure, she could instinctively feel that it had been a very warm journey.
Sensing Sakura's happiness vaguely, Lin Chuan ruffled her small head.
Immediately, Lin Chuan asked Sakura about her progress in learning the Healing Aroma skill. He asked Sakura to try to cast Healing Aroma on him.
Sakura nodded, clenching her small chubby fists, as if exerting effort.
The next second, the pink flower on Sakura's head glowed faintly, and a sweet, natural, intoxicating, and ethereal scent diffused into the air.
Lin Chuan took a deep breath and immediately felt his entire body comfortable. The fatigue from an hour of morning exercises had recovered significantly.
At the same time, Lin Chuan also felt a hazy, indistinct sensation, as if he had forgotten everything, as if his entire being had fallen into a soft, fluffy world, enveloped by the sweet fragrance.
"Yi ya yi ya ya ya!"
With a sudden cry, Guoguo was tugging at Lin Chuan's pant leg, shouting with all her might.
Only then did Lin Chuan suddenly snap awake.
He had felt the healing effect.
What shocked Lin Chuan was that subsequent sensation of hazy, blurred consciousness.
This was, hallucination!!
Lin Chuan was startled. Illusion, Illusion Attribute!
This was an attribute that Flower Leaf Leaf could only possess after evolving into Flower Spirit.
Moreover, simply possessing the Illusion Attribute didn't guarantee the ability to learn Illusion Attribute skills.
At least for Flower Spirit, a spirit beast that isn't rare and whose bloodline isn't particularly strong, even though it comes with the Illusion Attribute, it usually won't naturally awaken Illusion Attribute skills. Only exceptionally talented Flower Spirit would awaken the Rosemary Illusion Incense, an Illusion Attribute skill.
As for other Illusion Attribute skills...
One would either have to exchange for relevant Illusion Attribute skill secret manuals at the Beastmaster Association, where even the lowest-level Illusion Attribute skill costs at least 1000 points, and then self-learn. Or, one could pay to be taught by someone from the Beastmaster Association, which would incur a significant cost in star rock coin and points.
Alternatively, one could enroll in a high-level Beast Master Academy like the Eight Great Academies, where instructors would guide them.
Or, one could apprentice at a specialized Hall, becoming a trusted high-level Hall apprentice, and only then would the Hall teach them.
Therefore, Lin Lao Deng's guess was not entirely correct.
Sakura's talent was not merely floral scent.
Instead, it was the hallucinogenic effect induced and carried by the floral scent!
My Sakura has the potential of a Great Emperor, no, an Illusion God!