Beastmaster: I don’t want to be a breeder!

Little Soft's strength increases by collecting a one percent attribute tax from all its slime subjects.

So, the key to quickly increasing Little Soft's strength is to increase tax revenue.

There are two ways to increase tax revenue: increase the quantity and improve the quality.

Increasing the quantity means increasing the overall number of slimes.

Li Cunxu has been doing this, but has reached a bottleneck.

The slime populations in Pupil City's Muye Plain, Machine City's junkyard, the Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm, and the White Jade Secret Realm are already saturated. Adding a few more won't make much of a difference.

As for other places?

For example, the wilderness. The wilderness is vast and boundless, with enough space for slimes to multiply and grow.

Li Cunxu has considered it, but the wilderness is too dangerous. Seeking stability, he has been afraid to enter, so he hasn't been able to release slimes into the wilderness.

Most pet beasts are territorial creatures. As long as you don't enter their territory, they won't attack you. But a few pet beasts aren't territorial creatures. They like to wander around, like tourists. If you encounter a weak one, it's fine, but if you encounter a strong one, you're dead. Pet beasts that can wander around in the wilderness are generally very strong.

If you're unlucky, you might encounter a king-level pet beast that likes to wander and is hostile to humans as soon as you enter the wilderness.

Therefore, Li Cunxu has never dared to set foot in the wilderness.

What about asking someone to release the slimes for him?

It's a good idea, but it's too high-profile.

If you spend a lot of money to hire someone to release slimes, and your slime, Little Soft, is so strong, it's unreasonable and hard not to make people suspicious.

Rely on the slimes to rush into the wilderness themselves?

The slimes can't get through. The slimes are too weak. Any random race can act as a roadblock, and the slimes won't be able to pass.

Moreover, the wilderness's territories are occupied by various pet beast races. The slimes are too weak to compete for them. Without territory, they can only live in the corners that the pet beast races don't want. With that little space in the corners, the slimes can't reproduce.

The wilderness isn't feasible. What about the ocean?

Li Cunxu's eyes lit up as he looked at the ocean. "The ocean seems feasible. The ocean is boundless and can provide enough living space for the slimes."

But the ocean has a limitation.

Only water-attribute slimes can survive in the ocean. Other attribute slimes will suffer from severe acclimatization if they stay in the ocean for too long, and eventually weaken and die.

Li Cunxu didn't immediately release water-attribute slimes into the ocean.

First, there are mechanical sky-eye cameras watching, making it inconvenient to resurrect water slimes in a high-profile manner.

Second, there are a large number of poisonous sea urchins in this sea area. Little Soft has offended the poisonous sea urchin group. The poisonous sea urchin group doesn't dare to come ashore to cause trouble for Little Soft, but wouldn't they dare to vent their anger on water slimes that look similar to Little Soft? The poisonous sea urchins can easily shoot a poisonous spine, and the water slimes' fragile bodies would die upon contact.

Even poisonous spine slimes with water attributes would be nailed to death by poisonous spines shot from the seabed as soon as they enter the sea.

Besides quantity, there's also quality.

"Quality" refers to the strength of the slime subjects.

A bronze-level slime will definitely pay more attribute tax than a black iron-level slime.

Improving quality is also a troublesome matter.

Because slimes are too weak, their levels increase very quickly. Quick is quick, but they lack stamina. At black iron level nine, due to potential limitations, it's difficult for slimes to break through to bronze level.

"Should I have Little Yi invent a special medicine that can help slimes break through from black iron to bronze?"

Little White Spider gave Li Cunxu a roll of her eyes.

"Make me study, make me become stronger, make me mutate into a dragon slime, make me research the weapons of the mech apprentices, and now you want me to research a special medicine to help slimes advance to higher levels. I only have two clones, I can't handle it all."

Li Cunxu said, "Other things can wait. The main focus now is to improve your realm. When you break through to silver, you'll have another silver clone."

Little White Spider gave Li Cunxu another roll of her eyes.

The next morning, the red sun rose from the sea.

Li Cunxu prepared to set off towards the island.

He had really had enough of this beach. Even the gold-level nine Thunder Steed couldn't stop him.

On the beach, the only source of food was the sea urchin roe of the poisonous sea urchins.

Although sea urchin roe is delicious, Li Cunxu was about to throw up after eating it every day for more than ten days.

Moreover, seafood itself has a fishy smell. At first, you don't notice it when you eat sea urchin roe, but after getting tired of it, you feel that the fishy smell is extremely strong. Now, when Li Cunxu smells the faint fishy smell of sea urchin roe, he feels nauseous and wants to vomit.

Little White Spider deeply sympathized with Li Cunxu.

Little Soft has a good appetite and eats everything the same.

Dark Crow has a strong taste. Perhaps because it's a bird, it especially likes that fishy smell.

As soon as he entered the dense forest, the clear sky immediately changed its face, and muffled thunder rumbled in the distance.

It started to rain in a short while, and it was a torrential downpour.

And Li Cunxu only knew that the gold-level nine Thunder Steed had the ability to do this.

Even if it wasn't what it did, Li Cunxu had no other suspects.

In the forest, many stampeding cattle hid their bodies behind tree trunks, secretly sticking out their heads, curiously sizing up Li Cunxu like they were looking at an alien creature.

The scene left Li Cunxu speechless.

Li Cunxu really wanted to knock each of them on their protruding heads.

However, when he thought that they would run away before he even got close to them, he ignored them.

Stampeding cattle are timid, so their territory is relatively safe, without any danger.

"Human, don't go any further, you will die if you go any further."

An old voice sounded.

Li Cunxu was startled, and the audience watching the live broadcast was also startled.

On this deserted island, there was actually a second being who could speak human language.

Was it an island savage? Or a pet beast?

The former would be fine.

The latter would be a little scary.

Pet beasts that can speak human language are basically overlord-level.

Of course, there was another possibility: it had eaten a treasure that could refine its hyoid bone.

Li Cunxu looked around, but didn't see anyone.

"Who is speaking?"

"It is I, the old one."

A stampeding cow with a green circular mushroom on its head slowly walked out of the shadows.

"Why can't I go forward?" Li Cunxu asked.

The stampeding cow said, "Because there is a terrible demon ahead."

Demon, a term for pet beasts from the old era before the Great Cataclysm.

Li Cunxu noticed that the stampeding cow was speaking, but its mouth wasn't moving.

"You can't speak, are you communicating with me using Mind Speech?"

"Yes."

Mind Speech, a lord skill, uses the mind to communicate with other creatures. Mastering this skill is equivalent to mastering language proficiency, allowing you to converse and communicate with any living being.

"What is the name of that demon?"

"The Wise Mushroom King."