My beast can't be a demon.

The selection contest started later than Zhou Lu expected.

The main reason was that after the Xian Kingdom incident, the authorities noticed many problems within the organization, and they needed time to identify sufficiently loyal beastmasters. If a person who sympathized with the immortals was finally selected to become the beastmaster of Qiu Dao Mu, it would be a real joke.

Fortunately, since the top leaders of Xian Kingdom and Yangui had all been beheaded, the immortal resurrection group was quickly eliminated by the official beastmaster team who were searching for them with all their might.

They did not miss any details, and even dug deep into the ground to dig out all the dead immortals of Shengling Sect.

Qi Lin lied.

He did not eat his former companions, but buried them after killing them.

With the complete destruction of the immortal resurrection group, the selection contest for Qiu Dao Mu beastmasters was finally put on the schedule.

During the period of waiting for the start of the competition, Hua Huo had a lot of fun in the Rongjunyuan.

Many of the beasts here have entered their old age, because their beast masters have long passed away, and their own end is approaching, so it is inevitable that their temperaments are unstable.

But Hua Huo always has a kind of magic, as if a junior, he can bring all kinds of joy to these beasts, and he has gradually become the group pet of the Rongjunyuan.

This directly made Hua Huo the little bully in the Rongjunyuan, no matter what pranks he did, he could be easily forgiven.

Fortunately, Hua Huo is no longer naughty... Well, at least not as naughty as at the beginning.

Although it is still playful, it can often grasp the degree and will not do the kind of annoying things.

It was also during this period that Hua Huo's cleaning range was no longer limited to Zhou Lu's temporary room, but included the entire Rongjunyuan.

It took care of all the cleaning work for the beasts' residences, which made Ye Qingyu very moved.

Because the moods of the old beasts are unstable, the cleaning specialists are often frightened to varying degrees. Now that everything is done by Hua Huo, it has reduced the work pressure of the nursing team.

Hua Huo is not trying to please. It's just that in its mind, this is something that should be done when the relationship is good, not to mention that it really likes cleaning.

As a plant beast, Hua Huo's cleaning work directly makes the entire Invalids House look brand new.

It also planted various ornamental plants in various places in the Invalids House with great interest. These plants are all ramets of Hua Huo that are camouflaged by mimicry, so there is no need to worry about the problem of care.

After such an operation, the Invalids House, which had already shown a little bit of a gloomy atmosphere, suddenly became full of vitality.

It's not that the nursing team had never thought of doing this before, but they exhausted their minds and even invited professional landscape designers, and the effect they achieved was not as good as Hua Huo.

When Zhou Lu got up, Hua Huo had already gone out.

Breakfast had been prepared long ago, and it was all Zhou Lu's favorite food.

Xiaocaocao seemed to feel that he had neglected his master during this period of time, and even left cute words on each dish.

Hua Huo's transformation of the Invalids has come to an end.

After all, it is a pet with an owner, and it is time to devote itself to its own work. Today, Hua Huo plans to give a perfect ending to his work during this period.

Zhou Lu had just finished breakfast when he saw Qiu Daomu walk in.

Seeing Qiu Daomu, Zhou Lu guessed something: "Is the selection competition about to start?"

Qiu Daomu nodded and said, "The day after tomorrow."

"Ah... time flies so fast."

"Yes, a thousand years have passed just like this." Qiu Daomu sat opposite Zhou Lu and sighed.

"Well, that's not that fast."

"For a spirit beast, especially a divine beast, it's already very fast." Qiu Daomu said, looking at Zhou Lu, "To be honest, I'm still quite envious of Hua Huo."

Zhou Lu thought of Hua Huo who was busy outside: "I don't know how long I can accompany Hua Huo."

"As long as you are willing, it should be a long, long time." Qiu Daomu looked at Zhou Lu deeply.

Zhou Lu was stunned.

"It seems that you don't know what's going on with you?" Qiu Daomu smiled, "Really, you have something that others want, but you don't know it at all."

"What?"

"Have you not discovered it yet?" Qiu Daomu said seriously, "Lifespan is directly related to attributes. Creatures that can achieve immortality basically have the ability to grow their attributes infinitely, such as immortals, Jiunan Zhulong, and Mengyuhua."

Speaking of this, Qiu Daomu looked at Zhou Lu and said, "And you, your current attributes seem to have far exceeded the scope of what humans should have. And every time I see you, your attributes are growing."

"Uh... I can explain it."

"I have guessed how you did it." Qiu Daomu drank a sip of soy milk calmly.

Although it was not the first time that Zhou Lu saw a plant spirit beast drinking soy milk, he still felt it was quite amazing.

Zhou Lu's attribute growth was a special case.

To achieve such a significant attribute growth, basically any condition is indispensable.

A Beastmaster must learn skills such as [Repay Feedback] that allow his spirit pet to repay his attributes to him, and the attributes of the corresponding spirit pet must be high enough so that the attributes of the Beastmaster can be significantly increased after the repayment.

In addition, Jiunan Zhulong's [Dragon Talisman] skill is needed to fix the increased attributes.

[Dragon Talisman] skill can convert the attributes of teammates that are amplified by the skill into permanent attributes of teammates in proportion.

As Benben enters the fourth level, the attributes fixed by the [Dragon Talisman] skill have reached 100% of the amplified attributes, and the daily limit has also reached a considerable number.

This is why during this period, in addition to the branches of the automatic capture attributes that were spread out, Huahuo can have an incomprehensible attribute growth every day.

Zhou Lu is the same.

In order not to become a burden to Huahuo, Zhou Lu has never stopped the behavior of pulling attributes through [Returning Feeding].

After several months of accumulation, Zhou Lu now actually has the combat power of a second-level spirit beast.

It is no exaggeration to say that when Huahuo is restraining the opponent's spirit pet, Zhou Lu is completely capable of directly killing the opponent's beastmaster.

Of course, for the battle that Huahuo will face next, Zhou Lu's combat power will not play any role at all.

However, the other benefits brought by the attribute growth also benefited Zhou Lu a lot.

Not to mention his extended lifespan, his physique has also improved by leaps and bounds, and he can even withstand Hua Huo's coquetry.

Yes.

As Hua Huo's strength increases, the destructive power brought by her coquetry has also exploded exponentially. If Zhou Lu's physique had not improved by leaps and bounds, Hua Huo would probably have to hold back if she wanted to coquettishly.

"There are only eight people participating in the selection competition this time, including you." Qiu Daomu said to Zhou Lu.

Zhou Lu was a little surprised: "So few?"

Hearing Zhou Lu's words, Qiu Daomu showed a helpless expression: "Few? These are the fifth-level beastmasters who can cultivate their initial spirit pets to the level of true gods after screening and eliminating beastmasters over 40 years old. You actually think it's not enough?"

"Sure enough, you humans just don't know how to be satisfied. You don't know what this means at all."

Hearing Qiu Daomu's complaints, Zhou Lu was also a little embarrassed.

There is no way. From his perspective, becoming a fifth-level beastmaster doesn't seem to be a difficult thing.

You see, he can become a fifth-level beastmaster within a year. Even if others can't match his speed, four or five years is always possible.

However, after being reminded by Qiu Daomu, Zhou Lu also reacted.

These eight beast masters, including himself, are definitely the essence of the entire human race, and they represent the future of mankind.

It is only now that humans have no clear external enemies that the talented beast masters with strong strength can only show their abilities in the beast competition. Otherwise, these beast masters would have become heroes long ago.

The competition system of the selection competition is actually very simple, draw lots and then fight.

However, winning the battle is only part of the assessment.

There is no rule that Qiu Daomu must choose the final winner to become his new beast master.

The process of fighting is also a process for beast masters to show their own style.

If Qiu Daomu takes a fancy to one of the beast masters, even if the other party loses in the battle, he can still become the beast master selected by Qiu Daomu.

It can even choose no one and start the next selection competition.

The human high-level officials do not intend to force Qiu Daomu to choose his own beast master.

This is not only because Qiu Dao Mu is very important to the human beast control system, but also because Qiu Dao Mu is the hero who created the beast control era.

Blaming and forcing heroes is something that humans in any era cannot accept, which is enough to shake people's views on the official.

Of course, Qiu Dao Mu has never chosen a beast control master. In the past few selection competitions, it basically chose the final winner.

With Lu Shan as a role model, Qiu Dao Mu never felt that other beast control masters had any special charm that was worth choosing directly.

Since everyone is the same to Qiu Dao Mu, of course, the strongest one should be chosen.

"Random draw?" Zhou Lu thought, "If you draw someone with restrained attributes, wouldn't it be unlucky?"

"Luck is also one of the contents of the test." Qiu Dao Mu said with a smile, "After all, if your luck is too bad, who knows when you will die."

Well...

Zhou Lu was speechless for a moment.

"Master~! I'm back~!" At this moment, the voice of fireworks came from outside the door.

Looking up, I saw Hua Huo coming in with a lot of bags on his head.

Zhou Lu was stunned for a moment when he saw the package Hua Huo was holding.

Because there were so many things in the package, many things inside were exposed.

Feathers, scales, horns...

Judging from the smell of these items, they are definitely rare.

"What are these?" Zhou Lu said with a little surprise.

"The garbage I cleaned up." Hua Huo said as a matter of course, "The seniors just let me take it away."

Garbage...

If these are all garbage, there will be no valuable and precious things in the world.

"Is there no room in your bag?" Zhou Lu asked curiously.

Hua Huo's bag is actually Yueshan Ding.

After evolving to the fourth stage, Hua Huo transformed it into a handbag style.

Hua Huo said a little embarrassedly: "It is full of gifts given to me by the seniors."

At this point, Hua Huo also emphasized: "I have refused! But they must be given to me."

"The Yueshan Ding has a large storage capacity..."

"The seniors gave me a lot of things." Hua Huo blinked and said, "Some seniors said this is some kind of legacy..."

Zhou Lu's eyes twitched slightly.

Hua Huo was just helping the beasts clean and tidy up the room, and chatting with them, how could she get the legacy they prepared?

Compared to the gifts given by the beasts, these things that fell off the beasts naturally became garbage.

Hua Huo naturally knew the value of these "garbage", so she didn't refuse and packed them all back.

"If it couldn't fit, I went to Qingteng Jiao to peel off a layer of skin." Hua Huo said casually, and said a terrifying word.

When Zhou Lu heard Hua Huo's words, he almost instantly showed a horrified expression.

Qiu Dao Mu explained to Hua Huo helplessly: "The Qingteng Jiao originally has to shed its skin every once in a while, and it has indeed reached the time to shed its skin recently, so I asked it to come and help Hua Huo train."

Zhou Lu glared at Hua Huo speechlessly: "Don't use such terrible words to describe such things."

Hua Huo scratched his head a little embarrassedly.

"So, how should these materials be dealt with?" Hua Huo pointed at the materials wrapped in the Qingteng Jiao skin and asked.

Hua Huo certainly can't give away the gifts given to it by the predecessors of the divine beasts, but these are "garbage" certified by the predecessors, which means that Hua Huo can deal with them at will.

Zhou Lu thought about it and said: "Take out a part to donate to Xin'an College and Xinyue College, and then let the seniors come to see if there are any interested ones who need to be picked up. Let Sister Qingyu help us sell the rest, through official channels."

Zhou Lu doesn't have a strong demand for materials now.

Benben's evolution does not require any materials.

As a small spiritual cloud, Yueya needs materials for the fifth-level evolution, but these materials have been prepared long ago, and Zhou Lu doesn't need to help at all.

In this case, there is nothing to do with these materials.

Zhou Lu selected some parts that are good in appearance and can be used as decorations, and divided the rest according to his instructions.

When Ye Qingyu came over and saw the materials on the ground, her eyes almost popped out.

"What the hell is this?"

"The garbage swept out of the dormitory of the divine beasts, the result of Hua Huo helping the divine beasts clean the room these days." Zhou Lu looked at Ye Qingyu in confusion, "Didn't the nursing team have such a harvest when they cleaned before?"

Ye Qingyu said speechlessly: "I have seen it, but the divine beasts never allow us to take these things away. Only when we really need these materials can we ask Miss Daomu for help."

As she said, Ye Qingyu looked at Hua Huo, who had changed into a housemaid outfit, and said: "It seems that this guy is really popular with the divine beasts."