Zhong Yi took a glass cup and placed the Gardener Worm, which was just under ten centimeters long, inside it.

The Gardener Worm’s head and tail wriggled and probed constantly, its body continuously stretching and contracting inside the glass cup.

But after wiggling for quite a while, it had barely moved a few centimeters. This was because there was no soil in the cup.

Once soil was poured into the cup, a Gardener Worm secreting its worm oil could travel through nearly a hundred meters of earth in just two minutes.

Zhong Yi directly poured the Flowing Soul Soil into the glass cup.

At first, Zhong Yi had considered forming a Soul Taming Seed Contract with the Gardener Worm, but he had too many Guardian Beasts to form Contracts with at the moment.

’I have to make some choices!’

The biggest problem with this Gardener Worm was that after splitting into new individuals, it would build a massive number of nests using its Earth Shield Skill.

In Zhong Yi’s opinion, this problem wasn’t hard to solve.

Biological control methods were used scientifically in Zhong Yi’s previous life, and in the Guardian Beast World, they could produce even more astonishing results.

All he had to do was place a Guardian Beast like the Earth Castle Dung Beetle into the Gardener Worm’s enclosure to effectively limit its nest-building.

The Earth Castle Dung Beetle is the evolved form of the Burrowing Dung Beetle. The key was to control the populations, maintaining a 1:1 ratio of Earth Castle Dung Beetles to Gardener Worms.

The earthen shells formed by the Gardener Worm’s Earth Shield Skill would be rolled away by the Earth Castle Dung Beetle’s powerful hind legs the moment they solidified, just like a dung ball.

The Gardener Worm’s intelligence was low, but not nonexistent.

And after its Evolution into a Florist Worm, its intelligence would even increase.

At first, when the Florist Worm’s nests were rolled away by the Earth Castle Dung Beetle, it would definitely try to build more.

But after a while, it would discover that no matter how many nests it built, they would always be plundered.

Moreover, when the Earth Castle Dung Beetle rolled the nests away, it would leave its own scent in the soil.

At the same time, it would kick apart the soil the Florist Worm had worked so hard to cultivate, mixing it with uncultivated soil.

Faced with this situation, the Florist Worm would choose to move and gradually give up on building nests.

This was the process of using one creature to domesticate another.

The Earth Castle Dung Beetle rolled away the Gardener Worm’s or Florist Worm’s nests in order to build its own.

The Earth Castle Dung Beetle was essentially a transporter. As long as he promptly cleared away the small, castle-like nests it built...

...the Earth Castle Dung Beetle would endlessly repeat its nest-building actions in order to reproduce.

By now, Zhong Yi had already dripped nearly twenty milliliters of Flowing Soul Soil into the container through the filaments of the Soul-Controlling Flower.

After absorbing the Flowing Soul Soil, however, the Gardener Worm showed no sign of its Bloodline undergoing Evolution.

So, Zhong Yi had the Soul-Controlling Flower drip more Flowing Soul Soil into the container, continuing until nearly eighty milliliters had been added.

Only then did the grayish-brown Gardener Worm stop absorbing the Flowing Soul Soil.

The Gardener Worm’s body seemed to be deconstructing and restructuring from within, and it spat out a large amount of disgusting, grayish-green tissue fluid.

The color of the Gardener Worm’s body slowly lightened, eventually turning a milky, jade-like green.

Clearly, the Gardener Worm had now transformed into a Florist Worm.

Other than the change in color, its body length and size hadn’t changed noticeably.

Just as Zhong Yi thought the Evolution was complete, he suddenly noticed two external organs sprouting from the middle of the Florist Worm’s body.

These external organs grew continuously, quickly swelling to the size of Zhong Yi’s thumbnail.

Two round, air-sac-like objects grew on either side of the Florist Worm’s body. The more he looked, the more they resembled certain appendages found only on male animals.

Zhong Yi used All Things Exploration to inspect the Gardener Worm after its Bloodline transformation.

[Guardian Beast Name]: Florist Worm

[Guardian Beast Species]: True Earthworm Species / True Earthworm Species

[Guardian Beast Level]: Extraordinary Level (3/10)

[Guardian Beast Type]: Earth Element

[Guardian Beast Quality]: Silver Quality

Skills:

[Earthworm Oil Line]: Over-secretes worm oil while crawling to accelerate its movement speed through soil.

[Earth Shield]: Condenses the Earth Element in the soil into an Earth Shield that can cover its body. The shield can block external attacks and also facilitates nest building. The nests have the effect of accelerating seed germination.

Exclusive Traits:

[Accelerated Split Body]: After absorbing enough Energy and growing to a sufficient length, it accelerates its body’s splitting speed and reduces the Energy loss after splitting.

[Extracorporeal Gastric Pouches]: Forms two external gastric pouches in the clitellum region of the worm’s body. The pouches are connected one-way to the stomach, greatly increasing its soil digestion speed. With sufficient nutrients, the pouches will store self-secreted Digestive Fluid. (The pouches can be regrown if damaged or destroyed.)

After one look, Zhong Yi knew that these two external organs were specialized structures that had grown on the Florist Worm’s body—the Exclusive Trait, Extracorporeal Gastric Pouches, which it had gained upon reaching Silver Quality.

These two external gastric pouches were connected one-way to the stomach and could increase the Florist Worm’s soil digestion speed.

With sufficient nutrients, these two external gastric pouches would store Digestive Fluid.

The Florist Worm relied on its self-secreted Digestive Fluid to cultivate soil.

According to the data from All Things Exploration, the gastric pouches on the Florist Worm’s body could be regrown after being destroyed.

A look of delighted surprise couldn’t help but spread across Zhong Yi’s face!