After quickly finishing dinner, Lin Chuan tidied up briefly, took a shower, and then began writing the proposal for the Hua Ye Ye Cup.
It wasn't difficult. For Lin Chuan, who had inherited Expert Grade planning skills from his previous life, writing a competent proposal was simple, not to mention excellent or perfect.
However, Lin Chuan wasn't planning to just casually deal with it.
The success or failure of the Hua Ye Ye Cup was directly related to how much money he could earn and how much he would have for Guoguo and Sakura's cultivation.
This concerned the entrance examination three months later; if it went smoothly, his chances of getting into one of the Eight Great Academies would greatly increase.
During this period, various cities across the Star Rock Federation would host large and small rookie Beast Master competitions, and sometimes even several such competitions would be held simultaneously in the same city.
Scarcity makes things valuable; conversely, the more abundant something is, the less it is valued.
The same principle applied to the Baby Cup; a Baby Cup organized by a large company or factory naturally didn't have to worry about a lack of viewers, and they could make a fortune just from ticket sales.
However, the Hua Ye Ye Cup, which Lin's Farm applied to host, could only be considered a small-scale rookie Beast Master competition.
Such small Baby Cups usually didn't receive much attention, and often, not many powerful rookie Beast Masters would participate.
After all, the prize money was relatively small; unless one won the championship, the earnings for second or third place weren't much more than completing rookie tasks. With limited time over three months, capable, ambitious, and confident rookie Beast Masters would naturally choose to participate in larger Baby Cups with more prize money, where even reaching the top 16 could yield a significant amount.
Typically, only rookie Beast Masters who lived nearby and happened to be completing rookie tasks would participate in small Baby Cups as a convenient side activity.
Therefore, what Lin Chuan had to do now was to refine the proposal as much as possible, attract as many spectators and participants as possible to the Hua Ye Ye Cup, and if he could create a trending topic to draw in reporters and streamers, that would be even better.
Only then could he earn more gold coins.
So, how should he do it? Lin Chuan pondered.
In a flash, Lin Chuan's eyes lit up, and a smile appeared on his face as he had an idea.
In fact, it didn't require overly complex operations; it couldn't compare to a large Baby Cup, but it only needed to be more appealing than other small Baby Cups. After all, large Baby Cups weren't held all the time, and their competitions often lasted a week or even longer. All that was needed was a small point of interest to generate a topic and capture attention!
Speaking of which, although technology is very advanced in this world of Azure Star, entertainment is quite lacking compared to Blue Star.
If this weren't a Beast Master civilization, a world where individual power could reach the heavens, and Beast Masters were the truly promising profession, Lin Chuan would have really wanted to be a literary plagiarist and bring over some good things from his previous life, at least enough to become an entertainment king.
Unfortunately, an entertainment king is useless in this world; even if you can sing, dance, and rap, it's useless. It's not worth a single leg hair of a Professional Beastmaster. Spending that time as a plagiarist is far less effective than honestly cultivating spirit beasts. Once you become a Professional Beastmaster, you will have everything. Only those who cannot become Professional Beastmasters consider other jobs.
I'm getting sidetracked, back to the main topic.
Regarding the idea Lin Chuan just had, to be precise, it wasn't Lin Chuan's idea.
Instead, it originated from certain classic online trending topics from the memory fragments of his previous life. They weren't necessarily good things, but they were quirky enough to attract attention and would surely draw in many curious spectators and participants.
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July 10, 2233, Star Rock Federation Calendar.
There were still 3 days left until the official start of the Hua Ye Ye Cup.
Federal Government and Beastmaster Association staff had already visited Lin's Farm, demarcated areas, and set up a competition venue.
Lin's Farm, as the host, was responsible for other matters.
For example, preparing the spectator area, setting up small stalls for snacks, drinks, and jellies, and small shops selling the farm's specialty products.
However, the most important thing was to attract spectators and participants, especially talented rookie Beast Masters, as they could draw in more high-quality spectators, and even reporters and streamers.
For instance, if a well-known talented Beast Master from a certain academy or class were to participate in this competition, it would inevitably lead some of their classmates to also participate or watch, and even their teachers would come to see the competition, possibly even attracting reporters and streamers. Wouldn't that boost consumption?
Of course, while handling these responsibilities, Lin Chuan also did not forget to cultivate and specially train Guoguo and Sakura.
Sakura finally reached Level 1 four days ago, currently at Level 12, and likewise provided Lin Chuan with a wave of energy feedback, raising Lin Chuan's Beast Master level to Level 4. His physical fitness had been strengthened, and he could clearly feel the difference from when he first started, especially his self-healing and recovery abilities. Not only physical self-healing, but mental recovery ability had also been enhanced. Previously, inheriting a basic skill like Photosynthesis would nearly take half of Lin Chuan's life, requiring half an hour of rest. Now, he only needed 10 minutes of rest to be ready for battle again.
Guoguo, on the other hand, reached Level 14, a pace that Sakura was almost catching up to.
This wasn't because Guoguo wasn't working hard, but because it had already passed its rapid Growth period and its foundation was solid. Moreover, just like leveling up in an online game, it becomes more difficult the higher you go. Further progress requires more time for cultivation and training, more and higher-level resources, and of course, the tempering of battle.
And then there are the skills...
It's not that only the Beastmaster Association has Beast Master shops selling various spirit beast materials; it's just that the shops in the Beastmaster Association's commercial district are more formal and have a richer supply. Aside from that, Beast Master shops are actually everywhere; you can find two on any street, and low-level spirit beast materials are even more ubiquitous.
Over the past few days, Lin Chuan visited dozens of Beast Master shops and bought many spirit beast materials that could trigger the Reincarnation of Inheritance's sensing ability and had skill inheritances.
Most of these were skills that Flower Leaf Leaf could use. Among them, there were even two materials that Lin Chuan didn't have in his original plan and hadn't intended for Flower Leaf Leaf to learn, but they possessed extremely rare skills. Lin Chuan was lucky enough to encounter them, and fearing he might miss out, he bought them as well.
These two skills were Shaking Punch and Confusing Words.
The former, Shaking Punch, is a light-attribute skill. Its effect is to deal physical damage while confusing the enemy. Simply put, it's like a little fist punching your head!
The latter, Confusing Words, is a demonic-attribute skill. Generally, only fox-type spirit beasts and certain other special spirit beasts can learn it. Its effect is to stir the opponent's emotions through speech, producing various emotions—joy, anger, sorrow, happiness—depending on the content of the words, thereby dismantling the opponent's reason and defensive capabilities.
Thus, Lin Chuan's skill material library was enriched. However, you eat one bite at a time, and you walk one step at a time.
Lin Chuan wouldn't immediately use whatever good he found; instead, he followed his original cultivation plan, taking one step at a time.
Besides Photosynthesis, Flower Leaf Leaf also had two other innate basic skills: Rooting and Growth.
Rooting's effect is to restore stamina and slightly strengthen defense.
Growth's effect is a small-scale overall strengthening of abilities, including attack, defense, agility, and all others.
Currently, Lin Chuan is primarily investing in these innate basic skills of Flower Leaf Leaf for Guoguo and Sakura.
Both Guoguo and Sakura's Photosynthesis have been leveled up to Expert Grade.
As for why they weren't leveled up to Master Grade, it's not that Lin Chuan didn't want to, but rather that Guoguo and Sakura themselves couldn't reach Master Grade; their mid-tier soldier-grade bloodline quality limited their upper limit.
However, Expert Grade Photosynthesis was sufficient.
For Rooting and Growth, due to insufficient skill materials, Guoguo's Rooting was only at the Proficient Grade, and Growth was only at the Skilled Grade. Sakura, on the other hand, had Skilled Grade Rooting and Proficient Grade Growth.
However, combined with Expert Grade Photosynthesis, it's likely that few rookie Beast Masters' spirit beasts would be able to harm Guoguo and Sakura. Even those from the Ten Families would probably exclaim, "They're truly effing tanks!"
Hmm, Guoguo and Sakura aren't truly tough yet, as they haven't learned any defensive skills. Their defense and durability aren't high, and they can be easily broken through. However, their health bars, under continuous enhancement from nutrient soil, nutrient water, and the three major innate basic skills, have grown incredibly long and thick, with terrifying self-healing and recovery abilities.
Finally, there are the actual offensive and attrition methods.
So far, Sakura has learned an entry-level Poison Powder through inheritance, as well as an entry-level Confusing Words. Yes! Lin Chuan never expected that Sakura could actually learn it, that it was even qualified to learn! As for Guoguo, not only could it not learn it, it didn't even have the qualification to learn it, unable to even activate the Reincarnation of Inheritance's ability.
So, has Sakura's talent gone awry in some strange way?
Guoguo still has zero offensive skills. It's not that there are no skill materials, but they don't match its attributes. It's not qualified to learn Confusing Words, and other skills it might learn would probably be abandoned later. There's no need for it to learn skills for attack coverage like other Beast Masters' spirit beasts. Anyway, it's going for extreme survival, tank, and attrition. As long as it can deal damage, even if it's just a scratch, it's fine. So Lin Chuan thought about it and decided to wait until he levels up to 5, then he'll have enough mental power to inherit Fruit Bomb to Guoguo, which matches its attributes and energy talent. It shouldn't be long now, and then it'll be a one-step solution.
However, Lin Chuan did inherit a lot of combat experience to Guoguo, derived from a piece of hard keratinized skin. It was probably material from a certain combat-attribute spirit beast. There was no skill inheritance, but it could still trigger Lin Chuan's Reincarnation talent. The memory fragments within it were countless combat training sessions in martial arts halls and training grounds. Although most of them were memories of being beaten like a sandbag, proving the owner of this material's poor aptitude and talent.
These combat techniques might not work against spirit beasts cultivated by Beast Masters for one or two years, but they are perfectly fine for fighting babies cultivated for about a week!
Well, the above pretty much summarizes all of Lin Chuan's cultivation content over the past week.
In short, under the dual-talent cheat, Guoguo and Sakura have both completed their initial construction and are now qualified to compete against any other baby.
Well, it should be said they can crush them. Perhaps only the spirit beasts of those from Beast Master families could possibly defeat Guoguo and Sakura. Ordinary families' babies would probably feel nauseous just seeing Guoguo and Sakura.
That concludes the topic of cultivation. Next is the pre-competition warm-up for the Baby Cup. Normal promotions have been ongoing; Lin Xuédòng and the farm staff have been distributing flyers in streets and alleys these past few days, while Lin Chuan has been producing promotional videos. He's planning some unconventional operations, things that don't exist in this world.
It was on this very day, with 3 days left until the Hua Ye Ye Cup officially started and 6 hours left until the final registration deadline.
A promotional video about Lin's Farm's Hua Ye Ye Cup rookie Beast Master competition was uploaded to the promotional website of the Beastmaster Association's Tianshang Town branch.
Initially, it showed beautiful pastoral scenery, which was quite nice.
Then, it showed Flower Leaf Leaf doing morning exercises in the dawn light, neatly lined up like elementary school students. The chirping sounds and clumsy movements were incredibly cute, attracting countless girls' attention, and even some sigma males were melted by their cuteness.
After that, it showed the farm's unique competition venue. Although not as formal and exquisite as a large Baby Cup, it had a different kind of charm.
It was at this moment that the video's perspective suddenly shifted! From a distance to close-up, it arrived at the center of the competition venue, where a young man stood, wearing black overalls, with a middle part hairstyle, holding a basketball.
Beside the young man, on his left and right, were two Flower Leaf Leaf wearing sunglasses, looking very arrogant.
The young man held the basketball, spinning it on his fingertip.
The next moment, he moved.
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"I am Lin Chuan, a rookie Beast Master with two and a half years of training experience, skilled in singing, dancing, and rap. I am here, waiting for your challenge!"
Guoguo: Yi yi! (If you're brothers, come cut me down!)
Sakura (Confusing Words): Ying ying ying! (If you don't come, you're a weakling!)