Its expression was anxious too. Don't! Once it grew to totem-tier, it could defeat that thing itself!

"Senior Ji, where is the item that seals the ruins? Give it to me. I will take you out of here first. Pay no mind to this fellow."

Ji Li smiled and said, "It's all right."

With that, she moved to teleport Shi Jin and Eleven away—and toward a woman who would not listen to reason, Shi Cen felt thoroughly stifled.

Just as the teleportation ripple was about to envelop Shi Jin, he suddenly shouted, "Wait!"

Using the ruins ring, he entered a phase state to block the teleportation, and said at the same time:

"Senior Ji, this legendary ruins should be able to withstand power enough to slay a totem, shouldn't it?"

"The space of a legendary ruin—so far as I know, unless it is self-detonated, only demigod-tier power can damage it."

"You said it yourself: the Meteor Clan general cannot destroy the ruins. It can only deal with you, break free, and leave."

"Then as long as I am inside the ruins and slay this Meteor Clan general, there will be no problem, right?"

Shi Jin's baffling words left Ji Li stunned.

[Yip! (Leave it to me.)] In Shi Yan Eleven's mind echoed the voice of Baby Ginseng. [Yip. (A totem, nothing more.)] [Yip! (With the power of the Sunflare Flower, I can self-detonate and unleash might comparable to a forbidden weapon. The power of the sunflare can instantly purify these radiation curses. At the same time, I can also use this chance to attempt evolution. Even if it fails, it won't be entirely worthless—at the very least, I can trade myself for a Meteor Clan totem. Afterward, I can be revived again in the beast-taming space.)] According to its calculations with Lin, there was no problem.

Baby Ginseng's voice came, first stunning Shi Yan Eleven, and then filling it with wild joy.

Baby Ginseng!

It had nearly forgotten—there was still Baby Ginseng.

After using the Time-Brewed Fruit, the Overlord-tier Ginseng Baby could self-destruct, its energy value instantly breaking a hundred million. And if you added the power of the Sunflare Flower, it would utterly counter this curse-radiation power.

Against a single weakened totem, perhaps it was worth a try...

Sure enough—in a desperate strait like this, they still had to rely on Ginseng Baby.

At this moment, Shi Jin felt utterly helpless. "Senior Ji, could you trust me just this once? Leave this totem to me to kill."

"What madness are you spouting?" Ji Li stared at this old beast-taming level-six man in complete bewilderment.

A level-six beast tamer, declaring he would deal with a Fallen-Race totem?

She had no time left to argue with Shi Yun and Shi Jin. But just then, Shi Jin summoned another pet beast.

A Ginseng Baby less than half a meter tall.

At the sight of this Ginseng Baby, Ji Li was utterly dumbstruck, unable to fathom what Shi Jin was playing at.

At the same time, this Ginseng Baby was holding a resource that left Ji Li completely baffled!!!

That was...

A resource imbued with solar energy—at the very least, legendary-tier!!!

"Trust me!" said Shi Li.

And please trust Ginseng Baby too.

"Eee!!!"

After thinking it over for a long while, Ginseng Baby still decided to go all in. Right now, Eleven, Buggy, and Crimson Eye were all already stronger than it. If Susu and Rin overtook it too, then once everyone reached Overlord-tier, Ginseng Baby could already foresee that it would inevitably rank dead last in the team tournament!!

That would not do!

Evolve early!

If it failed now, there would still be more Time-Brewed Fruits to condense Time Marks with, and it would have traded for a totem—battle rewards plus one. If it dawdled and tried again much later only to fail, it would drag on even longer—and a failure then would be worthless!

Decisiveness!

Besides, it would not necessarily fail.

Holding the Sunflare Flower, Ginseng Baby turned its gaze toward Eleven.

Its eyes were firm, as if to say: leave the Iron-Eating Beast clan's great enemy to me!

Do not underestimate the team's number three!!

This mutation would be different from the last one—it should be extremely painful. Whether it could withstand the Sunflare Flower's mutating power was the key to whether Ginseng Baby could succeed.

It had endured the mental shock of maxing out a super-tier skill before; this time it would surely manage as well!

And besides, since this time there was a reason it absolutely had to succeed, Ginseng Baby felt there was no problem.

It was the first pet beast in the team to slay an Overlord, and it would also be the first pet beast in the team to slay a totem!!

It—was the team's number one!

"Ying-ying!!" Eleven was stunned.

"Eee!!"

Ginseng Baby turned its head.

Drew a deep breath.

And right before Ji Li's shocked eyes, stuffed the Sunflare Flower madly into its mouth in one go.

A Ginseng Baby had eaten a resource imbued with legendary solar power...!!!

BZZZT!!

At this moment.

The legendary-tier resource, the Sunflare Flower, inside Ginseng Baby's body burst forth with blazing radiance.

Right after, Ginseng Baby began absorbing the Sunflare Flower's power through its mutant body. Firelight suddenly erupted across Ginseng Baby's body as well.

Its tender white skin was instantly flushed red as if roasted.

A tantalizing, scorching fragrance wafted out.

This time, Ginseng Baby absorbed the Sunflare Flower's power to the absolute maximum, holding the mindset of succeed or die—no longer cowering and hesitating as before!!

At the same time, it activated the power of the Time-Brewed Fruit, driving itself into peak condition!!!

What manifested was this: its body grew redder and redder, its expression more and more rigid—and then, with a "BOOM," Ginseng Baby's entire body was enveloped in Sunflare flames.

Towering flames swallowed Ginseng Baby whole, leaving Ji Li's mouth hanging open.

Ginseng Baby, it's burning up!!

But the key thing is, Ginseng Baby is a wood-element pet beast—it really shouldn't be burning.

What's more, sensing the Ginseng Baby's ever-rising aura, Ji Li grew more and more astonished!!

Overlord-tier!!!

No, its aura was still climbing beyond top-tier Overlord!!!

"It's all right."

Shi Jin spoke gravely.

Although Ginseng Baby was burning, the mutant was still holding on stubbornly, and the flames had not yet dealt a fatal blow to Ginseng Baby.

"Eee..." Amid the blazing aura, Ginseng Baby squeezed its eyes shut, its expression one of agony.

Eleven had already endured tremendous pain when it tempered its body through the Hundred-Forged Steel skill and the Yang Flame.

And now, having its body remade through the mutant and the legendary-tier Yang Flame power, Ginseng Baby's pain was even greater than Eleven's.

But this was only the initial stage!

At this rate, even if it succeeded, it would amount to a gamble—no one could predict the direction of the mutation.

So next, Ginseng Baby had to consciously steer the direction of its mutation.

Of course, the price of doing so was a higher risk of failure. If the mutation failed now, it might not die—but if it made that attempt,

a failed mutation would leave only one road: death.

But this time, it had never intended to live!

"Eee—!!"

At Ginseng Baby's great cry, the flames on its body blazed ever more fiercely.

At this moment, Ginseng Baby's body began to give off red-green energy; copious sap burst from its body, and then the flames upon it, as if undergoing a qualitative transformation, in an instant evaporated all the sweat it had shed!

It had already begun using the mutant to control the Yang Flame power, burning its own life energy during the mutation process.

Hoping by this means to unleash an even greater evolutionary potential!

BOOM!!!!

In but an instant, though the mutation had not yet succeeded, Ginseng Baby could already feel the immense potential won by burning its life energy—and at the same time,

the searing pain pushed Ginseng Baby's consciousness to the verge of fainting!