If he wanted to risk changing Red Thorn's evolution path to evolving its ortet, then its evolution potential would have been wasted. Naturally, he would not do that.
The second evolution path that Red Thorn had transmitted was maintaining its ortet's and child ramets' co-evolution.
While enhancing the ortet's attack ability, it would also enhance the sea of flowers' combat ability. This evolution path was also the one Lin Yuan had been letting Red Thorn choose so far.
This evolution method maintained part of Red Thorn's ortet's combat ability while enhancing the spawned sea of flowers spawned.
However, Lin Yuan hesitated when he saw Red Thorn's third evolution request. It was what he had been thinking about in the past few days.
