"Blood pool, dog... shit..."
The woman glared at Fang Yuan, turned around, and walked off. What the hell?
Fang Yuan smiled and ignored her. That woman had a temper, and he wasn't in the mood to deal with an irritable woman.
The sky quickly darkened.
Fang Yuan closed the door and directly activated the spatial interface, allowing the spatial force to cover the shop. He then used the powers of the Spatial Deity to set up the shop in the style of a pet store.
This pet store was set up by Fang Yuan to be both luxurious and simple. There were only ten shelves, each one cubic meter, made of metal mesh with an insulating layer.
This pet store was just a surface-level shop on Earth. In the future, he might spend a lot of time here, selling pets as a leisurely business.
After completing these tasks, Fang Yuan entered the steel ball space once again.
The Spatial Deity Mountain stood majestically, with white clouds swirling around. A floating island halfway up the mountain radiated a glow.
Below the mountain's waist, towering trees stood in rows, covering an area of thousands of miles in primeval forest.
It had been over 5,000 years since the last expansion of the spatial interface, and since then, people had reached the center of the continent where the Spatial Deity Mountain was located. The trees here had never been chopped down.
Additionally, since the area was close to the Spatial Deity Mountain, the spiritual energy was dense.
As a result, there were countless dangerous beasts, venomous insects, and various spiritual flowers and herbs scattered everywhere, alongside spiritual fruits and poisonous plants.
Without making a sound, Fang Yuan appeared under a fruit tree. This tree was entirely red, with red bark and leaves.
On the three- to four-meter-high tree, there were only three fist-sized fruits. The fruits emitted a red aura, and the spiritual energy was amazing.
Under the tree, a lizard-like beast seemed to completely ignore Fang Yuan's presence and continued to sleep soundly on the ground, occasionally opening its eyes to warily scan its surroundings and chase away any creatures that came too close.
Fang Yuan casually plucked a fruit and disappeared in a flash, returning to the Spatial Deity Mountain.
After researching, Fang Yuan discovered that this fruit was a supernatural one related to blood. It could be called a poison fruit or a divine fruit.
After consuming this fruit, the blood of the creature would mutate, and future generations would inherit this altered bloodline.
Fang Yuan took this fruit to study genetic issues. The magical beasts he wanted to study required genetic manipulation.
Magical beasts were naturally able to use magic. Fang Yuan could ensure that the first generation of magical beasts could use magic, but he couldn't guarantee that future generations would retain the ability.
This fruit was exactly what he needed to solve the problem.
Returning to the Spatial Deity Temple, Fang Yuan waved his hand, and glass containers appeared out of thin air, neatly arranged in the spacious temple.
Then, Fang Yuan focused, using his powers to capture various animals from all over the steel ball space.
There were rabbits, ants, hornets, tigers, lions, wild horses, and many more.
Fang Yuan replicated the bloodline spiritual fruits in large quantities, then extracted the juice from them, filtered it, and placed it in the cultivation nests.
Next, Fang Yuan extracted magic elements from the air and dissolved them into the fruit juice, excluding the space, time, and causality magic elements.
Once the magic elements and the fruit juice fully merged, Fang Yuan injected the juice into the animals.
He then kept the injected animals in cages on the Spatial Deity Mountain, separated by spatial barriers.
"Once these animals breed and produce offspring, I'll continue the research to see if this injection can cause mutations and grant them magical attributes."
After finishing his work, Fang Yuan returned to Earth. Only a minute had passed outside.
He closed the door, left his living quarters, and started visiting bookstores throughout the city, buying up all books related to biological research, genetics, and similar topics.
Although there might be many duplicates, as long as the content was authentic, it was fine.
After thinking about it, he also bought books on computer technology to improve his hacking skills.
Having bought everything he could, Fang Yuan stored the items in the steel ball space and returned to his living quarters.
Just as he was about to start reading, he suddenly scanned the back door of the shop with his mind and noticed a girl sneaking around. She was looking at him while holding her phone, seemingly hesitating whether to make a call.
Fang Yuan raised an eyebrow, entered the back door of the shop, and opened the door.
The girl at the door jumped in surprise but then, upon seeing Fang Yuan, her eyes lit up. She hurriedly spoke in English: "Excuse me, are you hiring here?"
The girl was Chinese, looking about 14 or 15 years old, with a height of only 1.4 meters. She was quite cute and pretty.
"Sorry, I don't hire minors," Fang Yuan replied.
"I'm already 17," the girl quickly retorted, showing her ID card. "See, this is my ID."
Fang Yuan glanced at it—Xu Xiaomeng, and the photo indeed matched her, with her age being 17.
Fang Yuan looked at her suspiciously. A 17-year-old girl, only 1.4 meters tall?
The girl seemed a bit self-conscious about her height and lowered her head, then said bravely: "I may not be tall, but I'm very capable. I studied game design. My results are excellent, and now I'm studying abroad. I can do 3D modeling, architectural advertisements, and so on."
Oh, a genius girl!
"Do you know what kind of store this is?" Fang Yuan smiled.
The girl was taken aback, glanced at the shop, and seemed to have missed the store name, looking a bit confused.
Fang Yuan sighed. Girl, you're looking for a job but haven't even checked what kind of store it is?
In fact, Fang Yuan hadn't planned to hire anyone so quickly. He had only casually posted a recruitment notice and hadn't expected anyone to come inquire so soon.
"I run a pet shop, and pet shops tend to get a bit dirty. We have to bathe and groom pets. Can you handle that?" Fang Yuan asked.
"I can!" The girl quickly replied.
"Okay, it's late now. Come back tomorrow," Fang Yuan said indifferently, since this store was just something he set up casually.
"Thank you, thank you! I'll definitely come tomorrow!" The girl was overjoyed. Her height had made finding a job very difficult, and she hadn't had much hope this time. She didn't expect this boss to not mind her short stature.
Fang Yuan smiled and closed the door.
After closing the door, Fang Yuan entered the steel ball space again. A short time had passed outside, but in the steel ball space, over a year had already gone by.
The animals he had captured earlier had already given birth.
The animals injected with the bloodline spiritual fruit juice had developed some magical attributes. Some could breathe fire, others could release electricity, or even tunnel through the earth, but most couldn't control their abilities and could only use them sporadically.
The offspring of those animals had some clear traits, such as a young wolf's eyes turning green, and when the wolf cub got angry, a whirlwind appeared around it. Or a young horse with its hooves turning green, and when it ran, strong winds howled around it, pushing it forward and accelerating its speed.
However, these first-generation 'magical beasts' only had magical attributes, not their own specific magic.
Fang Yuan's goal was to assign one or more magical abilities to each type of magical beast, allowing them to naturally release magic, not just possess magical attributes.
Since the intelligence of animals was generally low, if he let them learn magic on their own, who knew how long it would take.
Fang Yuan injected the second-generation offspring with the magic element-infused bloodline spiritual fruit juice and kept them in cages, allowing them to continue mutating.
Once the genetic magic elements in their bloodlines were sufficient, he would try to arrange the magic elements so that each animal would naturally have its own magic.