I can understand what the furry creatures are saying, and I've become the number one beast tame

Why isn't Chapter 73 called Leek Rice?

"Are you really sure this stuff is some kind of fragrant bamboo rice?"

Nan Ran wiped the thin layer of sweat from her forehead, feeling a slight warmth.

But strangely, she suddenly felt a trickle of fluid flowing beneath her skin, followed by a chill throughout her body.

The slight heat just now disappeared in an instant, and even the clothes that I felt were soaked with sweat became clean and refreshing at this moment.

what happened?
The Frostbeast didn't notice anything amiss with Nanran. It glanced at the fragrant bamboo rice in front of Nanran and exclaimed in surprise, "Eh!"

Nan Ran immediately became alert and tense.

"what happened?"

Could she have really mistaken me for someone else? She said you can't force someone to do something you're not comfortable with...

[How come your fragrant bamboo rice is of such high quality?]
It was clearly watching Nanran pick the rice; at that time, it looked like just ordinary fragrant bamboo rice.

After all, this Cloud-Piercing Bamboo Shoot's aptitude and talent are rather ordinary, and it didn't even have the opportunity to temper its body with lightning.

"what?"

Nan Ran was completely bewildered. He looked at the "foxtail grass" in front of him, and then at the Frostbeast.

She didn't know!
"How come the quality is better?"

Nan Ran looked at the 'foxtail grass' he was holding in his hand, which he hadn't had time to put away yet, and then at the grass clinging to the antlers of the Frostbeast. He really couldn't tell the difference.

Aren't they all just 'foxtail grass'? At most, the one she's holding looks a bit prettier, chubby and rounder.

It looks like the kind of delicate foxtail grass that would be taken by florists and sold as cut flowers for 99.99 yuan a bunch.

But it's still just foxtail grass!
The Frosty Beast explained to her: "[Fragrant Bamboo Rice, as a companion spiritual plant to Cloud Piercing Bamboo Shoots, uses the essence of the earth absorbed by Cloud Piercing Bamboo Shoots as its nourishment.]"

[While it's described as symbiotic, it could also be considered a form of epiphyte.]
[Because the growth of fragrant bamboo rice often relies excessively on the nutrients provided by bamboo shoots, its quality is basically determined by the quality of the bamboo shoots that grow on it.]
The Frostbeast glanced at the Cloud-Piercing Bamboo Shoots that were being harvested and used by Meng Duanyue and the others not far away.

This bamboo shoot is of only average quality.
[The fragrant bamboo shoots that grow on this cloud-piercing bamboo can only reach a maximum quality of Tier 2. Only a small number of these shoots, growing in advantageous locations and able to absorb more of the earth's essence, will barely reach Tier 2.]
[The rest should only be of ordinary or Tier 1 quality.]
The Frostbeast, smelling the rich aroma of bamboo and rice, couldn't help but swallow a few times.

[And the bamboo rice in front of you, even the worst quality, is at least Tier 3!]
Strangely enough, the quality of the fragrant bamboo rice bushes, which were slightly further away from Nanran and seemed to have never been visited, was consistent with his own judgment.

They are all ordinary or first-order.

Only a very few, a handful of second-tier trees sway gracefully among them.

"what?"

Nan Ran looked left and right, turning the table over and over.

In the end, all I could think was that the bouquet of foxtail grass in her hand looked slightly better; it was the kind that would look better in photos and be more suitable for being a photo-shopped illusion.

"...So, you didn't make a mistake? This thing is fragrant bamboo rice. Once it's harvested, another crop grows, generation after generation, endlessly. Its inherent characteristic is its continuous life cycle?"

It shouldn't grow like this 'foxtail grass'!
It should grow like leeks!
Why not call it 'chive rice'?
(End of this chapter)