"This Green Caterpillar is probably at level one."

After praising Eleven, Shi Yu looked at the Green Caterpillar.

The Green Caterpillar was the pet Shi Yu had researched the most, which was related to his three-month internship experience.

After all, he had recorded several notebooks full of the Green Caterpillar's growth data!

Judging from the纹路 (wenlu) of this Green Caterpillar, it only had one 花纹 (huawen), meaning it had only awakened once and was a complete weakling. Therefore, Shi Yu boldly reached out to it.

Pet levels are divided into Growth Level and Species Level.

Generally speaking, the higher the Growth Level, the stronger the pet's overall strength.

As for the Species Level, it mainly represents the pet's growth potential.

The higher the Species Level, the higher the limit that the Growth Level can reach.

Currently, this Green Caterpillar's level is at the Awakening Stage, the first level in the Growth Level.

This level is the growth stage where most pets awaken their Species Skills.

Each awakening increases the level by one. The pet's physical fitness and energy limit will be improved, and there is a chance to awaken their Species Skills.

After ten awakenings, they can try to reach the Transcendent Level and become true Transcendent beings.

These ten awakening stages are basically represented by Beast Tamers using simple levels from one to ten.

This Green Caterpillar is at level one, while the Iron-eating Beast Shi Yu contracted is currently at level three, meaning they have awakened and transformed once and three times respectively.

However, the number of awakenings does not completely represent the pet's strength.

The strength of an Awakening Stage pet is mainly related to the Species Skills the pet awakens.

In other words, at the same Growth Level, the higher the Species Level of the pet, the stronger the combat power, unless the low Species Level pet masters powerful skills beyond basic Species Abilities.

Therefore, even if a Green Caterpillar awakens ten times but only knows the skill Silk Thread, it is impossible to defeat an Iron-eating Beast that has learned the Hardening skill, even if the Iron-eating Beast's Growth Level is much lower. This is Species suppression.

The advantage of the Green Caterpillar might be that it grows faster compared to other high Species Level pets. After all, their short lifespan forces them to grow quickly.

In short, this Green Caterpillar was very weak. This kind of strength, where it "cannot control its own destiny," directly made this Green Caterpillar Shi Yu's experimental subject.

"Ji—"

The Green Caterpillar was thrown to the ground, but because it was light, it wasn't injured.

However, the Iron-eating Beast's palm strike with the broken branch really scared it. After being stunned, it was filled with endless fear.

Green Caterpillar: Σ(°△°|||)︴

It stared with big eyes, looking at the giant in front of it and the Iron-eating Beast jumping down from the tree in panic. It turned around and crawled away, without even thinking about using Silk Thread to resist.

But... Shi Yu moved faster, directly stepping forward and grabbing it in his hand.

At this moment, the Green Caterpillar finally resisted.

Silk Thread!

Snow-white Silk Thread sprayed out from its mouth, a white patch that wrapped around Shi Yu's hand, but it was directly torn apart by Shi Yu.

During his three-month internship, he became most skilled at tearing Silk Thread.

Your Silk Thread is still too weak.

Do you think you're Don Quixote Green Caterpillar?

Green Caterpillar: Σ(°△°|||)︴

"Little guy, be good."

"Otherwise, I'll feed you to that guy over there."

Iron-eating Beast: (¯﹃¯*) Is this edible???

Although it was a Transcendent creature, the Green Caterpillar's intelligence was not high. It only had instinctive emotional reactions.

But even so, Shi Yu's Mind Induction was a little useful, after all, it was a dialogue that transmitted minds.

Although the Green Caterpillar couldn't understand what it meant, more or less, its body autonomously produced feelings of panic, making it afraid to act rashly.

[Skill]: Silk Thread

[Skill Level]: None

[Introduction]: Bug-type skill, which might have some use if used to its fullest potential.

[State]: Teachable

Shi Yu looked at the Green Caterpillar in front of him, summoned the Skill Index in his mind, and opened the second page.

Among the six skills recorded, he designated the most useless one, the Silk Thread skill, towards this Green Caterpillar.

The Green Caterpillar's Species Skill, Silk Thread, was something they were born with, so Shi Yu knew from the beginning that this Green Caterpillar would definitely use Silk Thread.

"Teach." Shi Yu silently chanted in his heart under the Green Caterpillar's confused gaze, trying to trigger the index.

This was his first attempt, and he was very apprehensive at this moment.

Next, it wasn't that the Green Caterpillar learned it directly as Shi Yu imagined, but rather, his hands gradually began to shimmer with light.

Then, the light on Shi Yu's hands directly transmitted through touching the Green Caterpillar, like a stream of water.

The light flowed, and in the next second, the halo on Shi Yu's hands was completely lost, covering the Green Caterpillar's entire body, causing it to shimmer with light.

Buzz!

At this time, after everything was completed, Shi Yu only felt that part of his physical strength was drained away, as if his mental state had plummeted. He was hungry, tired, and wanted to sleep.

However, the next change quickly surprised him and refreshed him, because the Green Caterpillar's body suddenly began to develop in a way visible to Shi Yu's naked eye.

This Green Caterpillar was undergoing its second awakening, and the second纹路 (wenlu) on its body slowly emerged. Shi Yu quickly put it down and carefully observed it.

Green Caterpillar's perspective.

This Green Caterpillar was probably also confused.

Because as the halo merged into its body, its physical fitness and energy limit suddenly improved greatly.

At the same time, vaguely, the Green Caterpillar felt that it had used Silk Thread countless times in an unconscious state.

This usage experience directly made the Green Caterpillar feel that its use of Silk Thread was more skilled.

Although it wasn't very clear about what was happening, the Green Caterpillar still had the concept that it had become stronger.

However, none of this was important.

With the Green Caterpillar's intelligence, it couldn't judge what was happening. It could only judge what it should do now.

Continue to escape from Shi Yu's clutches—

It didn't realize at all that Shi Yu was a strong backer, that the changes on its body were brought about by Shi Yu. It just wanted to slip away and find a safe place to continue basking in the breeze and enjoying the cool.

The Green Caterpillar twisted its body and ran again, but was stopped by Shi Yu again.

"Ji—"

White Silk Thread spewed out of the Green Caterpillar's mouth again. It launched a second round of resistance, but the Silk Thread was still ruthlessly torn apart.

Now, Shi Yu was weak, but he was still more than capable of dealing with the Green Caterpillar.

In the Green Caterpillar's desperate gaze, Shi Yu subdued it again. This time, it simply gave up struggling and curled up on the side.

"The strength of the Silk Thread has indeed improved..."

"The usage is also more skilled than before..."

While using his wits and courage to fight against the Green Caterpillar in front of him, Shi Yu was also judging.

He glanced at the marks on his hand and then looked at the Green Caterpillar.

Was this the skill proficiency of the Silk Thread, from beginner level to skilled level?

The strength of this Silk Thread was already comparable to the high-quality Green Caterpillars cultivated with Spiritual Plants in the Icefield City Breeding Base.

Its Growth Level might not be as good, but its Silk Thread proficiency was definitely the highest.

The Green Caterpillar's Silk Thread skill proficiency would increase, which was within Shi Yu's expectations, but Shi Yu didn't expect the Green Caterpillar's Growth Level to increase.

Was it because it had a deeper understanding of its Species Skill, which led to the growth of its own strength and the second awakening and transformation?

Or was it that when teaching the skill, he also fed back some of his own strength to it?

No matter what, these changes made Shi Yu very satisfied with the effect of the Skill Index.

As for the experimental results…

Shi Yu's expression suddenly changed.

Because…

As he opened the Skill Index.

He found that the colors of all the pages in the Skill Index had dimmed.

Below the status bar of all skills, a countdown timer for the cooldown time appeared.

[Cooldown Time]: 8 hours

It meant that he had to wait 8 hours before he could use the Skill Index again.

Shi Yu: ???

There's a cooldown time?

Shi Yu was stunned.

But it seemed normal.

This experiment of teaching the skill Silk Thread, which had no level, although the consumption was within his tolerance range, it didn't reach the point where it could be ignored.

This cooldown time was more like his own protection mechanism, preventing him from abusing the Skill Index and being drained.

8 hours… he probably needed to eat a meal and then sleep to recover.

To use this Skill Index well, he still had to exercise… A skill with no level required an 8-hour recovery period, and low-level skills probably required 1 or 2 days.

What about mid-level, high-level, and ultra-level skills?

Shi Yu suddenly realized that the Skill Index wasn't so great. The pet was comfortable, but he was tired.

He wondered if eating some foods with higher nutritional value could speed up recovery.

If possible, he could prepare some in advance, maybe he could quickly replenish his state after teaching the skill. Pets had nutritional products, and Beast Tamers definitely had them too.

Shi Yu looked at the Iron-eating Beast, which was confused the whole time. Eleven still didn't know what its Beast Tamer had done.

"I brought back some bamboo shoots from the Breeding Base. Tonight, we'll eat shredded pork with bamboo shoots and white rice."

Iron Bamboo bamboo poles were hard, but bamboo shoots could be eaten by people and were very nutritious, more nutritious than common vegetables. Shi Yu felt that he had to replenish himself so that he could teach the Iron-eating Beast the Hardening skill in full condition tomorrow.

Eat bamboo shoots?

The Iron-eating Beast's eyes lit up.

But soon, it realized a serious problem.

"Awoo…!"

Weren't the bamboo shoots supposed to be food for itself???