Light Spring Murmur
Chapter 114: The Correct Way to Use the Skill Index
Since Yin Zhengfan and Shi Yu both had to continue their assessment, after Shi Yu and the others experienced instant movement twice, the two said goodbye to each other.
They agreed to return here for a battle and decide the winner before the assessment ended.
"Three days later..."
Shi Yu looked at the departing figures of Yin Zhengfan and the Empty Crystal Butterfly, and smiled slightly. He quite liked this kid.
Not only was he polite and easy to talk to, but his pet was also rare and had high-level skills. He really wanted to be friends with more of his pets.
"How does it feel?"
Shi Yu asked Eleven and Worm: "Do you want to learn?"
"Ji!" "Ying..."
Worm's eyes shone, finding it very interesting.
In the blink of an eye, it teleported to a very far place. How magical!
It was just that it felt a little carsick during the teleportation.
It wondered if it would feel better when it drove itself.
Compared to Worm's yearning for the new skill, Eleven was relatively calm.
As a skill master, Eleven was analyzing the disadvantages of instant movement.
After all, Eleven heard that the kid wanted the Empty Crystal Butterfly to fight it.
Therefore, it had to carefully analyze the abilities of its next opponent.
This Empty Crystal Butterfly was still very outrageous in strength due to its attribute.
Even some low-level monarch race, ordinary attribute extraordinary-level creatures that mastered super-order skills might not be able to win against this Empty Crystal Butterfly.
This was because of the attribute factor. Among all attributes, space was king and time was respected. It and Worm often saw this saying online.
From this, it could be seen that the space element was very powerful!
If it were to fight this Empty Crystal Butterfly, the battle strategy Eleven could think of was to use speed to counter speed!
Although the Empty Crystal Butterfly had a very fast instant movement speed, its natural flying speed and reaction speed might not be as strong as Eleven's.
Instant movement was fast, but it also required time to activate. Moreover, this move was not an attack skill. The Empty Crystal Butterfly also needed time to react when attacking.
Eleven felt that as long as it could use this time, with the ultra-high-speed boost brought by the perfect-level Lightning Palm, it could instantly kill the Empty Crystal Butterfly.
Moreover, it also had the Intimidation skill, which could limit the Empty Crystal Butterfly's reaction speed.
"Good analysis."
Shi Yu nodded and said, "The proficiency of that Empty Crystal Butterfly's instant movement, Void Concealment, and Space Shackles shouldn't be very high."
"In terms of skill proficiency, you have a great advantage. Also, in terms of energy, you should have noticed it just now, right?"
Eleven nodded heavily. After its super vision judgment, the total energy of that Empty Crystal Butterfly was probably less than two-thirds of its own. Therefore, if it was a war of attrition, Eleven's chances of winning were higher.
Shi Yu and Eleven analyzed everything in a well-organized manner, analyzing the shortcomings of the three space-type skills one by one.
"Ji..."
Worm looked bitter. Stop analyzing!
After your analysis, how come it feels like the skills aren't so appealing anymore?
It gave Worm the illusion that even if it learned the skills, it still wouldn't be able to beat Eleven.
"Haha."
Shi Yu smiled and said, "It's not a big problem, not a big problem. The upper limit of these three skills is still higher than the skills Eleven currently possesses."
Analyzing Eleven's and the Empty Crystal Butterfly's chances of winning was completely based on Eleven's high skill proficiency.
If any of the Empty Crystal Butterfly's instant movement, Void Concealment, or Space Shackles skills reached the proficient level, Eleven would be under a lot more pressure.
This was something to be careful about. However, Shi Yu judged that the opponent's skill proficiency shouldn't be high.
After all, Yin Zhengfan and the Empty Crystal Butterfly's age was there. Moreover, the higher and more complex the skill, the harder it was to improve its proficiency.
A pet could reach the proficient level of a low-level skill with a year of hard training.
However, to reach the proficient level of a high-level skill, the training required was several times that of a low-level skill.
This was also why Shi Yu's consumption of adding points to high-level skills was much higher than that of low-level skills.
As for super-order skills, perhaps even a monarch race pet couldn't improve from the entry-level to the skilled level after several years of hard training.
The difficulty of improving the proficiency of high-level skills was too great. This also gave some low-race pets a chance to overcome stronger enemies across race levels by relying on combination skills and profound meanings formed by low-level skills...
"If you learn instant movement, and then we add points to instant movement to the mastery level and beyond, Eleven will die of exhaustion trying to defeat you," Shi Yu said to Worm.
Worm was overjoyed again.
"Awu!"
Eleven pouted.
Tch.
Stupid Worm, it actually pinned its hopes of defeating it on adding points. How unambitious. It seemed to have been completely corrupted.
When Worm's instant movement reached max level, Eleven firmly believed that it would also master a skill that could shatter space, and it would also be maxed out by its Beast Tamer!
Who wouldn't add points!
Everyone was standing on the same point-adding line, competing in effort. It, Eleven, would never be weaker than any beast in its life in this regard.
...
Next, Shi Yu, holding a wooden sword, rode on Eleven and began a new adventure.
The extraordinary level creatures here were indeed dense. Before long, they encountered another extraordinary level ferocious beast, a water-type python.
Shi Yu was drunk. Why were there so many snakes?
Moreover, they were all big pythons!
Were there no snake spirits like Medusa or Bai Suzhen?
It would be more exciting to slash at them—
"..."
At this time, the deep blue giant python coiled around the rocks, coldly staring at Shi Yu and the others, deciding whether to have an extra meal later.
Mainly, it had never eaten this strange-looking creature before, and it didn't know if it would taste good.
"It seems like there's a lake ahead."
After discovering the water-type ferocious beast, Shi Yu seemed to feel that the air had become a lot more humid, and he immediately judged.
He was familiar with the python's Rampage and Rapid Tail skills. Back then, when he was training in Tianmang Mountain, it seemed like there was a small Boss that was a python. At that time, Shi Yu even had the idea of copying Rampage, Harden, and Enlarge. They sounded fierce, but this was the first time he had actually encountered a python.
If there was a water-type ferocious beast, it meant there was a water source...
One of his tasks was to obtain water-type resources, so it was normal for there to be lakes and rivers near the landing point.
"Hiss hiss—"
Shi Yu, Eleven, and Worm still selectively ignored the python and were thinking about other things. This made the python extremely silent, and it had the urge to Rampage.
Just as the python was thinking, Shi Yu suddenly looked at it.
"Have you ever been slashed by the speed of light?"
Python: (ꐦಠಠ)???
Shi Yu finished speaking and slowly raised his sword.
In the next second, Eleven's perfect-level Lightning Palm, mastery-level Harden, proficient-level Intimidation, and perfect-level Super Vision activated at the same time!
Its limbs were wrapped in lightning, and it exploded with terrifying speed. Then, Eleven and Shi Yu's figures flashed like a bolt of lightning and instantly arrived beside the python. When the python reacted, the wooden sword had already pierced into its head, decapitating it with one slash.
Crack—
"Profound Meaning, Lightning Flash—"
Shi Yu's voice slowly fell, and his body and hands were shaking. After all, the speed was too fast. If Eleven hadn't used Harden to stabilize him and used Super Vision to precisely pierce the wooden sword into the python's body, Shi Yu would have been thrown away like Worm.
In the distance, Worm got up in confusion, looking at the Beast Tamer showing off in front and the extremely cooperative leader, feeling depressed.
Could they bring it along?
It could add special effects with its Illusory Image ability! It wasn't completely useless!
At this time, the python didn't even know what had happened. In the sky, the Eye of the Sky, which was simultaneously observing more than 6,000 examinees, was shocked for the second time.
As a monarch-level pet, it could naturally judge that Shi Yu was able to successfully show off because his pet was giving him assistance, but were they filming a movie??? This was a professional assessment!!! Was this how they were playing!
It saw other examinees working hard to strengthen their pets with their Beast Taming talents, letting their pets hunt.
Shi Yu was different. He was letting his pet frantically assist him in killing enemies... Could it be played like this?
The Eye of the Sky was silent. It couldn't be the only one shocked. It had to carefully edit the video and shock all the examiners.
...
Not long after, Shi Yu and the others arrived at the edge of a lake.
This lake seemed calm, but Shi Yu felt that it was full of hidden dangers. The extraordinary level creatures were probably all at the bottom of the water.
However, they had to make a fuss in this lake.
Because there were several Water Lotuses, which were Shi Yu's assessment mission target, on the surface of the lake.
The Water Lotuses were located in the center of the lake, far from the shore.
In this situation, it was really difficult to collect them without water-type or flying-type pets...
It was too much of a bully for Beast Tamers who only nurtured Iron-Eating Beasts.
"But I have two cards. How can you target me?"
Shi Yu smiled. He didn't expect that he would complete the so-called assessment mission in less than half a day.
What was called being well-prepared and overwhelming strength—
"Worm, Silkworm Silk, use the silkworm silk to reel the Water Lotuses over."
Looking at the Water Lotuses hundreds of meters away, Shi Yu instructed Worm on his shoulder.
"Ji—" Worm understood and spat out a long, transparent silk thread that flew away.
Very quickly, with a "splash", the surface of the water was cut open, and a Water Lotus was plucked by Worm and quickly reeled back!
There was no obstruction in this process.
It wasn't until the Water Lotus was reeled back to Shi Yu's side that the lake suddenly shook.
Rumble—
The surface of the water seemed to explode, and a high race water-type elemental creature, Raging Water Spirit, suddenly emerged from the lake in the form of a waterspout!
Moreover, from all over the lake, the Dragon Carp of the low race and the Rain Prayer Frog of the medium race also emerged, basically at the awakening level.
Looking at the changes in the lake and the Water Lotus beside him, Shi Yu could basically confirm that the boss of this lake was this Raging Water Spirit.
[Name]: Raging Water Spirit
[Attribute]: Water
[Race Level]: High Race
[Race Skills]: Raging Current, Water Wall, Purification
Raging Water Spirit was a rather odd elemental creature.
It liked water very much. Many floods and rainstorms were caused by it organizing a large number of water-type creatures. Its habit was to turn all land into water.
In comparison, the emerging Dragon Carp and Rain Prayer Frog were rather harmless creatures. They could survive in this place because they were protected by the Raging Water Spirit.
The Raging Water Spirit, which had mastered the Purification skill, was still very popular among other water-type creatures because it could purify water sources and improve water quality. Therefore, it was also known as the Pure Water Elf.
The main purpose of Water Lotuses was to purify water quality. Therefore, Shi Yu taking one immediately made the creatures in the lake unable to sit still.
"Boom—"
Under the roar of the Raging Water Spirit, dozens of water-type creatures emerged, full of pressure.
"Awu!!!!"
On the land, Eleven raised its head and roared at the creatures that emerged in the lake, revealing some Intimidation.
In the next moment, the water-type creatures, including the Raging Water Spirit, all sank into the water and immediately slipped away. Take it, take it. Anyway, the water quality here was good enough, so it didn't matter.
This was also the reality in nature. Strength was the only truth.
"Eleven, is there any way for me to split the lake with one sword?"
Eleven: ( ̄□ ̄)!!
Don't make things difficult for a bear!
"Ji!!" Worm said quickly at this time that it had a way.
Shi Yu just had to pretend to swing his sword, and it could use transparent silk threads to simulate sword energy and tear open the lake. This way, it would look like Shi Yu split it open. Then, Eleven would use Intimidation to shake the creatures in the water unconscious in the split-open lake. The operation would be a success—
As a panda knight, it was normal to use Intimidation sword energy, right?
Eleven: Ying Σ(°△°|||)︴ Director Worm, hello.
"That's indeed a method, but it wastes too much physical strength. Forget it." Shi Yu smiled slightly. He was just joking. He looked at the lake again. He didn't expect there to be Rain Prayer Frogs and Dragon Carp here.
[Name]: Rain Prayer Frog
[Attribute]: Water
[Race Level]: Medium Race
[Race Skills]: Rain Prayer (High-level Water Skill), Water Arrow (Low-level Water Skill)
This Rain Prayer was a good skill. It was a rare ability that could change the weather.
If it was a rainy day, the performance of water-type pets could be greatly increased, which was equivalent to another type of water-type enhancement talent!
However, Shi Yu didn't care too much because he didn't have a suitable weather user in his team.
This Dragon Carp was very interesting.
[Name]: Dragon Carp
[Attribute]: Water
[Race Level]: Low Race
[Race Skills]: Leap over Dragon Gate (No Level Water Skill)
This Dragon Carp, like the Blue Cotton Worm, was a trash in the pet world.
At the same time, it was also one of the few creatures that could naturally evolve by improving the proficiency of its race skills, just like the Blue Cotton Worm.
However, its evolution difficulty was much higher than the Blue Cotton Worm's, so its status was much lower than the Blue Cotton Worm's.
It was rumored that as long as the Dragon Carp trained the Leap over Dragon Gate, which looked like a salted fish turning over, to the mastery level, it could evolve into a dragon attribute and become a pseudo-dragon species.
This Leap over Dragon Gate sounded very high-end, but in fact, like Silkworm Silk, even if it was trained to the perfect level, it would at most cause a small wave of impact.
But it was such a useless skill that could improve the Dragon Carp's race potential, according to research.
At this time, Shi Yu pondered slightly when he saw the Dragon Carp.
Speaking of which, although these no-level skills were trash, they didn't seem to be completely useless.
He felt that he could look for suitable no-level skills for Eleven and Worm in the future.
After all, it was too easy to teach no-level skills. He didn't need to spend much physical strength or time to quickly reach the max level. Then, he could turn the impossible into possible. Then, after reaching the max level, he could delete it and free up the pages of the skill index. In comparison, like the Convergent Sharpness and Plant Control in the index, who knew how long it would take to delete them. Shi Yu felt that even if he became a Legendary Beast Tamer, these two super-level skills would probably still be in the index.
From a certain point of view, this might be the correct way to use the skill index's deletion function?
...
One day later.
Shi Yu had already ridden Eleven and swept through the area near the landing point.
During this period, he also encountered many examinees, but the assessment didn't allow teaming up, and everyone didn't have much interaction.
However, the examinees who saw Shi Yu riding an Iron-Eating Beast were greatly shocked.
It was the first time they knew that Iron-Eating Beasts could be used like this, but they didn't know what was the use of using Iron-Eating Beasts like this... Iron-Eating Beasts weren't mount races, right?
Was it to save physical strength to travel? Obviously, they didn't have the chance to experience Shi Yu's Harden Swordsmanship.
Currently, those who had seen Shi Yu take action were all dead, referring to the ferocious beasts.
...
"There's another level three resource???"
"Ying!!!"
In just one day, Shi Yu and the others had collected many rare resources.
Because the assessment mission had already been completed, Shi Yu didn't care about the number of ferocious beasts he hunted. He specialized in finding valuable resources and ferocious beasts with a clear goal.
Their efficiency in collecting resources was still very high, thanks to Eleven's perfect-level Super Vision, which could judge the intensity of energy fluctuations from a distance. They used this method to determine which direction and corner had rare resources, and they were accurate every time.
"Ying Ying Ying!!"
However, this time, Eleven seemed particularly serious.
Moreover, it had a feeling that all the fur on its body was standing on end.
This change was the first time.
"Ji." Not to mention Eleven, even Worm seemed to have a familiar feeling.
"Ying!!!"
In the end, the two pets widened their eyes and completely confirmed—
It seemed to be Dragon Might!
There was an aura of Dragon Might!
"Is it a dragon-type creature or a dragon-type resource?" Shi Yu was also stunned.
...
On the stone road, the little Iron-Eating Beast Eleven took small steps and ran nimbly with Shi Yu.
It was becoming more and more proficient as a mount.
At this time, its eyes were filled with surprise. It was Dragon Might!
Dragon Might was actually an Intimidation skill.
However, it could only be called Dragon Might when used by a dragon.
Because the quality of the dragon race was far superior to other creatures, it also led to the expressiveness of Dragon Might far surpassing the Intimidation of other monarch-level creatures.
After all, pure-blooded dragons were natural kings, and no race level was lower than the monarch level.
Eleven had experienced the Dragon Might of the Ice Dragon Phantom, and it was indeed very unusual. Therefore, this time, it was very excited and felt that it could pk with giant dragons again.
However, Shi Yu felt that it was thinking too much. How could there be giant dragons in this ghost place?
Before long, Shi Yu and the others arrived outside a valley.
Not only was there not a single examinee around this valley, but there was also not a single wild creature. It seemed that they had all been scared away by Dragon Might.
At this time, just approaching the valley, Eleven, Shi Yu, and Worm felt a very strong sense of oppression. If Eleven hadn't used Intimidation to hold on in front, Shi Yu and Worm might not have been able to withstand it.
"Approach."
Shi Yu's eyes narrowed, and he ordered Eleven to approach the valley to see what was going on.
However, just as they took a step forward, a brown figure that looked like a giant lizard appeared.
"Roar—"
This brown giant lizard with rough rocks all over its body stepped on the rubble and issued a warning with a majestic gaze. Then, it burst out with strong Intimidation fluctuations. It was actually the Intimidation skill, but judging from the Intimidation, it was only entry-level, which was not good compared to Eleven.
However, even so, Shi Yu and the others were very surprised.
Because this was a wild ferocious beast.
Apart from his own, Shi Yu had only seen one pet that had awakened the Intimidation skill without reaching the monarch level.
That was the Ice Wolf King in the Icefield City breeding base.
Moreover, Shi Yu felt that this lizard's Intimidation was not as simple as ordinary Intimidation. It even had a bit of Dragon Might!
[Name]: Earth Rock Dragon Lizard
[Attribute]: Earth
[Race Level]: Low-level Commander
The Earth Rock Dragon Lizard was a commander race evolution branch form of the extraordinary race creature Rockback Lizard and Earth Rock Lizard. It was a transitional stage towards dragon evolution. Although it was not even a pseudo-dragon species according to the proper judgment, it already had some preliminary characteristics of the dragon race.
At this time, seeing such a creature comprehend Dragon Might, Shi Yu was extremely surprised.
Good fellow.
Talented?
Monarch potential?
If it weren't for the fact that the assessment rules didn't allow him to take away or contract the live bodies of the ferocious beasts here, Shi Yu would have really wanted to capture them alive.
However, he also understood the association's concerns.
These ferocious beasts that had grown to the extraordinary level in the wild could basically not be tamed by Beast Tamers. Their wild nature was too strong, and they could only be forced to contract. However, as the ferocious beast grew, there would be a risk of it biting back at the Beast Tamer in the future. Not many Beast Tamers would contract it with the risk of being bitten back, even if the pet's talent potential was strong.
In comparison, weren't the well-behaved and obedient pets nurtured in the breeding base better?
The risk of capturing and contracting live high-level ferocious beasts was too great. The mainstream view in the Beast Tamer field was to suggest that Beast Tamers contract those pet cubs and nurture them from a young age. This would be conducive to establishing a bond.
Of course, the facts were not absolute. There were also Beast Tamers who specialized in capturing well-grown wild ferocious beasts, but the mortality rate was several times higher than that of other Beast Tamers.
At this time, because Shi Yu and the others were not afraid of Intimidation at all, and Eleven had been showing a stronger, more terrifying, almost substantive Intimidation, the eyes of this extraordinary level Earth Rock Dragon Lizard were filled with fear.
"Is it because this Earth Rock Dragon Lizard has good talent, or is there some rare resource inside?"
Shi Yu looked at the Earth Rock Dragon Lizard's nervous appearance and looked towards the depths of the valley.
"Roar—!!"
Just then, a passionate dragon roar actually came from the distant sky, causing the Earth Rock Dragon Lizard and Shi Yu and the others to be stunned at the same time.
A moment later, a black spot appeared in the sky. A young Bone Dragon with a black skeleton and about two meters in size flew over. On the skeleton of the Ghost Bone Young Dragon, there was also a thin Beast Tamer.
"Damn, I've been flying for half an island, and I finally found this place." The Beast Tamer was overjoyed.
"Uh." However, as the Ghost Bone Young Dragon, which was flapping its bone wings, was about to land, the arriving examinee suddenly discovered the Earth Rock Dragon Lizard and Shi Yu, who were confronting each other below.
His expression changed, and he carefully observed again.
Then, after discovering that the situation below was still normal, he felt relieved. Good, it seemed that the Dragon Soul Grass had not been taken first.
"Roar—!!"
It was clearly a Bone Dragon, but it could still make a sound.
The Ghost Bone Young Dragon landed, and its Beast Tamer Yu Shu began to size up the Dragon Might-releasing Earth Rock Dragon Lizard, as well as the Panda King Eleven, who was simultaneously suppressing the other party with Intimidation.
At this moment, the relief in his heart just now suddenly tightened again, and his heart stopped.
Damn, something was still wrong!
Where did this Earth Rock Dragon Lizard with Dragon Might come from? Could it be that the Dragon Soul Grass had been eaten up?
Moreover, what was up with this Beast Tamer riding an Iron-Eating Beast that knew Intimidation???
"Roar—" The Ghost Bone Young Dragon's green pupils flickered, reminding its Beast Tamer that the Iron-Eating Beast was not easy to mess with and had a very terrifying aura.
Yu Shu's expression changed. He discovered that his good mood about Dragon Valley had disappeared, and he always felt that his actions this time would not be very smooth.
"Ghost Bone Young Dragon, are you Yu Shu?" At this time, Shi Yu turned his head and looked at the bone dragon pet of the newcomer and asked curiously.
In just two days, he had actually seen two of the popular examinees in the Seven Heroes' mouths in a row. His luck was good.
"Are you Shi Yu?" After Yu Shu got off the Ghost Bone Young Dragon, he silently looked at Shi Yu, who was riding an Iron-Eating Beast and holding a wooden sword. After a moment, he also determined Shi Yu's identity.
There were only a few people with high scores in the basic test. Everyone knew each other's test pets, so it was naturally easy to guess their identities.
Originally, Yu Shu was very unconvinced that a mere Iron-Eating Beast's ability value was above his Ghost Bone Young Dragon's. But now, after discovering that this Iron-Eating Beast could actually use Intimidation, he only felt speechless.
Tch, where did this monster come from? His Ghost Bone Young Dragon was a high commander race, and it was still a dragon type. It was still a little away from awakening Intimidation. What was wrong with this Iron-Eating Beast!
"Well, from the looks of it, are you specifically looking for this place?" Shi Yu asked.
Yu Shu's face darkened. It was none of his business.
Although he thought so in his heart, he still nodded because it was impossible to hide this kind of thing at all.
"There's a dragon-type resource that I need inside, but it seems that we discovered it at the same time. How are you planning to compete?" He looked at Shi Yu with interest. Although this Iron-Eating Beast didn't look weak, his Ghost Bone Young Dragon's combat power was comparable to an extraordinary level pet of the monarch race after fusing with the Dragon Soul!
If they followed the standard method of resource competition, Shi Yu would not be his opponent.
He was not even afraid of Yin Zhengfan's Rock Mane Giant Beast. In short, he was determined to get this Dragon Soul Grass. The main reason was that this thing was very rare even outside and difficult to buy. Although there were high-level substitutes, the level of the resources was too high and not suitable for his pet. On the contrary, the level of this Dragon Soul Grass was just right.
Earth Rock Dragon Lizard: ༼༎ຶ෴༎ຶ༽???
The two of you get out of here. That's mine!
It looked at the Iron-Eating Beast and Bone Dragon with even more fear. It always felt that both sides were coveting the Dragon Soul Grass in the valley.
"There really is a treasure..." Shi Yu was stunned and felt it was interesting. He had a feeling that this resource would not be simple.
This Trial Island might not be full of garbage low-level resources...
"Ji Ji Ji—" Before Shi Yu could make a decision, Worm became excited. Why not let it deal with this Bone Dragon and that Dragon Lizard? It felt that there would be dragon-type resources inside, and it wanted to fight for it itself.
Shi Yu: 【You're not their match either... unless...】
It wasn't that he looked down on Worm. Even if Worm used all its combat power, it would only be comparable to an extraordinary level pet of a low commander race...
It could barely deal with this lizard, let alone the Bone Dragon.
Worm: 【(❁´◡`❁)*✲゚* Unless equipment, equipment...】
Worm meant that with mastery-level Illusory Image, it could use external objects to improve the quality of the illusion. It was not using all its combat power to be comparable to a low commander race. There were so many ice-type energy crystals and the Ice Dragon's Whisker. Just like during training, let it use them, and it could transform into an Ice Dragon and crush this Dragon Lizard and Bone Dragon without pressure!!!