Light Spring Murmur
Chapter 320: Auspicious Divine Beast Qilin
Originally, Shi Yu's plan was to teach his pets super skills after they had cultivated "high-level will," which was "overlord will."
Looking at it with a "Teaching Success Rate: High" would seem safer.
But now, he had changed his mind.
Beast Tamers are always fickle.
"Teaching Success Rate: Medium" might not necessarily fail.
Although, if a pet's will and mind are not strong enough, forcibly receiving super skill experience could lead to loss of mental reason, thus causing the teaching to fail...
But Shi Yu thought about it, Su Su was really the right contract.
When adding points, Baby Ginseng was healing Shi Yu, and Su Su possessed the ability to purify the mind. Wasn't she the one to heal the pets receiving super skills?
If he gave Eleven and the others super skills while Su Su was purifying their minds beside them, allowing them to better withstand the baptism of super skills, then theoretically the success rate wouldn't be low.
Moreover, according to Su Su's feedback, the process of adding super skills was extremely tempering to the will and mind.
Perhaps, they could use the method of adding super skills to improve their will and strive to reach overlord will.
"Baby Ginseng heals me."
"Su Su purifies the pets."
"If it goes as smoothly as judged, I should be able to achieve 'free point allocation' soon."
Shi Yu was still lying in the dormitory.
After calculating the rewards, he continued to check his resources.
Currently, the resources on him, the ruins ring, archeology and breeding illustrations, the Awakening Mirror, the ruins crystal left by Shi Di, Meteorite Iron fragments, and the Qilin fossil were relatively precious.
Besides these, there were also three level-seven dragon-type resources: Ice Dragon Whisker, Tyrannosaurus Tooth Fossil, and Sea Dragon King Scale. Although these looked good before, they were now basically useless. Shi Yu was already planning to have Su Su devour the Ice Dragon Whisker and Sea Dragon King Scale later. As for the Tyrannosaurus Tooth, he would keep it for mechanical phantom beast experiments.
There was also the Gemini Silver Armor sent by the Ice Dragon. Because it was damaged, although it was of legend quality, it couldn't be considered precious. When he first got it, it was level six, but after several uses, the energy loss was serious, and it had already dropped to level five, getting worse the more it was used.
Shi Yu planned to leave it to Chi Tong as a cultivation resource. Although it would accelerate the damage, Chi Tong's Crossed Swords skill might be able to approach proficient-level skill with the Gemini Silver Armor.
In addition to this, Shi Yu also discovered that there was a drop of level-eight life water and ten drops of level-seven life water, and one hundred drops of level-six life water in the ruins, as well as a bottle of level-seven dragon blood. These were all sent by the Sea Dragon King through the Turtle Prime Minister after he returned from the Motley Islands, seeing that his hair was turning white and he looked exhausted.
Shi Yu hadn't used them yet, but these drops of life water could be used in conjunction with Baby Ginseng's nourishment after he continued to add super skills.
As for the level-seven dragon clan essence blood, although it was also an extremely precious resource, it seemed even more useless to him since Shi Yu didn't need to train his physique. He could sell it later and exchange it for other resources.
Other daily consumption resources, such as Eleven's food and nutrients, were replenished as they were consumed, so Shi Yu didn't bother with them. Finally, he looked at the Mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex that was still lively outside the Fossil Research Institute.
"That's right."
Shi Yu suddenly thought of something.
It seemed that after Buggy broke through to the monarch level, they hadn't researched the Qilin fossil together.
Although the Dream Stealing skill had long been added to Buggy's skill list and maxed out by Shi Yu, these maxed skills couldn't be perfectly utilized with Buggy's commander-level strength at the time.
Just like Baby Ginseng's Time Fruit. The Time Fruit it made when it was at the commander level had huge side effects if Eleven and the others ate it. If Baby Ginseng itself reached the totem level, there might not be any side effects. Even an ordinary low-level skill, Fireball, would have completely different effects when used by transcendent-level pets and totem-level pets.
Now that Buggy had broken through, could they try to research the Qilin fossil again?
Although using the Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil to research mechanical phantom beasts still showed no progress, this didn't stop Shi Yu and the others from being curious about the secrets of the Qilin fossil.
After all, it was a fossil of a life suspected to be at the god level. If they could really enter the dream successfully, mechanical phantom beasts would be secondary. The most important thing was a chance to contact the Mythological Era.
"Buggy."
Shi Yu called out, and then entered the ruins space himself.
...
Fossil Research Institute.
Shi Yu sat at the table, Buggy landed on the table, and both stared at the horn fossil in front of them.
The white fossil was very beautiful, like white jade. However, although it was called a horn fossil, it didn't look much different from a goat horn fossil.
This was also normal, because Qilin and Divine Dragons were totems formed by combining different racial characteristics in mythological legends.
Among them, it was said that the Qilin had a goat's head, wolf's hooves, a body like a musk deer, a tail like a dragon's tail, and also had dragon scales and a pair of horns.
Of course, these were the mythological legends of Earth. On Blue Planet, Qilin was a more mysterious mythological race than dragons and phoenixes. The appearances recorded in various unofficial histories were also completely different from the Qilin described in Earth's myths. Shi Yu gave up on substitution.
As for why this Qilin fossil was collected in the Dragon Mystery Realm, that was unknown.
"Since the goat horn is so beautiful, it must have been a girl when it was alive," Shi Yu judged.
"Woo..." Buggy was silent. It was also very beautiful, but it was still a boy.
The leader was also very cute, and was also a boy.
As for Baby Ginseng, Buggy had always been wondering, did the Ginseng Race... really have gender distinctions?
"Stop being narcissistic," Shi Yu said.
Buggy: ???
Tch, scumbag Beast Tamer.
"Let's get down to business," Shi Yu said.
After saying that, Shi Yu entered a state of meditation, and Buggy maintained its mental connection with Shi Yu. The Ideal Domain was unfolded, trying to steal the dream of the horn fossil!
One second... two seconds... three seconds...
Ten minutes passed, and nothing happened.
"Heh." Shi Yu opened his eyes and sighed.
"Woo woo." Buggy also opened its eyes and sighed.
Why was this fossil still isolating itself from the world?
"You can continue to try," Shi Yu didn't give up, and said, "Eat a bite of Time Fruit."
"Woo—?"
Buggy was stunned and looked at Shi Yu with tears in its eyes.
It didn't have many Time Fruits left... Baby Ginseng was unwilling to make more for them.
"It's okay, it's okay, I'll have Baby Ginseng reimburse you later. This is all official business," Shi Yu said.
"Woo!!" Hearing this, Buggy immediately felt relieved and took out a Time Fruit given to it by Baby Ginseng from its own spatial pocket.
"Awoo." Then, it enlarged its body and swallowed it in one bite.
Crunch!
After crushing the fruit and swallowing it, the aura on Buggy's body began to rise steadily, briefly entering the overlord domain. And seizing the opportunity, it once again entered the dream-stealing state with Shi Yu!
Using the Dream Stealing skill with all its strength!
In the darkness, Shi Yu locked onto the horn fossil through meditation, sweat dripping from his forehead, not knowing if he could succeed this time...
"Woo—(Buggy is the best! Time Fruit is the best!)" But just then, he heard Buggy's self-praise and praise for Baby Ginseng.
With a "Woo" sound, white halos began to fill the horn fossil locked by Shi Yu in the dark meditation state. The light became larger and larger, as if to envelop Shi Yu and absorb him into another world, the dream world of the fossil.
Boom!
Shi Yu opened his eyes, and then, together with Buggy, appeared on a barren land. In this world, the sky was covered with gray clouds, and the ground was all cracked dust, a scene of desolate doomsday.
Under such a scene, a creature that was not only beautiful, but also handsome and elegant to the extreme quickly appeared in Shi Yu's eyes.
[This is—] Seeing this creature running on the barren land, Shi Yu's eyes widened instantly.
Could it be...
They succeeded?
This was the owner of the horn fossil, the Divine Beast Wind Qilin?
This creature had a body like a deer, but its body was more light and slender. On its white body, there were some cyan patterns condensed into cloud-like fur, reflecting the image of the wind. It was really completely different from the Qilin images Shi Yu had seen on Earth. It was already good if 10% could be considered similar. Compared to those Qilin portraits he had seen, it was more elegant, beautiful, and handsome. The entire body was like the embodiment of wind, and the head was also more petite and gentle.
Every time it stepped on the ground, there would be light breezes lingering around it. The more flowing hair, like cyan-blue silk, on its head also fluttered in the wind.
Unlike when they entered the Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil dream, where they were instantly killed by the violent Tyrannosaurus Rex, the eyes of this Wind Qilin, which looked like a cub, were full of fear and unease, as if it was running for its life, trying to escape from here.
Although it was a dream phantom, it seemed to have seen Shi Yu and Buggy. Still in a panic, it stepped on the breeze, and without even thinking, it threw them onto its body in Shi Yu and Buggy's dazed expressions and continued to run, as if it wanted to save some lives in the face of some disaster.
During this process, it was difficult for Shi Yu and Buggy to resist, because this dream was very strange. They felt that their power was sealed, and the surrounding natural energy was almost non-existent. Even Shi Yu and Buggy couldn't even speak at this time.
There was even a feeling like being paralyzed in bed, where they could think, but couldn't actively break free from the dream or shake their bodies.
Boom!
Then, not knowing what happened, the dream completely shattered. Shi Yu and Buggy were reborn, all drenched in sweat, and escaped from the fossil dream, reappearing in the real world. At this time, due to the side effects of the Time Fruit, Buggy was completely exhausted and lay helplessly on the table, snoring loudly.
And Shi Yu, besides sweating profusely, having a pale face, and looking a little weak, was also not in good mental condition. He shook his head and looked at the horn fossil again.
"Isn't the Qilin a mythical auspicious beast? Why does it look like a doomsday disaster is happening around it?" Shi Yu gasped and wiped his sweat.
This world also had the saying of auspicious beasts.
They succeeded, and finally entered the dream.
After seeing the Wind Qilin dream phantom in the dream, Shi Yu was very happy. However, what Shi Yu was more concerned about was the world and historical background he was in at that time.
Could that... be the Mythological Era?
After a long time, Buggy also recovered.
It also looked exhausted. It didn't even feel this uncomfortable when it entered the Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil phantom.
"Can you copy the Qilin phantom just now?" Shi Yu asked.
"Woo..." Buggy shook its head. It couldn't even move in the fossil dream just now, so it couldn't carry out the next step of dream stealing to copy its state.
"Rest, rest, and then try again," Shi Yu said unwillingly.
At the same time, he called Baby Ginseng to heal himself and Buggy.
Buggy: Σ(°△°|||)︴!
They're... still coming?
"Of course."
Buggy was in tears, feeling so tired.
...
While Shi Yu and Buggy were working hard to research the horn fossil, a day had passed outside.
During this period, Bai Xi, who had been eliminated by Shi Yu, turned grief into motivation and continued to temporarily guide other team members in tactics and brainstorming.
Although she was miserable in the individual competition, Ancient Capital University was at least the first, which was good. The team competition couldn't be too bad either!
After that, the national competition continued and the second day of the team competition began.
There were a total of nine universities. Because it was a point system, each school was required to play against the other eight schools in turn.
So there were a total of 36 major matches, and this team battle lasted for a long time and would take several days to end.
During this process, Gem Cat was too lazy to watch and slipped back to Ancient Capital, while Senior Panda still stayed at the scene, constantly accepting interviews instead of Shi Yu.
As for Shi Yu himself, he told Principal Feng and Senior Panda that he had some insights and was going to train urgently. After leaving the interviews to them, he wholeheartedly devoted himself to researching the horn fossil with Buggy. In the eyes of outsiders, he seemed to have disappeared from the national competition.
"Still not working?"
A few days later, Shi Yu and Buggy didn't know how many times they had tried to enter and steal dreams.
If they didn't have any results each time, they wouldn't be so desperate. The main thing was that every time they entered the dream, they felt that their state was better and they were constantly familiarizing themselves with the dream. So this was the reason why they were constantly trying.
Over the past few days, Shi Yu and Buggy had been able to barely move in this fossil dream. Buggy was even able to barely steal and copy its dream phantom by contacting the Wind Qilin's dream phantom in the dream.
But unfortunately, in recent times, every time they felt that something was missing. Buggy's copying progress was interrupted every time it reached 99%, and it failed to copy successfully.
Shi Yu and the others tried countless times.
With the help of abilities such as "Time Fruit," "Ideal Domain," "Virtual and Real Phantom," and "Dream Stealing," and with Shi Yu's assistance, Buggy finally made a breakthrough around the "horn fossil."
With Buggy's current temporary overlord-level power, it couldn't materialize the phantom in the fossil dream out of thin air, but relying on the horn fossil to cover the phantom on the fossil and using the fossil as the phantom's core, Buggy could barely do it at present.
No matter what, it was successfully materialized.
Buggy and Shi Yu were instantly surprised.
At the same time, through dream stealing, Buggy and Shi Yu also instantly knew the skills mastered by this Wind Qilin through dream connection.
However, what made Shi Yu and Buggy puzzled was that they didn't know if the Wind Qilin only knew these three skills, or if the fossil was too old, causing the dream phantom to be incomplete. The phantom that Buggy worked hard to materialize only had three skill traces.
Although it was a divine beast in mythology, there were no so-called divine skills.
There were only three super skills!
Of course, these three super skills were truly awesome in Shi Yu's eyes.
[Name]: Turn Bad Luck into Good
[Introduction]: Wind-type super skill that can absorb skills that are dangerous to oneself and reflect them back to the enemy with doubled power.
[Name]: Wind Spirit Orb
[Introduction]: Wind-type super skill that can absorb and adapt to most attributes, and can use the power of wind to maximize the diffusion of other attribute power effects.
[Name]: Blessing of the Wind
[Introduction]: Wind-type, Time-type, Space-type three-system super skill that uses the wind of nature to improve luck.
There were no divine skills, but that was normal. It would be unscientific if Buggy could materialize a divine beast that mastered divine skills.
Even without divine skills, the three skills that came with this Wind Qilin phantom were very powerful.
What was this Blessing of the Wind?
A three-system skill like the Ideal Dragon? And a dual time-space system? That was too perverted.
Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo!!!!!!
Hoo hoo hoo hoo!!!
At the same time.
As cyan and white winds swirled around the horn fossil, this horn fossil, which had been washed away by countless years and had lost all its energy, gradually revived the remaining dream phantom inside under the stimulation of external forces. Soon, it lingered into the appearance of the Qilin phantom that Shi Yu and Buggy saw in the dream.
"Woo!!"
However, at this moment, Buggy suddenly froze and its expression changed.
"Woo!!" It called out very nervously.
After it materialized the fossil phantom from the horn fossil, it actually had no control over the phantom at all. In the past, it had absolute control over the dream phantoms of other creatures it materialized, but this time, its power seemed to be just a medium for the dream phantom of the horn fossil to revive. The moment the phantom appeared, it lost contact with it.
"What?" Shi Yu was also stunned.
At the same time, the Wind Qilin phantom, which was not tall and was only a little over one meter tall, slowly opened its confused eyes. However, the next moment, the phantom dissipated, as if the energy on its body was not enough to allow it to be born. In just an instant, it turned back into a breeze, its figure completely dissipating. The horn fossil, which was the core of the phantom, also fell to the ground again.
This scene completely stunned Shi Yu and Buggy. Then, the extreme consumption also quickly made Shi Yu and Buggy sit on the ground, looking at the horn fossil with exhaustion.
"This phantom..."
"It's still a phantom, not a living being. So now the question is, how to transform it into a living being and keep that Blessing of the Wind." Shi Yu looked at Buggy. Buggy also looked at Shi Yu with tears in its eyes, and then they both looked at the Qilin fossil with tears in their eyes.
A skill that improves luck?
It didn't sound like much, but time and space dual system, could it be weak?
Shi Yu instantly felt that these few days were not wasted.
If he could copy this skill and add it to the maximum level, how powerful would that be?
Would it add a wind of luck to himself, so that even if an enemy wanted to harm himself from across half the planet, a meteorite could accidentally fall from the sky and smash him to death?
This was too ferocious. Taking a step back, if a wind of luck was added to two totem-level creatures who were having sex, would it be possible for them to conceive in one shot even if they were infertile?
Qilin delivering children, wouldn't it be easy to sleep with a totem?
Also, if his luck was better and the chance of listening to history could reach 100%, that would be even more perfect.
"I, Shi, must obtain this skill." Shi Yu got up. So the question was, the Tyrannosaurus Rex phantom was so difficult to transform into a mechanical life, how could he revive and transform this seemingly more difficult Qilin phantom into a mechanical life that could inherit and release the skills of the phantom's original body?
"Woo!!" Buggy asked what to do next.
Shi Yu didn't know either.
He had just gotten up when he continued to lie on the sofa like a salted fish and sighed.
"Let's just leave it like this for now. The competition will end today. Let's go and get the Polymorphic Stone and mechanical materials first..."
"It's still too tiring to research mechanical phantom beasts myself..."
"It's too troublesome to ask other legendary mechanical big shots for help. After all, it's not something urgent, and I don't have time to put all my energy into it. It would be bad if others were working and we were slacking off."
Suddenly, Shi Yu was startled.
Wait a minute.
Others working, we slacking off?
He realized that his previous thinking was completely wrong.
Why did he have to directly use phantoms to create machines?
Why did he have to achieve it in one step?
Even Gao Xuan's Ultimate Holy Dragon Beast wasn't created as a overlord race at the beginning, but was upgraded step by step.
This was already extremely outrageous and belonged to the creation of a completely new mechanical field. Even those legendary mechanics might not be able to do it with their mechanical knowledge.
Not to mention, he was just a mechanical newbie.
Find a big shot to guide him!
Soon, Shi Yu thought of this method, but it wasn't a big shot in the traditional sense.
Instead, he would create a big shot himself.
Mechanical life forms were divided into combat-type machines, auxiliary-type machines, and research-type machines.
Most machines had the ability to self-learn and grow. The so-called race level could also be improved through upgrades.
He didn't need to pursue mechanical phantom beasts from the beginning.
What if he contracted a research-type mechanical pet, and then maxed out its research ability, learning ability, creation ability, and mechanical knowledge through the skill index, and then let it study on its own how to transform itself into a mechanical phantom beast with a divine beast template?
Why did he have to research it himself!
There was no psychological pressure to exploit his pet to work.
In that instant, Shi Yu's thoughts instantly became clear, and he felt no pressure at all.
"Even contracting the most ordinary research-type mechanical life form is fine. Then, by maxing out its research ability, let it upgrade itself. I'll just be responsible for adding points and paying for materials."
"Then, when researching mechanical phantom beasts, it would be enough to have the mechanical pet and Buggy. I can slack off."
"As long as I cultivate my pet into a research-type big shot, I, the Beast Tamer, will be approximately equal to a big shot."
Next to him, listening to Shi Yu's muttering, Buggy's eyes were horrified. Damn it, what level of capitalist are you...
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Please like the extra chapter behind the main chapter, the family portrait drawn by the boss Qi Xian.