"Qiuqiu was great today, you worked hard!"
Walking back to the welfare center, Lin Su held Qiuqiu in his arms, carefully caressing it, a look of pity appearing in his eyes.
To completely drain Qiuqiu's physical strength and encourage its body to instinctively absorb the residual energy from the Energy Cube under extreme conditions, Lin Su had arranged a much heavier training schedule for Qiuqiu today than yesterday.
Not only did the number of Frost Storm training sessions double, but the difficulty of the other two skills increased as well.
Under such a large amount of training, Qiuqiu not only fully absorbed the residual energy from the Energy Cube it ate yesterday, but it also consumed another cube during the training and absorbed most of the energy.
In the span of two days, having invested resources worth over a thousand Union coins, Qiuqiu's gains were substantial.
The Snow Blow skill, which Qiuqiu had just learned yesterday, was already mastered today, easily producing large swathes of snowflakes under any condition, and even Snow Trace, which showed little progress yesterday, had visible improvement today.
As for the core skill, Frost Storm, after dozens of hard training sessions and with the addition of the Energy Cube, Qiuqiu can now expand the attack range to about five and a half meters and maintain its posture steadily.
Such a Frost Storm could only be considered barely entry-level. Only when it can be released at will during running and jumping can it be considered as being proficiently mastered.
Moreover, Qiuqiu's standard energy value has improved from 189P yesterday to 197P today.
Faced with Lin Su's encouragement, Qiuqiu, fighting against its fatigue, rubbed its fluffy head against the palm of his hand.
"Meow! (＾ω＾)" (Lin Su worked hard too!)
"Let's take a good rest in the Beast Taming Space."
"Meow!" (Yay!)
A pale yellow light flickered, and Qiuqiu in his arms entered the Beast Taming Space. Feeling that Qiuqiu quickly fell asleep in the Beast Taming Space, with its physical strength recovering at a faster rate, Lin Su smiled.
But after feeling the Energy Cubes in his pocket, his smile faded somewhat.
Yesterday, by teaching that girl the Snow Blow in a different teaching method, Lin Su earned two first-level Energy Cubes. During the training, as Qiuqiu continuously absorbed the energy from the Energy Cubes to improve itself, Lin Su fully realized why the cubes were so expensive.
Eating the Energy Cubes combined with training yielded results several times better than regular training.
So, after feeding the second Energy Cube to Qiuqiu today, Lin Su bit the bullet and bought two catnip-flavored first-level Energy Cubes and two Ice attribute first-level Energy Cubes.
The former was specifically for replenishing training energy, the kind Qiuqiu ate, while the latter could help a beast better master its own elemental power, proving more helpful and valuable to the beast.
The regular first-level Energy Cube cost five hundred Union coins, the catnip flavor was priced fifty coins more, and each Ice attribute first-level Energy Cube cost fifteen hundred Union coins.
In total, he had spent four thousand one hundred Union coins. Including other expenses like renting a training ground for these two days, Lin Su's initial fifteen thousand Union coins were now down to just ten thousand.
Ten thousand Union coins, if used sparingly, could still support Qiuqiu's training for a while, but there would definitely come a day when it would run out.
Lin Su's earning speed was nowhere near the spending rate of Qiuqiu's training; relying on his previous money-saving methods to support himself and Qiuqiu was unrealistic.
So cutting costs was not enough, he also needed to increase revenue.
He had to think of new ways to make money, not necessarily to be wealthy, but to at least meet the needs of his and Qiuqiu's training.
In the past he couldn't have earned so much, but now he had advantages others did not possess.
Being able to travel to another world was his greatest leverage.
How to monetize this ability without raising too much suspicion?
A contemplative light shone in Lin Su's eyes.
Bringing items from the world of Shenwu was not feasible.
The Beast Taming Space couldn't hold anything other than beasts, and since he wasn't wearing it, Lin Su couldn't bring anything back with him.
If he contracts a space-type beast with personal space in the future, he might be able to resolve the issue of transporting items.
For now, the only thing he could bring back was some knowledge from the world of Shenwu.
Such as entirely new evolution pathways or novel teaching skills.
Or like yesterday, exchanging existing teaching skills in new ways for the training resources he needed.
The last option was the safest; new teaching methods created from existing skills could easily be attributed to a sudden inspiration.
But the problem was that not every teaching method in the world of Shenwu was superior to Blue Star's.
The two worlds explored the capabilities of Beast Tamers in fundamentally different ways; Shenwu stressed experience and bold experimentation, while the exploration of the beast path on Blue Star was closely linked to science.
If compared, Blue Star's methods were actually more efficient. The Snow Blow was merely an exception; Lin Su couldn't produce another teaching method superior to that of Blue Star's in a short amount of time.
Therefore, this approach was not viable, and in the end, the means of making money would have to rely on new teaching skills and new evolution pathways.
The emergence of new teaching skills often started with the Talent Skills of a certain beast as a template. After long-term research and pattern matching, a universal teaching method is finally created to allow other beasts without that Talent Skill to learn it.