"Abu, show the little junior brother a demonstration!"
"Awoo!"
The Thunder Qilin Turtle let out a sound similar to a dragon's chant; the next second, purple lightning burst forth from the turtle's shell covered in purple scales, and intertwined bolts quickly condensed into a suit of thunder armor on the turtle's surface.
"Holy crap! That's kinda cool!"
The Thorny Thunder Spur technique was even cooler; in an instant, the Thunder Qilin Turtle transformed into a "porcupine," and then dazzling purple lightning struck indiscriminately around it.
"Senior brother, I want to learn the Thunder Armor and Thorny Thunder Spur techniques!"
Seeing these two moves performed by the Thunder Spirit Turtle, Chen Mo was instantly moved.
Right now, the Blazing Flame Fox's strongest point is actually not its attack or its speed, but its defensive power. If it manages to learn Thunder Armor and Thorny Thunder Spur, it could be said to be invincible at the Awakened Stage!
Even if it can't defeat the opponent, the other side won't even think about breaking through its defense!
Mastering these two techniques will also provide an extra trump card for the upcoming Eaglet Cup, greatly increasing my chances of winning!
"Cough cough, it's not that your senior brother doesn't want to teach you, but both of these are high-level techniques, and it's extremely difficult for an Awakened Stage Spiritual Beast to master them. Your senior brother suggests that at the Awakened Stage, you should not blindly try to learn too many techniques. Everyone's time is limited; biting off more than you can chew, you know!"
Spiritual Beasts at the Awakened Stage rarely have Spirit Masters who would spend a lot of time having their Spiritual Beasts practice polishing low-level moves or learning high-level techniques.
Because once the Spiritual Beast levels up, they can learn intermediate or high-level skills, which are naturally much more powerful and effective than low-level moves.
And as the growth levels of the Spiritual Beasts increase, their mastery of low-level skills will also naturally improve.
"Don't worry, Senior Brother Pili, my Jiu Bao is quite perceptive, and has already learned Thunderclaw and another technique in the last two days."
Chen Mo said before letting Xiao Jiu demonstrate.
"So fast!?"
She Pili was stunned for a moment, seeing the two moves performed with proficiency that reached mastery (in reality, it's just proficiency, boosted by the Thunderbolt King), he began to doubt his life.
He suddenly understood why his old man was so anxious to come back that day.
The talent of this Blazing Flame Fox is simply monstrous!
After learning about the astonishing talent of the Blazing Flame Fox, She Pili was not stingy and let the Thunder Qilin Turtle teach the Blazing Flame Fox how to use Thunder Armor and Thorny Thunder Spur.
Normally, it's very difficult for an Awakened Stage Spiritual Beast to learn high-level skills.
But with the blessing of the Thunderbolt King, Xiao Jiu's perception was astonishing, and it took only two days to master both of these high-level skills.
However, due to its low growth level, for the time being, it could only release an incomplete version of them.
During this time, Chen Mo also learned why She Pili was either always sleeping or on his way to sleep.
Actually, She Pili wasn't sleeping; he was meditating.
The reason for his round-the-clock meditation was because he was almost being "squeezed dry."
The growth rate of the Thunder Qilin Turtle was too fast, surpassing the increase in She Pili's spiritual power.
The level and quantity of Spiritual Beasts a Spirit Master can contract are intricately related to the level of their Spiritual Space.
A Level 1 Spiritual Space is 10-50m³ in size, can only contract Awakened Stage Spiritual Beasts, with a maximum quantity of 1.
A Level 2 Spiritual Space can still contract only 1 Spiritual Beast, but the maximum growth level allowed is raised to the Extraordinary Rank, and the size is 51-100m³.
A Level 3 Spiritual Space can contract one more Spiritual Beast, reaching an area of 101-500m³.
Currently, She Pili's Spiritual Space is only at Level 3, and he can contract, at most, Extraordinary Rank Spiritual Beasts.
If the Thunder Qilin Turtle breaks through to the Commander Stage before She Pili's Spiritual Space reaches Level 4, their contract would automatically dissolve.
This gave Chen Mo some food for thought.
Seems like just relying on your Spiritual Beasts to work hard isn't enough; the Spirit Master themselves also need to buckle down—that's the real deal!
For the next few days, Chen Mo lived a life that just cycled through three points.
Home - Hospital - Thunderbolt Daoist School.
With the blessings from King of Scrolls and the reciprocal help from Xiao Jiu, Chen Mo's spiritual power saw a nice boost, and the Spiritual Space was expanded to 30 cubic meters.
During this period, Chen Mo naturally didn't miss out on the daily challenges.
He gained 3 white entries and 1 green entry.
Chen Mo broke down the less useful green entry "Cross-Dressing Boss" into 10 entry coins, exchanging them in the entry shop for a white entry solidification, and solidified "Fitness Expert" for Xiao Jiu first.
This "Cross-Dressing Boss" entry came from the daily challenges, with completion conditions that required either oneself or a male Spiritual Beast to try on 100 pieces of female clothing and post them online.
The effect is that one's gender won't be identified while cross-dressing.
Unfortunately, Xiao Jiu's gender did not meet the requirement, so Chen Mo had to do it himself.
He ordered 100 pieces of women's clothing online, tried and photographed each one, registered an alternate account to post them, and then deleted the posts at the speed of light.
Luckily, this challenge didn't cost money, as the clothing could be returned after trying them on; otherwise, Chen Mo would never have accepted this challenge!
These past few days, Xiao Jiu's Electric growth level had seen a nice improvement, reaching Awakening Level 7.
The Thunder Training Field at the Thunderbolt Daoist School was rich in Electric Spiritual Power, and with the addition from King of Scrolls and the assistance of the Condensed Thunder Knight, training felt absolutely like flying.
Of course, what's more important is that Xiao Jiu's combat power has started to take shape.
The two lower-order skills, "Thunderclaw" and "Swift as the Wind and Charged as Lightning," have both been trained to a proficient level.
Among them, Xiao Jiu also grasped a little trick of "Thunderclaw," spreading the electricity to the opponent's entire body upon hit, causing a paralyzing effect.
The two high-level techniques "Thorny Thunder Spur" and "Thunder Armor" have been officially started.
As for its innate skill "Spark," it is still... at the introductory stage.
Time flies, and soon there's only one week left before school starts.
A new week, Chen Mo sat up in bed.
As the morning light scattered across his face, he slowly opened his eyes, and after a night of meditation, he didn't feel tired at all.
Gently stroking the deeply sleeping Xiao Jiu beside him, Chen Mo felt quite content. What could be more delightful than waking up and first thing being able to stroke a little fox?
"Another new week, let's see what sort of challenge tasks have been refreshed."
Chen Mo habitually opened the entry training manual.
Both daily and weekly challenges had already been refreshed.
Three daily challenges, all white entries, with not high completion difficulty, but also not very effective; none of the refreshed entries were of much use.
I'll just pick the easiest one and get it done later.
The focus is the weekly challenge.
Delicacy Tracker (Green)
Challenge content: Find 5 gourmet class Spiritual Beasts within a week.
Entry effect: You can sense the presence of gourmet class Spiritual Beasts or high-end ingredients within a hundred meters.
Archer (Green)
Challenge content: Using shooting items or long-range skills, hit the center of a target 200 meters away 100 times
Entry effect: Hit rate slightly improved.
"Archer is still too difficult for the current Xiao Jiu, almost impossible to complete. Refresh, refresh."
Chen Mo didn't hesitate and chose to refresh right away.
The green text shattered, then coalesced once again.