Chapter 98: Spirit Pattern

Returning to the room, the Fire Tooth Dog watched the Hanggang sports channel as usual.

Qiao Sang, while watching an online class about pet beast spirit engravers, used a special brush for spirit engravers to sketch on the Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost's cheeks.

She wasn't just idling away her vacation time to add a skill to her repertoire; she just wanted to help with the Fire Tooth Dog's energy ball condensation.

After this period of training, she could more or less detect the problems in the Fire Tooth Dog's practice of Fire Star Rain.

Fire Star Rain is a high-tier skill; even if she added points for the Fire Tooth Dog, the energy currently in its body was simply insufficient to support its release.

Don't look at the rapid progress in the first step of condensing the energy ball.

But even if the internal structure of the energy ball was stable, I'm afraid the explosion formed in the sky wouldn't be Fire Star Rain, but a drizzle.

And that kind of drizzle with only a few drops.

There are three solutions.

The first is evolution.

Actually, practicing Fire Star Rain is just an attempt and not an urgent matter; even if it practices until more than a month later when the Fire Tooth Dog evolves into a Burning Fire Dog, it would be fine.

It's just that the worry is that even if it evolves into a Burning Fire Dog, the energy still won't be enough; after all, the basics of intermediate pet beasts learning high-tier skills are all in textbooks.

The second is props.

The reason for negation is very simple.

No money, at least no money for now.

The third is to engrave energy patterns.

This thing is mainly a technical job; although individual materials are expensive, compared to props, it's simply a drop in the bucket.

The materials and mixing ratios needed for those simple patterns can be bought online by spending money; with Qiao Sang's current financial situation, she can still afford it.

Engraving patterns mainly tests the technique; the strokes must be done in one go.

Besides the fact that pattern engraving cannot have errors, the mental power poured into every stroke must be the same.

Uneven mental power will lead to an imbalance in the energy structure of the pattern, eventually leading to failure.

This use of mental power is simply to make the Beast Taming Canon within the brain domain operate.

Usually, Beast Tamers don't feel anything when using the Beast Taming Canon to summon pet beasts, but constantly operating the Beast Taming Canon to use mental power to engrave patterns will definitely feel strenuous.

Qiao Sang had been learning to engrave energy patterns for three days and hadn't encountered this distress yet.

Pet beasts mainly rely on their own energy to release skills, and the energy patterns she is learning now have the function of absorbing external energy when releasing skills.

Qiao Sang specifically bought a month's worth of online classes on this type of pattern, and the experimental subject was the Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost.

It's not that she didn't want to experiment directly on the Fire Tooth Dog, it's just that the Fire Tooth Dog hates water, and usually, it's dawdling when taking a bath.

With the Fire Tooth Dog's habit of not liking to get wet, I'm afraid it wouldn't succeed even in a monkey's year or horse's month if she experimented on it.

The Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost didn't have this distress.

On the contrary, it was quite active in engraving patterns these three days, and every time it would take the initiative to take out the materials.

"It's drawn, you try it," Qiao Sang said, putting down the brush.

"Xun~"

The Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost extended its short claws and opened them upwards, indicating there was no rush.

It picked up the small mirror that had been prepared on the side and held it against its face, occasionally making various funny expressions by squeezing its eyes and making faces.

Qiao Sang watched helplessly from the side.

If someone who didn't know the situation saw this, they would think that what she drew wasn't a spirit pattern but a ghost face.

"Xun~"

The Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost put down the mirror and called out happily, seemingly very satisfied with the masterpiece on its face.

The next second, a purple faint light appeared on its body, but it quickly dissipated.

"Xun."

The Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost spread its hands and shook its head, indicating it was useless.

Failed again.

Although Qiao Sang was mentally prepared, she was inevitably a little disappointed.

"Knock, knock."

Just as she was about to wash off the pattern on the Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost's face, there was a knock on the door.

"Xun~"

The Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost floated over actively to open the door.

"A-Sang, why are you drawing a ghost face on the Treasure-Hunting Ghost?" Ye Ye Ranran was stunned for a moment when she saw the Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost opening the door, and asked suspiciously.

"Xun~"

The Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost laughed like a flower when it heard this, floated to the table, picked up the small mirror, and looked at itself again.

Qiao Sang: "...!"

This is a spirit pattern!

Qiao Sang moved her mouth and really wanted to explain.

But being thought of like this when the Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost wasn't making a face, if she explained it, it felt a bit like self-inflicted humiliation...

"Is this Bright Frost Coral powder?" Qiao Sang looked at the bowl in Ye Ye Ranran's hand and chose to ignore her previous question.

"Yes, I just soaked some, and brought you a bowl on the way," Ye Ye Ranran entered the room and placed the bowl on the table.

Qiao Sang picked it up and took a sip; it was slightly sweet.

"What's the situation with the third uncle? Why couldn't he gather two people to form a team for the competition?" Qiao Sang asked.

Actually, she had wanted to ask for a long time, but she couldn't open her mouth in front of the third uncle at the dining table just now, fearing to poke his sore spot.

"Why couldn't he gather them? Aren't you and I people?" Ye Ye Ranran teased.

Qiao Sang: "..."

"I'm not teasing you anymore. The reason for the third uncle is mainly because the prizes wanted by the people he originally found overlapped, and other people's pet beast track positions also overlapped."

"The marathon relay race held this time is divided into three segments: sea, land, and air, with two pet beasts for each segment. None of the friends the third uncle could call had a flying-type pet beast that could relay the air track, and your Treasure-Hunting Ghost can barely count as being in that air track," Ye Ye Ranran explained.

So it wasn't that his popularity was poor or he was being squeezed out...

"By the way, you should take the Fire Tooth Dog to practice when you have time these few days. Land is the first track, and the Fire Tooth Dog should be the second leg. The third uncle mainly wants to rely on the Roaring Swamp Crocodile to win the individual results."

"But the water is the second track. I'm worried that if your leg is too far behind, it will put psychological pressure on the Roaring Swamp Crocodile. I don't know what's wrong with it recently; it's always startled, and its psychological endurance doesn't feel that strong," Ye Ye Ranran continued.

The pressure is on the Fire Tooth Dog's side.

Qiao Sang turned her head to look at the Fire Tooth Dog, which was focused on the sports channel, and felt the problem wasn't big.

"Is Little Treasure the last leg?" Qiao Sang asked.

Ye Ye Ranran nodded and said: "It's the last leg, don't worry. There was no expectation that the team competition could be won anyway; it doesn't matter if your Little Treasure doesn't run when the time comes."

Qiao Sang looked at the Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost, which was still holding the mirror and constantly making faces.

Well, it doesn't matter if it doesn't run, then she is relieved...

In the next few days, the Fire Tooth Dog's schedule was even fuller.

In the morning, it conducted skill release training, then drank half a bottle of F-tier Energy Recovery Liquid to practice the condensation of the energy ball.

In the afternoon, it continued to repeat the morning's training.

It's just that after drinking the F-tier Energy Recovery Liquid, it wouldn't practice the energy ball until it was exhausted, but would leave time to run a few laps around Liu Gan Creek.

After drinking milk at night to recover on its own, it still had to practice the condensation of the energy ball.

It was simply even more desperate than when Qiao Sang wanted to get into Holy Water Middle School back then.

With her own pet beast being so hardworking, Qiao Sang was also influenced.

During a perfectly good vacation, she was actually reading books to supplement her knowledge points and practicing spirit patterns on the Little Treasure-Hunting Ghost's face.

July 24th.

Sunny.

The day of the Qitang Town Marathon Relay Race. ===== CHAPTER 99 =====