Chapter 1346: Still says there's no secret technique? Isn't this a secret technique?

Marshal Xu actually broke through!

The federation's top brass instantly exploded into an uproar!

Marshal Xu is a bit younger than Mo Yunjian; back in the day, he was also a heaven's favored prodigy.

After joining the military, he earned illustrious battle merits on the battlefield, and ultimately, relying on those merits and his personal charisma, rose step by step to become the federation's supreme commander.

Most of the federation's top brass believed he was a better fit for Marshal than Mo Yunjian.

However, after taking up the post of Marshal, he rarely took action because of his busy workload.

As the federation's supreme head of state, Marshal Xu naturally had abundant cultivation resources.

But many of the federation's top brass knew clearly that Marshal Xu had hit a bottleneck at the peak of King-tier; his two main battle pets with the best talent had been stuck, unable to break through, for over twenty years.

Being stuck for over twenty years — is that normal?

Of course it's normal!

Many King-tier peak beast tamers died without ever breaking through.

Many of them had Emperor-tier potential pets in their hands!

Yet they still died!

Because Emperor-tier potential pets are extremely rare, and extremely hard to tame; before they hatch, that's when they're easiest to subdue.

After taming them, cultivating Emperor-tier pets also requires consuming vast resources.

Moreover, Emperor-tier potential pets grow much more slowly than lower-potential pets.

Signing a contract with an Emperor-tier potential pet doesn't mean they will definitely break through to Emperor-tier.

Even if they can break through to Emperor-tier, beast tamers may not be able to wait long enough!

After all, the vast majority of genius beast tamers' first pets are basically not Emperor-tier potential pets, but Platinum-tier pets… Only Gold-tier genius beast tamers from extremely well-off families, with the help of their elders, would attempt to sign a contract with an Emperor-tier potential fierce beast egg.

The Kongyouling Society falling into Su Yang's hands follows the same logic.

When Qin Pengcheng obtained the Kongyouling, he was already quite old, and he had exactly this kind of concern.

Concerns about whether he could tame the Kongyouling, concerns about whether his lifespan would be enough to cultivate the Kongyouling to Emperor-tier…

After all, a fierce beast can only accept one contract in its entire life.

If it rebels, or isn't cultivated well, or its talent is damaged, a pet with extraordinary potential is completely wasted.

A federation top brass member asked: "Marshal Xu, is this luck?"

"I don't know either, but it should have something to do with luck!" Marshal Xu said. "My Giant Rock Dragon Beast's growth potential is Emperor-tier, but because of prolonged over-the-limit combat back in the day and multiple severe injuries, its growth potential may have been damaged. These years I've spent a massive amount of resources, yet never saw it successfully break through to Emperor-tier. I never expected that yesterday it just broke through for no apparent reason… Apart from attributing it to luck, I can't think of any other explanation!"

A pet's growth potential can likewise be damaged.

Prolonged over-the-limit combat, or suffering severe injuries, will both affect its growth potential.

This is overdrawing!

Just like with people!

Prolonged over-the-limit exhaustion, or suffering severe injuries, after recovery, one's physical health and lifespan will both be weakened.

The older generation, especially military beast tamers, most of the pets in their hands have this kind of situation.

Not only their pets, but even the beast tamers themselves — many also don't live to their natural lifespan limit.

Many military King-tier beast tamers, once they pass a hundred years old, slowly begin to feel themselves aging.

But research by the Huaxia Academy of Sciences found that King-tier beast tamers over a hundred years old are actually in their prime!

Because King-tier fierce beasts over a hundred years old in the wild are precisely in their full prime.

"General Su still says he has no secret technique!"

"If this isn't a secret technique, what is? He directly made Marshal Xu break through!"