Chapter 29

The healer waved his hand indifferently and turned to leave.

Ran Caijiao patted her head.

"Ah, I can't blame you for not knowing; this belongs to high school knowledge. I forgot you're in the third year of junior high this year."

"Speaking of which, your Weeping Ancient Willow is really amazing, and your battle command is also great."

Talking about the battle, Ran Caijiao became interested.

Not only her, but her Pet Beast, Yinkai Jingang, also leaned over.

"Ou, ou-ou!"

Ran Caijiao and Yinkai Jingang communicated in low voices, and before long, both the person and the ape looked at Ge Bai with full expectation.

"Ge Bai, Gangzi said he hasn't seen this kind of attack method and still wants to have a match with the Weeping Ancient Willow, is that okay?"

Ge Bai looked at the two-meter-tall Yinkai Jingang and was speechless.

Without responding directly, she chose to seek the opinion of her own Da Liu first.

"Da Liu, do you still want to have another match? The opponent is Yinkai Jingang."

As she spoke, she pointed to the giant Gangzi, who looked very well-behaved squatting on the ground not far away.

Da Liu moved his trunk and willow silk that had just been healed, feeling refreshed, and then nodded.

"No problem, Bai Bai. I can do it. The healing spell is great."

Ge Bai was still a bit hesitant.

"But the opponent is really strong; no matter how you look at it, there's no chance of winning."

Unlike Ge Bai's worry, Da Liu didn't take it seriously at all.

"Let's try it."

Fine, since her own Pet Beast said so, what else could Ge Bai say?

She patted the trunk twice, turned to meet Ran Caijiao's expectant gaze, and her words still carried a hint of hesitation.

"A battle isn't impossible, but how to fight?"

"The Spirit Power level difference is too far; the intensity of Wind Blade and Willow Whip is not enough to cross levels, and they probably can't break through your Gangzi's defense."

In terms of Pet Beast battles, Ge Bai had always been very clear-headed.

Ran Caijiao waved her hand carelessly.

"Just practice for one round."

She felt a bit embarrassed.

"Actually, it's mainly because our Gangzi has a quirk; he gets itchy whenever he sees an opponent he hasn't fought before."

Hearing his Beast Master expose his old bottom like this, the Yinkai Jingang beside him laughed and scratched his head.

Fine, let's fight then.

But Ge Bai wasn't in a hurry and held Ran Caijiao back.

"We request to postpone the battle for a while; Da Liu just told me he realized the prototype of a new skill and needs to practice for a while."

Ge Bai adjusted the order of discovering the skill and used Da Liu as an excuse, which sounded more reliable.

Ran Caijiao naturally had no objections and was very willing.

She was very willing to see Gangzi's opponent use more skills in the battle.

Especially since the opponent might be the only Weeping Ancient Willow in the entire interstellar space that could use skills.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, you guys take your time practicing, as long as you need."

Ran Caijiao also knew that her proposal for a battle was indeed a bit abrupt, but she had to find a way to satisfy the needs raised by her own Pet Beast.

Seeing that Ge Bai finally agreed, she hurriedly pulled Gangzi to jump onto the arena, looking afraid that Ge Bai and Da Liu would go back on their word.

Without any intention of urging Ge Bai, she directly pulled Yinkai Jingang to sit cross-legged on the arena, and the person and the ape began to meditate and adjust their breathing.

Ge Bai didn't expect her to be so hardworking; if she wasn't battling, she was cultivating.

She couldn't help but sigh that there really was no strength that appeared out of thin air. Even having a system was useless! The system didn't fill up the skill bar out of thin air either!

"Trash system."

Really unable to help it, Ge Bai wanted to scold the system every day.

"Ding! Defeat (repel) Spirit Plant/Spirit Beast mission progress reminder: Below First Tier (7/100), First Tier and Above (0/10)."

"Mission completion time limit: 14 days 21 hours."

"Mission failure penalty: Eradication."

A series of emotionless system sounds rang out.

What kind of garbage is this? This system can even threaten people?

Ge Bai gritted her teeth, took a few deep breaths, and tried to calm her mood.

Forget it, forget it; the battle with the Flat-topped Bear Macaque just now, back and forth for two rounds, counted as two repels, which was the system's conscience.

Trying to comfort herself, Ge Bai couldn't be bothered to complain about the system anymore and directly took Da Liu to walk two steps further away from the arena before standing still.

In fact, she also knew that winning or losing the battle wasn't the most important thing; what mattered was the improvement of Da Liu's strength.

So Ge Bai decided to hold the Buddha's foot temporarily to see if she could let Da Liu have some new breakthroughs in skills.

She solemnly said to Da Liu.

"Da Liu, actually, besides the skills you just used, you also have another skill."

Visibly, Da Liu perked up, becoming exceptionally spirited.

As expected, he was still that hardworking Da Liu.

"Ah, Bai Bai, what is it? Tell me quickly!"

Ge Bai had been pondering for the past few days; after all, the damn system only gave the name of a skill, and the rest was all guessing.

She wasn't very clear about the specific situation of Da Liu's skill called "Storm Willow Blade Hammer," which made her very passive, so she hadn't mentioned it to Da Liu.

But under the current circumstances, she was prepared to tell Da Liu everything she could think of to see if she could trigger this skill.

"The name of this skill is 'Storm Willow Blade Hammer,' and I think it should still be considered a melee skill."

"According to my understanding, it might be a skill evolved by combining Wind Blade on the basis of Willow Whip."

"Look, Da Liu, your willow silk is also in clusters; it first extends from the main trunk to multiple branches, and then each branch grows a cluster of willow silk."

"We can try to gather Spirit Power on the branches, infuse all the willow silk on one branch with Spirit Power, and then urge the willow branch to exert force from the root of the branch to swing this entire cluster of willow silk."

"This might be the prototype of the skill."

Ge Bai explained her idea in as much detail as possible.

"Then I'll try."

Da Liu nodded as if he understood, and directly began to mobilize the Spirit Power in his body.

In fact, this first step of mobilizing Spirit Power in the body was a challenge for Da Liu.

For ordinary Spirit Beasts, the most common thing was to mobilize Spirit Power to the limbs and trunk; even mobilizing Spirit Power to the eyes and ears, and using it on this basis, were all medium-to-high-level skills.

Like the Luxury Pig Beast that had battled Da Liu, it had a "Ten Thousand Arrows Fired," which required subdividing Spirit Power to every single spike; that was a high-level skill learned only after evolving to the Third Tier.

If Ge Bai's line of thought was correct, then the difficulty of Da Liu's "Storm Willow Blade Hammer" was only stronger than "Ten Thousand Arrows Fired," not weaker.

If the effort and reward were proportional, then the power of the skill was very much worth looking forward to.

Da Liu could currently skillfully urge about twelve willow silks, and the willow silk on this branch clearly exceeded this value; even on the thinnest branch, there were twenty or thirty willow silks.

Not letting Da Liu try slowly by himself, Ge Bai directly pressed her hand on Da Liu's trunk and used the Meditation Technique to help him mobilize and comb the flow of Spirit Power together; this efficiency was much higher.

Even if the Spirit Power contained in Da Liu's body wasn't much now, it was enough to be distributed to every willow silk on one branch.

At most, the Spirit Power contained in the willow silk on average would be less; in that case, it would affect the attack power of the skill, but it wouldn't affect Da Liu learning this skill.

Gradually, the Spirit Power moved into place slowly and arduously.

There's a chance!

(End of this chapter)