Chapter 76

The Longyou Zhuzai didn't understand; she just wanted to give good things to Ge Bai.

Pretending not to understand the Shennong System's dissatisfaction, the Longyou Zhuzai communicated directly with Ge Bai using her Spirit Sense.

"Stop for a moment, little girl. I am the Plum Garden's Master Spirit Plant, the Dragon Roaming Jade Calyx Plum." When speaking to Ge Bai, the Longyou Zhuzai's voice was exceptionally gentle.

But this sudden Spirit Sense transmission still gave Ge Bai a fright. She suddenly stopped the Spirit Power circulation in her body, which also caused Da Liu to stop.

Da Liu didn't hear the Longyou Zhuzai's voice and just looked at Ge Bai in confusion.

Ge Bai didn't explain to Da Liu, but made a gesture for Da Liu to continue first. She turned and walked to the door of the treehouse, sat down, and also mobilized her Spirit Sense to transmit.

"Greetings, Longyou Zhuzai."

"Don't be so formal. I see that you and the Weeping Willow are still using the meditation method to condense Spirit Power; that is still too slow."

The Longyou Zhuzai went straight to the point.

"These are two sets of higher-level methods for improving ability: the Intermediate Meditation Technique and the Advanced Spirit Operation Technique. With your and the Weeping Willow's aptitude, you should both be able to master them."

"I've had a Spirit Plant send them to you."

"These two sets of methods were originally rewards for the 2nd and 4th layers of the trial, respectively, but I'm giving them to you in advance. The three Spirit Plants you've contracted all have potential; cultivate them well."

This pie that suddenly fell from the sky made Ge Bai a bit dazed.

When she was chatting with Lu Nan before, she vaguely heard him mention that there were more efficient Spirit Power cultivation methods among the trial rewards, and she had been quite envious.

He saw a small plum tree growing out of thin air beside the treehouse where they were.

After the plum tree grew to a certain extent, it shook its branches, pulled two thin bark books from its trunk, extended its branches, and handed these two books to Ge Bai, who was sitting at the door of the treehouse.

Meditation Technique, Spirit Operation Technique—these were the three words on the covers of the two books, respectively.

He didn't expect her to just give them to him?

"Thank you, Longyou Zhuzai."

Ge Bai didn't know what else to say. It was probably the Longyou Zhuzai caring about young Spirit Plants. If a pie fell from the sky, he would just accept it. Besides that Dragon Roaming Jade Calyx Plum, no one else could transmit sound directly with the Master's aura in the Plum Garden.

If the Longyou Zhuzai harbored malicious intentions, everyone would be finished; she wouldn't play tricks on such a small matter.

Thinking of this, Ge Bai felt very relieved and opened the Meditation Technique to read it carefully.

Ge Bai, who had long since memorized the Alliance's general education meditation method, easily compared the similarities and differences between the two Spirit Power cultivation methods.

They were generally consistent, with obvious more refined adjustments at several key nodes. In short, it wasn't difficult to learn.

Ge Bai began to practice directly according to the method described in the Meditation Technique.

Qian Dai had been paying attention to Da Liu's Spirit Power circulation, and seeing Ge Bai also practicing alone, she couldn't help but look over curiously.

She was surprised to find that the speed of Spirit Power circulation in Ge Bai's body was much faster than Da Liu's. Just a moment ago, the Spirit Power circulation speed in Ge Bai and Da Liu's bodies had been about the same.

Qian Dai immediately stood up, tiptoed to Ge Bai's side, stretched her head, and happened to see the "Meditation Technique" Ge Bai had spread out in front of him.

She looked at the Meditation Technique, looked at Ge Bai, and then turned back to look at Da Liu.

Qian Dai's clever little brain turned, and she immediately understood: Ge Bai had obtained a new cultivation method.

Then she could overtake him on a bend and be one step ahead of Da Liu! She wanted to learn the new cultivation method directly.

The full-of-spirit Qian Dai jumped in front of Ge Bai and looked at the Meditation Technique happily, but the more she looked, the more silent she became.

This—the text on this didn't contain Spirit Power and couldn't be read by communicating with Spirit Sense; she couldn't understand anything.

Oh right, she was illiterate.

Qian Dai suddenly remembered this and was hit hard.

Ge Bai had just finished a cycle of Spirit Power circulation in his body using the Meditation Technique. It went very smoothly, and he opened his eyes, feeling refreshed, preparing to teach the "Meditation Technique" to Da Liu and Qian Dai first.

He saw the little orchid, who was lying listlessly on the Meditation Technique in front of him.

Ge Bai didn't think either and asked directly, "Eh, Qian Dai? Can you understand it? Are you literate?"

Subconscious questioning is the most hurtful.

The little orchid didn't want to say a word, turned her head woodenly, and moved back to the straw cushion she had been sitting on just now.

What is literacy? Don't know. What did Ge Bai say? Didn't hear.

Seeing the little orchid like this, Ge Bai didn't know why she was acting up again, and couldn't be bothered to worry about it, just treating it as a child suddenly being hypersensitive.

He closed the Meditation Technique, walked back to his original position, and interrupted Da Liu's meditation.

"Da Liu, Qian Dai, come here. I just got a new meditation method from the Longyou Zhuzai. I just tried it, and the effect is indeed good, and it's not difficult."

"I'll take you through it twice; it should be quite easy to learn."

Ge Bai was just preparing to teach Da Liu first when he saw Qian Dai jump directly in front of him and Da Liu, saying angrily:

"I want to learn first! Ge Bai, teach me first!"

Ge Bai was completely baffled; he really didn't know what was wrong with the little orchid.

Da Liu was very indifferent.

"Bai Bai, teach Qian Dai first. I'll practice with the meditation method for a while longer; it won't waste time."

Ge Bai thought this was fine, so he took Qian Dai to meditate with the Meditation Technique first.

The little orchid, having gotten her wish, finally overcame the blow from just now.

Hmph, being illiterate wouldn't stop her from learning the Meditation Technique first!

After teaching Qian Dai and Da Liu and accompanying them in their practice for two hours, he glanced at the time; it was heading toward 12 o'clock.

The effect was still very good; both Da Liu and Qian Dai's Spirit Power had increased by more than 60 points.

Currently, Da Liu's Spirit Power value was Level 5 Mortal Spirit Realm (87.42/500), and Qian Dai's Spirit Power value was Level 8 Mortal Spirit Realm (421.93/800).

When he built the resource room for Da Liu and Qian Dai, the effect should be even better. — The next afternoon.

Jinggang City Level Arena Tournament audition venue.

Ge Bai arrived early.

He went to the waiting area to sign in and originally wanted to go back to the stands to watch a couple of matches, but unexpectedly, he was pinned in the waiting area by the staff.

"Contestant Ge Bai, please wait here. Your match is scheduled quite early today, and your opponent has just arrived. Let's start with your match later."

The staff was adjusting the order of contestants based on the actual situation, preparing to arrange Ge Bai's match today as the first match of the afternoon session.

Ge Bai had no objections; the states of him, Da Liu, and Qian Dai were always adjusted well.

"No problem. Who is my opponent for the next match?"

"Contestant name: Zhao Hui. Profession: Beast Master. Registered Pet Beast: Mechanical Mouse (Extraordinary Realm Level 1). Contestant ranking: 103rd. After the last match, the Pet Beast's information was just updated, promoting it to the Extraordinary Realm."

Ge Bai frowned slightly after hearing this. He knew about mechanical Pet Beasts, and the Mechanical Mouse wasn't rare. The only thing that needed special attention was whether this Mechanical Mouse had a proliferation skill.

After being modified and cultivated by a Beast Master, a Mechanical Mouse had a probability of awakening a proliferation skill, like an interstellar warship, separating multiple small mechanical mice from the main body to attack in the form of a mouse swarm.

It was just that he didn't expect to encounter it so soon. In arena tournaments at all levels, contestants with proliferation skills were particularly difficult to deal with.

Normally, a Mechanical Mouse's attack power wasn't high. This Zhao Hui's registered Pet Beast was just this one Extraordinary Realm Level 1 Mechanical Mouse, yet his ranking wasn't low. Without checking the data in detail, eight or nine times out of ten, it relied on this proliferation skill.

Before Ge Bai could think too much, the staff urged him to take the stage.

The moment he took the stage, Ge Bai mobilized his Spirit Sense to link to the system and looked at Zhao Hui on the opposite side and the Mechanical Mouse he brought with him.

This Mechanical Mouse had a silver-blue paint job, its body was nearly half a meter long, and its tail was also nearly a meter long. It could be seen that the Beast Master took very good care of the Pet Beast.

Looking closely at the Mechanical Mouse's information.

【Species: Mechanical Mouse (Extraordinary Race)】

【Spirit Power value: Extraordinary Realm Level 1 (11.24/100)】

【Attribute: Thunder】

【Skill: Rodent Gnawing - Proficient. Skill description: Simulates rodents, gnawing on opponents to cause damage.】

【Skill: Lightning Attraction - Proficient. Skill description: Uses the main body as a base point to summon lightning to strike the main body. During the process of the lightning forming in the high altitude and striking the main body, it causes damage to a certain range along the path.】

【Skill: Mouse Swarm - Mastery. Skill description: Proliferates into small mechanical mice, forming a mouse swarm to attack.】

Sure enough, there was a mouse swarm skill, and there was even Lightning Attraction?

Blindly guessing, the small mice proliferated from this Mechanical Mouse could also be used as the main body for Lightning Attraction. What was the difference between this and small bombs one by one? Ge Bai had a headache. No wonder this Beast Master could break into the top 100 of the audition tournament while in the Mortal Spirit Realm.

The match began.

"Lanhu, proliferate."

Zhao Hui directly ordered the Mechanical Mouse to start proliferating. He saw the Mechanical Mouse's mecha start to deform and unfold from its abdomen, and more than twenty small mechanical mice about the size of an adult's palm were assembled.

As soon as the small mechanical mice landed, they swarmed toward Da Liu's direction.

Ge Bai didn't have time to complain about why this Mechanical Mouse was called Lanhu, and directly gave instructions to Da Liu.

"Wind Blade. Aim at the small mice."

Da Liu looked at the mechanical mice all over the ground and shivered all over. He didn't know he hated rats.

Hearing Ge Bai's instructions, he hurriedly mobilized his Spirit Power, and Wind Blades flew out one after another.

To be reasonable, the number of proliferations of Zhao Hui's Mechanical Mouse couldn't be said to be despairingly large.

Many mechanical Pet Beasts that had evolved to the Overlord level or even the Commander level could proliferate a huge number of clones. The saying that one person and one pet was a troop was no joke.

There was a true story in the history of the Alliance: when the Interstellar Alliance was conquering the third planet, a Beast Master in the Alliance's Fifth Squadron was tasked with being stationed on an isolated island with his squad.

The position battle was exceptionally tragic. After one charge by the exotic beasts, he was the only one left in the squad.

His Pet Beast, the Mechanical Wasp Beast, broke through under such extreme circumstances. Just like that, one person and one pet not only held the position but fought more bravely as they fought. When reinforcements arrived, they had already cleared the entire isolated island.

Surrounded by bees, they were like gods.

Zhao Hui's Mechanical Mouse was still far behind.

But these twenty-plus small mechanical mice were enough to give Da Liu a headache.

The accuracy of the Wind Blades against the small mechanical mice wasn't high, plus they moved very fast.

After two rounds of Wind Blades, eight or nine small mechanical mice remained, and they were about to rush into Da Liu's close range.

Ge Bai frowned. Da Liu's level of response in this wave was quite average.

He thought very seriously about whether to find a rodent Pet Beast to continue special training for him in the next two days? "Willow Whip."

Ge Bai wasn't in a hurry. He had previously only speculated that the small mechanical mice could also be used as the main body for Lightning Attraction, but he wasn't sure.

It was just right to let a few in to see what kind of fighting style the opponent had.

At this time, the occupancy rate of the audience in the stands was about half, and many people had been paying long-term attention since the audition tournament began.

Zhao Hui's Mechanical Mouse could also be considered a bright performance, and there were not a few people who had watched his matches and knew his information.

"The Mechanical Mouse clones have entered the willow tree's close range; another wave is coming, and this match is another match without suspense."

"Don't the contestants do any strategy before the match? Zhao Hui's data isn't hard to find."

A bald, burly man curled his lips in disdain. In fact, this was him being nitpicky.

The mobility of contestants in the audition tournament was particularly large. Some Beast Masters and Spirit Plant Masters might come to participate in two matches and then never come again.

Unlike city-level, regional-level, and national-level arena tournaments, the number and personnel of participating contestants were fixed when the tournament began.

So very few people studied their opponents during the audition tournament stage. Basically, whoever they met was whoever they met, focusing on randomly opening a blind box.

If they won, their ranking would rise; if they lost, it didn't matter. They would just pay another registration fee and fight again. It wasn't like losing one match would clear their ranking.

And mechanical Pet Beasts were a relatively niche branch among all categories of Pet Beasts.

It was good enough if ordinary Beast Masters and Spirit Plant Masters could remember that the Mechanical Mouse had a proliferation skill. Lightning Attraction was considered a mutation skill among Mechanical Mice.

Zhao Hui and this Mechanical Mouse had indeed been relatively bright in the mechanical Pet Beast circle recently, but they hadn't broken out of the circle, and their attention was far worse than Ge Bai's.

These two people either had contracted mechanical Pet Beasts themselves or were particularly concerned about mechanical Pet Beasts, which was why they were exceptionally familiar with Zhao Hui and the Mechanical Mouse's information.

Ge Bai calmly watched everything on the field. After the small mechanical mice approached Da Liu, Da Liu felt even more uncomfortable, and the Willow Whip, fully charged with power, danced wildly.

Each whip carried the sound of breaking through the air, smashing onto the arena floor, almost leaving faint marks on the floor.

The power was there, but the accuracy was clearly insufficient.

Even if Da Liu only used half his power for the Willow Whip, it was enough to smash the small mechanical mice that were hit by the Willow Whip into pieces.

"Bai Bai."

Da Liu really couldn't hold it back and called out to Ge Bai, but his confidence was very insufficient, and his voice was a bit hollow.

Qian Dai was already held in Ge Bai's arms and could launch a skill at any time.

Ge Bai knew what Da Liu meant—he wanted Qian Dai to space-shift him away directly. With the blessing of the Time Soil, it was best to place him directly in mid-air to stand firm.

But Ge Bai pretended not to understand. Participating in the audition tournament was originally to hone combat levels. If he wanted to shrink back after encountering a little difficulty, how could that work?

Seeing Da Liu like this, Ge Bai had already decided to arrange for him to practice against rodent Pet Beasts.

Honing was honing, but Ge Bai wouldn't watch Da Liu really get stuck in the mud.

Whenever a small mechanical mouse approached a distance where the Willow Whip wasn't easy to exert force, Qian Dai would directly shift this mechanical mouse to a distance.

This also consumed much less for Qian Dai.

Seeing this, Da Liu also knew that he needed to face the current situation himself, suppressed his disgust for the Mechanical Mouse, and put more effort into every Willow Whip he lashed out.