Chapter 4: Divine Passive: Summoning Empowerment! I Became a Hexagonal Warrior?

After Mu Yunlan left, Lu Zheng also left home; he was heading out of the city to level up.

With a five-star immortal-grade divine pet in hand, even at only level one, ordinary monsters below level ten could be slaughtered at will.

Not far out of the city, he arrived at the low-level grinding grounds, Green Grassland.

The monsters here were all ordinary ones within level ten, and the vast majority were even below level five, making it very suitable for students who had just acquired their class skills to level up.

Before entering, Lu Zheng first took stock of his supplies and checked his character panel.

Before departing, his father Lu Yuantu had given him 20 bottles of "Minor Life Recovery Potion" and 50 bottles of "Minor Mana Recovery Potion" — this was about the only help they, as Farmers, could offer.

【Item: Minor Life Recovery Potion】

【Effect: Upon consumption, immediately restores 10 HP, then restores 5 HP per second for 8 seconds】

【Item: Minor Mana Recovery Potion】

【Effect: Upon consumption, immediately restores 5 MP, then restores 1 MP per second for 5 seconds】

Mana recovery was indeed very useful for Lu Zheng; though he did not participate in combat directly, repeatedly casting Summoning Art to refresh summoned beasts also consumed mana.

Casting the same Summoning Art with more mana consumed also increased the probability of obtaining a higher-quality spirit pet.

But for now, to Lu Zheng, it was still more worthwhile to spend one point of mana to perform multiple summons — mana could be recovered, and summoning slots could be refreshed without limit; as long as the quantity was large enough, he could always guarantee pulling an top-grade pet! Not to mention he already had a five-star immortal-grade spirit pet now; with that confidence, things were naturally different.

Those were all the supplies. Checking his panel, Lu Zheng was surprised to find that he had gained an extra skill.

【Skill: Triple Clone】

【Effect: Consumes 3 MP, creates three clones; clones possess 50% of the main body's base attributes, partially share skills, and consume 1 MP per minute of sustained existence】

Wasn't this one of the Three-Tailed Spirit Fox's skills? Seeing this extra skill, Lu Zheng suddenly thought of the other two passive effects of his hidden talent 【Summon the Gods】.

【Passive Effect Two: When a new summoned beast appears, you may randomly acquire one of its skills】

As long as new summoned beasts appeared, he might randomly acquire a skill — didn't this mean he only needed to keep summoning to possess dozens or even thousands of skills!? Others worked hard clearing stages, running dungeons, and killing monsters just to possibly obtain a single skill book, while he only needed to consume mana that recovered every day to gain a massive number of skills! Moreover, there were no class restrictions whatsoever.

Many skills had restrictions — for instance, Warriors and Farmers could not learn a Mage's Fireball, and likewise, a Mage could not master a Farmer's farming skills.

But he was different: as long as it was a skill a summoned beast possessed, he might master it! It could be a Mage skill or a Warrior skill, capable of firepower coverage and close combat, and even possibly mastering support abilities like healing and curses.

He was clearly a Summoner whose main body had zero combat power, yet empowered by this passive skill, he would surely develop directly into a hexagonal warrior!

And adding the third passive effect made this point even more prominent.

【Passive Effect Three: When your summoned beast levels up, you will certainly receive a partial base attribute feedback bonus】

Unlike Effect Two's complete randomness, this Effect Three meant that as long as a summoned beast leveled up, he would definitely receive base attribute feedback.

Other class holders generally had three ways to gain base attribute bonuses.

The first was natural attribute gains after leveling up; the second was obtaining substantial base attribute bonuses through class change; the third was acquiring natural treasures like spirit fruits that could permanently increase base attributes.

And all three of these, overall, provided very small bonuses with upper limits. But Lu Zheng only needed to let his summoned beasts level up to continuously gain base attribute growth.

He didn't need to risk killing monsters to level up himself, didn't need to explore dungeons for high-quality class change books, and didn't need to spend vast wealth buying natural treasures — he only needed to lie flat! Truly, as long as he was alive, he could keep getting stronger.

Under the empowerment of the three great talent passive effects, Lu Zheng felt that he was now the god of summoning!

No — perhaps one day, he would be able to summon gods and make them his servants.

Carrying his excitement, Lu Zheng headed straight into the depths of Green Grassland. The outer perimeter was all monsters below level five, little things like Explosive Rabbits and Black-Horned Rats that wouldn't even actively attack people, making it perfect for newbies to grind and level up.

But correspondingly, the experience gained was very little, and Lu Zheng, who possessed a five-star immortal-grade spirit pet, naturally looked down on these little creatures.

He crossed straight through the grassy expanse of Green Grassland and arrived at a white grassland — this was White Mist Grassland, covered in White Mist Grass with an average height of about one and a half meters. The monsters here were generally above level five, with the "White-Fanged Berserker Rat" as the dominant species.

Just as he reached the edge of White Mist Grassland, a White-Fanged Berserker Rat darted out.

This creature looked much like a kangaroo, covered in long white fur, standing upright at about one and a half meters tall — just about the same height as the White Mist Grass — baring two large fangs in a display of being quite formidable.

Seeing the 【LV. 7】 level text displayed above its head, Lu Zheng set the little fox he was holding in his arms onto the ground, waved his hand, and said:

"Go! Jiaojiao! Kill it!"

This White-Fanged Berserker Rat was five times the size of the currently level-one Three-Tailed Spirit Fox, but Lu Zheng felt it was absolutely no match for him.

And indeed, that was the case.

Tushan Jiaojiao didn't even charge forward; she just flicked her tail, and a beam of spiritual light suddenly flew from it, striking the White-Fanged Berserker Rat's head and blowing it apart!

【Skill: Tail Spirit Bullet】

【Effect: Consumes 2 MP, forms a spiritual light impact bullet at the tail, dealing 160 base spell damage】

A level-seven ordinary monster had at most 70 HP; this Tail Spirit Bullet dealt double the damage needed to kill it, not to mention hitting the head — a vital spot — for an instant kill!

【Your summoned beast "Tushan Jiaojiao" killed LV. 7 White-Fanged Berserker Rat ×1; your summoned beast "Tushan Jiaojiao" gained 56 experience points; you gained 14 experience points】

【You obtained "White-Fanged Berserker Rat's Fang" ×2】

Right now, the priority was still raising the summoned beast's level, so Lu Zheng lowered his own experience gain ratio to the minimum, taking only one-fifth and letting Tushan Jiaojiao receive the remaining four-fifths.

After a monster was killed, some items could be automatically separated out, like these "White-Fanged Berserker Rat's Fangs," but if he wanted to obtain other things from its body, he would need to have learned the Collection Art; otherwise, he could only watch the monster's corpse disappear after three minutes.

Lu Zheng summoned all his other nine one-star ordinary beast pets, letting them scout monster positions for him.

These trash-tier beast pets with no training value and painfully slow leveling were pure cannon fodder; he wouldn't feel bad if they died, and it would be perfect for continuing to summon new beast pets — maybe the next one would be another five-star immortal-grade spirit pet or even a legendary divine pet!

Looking at the little fox proudly wagging its tail at him, Lu Zheng waved his hand.

"Let's go! Conquer this place!"

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