Chapter 5: Just Lying Flat Is Fine — Level-Up Notifications Are So Annoying! Turn Them Off!

Half an hour later, that wonderful voice rang out beside his ear once more.

【Your summoned beast 'Tushan Jiaojiao' has reached LV. 2! All attributes increased!】

【Summoned Beast: Tushan Jiaojiao】

【Race: Three-Tailed Spirit Fox】

【Level: LV. 2 (0.01%)】

【HP: 1200/1200】

【Mana: 200/200】

【Strength: 20】

【Agility: 30】

【Spirit: 30】

【Constitution: 20】

【Your talent 'Summon the Gods' triggered a passive effect. You gained Agility +2, Spirit +2.】

There it was — passive effect three: whenever a summoned beast leveled up, his own base attributes would inevitably increase at random! Seeing his base attributes increase by a total of 4 points, Lu Zheng could not help but grin and laugh out loud.

You see, an ordinary combat professional only gained 5 base attribute points per level-up, yet he himself hadn't even leveled up and had already gained 5 base attribute points just from his summoned beast's level-up — this was incredibly rare! Truly, he didn't need to do anything; just lying flat was enough.

Looking at the little fox whose body had grown by a third, Lu Zheng stroked her tail and laughed, "Go for it! Go! Jiaojiao! Keep leveling up!"

'Ying!'

The Three-Tailed Spirit Fox let out a cry, then charged out.

In the blink of an eye another half hour passed. Lu Zheng led the little fox as he slowly crept up to the outskirts of a White-Fanged Violent Rat nest. Seeing over thirty White-Fanged Violent Rats all above level six, the little fox could not hold back and charged straight in.

Seeing another creature appear, the pack of White-Fanged Violent Rats all fell into a frenzy and instantly charged over.

The Three-Tailed Spirit Fox leapt into the air. In an instant, she activated the skill 'Triple Clone,' and three more Three-Tailed Spirit Foxes appeared around her. The next moment, countless claw shadows flashed into being. Lu Zheng only saw great amounts of white fur mixed with flesh and blood flying everywhere, and then a white rat's head rolled to his feet.

He looked up — not a single White-Fanged Violent Rat was still alive.

【Skill: Spirit Flash Hundred Claws】

【Effect: Consumes 5 mana to instantly unleash a hundred attacks, each dealing 50 physical damage.】

This practically counted as an ultimate move. Even if only half the attacks landed, that was still a full 2500 points of damage. And with the boost from three clones, within a single breath the little fox had slaughtered this entire pack of White-Fanged Violent Rats to the last one.

Looking at the ground covered in mangled corpses, Lu Zheng could not help but feel rather stunned. Who could have imagined that such a soft, cute little fox would turn so ferocious after activating her skill?

As the experience points fed back, a pleasant voice rang beside his ear.

【You have reached LV. 2! All attributes increased!】

【Character: Lu Zheng】

【Class: Summoner】

【Level: LV. 2 (0.01%)】

【HP: 110/110】

【Mana: 20/20】

【Strength: 2】

【Agility: 4】

【Spirit: 12】

【Constitution: 2】

He had leveled up! In this world, leveling up was extremely difficult. The experience points required for each level-up could be called astronomical.

In the three months from initial awakening to the college entrance exam, an ordinary professional reaching level 15 or above was already considered excellent. Lu Zheng's current rate of advancement was not slow at all — enough to surpass the average professional.

After all, he only received one-fifth of the experience points.

Currently, of his ten summoned beasts, nine could only be used for scouting and could not provide leveling experience. But as time went on, higher-quality summoned beasts would become more and more numerous, and the moment when Lu Zheng's experience points surged would soon arrive.

A day's time quickly passed. Before dark, Lu Zheng returned to the city.

He first went to the 'Hualin Commercial Street,' where lifestyle professionals gathered, and sold all the 'White-Fanged Violent Rat Fangs' he had obtained, earning a total of 84 silver coins.

Then he spent 80 silver coins to buy 4 bottles of 'Minor Mana Restoration Potion.'

This world's currency exchange rate: one gold coin could be exchanged for 100 silver coins, or 10,000 copper coins. Copper coins had strong purchasing power — one copper coin could buy a steamed bun. A bottle of 'Minor Mana Restoration Potion' was worth 20 silver coins, or 2,000 copper coins, which was no small sum.

Whether red potions or blue potions, ordinary professionals only bought them for emergency use. But Lu Zheng, in order to refresh high-quality spirit pets as quickly as possible, needed to consume large quantities of this kind of potion.

Today, using the nine summoning slots other than the Three-Tailed Spirit Fox, he had refreshed over sixty times, but the vast majority were one-star or two-star ordinary beast pets. Only right before heading back did an elite beast pet appear, which at least had some training value.

【Summoned Beast: Unnamed】

【Race: Silver-Backed Gray Wolf】

【Quality: Three-Star Elite Beast Pet】

【Level: LV. 1 (0.00%)】

【HP: 50/50】

【Mana: 5/5】

【Strength: 10】

【Agility: 8】

【Spirit: 2】

【Constitution: 3】

【Skill: Silver Tearing Claw】

The gap in base attributes between an elite beast pet and an immortal-grade spirit pet was obvious, and it only had one talent skill.

Still, compared to ordinary beast pets that didn't even have a single skill, this was already considered decent.

In Lu Zheng's plan, the spirit pets he kept for now had to be at least elite-grade in quality. Trash with no skills could only serve as cannon fodder, used for scouting.

Before the end of today, he had advanced to level 3, and the little fox had advanced to level 5.

After resting for the night and waking the next day, the summon slots had indeed increased to 20.

With ample mana, he decisively did a ten-pull.

But luck like yesterday's, where a ten-pull directly produced an immortal-grade, was clearly a one-time thing. This ten-pull yielded entirely one-star ordinary beast pets.

Lu Zheng was not disappointed. He now had ample mana. Once in the White Mist Grassland, he released all his summoned beasts at once, letting them scout the surroundings and immediately strike the moment they found prey.

Whenever these level-one summoned beasts died, Lu Zheng immediately summoned a new one to take its place.

Over the course of the entire day, he refreshed two hundred times, and in the end actually produced a rare-quality beast pet!

【Summoned Beast: Unnamed】

【Species: Crescent Eagle】

【Quality: Four-Star Rare Beast Pet】

【Level: LV. 1 (0.00%)】

【HP: 250/250】

【Mana: 20/20】

【Strength: 10】

【Agility: 15】

【Spirit: 5】

【Constitution: 5】

【Skills: Crescent Wave, Crescent Cross Slash】

This actually worked too. One elite or rare beast pet per day, and before the college entrance exam he would have accumulated a hundred. By then, he might not even need the Three-Tailed Spirit Fox to act before securing a high score and achieving good results.

The Crescent Eagle was a flying beast pet. With it plus other one-star beast pets scouting the way, Lu Zheng could essentially guarantee his own safety.

Moreover, when he drew it, the passive effect two of his hidden talent was triggered again, granting him one of its skills.

【Skill: Crescent Wave】

【Effect: Consumes 2 mana to form a crescent-shaped shockwave, dealing 40 spell damage to a designated target】

These kinds of skills were all growth-type. As skill proficiency increased, by consuming more mana, a more damaging version of the skill could be released! As the days passed one by one, with the increase in beast pets of elite quality or above, the number of times beast pets leveled up also rose accordingly, and so the frequency of Lu Zheng receiving experience value feedback increased as well.

Many experience value feedback notifications sounded, and Lu Zheng found them a bit annoying, so he directly forced them to mute! The time came to the twelfth day, and Lu Zheng was going to do something big today.

Thanks for your support! (End of this chapter)