In just half a day, Lin Chuan felt as if he were dreaming.
It was truly like the wondrous adventure stories found in the personal biographies of Heavenly King Beast Masters.
Out of nowhere, he encountered legendary, even Mythic Rank, existences.
Out of nowhere, he stumbled upon a fortuitous opportunity.
Mythic Rank demonic beasts possess uniqueness, while legendary demonic beasts, though exceedingly rare, are not unique.
According to relevant books from the Sixth Academy, the dwelling places of legendary holy spirits like Light Unicorns are often filled with the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers, a place of natural sanctity.
Unexpectedly, this Light Unicorn, which named itself Forest Light Horse, was different.
The inner circle of the Mist Forest.
The ground was covered in skeletons, filled with darkness, ghosts, and numerous negative energies of the Demon Attribute.
Extreme light gives birth to ultimate darkness.
Could this be what a Light Unicorn experiences in its twilight years?
Is it universally so, or a special case?
Lin Chuan surmised it should be a special case.
Otherwise, even if the relevant books from the Sixth Academy didn't describe it in detail, they would at least mention it slightly.
Beneath that black lake, that terrifying existence about to be born, the legendary evil spirit, Ghost Shadow Dragon.
The country of Dongyang.
Perhaps, before long, it would face a terrible catastrophe.
Lin Chuan was filled with endless sighs.
However, what could a small fry like him do?
Just as the Light Unicorn said, he was a witness guided by fate, an extension of Qilin's gaze.
He would be an audience member, witnessing this story about to unfold.
He would be a scribe, recording all of this.
Allowing this experience to become nourishment for his development and growth, and an accumulation of his vision and knowledge.
Composing himself, without further emotion, Lin Chuan laid out the gains from this wondrous experience.
The 6th Rank Aviana's flower bud, possessing the skill inheritance, Seed Avatar.
Aviana, known as the Forest Witch, is a pure Wood Attribute demonic beast; it doesn't reach the legendary rank, but it is an extremely rare and terrifying demonic beast, with an average bloodline rank of mid-Lord Rank, and a few excellent individuals can reach Wang (King)-Rank.
Its anthropomorphic degree is extremely high, probably reaching 80%.
According to relevant books, this type of demonic beast often appears in the form of a beautiful woman, seducing human males, especially cute little boys, into the forest.
After a night of passion, they turn humans into flower fertilizer.
If they encounter a particularly beloved human male, Aviana implants a demonic seed within him, turning him into a plant-human puppet, forever imprisoned by her side.
Although extremely dangerous, Aviana has a major flaw: her roots are too massive, making large-scale movement basically impossible; in this regard, she is even inferior to ordinary Wood Attribute spirit beasts, such as Flower Leaf Leaf.
Therefore, as long as one tries to avoid the area and territory where she resides, there will generally be no problems.
This material.
Lin Chuan was not prepared to inherit it directly; he planned to keep it for now and use it later as an auxiliary material for Guoguo's second evolution.
True Dragon tooth fragment, possessing the skill inheritance, Dragon's Might.
Lin Chuan directly passed this material to White Snow.
Inheritance only consumes the skill memory fragments within the material and does not cause the material's original function to disappear.
So, after the inheritance and skill point allocation, Lin Chuan made the True Dragon tooth fragment into a small pendant, embedding it on the flying apparatus collar around White Snow's neck; this could be considered close-fitting wear, which could slowly, and to a very small extent, increase her dragon blood concentration and the probability of her atavistic evolution into a True Dragon.
Besides these two precious spirit beast materials, there were also gains from scavenging various demonic beast remains.
A total of 20 Lost Trail Deer antlers.
Among them, 18 antlers contained Phantom Trail, and 2 antlers contained Transformation.
Sakura had already self-taught ‘Transformation’ to an introductory level.
So these two Transformation materials were just right, one for Guoguo and one for Wan Wan.
Phantom Trail was entirely inherited by Sakura, directly leveling this skill to Master Grade!
If Transformation is the prerequisite skill for turning illusion into reality.
Then the skill Phantom Trail is the prerequisite for turning reality into illusion.
Master Grade Phantom Trail allows the body to turn into an illusory void for a short period, approximately 1 second after testing, which can be used to dodge some physical damage and also to pass through walls.
Further development and excavation will require other skills for combination and deep development.
And, with the auxiliary synergy of him, the Beast Master, it would be possible to truly turn reality into illusion.
All in all, Sakura received a major buff this time!
Furthermore, there were many basic Five Elements Attribute skills, as well as quite a few Light and Dark Attribute skill materials; it seemed that among the pile of remains and bones, Light and Dark Attribute demonic beasts were particularly numerous, and the skill materials produced were surprisingly not less than those of a single basic Five Elements Attribute.
Hmm, overall.
The gains from this wave, converted into Sixth Academy credits.
Equivalent resources, skill secret techniques, and related cultivation tools, were probably worth 8000 credits.
8000 credits, even third-year students would basically be unable to acquire.
What a pity.
He was only allowed to scavenge for 3 hours; if he had scavenged for a day and a night, digging three feet deep, he would have taken off on the spot.
He had a slight regret in his heart, but overall, Lin Chuan was very satisfied.
For the next period, he needed to go into seclusion.
He had to fully digest the skills from these inherited materials and convert them into actual combat power, and his tactical system also needed to be updated with the changing versions.
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At this cliff rock cave stronghold, Lin Chuan immediately began his seclusion, focusing on cultivating his spirit beasts, adding skill points to various skills, researching possible Combination Skills for each skill, as well as Synergy Dance and Meditation.
Time quietly passed.
One week later.
On Lin Chuan's first weekend of secluded training.
Wan Wan had a situation, a major breakthrough!
Currently, in Wan Wan's spell list, excluding the Combination Skill Meteor Fire Rain, her basic Five Elements skills total 22, with an average of 4 skills per attribute.
The key is!
The proficiency of each of these skills is at least Expert Grade or Master Grade.
This is too astonishing; for other Book Spirits, practicing a Fairy Skill to Expert Grade, even with extraordinary talent and exceptional comprehension, would take at least half a year, as simulating other natural attributes with the Fairy Attribute is inherently much more difficult to practice.
For Wan Wan's Fairy Skill list, other Book Spirits, even with exceptional comprehension and unlimited resource consumption, relentlessly grinding for fifty years, would only have a slight chance of achieving it.
But Wan Wan could achieve it with just a gentle touch and skill point allocation from Lin Chuan.
And now, Lin Chuan was researching with Wan Wan.
A Secret Skill whose principle is known by basically all Beast Masters—specifically, those who can enter top academies and embark on the true path of a Beast Master, not just cogs in a machine.
Basically, all these Beast Masters know the principle of this Secret Skill, but very few Beast Masters master it.
Five Elements Spirit Shield!
When the basic Five Elements Attributes are complete, and related pure energy shield skills are mastered, with skill proficiency at Expert Grade or above, it can be developed as a Secret Skill with the Beast Master's synergy.
Once the Five Elements Spirit Shield is formed, it becomes self-sustaining.
To describe it in more common and understandable terms.
As long as the shield is active.
Under the leading control of the Beast Master and relevant spirit beasts, any attack of a basic Five Elements Attribute will be blocked by a shield that counters it.
For example, when facing a Fire Attribute attack, the Five Elements Spirit Shield will automatically manifest a Water Attribute shield to block it, reducing damage by half, or even completely negating it.
At the same time, the durability of the Five Elements Spirit Shield will automatically restore itself through the interaction of the Five Elements generating each other.
To learn the Five Elements Spirit Shield.
There are usually two ways.
One is for the Beast Master to contract five spirit beasts of the basic Five Elements Attributes, and then each spirit beast must master their respective attribute's Spirit Shield skill, with proficiency reaching at least Expert Grade; finally, under the Beast Master's synergistic guidance, the five spirit shields merge into one, and the Five Elements Spirit Shield is achieved.
The other method.
Seems simpler, but is actually more demanding.
That is to contract one or more Fairy Attribute spirit beasts, allowing them to master Fairy Skill Spirit Shields of different Five Elements Attributes, and similarly, they must also reach at least Expert Grade.
General Beast Masters do not spend a great deal of effort cultivating the Five Elements Spirit Shield because its cost-effectiveness is very low.
Spending so much to learn the Five Elements Spirit Shield.
However, the Five Elements Spirit Shield is only remarkably effective against basic Five Elements damage; for attacks of higher-level attributes, its resistance effect is very ordinary, and it's not as good as practicing a higher-level attribute Spirit Shield, such as the Fairy Attribute's exclusive Fairy Spirit Shield, which, although consuming a lot, can resist.
For others, it's like this, with extremely low cost-effectiveness.
But for Lin Chuan, the situation is completely different; it's a skill with extremely high cost-effectiveness.
Others have to contract five different basic attribute spirit beasts to learn it, and also coordinate with Synergy Dance.
For other Beast Masters, it's a Secret Skill.
Here with Lin Chuan, it's a Combination Skill, and just Wan Wan alone is enough.
Currently, Lin Chuan has already added skill points to all of Wan Wan's Five Elements Attribute Spirit Shield skills to Master Grade.
Wan Wan only needs to learn the techniques of multiple casting or delayed casting to master the Five Elements Spirit Shield.
Multiple casting.
It's relatively difficult, requiring multitasking, even multi-tasking, and very precise energy manipulation.
Delayed casting, on the other hand, is relatively simpler.
There are still differences between the two situations.
Multiple casting allows for instantly opening five shields, instantly merging them to form the Five Elements Spirit Shield.
Whereas delayed casting requires opening each shield one by one; even if each shield's casting time is 1 second, it would still take at least 5 seconds to merge and form the Five Elements Spirit Shield.
It's not a solo fight; Wan Wan won't be fighting alone on the field. With Sakura, Guoguo, and White Snow present, 5 seconds can easily be stalled for.
So, there's no rush for multiple casting; they'll research and learn it slowly.
At this moment, Lin Chuan and Wan Wan were researching and developing the delayed casting version of the Five Elements Spirit Shield.
"The key is rhythm, don't be nervous, Little Teacher Wan Wan, believe in yourself! You can do it!"
Lin Chuan cheered Wan Wan on from the side.
If it were a Secret Skill, Lin Chuan could help, as it wouldn't work without his Beast Master cooperation.
But for a Combination Skill, it depends more on the spirit beast's own comprehension.
It would have been better if Lin Chuan wasn't there; with him watching from the side, Wan Wan became even more nervous.
Especially that title, Little Teacher Wan Wan.
Wan Wan always felt that Lin Chuan was deliberately watching her make a fool of herself! He wanted to record her embarrassing moments!
Absolutely! No embarrassing moments, no making a fool of herself, she had to succeed on the first try!
Deep breath, deep breath, Wan Wan continuously encouraged herself in her heart.
Lin Chuan's origin was in healing shields and poison.
Therefore, as Lin Chuan's third spirit beast, she must inherit this excellent tradition.
The Five Elements Spirit Shield, she must master it!
First, the Wood Spirit Shield.
Wan Wan's small, slender fingers gently tapped the void, and a greenish-white speck of light, like a star, settled there.
Around the speck of light, Wood Attribute energy was continuously attracted and gathered.
Then, the Fire Spirit Shield.
Wan Wan slightly turned her body, and her small hand tapped the void beside her again, a slightly reddish speck of light settled there.
Around the speck of light, Fire Attribute energy was continuously attracted, and its gathering speed was a little faster than that of Wood Attribute energy.
And then, the Earth, Metal, and Water Spirit Shields.
Wan Wan arranged the five Spirit Shields around herself in a perfect pentagram formation.
Through the little trick of delayed casting, the five Spirit Shield skills were activated and cast almost simultaneously!
Wan Wan closed her eyes and connected the energy of the five Spirit Shields according to the generative sequence.
Golden, emerald green, sky blue, fiery red, earthy brown.
Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth.
The five Spirit Shields spun rapidly around Wan Wan.
Intermingling, slowly, merging into one.
Transforming into a dazzling, colorful Spirit Shield like glazed glass.
Five Elements Spirit Shield! Successfully learned!