Time had flown by quickly, and in the blink of an eye, a month had passed since Lin Su encountered the attack from the beast clan.
Following that day, Qiuqiu and Ghost continued to train steadily according to Lin Su’s plan, and had achieved significant results over the month.
The day after the attack, determined to train harder and become stronger to better protect Lin Su, Qiuqiu managed to advance Frost Silence Storm to Stage II.
Afterward, Lin Su and Qiuqiu began their venture into the Beast Taming Tower.
Perhaps because the judging mechanism of the Beast Taming Tower still treated Qiuqiu as Frost Flower Dream Shadow, the opponents simulated in the initial floors were ordinary Frost Flower Dream Shadows of the lower Monarch species, rather than pets of a higher Monarch species.
This was naturally a good thing; it meant that Qiuqiu had a certain racial advantage over its opponents.
Even so, the journey through the tower for the master and pet was still quite difficult.
During their first tower venture, Qiuqiu leveraged the special advantage of Snow Explosion in the icy environment and various teaching skills to successfully defeat a Frost Flower Dream Shadow whose skill proficiency was higher than its own. However, in the Beast Taming Tower’s second floor, besides the core skill Frost Silence Storm, all other skills had been upgraded to Stage III. A single Stage III Monarch Power, coming crashing down, quickly forced Qiuqiu to retreat.
Since they could only pass the first floor each time, the cost-efficiency of continuing to challenge the tower was very low. Thus, after that, Qiuqiu gave up on challenging the tower. Each day it returned to the Sapphire Planet where, with the help of Qin Nan’s Gray Feathered Lion Hawk, it honed its Monarch Power proficiency. In the Marvelous World, it continued training Frost Silence Storm, while also practicing Ice Palm and Snow Explosion.
It wasn’t until after ten days of intense training that rapidly elevated Monarch Power to Stage II and moved Frost Silence Storm from the initial Phase II to a more proficient level, that Qiuqiu once again followed Lin Su to the Beast Taming Tower. After fiercely competing with the Frost Flower Dream Shadow of the second floor, Qiuqiu finally won, catching its opponent off guard with Snow Explosion.
With the second floor of the Beast Taming Tower now breached, the daily rewards of challenging the tower had become substantial. Consequently, the efficiency of enhancing the skills Ice Palm, Snow Explosion, and Cold Frost Dream Domain improved significantly, each breaking through to Stage II with the help of Dream Crystal Stones in the Beast Taming Tower.
By then, all of Qiuqiu’s skills had reached or surpassed the proficiency level of Stage II, with Snow Trace even advancing to Stage III.
However, such strength was still somewhat lacking against the stage III Frost Silence Storm wielding Frost Flower Dream Shadow of the third floor.
The enhancement from Stage II to Stage III of Frost Silence Storm would undergo a qualitative change, evolving from releasing storms from various parts of the body to instantaneously generating storms within a nearby area, making it more sudden and significantly more powerful.
Even though Qiuqiu had many teaching skills and the Frost-situated talent skill Snow Explosion, which provided a significant advantage, it still wasn’t enough to bridge the gap.
According to Lin Su’s estimation, to break through the third floor, Frost Silence Storm also needed to reach Stage III. Thus, thereafter Qiuqiu’s training focused solely on Frost Silence Storm, in hopes of advancing it to Stage III as soon as possible.
However, unexpectedly, while Frost Silence Storm had yet to break through, Frost Eyes, which Qiuqiu had been maintaining almost as a reflex, silently reached Stage III.
Unlike many of Qiuqiu’s skills that needed retraining after evolving, Ghost already had all its skills break through to Stage II long before, and after one month of specialized training under Lin Su’s guidance, its skill proficiency skyrocketed.
Of course, this was also because it had fewer skills.
On the day Qiuqiu’s Frost Silence Storm broke through to Stage II, Lin Su, while taking Qiuqiu to challenge the Beast Taming Tower, did not forget to help Ghost by exchanging the various wood series resources obtained from the Nirvana Secret Realm for dark series resources.
Only after reaching the Beast Taming Union did Lin Su realize that compared to natural wood series resources, dark series resources were slightly rarer. Thus, the exchange couldn’t be made on a one-to-one basis; it was impossible to obtain the same amount of dark series resources with seven level four resources and two level five resources as initially thought.
In the end, it was Qi Yunhan who stepped in and managed to get six level four resources and two level five resources for Ghost.
They incurred a small loss of one level four resource.
The exchanged resources were all handed over to Ghost by Lin Su in one go, placed into its trick pocket, to expedite the skill proficiency enhancement of the trick pocket.
With the help of so many supernatural resources above Ghost’s own growth stage and belonging to the same series, the trick pocket rapidly advanced from Stage I to Stage III in just a month—a pace of improvement that made Qiuqiu, whose Frost Silence Storm hadn’t yet reached Stage III, envious.
When the trick pocket was at Stage I, its storage space was roughly the size of a handbag, which wasn’t very capacious. Upon reaching Stage II, the space became comparable to that of a suitcase, several times larger than at Stage I. By Stage III, the trick pocket’s space was about the size of a large wardrobe, which could fit significantly more items.
According to Lin Su’s estimation, such a capacious trick pocket was already completely sufficient for his current needs.
Initially, Lin Su had even thought about using the trick pocket to store a Space Ring and then storing items within the Space Ring to expand capacity.
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However, he soon discovered that a Space Ring could not be stored again within any other extradimensional space – this was a bug he couldn’t exploit.
Besides the trick pocket, Ghost’s other skills also kept up with their advancements; its core skill Shadow Concealment, after a month of intense practice, had successfully advanced to Stage III.