After Vladimir once again looked over his attribute panel from beginning to end.
Vladimir finally had the presence of mind to experience the changes in his body after mastering the Giant Bear Breathing Technique.
He discovered that after achieving mastery, a very warm, viscous mass of gas seemed to have appeared in his heart!
Whenever he wanted to exert force, a wisp of that gas would enter the part of his body that needed to apply force.
This would drastically increase the strength of his muscles and ligaments in a short period.
This caused his muscular explosiveness to rise significantly!
It seemed this was the operational principle of the Giant Bear Breathing Technique.
The next day, upon arriving at the training ground, he happily shared the news of his mastery of the Giant Bear Breathing Technique with his teacher.
His teacher was extremely shocked!
Only after he meticulously described the changes in his body could his teacher confirm that he had indeed mastered the Giant Bear Breathing Technique.
If his teacher hadn't taught him for over half a year prior, during which Vladimir had been utterly unteachable, showing no progress whatsoever,
Knight Jiayou might have mistaken him for a super genius.
After all, just three days ago, his movements were still distorted, and today he had broken through.
It's possible that his previous efforts had accumulated and now burst forth, Knight Jiayou mused to himself!
"Vladimir, you have now mastered the Giant Bear Breathing Technique! So the next step is for you to advance to Minor Accomplishment."
"Congratulations, you are now considered a Junior Knight Attendant!"
Looking at the irrepressible smile on his teacher's face, Vladimir was also very pleased with himself!
"Next, I will teach you the second layer of the Giant Bear Breathing Technique!"
"When you complete the second layer of the Giant Bear Breathing Technique, you will become an Intermediate Knight Attendant!"
"Understood, thank you, Teacher, I will redouble my efforts!" Vladimir tried his best to appear like an enthusiastic youth, fitting his fourteen years of age.
Thus, he began cultivating the second layer of the Giant Bear Breathing Technique.
The second layer of the breathing technique was more complex and more difficult to cultivate than the first layer.
Therefore, it took Vladimir about three hours to cultivate through it once.
Fortunately, each time he completed a full set of movements, his progress would increase by 1% to 2%.
Time quickly came to dinner.
When Vladimir took his seat, his father, Duke Utah, couldn't help but ask,
"Have you really mastered the Giant Bear Breathing Technique?"
Although his son's teacher, Knight Jiayou, had already explicitly told him that his sixth son had mastered the Giant Bear Breathing Technique,
the one who understood his son best was definitely his father. He had watched his sixth child in the family grow up to be so unreliable.
He truly couldn't believe that this child would one day change his ways. Perhaps he had been too gentle before; disobedient children just needed a good beating?
"Thanks to you, Father, I've had some new insights into this cultivation method these past few days! With Teacher's help, I managed to achieve mastery by luck!"
Vladimir said modestly.
In fact, mastering the Giant Bear Breathing Technique at 14 years old was already considered very slow within the family.
One should know that his teacher was already an official Knight at only 19 years old!
And to become an official Knight, one must cultivate the elementary cultivation method to the perfect realm!
And his eldest brother, he was even more of a genius.
At only twenty-five or twenty-six years old, he was already an Intermediate Knight.
Even in the original large family, he was considered outstanding.
The reason his father was so disbelieving was mainly because he himself had been truly useless before.
He had practiced the Giant Bear Breathing Technique for three or four years, yet showed no progress whatsoever.
Even later, when he found a teacher for one-on-one guidance, it was the same.
"Good, very good, I am very satisfied!"
Duke Utah clapped his hands happily! After all, this meant that the direct lineage now had another person who could be entrusted with important responsibilities.
Then he took out a bottle of pink potion from behind him.
He gently shook the pink potion in his hand, and the potion inside began to gurgle, emitting a large patch of colorful fluorescence.
After quite a while, these fluorescences finally disappeared.
"This is our family's famous Fluorescent Potion! Every child who masters the Giant Bear Breathing Technique receives this reward!"
"It can help you quickly improve your physical qualities and lay a firmer foundation for you."
"Also, you're lucky. Recently, some Icefield Wolves appeared in the north. I was fortunate enough to find their Wolf King and kill it!"
"This is the essence blood collected from the Wolf King's heart. Drinking this drop of essence blood should help your battle aura advance!"
"This is my small reward to you as your father! Keep up the good work, son!"
As he spoke, the Duke took out another small crystal bottle containing a crimson liquid from his pocket.
This should be the Wolf King's heart blood he mentioned.
"Thank you, Father!"
Vladimir didn't pretend to be modest! He drank the Fluorescent Potion and the Wolf King's heart essence blood right in front of his father.
The moment the liquid entered his throat, it was hot, incredibly hot. Vladimir felt his entire body burning, accompanied by a strong sense of numbness.
Next was the Wolf King's blood. Cold, incredibly cold, a cold that penetrated to the bone marrow.
In the alternating cold and heat, all the cells in his body seemed to be torn apart, then reassembled, forming stronger, tougher cells.
Moreover, that coldness, after spreading from his stomach throughout his body, began to contract again.
Eventually, it all contracted back into the mass of gas in his heart.
The originally somewhat warm mass of gas in his heart instantly turned into a refreshing sensation!
"Angel, help Young Master Six back to his bedroom to rest!"
Duke Utah smiled as he looked at his sixth son, whose eyes were red and who couldn't move at all, then instructed the young girl to help his sixth son back to his room.
Vladimir didn't know when he fell asleep, but when he woke up, it was already the morning of the next day.
His maid, Angel, still woke him up on time every day, helped him wash his face and hands, and made him eat breakfast.
After breakfast, he eagerly opened his personal attribute panel.
"Character: Vladimir
Strength: 3.5
Constitution: 1.8
Spirit: 0.8
Skills Mastered: Giant Bear Breathing Technique (Second Layer 7%)
Free Attribute Points: 0"
Strength directly increased by 1.1. Constitution also increased by 0.4.
Only his Spirit remained completely unchanged; he didn't know what this attribute was for.
The changes in his attribute values filled Vladimir with excitement.
He knew that his strenuous training for an entire day only increased his Strength attribute by a few tenths.
These two bottles of medicine and blood, in just one night, yielded several times the results of his own efforts!
Indeed, hard work is worthless in the face of potions!
Vladimir eagerly went to the training ground to test the effects of his improved physical qualities!
He performed the same movements, but now he executed them with powerful force!
The previously somewhat clumsy transitions now flowed smoothly.
What pleased him even more was that his progress from practicing the movements once directly increased from the original 1% to 2% to 2% to 3%.
His efficiency directly doubled!
Silently thanking his cheap old man, and his cheap family,
Vladimir once again began to cultivate with renewed vigor.
Looking at Vladimir, who seemed to have become a different person,
Knight Jiayou also felt a hint of pressure, and beside Vladimir, he too began to train even harder.
Just as they were diligently training,
Vladimir's eldest brother led a small squad of soldiers to the northwest of the territory.
The west and north of the North Ice Territory are both oceans. To the north is the cold and dry Arctic Ocean, and to the west is the warm and humid Western Ocean.
The warm and humid air currents from the Western Ocean converge here with the cold and dry air currents from the north, making this area abundant in rainfall and significantly warmer than other parts of the North Ice Territory.
Thus, after thousands of years of development, a dense primeval forest appeared here.
Most of the large trees here have survived for over a hundred years, blocking most of the warm and humid air currents here.
Because the tall trees had dense foliage, entering the bottom of this primeval forest was like suddenly arriving at night.
The surroundings were pitch black; they could only rely on the light of torches to see a distance of four or five meters around them!
This also meant that the area was rarely visited, with very few humans active here.
Instead, various strange poisonous insects, snakes, and ants thrived here.
Although this primeval forest occupied about one-tenth of the North Ice Territory's land area,
the North Ice Territory had actually developed it very little.
It was basically limited to collecting some rare herbs from the outer fringes and felling some timber from the slightly outer areas.
Recently, freemen who went to the territory to buy goods reported that more and more poisonous insects, snakes, and ants were emerging from this primeval forest and spreading to human activity areas around it!
Today, the task of these Knights was to conduct an initial investigation into whether anything unexpected had happened in the forest causing this phenomenon.
If an anomaly had indeed occurred in the forest, the territory could react in time.
"No good, what is that? Retreat quickly, something must have mutated in this forest!"
Vladimir's eldest brother, James, who was already an Intermediate Knight, used the extraordinary vision granted by his rank to spot a giant scorpion, as large as a horse, in the distance, its tail stinger poised, staring coldly at them.
This made him break out in a cold sweat.
Normally, a scorpion the size of a fist was already incredibly impressive!
"An Intermediate Demonic Beast! It's definitely an Intermediate Demonic Beast! An unknown mutation has occurred in the forest, producing an Intermediate Demonic Beast!"
"I must get this news back as soon as possible!"
James made up his mind. He led his squad of soldiers in an orderly retreat. Fortunately, the scorpion seemed to have some reservations and did not pursue them.
Upon returning to the castle, he immediately went to see his father and reported what he had discovered in the primeval forest.
After listening to his report, Duke Utah thought for a moment and said,
"I've always felt this primeval forest was a ticking time bomb!"
"It's just that because we could collect some rare herbs and obtain a small amount of quality timber each year, we never managed it!"
"In that case, you lead a squad of soldiers to establish a few outposts on its periphery! Observe the daily changes there, and withdraw immediately if there's any danger!"
"Additionally, post notices throughout the territory, informing all freemen that they are no longer allowed to engage in activities in that primeval forest!"
"I will immediately send a message to the family, issue a bounty call-up, and have the family send me a batch of soldiers and Knights! Then we will flatten this entire primeval forest!"
"Understood, Father!"
James followed his father's instructions! He established three observation outposts on the periphery of the primeval forest.
Every day, more and more poisonous insects, snakes, and ants were seen emerging from the forest.
Fortunately, after some time, the family's reinforcements finally arrived... Meanwhile, Vladimir's cultivation also hit a bottleneck.
No matter how much he cultivated that day, his progress remained stuck at 99%.
A bit frustrated, Vladimir found his teacher and asked about his predicament.
"Teacher, I feel like no matter how I cultivate these past two days, I haven't made any progress. Do you know why this is?"
"Cultivate it once for me to see."
Vladimir cultivated the technique as per his teacher's request.
"Unbelievable, you might have truly awakened a Knight's talent!"
"The reason you've hit a bottleneck now is because you're about to break through to become an Intermediate Knight Attendant!"