Chapter 75: Mechanical Rat? No, It’s A Rat Swarm. [2-in-1]
Dragon Roaming Sovereign didn’t understand, she just wanted to give good things to Ge Bai.
Pretending not to see the Shen Nong System’s dissatisfaction, Dragon Roaming Sovereign directly used spiritual sense to communicate with Ge Bai.
“Hold on a moment, little girl, I am the Sovereign Spirit Plant Dragon Roaming Green Calyx Plum of Plum Garden.” When speaking to Ge Bai, Dragon Roaming Sovereign’s voice was exceptionally gentle.
But this sudden spiritual sense transmission still startled Ge Bai, she abruptly stopped the spiritual power circulation in her body, and Big Willow also stopped along with her.
Big Willow didn’t hear Dragon Roaming Sovereign’s voice, just looking at Ge Bai in confusion.
Ge Bai didn’t explain to Big Willow, gestured for Big Willow to continue first, then turned and walked to the treehouse doorway to sit down, also mobilizing spiritual sense to transmit sound.
“Hello, Dragon Roaming Sovereign.”
“No need to be polite, I see you and Weeping Ancient Willow are still using the meditation method to condense spiritual power, that’s still too slow.”
Dragon Roaming Sovereign got straight to the point.
“These are two sets of higher-level ability improvement methods, namely intermediate level Meditation Art and advanced level Spirit Circulation Art. With your and Weeping Ancient Willow’s aptitude, you should both be able to master them.”
“I had a spirit plant deliver them to you.”
“These two methods were originally rewards from trial level 2 and level 4, given to you in advance. The three spirit plants you contracted all have great potential, cultivate them well.”
This pie falling from the sky suddenly left Ge Bai a bit dazed.
When she was chatting with Lu Nan before, she vaguely heard him mention that there were more efficient spiritual power cultivation methods among the trial rewards, and she was quite envious.
A small plum blossom tree suddenly grew out of thin air beside the treehouse where Ge Bai and the others were.
After the plum blossom tree grew to a certain extent, it shook its branches all over, drew out two thin bark books from the trunk, extended the branches, and handed the two books to Ge Bai who was sitting at the treehouse doorway.
Meditation Art, Spirit Circulation Art, the covers of the two books respectively had these three words.
She didn’t expect it to be given to her just like that?
“Thank you, Dragon Roaming Sovereign.”
Ge Bai didn’t know what to say, probably Dragon Roaming Sovereign cared about young spirit plants, so she just accepted the pie from the sky. Besides that Dragon Roaming Green Calyx Plum, no one else could directly transmit sound with Sovereign aura in Plum Garden.
If Dragon Roaming Sovereign had ill intentions, everyone would be done for, she wouldn’t tamper with such a small matter.
Thinking of this, Ge Bai felt relieved, opened the Meditation Art and started reading seriously.
Ge Bai, who had long memorized the Alliance’s general education meditation method by heart, easily compared the similarities and differences between the two spiritual power cultivation methods.
They were largely consistent, with more refined adjustments at several key nodes, not hard to learn overall.
Ge Bai directly started cultivating according to the method described in the Meditation Art.
Qian Dai was originally paying attention to Big Willow’s spiritual power circulation, and seeing Ge Bai cultivating alone, couldn’t help but look over curiously.
She was surprised to find that the speed of spiritual power circulation in Ge Bai’s body was much faster than Big Willow’s, but just now the spiritual power circulation speeds in Ge Bai and Big Willow’s bodies were about the same.
Qian Dai immediately stood up, tiptoed to Ge Bai’s side, stretched her head and happened to see the Meditation Art spread out in front of Ge Bai.
Glanced at the Meditation Art, glanced at Ge Bai, then turned back to glance at Big Willow.
Qian Dai’s clever little brain turned, and she immediately understood, Ge Bai had gotten a new cultivation method.
Then she could overtake on a bend, ahead of Big Willow!
She wanted to learn the new cultivation method directly.
Ambitious Qian Dai jumped in front of Ge Bai, happily looking at the Meditation Art, growing more and more silent.
This, the text on this doesn’t contain spiritual power, can’t communicate with spiritual sense to read, she couldn’t understand anything.
Right, she was illiterate.
Qian Dai suddenly remembered this, feeling greatly discouraged.
Ge Bai had just circulated a cycle of spiritual power in her body using the Meditation Art, very smoothly, opened her eyes feeling refreshed, preparing to first teach the Meditation Art to Big Willow and Qian Dai.
She saw Little Orchid lying dispirited on the Meditation Art right in front of her.
Ge Bai didn’t think, directly asked, “Eh, Qian Dai? You can read? Literate?”
Involuntary doubt hurts the most.
Little Orchid didn’t want to say a word, woodenly turned her head, and moved back to the grass clump she was sitting on earlier.
What is literate? Don’t know. What did Ge Bai say? Didn’t hear.
Seeing Little Orchid like this, Ge Bai didn’t know why she was acting up again, too lazy to care, just treating it as a child suddenly being oversensitive.
Closed the Meditation Art, also walked back to her previous position, interrupting Big Willow’s meditation.
“Big Willow, Qian Dai, come, I just got a new meditation method from Dragon Roaming Sovereign, I just tried it, the effect is really good, and not too hard.”
“I’ll guide you through it twice, should be pretty easy to learn.”
Ge Bai was just about to teach Big Willow first, when Qian Dai directly bounced in front of her and Big Willow, puffed up and said.
“I want to learn first, Ge Bai, teach me first!”
Ge Bai was completely baffled, really didn’t know what wind Little Orchid was possessed by.
Big Willow didn’t care.
“Bai Bai, teach Qian Dai first, I’ll practice the meditation method a bit more, won’t delay time.”
Ge Bai thought that works too, so first guided Qian Dai to meditate using the Meditation Art.
Little Orchid, having gotten her wish, finally overcame the earlier setback.
Humph, being illiterate won’t stop her from learning the Meditation Art first!
After teaching Qian Dai and Big Willow, accompanied them cultivating for two hours, glanced at the time, heading towards 12 o’clock.
The effect was still very good, Big Willow and Qian Dai’s spiritual power values both increased by over 60 points.
Currently Big Willow’s spiritual power value is Mortal Spirit Realm Level Five (87.42/500), Qian Dai’s spiritual power value is Mortal Spirit Realm Level Eight (421.93/800).
Once she builds up the resource rooms for Big Willow and Qian Dai, the effect should be even better.
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The next afternoon.
Jinggang City Level Arena Competition Preliminary venue.
Ge Bai arrived early.
Went to the waiting area to check in, originally wanted to go back to the stands to watch a couple matches, but was directly held in the waiting area by the staff member.
“Player Ge Bai, you wait here directly, today’s match for you is scheduled quite early, and your opponent has just arrived, the matches will start from yours shortly.”
The staff member was adjusting the players’ entry order based on the actual situation, preparing to schedule Ge Bai’s match for today as the first match of the afternoon session.
Ge Bai had no objection, she and Big Willow, Qian Dai’s states were always adjusted optimally.
“No problem, who is my opponent for the next match?”
“Player name: Zhao Hui, occupation: Beast Tamer, registered pet beast: Mechanical Rat (Transcendence Realm Level One), player ranking: 103rd. After the previous match, its pet beast info was just updated, promoted to Transcendence Realm.”
Ge Bai frowned slightly upon hearing this, she knew about mechanical pet beasts, Mechanical Rat wasn’t rare either.
The only thing to note particularly was whether this Mechanical Rat had Differentiation Skill.
After modification and cultivation by the Beast Tamer, Mechanical Rat has a chance to awaken Differentiation Skill, like interstellar battleships, separating multiple small Mechanical Rats from the main body, attacking in a rat swarm.
She just didn’t expect to encounter it so soon, in arena competitions of various levels, players with Differentiation Skill were particularly tricky.
Normally, Mechanical Rat’s attack power isn’t high, this Zhao Hui’s registered pet beast was just this one Transcendence Realm Level One Mechanical Rat, yet the ranking wasn’t low, no need to check data in detail, most likely relying on this Differentiation Skill.
Before Ge Bai could think more, the staff member urged her to go on stage.
The moment she went on stage, Ge Bai mobilized spiritual sense to link the system, looking towards Zhao Hui opposite and the Mechanical Rat he had with him.
This Mechanical Rat had silver-blue livery, body nearly half a meter long, tail nearly a meter long, clearly the Beast Tamer took good care of the pet beast.
Carefully looked at the Mechanical Rat’s info.
[Type: Mechanical Rat (Transcendence race)]
[Spiritual Power Value: Transcendence Realm Level One (11.24/100)]
[Attribute: Lightning]
[Skill: Gnaw – Proficient. Skill description: Simulate rodent gnawing, gnaw opponent to cause damage.]
[Skill: Lightning Attraction – Proficient. Skill description: Using the true form as base point, summon lightning to strike the true form, during the process of lightning forming in the high air and striking the true form, cause damage to a certain range along the path.]
[Skill: Rat Swarm – Proficient. Skill description: Differentiate into small Mechanical Rats, form rat swarm to attack.]
Sure enough has Rat Swarm skill, even has Lightning Attraction?
Blind guess, the small rats differentiated from this Mechanical Rat can also serve as true form for Lightning Attraction, what’s the difference from little bombs?
Ge Bai had a bit of headache, no wonder this Beast Tamer could enter the top hundred of the preliminary competition at Mortal Spirit Realm.
The match began.
“Blue Tiger, differentiate.”
Zhao Hui directly commanded the Mechanical Rat to start differentiating, the Mechanical Rat’s mecha began deforming and unfolding from the abdomen, over twenty small Mechanical Rats about the size of an adult’s palm assembled.
The small Mechanical Rats just landed and swarmed towards Big Willow’s direction.
Ge Bai had no time to complain why this Mechanical Rat was called Blue Tiger, directly gave instruction to Big Willow.
“Wind Blade. Aim at the small rats.”
Big Willow looking at all these Mechanical Rats on the ground, shuddered all over, turns out he didn’t know he hated rats.
Hearing Ge Bai’s instruction, hurriedly mobilized spiritual power, sending out wind blades one after another.
To be fair, the number differentiated by Zhao Hui’s Mechanical Rat wasn’t despairingly high.
Many mechanical pet beasts evolved to Hegemon Level, even Commander Level, can differentiate an extremely large number of sub-bodies, the saying of one person one pet being a whole troop isn’t a joke.
Alliance history has such a real story, when Interstellar Alliance conquered the third planet, in Alliance’s fifth team, a Beast Tamer’s squad was stationed on an isolated island.
The positional battle was exceptionally fierce, after one charge by strange beasts, only he remained in the squad.
His pet beast mechanical hornet broke through in such extreme conditions, thus, one person one pet not only held the position, but grew stronger in battle, by the time reinforcements arrived, they had cleared the entire isolated island.
Swarm of bees surrounding, like a god.
Zhao Hui’s Mechanical Rat was far from that.
But these over twenty small Mechanical Rats were enough to give Big Willow a headache.
Wind Blade’s accuracy against small Mechanical Rats wasn’t high, plus they had fast movement speed.
After two rounds of Wind Blades, there were still eight or nine small Mechanical Rats left, already about to rush into Big Willow’s close range.
Ge Bai frowned, Big Willow’s handling this wave was quite average.
She seriously considered whether to find rat-type pet beasts for him to spar in the next couple days?
“Willow Whip.”
Ge Bai wasn’t anxious, earlier she just speculated small Mechanical Rats could also be Lightning Attraction subjects, but wasn’t certain.
Just right to let a few in, see what tactics the opponent uses.
At this time, the audience seating in the stands was about half full, many were long-term followers since the preliminary competition started.
Zhao Hui’s Mechanical Rat was also quite standout, quite a few had seen his matches and knew his info.
“Mechanical Rat clones entered the willow tree’s close range, about to come a wave, this match is suspense-free again.”
“Don’t their players do any prep research? Zhao Hui’s data isn’t hard to find.”
A bald burly man disdainfully curled his lip, actually this was him nitpicking.
Preliminary competition players had extremely high turnover, some Beast Tamers, Spirit Planters come participate in two matches and never return.
Unlike city level, regional level, national level arena competitions, where the number of participating players is fixed at the start of the competition.
So few people research opponents at preliminary stage, basically whoever you encounter, main theme is random blind box.
Win and ranking rises, lose and no big deal, pay another entry fee and restart, it’s not like losing one match resets ranking to zero.
And mechanical-type pet beasts are a rather niche branch among all pet beast categories.
Normal Beast Tamers, Spirit Planters remembering Mechanical Rat has Differentiation Skill is already good, Lightning Attraction is even a mutation skill among Mechanical Rats.
Zhao Hui and this Mechanical Rat have been quite eye-catching recently in the mechanical pet beast circle, but haven’t broken out, attention far less than Ge Bai.
These two people either contracted mechanical pet beasts themselves, or particularly follow mechanical pet beasts, to be especially familiar with Zhao Hui and Mechanical Rat’s info.
Ge Bai calmly watched everything on the field,
After small Mechanical Rats approached Big Willow, Big Willow felt even more uncomfortable, whipping full-power Willow Whips furiously.
Whips one after another with whooshing sounds, smashing onto the arena venue, almost leaving faint marks on the ground.
Power was there, but accuracy clearly insufficient.
Even if Big Willow’s Willow Whip power was only half, it was enough to shatter small Mechanical Rats hit by the Willow Whip to pieces.
“Bai Bai.”
Big Willow really couldn’t hold back, called out to Ge Bai, but with very insufficient confidence, voice even a bit weak.
Qian Dai was already held in Ge Bai’s arms by report, ready to launch skills anytime.
Ge Bai knew what Big Willow meant, wanted Qian Dai to directly spatial teleport him away, with Time Soil’s boost, best to place him hovering mid-air.
But Ge Bai pretended not to understand, coming to preliminary competition was to hone battle level, wanting to retreat at a little difficulty, how could that work.
Seeing Big Willow like this, Ge Bai already decided to arrange rat-type pet beast sparring for him.
Hone is hone, Ge Bai wouldn’t watch Big Willow really sink into a quagmire.
Whenever a small Mechanical Rat approached to a distance where Willow Whip wasn’t easy to exert force, Qian Dai would directly teleport that one Mechanical Rat far away.
This consumed much less from Qian Dai.
Big Willow seeing this, also knew the current situation needed him to face it, strongly suppressed disgust towards Mechanical Rats, more carefully drawing each Willow Whip.
