Of course, before officially getting started, they still needed to warm up first.
Although Huohuo had practiced using Entangling Vines in the dorm, it had never used the skill on a living creature... Well, perhaps it had.
It had been quite skilled when it wrapped itself around Zhou Lu's leg.
Zhou Lu set Huohuo down on the grass and pointed at the animals in the distance. "Those are the targets you'll be binding this time. Get used to the environment first."
Huohuo was already a Spirit Beast. But precisely because it had gained intelligence, it possessed a fear that ordinary plants did not.
Whether they were large herbivores like cattle, sheep, and horses, or small rodents like chipmunks, all of them fed on plants. They were Huohuo's natural enemies.
Zhou Lu planned to let Huohuo acclimate first, lest fear leave a psychological shadow on it.
However, his concern was entirely unnecessary.
The moment Huohuo reached the grassland, it happily began crawling about, continuously leaving behind offshoot roots from its Vine Step.
Entangling Vines actually had two ways of being used.
One was for the Spirit Beast to directly extend its vines and bind the target for control. The other was to leave offshoot roots behind, then trigger Mad Growth once the target drew near before using Entangling Vines to bind and restrain it.
Huohuo was using the second method now.
It seemed to have ideas of its own. Rather than deliberately halting the offshoots' growth, it let them sprout into Dream Rain Flowers that swayed freely in the prairie breeze.
"How amazing. This is the first time I've seen a Plant-type Spirit Beast capable of walking at the first rank." Even though he had already witnessed Huohuo walking, Xu Wuhu still sighed in amazement.
"My Huohuo is smarter than most."
"I think its physique has something to do with it too." Li Yi was carrying Sticky Baby around as he set traps nearby. Hearing their conversation, he spoke up. "For ordinary Plant Spirit Beasts, their vines simply aren't strong enough to support the weight of a flowerpot."
Li Yi was not wrong. Without the boost from Carrying, Huohuo truly would not have been able to walk so freely.
While they were talking, one of Huohuo's traps had already caught prey.
A chipmunk emerged from its burrow to forage and immediately spotted the Dream Rain Flower that had grown there.
As a creature native to the prairie secret realm, it had never seen a Dream Rain Flower before.
Driven by a flicker of curiosity, it went up and took a few bites.
The instant it bit down, countless vines burst from the Dream Rain Flower and bound it up tight as a drum. Before it was done, Huohuo even used vines to weave a heart pattern over the chipmunk's head.
It had caught prey!
Huohuo's first thought was to give it to its owner as a gift.
It happily rolled up the chipmunk with its vines and raced to Zhou Lu as fast as it could, continuously swinging the chipmunk around in an attempt to catch his attention.
"Wow, that's amazing," Zhou Lu praised.
Huohuo was delighted by the praise, and the heart on the chipmunk's head changed into a smiling face.
The prey in its grasp was far cuter than a pet hamster. He had heard that many people even raised them as pets.
Looking at the chipmunk dangling from Huohuo's vines, Zhou Lu could indeed sense a trace of its cuteness...
Just as he was about to say something, blood trickled from the corner of the chipmunk's mouth. Its head lolled to one side, and life left it.
Mice were cute.
Cute to death.
Huohuo also sensed the chipmunk's life slipping away. It felt deeply regretful and sad. For the first prey of its life, it decided to grant it the highest honor.
With that in mind, Huohuo intended to stuff the chipmunk into its flowerpot.
Become my nourishment!
"Huohuo! Don't stuff strange things into your flowerpot! You'll get sick!" Seeing what Huohuo was doing, Zhou Lu immediately stopped it.
The sudden warning made Huohuo shudder.
Little Grass drooped its leaves in grievance.
It looked delicious...
It glanced regretfully at the chipmunk in its "hand," then seemed to make an enormous decision. It extended its vine and offered it to Zhou Lu's mouth.
Then Master can eat first.
Looking at the mouse right before his face, its bloody smell clearly burrowing into his nose, Zhou Lu truly could not hold it together anymore.
Who told you I stopped you because I wanted to eat it myself?!
Zhou Lu was on the verge of tears.
Xu Wuhu and Li Yi were also holding back their laughter at the sight.
Hearing their laughter, Huohuo seemed to understand something.
Master said I need to learn to share and not eat alone!
On this prairie, chipmunks were the one thing that never ran short.
Very soon, Huohuo thoughtfully presented the cutely dead mice to Li Yi and Xu Wuhu.
Their laughter came to an abrupt halt. This time, it was Zhou Lu's turn to laugh. The moment the two were disgusted by Huohuo, the system actually popped up to notify him that the mission had failed.
You attempted to kill the other party through disgust. This idea is highly creative.
That was the system's evaluation.
Of course, the damage caused by this behavior was extremely limited. It only gave Zhou Lu a 1% reward. He took a moment to look, and it was a fragment of a C-rank Skill Card.
"Alright, throw these things away. They aren't food—at least, not food you can eat right now." Zhou Lu crouched down and patiently told Huohuo.
Huohuo reluctantly released the mice and tossed the three mouse corpses into the grass.
Since Huohuo could already skillfully use traps to catch chipmunks, the warm-up was more or less over.
Zhou Lu stood and looked toward the large herbivores in the distance. Those were the main course of this training session.
The goal of this training was for Huohuo to use Entangling Vines to effectively halt large animals running at full speed.
As long as it could achieve that, the Class Monitor was confident he could use that brief pause to strike the enemy effectively.
"I'll go bring a cow over," Xu Wuhu told the two of them. "Get ready."
Bring a cow over...
Zhou Lu felt a trace of doubt at the Class Monitor's choice of words.
How did he plan to draw a wild bull's aggro?
Very quickly, Xu Wuhu gave Zhou Lu the answer through his actions.
With the support of the Silver Armor Rat, Xu Wuhu erupted with terrifying speed and charged at his chosen target in a single stride.
Before the wild bull, which had been leisurely grazing, could react, a silver muscle-bound man appeared before its eyes.
Without a word, he grabbed its neck and executed a suplex. Its half-ton body was lifted directly into the air by Xu Wuhu and smashed viciously into the ground.
This scene did not only leave the thrown wild bull dumbfounded.
Zhou Lu and Li Yi were dumbfounded too.
No, Class Monitor, if you're already this fierce, what are we even training for?
No matter how docile an animal was, getting thrown like that would make it furious.
The wild bull staggered to its feet and let out an enraged bellow at Xu Wuhu.
Without another word, Xu Wuhu turned and ran back toward Zhou Lu and the others, shouting as he ran, "Get ready! Get ready!"
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