Zhou Lu did not dwell on the matter of Body Feed for long.
Because he realized he had been too fixated on System Tasks.
While milking the World-Saving System for all it was worth was certainly delightful, this so-called World-Saving System was fundamentally out to harm him!
Besides, Beast Tamer Skills were not impossible to train.
Wasn't his neighbor a Knowledge Fairy? Letting such a resource go unused would truly be a waste.
Zhou Lu raised his head and glanced at Xiao Xi's tightly shut door.
The door was shut tight, and the room was utterly quiet, with none of the usual music.
He knocked for quite a while, but Xiao Xi never came to open the door. It seemed she really was not there.
Huohuo raised its sprout. Seeing Zhou Lu's disappointed expression, it scratched its sprout with a leaf, imitating its master's thoughtful manner.
Ah! I get it~!
Huohuo seemed to understand something.
Just as Zhou Lu was about to turn and leave, it stretched out a vine and slipped it through the crack beneath Xiao Xi's door.
"Ah!"
Hearing movement behind the door, Zhou Lu instinctively stopped. Then came a loud bang, as though something had crashed into the door.
Looking down, he saw Huohuo's vine gripping two legs barely thicker than chopsticks and yanking them outward for dear life.
Perhaps because her butt was stuck in the door crack, Huohuo was unable to drag Xiao Xi—who had been hiding behind the door and pretending not to be home—out through it.
Little Grass had only just grown a brain; how could it have that many schemes up its sleeve?
Seeing that it could not pull her out right away, it tugged with all its might, making Xiao Xi slam into the door again and again.
"Ah! It hurts! Let go! Ah!"
Teacher Xiao Xi's screams echoed through the quiet corridor.
"Wuwuwu~! Stop it already, it really hurts~"
Zhou Lu watched System Tasks pop up one after another as the system rewarded him with Low-level Growth Potions in a steady stream.
"Huohuo! Don't be so rude." Snapping back to his senses, Zhou Lu hurriedly stopped Huohuo. If this went on, Teacher Xiao Xi would get stuck to death in the door crack.
Hearing Zhou Lu's scolding, Huohuo lifted its head in confusion.
Rude...
It seemed to understand something. It extended a vine and knocked on the door.
Huohuo is very polite!
It proudly raised its head.
Why did you equate knocking with politeness...
Sensing Huohuo's feelings, Zhou Lu was somewhat speechless.
After much struggling, they finally rescued Xiao Xi from Huohuo's vines.
"What is wrong with your spirit pet..." Xiao Xi rubbed her butt, then sat directly on Zhou Lu's shoulder and complained, "Its sneak-attack binding skills are pretty impressive."
Impressive, right? It learned them catching chipmunks.
Since Huohuo had already caught her, Xiao Xi could no longer play dead.
"Twenty-two Academic Credits? You went to a D-rank secret realm and got twenty-two Academic Credits?" After hearing Zhou Lu's account, Xiao Xi wore an incredulous expression.
Zhou Lu nodded and picked up the kettle that had just fallen over, intending to pour Xiao Xi a cup of water.
Huohuo wrapped a vine around the kettle's handle and patted its leaves, wanting to help Zhou Lu.
Zhou Lu smiled and let go, allowing Huohuo to assist.
Seeing that its master trusted it so much, Little Grass was overjoyed. It could finally help its master!
Wriggling its Vine Step, it crawled all around the room, trying to find the cup Zhou Lu had hidden away.
"A lot, right?" Zhou Lu could not help sounding a little smug.
"Of course." Xiao Xi glanced at Zhou Lu and smiled. "But that was only because you followed that boy from the Li family and picked up such a bargain. Normally, only Beast Taming Families or major corporations know this sort of inside information. You'll understand once you enter a secret realm on your own. Getting twenty-two Academic Credits is practically like pie falling from the sky."
"I thought Beast Tamers just made this much money."
"They do make money, but not as explosively as you did." Xiao Xi looked every bit the seasoned veteran. "The safe zone is fine. The Pioneer Army occasionally catches spirit beasts and releases them into the safe zone, letting students like you take on tasks and gather materials. But once you actually head into the wilderness, you'll understand. Spirit beasts are nowhere near that densely distributed, and you also have to compete against the professional Beast Tamer teams from breeding bases and major companies."
"So." Xiao Xi hopped down from Zhou Lu's shoulder and floated in midair, putting on a lecturing air. "Cherish your student days. You're one of the lucky ones. Those education conglomerates have already been egging the higher-ups on to reform education. Maybe there won't even be Beast Tamer courses before university in the future."
"Huh? Why?"
"To reduce the burden, obviously. Well, at least that's what they call it." Xiao Xi took the cup from Huohuo's vine, held its handle with both hands, and blew on it. "That's just how this world is. Ordinary children only need to enjoy carefree happiness, while elite children have Beast Tamer classes they can never finish making up and far more to consider."
"Oh, right. Don't throw away that copy of Basic Methods for Spirit Beast Cultivation. The new textbooks removed the chapters on Beast Tamer Skill training, so the old textbooks are going to rise in price." As Xiao Xi spoke, she glanced at the water in the cup, puffed out her cheeks, and set it down. "Why is it plain boiled water? Do you have any tea?"
Huohuo tilted its flowerpot up and looked at Xiao Xi strangely.
Tea? What is tea?
"No," Zhou Lu said calmly.
"Fruit tea will do too." Xiao Xi settled for the next best thing.
Fruit! Huohuo's leaves spread wide.
A vine wrapped around Xiao Xi's waist...
"Hey! Wait! Wait! I asked you to make fruit tea, not steep me!"
"Yes, yes, I'm a fruit, but I'm not fucking tea!"
"Let go! Let go already! That's boiling water! Boiling water!"
"I'm going to die, I'm going to die! Save me! Zhou—Lu!"
Barely holding back his laughter, Zhou Lu coaxed Huohuo for a long while before finally persuading it to put Xiao Xi down. "Don't mess around, Huohuo."
Huohuo raised its flowerpot and stubbornly glanced at Xiao Xi. She was the one who asked for fruit tea!
"Alright, alright." Zhou Lu tapped Huohuo's pot. "Go play somewhere else. I need to talk to Teacher Xiao Xi."
"I think you'd better not have anything to talk about..." Xiao Xi lay sprawled across the table, speaking feebly.
Hearing that this fruit dared refuse its master, Huohuo extended a vine and glared at her.
The moment Xiao Xi saw Huohuo's vine, she immediately sat upright and said with a solemn expression, "Go ahead! Helping students is the duty of a Knowledge Fairy!"
So Zhou Lu asked Xiao Xi about the Beast Tamer Skill, Body Feed.
"Body Feed... I do have a training method for that." Xiao Xi looked at Zhou Lu strangely. "How did you learn about this skill? Anyone who voluntarily trains it is a lunatic."
"A lunatic?"
"A lunatic who sacrifices themselves to nourish their spirit pet," Xiao Xi said. "Only people who are not quite right in the head would voluntarily train it. If you want it, I can give it to you. Two Fairy Coins."
Hearing that, Zhou Lu asked instead, "Do you sell finished Skill Cards?"
"I do."
"Huh? You really do?"
Xiao Xi proudly raised her head. "Who do you think I am!"
After a pause, she poured a basin of cold water over Zhou Lu. "But Beast Tamer Skill Cards are not for sale. Usually, only after you make a major contribution will the authorities reward one to you through me."
"Not for sale..."
"After all, unlike Spirit Beast Skill Cards, which can be trained on Beast Tamers and mass-produced, Beast Tamer Skill Cards are born from the bond between a Beast Tamer and their spirit pet. The Beast Tamer Skill Cards in my possession were donated after Pioneer Army Beast Tamers sacrificed themselves. Do you think it would be appropriate to trade those?"
Xiao Xi's words completely cut off Zhou Lu's possibility of directly buying Body Feed.
"Then I'll buy the training method." Zhou Lu gritted his teeth.
"Are you sure?" Xiao Xi was somewhat surprised. "That's two Fairy Coins. You could buy two universal skills with that."
I'm not lacking Beast Tamer Skills, actually... Zhou Lu glanced at the system.
"Body Feed isn't that easy to train." After Zhou Lu decisively paid the Fairy Coins, Xiao Xi raised a hand and transmitted the information related to Body Feed to him, while also sharing some advice. "You'd best find a Beast Tamer who knows this skill to guide you."
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