The Ingenious Use of One-Time Skill Cards

To be perfectly honest, the moment Zhou Lu jumped, he actually had some regrets.

If Huohuo hadn't managed to save him in time, then even if the safety teacher intervened, he would have been placing his life in someone else's hands.

Zhou Lu didn't like that feeling.

Anyone would hate the feeling of their fate being controlled by others when they had a chance to resist.

It seemed this thought allowed Zhou Lu to grasp a sliver of the true meaning of [Body Feed].

I'll risk my life to seek that sliver of hope's dawn.

A skill card appeared before Zhou Lu.

Without hesitation, he activated the one-time use skill card on his body.

[Body Feed], activate!

Under the force of gravity's acceleration, Zhou Lu felt his falling speed increasing.

The sound of the wind in his ears completely drowned out all other sounds.

The gasps of his classmates, the cries of the startled little mountain sparrows.

The cliff top grew further away, and death grew closer.

At this moment, he finally understood Xiao Xi's assessment.

Damn it, anyone who actively trains [Body Feed] is definitely a lunatic!

I'm a lunatic too!

But then, his gaze firmed up.

He had to obtain the [Body Feed] skill.

Because it was the foundation for Huohuo to become infinitely powerful!

Although Huohuo's figure was no longer visible in his sight, he still firmly believed that Huohuo could accomplish what they had planned together.

Taking a deep breath, Zhou Lu calmed his mind.

He suddenly felt a tickling sensation on his body.

Green vines sprouted from his body, burrowing into the cliff face.

These were vines grown from Huohuo's offshoots.

When did this little grass plant these on me?

Before Zhou Lu could even figure it out, the pain of the vines pulling him transmitted through. Zhou Lu almost thought his entire arm would be torn off.

He had no doubt that if his falling speed continued to increase, even if Huohuo caught up to him, he would still suffer severe injuries.

With the tug of the vines, his body successfully suspended in mid-air.

Below him was still a bottomless abyss, and above, he could no longer see the cliff top.

He was just hanging there halfway up the mountain.

The fatigue from the lowered attributes washed over him.

Just as Zhou Lu was pondering how to get up, several vines grew out from the cliff face, precisely binding his body.

Huohuo's vines had finally caught up to the falling Zhou Lu.

It seemed that even with doubled speed, the speed of plant vines still couldn't compare to truly fast Spirit Beasts.

As Zhou Lu was thinking, Huohuo appeared before him, swaying slightly, extending its vines to inspect his body.

Huohuo had used vines and leaves to weave a parachute and jumped down with Zhou Lu.

After confirming its master was unharmed, the little grass clearly breathed a sigh of relief.

It huffily patted the back of Zhou Lu's hand, expressing its displeasure.

Although Zhou Lu had told it about the training plan, he hadn't given it any warning when he jumped down just now.

"Alright, alright. I won't do that next time," Zhou Lu comforted Huohuo. "You can let me go now, at least let go of my hands."

Huohuo then realized that its master's limbs were all bound by its vines.

Huohuo mischievously extended a vine.

"Huohuo!" Zhou Lu seemed to sense Huohuo's mischievous thought and immediately issued a warning.

Huohuo was, after all, obedient and well-behaved. It released the vines binding Zhou Lu's hands and then quickly burrowed into Zhou Lu's embrace.

Hugging the fawning Huohuo, Zhou Lu finally had the mood to observe his surroundings.

In reality, his jump wasn't purely to practice [Body Feed] recklessly; it was because capturing the little mountain sparrow indeed required completion on the cliff face.

It's just that others wouldn't jump down directly without any safety measures like Zhou Lu.

Recalling the recent peril, Zhou Lu still felt a lingering fear.

If he had to do it again, he wasn't sure he'd have the courage.

It didn't matter if he did or not, because Zhou Lu no longer needed to take such risks.

After grasping the true meaning of [Body Feed], he had touched the threshold of this skill. He estimated that after releasing the skill a few more times, he would be able to master it completely.

As for the disposable skill cards for [Body Feed], he still had many on him.

Looking at the vines behind Huohuo, it was clear that they were a safety rope left to pull the two of them back.

After continuously absorbing the attributes of a large number of chipmunks and Nightmare Butterflies, Huohuo's vine strength had reached a height that ordinary first-order Spirit Beasts could not reach. Pulling Zhou Lu and itself up would definitely not be a problem.

Zhou Lu wasn't in a hurry to go back.

He glanced around.

The little mountain sparrows that had been startled away were now gradually returning to their nests.

As Spirit Beasts living on cliffs, the little mountain sparrows were not large in size, but they were tenacious and stubborn. Combined with the agility of flying Spirit Beasts and the speed and ranged attack capabilities of wind-attribute Spirit Beasts, they could be considered a very good Spirit Pet.

Although compared to other rare Spirit Beasts, the strength of the little mountain sparrow was indeed not strong, but because its cultivation was not expensive compared to other Spirit Beasts, and most importantly, its evolution route was a rare open-source plan, it had become one of the preferred Spirit Pets for many ordinary Beast Tamers.

Originally, there were many breeding farms for little mountain sparrows, existing as a stable supply of Spirit Pets.

But with the elite development of Beast Taming in recent years, these Spirit Beasts, which were already low in price, had low profits, and their evolution materials were not profitable, had gradually disappeared from major Spirit Pet stores, replaced by more expensive Spirit Pets.

Related breeding farms also gradually disappeared, shifting to breeding and raising more valuable Spirit Pets.

The little mountain sparrow had always been one of the initial Spirit Pets provided for free by the Beast Tamer Academy, but now there was no stable source of supply to be found.

Even though selling in small quantities at low prices could still yield decent profits, the vast majority of Spirit Beast breeding companies simply wouldn't take orders.

Helpless, the academy had to obtain them through Secret Realms.

The main sources were the Pioneer Army, followed by Academic Credit tasks, which allowed students to capture little mountain sparrows from the Mountain River Secret Realm.

Since he was already down here, he might as well catch a few little mountain sparrows.

Zhou Lu thought.

He might as well let Huohuo absorb some more attributes.

With this thought, Zhou Lu produced another disposable skill card for [Body Feed].

Yes, the skill card did say that it could only be used once a day.

Under normal circumstances, this statement was unambiguous, because a person could only possess one [Body Feed] skill card.

But Zhou Lu was not normal.

So he was curious whether this daily usage limit applied to the skill card or to the skill [Body Feed] itself.

He suddenly had a bold idea.

And that bold idea was validated as the [Body Feed] in his hand was triggered.

Oh my god!

As long as I hoard disposable skill cards, even for skills with usage limits, I can activate them multiple times a day!

At least, that's how it worked for Beast Tamer skill cards.

"Huohuo, time to work!" Zhou Lu tapped Huohuo's shell to remind it.

Huohuo: o(^▽^)┛

Huohuo once again displayed its vine net, which it had used to capture the Nightmare Butterflies.

This time, it was more experienced.