You Can't Even Beat a Plant Spirit Pet?

This cliff face is teeming with little mountain sparrows.

When their numbers reach a certain density, naturally, many exceptional individuals emerge.

Without human cultivation or training, they spontaneously mastered certain skills.

The little mountain sparrows here are just like that.

After Huohuo entered its capture mode, the little mountain sparrows initiated their counterattack.

Some of the little mountain sparrows had even mastered the Wind Blade skill.

They attempted to use Wind Blade to sever Huohuo's vine net.

But Huohuo was no longer what it used to be. Not only had the strength of its vines improved since the initial combat assessment, but it had also developed an awareness to defend against Wind Blade.

A Spirit Pet's experience and techniques are honed and improved through combat.

This was clearly evident in Huohuo's case.

Huohuo never gave Wind Blade a chance to touch its main vines.

After discovering that some little mountain sparrows could use Wind Blade, its vine net gained many swinging vines in the air.

These vines, like a jellyfish's tentacles, swayed incessantly when Wind Blade approached, deflecting the attacks.

For a moment, the entire cliff face was a flurry of Wind Blades.

This made Zhou Lu, who was fixed to the cliff face, deeply understand the feeling of being in a "hail of bullets."

If Huohuo hadn't simultaneously set up similar defenses around Zhou Lu, he would have been hit by the stray Wind Blades several times already.

At this moment, Zhou Lu couldn't help but recall what his high school teacher had once told his original self: In a secret realm, your Spirit Pet is your only reliance. You must trust your Spirit Pet unconditionally, just as your Spirit Pet trusts you unconditionally.

Isn't this the true meaning of [Body Feed]?

A Beast Tamer, when facing a desperate situation, can only trust their own Spirit Pet.

They must place everything on their Spirit Pet to find a sliver of hope to break through the predicament.

The instant he grasped this, Zhou Lu felt something change within him.

He knew this was the skill [Body Feed].

Unlike a skill card, this [Body Feed] was a permanent skill Zhou Lu had comprehended himself; it didn't exist in card form.

Only when he willed it, guided by the Knowledge Fairy, could he extract such comprehended skills to form skill cards.

The process was similar to the general skill cards of Spirit Beasts.

In other words, possessing [Body Feed] didn't prevent him from continuing to use [Body Feed] via a skill card.

It's just...

Feeling the fatigue in his body, Zhou Lu gave a wry smile.

Using [Body Feed] twice in a row left him with a near-death sense of exhaustion. Who could handle that?

"Zhou Lu!"

Just then, Xu Wuhu's voice came from above.

Zhou Lu looked up and saw the Class Monitor holding a Sticky Baby in each hand, climbing down towards him like he was using suction cups.

"Here," Zhou Lu called out, seeing someone coming to find him.

After confirming Zhou Lu's location, Xu Wuhu's speed increased.

"What's wrong with you!" Xu Wuhu said, relieved to see Zhou Lu unharmed, "You scared us half to death, we thought you were going to do something drastic."

Zhou Lu coughed twice and pointed at Huohuo, who was catching birds in the distance, saying, "Isn't this doing a mission?"

"You can't just jump off a cliff to do a mission!" Xu Wuhu said helplessly, "Teacher An is probably furious at the bottom of the mountain by now."

An Xin was Zhou Lu's safety teacher for this expedition.

"Teacher An already went down? That fast?"

"He jumped down with you, didn't you see?"

Who pays attention to that when jumping off a cliff?

"Is Teacher An okay?"

"His Spirit Pet is a third-tier Great Mountain Sparrow, he'll definitely be fine." Xu Wuhu glanced at Zhou Lu, "But he's probably quite annoyed. Many safety teachers were alerted because of you."

An all-out mobilization wasn't what Zhou Lu wanted: "Sorry..."

"It's good that you're okay," Xu Wuhu said, looking at Huohuo in the distance, "When it's done catching them, come up with me. The teachers and classmates are all concerned about your safety."

Zhou Lu saw that the duration of [Body Feed] was almost up and nodded, "Okay, I'll be right up."

When he called Huohuo back, it was still a bit reluctant.

It was having a lot of fun playing with these little birds.

However, looking at the little mountain sparrows struggling in its net, it was hard to say if they were having fun.

Zhou Lu came down quickly, and he would go back up quickly too.

Zhou Lu hugged Huohuo and ordered the little grass to retract its Vine Step. In an instant, both of them were flung back to the clifftop.

With Xu Wuhu's help, Zhou Lu and Huohuo landed steadily.

"You damn guy!"

As soon as they arrived, An Xin roared and ran over, grabbing Zhou Lu's shoulders. "Do you know how dangerous that was?!"

"I'm sorry, Teacher. It was an impulse..." Zhou Lu immediately admitted his mistake.

An Xin was just angry that Zhou Lu didn't care about his own life. Seeing Zhou Lu admit his mistake so quickly, he didn't know what else to say.

He had always been bad with words.

"Forget it, forget it. We'll find the school counselor for some guidance when we get back," An Xin said, waving his hand.

As they were talking, a commotion arose from the students of Linzhou Beast Taming Academy in the distance.

"They're here! They're here! Song Shao and the others are here!"

It seemed the opponents for this scheduled battle had arrived.

"Young Master Song... what kind of old-fashioned urban novel title is that?" Zhou Lu couldn't help but mutter.

Xu Wuhu said helplessly, "His name is Song Shao."

"..."

"But it's not wrong to call him that in their academy. After all, he's the son of the Linzhou Beast Taming Academy's board member."

"Board member? Beast Taming Academies have board members?" Zhou Lu asked, confused.

"Not before," Xu Wuhu shrugged. "But Linzhou Beast Taming Academy's competition results have always been poor, so at the suggestion of some people, they introduced shares from large companies to attract their investment. Then, they used the investment money to improve the academy's Beast Taming level. It's said to be quite effective."

"Since shares were divided, there naturally had to be a board of directors. This guy is the son of the boss of one of those large companies," Li Yi revealed with a mocking smile. "He got into Linzhou Beast Taming Academy through that connection."

Although Li Yi had a similar background, he had legitimately tested his way into Xin'an Beast Taming Academy.

Zhou Lu broke out in a cold sweat.

In a sense, he had also gotten into the academy through connections.

But his second attempt wasn't cheating, was it? After all, as Huohuo's master, wasn't he also research material for that paper?

"Captain! It's that person!"

Just as Zhou Lu was chatting idly with Xu Wuhu and Li Yi, a familiar voice suddenly came from ahead.

Looking up, he saw the tall, thin man he had beaten up in the Linxi Secret Realm bowing beside a handsome man, pointing at him.

"Are you the Beast Tamer who robbed our team members in the Linxi Secret Realm?" the man, presumably Song Shao, asked Zhou Lu, his expression unfriendly.

As he spoke, his gaze fell on Huohuo.

"Plant Spirit Pet? Is that your Spirit Pet?"

Sensing the hostility, Zhou Lu looked at the other party vigilantly.

Song Shao's expression became even uglier.

Slap!

The loud sound of a slap instantly silenced everyone present.

Song Shao slapped the tall, thin man, making him stagger. He shook his hand and said angrily, "You were robbed by someone with a Plant Spirit Pet, and you still have the nerve to ask me to stand up for you? My dad's money was just to support you two useless pieces of trash! You can't even beat a Plant Spirit Pet?"

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