Huohuo's Attack Methods

Huohuo's learning speed is very fast.

By evening, it had already mastered this method of movement and increased its speed to that of a normal person walking.

This had a lot to do with the [Carry] skill it had obtained from the Flying Jade Bee. Without the boost from this skill, ordinary plant vines would not have been able to support the weight of the flowerpot plus the plant itself, and thus could not have achieved the effect of walking.

Zhou Lu estimated that if Huohuo's physical strength were a bit higher, its walking speed should be even faster.

Huohuo, having learned to walk, was extremely excited and ran all over the house, trying to leave its footprints in every corner of the room.

Due to the nature of the [Vine Step] skill, Huohuo could walk on any surface. Its footprints were left on the ground, walls, and even the ceiling.

Watching Huohuo dart around the room, Zhou Lu suddenly felt like SpongeBob SquarePants had a little snail at home.

However, even though Huohuo had learned to walk, it wasn't very useful for his combat exam. He needed more useful skills to perform well in the exam.

He still had three Fairy Coins, which he could use to exchange for a few new skills. While universal skills were convenient to learn, their drawback was that to be applicable to all eligible Spirit Beasts, their attribute bonuses were very ordinary.

For skills like [Vine Step] and [Mad Growth] that didn't have bonuses, this drawback wasn't very obvious.

But for attack skills, it was different. The difference in attributes could sometimes be worlds apart.

Because of this, many Beast Tamers focused on combat tended to let their Spirit Beasts learn attack skills themselves, but this tested the Spirit Beasts' comprehension too much. Even with guidance, it wasn't that easy to learn skills.

Skills learned or comprehended through one's own efforts often fit the Spirit Beast's physique and attributes better, thus having higher bonuses. Due to their untransferable nature, they were called inherent skills.

Some techniques of Spirit Beasts, upon reaching a certain level of proficiency, would transform into inherent skills and be reflected on the Beast Taming Card.

Zhou Lu estimated that once Huohuo's walking practice reached a certain level, it might be able to generate skills.

The racial skills inherent to Spirit Beasts, the inherent skills learned through comprehension, and the universal skills exchanged from Knowledge Fairies constituted almost all of the skill systems for Spirit Beasts in the Beast Taming system.

With this thought, Zhou Lu slowly abandoned the idea of exchanging skills. Fairy Coins were very scarce and should be used for the most useful purposes.

Attack skills still needed to be obtained through other means.

Perhaps... he could place Huohuo in the place where senior students nurtured their Spirit Beasts? See if, like with the Flying Jade Bee, Huohuo could gain more skills by fighting weaker Spirit Beasts using [Absorption].

But the probability of [Absorption] obtaining permanent skills was very low, making this method too reliant on luck.

Right... he seemed to have a system reward too.

Zhou Lu suddenly remembered that after feeding Wu Xiaoqing mushrooms, the system had given him 90% of the mission reward.

The mission to kill Wu Xiaoqing had rewarded him with a random permanent Spirit Beast skill card, from a pool of A-grade skills. He wondered what 90% of that reward would be.

Thinking this, Zhou Lu opened the system interface: Three random permanent Spirit Beast skill cards (B-grade).

Holy cow!

The moment he saw the reward, Zhou Lu was startled. These were B-grade skills, and three of them at that. For most people in this world, it was a windfall.

It was a pity that Huohuo couldn't learn B-grade skills yet, which required at least second tier. But with these three random B-grade skill cards in hand, Zhou Lu felt a bit more confident about the future.

The system's mission rewards were so generous. If this system fell into someone else's hands, his friends and family would likely suffer devastating blows.

Fortunately, this system had fallen into his hands.

Although the system rewards were very tempting, Zhou Lu would not do anything that would undermine his own foundation.

Since it was offering such a price to put a bounty on the lives of his friends and family, their value to him was definitely far greater than the system's rewards.

After taking a few deep breaths, just as Zhou Lu was about to calm his mind, a loud noise came from beside him the next second.

With fragments of the flowerpot flying, Zhou Lu looked helplessly at Huohuo, who had collapsed on the ground again.

This time, it wasn't from tripping.

Looking at the marks left on the wall by the flowerpot, Zhou Lu began to analyze.

From Huohuo's trajectory, it was pulled flying by something and slammed hard into the wall.

He raised his hand and touched the subtle indentations on the wall.

The force was quite significant.

Taking out a new flowerpot and settling the aggrieved-looking Huohuo again, Zhou Lu touched Huohuo's new sprout, "What happened?"

Huohuo swayed its leaves, intending to explain to Zhou Lu, but seeing that Zhou Lu didn't seem to understand, it grew new vines and gestured wildly.

Zhou Lu naturally couldn't understand plant language, and Huohuo's emotions were also chaotic.

Huohuo had a flash of inspiration. Since it couldn't explain, it would recreate the process!

So, Huohuo used its vines to guide Zhou Lu to stand aside, and then it retreated.

However, while moving forward, Huohuo forgot to retract one of its vines, leaving it stretched out far away.

Pa pa! Huohuo flapped its leaves, signaling Zhou Lu to watch.

The next second, it retracted the growth bonus granted by [Mad Growth] on that vine. The entire vine returned to its original form.

And in that instant, Huohuo's entire body was yanked forward due to the retraction of the vine.

It detached the initial anchor point of the vine in mid-air, causing its body to rapidly rush towards the wall.

Bang!

The flowerpot smashed firmly against the wall. As the flowerpot shattered, Huohuo, just like before, collapsed on the ground.

The entire process was smooth and natural, leaving Zhou Lu stunned.

Huohuo looked up and saw Zhou Lu staring blankly. Thinking his master hadn't understood the process, it extended a vine, took a new flowerpot from the table, skillfully sat inside it, and repeated the previous process.

Bang!

Huohuo lay on the ground for the third time.

It raised its new sprout towards Zhou Lu, then extended its vine again.

"No need! No need!" Zhou Lu quickly stopped it. If this continued, Huohuo would smash all the flowerpots. "I understand what happened, you don't need to demonstrate anymore."

Only then did Huohuo contentedly sit back in the flowerpot.

However, this time it refused to leave. It patted its leaves, insisting Zhou Lu hold it.

Zhou Lu picked up Huohuo, a mix of amusement and exasperation on his face, but a different idea began to form in his mind.

The building materials here were top-notch. Even with such a shoddy flowerpot, Huohuo could smash marks into the wall this way. So, if he switched to more durable materials, could it inflict more damage?

If he remembered correctly, there were Headbutt-type skills among the Spirit Beast skills.

Why not have Huohuo practice that skill!

Just as Zhou Lu was contemplating this, there was a knock on the door.

Curious, Zhou Lu opened the door.

A small fairy, wearing pajamas, was flying in mid-air with her hands on her hips, shouting angrily, "What are you smashing walls for in the middle of the night! Don't you know I need to sleep on time? This is crucial for my sprouting!"

"Teacher Xiao Xi?" Zhou Lu was taken aback when he saw the small fairy.

Hearing a familiar voice, Xiao Xi looked inside the door. "Huh? Zhou..."

Before she could finish speaking, her slender waist was wrapped by a vine.

Swish! Xiao Xi was yanked away from her spot.

Huohuo angrily swung Xiao Xi, who was held by the vine.

Knocking on the door at night, attempting indecent acts!

I must protect my master!