Cold Breath Mastery

Back in his room, Chen Wei gazed delightedly at the pills in his hand. The old physician's mention of "backlash" had awakened Chen Wei from the fog clouding his eyes.

Perhaps it was precisely because he had awakened two talents that something had gone wrong during the process of creating Dragon Power last night. The conflict between the two talents had left him unable to control the Dragon Taming Power.

Chen Wei could vaguely sense that perhaps as his Source Star advanced and the talent abilities of Appraisal and Dragon Taming Power gradually strengthened, the conflict between his innate talents would slowly erupt. Powerful mental strength might be able to suppress the backlash of his talents.

Luckily, he had endured that day through sheer force of will!

Chen Wei's face was wreathed in smiles. He felt that his luck today had truly been excellent.

He had merely gone out to buy medicine, yet he had encountered a reclusive miracle doctor who cleared up his confusion and even gave him a solution.

This was also thanks to Color Spirit. She truly was a lucky star; otherwise, he would not have gone out to buy medicine today.

He had firmly memorized the name and location of that pharmacy. If he ran into trouble next time, he could go back and seek the miracle doctor's guidance.

One bottle of Spring-Returning Pills contained ten pills.

After slowly moving his somewhat sore and numb body, Chen Wei poured an appropriate amount of Vitality Powder into hot water and swallowed it together with a Spring-Returning Pill.

After taking the medicine, he could not help but shudder. He felt his body gradually warming, while his physical strength and energy rapidly recovered.

Oh? The medicine worked that fast?

Chen Wei was somewhat surprised. You got what you paid for indeed—strength was steadily surging forth from every corner of his body.

An hour later, Chen Wei nodded in satisfaction. Although his forehead still faintly ached, he felt like he was good to go again.

He closed his eyes and meditated, sensing his condition. He could still undergo at least four more enhancements now.

He activated his Source Power and summoned Color Spirit from the Star Ring.

"Hey!"

Color Spirit was still sulking. She deliberately looked away, but Chen Wei keenly noticed the slight upward curve of her mouth. Clearly, she was still very happy right now.

Filled with apology, Chen Wei patted her head before continuing the unfinished enhancement.

Color Spirit habitually tilted her little head, feeling that familiar sensation of growing stronger.

If this enhancement continued, she would soon advance to the first rank! Then she could eat all those delicious red dragon crystals she had accumulated.

Her snake mouth parted slightly, her forked tongue flickering out as she blinked her pale blue eyes, revealing an incomparably blissful expression.

Color Spirit: (~￣▽￣)~

Sensing Color Spirit's thoughts, Chen Wei's brows furrowed slightly.

This little one's thoughts were dangerous. It was not easy for him to make a dragon crystal either!

She wanted them all just like that—what about her future companions? She could not be allowed to develop the habit of keeping all the food to herself.

"Half of the dragon crystals go to you, and the other half goes to me. Partners need to learn how to share."

"Yi." (Okay.)

Color Spirit nodded, looking utterly unconcerned. As long as it had nothing to do with the number of enhancements, everything was negotiable.

However, after the enhancement, she had also discovered a trick to communicating.

That was, she needed to be firmer in her attitude toward Chen Wei and not give the Beast Master before her a pleasant expression. Otherwise, he might deduct her enhancement chances. Today, the great villain in front of her had nearly deducted her enhancement chances!

Chen Wei's expression instantly fell. Did this little one not know that when he concentrated, he could sense her inner thoughts? She actually badmouthed him right in front of him.

This little padded jacket was no good. She had only just finished being enhanced, and not even a few seconds had passed before she started letting the wind through!

"Did you not know that we can convey thoughts to each other through our contract? What happened tonight was my fault, so don't entertain such strange thoughts!"

Chen Wei's expression was peculiar. He had not expected his actions tonight to leave such a bad impression on her.

"Yah!" (#／.＼#)

Color Spirit's body instantly stiffened when her thoughts were exposed. After letting out a crisp shriek, her petite figure vanished from Chen Wei's sight in an instant, darting straight beneath the covers.

"Alright, the enhancements are finished. You should get some rest early too. We still have to get up early for training tomorrow."

Chen Wei could only urge her helplessly.

This girl always liked curling up in a ball and lazing in bed. He had no idea what she found so appealing about it; she could be happy just staying in bed without sleeping.

"Yi." (Okay.)

A muffled reply came from beneath the covers.

Chen Wei, meanwhile, began tonight's meditation practice according to the old physician's instructions.

For the sake of his beloved pet beasts in the future, he decided that starting tomorrow, he would begin a health-preservation regimen.

The next morning, autumn was pleasant and the blue sky was as clear as a wash—a perfect day for training.

Inside the Beast Master Association building's beginner ice-and-snow training ground.

A petite, exquisite white jade snake raced across the icy ground as wisps of fine snow drifted down. Astonishingly, even while moving forward at such tremendous speed, the Cold Breath she continuously exhaled still struck every target with precision, sending great sprays of crystalline ice shards flying.

Color Spirit sprinted toward a boulder, then slammed her tail against the ground. Her muscles contracted fiercely as they borrowed the force, launching her petite body into the air like a spring.

As she continuously rolled through the air, faint blue Source Power from the surroundings was drawn toward her body. The ice crystal atop her head gleamed with a cold blue radiance. Her snake mouth opened slightly, gathering a large, luminous blue sphere of light.

The next second, the orb of light transformed into a blue-white beam of energy and struck the rock.

The rock was instantly frozen into a massive block of ice by the energy beam, and countless tiny cracks appeared across the frost covering its surface.

With two thunderous booms, the enormous rock shattered into countless chunks of ice, kicking up an ice storm.

"How do you feel now? Did you remember that sensation?"

Watching the drastic change in terrain caused by the Cold Breath from Color Spirit's mouth, Chen Wei asked in delight.

"Eee..." ∑(O_O;)(So tired...)

After unleashing that attack, Color Spirit seemed utterly exhausted, weakly swaying her head.

"It's alright. Rest for a while first. Your Cold Breath practice went very well today. Think back carefully on the feeling of releasing it just now."

"Hold on to that feeling. Once you can steadily release that kind of Cold Breath several times, you'll have perfectly mastered Mastery-level Cold Breath!" Chen Wei encouraged Color Spirit.

Generally speaking, Proficient-level Cold Breath could only freeze and restrain enemies, while Mastery-level Cold Breath could instantly detonate the ice-element energy covering an enemy's entire body while freezing them, dealing considerable damage.

Though Proficient and Mastery were separated by only one level, the effects they could produce were as far apart as heaven and earth.

"Eee eee." (No problem.)

Chen Wei had originally thought it would take at least a week of effort for Color Spirit to reach Mastery-level Cold Breath.

But he had never expected Color Spirit to forcibly shorten the training time to just two days.

Skill cultivation was no simple matter.

Although Cold Breath was only a first-tier ice-element skill, an ordinary pet beast would need at least half a year to master it to the Mastery level.

Even compared with Cold Jade Snakes and the information Chen Wei had looked up, Color Spirit's rate of improvement was genuinely terrifying!

Chen Wei mused to himself, Could the physical potential enhanced by Dragon Taming Power encompass potential in every aspect of a pet beast? Or is Color Spirit actually an unparalleled genius when it comes to skill cultivation?