Holy Crap, the Divine Grass Mud Horse's Special Move

When the beautiful woman heard Yue Yang's question, she was utterly taken aback.

In her eyes, apart from the portrait at the top, the rest of the Summoning Codex page was completely blank.

There were no patterns or words at all. Yet Third Son's expression did not look like he was lying to her. Could it be that he really had a talent? A talent she could not see?

"Third Son, don't lie to Fourth Mother. Really, you really have a talent? Fourth Mother can't see it. What kind of talent is it?" The beautiful woman felt as though her heart were about to leap out of her throat. She nervously seized Yue Yang's hand.

"Ah... it's hidden. My talent is a hidden talent!" Yue Yang scratched the back of his head and told a lie. He realized that he really was as cunning as a fox.

"As long as you have a talent, it's fine. You scared me to death!" The beautiful woman was immediately relieved.

She patted her chest with her jade-like hand, closed her eyes, and let out a long breath. Every person in the world who possessed a Codex would awaken a talent. If Third Son had none, he would surely be branded a useless waste. No matter what kind of talent it was, as long as he had one, that was enough. The peak experts had long since proven that there were no trash talents in this world—only trash people.

Third Son's invisible hidden talent might even be an exceptionally good one!

The beautiful woman happily reached out and gently stroked Yue Yang's head. "Third Son, Fourth Mother is truly happy for you. With this hidden talent, you'll definitely achieve great things in the future!"

When the little girl saw her mother stroking Yue Yang's head, she stretched out her own tender little hand and leaned over to grab his hair.

Seeing her make mischief, the beautiful woman hurriedly set her down.

Suppressing the excitement in her heart, the beautiful woman gestured for Yue Yang to turn the page of the Summoning Codex. "Turn to the next page, Third Son, and look at your Life Guardian Beast... Shuang'er, don't move around. Let your brother turn the page. Be good—just stand here and watch. Eh? Is this mist? All white and hazy... Is your Life Guardian Beast an elemental-type mist? Not bad. Although elemental types grow slowly, they are powerful. In the early stages, they may be slightly inferior to enhancement types and beast types, but in the later stages, they are not the least bit weaker—perhaps even stronger. As long as it isn't a special type, it's fine! Ah, Third Son, your Life Guardian Beast is quite good!"

The beautiful woman clapped her hands happily, her face blooming with delight.

Yue Yang, however, was dumbfounded.

Because what he saw was not a vast expanse of white mist at all, but a pitch-black shadow.

A shadow that looked exactly like himself!

Beneath the shadow was a brief line of text introducing the abilities of this Life Guardian Beast.

Phantom: Special type, Level 1. You can control your shadow. Every shadow will possess half your abilities. Shadows can stack, enhancing the main body.

Yue Yang gently placed his hand over the Phantom pattern, and golden light flickered faintly between his fingers.

"So that's how it is..."

At the same time, knowledge related to summoning battle beasts flashed through his mind.

As long as martial artists of the Dragon Soaring Continent trained diligently, even ordinary martial artists could learn one or two summoning skills and form contracts with battle beasts. But because they did not possess Summoning Codices, the number of summoned beasts they could contract was severely limited. Ordinary martial artists could only contract one battle beast, while a small number of outstanding martial artists could contract two.

For experts who possessed Summoning Codices, there was no limit to the number of contracts they could form.

Every page of the Summoning Codex could contract one summoned battle beast, until every page was filled and no blank pages remained.

However, the greatest advantage of the Summoning Codex was not its unlimited number of contracts. It was that every holder gained a unique Life Guardian Beast. Unlike ordinary battle beasts, this kind of Life Guardian Beast would never truly die, nor would it ever betray its master. A Life Guardian Beast grew alongside its master and required no additional conditions. As long as its master's abilities improved, or the Summoning Codex leveled up, its abilities would rise accordingly.

"Eh?"

Yue Yang had originally wanted to summon a shadow and see what it was all about.

To his surprise, however, he could not summon it.

The knowledge in his mind told him that he lacked sufficient spiritual energy to successfully summon a shadow. Moreover, Yue Yang could faintly sense that summoning this kind of shadow required ten times more spiritual energy than other summoned beasts...

"What's wrong?" Seeing that something was off about Yue Yang's expression, the beautiful woman asked with concern, "What happened?"

"Nothing. My spiritual energy is insufficient, so I can't summon my Life Guardian Beast yet." Yue Yang shook his head, but a thought flashed through his mind. This shadow, which could stack and enhance his strength, should remain a secret. Even if he could summon it later, he should not reveal it casually in front of others.

It should exist as his secret weapon.

"Ah? Third Son, don't worry. Elemental-type summoned beasts have especially high spiritual energy requirements. It's normal if you can't summon one at first. Your Life Guardian Beast will absolutely be the battle beast that helps you the most as you grow. That's certain!" The beautiful woman hurriedly comforted the transmigrator.

"Yes, I'll definitely train hard and strive to summon it as soon as possible!" Yue Yang said this on the surface, but he had different thoughts in his heart.

From the knowledge transmitted through the Summoning Codex, he knew the standards for summoning spiritual energy.

If it had been an ordinary elemental-type summoned battle beast, Yue Yang felt that he could have summoned it without any problem.

It was only that his Phantom required more than ten times the spiritual energy of other summoned beasts. The requirement was simply too high! It was only Level 1 now. If it leveled up, it would probably require even more spiritual energy... Still, this was not necessarily a bad thing. The more spiritual energy a summon required, the stronger the summoned battle beast would be. Since Yue Yang's Life Guardian Beast, Phantom, required more than ten times the spiritual energy, compared with other people's battle beasts, the difference was probably like a heavy sniper rifle and a bow. Though both were long-range weapons, their power was entirely different!

From the knowledge flashing through his mind, Yue Yang also discovered that the greatest difference between his Phantom and other people's battle beasts was not its strength.

It was time!

An ordinary martial artist's summoned beast would disappear after around an hour each time it was summoned.

Outstanding martial artists could sustain them for two or three hours.

A very small number of super geniuses could summon for as long as five hours, but such people were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

The transmigrator, Student Yue Yang, placed his hand over the shadow pattern. Although he could not summon it, he could still sense the shadow's abilities and resonate with it in his heart. After carefully sensing it for a while, he discovered in astonishment that once this shadow was summoned, it could remain for a full ten days.

Holy Crap... Yue Yang broke out in a cold sweat. This secret absolutely could not be discovered by anyone, or he would be captured and dissected alive like some kind of monster!

"Little Third Brother, what is 'Holy Crap'?" The little girl blinked her large curious eyes and asked innocently.

"Ah, it's an incredibly powerful special move of the summoned divine beast, the Grass Mud Horse. It's extremely powerful. When unleashed, it can raise a person's rage by one hundred points, and may even drive enemies mad, make them go insane, pound their chests, stamp their feet, claw at their hair, jump about in agitation, ram their heads into walls, and suffer all kinds of chaotic states. This skill deals double damage to chrysanthemums, but is completely ineffective against shameless scoundrels with extremely high mental defense or people with pure hearts... As for the Grass Mud Horse, this summoned divine beast generally lives in the Horse Gobi. It likes basking in the sun and eating grass, especially lying beside a trough to eat grass... How could you call a summoned divine beast like the Grass Mud Horse extremely powerful? It isn't merely extremely powerful—it's unbelievably powerful! Apart from the invincible divine beast known as the Celestial River Crab, nothing is its match. Divine beasts like the Yak Lizard and the Yamete Butterfly may also be divine beasts, but they are not even on the same level as it! All right, that's enough about divine beasts. We can't go into this question too deeply!"

When it came to teaching an eager little loli, Student Yue Yang was truly tireless in leading people astray.

At first, the beautiful woman thought the boy had become too excited and accidentally blurted out a curse.

But when she saw how serious he was, and how convincingly he spoke, she actually believed there really was a divine beast with such a strange name in the world.

Of course, she also knew that divine beasts were not so easily summoned. Not to mention a Level 1 novice apprentice—even among humanity's peak experts, only a few possessed divine beasts. One must not aim too high. She quickly advised Yue Yang, "Third Son, divine beasts and the like are powerful creatures. They cannot possibly form contracts with weak martial artists. Don't think about them for now. Hurry and train your summoning skills instead, and increase your summoning spiritual energy as much as possible... This year will probably be too late. After the New Year, your Fourth Uncle and I will send you to the academy. Work hard, and you'll definitely make something of yourself in the future!"

"Yes, yes." Yue Yang secretly wiped away a cold sweat. Luckily she had not caught on, or she would surely have slapped him.

After seeing off the delighted beautiful woman and the reluctant little girl, Yue Yang let out a breath of relief.

He had finally fooled her. She had not recognized that he was a counterfeit.

But what should he do next?