[Summoning the Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower]

The little girl peeked around for a while. Just as she was about to come in and cause some mischief, the beautiful woman caught her and gave her little butt several swats.

Yue Bing, dressed in black, extended her small hand and summoned her Codex.

Her Summoning Codex was, like Yue Yang's, a Bronze Codex. But after years of cultivation and battle, she had already surpassed the middle tier and advanced to a high-tier Bronze Codex. Its color was brighter than Yue Yang's beginner-tier Bronze Codex, and it possessed a heavier, more metallic texture. The mysterious patterns on Yue Bing's high-tier Bronze Codex seemed lifelike. Even at a glance, one could see the vast difference between it and Yue Yang's Codex.

Of course, whether beginner-tier, middle-tier, or high-tier, Bronze Codices were only the lowest grade of Summoning Codex.

Above Bronze were Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Diamond Codices.

"Gifting the Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower... Third Brother, silently accept it in your heart!" Her high-tier Bronze Codex touched Yue Yang's beginner-tier Bronze Codex, and golden light flashed like a rainbow.

After Yue Yang silently accepted it, he discovered that his Codex automatically turned a page.

On the previously blank third page, there was now the image of a strange flower. The text above it read: Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower, battle beast type, Level One, uncontracted.

When Yue Yang saw it, he found that some wonderful connection had formed within his mind. Faintly, it was a silent summons. Unable to resist, he reached out and touched the Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower's image. At once, golden light flickered. Strands of golden radiance seeped out between his fingers and silently merged into his palm, the back of his hand, and his arm. At the same time, knowledge concerning the strange creature known as the Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower surged into Yue Yang's mind.

"..." Yue Bing's eyes instantly widened. She had not even told him how to contract a plant-type summoned beast, so how had he succeeded in one go?

Even stranger, he had not recited the contract incantation at all.

Could it be that this Third Brother, whom everyone called trash, had already reached the realm where he could successfully form contracts with nothing more than silent thoughts?

Yue Bing decided to observe him in secret.

She felt that this Third Brother might not be the kind of trash people mocked him as. On the contrary, he was very likely a true genius.

"Summon the Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower!" Yue Bing deliberately did not explain the technique for summoning the Thorn Flower. Although summoning a Thorn Flower was the simplest and easiest thing to learn, it could still be terribly troublesome if one did not know the technique, because plant-type summoning was completely different from insect-type, bird-type, beast-type, and the like. Even a student proficient in other types would likely find it difficult to summon a plant-type battle beast if they had never studied plant-type summoning, even the easiest one to summon, the Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower.

"Alright." Yue Yang had no idea what this little girl was thinking. He assumed this was something everyone on the Dragon Soaring Continent knew.

He reached out and touched the Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower's image, closed his eyes, and linked his mind with the contracted Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower.

Golden light flickered faintly. About a meter in front of Yue Yang, a plant with a green stalk, enormous leaves, and purple flowers slowly emerged from the ground. It continued growing until it reached a height of around one and a half meters, then stopped.

Yue Yang found the Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower incredibly ugly. It looked somewhat like a man-eating plant from a game. It had only two petals, opening and closing like the mouth of some bizarre beast. Inside grew rows of grim, sharp teeth, making it look truly terrifying. Green liquid could faintly be seen beneath its flower jaws. It smelled slightly fishy, and apparently was some kind of acidic poison.

Other than its large mouth-like petals, the Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower was covered in spikes. Yue Yang had originally wanted to muster his courage and touch it.

But in the end, the Thorn Flower looked so unappealing that he withdrew his hand.

Over there, Yue Bing's eyes had gone perfectly round.

Third Brother really is a genius. He has never attended an academy or studied plant-type summoning, yet he summoned the Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower through mental resonance alone.

When Yue Yang looked up at her, the little girl recovered quickly and had already put on an indifferent expression. She neither praised Yue Yang nor exclaimed in surprise. The expression on her face made it seem as though all this were perfectly normal.

Yue Bing even said, "The summoning speed was a little slow, but this was your first time, so it was passable!"

Yue Yang felt ashamed when he heard that. I really am not a genius. It seems my achievements in summoning will be limited. I'll still have to rely on Innate Formless Body-Breaking Sword Aura in the future.

He scratched the back of his head and said to the little girl, "Actually, it's already pretty good that I managed to summon it. What should I do next?"

Seeing that gesture, Yue Bing secretly found it amusing.

On the surface, however, she put on the solemn air of I am the teacher and swiftly summoned a Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower as well. When Yue Yang saw that she was ten times faster than he was, he was immediately filled with admiration. She truly deserved to be called the genius girl among the Yue Family's younger generation. Yue Bing made a gesture and pointed at the distant wall. "Try making the Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower attack the target. It can spray poison at an enemy..." In order to test Yue Yang, the little girl deliberately did not explain the technique for directing the Thorn Flower's attack.

If it had been someone else who did not know the Thorn Flower's attack technique, then once they issued an attack command to the Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower in their mind, instead of spraying poison, the entire Thorn Flower would slowly crawl toward the target and use its tooth-filled mouth for a physical attack.

Commanding the Thorn Flower to launch a poison-spraying attack was a control technique, and it was also one of the subjects tested at the academy.

If a plant-type student could not control a Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower to spray poison within ten minutes, or if they allowed it to crawl more than three meters, their result would be a failing grade. Thus, the technique for making a Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower attack by spraying poison was one of the most basic control techniques plant-type students practiced regularly. Yue Bing no longer regarded Yue Yang as a novice who had just contracted a Codex. She was testing him exactly as though he were an academy student.

"Attack the wall, poison spray!"

At Yue Yang's command, the Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower did not react at all.

The transmigrator was terribly embarrassed. He could not even manage a simple poison spray. It seemed that even if he had talent, it was extremely limited.

Seeing Yue Bing's small face set in a stern expression as she remained silent, Yue Yang truly felt as though he had returned to school. He hurriedly pulled himself together and focused with all his might.

Why couldn't he do it? As Yue Yang pondered this, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck his mind...

He slapped his thigh. Ah, I'm such an idiot.

Even military attack dogs needed a target during training.

The Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower was a plant, for heaven's sake. How could it possibly understand his words?

Yue Yang rushed beneath the wall, grabbed some yellow mud, and drew a not-so-round circle on it. Then he drew a large cross in the center.

He quickly returned. Ignoring the Thorn Flower's all-over spikes, he gently placed his hand atop its flower crown and connected with the Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower through his mind. Only then did he slowly open his eyes and look at the target on the wall, borrowing his own vision and converting it into the Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower's perception, allowing it to spray at the target.

With a hiss—

The Saliva-Spitting Thorn Flower opened its mouth, and pale green liquid shot forth, tracing a parabolic arc through the air before splattering against the wall.

Yue Yang was greatly disappointed when he saw it, because the poison had missed the target by at least two meters. The mud circle remained intact, without a single drop of acid touching it.

"Damn, this kind of aim is way too pathetic!" Yue Yang was deeply ashamed and felt too embarrassed to face anyone.

"..." Yue Bing appeared calm on the surface, but inwardly she was utterly shocked.