[Record: Forest Wolf] [A special wolf species adept at using the wood attribute, with exceptionally strong vitality. Adult Forest Wolves are generally elite-class, and their favored skills include Sunlight Absorption, Tree Vine Strangulation, Self-Healing, Accelerated Growth, and more.] [Current Record level: 2 (14/2000)]
Known evolution paths, special cultivation:
[Woodheart Potion: Upon consuming this Magic Potion, a Forest Wolf can awaken the skill "Woodheart" and gain a certain increase in rank...]
Preferences and habits:
[Enjoys basking in sunlight and playing in forests. Prefers moving in groups. Has greater combat strength during the day or in forests.]
Record log:
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The Record had leveled up, and reaching the next level would require a full two thousand experience points.
Clearly, that was not something he could accomplish in three to five days.
Su Ping glanced at the changes in the Record, but his mind was elsewhere. He shouted directly:
"Assemble!"
By now, the wolves were thoroughly familiar with his commands. Before long, nearly thirty Forest Wolves of all sizes had gathered, including Old Sha and Wooden Head.
With Xiao Qing in Su Ping's arms, everyone was present and accounted for.
Connection Sharing was such an extraordinary ability that Su Ping naturally intended to put it to good use.
However, he could currently connect only fifteen wolves at once. Clearly, he needed to choose those fifteen carefully.
His own Xiao Qing and Old Sha were, of course, essential.
He also wanted to test whether Xiao Qing's mutated skills, Poison Vine Strangulation and Poison Woodheart, could benefit from sharing.
As for the others, he would naturally choose those with greater talent.
Yet the main skill they would train was neither Poison Vine Strangulation nor Accelerated Growth, those two primary combat skills of Forest Wolves.
Instead, it was the seemingly rather useless Sunlight Absorption.
In reality, however, this was one of the Forest Wolves' primary growth skills.
Its significance was extraordinary.
Soon, Su Ping had selected the fifteen most talented wolves, including Xiao Qing, Little Dot, and Old Sha.
The method for training Sunlight Absorption was even simpler: the fifteen Forest Wolves, big and small, would bask together beneath the blazing sun!
Then they would absorb the power of sunlight.
The Forest Wolves' abilities were highly practical. Sunlight Absorption could accelerate their growth and reduce their need for food and water.
They could improve just by basking in the sun? None of the fifteen connected Forest Wolves, Old Sha included, understood what was happening,
but they offered no resistance to Su Ping's orders and all chose to obey.
One Forest Wolf standing nearby, however, was rather bewildered.
Wooden Head looked at the Forest Wolf companions lying neatly on the grass, basking in the sun, then at the solemn-faced Su Ping. This proud, top-of-the-line Forest Wolf, born with a golden spoon in its mouth, regarded him doubtfully.
Could its owner really have been deceived by this fellow?
Could this sort of training bring improvement? Could it help it become stronger?
Was a cultivator like this really dependable?
Admittedly, though, its life here with him had been comfortable, happy, and satisfying.
Yet those doubts lasted only two hours before a light suddenly flared.
It was that little mutated wolf. Xiao Qing had advanced!
From ordinary fourth rank, Xiao Qing had reached ordinary fifth rank.
Once again, Xiao Qing was at the same level as Su Ping.
But that was not all. Beyond the increase in rank, in this short stretch of time alone, the sunlight gathering around Xiao Qing had grown even more brilliant.
Beneath the midday sun, Xiao Qing looked like a piece of glittering jade.
Dazzling beyond compare!
An increase in level? How was that possible?
Had Wooden Head's eyes turned green with envy?
In such a short time, this little mutated wolf's Sunlight Absorption had reached proficient level?
Although Wooden Head considered the skill rather useless, capable only of providing a little extra stamina when fighting during the day, the further a skill advanced, the more transformative each improvement became!
So this was how Forest Wolves were supposed to grow?
As a Forest Wolf that had reached the peak of its species' potential, Wooden Head was bewildered.
Previously, its owner had always trained it through combat and potions.
Never anything like this.
Could this weak human Beast Tamer, who seemed so unreliable, actually be a genius?
With its meager reasoning ability and limited intelligence, Wooden Head sank into doubt about its life as a wolf and its owner, Qin Xiaoxue.
Yet its gaze grew brighter and brighter as it looked at Su Ping.
It understood that its future would certainly extend beyond being a Forest Wolf. Even setting everything else aside, Qin Xiaoxue's second pet beast, which she had never shown Su Ping, had species potential far beyond its own through natural growth alone.
However, its current foundation would greatly influence its future development.
This human really could make it stronger!
And for some reason, Wooden Head kept feeling that Su Ping looked especially pleasing today.
Su Ping paid no attention to Wooden Head nearby.
Watching Xiao Qing's transformation, he revealed a delight he could not conceal!
It really worked!
The skill-training effects of Connection Sharing were practically a skill-training accelerator.
Although ordinary pet beasts could reach proficient level from beginner with a little practice during their natural growth, how long had Xiao Qing taken?
Sure enough, this ability had tremendous potential!
Su Ping clenched his fists. Just as he had expected, after less than another hour, starting with Little Dot, several more Forest Wolves whose Sunlight Absorption was only at beginner level achieved breakthroughs.
Moreover, the breakthrough in this ability came with a certain increase in their own levels.
In less than half a day, Su Ping's wolf pack had made tremendous improvements under the effects of Connection Sharing.
If they could maintain this rate of improvement-and, as his own cultivation increased, he could connect and share with more wolves-having every pet beast in his pack reach perfection in all their skills would be as easy as turning his hand!
And Su Ping believed that day was not far off!
Just as he thought this, the Forest Wolf Record sent another notification:
[Adult Forest Wolf discovered. Affinity meets the requirement. Record level experience +15!] [This Forest Wolf is an adult. For every subsequent day spent with it, Forest Wolf Record experience +1!]
Su Ping froze. By now, every wolf in his own pack had already met the affinity requirement. With Old Sha's help, these wolves had become his closest family.
The only one that had not met it was Wooden Head, standing nearby.
Sure enough, when Su Ping looked at Wooden Head, that sense of closeness reached him, bringing a small, satisfied smile to his face.
As expected, even a pet beast contracted to someone else could meet the requirement.
In that case, he really could launch the skill-training business he had considered earlier!
However, after keeping Qin Xiaoxue waiting all these days, Su Ping still had not given Wooden Head that last bottle of Woodheart Potion.
Had he not been waiting precisely for this day?
Now that Wooden Head's affinity met the requirement, it could take the Magic Potion and eke out a little more Record experience for him.
With that being the case, what was there to hesitate about?
Su Ping hurried into the room and took the Woodheart Potion out of the refrigerator.
Under Wooden Head's surprised and expectant gaze, he slowly opened it.
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