novellhall Chapter 29 Last-Minute Cramming
Chapter 29 Last-Minute Cramming
Chapter 29 Last-Minute Cramming
The therapist waved dismissively and turned to leave.
Burning Bell Pepper patted his head.
"Ah, no wonder you didn't know. This is high school level knowledge. I forgot you're in your final year of junior high."
"Speaking of which, your ancient willow tree is really amazing, and your battle command is also excellent."
When the topic of battles came up, Burning Pepper became very interested.
Not only her, but her pet beast, Silver Armor King Kong, also came over.
"Oh, oh!"
Burning Pepper and Silver Armor King Kong whispered to each other, and soon both of them looked at Ge Bai with hopeful expressions.
"Ge Bai, Gangzi said he's never seen this kind of attack before, and he still wants to fight Chuisi Guliu, is that alright?"
Ge Bai stared at the silver-armored Vajra, who was twice his height, and remained silent.
Instead of giving a direct response, she chose to first seek the opinion of her own husband, Da Liu.
"DaLiu, do you want to fight again? Your opponent is Silver Armor Vajra."
As he spoke, he pointed to the giant Gangzi, which looked quite docile and was squatting on the ground not far away.
Da Liu stretched his newly healed trunk and branches, feeling refreshed, and nodded.
"No problem, bye-bye. I can do it, the healing spell is amazing!"
Ge Bai was still somewhat hesitant.
"But the opponent is really strong, and it seems like we have no chance of winning."
Unlike Ge Bai's concerns, Da Liu didn't take it seriously at all.
"Give it a try."
Alright, since his own pet has said so, what else can Ge Bai say?
She gently patted the tree trunk twice, then turned to meet the expectant gaze of the fiery red pepper, her words still tinged with hesitation.
"Fighting isn't out of the question, but how would we fight?"
"The difference in spiritual power level is too great. The strength of the wind blade and the willow whip is not enough to cross the level, and they should not be able to break through your Gangzi's defense."
In terms of pet battles, Ge Bai has always been very clear-headed.
The bell pepper waved its hand dismissively.
"Let's practice for just one round."
She was a little embarrassed.
"Actually, it's mainly because Gangzi has a quirk: he gets itchy when he sees an opponent he hasn't fought before."
Hearing his beast tamer reveal such secrets, the silver-armored Vajra next to him chuckled and scratched his head.
Fine, let's fight then.
But Ge Bai wasn't in a hurry and pulled back the burning bell pepper.
"We've requested a postponement of the match. Da Liu just told me that he's grasped the basics of a new skill and needs to practice it for a while."
Ge Bai adjusted the order in which he discovered the skills, using Da Liu as an excuse, which sounded more plausible.
Ran Caijiao readily agreed without hesitation.
She would love to see Gangzi's opponent use more of their skills in the battle.
Its special opponent may be the only ancient willow tree in the entire intergalactic world that can use skills.
"It's okay, it's okay, you can practice slowly, for as long as you want."
Burning Pepper knew that her suggestion to battle was indeed a bit abrupt, but she had to find a way to meet the needs of her pet.
Seeing that Ge Bai had finally agreed, she hurriedly pulled Gangzi up and onto the stage, as if afraid that Ge Bai and Da Liu would change their minds.
Without urging Ge Bai in the slightest, she directly pulled Silver Armor King Kong to sit cross-legged on the arena, and the two began to meditate and regulate their breathing.
Ge Bai hadn't expected her to be so dedicated, constantly either fighting or cultivating.
I can't help but sigh, realizing that no amount of ability truly appears out of thin air.
Having a system is useless! The system doesn't magically fill up skill bars!
"Trash system."
Unable to contain himself, Ge Bai wanted to curse the system every day.
"Ding! Progress notification for the quest to defeat (repel) spirit plants and spirit beasts: below level 1 (7/100), above level 1 (0/10)."
"Task completion time: 14 days and 21 hours."
"Punishment for mission failure: Annihilation."
A series of emotionless system notifications sounded.
What kind of junk is this? This system can threaten people?
Ge Bai gritted his teeth, taking several deep breaths to calm himself down.
Never mind, the battle with the flat-topped macaque and the flat-topped bear just now went back and forth for two rounds, which counts as two knockbacks. The system is actually quite considerate.
Trying to comfort himself, Ge Bai stopped complaining about the system and took Da Liu a few steps further away from the arena before stopping.
In fact, she also knew that winning or losing the battle was not the most important thing; what mattered was improving Da Liu's strength.
So Ge Bai decided to cram at the last minute to see if he could get Da Liu to make some new breakthroughs in his skills.
She said this solemnly to Da Liu.
"DaLiu, actually, besides the skill you just used, you also know another skill."
Visibly, the willow tree suddenly perked up, looking exceptionally energetic.
Sure enough, it's still that big, curly willow tree.
"Ah, Bai Bai, what is it? Tell me quickly!"
Ge Bai has been pondering this for the past few days, since the damned system only provides the name of one skill, leaving the rest to be guessed.
She wasn't entirely clear on the specifics of Da Liu's skill called "Storm Willow Blade Hammer," which put her in a passive position, so she hadn't mentioned it to Da Liu.
However, given the current situation, she is prepared to tell Da Liu everything she has in mind to see if she can activate this skill.
"This skill is called 'Storm Willow Blade Hammer,' and I think it should be considered a melee skill."
"As I understand it, it may be a skill that evolved from the Willow Whip skill combined with the Wind Blade skill."
"Look, Da Liu, your willow branches are also in clusters. First, they extend from the main trunk to many branches, and then a cluster of willow branches grows on each branch."
"We can try to gather spiritual energy on the branches, infuse all the willow branches on a branch with spiritual energy, and then urge the willow branches to exert force from the base of the branch to swing out the whole cluster of willow branches."
"This might be the prototype of a skill."
Ge Baiming may explain his ideas in detail.
"Then I'll give it a try."
Da Liu nodded as if he understood, and immediately began to mobilize the spiritual energy within his body.
In fact, even just taking the first step of mobilizing the spiritual energy within his body was a challenge for Da Liu.
For most spirit beasts, the most common practice is to channel their spiritual power to their limbs and torso, or even to their eyes and ears. The skills they use based on this are usually mid- to high-level.
For example, the porcupine that fought against Da Liu has a skill called "Volley of Arrows," which requires dividing spiritual power into each spike. That is a high-level skill that can only be learned after evolving to the third tier.
If Ge Bai's thinking is correct, then Da Liu's "Storm Willow Blade Hammer" is no less difficult than "Volley of Arrows".
If effort and reward are proportional, then the power of the skill is something to look forward to.
Da Liu can now skillfully manipulate about twelve willow branches, but this branch clearly has more than that number of branches. Even the thinnest branch has twenty or thirty branches.
Instead of letting Da Liu try it slowly on his own, Ge Bai placed his hand on the trunk of the Da Liu tree and used a meditation technique to help him mobilize and organize the flow of spiritual energy, which was much more efficient.
Even though the spiritual power contained within Da Liu's body is not much, it is enough to be distributed to every willow branch on a single trunk.
At most, the willow branches contain less spiritual energy on average, which affects the skill's attack power, but it does not prevent the Great Willow from learning the skill.
Gradually, the spiritual energy slowly and laboriously circulated into place.
There is a play!
(End of this chapter)