Chapter 80 — The Mastery of Insect Silk

At that moment, feeling its body grow stronger, the Green Fluffworm was nothing but bewildered—utterly bewildered.

"Chirp!!!"

What on earth was happening!!

"Yip!"

Eleven, training nearby, was also startled by the sight.

"Yip!" "Chirp!"

"Yip!" "Chirp!"

The two pet beasts kept crying out in alarm; Eleven was crying out at how Shi Jin dared to do such a thing.

At this teaching frequency—wasn't he afraid of dropping dead?

The Green Fluffworm, meanwhile, was crying out at the speed of its body's strengthening—after all, every increase in a racial skill drove the pet beast's own growth.

[Cut the nonsense.]

To avoid wasting the effects of the Divine Bean powder, how would Shi Jin dare stop?

Only after gulping down every bit of powder from a single Divine Bean did the grand, relentless chain of teaching finally halt.

[Name]: Green Fluffworm

[Growth Level]: Awakening Level Ten

[Racial Skill]: Bug Silk (Perfect +12)

Several minutes later, Shi Jin let out a long breath; yet from the look of the Green Fluffworm, Bug Silk did not seem to have undergone a qualitative change.

Twelve times wasn't enough?

Then keep teaching...

After all, twelve rounds of Bug Silk stacked together amounted to less than 96 hours of weakness.

He had already taught high-tier skills with a 168-hour weakness period this many times—would he care about this?

To be precise, the Shi Jin of this moment had gotten carried away.

Because teaching Bug Silk truly carried no pressure; after one point, he felt an urge to simply max it out.

Exactly like a gacha player who, unable to pull the limit character, loses his head and starts clicking wildly.

He kept teaching...

At this point, Eleven stopped training, and joined the Green Fluffworm in another round of "Yip and Chirp Across the Sky."

"Yip!"

"Chirp!"

Now, with each successive round of Bug Silk teaching, the Green Fluffworm seemed to grow smarter and smarter.

It was gradually beginning to understand what was going on.

Shi Jin, as a beast tamer, was using his ability to help it grow stronger!

Green Silk Worm: ///?A?///

Green Silk Worm was instantly thrilled, and directly learned a sentence that had taken Eleven ages to grasp.

Beast tamer, let me see where your limit lies!

This time, from start to finish, Shi Shuo had consumed four divine beans in total.

[Name]: Green Silk Worm

[Growth Level]: Awakened Level Ten

[Racial Skill]: Worm Silk (Perfect +47)

Shi Jin: "What the hell—"

At this point, teaching Green Silk Worm the Worm Silk skill was something Shi Yu could still bear, and fairly easily at that.

But deep in his heart, he was utterly pessimistic.

From Perfect level to Masterful level, that was over forty teaching sessions, for heaven's sake.

With a level-less skill, squandering it like this was no problem, but if it were a high-tier skill instead, wouldn't it cost him his life?

Eleven was stunned, as if seeing Shi Ying's limit for the first time.

Green Silk Worm was stunned too, feeling itself grow ever stronger, as though reborn.

Next, Shi Jin conducted the forty-eighth teaching session, and at the same time used up the last bit of divine bean powder.

At that moment, Green Silk Worm, clinging to Shi Ying's hand, suddenly let out a "squeak," its whole body giving a jolt.

[Name]: Green Silk Worm

[Growth Level]: Awakened Level Ten

[Racial Skill]: Worm Silk (Masterful)

After Shi Jin had taught Green Silk Worm Worm Silk a total of forty-eight times on top of the Perfect level, its Worm Silk skill had finally reached the Masterful level.

1, 2, 4, 16, 64.

"Squeak!" Green Silk Worm cried out in reminder.

At this, though Shi Jin still felt reasonably fine, he nonetheless plopped down onto the ground, as if a great weight had been lifted.

Forty-eight times. Absolutely absurd.

Still, it seemed... not entirely unacceptable?

Even for a high-tier skill, so long as he gritted his teeth and endured, with his current constitution it seemed two months would be enough to raise it to Masterful level.

Compared to other beasts, which could train bitterly their whole lives and still struggle to reach Masterful, this speed could simply be called divine...

Shi Jin looked back at Green Silk Worm.

What surprised Shi Jin most at this moment was that Green Silk Worm's Worm Silk had reached Masterful level, yet its growth level still had not reached Transcendent.

That was only natural...

Although Green Silk Worm's racial grade was classified as low Transcendent, there really did seem to be no precedent of a Green Silk Worm reaching Transcendent level without evolving.

That chasm was hard for other beasts to cross, let alone Green Silk Worm.

Still, Shi Cen was very curious... what it would be like to cultivate Green Silk Worm to Transcendent level and then evolve it.

"Little Worm, show me the power of Masterful-level Worm Silk."

Shi Jin pointed to an ordinary rock in the training ground and spoke.

Green Silk Worm: (σ｀?ω?′)σ Squeak!

Green Silk Worm nodded, brimming with confidence.

In an instant, Shi Yan and Eleven were both watching it with rapt attention.

The next second, Green Silk Worm spat out a single strand of worm silk—just one, extremely fine, like thread for sewing clothes.

Yet though this strand was fine, its flight was perfectly straight, seeming full of force, its texture extraordinarily tough.

Swish!!

As the worm silk neared the rock, Green Silk Worm flicked its body, and the silk sliced across the rock with powerful force.

The next second, the entire rock was cleanly cut in two.

At the Mastery level, the bug silk could alter its properties according to the Greenfluff Worm's most recent meal—and what it had been eating most of late was Dragonwhisker Grass, a plant that enhanced the silk's tensile strength and cutting edge.

At this display, Eleven visibly froze.

Was this still his little bug???

With that kind of force, even an entry-level Hardening skill might not hold up against it.

After training the bug for so long, Eleven felt deeply gratified—the bug had finally risen to its feet. Though it seemed this was thanks to the beastmaster's stat allocation, and had nothing to do with him??

"Truly not bad."

Shi Cen nodded emphatically. Huan's words aside, this bug silk could at least be considered to have taken on real power now.

In a place like Mount Tianmang, dealing with a wild boar should be no problem at all.

In a surprise attack, the Greenfluff Worm could even grievously wound an ordinary Iron-Eating Beast that hadn't used Hardening!

"?*??(ˊωˋ*)??*? Chii."

At this moment, seeing its own handiwork, the Greenfluff Worm bounced and hopped about with delight.

But Shi Jin knew clearly... this was only the beginning...

Next, he would feed the Greenfluff Worm food of the spatial attribute, helping it temporarily convert its bug silk into spatial type, then teach it the Phantom of Reality and Illusion skill—that was what mattered most!