Chapter 139 — Everyone's Limits
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His body swung back and forth between feeble exhaustion and peak recovery.
This process also subjected his body to intense tempering.
Under the protection the skill codex granted his body, Shi Ying's physical constitution was now rising at a frantic pace.
Though round after round still left Shi Ying with some unavoidable strain on body and mind, right now Shi Ying felt just as hyped as the ginseng baby.
Anyone else could never have absorbed the effects of the tonic so rapidly.
Absorbing a tonic in excess would inevitably place an even heavier burden on the body.
But under the protection of his second innate skill, the codex, Shi Jin really hadn't lied—he truly had an "easy tonic absorption constitution."
Not only was the burden reduced to the minimum, it even strengthened his body!
Never had he felt his physical constitution grow so markedly, so swiftly.
Back when he was merely an apprentice beast tamer, even frequent teaching yielded only modest gains...
After a moment, Shi Jin figured it out.
Before, when his constitution had still been within the ordinary range, there was a ceiling; no matter how many times the skill codex fed back to him, he could not escape the ordinary range—however hard an ordinary constitution trained, he remained merely "human."
But as the beast-taming space upgraded to level two and his own constitution became a transcendent one, the ceiling on his bodily strength was instantly raised by a great margin.
The gap between a mighty transcendent and a feeble transcendent was far wider than the gap in physical constitution between a strong ordinary person and a normal ordinary person.
With more room to grow, the power the skill codex could feed back was correspondingly greater.
"Eeeh!!!"
A long while later—because Jue had the skill codex's protection and feedback, while the ginseng baby was simply being drained—within mere moments the ginseng baby discovered, weeping, that its stamina was nearly insufficient to keep releasing the sweet aroma.
Even with the Source of Life sustaining it, Shi Tan's absorption rate was simply more than it could withstand.
The beast tamer before it was like a black hole, terrifying beyond measure, yet he kept squeezing it dry with a feeble look on his face...
The ginseng baby gave a full-body shudder.
Ginseng Baby: ?_?
Is this... my limit...
To think that a legendary mutated ginseng baby would actually lose to a human...
"That's why I told you to use Earth Link."
Shi Qi's ginseng baby was still standing on the ground, and could not help but say in exasperation.
At those words, the ginseng baby froze, then caught on.
Oh—I almost forgot...
The next instant, its two tender little legs were flooded with light; wrapped in the glow, they seemed to plunge into the earth and merge with it as one.
In that moment, an Earth Link of near-perfect grade, together with the Source of Life and the ruin space—threefold recovery measures—sent the ginseng baby's energy recovery rate soaring instantly.
The ginseng baby's expression lit with joy—it seemed... this might work!
Now that Earth Link was higher grade, it still could not sustain the sweet aroma's frantic consumption, but the energy drain immediately ceased to be so drastic.
"Keep going!" Shi Huan gave a slight chuckle, his expression stern.
"Ying!" "Ji!"
Beside them, Eleven and Bug simply forgot all about training, rubbing their little paws the whole time as they watched the one-draining, one-replenishing pair.
So fierce!
The ginseng baby was so fierce!
The beast tamer was so fierce!
So when would it finally be their turn?!?!
The ginseng baby was madly having points added, and it was practically driving the panda and the bug next door to tears with envy.
Who could possibly resist such a temptation!
...
Meanwhile.
The city of Gudu.
The old president of Gudu University was sulking at Yin Chuanqi's house, refusing to leave.
"Little Yin, this isn't what we agreed on."
"Didn't we settle it? Zhengfan was supposed to enroll at Gudu University."
"How do you just change your mind like this?"
Yin Chuanqi's face was perfectly calm, as if he didn't even recognize the old man now.
"I never promised you anything."
"What we said before was that Zhengfan would decide for himself."
"Back then, his attitude was that it didn't matter, anywhere was fine."
"And now, he wants to go to the capital." Yin Chuanqi shook his head, as if there were nothing he could do, as if he had no way to interfere.
Sure enough, just as he had predicted, after losing to Shi Jin, Yin Huan shut himself away for a long time.
And then he made a decision: leave his hometown of Gudu and go to Capital University to study in the Combat Department, where the competition was crueler, where there were more geniuses, and whose overall strength currently ranked first in the country.
By comparison, Gudu University's resources, facilities, and Combat Department strength barely ranked in the top five among domestic universities...
If he had taken first place, and with the added capital of being young and willful, Yin Huan naturally wouldn't have cared.
But after losing to Shi Jin, he no longer wanted to make such a casual choice. He wanted to catch up to Shi Jin, to catch up to his own father, with quicker steps.
Capital University suited him better than Gudu University.
"I..." The old president of Gudu University was wailing inside. What the hell was this?
He could guarantee that this was absolutely not Yin Huan's decision alone. The Yin family definitely leaned toward letting their child grow up on a bigger stage, places like the capital, like Modu.
Because one was a Gudu local, one had to attend Gudu University—there really was no such rule.
The old president of Gudu University also knew that Capital University, Modu University, and places like them suited Yin Huan better.
But... it still stung.
At the same time.
People like Yu Shu, Zhang Qianyi, Wang Ling, Miao Dongdong, and others had also more or less made their choices about which university to attend for further study.
"Don't worry, Mom, within a year, I'll definitely surpass that family."
Yu Shu assured his dragon tamer mother, and promptly earned himself a roll of the eyes.
"Is that so."
"Of course." Yu Shu was unconvinced.
The advantages of a spiritualist and a dragon tamer both depended on development.
Once he entered university, he would be able to train at those excellent facilities in Gudu suited for spiritualists to train their undead beast pets. Shi Jin's innate telepathy talent would only widen the gap between them more and more.
Elsewhere.
Zhang Qianyi's master, an old woman who also possessed a coordination-type beast-taming awl talent, spoke calmly to this girl of humble origins.
"It was only a professional assessment. Don't worry about what place you got. University is where the real stage begins."
"Your talent, your potential, is greater than all of theirs."
She didn't want the girl to be discouraged because she had retaken the exam for a year and still hadn't achieved the best result.
"Mm." Zhang Qianyi said quietly.
Because she came from an ordinary family, she was also a bit more driven than the others.
At this moment, she made up her mind: after university, she would definitely strive to surpass Shi Jin, Yin Huan, and the others, and maintain her advantage of being able to crush Yu Shu.
The professional assessment came to a close.
Every candidate had found their destination, and each beast tamer association had also conducted its summary.
In this year's professional assessment, the average quality of the candidates had improved again compared to last year.
This was precisely the manifestation of the beast taming field's flourishing development.