Chapter 142 — Ginseng Baby's Attack Technique
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Under those looks, Shi Jin grew a little embarrassed again.
"This snow wolf's growth level is high enough, but its species is too weak. We should find something more average..." he suggested.
"Holy shit." Commander He's eyes went wide.
Feng Ying was at a loss for words.
Lin Yu: ah-ba ah-ba ah-ba...
Lin Yun's expression went slack. What—what the hell was that?!?!
This Iron-Eating Beast of yours, something's off about it!!
During the professional assessment it was already thoroughly unscientific, but now—what is this, you tell me what this is?
Why does the hardened matter spin? Why does it go whoosh and fly right out? And why does it produce that kind of destructive power?
Tell me, tell me!!
Lin Yun: w(?Д?)w
"The rate at which this beast of yours grows in strength..." Lu Heng drew a deep breath and looked toward Cen Yu.
Isn't it just a little absurd?
Could it be that this Iron-Eating Beast, like her own beast, had obtained some divine-rank bloodline?
"What is this thing of yours!!!!" Even Lin Yun, normally a very proper sort, could not help crying out as his worldview shattered—how was it that his own Jiuli Battle Beast no longer seemed as cool as her little Iron-Eating Beast...
Shi Jin: "The esoteric art of Hardening and Thunder Palm—the electromagnetic cannon... uh, seems like there's already a skill in the mechanical category called electromagnetic cannon. We can change the esoteric name later."
And so came the arduous naming stage once more... Naming was no easy task; Shi Jin sighed.
The esoteric art of Hardening and Thunder Palm?
Lin Yun was dumbstruck. You call this the esoteric combination of a low-tier skill and a mid-tier skill?
Commander He and Feng Ying did not understand either—they had never seen Lin Yun's Iron-Eating Beast produce such an outrageous esoteric art before!
"Hold on a moment." Lu Heng suddenly cut everyone off, gazing into the distance along with the Azure Spirit Wind Bird.
"Seems the commotion has drawn over a heavyweight..."
"A monarch-rank creature..."
Holy shit.
The moment Lu Heng spoke, the masters started in alarm. Commander Wang Meng had warned them before departure—and now they had actually run into one??
In an instant, their expressions turned grave, and they fell into combat readiness.
Off to the side, Shi Cen's face lit up with delight. "A monarch-rank creature really showed up? I love it!"
Everyone: ???
"Holy shit, don't tell me you're going to practice on this one," Commander He sputtered.
This kid... something's not right about him!
Commander He was deathly afraid that in a moment Shi Ying's Green Silkworm would finish off a monarch-rank savage beast with a single thread of silk—and then, he was certain, he would have to find a block of ice and smash his head against it to escape this planet.
Shi Shuo blinked, then said, "Not at all, not at all... I definitely can't beat this one. Go ahead, please—I just simply enjoy observing monarch-rank creatures. I hear every inch of them is high-grade material, and I like that too (to touch)..."
Everyone: "..."
Little money-grubber!
Still, it was true—a monarch-rank creature was treasure from head to toe...
Kill one monarch-rank creature, and you would not quite become a multimillionaire overnight, but close enough.
Which was also why high-rank beast tamers were all so wealthy.
Though cultivating beasts cost them dearly, their earning power was something few other professions could ever hope to match.
Of course, profit always came hand in hand with risk.
And sometimes, it was impossible to say who was really the hunted.
"Let's go take a look."
Sensing the fluctuations of a monarch-rank savage beast, Lu Heng said.
The beasts she currently had under contract were all monarch-rank, so naturally she had no fear of a wild monarch.
Only if the ice dragon recorded in history were to revive would she find it a bit of a headache.
After exchanging nods, the group flew at low altitude toward the direction Lu Heng indicated.
Meanwhile, within the wind and snow, a creature some four or five meters tall, shaped like a pine yet with a trunk white as frost, its crown puffed out like a blue cloud of ice and laden with fruit, was walking on its forked trunk.
Midair, the group spotted the creature from afar.
[Name]: Frozen Ancient Tree
[Attribute]: Ice
[Race Grade]: Low Monarch
[Growth Grade]: Monarch-rank
[Race Skills]: Chilling Breath, Blizzard, Snowfall, Ice Seal, Ice Mist, Avalanche, Energy Fruit, World of Ice and Snow
"A Frozen Ancient Tree... motherf—."
Seeing this plant monarch, half of Shi Shuo's heart turned cold.
Because this thing was the evolved form of the Frozen Tree, its attribute was ice-type—and though it was a plant, it had no wood-type at all!
Its super-rank skill was ice-type too: World of Ice and Snow. Impressive as it was, it was useless to Shi Jin.
"A Frozen Ancient Tree... a newly promoted monarch, as expected. It must have evolved from a Frozen Tree for some special reason," Feng Ying said.
"Mm, it only has fruit and the ability to walk over the Frozen Tree—ordinarily it really would be hard to identify," said Curator Lin Yu.
Shi Jin had already started sighing, thinking his luck had run out—but suddenly he too noticed the blue fruits hanging within the Frozen Ancient Tree's icy cloud, and something came back to him.
"Say, isn't that fruit a wood-type skill?" Shi Tang asked.
He admitted his fundamentals were shaky, and he urgently needed Bureau Eleven's illustrated compendium to save him.
"Mm, a high-rank wood-type skill, Energy Fruit," Lu Heng said.
"I remember this skill. Theoretically it should count as multi-type, with wood-type as the primary," said Captain He Biao.
"Right, in essence it uses wood-type life energy to create a fruit, but inside the fruit you can stuff different energies, and the upper limit is very high—and more than a fruit, it's like a bomb!"
"The Frozen Ancient Tree likes to make its prey mistake these fruits for edible spirit fruits. When the prey swallows them, the fruits detonate inside their bodies and seal them in ice—and at that point the Frozen Ancient Tree becomes the hunter," Lu Heng explained.
Another plant that lured prey with its own body...
At this moment, listening to the conversation, Shi Zhuo narrowed his eyes slightly.
Wondering whether this skill would suit Little Ginseng.
It sounded a lot like the Nutrient skill, except Nutrient produced real spirit fruits, while this Energy Fruit produced explosive fruits... you could call them timed or remote-controlled bombs...
The Frozen Ancient Tree could use them to lure enemies. In theory, Little Ginseng could do the same, couldn't it?
When the time came, combining Nutrient, Energy Fruit, and Sweet Scent into a composite technique—the allure would absolutely surpass the Energy Fruits the Frozen Ancient Tree made outright. Even a monarch-rank savage beast would likely be unable to resist swallowing one whole... and it would never suspect that the Nutrient made by Little Ginseng could also explode.
Before learning Plant Dominion: Tree Realm Descent, this was an excellent transitional and disguising skill... and even after mastering Plant Dominion, conjuring a forest full of explosive fruits seemed viciously formidable—a very fitting attack skill for Little Ginseng.
Art is explosion!
"This skill—I, Shi, am claiming it."