Chapter 189 — A Beast Tamer from a Foreign Land
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After Grandma Li's reminder, Shi Jin began to pay close attention to this Butterfly God.
The Butterfly God belonged to the species "Divine-Plumed Phoenix Butterfly," dual-attribute in Wind and Bug.
Its true body was said to reach a hundred meters tall, its spread wings capable of blanketing the sky. Its wings were covered in feather-like scales; a gentle flick could whip up a gale fierce enough to destroy a city.
Those feather-like scales were extraordinarily special, a resource of great rarity. Once they drifted down, they could melt into light, helping bug-type lifeforms shed their old forms and be reborn, elevating their very level of existence. Hence the saying, "the transformation into a butterfly"...
Shi Jin pulled out his little notebook and wrote it down.
This friend—he was determined to make.
Ginseng Baby, set aside the research on the Gem Cat's food for now. No rush on that. First, look into what the Divine-Plumed Phoenix Butterfly likes!
"Achoo..." Somewhere, the Gem Cat clone watching Ginseng Baby's lab class, along with every Gem Cat scattered across the campuses of the Ancient Capital University, all furrowed their brows in unison. That formidable sixth sense—why did it feel as though someone was scheming behind its back...
Which bastard was it...
...
From the very first fossil class, Shi Jin had well and truly embarked upon university life.
He began to take in new knowledge bit by bit. Since he was genuinely interested, failing grades were hardly a concern.
Take the special meditation method essential to archaeology—hard to master, yes, but since Shi Ling had explained its unique purpose, and he knew that in the future it might even let his bugs materialize extinct creatures, how could he not practice it diligently?
After all, interest is the best teacher.
Just as Eleven was interested in training—no need for Shi Jin to prod it at all; it worked hard all on its own.
At present, Eleven only toiled away in the gravity chamber and the charging room, yet the gains were truly far from small.
In a mere two or three days, its proficiency levels in Electromagnetic Levitation and Charged Lightning had both reached Expert or above.
Shi Jin hadn't spent a single point on it—Eleven had trained it all itself.
Of course, Eleven's diligence was one factor, but the speed at which the new skills' proficiency rose was also tied to how the old skills' proficiency carried the new ones along.
It had already mastered Thunder Palm at the Transcendent level, and with the addition of the lightning attribute, its command of lightning had long since become second nature. Compared to those muddled early days when Heng was learning Thunder Palm from scratch, now, learning new lightning-type skills in reverse came with twice the result for half the effort.
This actually saved Shi Jin a great deal of trouble, freeing him to tend to his own affairs first.
Three or four days later, Shi Jin was thoroughly immersed in an ordinary, tranquil university life.
He studied quietly, keeping a low profile.
Eleven trained quietly, keeping a low profile as well.
Every day, finishing training in its restrained state, then returning and entering its sharpened state to see how much stronger it had become—that was Eleven's idea of fun.
This brought up another trait of the Concealment and Sharpening skill: in the restrained state, a pet beast could withstand greater external training pressure, so training efficiency was better than in the sharpened state, and the results of that training carried over perfectly into the sharpened state.
As for Ginseng Baby, needless to say, it studied its various courses earnestly, enriching its own store of knowledge.
Its evolution skill, Mutant—Shi Jin had already locked onto a target and could copy it at any time. But until the evolution materials were gathered, Shi Cen was in no hurry to copy or teach it; the main reason being he simply had no time to leave campus for now.