Playing with fantasy beasts in the martial arts world

Chapter 39 Skill Tree Fruit
They arrived late and returned in a hurry, riding the wolf-riding Cha Nan back to the stronghold in less than half an hour.

At this time, Yun Zhonghe had already cut down a lot of wood and collected a small pile of stones in the stronghold, showing his remarkable work ability.

Cha Nan was very satisfied with his work efficiency, so he rewarded him by letting him go back to the base's rest area to rest for a while.

Shi Shugang, on the other hand, stared intently at a mischievous cat locked in a wooden cage, seemingly engaged in some kind of mental battle. After a while, he would mimic the movements of a tiger or leopard, combining this with the expansion of his internal energy to create a unique imposing aura.

Cha Nan didn't quite understand it, but hoped it would be effective.

Taking the wood and stones collected by Yun Zhonghe, Cha Nan began to mobilize her internal energy to create the Palu Ball.

Perhaps because of the improvement in her internal strength, Cha Nan was able to make low-level Palu Balls a little faster this time. It took her an hour to make ten low-level Palu Balls, which finally replenished her inventory and prevented the embarrassment of not having any balls to capture her desired Palu in the future.

With his internal energy depleted and waiting to recover, Cha Nan summoned Yun Zhonghe again and had him stand in front of the original workbench to try to make a Palu Ball. However, it was clear that Yun Zhonghe did not have the ability to do so.

Afterwards, Cha Nan had Guo Fu and Fang Dongbai try it out, and their results were the same. The materials that Cha Nan had placed on the workbench remained unchanged and showed no sign of turning into Palu balls.

"It seems that the Palu tamed in the martial arts world does not possess the crafting skills to create items for the fantasy beast world."

"Of course, it's not necessarily absolute. After all, my current sample size is still relatively small. What about those famous master craftsmen? Could they be exceptions?"

Cha Nan glanced at the mischievous cat who was still locked in a staring contest with Uncle Shi, thought for a moment and decided not to disturb them. Instead, she led Fang Dongbai into the woods to catch the other mischievous cats.

Sure enough, mischievous cats are easy to catch!
Although these mythical beasts live in groups, they are relatively independent and lack a spirit of cooperation. When they encounter a weak and vulnerable target, they will swarm it and eventually fight amongst themselves for the spoils. When they encounter a strong opponent, they will scatter and flee. They will never sacrifice for each other.

Therefore, among the three mythical beasts, the Mischievous Cat is the strongest, but because of its lack of team spirit, it is also the easiest to capture.

Fang Dongbai only displayed his powerful swordsmanship, and the group of five or six mischievous cats immediately broke apart. In the end, Fang Dongbai pinned one down with his sword and stepped on another, allowing Cha Nan to bleed it out before capturing it with a 100% probability.

The easiest thing to catch about the Mischievous Cat is that it doesn't have the 'self-destruct' skill. If you can't beat it, you can only obediently transform into someone else's appearance.

If it's Pipi Chicken or Cotton Yoyo, you also have to be wary of its self-destruction.

The Mischievous Cat's signature skill is Meow Punch, which is essentially a rapid swing of its claws—a high-frequency melee attack with a decent attack speed but relatively low damage.

Low-level mischievous cats only have two general skills: Air Cannon and Mud Throw. Their output is a bit weak, and they can't be relied on to provide a lot of damage. Even their partner skills only increase the weight limit, which Cha Nan doesn't need at the moment.

Therefore, given that Cha Nan only has five team slots, she will not consider putting Mischievous Cat into the team for the time being.

Back at the base, Chanan used twelve Palu Ore fragments to upgrade the base twice, gaining two new work slots. The two newly acquired mischievous cats were naturally placed in them, and they were assigned to make Palu Balls on the original workbench.

Cha Nan checked the progress and found that their work efficiency was much slower than hers. It took the two cats about five or six minutes to make a low-level Palu Ball, and they could only make a maximum of three before they needed to eat and rest. They seemed a bit useless, but after all, they freed up her hands and she wouldn't have to waste time making Palu Balls in the future, so it wasn't a loss.

As for the food for the mischievous cats?
Those are, of course, the red berries that can be seen everywhere!

Although the cats are omnivorous magical beasts and prefer to eat Cotton Yoyo and Pipi Chicken, Cha Nan herself is craving these two magical beasts, so how could she possibly feed them to the mischievous cats? She arranged for the Palu to continue working diligently, putting most of the Palu ore fragments in their backpacks onto the workbench, waiting for the mischievous cats to make them into Palu Balls.

Cha Nan's team, including Lie Lang, Guo Fu, Fang Dongbai, and Mian Youyou, jumped from the stronghold to the vicinity of the only lit teleportation pillar.

As the light flashed, Cha Nan saw his surroundings clearly and realized that the pack of hunting wolves from before was nowhere to be seen.

They have already migrated away, and no new groups of magical beasts have come to replace them near the teleportation pillar.

It's unclear whether it's because the teleportation pillar lost some unique appeal to the magical beasts after Cha Nan lit it up.

With such a small sample size, Cha Nan was unable to draw accurate conclusions.

Mounting the wolf, Cha Nan continued down the mountain, seeing some mythical beasts leaping through the forest along the way, including the agile and clever New Leaf Monkey and the cute and beautiful Tamamo Fox.

They are all social mythical beasts, and unlike the mischievous cat, they don't know how to cooperate. Unless necessary, Cha Nan doesn't want to provoke them for the time being.

The main issue is that Cha Nan's primary target isn't them, so there's no need to waste time on them.

Cha Nan made this trip to find the next teleportation point, acquire new technology points, and try to find a fire-type phantom beast in case she encounters Bai Sun Dao Ren in the future.

He doesn't care what kind of fire-type mythical beast it is, as long as it has some attack and support capabilities, he won't be picky.

As for the previously envisioned Flame Demon Sheep and Blazing Bull... they are mostly just ideas. These two types of mythical beasts are no longer considered beginner-level mythical beasts. Not to mention whether they can be found, even if they are found, it would probably not be easy to capture them.

Based on Cha Nan's current knowledge, a rough comparison shows that opening-door phantom beasts like Mian Youyou and Mischievous Cat are only third-rate in terms of direct strength in the short term, but they cannot fight a prolonged battle. After their skills are off cooldown, they are all sitting ducks. If Mian Youyou activates its self-destruct, it has a damage output that is almost as high as a first-rate full-force attack.

The same goes for the wolf hunter; it has near-second-rate damage output in the short term, but only for a few hits before it has to run away when the skill cooldown is over.

At this moment, Cha Nan rode on the back of the wolf, letting it run at full speed. They ran for at least several dozen kilometers, but not only did they not find any new teleportation pillars, they did not even encounter a single treasure chest. It was as if all their good luck had been used up when they discovered the open-pit Paru Mine.

Replacing Guo Fu with her did not change the course of their luck; they still gained nothing.

As darkness fell, if Cha Nan couldn't acquire new technology points to activate the campfire crafting feature on the technology page, the ordinary flames created by burning wood would be insufficient to ward off the cold night in the Beast World. Cha Nan would have to waste Palu ore fragments and return to the Martial Arts World.

"Cha Lang! Look what that is!" Guo Fu suddenly exclaimed in surprise, pointing to a streak of sunset on the horizon.

Cha Nan looked up and first saw the fiery clouds. Then she noticed that on a small cliff not far away, there was a strange tree with twisted branches, and in the middle of the tree, there was a fruit that looked like it was burning with flames.

A misty fire emanated from around the fruit, seemingly merging with the fiery clouds in the sky!
"That's... a skill fruit?" Cha Nan was startled, then overjoyed, and couldn't help but pull Guo Fu close and give her a big kiss on the pretty face.

She's such a lucky darling!
(End of this chapter)