Spirit Plant Masters Sweep Across the Beast Taming Interstellar Space

Chapter 75 Mechanical Rats? No, a Swarm of Rats. [Two-in-One]

The Dragon Sovereign didn't understand; she just wanted to give the good stuff to Ge Bai.

Pretending not to understand the Shennong System's dissatisfaction, the Dragon Sovereign directly communicated with Ge Bai using his spiritual sense.

"Wait a moment, little girl, I am the master spirit plant of Plum Garden, Dragon Soaring Green Calyx Plum." When speaking to Ge Bai, the Dragon Soaring Master's voice was exceptionally gentle.

But this sudden spiritual transmission startled Ge Bai. She abruptly stopped circulating her spiritual energy, and Da Liu stopped as well.

Da Liu didn't hear the Dragon Sovereign's voice, and just looked at Ge Bai with a puzzled expression.

Ge Bai didn't explain to Da Liu, but gestured for Da Liu to continue. She turned around, walked to the door of the treehouse, sat down, and also used her spiritual sense to transmit her voice.

"Greetings, Lord Dragon."

"Don't be so polite. I see you and the ancient willow tree are still using meditation to gather spiritual energy, but that's too slow."

The Dragon Sovereign got straight to the point.

"These are two higher-level methods for enhancing abilities: the intermediate-level meditation technique and the advanced-level spirit circulation technique. With your and Chuisi Guliu's aptitude, you should be able to master both."

"I had some spiritual plants sent to you."

"These two methods were originally rewards for the second and fourth levels of the trial, respectively, but I've given them to you ahead of time. The three spirit plants you've contracted have great potential, so take good care of them."

This unexpected windfall left Ge Bai somewhat bewildered.

When she was chatting with Lu Nan, she vaguely heard him mention that the trial rewards included more efficient methods for cultivating spiritual power, and she was quite envious.

Suddenly, a small plum tree appeared out of nowhere and grew next to the treehouse where Ge Bai and the others were.

After the plum tree grew to a certain size, it shook its branches and pulled out two thin bark books from its trunk. It then extended its branches and handed the two books to Ge Bai, who was sitting at the door of the treehouse.

The covers of the two books, "Meditation Techniques" and "Spiritual Circulation Techniques," bear these three words.

I didn't expect to give it to her like this?

"Thank you, Lord Dragon Travel."

Ge Bai didn't know what to say. Perhaps it was because the Dragon Sovereign cared about the young spiritual plants. He might as well accept the pie falling from the sky. Besides that Dragon Sovereign Green Calyx Plum, no one else could transmit their voice directly with the aura of a Sovereign in the plum garden.

If the Dragon Lord harbors malicious intentions, everyone will be doomed; he wouldn't stoop to such a trivial matter.

Thinking of all this, Ge Bai felt quite at ease and opened the meditation manual to study it carefully.

Having long memorized the Alliance's General Education Meditation Method, Ge Bai easily compared the similarities and differences between the two spiritual power cultivation methods.

It's generally consistent, with some more refined adjustments at a few key points, but overall it's not difficult to learn.

Ge Bai began practicing directly according to the methods described in the meditation manual.

Chiyo was originally paying attention to the circulation of Da Liu's spiritual energy, but when she saw that Ge Bai was also cultivating on his own, she couldn't help but look over curiously.

She was surprised to find that the speed at which Ge Bai's spiritual energy circulated within his body was much faster than that of Da Liu, even though the speeds of their spiritual energy circulation were about the same just now.

Chiyo immediately stood up, tiptoed to Kabai's side, and peered out to see the "Meditation Manual" that Kabai had spread out in front of him.

Look at the meditation, look at Ge Bai, and then look back at Da Liu.

Chiyo's clever little brain clicked, and she immediately understood: Ge Bai had obtained a new cultivation method.

Then she can take a shortcut and get ahead of Da Liu!

She wants to learn new cultivation methods directly.

Full of ambition, Chiyo jumped in front of Kaku, happily looking at the meditation technique, but becoming more and more silent as she looked.

The text on this doesn't contain any spiritual power, so it can't be read by spiritual consciousness. She can't understand anything about it.

Oh right, she can't read.

Chiyo suddenly remembered this incident and was deeply affected.

Ge Bai had just circulated his spiritual energy through the Meditation Technique within his body, and it went very smoothly. He opened his eyes, feeling refreshed, and prepared to teach the Meditation Technique to Da Liu and Qian Dai.

Then she saw Little Orchid lying listlessly on the meditation mat right in front of her.

Without thinking, Ge Bai asked directly, "Huh, Chiyo? You can read? You can read?"

Subconscious questioning is the most hurtful.

Little Orchid didn't want to say a word. She turned her head blankly and moved back to the grass ball she had just been sitting on.

What is literacy? I don't know. What did Ge Bai say? I didn't hear him.

Seeing Xiao Lan Hua like this, Ge Bai didn't know why she was acting strangely again, and he was too lazy to worry about it. He just thought it was because the child was suddenly being neurotic.

He closed the meditation manual and returned to his previous position, interrupting Da Liu's meditation.

"Dayuu, Chiyo, I just got a new meditation method from the Dragon Sovereign. I just tried it, and it works really well. It's not too difficult either."

"I'll show you twice; it should be quite easy to learn."

Just as Ge Bai was about to teach Da Liu first, Chiyo jumped directly in front of her and Da Liu, puffing out her cheeks.

"I want to learn first, Gobe, teach me first!"

Ge Bai was completely baffled, having no idea what was wrong with Xiao Lan Hua.

Da Liu doesn't care at all.

"Bai Bai, teach Chiyo first. I'll practice with meditation for a while longer, it won't take up much time."

Gobai thought that this would work, so he took Chiyo to meditate using the meditation technique.

Little Orchid, having finally gotten what she wanted, has overcome the blow she just suffered.

Hmph, not being able to read won't stop her from learning meditation techniques first!

After teaching Chiyo and Oyagi, I spent another two hours with them practicing. I glanced at the time and it was almost midnight.

The effect was quite good; both Ooyuki and Chiyo's spiritual power increased by more than 60 points.

Currently, Da Liu's spiritual power value is at level 5 of the Mortal Spirit Realm (87.42/500), while Chiyo's spiritual power value is at level 8 of the Mortal Spirit Realm (421.93/800).

The effect should be better once she builds up the resource rooms for Ooyagi and Chiyo.

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The following afternoon.

The preliminary selection venue for the Beijing-Hong Kong municipal-level competition.

Ge Bai arrived early.

I checked in at the waiting area, intending to go back to the stands to watch two games, but the staff made me stay in the waiting area instead.

"Ge Bai, please wait here. Your match is scheduled for earlier today, and your opponent has also arrived. We'll start with your match shortly."

Staff are adjusting the order of the players' appearances according to the actual situation, preparing to schedule Ge Bai's match today as the first match of the afternoon competition day.

Ge Bai had no objections; she, Da Liu, and Chiyo were always in a state of readiness.

"No problem. Who's my next opponent?"

"Contestant Name: Zhao Hui, Occupation: Beast Tamer, Registered Pet: Mechanical Rat (Level 1 of Transcendent Realm), Contestant Ranking: 103. His pet's information was just updated after the last competition, and it was promoted to the Transcendent Realm."

Ge Bai frowned slightly after hearing this. She knew that mechanical pets, especially mechanical rats, were not uncommon.

The only thing to pay special attention to is whether this mechanical mouse has the ability to differentiate.

After being modified and nurtured by beast tamers, mechanical rats have a chance to awaken a differentiation skill, which allows them to separate multiple smaller mechanical rats from the main mechanical rat, just like a starship, and attack as a swarm.

She just didn't expect that she would encounter such a challenge so soon. In all levels of arena competitions, players with the ability to split their opponents are particularly difficult to deal with.

Normally, mechanical rats don't have high attack power. Zhao Hui only has one mechanical rat at the Transcendent Realm level, but its ranking is not low. Without checking the data in detail, it is probably due to this differentiation skill.

Before Ge Bai could think further, the staff urged her to go on stage.

The moment he stepped onto the field, Ge Bai activated his spiritual connection system and looked at Zhao Hui and the mechanical mouse he was with.

This mechanical mouse is painted in silver and blue, with a body that is nearly half a meter long and a tail that is nearly a meter long. It is clear that the beast tamer takes great care of his pet.

Take a closer look at the mechanical mouse's information.

【Type: Mechanical Mouse (Extraordinary Race)】

[Spiritual Power Value: Transcendent Realm Level 1 (11.24/100)]

[Attribute: Lightning]

[Skill: Gnawing - Proficient. Skill Description: Simulates a rodent, gnawing at the opponent to inflict damage.]

[Skill: Lightning Summoning - Proficient. Skill Description: Using the main body as a base, summons lightning to strike the main body. As the lightning forms high in the sky and strikes the main body, it deals damage to a certain area along its path.]

[Skill: Rat Swarm - Mastery. Skill Description: Creates a swarm of small mechanical rats to attack.]

As expected, it has rat swarm abilities, and it even has lightning-attracting capabilities?

Just guessing, the mice that this mechanical mouse differentiates from can also act as detonators for the main body. How is that any different from a bunch of tiny bombs?

Ge Bai had a headache. No wonder this beast tamer was able to make it into the top 100 of the preliminary rounds in the mortal spirit realm.

Game start.

"Blue Tiger, differentiate."

Zhao Hui directly ordered the mechanical rats to begin differentiating. The mechanical rats' armor began to deform and unfold from their abdomens, and more than twenty small mechanical rats, each about the size of an adult's palm, were assembled.

As soon as the little mechanical mice landed, they swarmed towards Da Liu.

Before Ge Bai could even complain about why the mechanical mouse was called Blue Tiger, he went straight to giving Da Liu instructions.

"Wind Blade. Aim at the mouse."

Da Liu shuddered as he looked at the mechanical rats scattered on the ground. He had no idea he hated rats.

Upon hearing Ge Bai's command, he immediately mobilized his spiritual power, unleashing a series of wind blades.

To be fair, the number of mechanical rats Zhao Hui differentiated wasn't so high as to be despairing.

Many mechanical pets that have evolved to the Overlord or even Commander level can differentiate into a large number of clones. The saying that one person and one pet is equivalent to an entire army is no joke.

There is a true story in the history of the Alliance: when the Interstellar Alliance was conquering the third planet, a Beastmaster in the Alliance's Fifth Squad was assigned to a squad stationed on a deserted island.

The positional warfare was exceptionally fierce; after one charge by the alien beasts, he was the only one left in the squad.

His pet mechanical wasp broke through under such extreme conditions. In this way, the man and his pet not only held the position, but also fought more and more bravely. When reinforcements arrived, they had already cleared the entire island.

Surrounded by bees, it was like a god.

Zhao Hui's mechanical mouse is still far from perfect.

But these twenty-odd little mechanical mice are enough to give Da Liu a headache.

The wind blades weren't very accurate against the little mechanical mice, especially considering how fast they moved.

After two rounds of wind blades, there were still eight or nine small mechanical mice left, which were about to rush into Da Liu's close range.

Ge Bai frowned; Da Liu's response to this wave was rather mediocre.

She seriously considered whether she should find a rodent pet to continue his special training in the next couple of days.

"Willow Whip".

Ge Bai wasn't in a hurry. She had only speculated that the small mechanical mouse could also be used as the main body for attracting lightning, but she wasn't sure.

Let's let a few in and see what kind of fighting style they have.

At this time, the audience in the stands was about half full, and many of them had been following the competition since the very beginning of the preliminary rounds.

Zhao Hui's mechanical mouse also performed remarkably well; quite a few people have watched his competitions and know about him.

"The mechanical mouse clone has entered the willow tree and gotten close. If it launches a counterattack soon, this match will be a foregone conclusion."

"Don't their players do any research before the competition? Zhao Hui's information isn't hard to find."

A bald, burly man curled his lip in disdain; this was simply him nitpicking.

The turnover rate of contestants in the preliminary rounds is very high; some beast tamers and spirit plant masters may come to participate in two rounds and then never come back.

Unlike city-level, regional-level, and national-level competitions, the number of participants and personnel is fixed at the start of the competition.

Therefore, few people study their opponents during the preliminary rounds; they basically just accept whoever they encounter and rely on random blind boxes.

If you win, your ranking will rise; if you lose, it doesn't matter. You can just pay another entry fee and fight again. It's not like losing a match will wipe out your ranking.

Mechanical pets are a relatively niche category among all types of pets.

Most beast tamers and plant masters would be lucky to even remember that mechanical rats have the ability to differentiate, and lightning is considered a mutation skill among mechanical rats.

Zhao Hui and his mechanical mouse have indeed been quite eye-catching in the mechanical pet circle recently, but they haven't broken into the mainstream yet, and their popularity is far less than that of Ge Bai.

These two either had their own mechanical pets under contract, or they paid special attention to mechanical pets, which is why they were so knowledgeable about Zhao Hui and the mechanical rat.

Gobai calmly observed everything that was happening on the field.

After the little mechanical mouse approached Da Liu, Da Liu became even more uncomfortable, and its powerful willow whip danced wildly.

Each lash, accompanied by a whooshing sound, struck the arena, leaving only faint marks.

It has the power, but the accuracy is clearly insufficient.

Even if the willow whip only exerts half its force, it is enough to pulverize the small mechanical mouse that comes into contact with it.

"in vain."

Da Liu couldn't help but call out "Ge Bai," but his voice lacked confidence and sounded weak.

Chiyo was already in Kaku's arms, ready to activate her skill at any moment.

Ge Bai knew what Da Liu meant; he wanted Chiyo to teleport him away directly, and with the blessing of the soil, it would be best to place him in mid-air and make him stand still.

But Ge Bai pretended not to understand. He came to participate in the preliminary rounds to hone his combat skills. How could he back down just because he encountered a little difficulty?

Seeing Da Liu's condition, Ge Bai has decided to arrange for him to train with a rodent-type pet.

Despite the need for training and refinement, Ge Bai wouldn't stand by and watch Da Liu truly sink deeper into the mire.

Whenever a small mechanical mouse gets close enough that the willow whip can't exert much force, Chiyo will move the mechanical mouse to a distance.

This would also reduce the strain on Chiyo's health significantly.

Seeing this, Da Liu knew that he had to face the situation himself. He suppressed his disgust for the mechanical mouse and carefully pulled out each of his willow whips.