Chapter 006 Chapter 6

Facing the ferocious look of the Green Jade Snake, Xia Muqing frowned.

Xu Ling grabbed her and said, "You can't compete! The exam is coming up soon. If your Xiaofeng gets hurt and needs ten days or half a month to recover, how can you take the exam?"

Although Xu Ling is outspoken, he is definitely not stupid.

She could tell at a glance what Liu Pan was thinking.

Xia Muqing patted her friend's hand: "Don't worry, I know what to do."

She looked at Liu Pan and said, "Don't provoke me. I won't fight you. Your Azure Jade Snake is still just a cub. If my Xiao Feng kills you instantly, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it."

"..." Liu Pan laughed out of anger, "What a joke! How could I be hurt by you?"

"It's okay if you don't want to fight now. We can have a fight after the exam!"

Xia Muqing: "That's no problem, as long as you look at my test performance and don't regret it."

Liu Pan: "Haha. Do you know how much my Qingbi Ming Snake cost in the end? 300,000. Your useless dog is not even worth a fraction of that—"

Xia Muqing: "Wait, how much did you spend?"

"300,000..." Liu Pan paused, then raised his eyebrows proudly. "Have you never seen so much money in your life?"

Xia Muqing: "...Puff!"

She took Xu Ling's hand and asked quietly, "Last time you said you didn't buy the Azure Dark Snake and saved 30,000 yuan, so you negotiated 230,000 yuan with the seller, right?"

Xu Ling suppressed her laughter and lowered her voice, "Yeah, I haggled for quite a while. The seller's target price was probably around 250,000. I didn't expect to meet such a stupid idiot with too much money..."

“Hahahaha!”

The two of them burst into laughter.

They spoke so quietly that Liu Pan didn't hear them at all. He just looked at them in confusion: "What are you laughing at? What's so funny?"

Xia Muqing: "Nothing, I just think you're very smart."

Liu Pan: “…”

Liu Pan felt that she was speaking in a sarcastic tone, and his face suddenly turned dark.

Fortunately, at this moment, Teacher Li, with huge dark circles under his eyes, finally arrived, interrupting the tense atmosphere in the classroom.

"Everyone, please be quiet for a moment... I've reviewed the training plans you've submitted, and there are still quite a few issues. I'll have the monitor call everyone to my office one by one, and I'll walk you through them."

…

"Xia Muqing?"

Xia Muqing raised her hand: "Here!"

She stood up from her seat and walked towards the office with the plan.

By this time, there were only a few people left in the classroom. Teacher Li judged her to be a tough nut to crack, so he deliberately put her last to focus on.

In the office, Teacher Li became furious when he saw Xia Muqing.

That night he read the plan and was so angry that he started cursing at home. As a result, he accidentally made his sleeping child cry. He was then scolded by his wife and felt a little wronged when he thought about it now.

"Take a closer look. What's written here?"

Teacher Li poked hard with his pen on the printed plan, which had already been annotated with various blue and red pens - mostly red pens, because when Xia Muqing glanced at it, she saw densely packed "X"s, which made her scalp tingle.

Xia Muqing was a little embarrassed: "Uh... Teacher Li, my hurricane dog is different from ordinary hurricane dogs. The commonly used training methods are not suitable for it."

Teacher Li was heartbroken: "Why is it not suitable? Those are the optimal routes summarized by various experts and scholars over the years of research. You can't go wrong by following them!"

"I know, kids these days just want to be different and stand out from the crowd. But how easy is it to carve out a new path?"

"Others haven't figured it out in over a decade, and you figured it out so easily? Are you cheating?"

Xia Muqing: “……?”

How do you know I'm cheating?

Of course, no matter how much she thought about it, Xia Muqing couldn't reveal the truth to Teacher Li.

She could only come up with the excuse she had prepared beforehand: "Actually, teacher, this is what happened. Last week, when I was cleaning the attic at home, I accidentally found a fragment of an ancient book..."

Teacher Li slammed the table hard. "The mysterious beast has only appeared for 30 years. Where did the ancient book come from?"

Xia Muqing: "Uh, maybe in ancient times..."

Teacher Li: "Stop kidding me. Do you think I never read online novels?"

Xia Muqing: "..."

Xia Muqing was also helpless. There was no way to explain this.

Blue Star has not yet developed an instrument to check the five-dimensional attributes of mysterious beasts, and can only use experimental research to roughly classify the mysterious beast species, but in fact, this classification and training model is very rigid.

For example, most Swift Dogs excel at speed and attack, so everyone trains them in this direction. However, Xiaofeng is a special case with both speed and spirit. It would be a waste of its talent to follow the training model in the book.

Xia Muqing could only say, "Teacher, I know what my profound beast is good at, and it knows it too. It's different from ordinary hurricane dogs. It has its own ideas and insists on going this way. I can't force it to change its mind."

Plan B, put all the blame on the little hurricane dog!

Teacher Li didn't make a contract with Xiaofeng, and she wasn't even at level 10 in dog language, so could she still be exposed?

The little hurricane dog who was inexplicably blamed: "......?"

Master, are you polite?

However, Xia Muqing's words really confused Teacher Li.

In all his years of teaching, he had never seen a mysterious beast make a training plan for itself.

Teacher Li stared at Xia Muqing for a long time and thought to himself, you are such a useless master. You don’t even have a say in the training?

But how can we go on like this?

"'Wind Blow' is fine, but how can it learn 'Cloud Fall' and 'Strong Wind Blow'? Those are skills that only spiritual beasts can learn. Isn't it a waste of time to teach it these?"

Xia Muqing whispered, "But teacher, it has already learned 'Cloud Waterfall'."

Teacher Li: "Don't interrupt me, just listen to me. I'm saying that it's better to have this time than—wait, what did you say?"

"It learned 'Cloud Falls'???"

…

Teacher Li's voice suddenly rose so loudly that it almost shattered the glass in the office.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible," he said. "Shout it out loud and show me!"

Xia Muqing shrugged.

The office was not a place for a demonstration, so she waited outside for a while until Teacher Li finished the work at hand and went with him to the training ground prepared by the school for the Beast Taming Department.

Xia Muqing summoned the little hurricane dog.

"Xiaofeng, use Cloud Falls!"

The little hurricane dog moved quickly in the venue, dived down, and was covered in light blue mysterious energy, and its body turned into thick white clouds.

At the same time, a light white mist filled the venue, as if frost had condensed.

Teacher Li was dumbfounded.

Wow, it really is a cloud waterfall!

Although it is still in its rudiments, it has been learned after all. As long as Xia Muqing leads the little hurricane dog to practice hard, sooner or later they will be able to practice the complete Cloud Waterfall.

That's a range attack, a powerful skill with the effect of stealth, and combined with the Swifthound's top-notch movement speed, it's simply too powerful!

“You…this…”

Teacher Li didn't know what to say for a moment and his tongue was tied.

In fact, in recent years, the news has also reported that a certain mysterious beast has learned skills that are not related to its own type, but those are rare. Teacher Li never thought that such a thing would happen to the mysterious beast of his student.

Is this a good thing?

Will the Swifthound, which is working towards this direction, be able to finally open up a new evolutionary path, or will its energy be distracted and it end up accomplishing nothing?

Teacher Li's mind was in a mess.

He couldn't say for sure about this kind of thing, and neither could any other animal control teacher in the world. He couldn't offer any guidance, and this realization suddenly made Teacher Li feel a little sad. He had never encountered such a helpless situation before.

After all, in his mind, if a teacher fails to provide students with sufficient and effective guidance, it is a dereliction of duty.

Teacher Li took off his glasses and wiped them vigorously with the corner of his clothes for a while.

"You... I don't know how to teach you anymore," he murmured. "If you insist on training like this, I can't offer any suggestions. I can only go back and look up some information from the database for your reference."

Xia Muqing said seriously: "Thank you, Teacher Li."

Although she did not need the teacher's guidance in terms of education methods, she was still very touched by Teacher Li's dedication and responsibility.

Teacher Li thought for a moment and then said, "There's one more thing I want to remind you of."

He clicked the controller of the training center: "Showing simulated mysterious beast No. 8."

As soon as he finished speaking, a projection of a giant stone monster appeared in the venue.

It was a tall stone monster made entirely of rock. As soon as it landed on the ground, it half-crouched and curled up, turning itself into a hard, large stone, its entire body glowing with gray light.

"The skill 'Hardening' can significantly increase your defense," Teacher Li said. "You should be careful. Some profound beasts are naturally gifted with strong defenses. If your Gale Dog lacks attack power, it will be difficult to break through the defenses of such profound beasts."

"I suggest you let it learn a skill like breaking through a weakness or mental suppression."

Xia Muqing opened her eyes wide.

Although she didn't understand her training route, Teacher Li only watched one of Xiaofeng's demonstrations and accurately identified its current shortcomings.

He is indeed an experienced teacher with a keen eye.

"I understand, thank you teacher!"

…

What Teacher Li said was actually exactly what Xia Muqing was thinking about.

When she saw Liu Pan carrying the Green Jade Snake during the day, she had this idea.

Because the spiritual attributes of the Green Jade Snake are often not weak, Liu Pan is likely to let it learn a spiritual attack skill in addition to its bloodthirstiness and mania.

Moreover, his family is rich, so he can spend money to develop these basic skills.

As for what to learn specifically -

Xia Muqing flipped through the illustrated guide in her mind: "Most likely it's 'Bloody Threat' or 'Evil Spirit Impact'."

Both of these skills can greatly deter the opponent and achieve the goal of repelling the enemy.

In fact, these are the skills that the little hurricane dog fears the most. It is very timid, and even with its high spiritual attribute, it is easily frightened by the fierce aura of the Azure Dark Snake.

"So, I have to prioritize letting it learn the Mind Shock skill to increase its mental resistance."

However, spiritual skills are difficult to comprehend on one's own like 'Wind Scroll' and 'Cloud Waterfall', so it is best to have a 'teacher' to teach you.

Rubbing the soft fur of the little hurricane dog, Xia Muqing looked at the balance in the mobile banking and sighed helplessly.

"Xiaofeng, we're going to the training ground tomorrow. I've hired a private tutor for you."