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Qingbao's expression was peaceful.
Qiao Sang could see what Little Treasure meant. She coughed slightly and repeated the main point: "This move forcefully returns the damage of the last move received back to the opponent with great force."
Meaning, pick a different opponent. Qingbao was low-level and fragile, she wouldn't be able to handle the backlash.
"Xun... xun..."
Little Treasure understood. Looking at how tiny Qingbao was, his conscience got the better of him, and he shifted his gaze over to Gangbao.
At the same time, the surrounding semi-transparent barrier dissolved.
"Gang Zhan."
Receiving Little Treasure's look, Gangbao didn't hesitate for a single split second. She flapped her wings forward with great force.
Little Treasure channeled his energy, his body flashing with a brief burst of black light.
Two sharp blades condensed from the air zipped out, targeting the area where Little Treasure was floating.
BANG!
A massive explosion rang out. Midst the blasting shockwaves, a black beam of light howled forth. Moving in a trajectory that guaranteed a hit, it struck Gangbao squarely on her body.
"Gang Zhan..."
Gangbao flapped her wings slightly, completely unharmed. She merely looked back at Little Treasure with a hint of confusion in her eyes.
It looks like the move takes whatever damage the opponent dealt and enhances it as a baseline. When this move reaches a higher level later on, the returned damage should become even stronger... Gangbao is smart too, knowing the damage would be returned, she even suppressed the power of her attack...
Qiao Sang got a rough idea of how it worked. Then, remembering something, she looked at Gangbao and intentionally asked: "Just now, when Little Treasure was attacked, did you also experience a sensation of pain?"
"Gang Zhan."
Gangbao nodded, indicating that was correct.
"Xun... xun?"
Little Treasure put on a dazed expression, not quite understanding.
He was the one who got attacked, so why did his underling feel pain?
Qiao Sang smiled and explained: "It's the Destiny Bond trait. Only the Destiny Bond trait makes it so that when you take damage yourself, the opponent feels pain as well."
"Gang Zhan."
Gangbao flashed an as it turns out expression.
"Xun... xun..."
Little Treasure was stunned at first, but then he let out a peaceful cry.
So it was the Destiny Bond trait...
Half a minute later.
The effect of the Healing Soundwave wore off.
"Xun... xun!"
"Xun... xun!"
Little Treasure excitedly floated left and right high up in the air
Destiny Bond!
Destiny Bond!
He awakened the Destiny Bond trait!
It looks like now that Little Treasure has evolved to the King-level, the duration of the Healing Soundwave's effect on him has become much shorter... Qiao Sang noted internally.
"Xun... xun..."
Suddenly, Little Treasure thought of something. He looked over at Yabao, throwing his chest out and raising his chin.
That gaze looked exactly like a corporate slave who had just won the first-prize lottery and happened to lock eyes with the passing boss.
"Yap... yap?"
Yabao felt completely baffled by the look.
"Gang Zhan."
At this moment, Gangbao flew over. Lowering her voice out of kindness, she let out a cry, reminding him not to forget that Yabao possessed Blaze.
"Xun... xun..."
Little Treasure hurriedly fixed his facial expression management, splitting his mouth into a grin toward Yabao.
Yabao: ...
He had heard everything.
However, Yabao didn't make a fuss about it, he had always been exceptionally tolerant toward his companions.
"Let's try your other trait." Qiao Sang said.
"Xun... xun!"
Little Treasure raised a paw, striking a hold on a moment posture.
"What's wrong?" Qiao Sang asked.
"Xun... xun~"
Little Treasure let out a cry, indicating that he felt he wasn't quite familiar enough with the Destiny Bond trait yet and wanted to try it out again.
As he spoke, he looked toward Lubao with an eager expression.
"Lu Di."
Lubao understood Little Treasure's gaze, and a visible icy chill began to emanate from her body.
"Xun... xun~"
This time, Little Treasure didn't feel a shred of fear. Instead, he dropped into a combat-ready stance.
Seeing this, Qiao Sang coughed and said: "Forgot to mention, the Destiny Bond trait cannot be triggered consecutively. You just triggered it once on Gangbao, so I don't know if it'll work this time. But that's fine too, we can test the maximum number of times it can be consecutively triggered."
"Xun... xun!"
Hearing this, Little Treasure's body stiffened. He hurriedly let out a cry, indicating that it was inappropriate and that it was more important to check what other new traits and skills he had first.
I knew it... Qiao Sang restrained the twitching smile at the corner of her lips and said: "The Bad Dreams trait can inflict damage on opponents who are in a sleeping state. You can pair your Hypnosis with this trait."
She had looked into this trait in detail later on. Generally speaking, dealing damage to an opponent in a sleeping state would cause them to wake up, but Bad Dreams would not.
This trait forced the sleeping target into a nightmare, dealing mental damage while making it difficult for them to awaken.
When a pet with the Bad Dreams trait was also capable of casting Hypnosis, if they didn't actively control the dream world, the target's dream would automatically become a nightmare, dealing damage.
It could essentially be described as an automatic damage-boosting buff added right onto Hypnosis.
"Xun... xun~"
Little Treasure's eyes lit up upon hearing this, and he immediately wanted to test it out.
"Gang Zhan."
To prevent her boss from turning himself into a laughingstock like the previous two times, Gangbao volunteered with a cry, indicating she could help test it.
"Xun... xun~"
Little Treasure patted Gangbao's wing, indicating that she was working hard, and then his eyes flashed with a purple light.
Gangbao's eyes slowly closed, and she fell into a sleeping state, dropping downward.
A dark shadow suddenly erupted from the ground where she was falling, catching Gangbao and placing her steadily onto the floor.
Qiao Sang and Yabao's group all crowded over, surrounding Gangbao and looking down at her.
"Gang Zhan..."
Gangbao's expression was strained as she talked in her sleep, looking as if she had already plunged into a nightmare.
At the same time, Qiao Sang suddenly felt a sharp sting of pain in her head, as if a needle had been driven into it.
She instinctively clutched her head, bending her body like a shrimp, and managed to say with difficulty: "Quick, quickly wake Gangbao up!"
"Xun... xun!"
Seeing his Beast Tamer's state, Little Treasure was startled. He hurriedly extended his tongue toward Gangbao's face and gave it a vicious lick.
"Gang Zhan..."
Gangbao groggily came to, opening her eyes.
"Phew..."
The pain in Qiao Sang's head vanished, and she let out a sigh of relief as if a heavy burden had been lifted.
She had almost forgotten that Gangbao's strength lay in her physical defense, not her mental defense, whereas the Bad Dreams trait dealt mental damage.
Lubao didn't say a word. She merely activated the gemstone on her forehead, letting a deep blue light shine down simultaneously over both Qiao Sang and Gangbao.
Qiao Sang and Gangbao's brows smoothed out in unison.
"Yap... yap?"
Yabao looked at Gangbao and let out a curious cry, asking what she had dreamed about.
"Gang Zhan..."
Gangbao fell silent for two seconds before letting out a cry, indicating she had dreamed that she hadn't met them back when she was on Planet Chaosu.
She dreamed that she had successfully located the place where that human worked.
But her Beast Tamer wasn't there this time.
She was left behind on Planet Chaosu.
So that counts as a nightmare for Gangbao... Qiao Sang felt a surge of emotion in her heart after hearing this, mixed with an unexplainable feeling of heartache.
Gangbao looked at her own Beast Tamer.
Their eyes met, thick with emotion.
"Yap... yap..."
Right in the middle of this touching atmosphere, Yabao let out a sighing cry, indicating that he hadn't realized someone could dream about so many things in such a short amount of time...
Qiao Sang: ...
Gangbao: ...
"Xun... xun?"
Little Treasure let out a cry full of anticipation, asking if he had awakened any other skills.
Qiao Sang looked at him and said seriously: "Shadow Penetration."
Shadow Penetration? Little Treasure blanked out, and then his eyes suddenly flared with brilliance.
"Xun... xun?"
Qiao Sang smiled: "That's right. It's the exact move that the Witch Mystic Fiend used back when we were in the Lost Town."
"Xun... xun!"
Little Treasure excitedly floated several laps through the air, before adopting a serious expression and beginning to channel his energy.
In the next second, a black hole with a diameter of over a meter appeared out of thin air right in front of him.
Looking at the black hole, Little Treasure placed both paws on his waist and threw his head back in a loud laugh: "Xun... xun... xun..."
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7:00 PM.
The living room.
Qiao Sang was eating dinner at the dining table.
Yabao and the others were also eating their energy pellets nearby.
Mikayla materialized out of thin air in the living room. She scanned the area quickly and asked: "Where is the Night Ring King?"
Qiao Sang was long accustomed to this and said with a calm expression, "Training outside."
Mikayla was a bit surprised: "He's still being this diligent? Hasn't the Clothes-Changing Totem already been captured?"
Qiao Sang sighed helplessly: "He really likes the traits and skills he awakened during this evolution, so he wants to raise his proficiency in these traits and skills as early as possible."
Though her tone carried a trace of helplessness, it clearly contained a distinct smile.
To be honest, she had originally thought that getting Little Treasure to train later on would require her constant supervision just like before. She hadn't expected Little Treasure to actually practice voluntarily.
This feeling was just like a student who had suddenly taken an interest in a specific subject, to the point where he would willingly study it even during his free time.
She felt extremely gratified.
Mikayla walked over to the seat opposite Qiao Sang, pulled out a chair, and asked: "You already know what all of the Night Ring King's newly awakened traits and skills are?"
Qiao Sang gave an "Mm" and explained Little Treasure's traits and skills from start to finish.
Mikayla remained silent for a long time before asking: "The Night Ring King can already successfully cast all of these skills?"
After spending over half a year with Qiao Sang, her threshold for tolerance had grown much stronger. Even upon hearing Shadow Penetration, no matter how shocked she was inside, her surface expression remained steady as a rock.
Qiao Sang said humbly: "He still needs a lot of practice."
The moment her words left her mouth, a black hole materialized out of thin air right above the dining table. The upper half of Little Treasure's body poked out from it. He grabbed a tree fruit from the table, flashed a grin at his Beast Tamer, and dived right back in.
The black hole vanished without a trace.
The living room fell into silence.
A few seconds later, Mikayla said in a somewhat dazed manner: "The Night Ring King's Shadow Penetration is actually already cast with this much proficiency..."
Qiao Sang smiled merrily: "He spent most of the day practicing it."
Do you think practicing for most of a day under normal circumstances can get a newly awakened super-tier skill to this level? No, under normal circumstances, a super-tier skill wouldn't even be successfully cast at all...
Mikayla took a deep breath, eased her emotions, recalled her main business, and said: "I helped contact Professor Daria for you. Tomorrow, you can go to her place to get the Little Thunder Dragon's genes tested."
Hearing this, Qiao Sang's first thought was: One hundred points per test.
Her second thought was: The Dean just gave me ten thousand points, so spending one hundred points isn't entirely out of the question.
To be completely honest, given the presence of her cheat-like gold finger, whether a pet was purebred or not wasn't actually that important anymore.
Just as Qiao Sang was about to speak, Mikayla added: "Don't refuse. I know you don't place much importance on whether a pet is purebred, but don't forget, your goal is the Interstellar Cup."
Qiao Sang grew quiet for a brief moment, then nodded: "I understand."
At that exact same moment, the pet egg sitting on the desk inside the room gave a tiny wobble.
Having finished her main business, Mikayla left shortly after.
Qiao Sang finished her dinner and cleaned up the table.
Suddenly, an unprompted wild wind whipped through the living room.
Qiao Sang's ponytail flew upward.
Realizing something, she looked toward Qingbao at the center of the gales.
She saw Qingbao, whose expression had been perfectly peaceful all this time, glaring dead ahead at Little Treasure, who was training outside.
Looks like the effect of the Healing Soundwave has worn off... Qiao Sang understood instantly.
She was a bit surprised, she hadn't expected Qingbao to still be dwelling on this matter after so much time had passed.
Generally speaking, short-tempered people and pets would only grow angrier the more they thought back on an incident after a Healing Soundwave wore off, while good-tempered ones would just let the matter go.
She had originally always assumed Qingbao belonged to the latter category.
Qiao Sang called out: "Qingbao."
"Qing... qing?"
Qingbao turned her head, letting out a perfectly obedient cry, but the wild winds surrounding her body made it easy to see that her inner state was still highly volatile.
Qiao Sang hesitated: "You..."
As if realizing what her Beast Tamer was about to say, Qingbao's body stiffened.
"Are you in a bad mood?" Qiao Sang asked.
"Qing... qing."
Qingbao blanked out at first, and then she nodded honestly.
Along with her nod, the gales around her body shrank slightly.
"Is it because Little Treasure wanted to use you as a training partner earlier?" Qiao Sang asked again.
"Qing... qing..."
Qingbao revealed a wronged expression and nodded once more.
He looks down on me.
"That's because Little Treasure knows you would go the easiest on him." Qiao Sang lied through her teeth.
"He has been training with Yabao and the others these past two days. If he really looked down on you and just wanted to expend energy through combat training, he definitely would have chosen you. But he didn't."
"Qing... qing..."
Qingbao blinked, the wild winds around her freezing mid-motion.
Was that really how it was...
"Of course." Qiao Sang nodded with absolute certainty.
"Qing... qing..."
The gales around Qingbao's body dissolved completely.
Seeing this, Qiao Sang secretly let out a sigh of relief.
Ever since Qingbao evolved and gained her inherited memories, her temper has flared up a bit. But luckily, she's still very easy to coax...
Gangbao silently cast a glance at her own Beast Tamer.
Qiao Sang finished cleaning the dining table and went back to her room.
Qingbao threw a glance toward the bedroom, and without making a sound, turned into wind and arrived at the open-air training ground.
Her Beast Tamer's filter for Little Treasure was just too thick to even see through this. What do you mean 'knowing she would go the easiest on him'? He clearly just looked down on her offensive power.
Wild winds raged violently across the open-air training ground.
Qingbao glared at Little Treasure, who was currently training, with an unsatisfied expression.
Blow you away, blow you away...
"Xun... xun~"
Little Treasure's golden braid flew wildly as he cheerfully darted, appeared, darted, and re-emerged through one black hole after another, looking as if he couldn't feel the surrounding gales at all.
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The next day.
Early morning.
Qiao Sang did a quick wash, ate her breakfast, and first headed to a nearby potion shop to purchase ten bottles of Ferocious Dark Potions. Afterward, she waited for Professor Mikayla to arrive. Holding the pet egg, she accompanied her to the Imperial Beast University, arriving at a gene testing lab.
The door to the gene testing lab was half-open. Standing in front of various instruments was a young-looking lady wearing a lab coat, sporting brown hair tied into a low ponytail.
Hearing the sound of footsteps entering, she lifted her head and smiled: "You're here. For gene testing, please pay the points first."
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T/n: Sorry guysss, I was out hustling. Now the question of the day: Who's your favorite MC of your current reads?
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