Chapter 325 — Another Great Harvest and Shi Ying's Ambition

Detestable, detestable, detestable — that dog of a rich man Shi Jin was richer than it by who knew how many times over, and still he played poor all day long.

"It's all right, it's all right." Shi Jin chuckled.

"There's more." Feng Jin was still not finished.

"More?" Shi Jin was stunned.

"This one is dispensable for you — not very meaningful." Feng Jin produced another license.

"A top-tier beast master license. A top-tier master is required to have combat strength capable of briefly contending with overlord-level creatures. Apart from taking the examination at the association headquarters, certain provable battle records can also serve as assessment criteria. Because of your performance at the national tournament, the Donghuang Association headquarters issued you the top-tier master license directly, sparing you one promotion examination."

"Our Ancient Capital has no authority to conduct top-tier examinations, so this saves trouble now, and you needn't go to the Imperial Capital for assessment either." Feng Jin chuckled. "Speaking of which, because he presided over your three examinations, and also basked in his daughter's glory, Master Qu Li of our Ancient Capital Association seems to have received a promotion offer from the Imperial Capital — he can take up a post at the Imperial Capital headquarters at any time."

"I wonder whether he'll go..."

"The chance to be assigned overlord-level colleagues and teammates, and to become a legendary examiner testing top-tier masters and legendary beast masters — such an opportunity is rare."

Shi Jin's expression turned odd. Master Qu Li was going to be promoted to headquarters. That was good.

A pity his top-tier license was already in hand; there was no need to seek out the old man for an examination.

"Huh, Master Qu Li has a daughter too?" Shi Jin suddenly spotted the blind spot.

Never mind. It had nothing to do with him.

"Sorry to trouble you." After his great harvest, Shi Jin thanked Feng Jin.

Then, he asked cautiously, "This time... there shouldn't be any more trouble, right?"

This actually left him a little hopeful, wishing there would be more trouble — the moment trouble came, resources and permits came with it. Who could withstand that?

"No more!" Feng Jin chuckled.

"Speaking of which, has Lu Yan still not come out of seclusion?" Shi Tang asked.

Feng Jin was free of trouble now, but he had trouble of his own.

Ever since Lu Heng decided to enter the Sequence War, he had entered seclusion for bitter cultivation, aiming to break through to the Legendary realm, and had not emerged since. Shi Jin had shattered two overlords and become the national champion, and Lu Yan still did not know.

The place of bitter cultivation was a legendary relic space left behind by a Legendary beastmaster of the Totem Era, which Lu Heng had obtained through his own archaeological work. Shi Jin was quite envious.

In any case, having not seen Lu Yan for so long, Shi Yu missed him dearly. The Mythic Revival skill Lu Yan had obtained through archaeology was hailed as the strongest tier ultra-rank skill. Shi Shuo had not paid it much mind at first, but as he was about to research the mythic species phantom beast Qilin fossil, Shi Jin wondered — could this skill be of help to the research? He planned to copy it first and see, to check whether it could be taught to Mechanical Lin.

"Qing Yi... not yet." Feng Jin shook his head. "That legendary resource will have to wait until she comes out before I can give it to her... After strengthening that Tingxiang Spirit, perhaps it can lend her a hand."

Among the six pets Lu Heng had contracted, the newly contracted Tingxiang Spirit did not have the Mythic Revival skill and was the weakest in strength. However, if it had the treasured asset of Ancient Capital University, it might become a short-term ace.

"Is there something you need Qing Yi for?" Feng Jin asked expectantly.

Young Shi Tan, could it be...

"Mm, I feel my strength is sufficient now. I want to challenge Lu Yan."

"Whether there's trouble or not, aren't you in a hurry to leave? Go on, hurry up." Feng Jin raised an eyebrow.

"Ah... when Lu Yan comes out of seclusion, help me tell her..." Shi Li said.

Defeat Lu Yan, copy a skill, and incidentally boost his Sequence War ranking — though he did not know if he could actually win...

...

After going to see Feng Jin, Shi Jin once again reaped a great harvest of resources.

After returning, Shi Jin let out a long breath.

He began preparing the "Strengthening Plan."

Lu Yan was pushing toward the Legendary tier for the Sequence War because her own beastmaster space level had already reached level six, her pets were not weak in strength, and she even carried a legendary relic space with her to assist her cultivation.

As for Shi Ying's strength enhancement plan, it had to be tailored to his own circumstances.

Summer vacation was coming up next. He planned to use these two months to travel across all of Donghuang, going to various places to copy some low-level superb skills to max out, and along the way, pick up some ultra-rank skills.

After returning, he would have the Gem Cat take Crimson Eye and Susu to the Undead Battlefield for training. At that time, he would also stay at Ancient Capital University, focusing entirely on meditation, striving to break his beastmaster space through to level six.

The skills to be copied — such as Can Baby's Earth Escape and the enhancement-type BUFF skills Crimson Eye had selected — all had to be copied.

Beyond that, Susu did not need to copy skills; it could simply rely on devouring. However, a new batch of superb water-type resources had just arrived, and if it devoured them, it would probably sleep for a long while again. Also, Shi Yu planned to have Susu devour resources like the Ice Dragon Whisker and Ice Dragon Badge to prepare for teaching it Frost Cold Qi.

Hopefully, by the time the trip ended and he returned, Susu would have finished digesting everything.

Of course, Eleven and Buggy would not come out of this national trip with nothing to gain.

It could even be said that this national trip to copy skills was prepared specifically for Eleven and Buggy, to shore up their weaknesses. They were the core of the cultivation effort.

For example, for Eleven, Shi Jin had carefully selected four skills that required traveling across Donghuang to find the corresponding fierce beasts to copy. In the Ancient Capital area, they might not necessarily be found.

The four skills selected for Eleven were three high-rank and one ultra-rank.

Iron Bones: A high-rank skill of the metal element. One can improve one's physique by taking hits. It belongs to slow accumulation and permanent enhancement; the upper limit of improvement depends on skill proficiency.

Tempered to Steel: A high-rank skill of the metal element. One can gain the ability to forge the body with fire, strengthening the physique through burning. It also belongs to permanent enhancement, similar to the former.

Overlord Armor: A high-rank skill of the metal element. One can create a layer of armor that can easily accumulate damage beyond its limits, preventing external damage from affecting the pet's own actions. However, once the armor reaches its承受 limit, the damage will be applied to the pet all at once.

And one ultra-rank metal-element skill that can convert damage taken into life force to heal injuries.

Shi Jue did not know whether he could successfully find these four skills, but he had to go.

In his view, were the Jiuli War Beasts strong? Yes.

But every skill of the Jiuli War Beasts belonged to the extreme burst category, and they were too harmful to the body. Emperor Wu's poor health, aside from the incurable wound from Yun Han, Shi Jin estimated, was also related to the pile of self-harm skills of the Jiuli War Beasts...