Chapter 14: The Cross-Dressing Boss

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"Abu, show the junior apprentice brother!"

"Aw!"

The Thunder Qilin Turtle emitted a sound similar to a dragon's roar, and in the next second, purple lightning shot out from its turtle shell covered in purple scales, intertwining to quickly form a suit of Thunder Armor on the giant turtle's surface.

"Whoa! That's kind of cool!"

The Thorny Thunder Spur technique was even cooler; the Thunder Qilin Turtle instantly transformed into a "porcupine," then blinding purple lightning attacked indiscriminately in all directions.

"Senior brother, I want to learn the Thunder Armor and Thorny Thunder Spur techniques!"

Seeing the two techniques displayed by the Thunder Spirit Turtle, Chen Mo was instantly moved.

Now, the strongest ability of the Blazing Flame Fox isn't its attack or speed, but its defensive power. If it can learn these two techniques, one could say that it would be invincible at the Awakening Stage!

Even if it can't defeat the opponent, the opponent can't break through its defense!

Learning these two techniques would also give Chen Mo an extra card to play in the upcoming Nestling Cup, increasing his chances of winning!

"Cough, cough, it's not that I don't want to teach you, but these two are High Order Skills, extremely difficult for Spiritual Beasts at the Awakening Stage to master. I suggest that at the Awakening Stage, you shouldn't focus on learning too many skills. Everyone's time is limited; trying to learn too much can be counterproductive!"

At the Awakening Stage, few Spirit Masters spend a lot of time making their Spiritual Beasts practice lower-level techniques or learn High Order Skills.

Because once the Spiritual Beast's Level goes up, it can learn middle-tier or higher-tier skills, which are naturally much more powerful and effective than lower-tier ones.

Moreover, once the Spiritual Beast's growth Level increases, its proficiency in lower-tier skills will naturally increase as well.

"Rest assured, Brother Pili, my Jiu Bao's comprehension is quite good; in just two days, it's already learned Thunderclaw and Wind Swift Lightning Hunter."

Chen Mo said, then had Xiao Jiu demonstrate it.

"So fast!?"

She Pili was stunned for a moment, seeing the two techniques mastered at a proficient level (actually adept, thanks to the Thunderbolt King's bonus), he started to doubt life.

He suddenly understood why his father was in such a hurry to return that day.

The talent of this Blazing Flame Fox was truly monstrous!

After realizing the astounding talent of the Blazing Flame Fox, She Pili generously allowed the Thunder Qilin Turtle to teach the Blazing Flame Fox the Thunder Armor and Thorny Thunder Spur techniques.

Under normal circumstances, it's extremely difficult for a Spiritual Beast at the Awakening Stage to learn High Order Skills.

But with the [Thunderbolt King]'s blessing, Xiao Jiu's comprehension was amazing, mastering these two High Order Skills in just two days.

However, due to its current low growth Level, it could only release imperfect versions for now.

During this period, Chen Mo also found out why She Pili was either asleep or on his way to sleep.

In fact, She Pili wasn't sleeping but meditating.

And the reason he meditated day and night was because he was almost "drained."

The growth speed of the Thunder Qilin Turtle was too fast, surpassing the growth speed of She Pili's spiritual power.

The Level and number of Spiritual Beasts a Spirit Master can contract are closely related to the Level of their Spiritual Space.

A Level 1 Spiritual Space, measuring 10-50m³, can contract only Awakening Stage Spiritual Beasts, with a limit of 1.

A Level 2 Spiritual Space can contract the same number of Spiritual Beasts, but its growth Level limit increases to the Extraordinary Rank, measuring 51-100m³.

A Level 3 Spiritual Space allows for one more Spiritual Beast to be contracted, reaching 101-500m³ in size.

Currently, She Pili's Spiritual Space is only Level 3, able to contract Spiritual Beasts up to the Extraordinary Rank.

If the Thunder Qilin Turtle breaks through to the Commander Stage before She Pili's Spiritual Space advances to Level 4, their contract will be automatically terminated.

This made Chen Mo feel a bit contemplative.

It seems that just making Spiritual Beasts excel isn't enough; the Spirit Master himself needs to excel as well for it to be effective!

In the following days, Chen Mo lived a routine life revolving around three points.

Home-Hospital-Thunderbolt Daoist School.

With the bonus from the Excel King and Xiao Jiu's feedback, Chen Mo's spiritual power saw a nice boost, expanding his Spiritual Space to 30 cubic meters.

Naturally, Chen Mo didn't miss out on the daily challenges.

He obtained a total of 3 white entries and 1 green entry.

Chen Mo dismantled the useless green entry [Cross-Dressing King] into 10 entry coins and exchanged them in the entry store for a white entry to solidify, solidifying [Fitness Expert] for Xiao Jiu.

The [Cross-Dressing King] entry was from a daily challenge, which required him or a male Spiritual Beast to try on 100 pieces of women's clothing and post them online.

The effect was that the gender wouldn't be seen through when wearing women's clothing.

Unfortunately, since Xiao Jiu's gender didn't meet the requirement, Chen Mo had to do it himself.

He ordered 100 pieces of women's clothing online, tried them on, took photos, registered a small account, posted, then deleted them at light speed.

Luckily, this challenge didn't cost money, since the clothes could be returned after trying them on, or else Chen Mo definitely wouldn't have accepted the challenge!

In these days, Xiao Jiu's Electric Spiritual Power growth Level also saw a nice improvement, reaching Awakening Level 7.

The Thunder Training Field of the Thunderbolt Daoist School was abundant in Electric Spiritual Power, combined with the [Excel King] bonus and the Condensed Thunder Knight's assistance, training felt like flying.

Of course, more importantly, Xiao Jiu's combat power was now taking shape.

Both the low-tier techniques[Thunderclaw][Wind Swift Lightning Hunter]were trained to the proficient level.

Among them, Xiao Jiu had also mastered a small trick for Thunderclaw, spreading electricity over the opponent upon hitting, causing a paralysis effect.

The two High Order Skills[Thorny Thunder Spur][Thunder Armor]also officially reached an introductory level.

As for the original talent technique Fire Spark, it remained at... the introductory stage.

Time flew by, and soon there was only a week left until school started.

At the beginning of the new week, Chen Mo sat cross-legged on his bed.

As the morning light fell on his face, he slowly opened his eyes. After meditating through the night, he didn't feel tired.

He gently petted Xiao Jiu, who was sleeping soundly beside him, feeling quite content. What could make one happier than petting a little fox first thing upon waking up?

"It's a new week, let's see what new challenge tasks have been refreshed."

Chen Mo habitually opened the entry training manual.

Both the daily and weekly challenges had been refreshed.

The daily challenges were three white ones, all with low difficulty but also not very effective entries; refreshing them didn't yield anything useful either.

He planned to just pick the easiest one to complete later.

The focus was on the weekly challenge.

Gourmet Tracker (green)

Challenge content: Within a week, find 5 gourmet-type Spiritual Beasts.

Entry effect: When gourmet-type Spiritual Beasts or high-end ingredients appear within 100 meters around you, you can perceive them.

Marksman (green)

Challenge content: Use shooting items or long-range techniques to hit the bullseye 100 times from 200 meters away.

Entry effect: Accuracy is slightly improved.

"For Xiao Jiu currently, the Marksman is still too difficult, nearly impossible to complete, refresh, refresh."

Without hesitation, Chen Mo chose to refresh.

The green text shattered and then reformed.

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