Beast Taming Patrol

Chapter 713: 245

Facing Lin Su’s acknowledgement, Connor shrugged his shoulders and strode away.

“Chi! (◯‸◯)” (I’ll give him a good thrashing tomorrow!)

Qiuqiu clung to Lin Su’s pant leg, staring full of fighting spirit at Connor’s departing figure.

“Don’t worry,” Lin Su’s eyes narrowed slightly as he slowly withdrew his gaze, “I’ll deal with him tomorrow.”

Although his opponent was strong, he wasn’t too worried.

If Guardian Beast Co-operation with Qiuqiu wasn’t enough, he could always call on Youyou.

The reason he hadn’t brought Youyou into battle these past few days was that Youyou was a weapon-type beast and hadn’t formed a contract with him.

If he brought Youyou along to battle, the other three members of the Safe Alliance might find it unfair which was why Lin Su had chosen not to use Youyou.

After all, he represented the host, and the other three factions were guests.

But if it came to a point where he was unable to fight, having Youyou help wouldn’t breach the competition rules.

This was considered one of Lin Su’s trump cards.

After the exchange was over, he didn’t linger and quickly returned to the hotel.

Training, meditation.

Time flew by fast, and before long, it was nighttime.

Worried about Qiuqiu, who was alone in the Divine Martial World, Lin Su didn’t hesitate when sleepiness hit. He called back Qiuqiu and Youyou and then lay on the bed, letting sleepiness engulf him.

When he opened his eyes again, what he saw was Qiuqiu still encased in ice on the first step, but now there were a few more objects around it.

Not far beside it, beyond the range of the Extreme Cold ladder’s influence, a fist-sized gem of ice hovered in the void. The ultimate cold gathered an unending flow of frost mist around it, which then slowly poured toward the ground.

Just like the frost mist pouring down from the Extreme Cold ladder to form a frost pool.

However, compared to that scale, the ice crystal Qiuqiu had gathered was still far from sufficient.

“Qiuqiu, how are you feeling?” Lin Su did not dare to delay and quickly sat up, contacting Qiuqiu via telepathy.

“Feeling great!” Qiuqiu responded quickly with its mind, “I can gather ice crystals much faster now!”

While speaking, Qiuqiu eagerly demonstrated its power.

In just a minute or two, a small ice crystal appeared in the air.

It seemed that during the few hours Lin Su was asleep, Qiuqiu had made rapid progress.

“Lin Brother, you’re awake?” Lu Ziye’s voice came from nearby. He was still busy in front of the forge, took a moment to glance back at Lin Su and chuckled, “During your sleep, every time I looked up, I saw Qiuqiu trying to comprehend the Rule Power.”

Saying this, he couldn’t help but inwardly grumble.

The beast was working so hard, while Lin Brother, the Beast Tamer, was sound asleep.

If he had known being a Beast Tamer was so leisurely, he wouldn’t have bothered learning tough martial arts.

“Thank you, Lu Brother for looking after Qiuqiu,” Lin Su gratefully nodded, then packed up his bedding and moved to another side, not to disturb Lu Ziye’s forging.

During the brief conversation with Lu Ziye, Qiuqiu had already learned from Qiuqiu about the outcome of Lin Su’s second exchange.

It expressed the relief from its “big brother” to Qiuqiu for not losing and said that once it reached the seventh step, it would be its turn to dominate.

Qiuqiu’s response to Qiuqiu was to silently move to a less cold corner, merge into the Shadow Space, and continue absorbing and understanding from its two level-eight resources.

Drat!

It almost forgot that once big brother reached the seventh step and comprehended Rule Power, he might soon surpass him.

Now was not the time to be self-satisfied.

It also needed to work harder to grasp even a trace of the dark Rule Power soon.

Seeing both beasts feeling a sense of urgency through the other’s advancement, Lin Su couldn’t help but smile, then found a spot, took out the Space Heart, and began meditating.

In about a month, his Beast Taming Space level would finally break through to the fifth stage, so he needed to make good use of his time.

On his back, Youyou emitted a faint humming sound, the gemstone embedded at the connection between the spearhead and shaft flickering lightly like breathing, slowly absorbing the dense ice supernatural energy around it.

Although not fully sentient, the confused entity seemed to also sense something different and started to make efforts.

“Buzz~” (Keep it up~)

…

Before long, Qiuqiu’s somewhat anxious call pulled Lin Su out of his meditation.

As he regained his senses, Lin Su immediately looked towards the ladder in the sky.

At this moment, near the ladder, a huge ice crystal, as tall as a person, quietly hovered in mid-air.

Around the ice crystal, rich white smoke continuously billowed out and poured toward the ground like fog or a waterfall. Although still small compared to the neighboring Extreme Cold ladder, when viewed alone, it already appeared quite spectacular.

“Now at full power, I can create such a large ice crystal!”

The elated thought of Qiuqiu reverberated in Lin Su’s mind.

Initially, at full control, Qiuqiu could only gather ice crystals the size of gravel, barely visible without close inspection.

Now, the ice crystals it could gather were worlds apart from before.

This meant that Qiuqiu’s comprehension of the ice Rule Power was becoming deeper and its control of Extreme Cold’s power was becoming more adept.