Beast Taming Begins with the Inner Circle of Pets

Chapter 72 Mysterious Spirit Beast

However, there were simply too many corpses. While the amber was burning, Ah-Dai had already discovered that more than ten level-three spirit beasts were heading this way one after another.

Lin Manman made a quick decision, collecting several level-three spirit beast corpses as bait, and then huffed and puffed her way onto Silver Moon's back.

She stored the slower Rainbow Jade and Amber into her pet space. She tucked Little Seven into her chest pocket to prevent it from being blown away if Silver Moon increased its speed.

After the preparations were completed, Lin Manman directed Silver Moon and Brother Pingtou to flee at full speed, guided by Ah Dai.

At full speed, the Silver Moon was even faster than a honey badger with its charge skill activated. The intense jolting and the rapidly receding scenery around her made Lin Manman feel nauseous and dizzy, almost causing her to vomit.

A fierce gust of wind rushed towards her, making it difficult for her to breathe. She had to press her body low to the ground, clinging to the long hair on the side of Silver Moon's neck to feel somewhat more comfortable.

Her level 5 protective gear, which could defend against elemental attacks, was completely useless in this situation. She definitely needs to contract a flying mount when she has the chance in the future! At least she won't be jostled around so much.

[The pet Adai learns the skill: Whirlwind Shield: Wind attribute energy gathers to form a whirlwind of varying range, which can block a certain amount of damage.]

The familiar system notification sound startled Lin Manman slightly. Before she could figure out how Ah Dai had suddenly mastered the skill, a pale white whirlwind-like shield formed in front of her and Yin Yue.

Lin Manman glanced at Ah Dai, who was always flying above them, and grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

With Ah-Dai's sharp eyesight, he must have seen every detail of her disheveled and uncomfortable state. Who would have thought that Ah-Dai, who usually seems aloof and unsociable, actually has such a warm and caring personality? So touching!

With Ah-Dai's whirlwind shield, Lin Manman felt much more relaxed, and Yin Yue dared to maintain full speed and continue running.

With Ah-Dai guiding them from the sky, they quickly and successfully avoided the dozen or so level-three spirit pets.

Silver Moon and the Horizonte advanced at full speed for about ten minutes. After Ah Dai confirmed that there weren't too many spirit beasts gathered around, Lin Manman quickly told Silver Moon and the Horizonte to stop and rest.

After a morning of hard work, Lin Manman has earned 602 points. This should be enough for her to secure a place in the top 64. She can just play it safe in the afternoon hunt.

Having learned her lesson from the morning, Lin Manman planned to set another trap later, killing a few before moving on to a different location.

Thinking this, she took out the corpse of a level three spirit beast. She had the honey badger place it in an open area, while she and her spirit pets continued to crouch in the bushes and wait.

Perhaps because she had gone deeper, even without water nearby, the density of spirit beasts was much higher than when she had entered the outer area that morning. Therefore, there was no instance of no spirit beasts arriving for more than twenty minutes that morning.

Not long after Lin Manman took out the corpse, several level-two copper-spotted leopards came over, drawn by the scent.

With the rich hunting experience gained in the morning, seven or eight level-two spirit beasts were a piece of cake for the spirit pets.

Having easily acquired eight level-two crystal cores, Lin Manman led her spirit pets to a slightly more distant patch of grass to crouch. Before moving on, she planned to check if there were any more opportunities to snatch up any remaining ones.

Not long after, a lone, level-three crocodile lizard arrived.

Lin Manman chuckled as she directed her spirit pets to swarm and attack.

In order to resolve the battle as quickly as possible, Lin Manman sent Hongyu and Amber to help her, in addition to Xiaoqi.

Just as the spirit pets were locked in combat with the crocodile lizard, a rhinoceros with iron horns was slowly approaching in the field of vision shared by Ah-Dai.

She estimated that by the time the iron-horned rhinoceros arrived, the crocodile lizard would have been dealt with, and she figured she could probably eat both of them.

The bold get rich, the timid starve! When in doubt, just do it!

Lin Manman had Xiao Qi on her head, and the dog crouched furtively in the bushes, using Adai's view to share the spectator experience.

Seeing the Ironhorn Rhinoceros arrive, and confirming that the Earth Crocodile Lizard had indeed been killed by the spirit pets, Lin Manman's anxious heart finally settled down.

Once her attention was diverted from the battle of the spirit pets, Lin Manman suddenly noticed a faint rustling sound coming from the grass not far behind her.

She carefully turned around, held her breath, and carefully observed the patch of grass.

She dared to send her spirit pets to hunt spirit beasts because she was relying on her level five protective gear. Even if the gear ran out of energy, she still had a bunch of crystal cores on her, so she wasn't worried about her safety at all.

So when she noticed something was wrong with the bushes not far away, she wasn't too scared, and just quietly crouched down.

The movement in the bushes became increasingly noticeable, from a faint sound to a clear view of something moving inside.

Ah-Dai didn't notice the commotion. He figured the thing inside wasn't very big, and its movement in the grass wouldn't be very noticeable.

With this deduction, Lin Manman felt even more at ease. Although the combat strength of a spirit beast cannot be judged entirely by its size, there are very few spirit beast species that are small in size yet can cause high damage.

As the movement grew closer, suddenly a pure black cylindrical object resembling a nose emerged from the grass, followed by a pure black spirit beast only the length of Lin Manman's forearm.

The spirit beast had a very strange appearance. Its pure black exterior didn't resemble fur; it was more like scales but lacked luster, and a faint crimson light flowed within its irregular, cracked patterns. Its head was somewhat like an anteater's, with a long nose from which a long, sharp tentacle would occasionally protrude.

This mythical beast has eyes on the sides of its head, and its blood-red eyes have no pupils.

Lin Manman's hair stood on end involuntarily. Although the lack of pupils in its eyes prevented her from determining the direction the spirit beast was looking, she had a strange feeling that she was being locked onto.

Lin Manman realized that this strange spirit beast might be dangerous. When she tried to open the system to check on the spirit beast, an indescribable pain enveloped her.

At the same time, the spirit pets that were fighting the Ironhorn Rhinoceros, including Ah Dai hovering in the sky, were also affected by this pain.

Ah-Dai crashed into the treetop. The honey badger, who was directly confronting the iron-horned rhinoceros, had its rock armor shattered by the rhinoceros's charge, and its sharp horn pierced towards the honey badger's chest. Fortunately, the honey badger's chest and abdomen were covered by hard black rock, so the attack did not cause too much damage.

Lin Manman was shocked to realize that the pain was almost identical to the feeling she had when she opened up more spirit pet spaces with the system's prompt. She immediately realized that she might have been attacked by a soul!

She immediately suppressed her weakness, picked up the whimpering Xiao Qi and hugged her to her chest, then ran towards her spirit pets.

Her protective gear can defend against energy and physical attacks, but not against soul attacks.

She would only continue to be attacked by this spirit beast here, so the best course of action was to try to get closer to her spirit pets. With her life-sharing talent, the strange spirit beast's soul attacks, while affecting her and her spirit pets, were not fatal.

Once the Honey Badger and his companions have dealt with the Ironhorn Rhinoceros, they'll be able to focus on this strange beast.

"Xiao Qi, heal yourself quickly!" she instructed Xiao Qi as she ran.

Xiao Qi's level is still too low, and her second talent, Life Sharing, distributes damage equally. Damage that Honey Badger and Silver Moon consider insignificant could be dangerous for Xiao Qi.

(End of this chapter)