Chapter 20 (1/2)
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Gathering his thoughts, Bai Wushang looked around and climbed up a large tree.
Standing atop the canopy, Bai Wushang looked out into the distance, only to find that there were shadows of lush trees in every direction, with no end in sight.
The only conspicuous thing was that the sun in the sky was not a solid entity, but an illusory projection.
It seems that it’s difficult to figure out the environmental structure of the trial ground in a short period of time…
Bai Wushang frowned in thought, and finally decided to go in one direction first.
Gripping the dagger tightly, Bai Wushang fully activated his senses as he walked between the trees with a vigorous gait.
Unlike the dry climate of the Endless Sand Domain, the humidity in the air was high, and after just a moment of walking against the wind, Bai Wushang felt a thin layer of mist on his face as it became sticky.
“Huh?”
Somewhere not far away, a cluster of grass-like plants in a gradient of blue and green on a tree trunk caught his attention.
“It’s guinea grass?” said Bai Wushang as he got closer and scrutinized it, and exclaimed in surprise, “This is one of the raw materials for many basic healing medicines. A plant this big would cost at least 20 or so gold coins in the market, right?”
Carefully digging through the trunk with his dagger, Bai Wushang took out the plant from its roots, and put it into his dimensional backpack.
This dimensional backpack distributed by the academy was one of the smallest spatial storage equipment. With a total capacity of only one cubic meter, it was still barely enough to store some herbs, fruits and vegetables, meat, and other things.
I’ll take it first, and if I get injured, I can directly crush it and apply it externally to accelerate the healing of wounds. If I can’t use it, I can still make some money, taking it out of the mystic realm…
Continuing to walk, Bai Wushang gathered valuable medicinal herbs or fruits that could be eaten while constantly identifying the transcendent creatures hiding in various corners of the forest.
Flower Bamboo Rat… Winged Pink Butterfly… Huh? This Firecap Turtle seems to have mutated. The flames on its head are actually blue… It’s a bit rare, but still too weak for me…
For Bai Wushang’s peak Spiritualist level soul power, the strength limit of contracted pets was the peak of the early youth, and these weak early and mid youth transcendent creatures in front of him were far from meeting his contracting standards.
The first direction of my choice is that the bloodline quality should not be too low, and should guarantee sufficient growth potential in the future. The second is the current life level, preferably in the late youth or peak youth; if it’s too weak, it won’t be conducive to surviving the trials.
But that’s all theoretical expectations, not quite the same as the reality I’m dealing with…
Bai Wushang knew that if it was in other academies or certain families, the first pets for newly promoted masters were usually provided directly by elders or mentors, and a little familiarity would enable them to contract easily. The quality would not be bad, with a low overall difficulty.
However, Mountain and Sea Academy made it a regular trial for newly promoted masters to contract pets. They even created a special mystic realm for this purpose, requiring the students to find, identify, collect, contract, and survive alone in the wild, and even learn to cooperate or face competition.
Bai Wushang believed there were disadvantages and advantages to this mode of training.
The downside was that under such rules, each participant would need to figure out how to take in a pet on their own, inevitably by strategy or even physical combat, with a high risk factor. There should be a significant number of people who would not be able to complete the contract, and would be eliminated from the competition.
The advantage was that the academy provided the perfect platform for contracting, and such an opportunity was rare. For students who had the ability or the opportunity to have more options and possibilities, the probability of obtaining a quality pet increased significantly… At the same time, with contracting and growing in this environment, the relationship between the human and the pet was stronger, and it would be rare for a pet beast to defect…
Swish!
There was a sudden strange noise from a grassy area to the side, and the movement was quite loud, with faint sounds of human giggles and the hissing of struggling beasts.