Beast Tamer: Super Lucky Starting Contract

At the barbecue stall, three people and two beasts were eating grilled skewers, but large monsters like masters like Brother Liu could not be released into the city at will, so they did not have the chance to enjoy the delicious food.

Li Shiyao and Mo Xu both described their recent situations.

Li Shiyao has been training with a master at the Baiyue Dojo recently, and only took a vacation today when the training showed some initial results.

Mo Xu also talked about his contract and training to learn skills. Of course, there were many things he couldn't say, such as the initial energy of 0.15, or the forerunners and characteristics, all of which were hidden.

In a world where strength is respected, conflicts of interest are naturally more intense, and he has to be cautious.

Li Shiyao knew some of Mo Xu's situation. He was able to grow from a very low energy level, which must have been caused by hard work and secrets. However, as a close friend, she was very tactful and only listened to what Mo Xu was willing to share.

As they were talking, they had already eaten half of the skewers, and Mo Xu called the waiter to order more.

While waiting for the meal, he got straight to the point and asked tentatively: "Brother Liu, Master Ju said you are a "polymath"? "

Brother Liu paused while eating the skewers and cast a look at Mo Xu: "Why, not like him?"

“No, no,” Mo Xu waved his hands quickly. “I’m just learning skills. I want to hear Brother Liu talk about it. Maybe it will help.”

Brother Liu spat out the chicken wing bone and said slowly, "You don't need such advanced things right now, just study hard and that's it."

Mo Xu thought about Ju Conghan's reaction and decided not to expose it this time, but to change his words.

"I've been learning skills recently, but I've hit a bottleneck."

Brother Liu picked up another bunch and said as he ate, "Tell me about it."

Mo Xu pointed at Xiu Xiu and said, "It is learning the 'Giant Extreme'. It is clearly following the training method strictly and has already condensed an energy phantom, but it always gets stuck at the last step and can't really do it."

Brother Liu glanced at Xiu Xiu and asked, "Is your grass extraordinary?"

A spiritual power value of 100 officially enters the extraordinary level, and Xiu Xiu obviously hasn't reached that level yet. So Mo Xu shook his head honestly.

Xiu Xiu rolled her eyes in her heart, what do you mean by this grass, it is a lucky grass, it brings good luck to Beastmasters, okay?

"I know about 'Giant Polarization'. It's a little strange that it can't succeed with Energy Shadow."

Brother Liu crossed his arms and said, "But your contract won't last long, right? Since you haven't reached the Transcendent level yet, there's no need to worry. There are many monsters that only learn their first skill when they are at the intermediate level of Transcendent. However, since you have reached this level, it means it's not far away. If you practice for a while longer, the probability of you learning it is still very high."

As he was talking, Brother Liu tapped the leaves on Xiuxiu's head again and said, "I didn't realize it. This little thing is quite perceptive."

Xiu Xiu was angry but dared not speak.

"Is that so?" Mo Xu responded perfunctorily.

What Brother Liu said was obviously not the answer Mo Xu wanted, because Xiuxiu's first skill had been mastered, and this was the second one, and now it encountered a "limitation".

The waiter brought over the extra skewers and filled the table again.

Seeing that Mo Xu was silent for the time being, Brother Liu began to show concern for another student: "Mo Xu, your progress is good. How about you?"

Li Shiyao was pulling off a bunch of chicken gizzards and putting them on the wolf cub's plate. She had been listening quietly without interrupting, and only answered when Brother Liu asked, "Silver Moon Wolf has been practicing Claw Strike recently. The master said that I have found the way, and it is only a matter of time before I learn it."

Brother Liu nodded with satisfaction. Both students were good and their progress was considered outstanding among the group. But after he finished eating another skewer, he realized something and felt confused.

Because of the comparison with Li Shiyao, this Li Shiyao is in the top ten in spiritual power value this session, and the one she has contracted with is the heroic spirit race, and she started at the middle level of the extraordinary, so the training speed can be said to be good.

But Mo Xu's grass is clearly not yet extraordinary, but its progress is almost the same as that of the "Silver Moon Wolf". What's the origin?

"Brother Liu, can you tell us something about skills?"

Mo Xu's sudden question interrupted Brother Liu's doubts. Mo Xu was still not giving up, so he changed his way of asking.

Li Shiyao also looked over, obviously wanting to listen. They both had just started their cultivation journey, so they were naturally full of curiosity.

Brother Liu was very responsible to his students. He looked at the two pairs of eyes that were seeking knowledge and asked, "What do you want to hear?"

Mo Xu immediately followed up: "For example, the 'essence' of skills, or something like that."

"Huo, your topic is quite profound. You've given me a lot of work right away."

Brother Liu patted the chili powder on his hands, obviously in the mood to talk: "This skill is nothing more than a use of the extraordinary energy factor, there is no objection to this. Some people think that skills are the use of extraordinary energy to build bridges, or to construct different roads. There are many tricks, shortcuts, etc. This is a very practical statement, and I agree. For most people, understanding this level is enough."

These statements are very common in textbooks and on the Internet. Mo Xu and Li Shiyao were concentrating, waiting for Brother Liu to continue.

"But when it comes to the essence, this understanding is far from enough. You all know that in the process of practicing skills, the spiritual power of the monster will also increase. If you simply use extraordinary energy to release some "spells", how can you significantly increase your spiritual power?"

Brother Liu stopped talking here and gave them time to think.

Mo Xu heard what Brother Liu said and realized that something was wrong. For example, if we regard monsters as humans and skills as tools, humans will exercise their bodies when using tools, but their bodies will not change significantly. This is obviously different from the situation of monsters training skills.

It seems that skills are not simply "skills"!

Brother Liu didn't expect the two young men to figure out this great proposition that has been in the beast taming world for hundreds of years in an instant, so he just paused for a moment and continued, "So, to understand the essence of skills, you can't rigidly regard skills as a carrier of extraordinary factors. According to my understanding--"

"Skills are a kind of engraving."

Mo Xu and Li Shiyao looked at each other, neither of them quite understanding Brother Liu's wonderful metaphor.

Brother Liu was full of energy, not at all his usual carefree self. "Each skill is an engraving of the extraordinary energy in the monster's body. When the engraved lines are formed, the extraordinary energy can emit specific fluctuations along these lines. This is the skill. In the process of engraving, the monster can get closer to the most essential extraordinary, and then gain an improvement in its ability. As for what the most essential extraordinary is, I think it can be explained by an ancient concept, that is 'Tao'!"

“Learning skills is like ‘enlightenment’!”

I have to say that Brother Liu’s understanding is very unique and profound, even a bit metaphysical.

Moreover, this statement can be verified in many places. According to this deduction, some skills are high-level and difficult to learn, which means that they contain more "Taoism".

"So, the reason why the number of skills is limited is that the spiritual power value is too low, making it difficult to engrave extraordinary patterns?" Mo Xu thought so and asked this question.

Brother Liu was afraid that what he said would be too far-fetched and affect the two children, so he comforted them, "This is just my personal opinion. But I also said that there is no need to worry. This limit is easy for most people. Generally speaking, the increase in spiritual power is roughly parallel to the increase in skills. Moreover, skills are not the more the better. I had to choose the path of "polymath" because I had to do so. Even among my peers, I often mock myself as a "polymath." What is a polymath? It is messy and mixed. It takes too long. Improving spiritual power and learning skills at the same time is the best solution."

Mo Xu's mind was full of things about breaking limits, and he didn't notice that when Brother Liu talked about the second half, he gave a barely perceptible bitter smile. It seemed that he was also a man with a story.

Mo Xu asked: "Brother Liu, is there any way to break this restriction?"

Brother Liu rolled his eyes at Mo Xu and said, "You are only practicing the "Giant Extreme". Why do you care about breaking the limit? Even if you have learned it, don't rush to learn the second one. Just feed your spiritual power honestly."

Mo Xusi said casually: "I'm just curious. Maybe it will be useful in the future."

"Of course there is a way..."

Brother Liu talked for a long time and stopped serving. He picked up the skewers on the table and planned to eat while talking.

Mo Xu and Li Shiyao immediately followed suit upon seeing this, but they were so busy talking that the skewers were almost getting cold.

Cold kebabs are a sacrilege!

After taking a bite of the meat, Brother Liu continued leisurely: "This method is practice."

"Practice?" Mo Xu was confused. It turned out that after asking for so long, the answer I got was practice. The whole world knows about practice!

"No," Mo Xu couldn't help but interrupt: "Brother Liu, even if we are seriously learning skills, it is also practice."

Brother Liu stretched out his index finger and shook it: "Although they are both practice, practice is different from practice. The practice you talk about is not the same as the practice I talk about."

"Brother, stop using tongue twisters."

"Haven't you heard that if you work hard enough, you can grind an iron rod into a needle? The engraving of the Tao is naturally becoming more and more difficult, and it also takes a lot of time, but if you master the methods, you can shorten the process a little."

Brother Liu then gave an example: "For example, the skill "Water Tornado" is nothing more than condensing the energy of the water system and launching a tornado to attack the enemy. So your practice should grasp the essence of this skill instead of just wanting to launch the skill. If I condense a small water column, although it is not a tornado, it is similar in terms of the engraving patterns of the Tao. In this way, the efficiency is greatly improved. The time it takes to practice a tornado a thousand times is enough to practice a small water column ten thousand times."

"So that's it!" Mo Xu suddenly realized that what Brother Liu said was actually not to care about the "form" of the skill, but to look for the "meaning" of the skill. Once the "meaning" is there, the "form" is not far away.

It seems that Brother Liu is truly worthy of the title of "polymath".

When Brother Liu saw Mo Xu like this, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

That's not right. Wasn't this about skills? Why did he end up talking about breaking skill limits? Could it be that this guy deliberately deviated from the topic?

Mo Xu asked the last bit of doubt: "To break the limit, the only way is to keep 'practicing' like this, and keep accumulating time?"

When this question came out, Brother Liu became even more suspicious. He glanced at Mo Xu, then glanced at Xiu Xiu, and couldn't help but have a horrible guess.

But he immediately denied himself. It shouldn't be the case. It was too unbelievable that he would break the limit before reaching the extraordinary level.

After suppressing his own guesses, he answered Mo Xu: "Almost. When you can get it right, on the one hand, you need to practice correctly. Once you have accumulated enough experience, you will naturally be able to figure it out. On the other hand, it also depends on luck. If you have enough luck, maybe you will succeed."

Luck? I won’t feel sleepy anymore if I talk about this.

"It depends on luck." Mo Xu's eyes lit up: "I like to depend on luck."

"Luck is also triggered by thousands of attempts," said Brother Liu, pouring cold water: "It's better to hope for a treasure to fall from the sky than to hope for dog shit."

This is also Brother Liu's most sincere experience. When he first decided to embark on the path of a polymath, he was full of expectations. As a result, the reality was that he had to endure many years of hardship, and the hard work was beyond the understanding of outsiders.

After picking up the last skewer, Brother Liu burped and said, "Alright, you two little guys, these are too far away from you. Do you have anything else to ask?"

"I want to ask a question." The person who spoke was not Mo Xu, but Li Shiyao.

"Ask." Brother Liu became interested. The girl was a quiet person, so it was rare for her to have a question.

“What is a ‘polymath’?”

"......"

Brother Liu twitched his lips. He had been chatting for such a long time but even the scholar didn't know what he was talking about. He was really patient.

"Mo Xu, you can talk to him yourself." Brother Liu stood up and patted his butt. "You guys can talk slowly. If you have any questions about training, just go and ask old man Shi. He will be happy to help. It's too late. I have something else to do. I'll be leaving now."

Knowing Brother Liu's usual style, Mo Xu didn't try to keep him and said goodbye.

Only he and Li Shiyao were left. He explained the concept of "polymath" and the two sat and chatted for a while.

As the night deepened, the area around the barbecue stall gradually became lively. Mo Xu suddenly felt as if he was still on Earth, with the atmosphere of evening breeze, friends and food. However, seeing Xiu Xiu and "Silver Moon Wolf" playing nearby added a different feeling to this familiarity.

Xiu Xiu and the little wolf have become familiar with each other and are playing around in a childish way.

Mo Xu suddenly chuckled.

Li Shiyao was a little confused: "What?"

“Nothing.” Mo Xu withdrew his gaze from Xiu Xiu, looked at Li Shiyao, and then looked up at the starry sky in summer.

"Stop being hypocritical and let's go."

When I went to pay, the boss lady said that the bill had already been paid.

Mo Xu was stunned for a moment before realizing that it was Brother Liu who paid the bill. He seemed to hear Brother Liu saying, "How can a teacher let his students pay for a meal?"

After the rare gathering, everyone naturally went back to their homes.

Before sending Li Shiyao to the taxi, she suddenly stopped, turned around and asked, "Brother Xu, can I have a hug?"

Mo Xu didn't understand why, but he quickly agreed.

Li Shiyao took two steps forward, put her hands over Mo Xu's shoulders, and ended this hasty hug with just a light embrace.

Mo Xu smiled and asked, "Why do we have a reunion, but it seems like we are going to be separated by the ends of the earth?"

Li Shiyao shook her head, but her expression was relaxed, as if she had completed some ritual: "My master said that once you embark on the extraordinary path, you will be together less and more often, and we will be no exception. But brother Xu, promise me that we will always be close friends."

After hearing what Li Shiyao said, Mo Xu was also a little emotional, so he also said seriously: "Yes."

Li Shiyao waved her hand, got into the taxi, and the car drove away towards the outside of the city.

Mo Xu watched Li Shiyao's car disappear from his sight before heading home.

All along, he had been treating this alien world as a game to conquer and climb. There were pets, panels, and skills here, and he had suddenly traveled through time and space, so it was hard not to think so.

But at the same time, he also overlooked many things. He had Xiu Xiu, Li Shiyao, Ju Conghan, Brother Liu, the principal, and other teachers and relatives with good intentions. They were all living beings.

That hug lifted Mo Xu down from the clouds, freeing him from the empty feeling of isolation.

He decided that from now on, he would work hard to become stronger and live seriously in this world.