35: Awakening the second skill

Over the next week, Chen Xing settled into a full and rich routine.

He attended classes, trained with the School Team after school, reviewed materials at home, and collected daily skill point fragments.

After staying home for two days, his sister temporarily moved into the school dormitory, taking Little Snail with her. He heard that Wanhai High School had prepared the materials needed for its Beast Taming evolution, so she took Chiyu to evolve, and her return time was TBD.

During this week, Taotie grew by an average of 9 centimeters per day.

Its energy level also steadily increased at a rate of one energy level every 3 days on average.

On this day, a faint blue light appeared on Taotie's body surface.

"A breakthrough?" Kuang Shiyi looked at Chen Xing's Beast, the fleeting light had not escaped his eyes.

"It seems that with resources supplied, your Beast's energy level breakthrough speed is much faster than before." Kuang Shiyi mused, he had seen Chen Xing's monthly exam results.

Now, only two weeks after the monthly exam, it has increased by 4 energy levels. This speed is not slow for a Beast. It seems that Chen Xing's Beast was lacking resources before, and after the school provided resources during the monthly exam, the energy level growth rate significantly increased.

It seems he needs to apply for more resources from above.

In fact, not all Beasts absorb resources with the same efficiency.

Even the same type of Beast, absorbing the same general nutrient solution, can have differences in the amount of ability they can improve each day.

Academically, this situation is called "individual energy absorption physique difference."

Simply put, the better the aptitude in this regard, the faster the efficiency of energy absorption.

"See what skill your Beast has awakened." Kuang Shiyi actually didn't have high hopes in his heart.

After all, awakened skills are random, and the probability of randomly getting a usable and suitable skill is not very high.

Of course, it's not that other skills cannot be used, but after so many years, Daxia has conducted in-depth research on different skill combinations for various systems. Based on the individual combat style, racial differences, and different schools of thought of Beasts, many different schools of skill routines have been developed.

Some of these skills cannot be awakened by the Beast's own bloodline talent and can only be learned later by using skill orbs.

Chen Xing glanced at Taotie's awakened panel, although he already knew the skill it had awakened in his heart.

He still gave it the command, "Cast the newly awakened skill forward."

Taotie stomped its paw on the ground, and the surrounding air and water vapor churned. Waves rippled across the surface of the swimming pool, as if an invisible hand was stirring the pool. Wisps of white mist formed like flocculent on the rapidly rotating surface of the pool. The entire swimming pool seemed to turn into a churning washing machine, and large amounts of water were swept ashore.

Kuang Shiyi was stunned when he saw the skill Taotie awakened, and the next moment he laughed, "What a coincidence!"

"I didn't expect it to awaken Great Whirlpool." Kuang Shiyi said, "This skill is a combination of damage and control, and it's a perfect match for your Beast. However, with the energy inside your Beast now, releasing the skill once should exhaust all its internal energy, right?"

Chen Xing looked at Taotie, and sure enough, after releasing the skill, Taotie was now lying on the ground.

In the status bar, a "Magic Exhaustion" prompt also appeared after its status.

"Actually, it's best for a Beast's first skill to be a basic skill, because basic skills consume the least magic, making it easier for the Beast to practice skills."

"Intermediate skills consume too much energy for Beasts at this stage. They basically exhaust all internal magic after one use, and then waiting for it to recover naturally takes too long. You can't train skills many times a day." At this point, Kuang Shiyi paused, "Unless you can afford the luxury of constantly consuming magic recovery capsules. The cheapest magic recovery capsules on the market cost 2,000 yuan."

"The cheapest low-level magic recovery capsules are for 20-energy-level Beasts, and can restore 70% to 100% of their internal magic."

"So if you want to quickly train intermediate skills in the early stage, you have to be prepared to spend two thousand yuan for each skill release." Kuang Shiyi said, shaking his head, it was too extravagant. "Although the Education Department will give us certain resource subsidies, they won't let us spend so much."

Only truly wealthy families can afford to play like this, it's completely throwing money around!

"Not only in battles at this stage, but also in battles involving seventy or eighty energy levels, basic skills will be the skills you use most frequently." Kuang Shiyi said.

Chen Xing pondered, he thought of his sister and several senior students in the School Team, whose Beasts all seemed to have a basic skill with a very high proficiency.

He had been wondering why they didn't learn all intermediate or even advanced skills, as intermediate skills were certainly more powerful than basic skills.

Kuang Shiyi said, "Speaking of which, it's really a coincidence. You might not know what skill the school has prepared for you."

Chen Xing was curious, "What skill?"

"Water Flow Rotation." Kuang Shiyi said meaningfully.

"Water Flow Rotation?" Chen Xing's expression was strange, because Water Flow Rotation also had another name online—the Beggar's Version of Great Whirlpool!

Great Whirlpool is a water-type intermediate skill that combines damage and control, while Water Flow Rotation is just a water-type basic skill with a certain amount of control.

A high-level water-type Beast using Great Whirlpool can create a rapidly rotating large sea vortex on the sea surface, even capable of swallowing small boats.

"You might not know, some skills can actually be perfected. They are like simplified versions of higher-level skills. It's much easier to master the more complex higher-level skills after first mastering the simplified version, because the release techniques and methods of the two skills have great similarities." Kuang Shiyi explained.

"The basic skill Water Flow Rotation, the intermediate skill Great Whirlpool, and the advanced skill Burial Sea Abyss, these three skills are all from the same lineage."

Chen Xing was astonished, it was the first time he had heard of such a secret.

Kuang Shiyi said, "Not everything is written in textbooks."

"Actually, what the school prepared for you is a set of skill orbs for Water Flow Rotation and Great Whirlpool, to let your Beast practice Water Flow Rotation first, and then switch to Great Whirlpool after becoming proficient. Although this is more troublesome, it can help your Beast master this skill faster."

"In fact, your first skill awakening being a passive skill has already delayed the speed of skill training. If your second skill cannot be quickly mastered and its proficiency improved, it will delay you too much in terms of time."

Chen Xing pondered, he looked at Kuang Shiyi, "Teacher Kuang, can I think about it?"

"Okay, that's your right, you should think about it carefully."

Chen Xing nodded.

He also had his own considerations. He had been saving skill points during this time, and there were still skills not activated in the skill tree. He wanted to see the skill effects after the skill tree was activated before making a decision.

And there's also Pet skill training. Isn't this ability for skill training?

From this chapter onwards, the real cheat will begin. I've been revising the content, so it's a bit late today. There's another chapter around 1 AM.