187: Unexpected

“Alright~ I’m leaving now.”

After confirming it wasn’t anything bad, Li Wen happily departed.

Up until now, the evolution paths of every pet beast had been progressing in an orderly manner.

However, a tricky problem emerged during Wumian’s evolution: some requirements were difficult to find solutions for under normal circumstances.

This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity not only made Li Wen want to fully help Wumian complete her evolution, but deep down, he also longed to personally experience what the legendary Land of Yin and Yang Intersection truly looked like.

However, if he wanted to court death, he first had to achieve a significant leap in his own strength, because only with sufficiently powerful strength as a foundation could he do so.

The growth progress of the other little ones became crucial.

Da Jie Tou Yabao, who had always been in the lead, seemed to have suddenly hit a bottleneck in her understanding of the true meaning of “life and death” after that fierce confrontation with Wumian; her comprehension speed was as slow as if she had fallen into a quagmire, almost stagnating.

On the other hand, while Yuan Wang had always maintained a steady upward trend, due to the many complex attributes he required, the entire enhancement process was like a massive project, and there was still a long way to go before he truly met the conditions for evolution.

However, what surprised Li Wen the most was Qingyan!

He unexpectedly succeeded in acquiring the power of the domain.

What was even more astonishing was that, because Qingyan was not restricted by the various limitations brought by his evolutionary form, he was able to break through all obstacles and surpass the previously leading Wumian at an astonishing speed, achieving a reversal.

Contracted Pet Beast: Qingyan

attribute: Insect / Illusion

growth level: King-Rank Beginner

Domain: Opera House

In this domain, the pet beast’s Insect Silk possesses a new characteristic, “Marionette.” After any Skill related to Insect Silk hits a target, a marionette mark will form on the target. Once enough marionette marks are present, the opponent can be directly manipulated, with the duration determined by the growth level and attribute of both parties.

The surprises were far from over!

Li Wen not only gained other benefits, but his soul power also received a huge boost, like a timely rain after a long drought, suddenly increasing by a large margin.

Originally, even after Wumian successfully evolved, she would still be a considerable distance from Level Five, but now, because of this increase in soul power, when Wumian successfully completes her evolution, she will surely soar to Level Five directly.

Since that was the case, Li Wen planned to check if there was an opportunity to encounter a suitable pet beast and try to sign a contract with it while heading to the Serpent People Tribe.

However, for Li Wen now, when it came to choosing a pet beast, he adhered to the principle of preferring quality over quantity.

After all, given the current formidable strength of the team he led, there was no need to choose pet beasts that had no cultivation value for him just to make the team’s numbers equal to others.

It is worth mentioning that, according to the information obtained from Principal Qin, this mysterious Serpent People Tribe has existed for a considerably long time.

The evolution routes of the pet beasts within it have long been thoroughly investigated and analyzed with extreme clarity.

Therefore, Li Wen did not need to deliberately search for those unique and unconventional pet beast individuals; instead, he should focus his attention on the descendants of those pet beasts that could be called overlord-level.

Because these pet beast cubs, whether in terms of their attribute talent, the range of Skills they could master, or their future cultivation potential, all had significant advantages over ordinary pet beasts and would undoubtedly be more powerful and outstanding.

After carefully reviewing Qingyan’s panel from beginning to end, Li Wen suddenly remembered that he seemed to have some pretty good things in his possession that he hadn’t checked yet.

However, unexpectedly, the subsequent schedule was severely disrupted, and the originally planned debate session naturally could not proceed as planned.

As a result, the ranking obtained in the crucial achievement display session was logically and directly recognized as the final ranking of this competition.

After all, the incident happened too suddenly, and Li Wen had no time to check these things then. All his thoughts were focused on how to deal with the sudden situation, and he had absolutely no interest in the so-called rankings and rewards.

After finally dealing with those thorny problems, Li Wen at last had some free time.

So, he opened the achievement system, and sure enough, as he had predicted earlier, the rewards that should have belonged to him were still quietly lying there, waiting for him to claim them.

Congratulations! Achieved “Master Appearing in the College Tournament”

(Condition: Present results in the college group competition that are sufficient to participate in the master group.)

(PS: Sorry, I just like to bully children.)

Congratulations! Achieved “College CultivationTournament Champion”

(Condition: Win the College Group CultivationTournament Championship.)

Received Reward

Special Wide-Angle Lens

After obtaining, once a Skill reaches Grandmaster proficiency, you can preview the future Mystic form of this Skill.

Seeing this reward, Li Wen immediately said,

“Six hundred sixty-six, System, you’re not even pretending anymore, are you?”

“With this thing, what’s the difference between me and having cheats?”

However, after a brief thought, the past rewards came to mind—just a catalog that couldn’t be used!

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but mutter to himself,

“This thing doesn’t seem as powerful as I imagined. How will I know if it works if I don’t try it?”

So, he unhesitatingly reopened Qingyan’s attribute panel and carefully selected the Skill options within it.

Finally, his gaze rested on the Skill named Light Blessing.

It should be known that at this moment, Qingyan had already left the novice stage. After a long period of honing and growth, most ordinary Skills, except for some high-level Skills, had already been cultivated to Grandmaster proficiency by him.

Because of this, for Qingyan at this stage, if there were any Skills that could be further enhanced to play a greater role, they would be Light Blessing and Dark Erosion.

After all, these two Skills formed the cornerstone for Qingyan to display his powerful numerical charm!

Unfortunately, things did not go as planned. No matter how he tried to activate their potential power, these two Skills remained completely unresponsive, as if they didn’t even have a so-called Mystic form.