113: Chapter 113 Breakthrough, Third-Order Mental Power

Zhao Kuo looked as if he were possessed, muttering to himself.

Even Dahei, following beside Qin Ding, had a strange look in its eyes.

'Could this guy have gone mad? Why is he clutching his head and muttering to himself?'

Qin Ding himself hadn't expected that just stating his requirements for a custom spear would cause the other party to react this way, so he immediately interrupted him.

"It's not broken, it's just that the original one doesn't feel as handy anymore. I want a new one. The weight can be doubled, and the Materials should be as good as possible within my requirements."

"What? Not handy anymore, and you want to replace it?"

Zhao Kuo, with his sharp hearing, looked at Dahei beside Qin Ding the moment he heard this. Due to previous experiences, he no longer held the same wariness he had when Qin Ding brought Dahei over before.

"Hiss... It seems to have grown another size. Good heavens, young man, I didn't expect you to be so wealthy. You're really willing to spend so much on cultivation fluid for your Beast?"

Having figured it out, the look in Zhao Kuo's eyes changed as he looked at Qin Ding.

At first, seeing Qin Ding come to buy snake scales, he had taken him for a hardworking commoner Genius. Now, it seemed there might be more to the story...

But on second thought, he was a businessman. As long as his craftsmanship wasn't bad and didn't lead to returns, why worry about so much?

People are just like that; they always like to let their imaginations run wild, especially when there's no evidence, making their thoughts drift further and further from reality.

Shaking his head, Zhao Kuo spoke, "Following the requirements you just mentioned, if I use the best possible Materials... the price might be much more expensive than the last spear."

"The deposit is twenty thousand, and the balance is thirty thousand. I can guarantee that the spearhead will be able to pierce the bodies of some low-Rank Spirit Beasts that have just entered the Commander Rank but haven't evolved yet. Of course, defense-type ones don't count."

Deposit twenty thousand, balance thirty thousand.

This sentence left Qin Ding momentarily stunned. Seeing this, Zhao Kuo prepared to persuade Qin Ding to lower his requirements, but Qin Ding immediately took out his phone and scanned the code to pay.

"The money has been transferred. How long until I can pick up the spear?"

Hearing the payment notification on his phone, Zhao Kuo was a bit dazed. He scratched his head, "How long? A month. If you're in a hurry, I can work overtime to get it done, but that would only be a few days early."

"Okay."

Without further ado, Qin Ding left the Yangyang Weapon Shop with Dahei, leaving only Zhao Kuo standing behind the counter muttering to himself.

"Hiss, are young people today really this willing to spend? It hasn't even been two months since he customized a spear, and he wants to customize a new one?"

"But I haven't seen the creature grow..."

Back at school, Qin Ding seamlessly switched back to his daily routine.

Enter the classroom, sit down, Cultivate.

Cui Yan looked at the figure who seemed isolated from the world as soon as he entered the classroom. Her eyes were full of envy, but deep down, thoughts were churning.

"According to the news I gathered, Qin Ding should have been at Tier 2 Mental Power before the school competition, but no one can say for sure how early..."

"It can't be... that he'll break through to Tier 3 in another two months, right? This speed is too terrifying!"

Thinking of this possibility, Cui Yan couldn't help but swallow hard.

If that were true, there was only one explanation: Ancestral Reversion! A talent unique to humans, Ancestral Reversion! And the ancestor must have been a King-Tier powerhouse for such a phenomenon to appear in a descendant.

But there was another possibility: his parents were King-Tier powerhouses. Even so, like Ancestral Reversion, it wasn't a certainty, just a higher probability.

"But in the history of the Federation... there hasn't been a single King-Tier named Qin..."

Then what exactly was going on?

Cui Yan couldn't figure it out. She stared at Qin Ding, who was Cultivating with his eyes closed, and made a secret resolution in her heart.

She had to dig deeper into Qin Ding's past, and even the background of his parents.

Secrets are like a sweet spring; the deeper you dig, the more tempting the taste.

She had completely fallen into the puzzle of "Why does Qin Ding Cultivate so fast?"

Wang Chunfa walked into the classroom, his gaze sweeping over, automatically "filtering out" the Cultivating Qin Ding.

"Alright, class begins."

Days flowed by like water, and in the blink of an eye, more than half a month had passed.

There was exactly one month left until the school competition.

At dawn, Qin Ding, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, suddenly exhaled a breath of turbid air. The moment his eyes opened, a sharp white light flashed across his pupils.

"Tier 3... finally reached."

Day after day of bitter training, exactly four months after breaking through to Tier 2, his Mental Energy had climbed to a new peak!

Feeling the surging, nearly expanding power within his body, the corners of Qin Ding's mouth couldn't help but curl up.

At this moment, even sitting on the edge of the bed, he could clearly 'hear' Dahei's rising and falling breathing in the living room and perceive the arc of its belly trembling slightly with its snoring.

This was the qualitative change brought about by a Mental Energy Breakthrough.

With every improvement in realm, perception leaps significantly. It is even said that legendary King-Tier Beast Tamers can glimpse a sliver of the future!

"Tier 3 Mental Energy can provide a thirty percent feedback to the Spirit Beast, and it also grants the qualification for remote summoning. Furthermore, every tier of Mental Energy can increase the Spirit Beast's Spiritual Qi absorption and spiritual material digestion efficiency by five percent."

"If it's a Life and Death Contract... every tier is ten percent!"

Calculating this way, with his existence, the Spiritual Qi it naturally absorbs in ten days is equivalent to the results of a Spirit Beast under an ordinary Tier 1 or Tier 2 Beast Tamer in thirteen days.

Over a year, that's equivalent to gaining more than a hundred days out of thin air!

Thinking of this, Qin Ding looked out the window. The horizon was already faintly showing a fish-belly white. He whispered to himself:

"It's almost dawn... I'll go straight to Beast Taming Street to pick up the weapon."

He didn't wash up, but walked into the living room, his gaze falling on Dahei, who was still fast asleep.

The Life Records appeared.

[Spirit Beast: Sha Jin Wolf]

[Aptitude: Excellent]

[Element: Gold]

[Rank: 20 (High-Tier)]

[Abilities: Extremely Vengeful, Hundred-Refined Body, Gold-Breaking Claw, Sha Gold]

[Bloodline: Wolf (97%), Dragon (3%)]

[Evolution Direction Dragon: (Requires Dragon Bloodline purity to reach 10%)]

[Evolution Direction Wolf: Requires reaching Rank 31]

[Aptitude Improvement: Requires reaching Rank 31]

[Introduction: A melee wolf specializing in the physical body, fierce in close combat... has good cultivation value.]