According to the description of the [Potential Unleash] skill, eating, training, and combat can all help an animal companion build up and accumulate potential.
After Qi Ping activates the Potential Unleash skill, all of the potential that his animal companion has accumulated over time will erupt forth at once!
Isn’t the effect simply a pet beast’s version of sudden enlightenment?
In other words, as long as Qi Ping ensures his animal companions have sufficient accumulation—maintaining efficient, adequate training and combat, while also providing enough powerful spiritual herbs and spiritual items for them to eat—he can use [Potential Unleash] at a critical moment to help an animal companion soar to new heights!
For example, the crow is currently at a crucial point in its bloodline transformation. Now, as long as he prepares enough spiritual herbs for the crow and builds up a sufficient energy foundation, he can then actively detonate all the potential stored within its body at the very moment before the transformation!
This way, the outcome of the crow’s bloodline transformation is fully guaranteed.
“During this time, I’ll first cultivate the spiritual herbs and let the crow eat more of them to accumulate a deeper foundation. When it’s almost time for the bloodline transformation, I’ll use the [Potential Unleash] skill. That way, the crow’s bloodline after transformation might end up even stronger than if it evolved naturally!”
Thinking about the possible effects of this skill, a rich smile spread across Qi Ping’s face.
In the past, what worried him most was when an animal companion hit its limit and simply couldn’t cross that final hurdle. But now, with the Potential Unleash skill, he no longer needed to worry about that.
Anyway, all he had to do was work hard to accumulate potential—training, combat, and eating could all build up potential for his animal companions!
Training and combat are currently not an issue. Right now, each of Qi Ping’s animal companions has its own tailored training plan, and they spar with one another from time to time.
Compared to wild spirit beasts, they benefit from more systematic training and growth plans. The only thing they’re relatively lacking is true life-or-death slaughter and bloody battle.
But that’s not strictly mandatory. It’s true that the state of being caught between life and death in combat is a good moment for insight, but it’s not as if that’s the only place to break through. Qi Ping most resents matters where his life is constantly slipping out of his own control.
However, what gives Qi Ping the most confidence is the option of accumulating potential through eating.
Now that his territory has gradually been built up, what is his greatest advantage?
The answer, of course, is a stable means of obtaining resources!
All kinds of precious spiritual herbs, special-effect honey, and even the essence of the sun, moon, and stars—just throw them all in!
As long as the willpower training of his animal companions can keep up, he could even pile up enough resources to forge a terrifying spirit beast!
Especially now that he also has the Lifebound Contract and Treant Clone talents, he no longer needs to worry so much about going out to gather rare resources.
Qi Ping was already itching to try out these two talents!
[Skill selection complete. Generating attribute panel…]
[Name: Qi Ping]
[Level: lv7 (1/6400)]
[Class: Beast King Druid (Primary), Tree Shepherd (Jungle Druid Advanced) (Secondary)]
[Talents: Animal Companion, Heart of Nature, Tree Spirit Contract, Lifebound Contract]
[Animal Companions: (6/7) Golden Essence Bee, Solar Flame Crow, Enchanting Spirit Fox (One Mark), Hundred-Eyed Flower Demon, Innate Stone Spirit, Tricolor Deer]
[Wild Transformations: (1/2) Golden Essence Bee (Can freely change into first-tier and second-tier derived bee species)]
[Shared Talents: Brewing Artisan (Second-tier), Solar Flame Body, Enchanting Divine Mark, Hundred-Eyed Demon Realm, Metal and Stone Body, Tricolor Spirit]
[Special Talents: Heaven and Earth Blessing, Farming Domain]
[Skills: lv5 Plant Growth (271/1600) (Limit Break), lv1 Beast King’s Blessing (62/100), lv5 Tree Bark Skin (1210/1600) (Explosive), lv3 Healing Spell (173/400), lv4 Beast King’s Flame (289/800)]
[Skills (Constant): Animal Speech, Befriend Beasts, Wild Heart, Nature Perception, Beast King’s Will, Curse Immunity, Potential Unleash]
[Natural Sanctuary lv2 (26/100) (Five hundred meters radius)]
Looking at the two new talents added to his attribute panel, Qi Ping felt extremely satisfied deep down.
He had become stronger again!
And with his level rising by one more rank, Qi Ping gained another slot for an animal companion contract!
In other words, as long as Qi Ping could obtain another powerful animal companion, he could form a contract once more.
Beyond these points, during this period, Qi Ping’s Plant Growth skill had officially broken through to level five!
When it broke through to level five, Qi Ping had drawn the [Limit Break] trait. When this trait combined with the Plant Growth skill, it produced an effect that delighted Qi Ping greatly.
[Plant Growth (Limit Break): You can increase a plant’s growth speed by consuming energy. Under the baptism of the Plant Growth energy, the plant has a greater chance of breaking through its current tier limit.]
This skill also pairs exceptionally well with the [Lifebound Contract] talent.
Because after Qi Ping completes a contract with a tree, a portion of his life and very being will be tied to that tree. At that point, Qi Ping will need this tree to break its limits and grow faster. That’s exactly where the effect of [Plant Growth (Limit Break)] comes into play.
Furthermore, Qi Ping was also quite looking forward to the trait he could obtain once Beast King’s Flame reached level five. That skill has always given him considerable help.
No mistakes, one song, one release, one content, one at 6, 9, one book, one look!
After briefly scanning his ever-deepening attribute panel, Qi Ping stopped paying attention to it and instead hurried over to the Pyrestrike Oak impatiently.
Now that he had obtained such a rare life-saving method, Qi Ping naturally wanted to set it up immediately!
When choosing his tree, he selected the third-tier mid-grade Pyrestrike Oak!
Although the Starlight Wood is the same tier as the Pyrestrike Oak, because of the enhanced versions of the two engraved spells—the Great Sun Refinement Art and the Great Sun Body Forging Art—the Pyrestrike Oak’s potential and growth speed are far superior to the Starlight Wood.
In terms of attributes, Qi Ping is currently cultivating the Golden Flame Technique, and his entire immortal path foundation is fire-attributed, which is closest to the Pyrestrike Oak.
Additionally, the crow trains on the Pyrestrike Oak every day. Influenced by the crow, the Pyrestrike Oak’s growth limit and speed are also more outstanding.
With so many reasons at hand, the Pyrestrike Oak was naturally Qi Ping’s best choice.
“Lifebound Contract!”
Coming before the Pyrestrike Oak, after restoring his own condition to its peak, Qi Ping immediately summoned the Lifebound Contract.
As Qi Ping summoned it, a mysterious magical formation composed of blood-red and dark green gradually took shape.
An incredibly mysterious and unfathomable power emanated from it.
The difficulty of forming this magical formation far exceeded that of any formation Qi Ping had summoned before. It took over an hour for the formation to fully take shape.
Once the formation was completely formed, a special life force essence and soul power continuously flowed from Qi Ping’s body through the formation and into the trunk of the Pyrestrike Oak.
During this process, Qi Ping could clearly sense that a life force signature belonging to him was being nurtured within the Pyrestrike Oak and was gradually growing stronger.
