Beast Taming: Starting From Zero - Chapter 1393

Chapter 1393. Chapter 1388 Tingbao, who makes life easier (Part 2)

It rarely rains on Yantian Star, especially in Tan Kingdom.

However, to create the atmosphere of rain and for the sake of some oases, pets are summoned periodically to unleash nationwide rainfall. To intensify the rainy atmosphere, the summoned pets usually add lightning.

The latter lightning isn’t continuously cast; instead, water-type pets create rain, and flying-type pets raise the air to a certain height to form clouds. With a period of lightning guidance, real natural lightning appears.

This can last all day.

Outside the villa, a torrential downpour and lightning.

The black sky pressed down, and the rain poured down relentlessly.

“Boom boom boom!”

One after another, deafening roars echoed as countless magnificent bolts of lightning flashed across the clouds.

Qiao Sang observed for a moment, confirming that it was natural lightning, and nodded to Ting Bao.

“Ting Ting,”

Ting Bao called out, twisting its body and flying towards the lightning-streaked sky.

“You haven’t given up on having Lei Nilong participate in the Master Challenge?” Michaela asked, watching the figure shrink in the sky.

“The Master Challenge is a 6v6 all-out battle, and Tingbao should participate,” Qiao Sang said.

“You know what I mean,” Michaela said.

While the Master Challenge is indeed an all-out battle, it primarily focuses on battles between Royal-level pets. Only in rare, evenly matched situations, where both Royal-level pets have fallen, might we see battles between King-level and King-level pets, or between General-level and General-level pets.

High-level pets are practically nonexistent in the Master Challenge.

Qiao Sang could defeat all five Royal-level pets of the Yan Class students with only two Royal-level pets, so more time should be spent on Royal-level pets, not a high-level pet whose participation is uncertain.

“I still hope Tingbao can participate at least once,” Qiao Sang said.

Of the remaining contestants, nearly half still possessed general-level pets. If Tingbao evolved, it wouldn’t be without a chance to participate and win the competition. Her cheat-like ability would surely allow Tingbao to evolve during the competition. Of course, this wasn’t something she could discuss with Teacher Michaela.

Since Tingbao formed a contract with her, it was as if she had achieved a certain goal, suddenly losing motivation and becoming much more laid-back. However, after signing up for the Master Challenge and watching the matches repeatedly, she could see that Tingbao was still influenced by the atmosphere and wanted to participate.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t have trained longer than she had scheduled recently, something that had never happened before.

You see, Tingbao’s previous training schedule was like that of a working ox, always on time.

High in the sky, rain fell.

“Boom!”

Yellow lightning suddenly struck down from the thunderclouds.

Tingbao looked at the yellow lightning swirling like serpents in the sky, its expression resolute. Without hesitation, it rushed into the serpents, opened its mouth, and swallowed one of the yellow bolts of lightning whole.

In the garden, a plant’s leaves fell in the downpour, turning yellow and withering before crumbling into powder.

…

Meanwhile.

River View Villa.

The room with the best view.

“Cun Cun.”

Cun Zhu Pa opened its eyes on the sofa and called out.

Li Chaoyuan stood by the French windows, sipping tea and admiring the downpour outside, slowly saying,

“That Thunder Reverse Dragon should have the ability to devour lightning; it’s not strange that it devours lightning.”

After saying that, he asked, “What about the Nether Ring Monarch and the others? Did they see anything?”

“Cun Cun.” Cun Zhu Pa shook its head.

Li Chaoyuan asked again, “Have you found out Qiao Sang’s new training location?”

“Cun Cun.” Cun Zhu Pa shook its head.

Li Chaoyuan said unhurriedly, “They know you exist, so they’ll definitely train in a place without plants. You should go and investigate with your true form, instead of relying on root meridian synchronization again.”

“Cun Cun.” Cun Zhu Pa called out, indicating that it knew, but it didn’t want to go today.

“Why?” Li Chaoyuan asked.

“Cun Cun.” Cun Zhu Pa looked at the torrential rain outside, touched the leaf on its head, and called out.

It didn’t want anything to happen to Little Treasure Hunter’s signature.

Li Chaoyuan: “…”

…

Outside the villa.

“Qing Qing!”

Xia Lala pointed in the direction where the fallen leaves disappeared and quickly called out.

“It’s okay.” Qiao Sang said, “It doesn’t matter if it’s seen.”

“Qing Qing.”

Xia Lala showed a “that’s good” expression.

Time passed little by little.

About half an hour later, Michaela came out of the villa with milk, looked at the lightning that was still flashing in the sky, and frowned, “Has the Thunder Reverse Dragon not come down yet?”

“No.” Qiao Sang replied.

Michaela thought for a moment and said, “I remember that the lightning absorption characteristic level was only B-level when it was checked.”

That is to say, a B-level lightning absorption characteristic should not absorb lightning for so long.

Aside from the S-rank Lightning Absorption ability, other ranks of Lightning Absorption can only absorb pure energy from lightning. Lightning energy that isn’t pure enough will only create a feeling of fullness, not increase stamina or energy. In fact, absorbing too much impure lightning energy can harm the body.

Although Tingbao is currently absorbing pure energy from lightning, its own rank is low, and its Lightning Absorption ability is only B-rank. Consuming for too long will also harm its body.

“It’s B-rank…” Qiao Sang said, sensing Tingbao’s physical condition, “But Tingbao’s body doesn’t seem to have any problems yet…”

Amidst the torrential rain and lightning, Tingbao’s figure constantly changed position in the air, nimbly weaving through the high-frequency yellow lightning, seizing the opportunity to absorb a particular bolt.

After absorbing one bolt of lightning, Tingbao didn’t immediately move on to another. Instead, it continuously weaved through the torrential rain and lightning, digesting the energy as it went. Only when it felt it had digested enough lightning within its body would it continue its journey to absorb the next bolt.

Time passed slowly.

Another hour went by.

“Has the Thunder Reverse Dragon still not shown any problems?” Michaela came out of the villa and saw Jossan still outside looking up at the sky, so she couldn’t help but ask again.

“No…” Qiao Sang felt a little uneasy.

Her senses confirmed there was no problem, but according to the information about the Lightning Absorption trait, Tingbao shouldn’t have been absorbing for so long…

Could she have sensed wrong?

Impossible, she was already an A-level Beast Tamer…

But given Tingbao’s level and Lightning Absorption trait, it probably wouldn’t even last half an hour…

Thinking this, Qiao Sang subconsciously turned to look in the direction of Ya Bao.

Seeing that Ya Bao’s attention wasn’t there, she knew Ya Bao was currently controlling its clones for training, so she looked in the direction of Xiao Xun Bao, wanting it to go check.

“Xun Xun~”

Xiao Xun Bao noticed its Beast Tamer’s gaze, immediately understood, and called out, indicating it would go immediately.

Its eyes glowed blue.

However, at that moment, a deafening “boom” resounded in the sky.

A terrifying yellow lightning bolt illuminated the entire dark sky for a moment.

“Xunxun…”

Little Xunbao shuddered, the blue light in its eyes faded, and it looked at its beast tamer with a serious expression. It called out, indicating that it suddenly felt it should go train too…

Qiao Sang’s lips twitched: “It’s raining now.”

“Xunxun.”

Little Xunbao called out, indicating that it was alright, and went indoors.

After saying that, it floated towards the indoor training room inside the villa, glancing back every few steps to see if its Beastmaster would call it back.

“Qingqing,”

Qingbao called out, looking in the direction Little Treasure had gone, a mocking expression on its face, indicating it was a coward.

Then, it looked at its Beastmaster, a sweet smile on its face, and called again,

“Qingqing.”

It was going to check on the sixth beast.

With that, it vanished into the wind, floating upwards.

A short while later, Qingbao floated back, calling,

“Qingqing.”

The sixth beast was alright, normally absorbing lightning.

“Is it constantly absorbing lightning?” Qiao Sang asked.

“Qingqing,” Qingbao called, indicating it would go check again.

Then, it vanished into the wind again.

About ten minutes later, Qingbao reappeared, calling,

“Qingqing.”

The sixth beast wasn’t constantly absorbing lightning; it had rested after absorbing some before continuing.

Qiao Sang was taken aback at first, then her eyes lit up, and she exclaimed sincerely, “Tingbao is so smart!”

Constantly absorbing lightning would cause indigestion and harm the body, but if the absorbed lightning was digested before absorbing more, this problem wouldn’t occur.

Of course, it couldn’t absorb lightning indefinitely, as a high-level pet’s capacity to absorb lightning was limited. However, the time it could absorb lightning was definitely longer than if it continued to absorb it without first absorbing it, and the amount of energy absorbed would certainly be greater.

Qiao Sang once again took Tingbao’s intelligence seriously.

It seemed that Tingbao was much smarter than she had imagined…

Indeed, among all her pets, even the smartest one, like Gangbao, wouldn’t be able to speak human language like Tingbao…

As the thought flashed through her mind, Gangbao’s voice suddenly rang in her mind:

“Gang, Gang, Gang…”

It was trying to speak human language.

Qiao Sang couldn’t help but burst out laughing.

Gangbao’s voice in her mind abruptly stopped.

At this moment, Michaela asked from the side, “What’s going on with Thunder Reverse Dragon?”

“Tingbao isn’t constantly absorbing lightning; instead, it digests it for a while before absorbing it again,” Qiao Sang explained.

“That’s clever,” Michaela remarked after hearing this.

After a pause, she added, “But we still need to pay attention to Thunder Reverse Dragon’s physical condition. If anything seems wrong, summon it back.”

“Understood,” Qiao Sang replied.

…

2:30 PM.

Tingbao flew down from the sky, burping contentedly.

“Impressive! It absorbed lightning for such a long time,” Qiao Sang praised, who had been waiting below.

“Tingting?”

Tingbao’s lips curled into a “pie in the sky” expression, then it called out, indicating how long it would take before evolving.

It always knew that its Beastmaster planned to wait until it evolved before letting it participate.

“If you absorb a few more bolts of lightning like you did just now, you should be almost there,” Qiao Sang said, then sighed. “It’s a pity we missed this opportunity. The next time the weather is like this will probably be after the Master Challenge.”

“But it’s okay, we can evolve in other ways.”

“Tingting?” Tingbao called out curiously.

What other ways?

“Just the normal training method,” Qiao Sang said.

“Tingting.”

Tingbao was silent for two seconds, then called out, indicating that it felt it could absorb a few more bolts of lightning later.

Sure enough, Tingbao was very motivated to participate in the Master Challenge… Qiao Sang sighed inwardly and said, “Training and absorbing lightning can both be done. You can train your skills first, and then absorb the lightning when your energy is almost depleted. This lightning lasts for half a day.”

“Tingting.”

Tingbao nodded, then twisted its body, wanting to fly into the sky.

“Wait,” Qiao Sang quickly said.

Tingbao stopped and turned to look at her: “Tingting?”

“It’s raining and thundering now, you can train indoors,” Qiao Sang said.

“Tingting,”

Tingbao called out, indicating it wasn’t afraid of thunder and rain.

After a pause, it added,

“Tingting.”

Even if that pet named Cunzhupa saw it training, it didn’t matter; after all, it was a high-level beast, and neither it nor its tamer would care.

That was true… Qiao Sang said seriously, “How could it not matter? You’ll be officially participating in competitions later, so your training skills can’t be leaked.”

“Tingting.”

Upon hearing this, Tingbao was first taken aback, then its eyes lit up, and it nodded, wriggling towards the interior.

Compared to before, its wriggling was much more exaggerated, clearly indicating it was in a happy state.

Just then, Michaela happened to walk out of the interior, brushing past it.

Tingbao glanced at her, and its wriggling instantly decreased in amplitude.

Michaela: “???”

After Tingbao left, Michaela couldn’t help but ask, “Did the Thunder Reverse Dragon just give me a blank stare?”

“MoMo.”

The Dragon King sat on the sofa, picking its nose and meowing, indicating that it was normal for it to give you a blank stare; it never liked you anyway.

Michaela: “…”

…

For the rest of the time, Tingbao would go out to absorb lightning after training, and then return to train again when it could absorb no more lightning.

This repeated until 10 p.m., when the lightning disappeared and the downpour stopped.

“Tingting…”

Tingbao, with its belly bulging, wriggled its body back into the living room, sighed, and meowed, indicating that the lightning had disappeared too quickly; it felt it could absorb some more.

Qiao Sang glanced at its belly and said, “I think you should digest the lightning you just absorbed first.”

“Tingting.”

Tingbao nodded, then called out, indicating that he was going to train to digest the information faster.

It’s true, once Tingbao has a goal, he’s really easy to manage… Qiao Sang thought to herself, nodding,

“Okay.”

Tingbao headed to the indoor training room.

Qiao Sang then went to the Beast Taming Codex and quickly flipped to the page about Tingbao.

[Name: Thunder Reverse Dragon]

[Attribute: Dragon, Electric]

[Level: Advanced (87732/100000)+] (End of Chapter)