The King of Beast Trainers

122  Chapter 87 Divine Pet List Settlement_2

"Don't worry! When the time comes, I will have all the anti-poison equipment and detoxifying agents prepared. I've already gathered quite a few strategies for this Secret Realm," Fang Lan reassured Lu Ran.

It seemed that he'd been planning to enter the Foggy Wetland for a while and had been preparing since long ago.

"Ok." With Fang Lan's word, Lu Ran was willing to venture into the Secret Realm.

When they reached Lu Bing and Pig Breeder's place, their needs were very straightforward.

Since the Novice Secret Realm's skill cards offered limited options,

Lu Bing also planned to choose an "Ice Enhancement Skill" to complement his wolf dog's attribute, while the Pig Breeder naturally opted for the "Rock Enhancement Skill."

These skills could all be dropped in the Novice Secret Realm.

"As for the Trait Crystal, I've thought about it... I feel like the 'Perpetual Freezing Trait' is pretty good," Lu Bing said. "The 'Perpetual Freezing Trait' can make my pet beast's ice creations impervious and less vulnerable to fire attribute. Once ice is released, it can exist almost indefinitely without easily losing energy; it's like the 'Red Lightning,' which transforms ice attribute energy into special types of ice."

"I'd prefer the 'Rock-eating Trait,'" said the Pig Breeder. "After combining with this trait, it won't be limited to just eating meat and vegetables; it can even consume rocks. As long as it eats stones, it will steadily enhance various attributes, which seems quite convenient!"

"This way, if I gain any rock resources in the future, I can either sell them or use them as food for it. The most critical part is that our country has countless rocky mountains. Even though the quality might not be great, the quantity is massive, which feels like it could allow a pet beast to grow by consuming mountains!"

"That's right, now with the revival of spiritual energy, there could also be the emergence of famous mountains. Even if rocks become extraordinary resources, it's unlikely that extraordinary mutant beasts would care about them. Later on, the two of us could just go up the mountains and pick stuff to eat..."

The Pig Breeder was clearly someone who knew how to be frugal and calculate precisely.

His words made Lu Bing chuckle and say, "Eating rocks is possible. In various Secret Realms, it seems like no one cares about the abundant rocks on the ground. If relying on them can fill the belly and restore energy, it also saves a lot of money."

Fang Lan lamented, "I remember there's also a 'Poison-Eating Trait' that allows increasing its own toxicity by consuming poisonous substances, but unfortunately, it isn't dropped in the Novice Secret Realm."

Seeing that everyone had their ideas, Lu Ran also fell into thought.

"What's the matter, are you still struggling?" Fang Lan asked.

"Yes."

"If I recall, your first Beast Training Technique was to strengthen your physique, right?" Fang Lan suggested. "Then for the second one, you could also choose a technique that enhances your pet beast." n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"The official advice for Beast Trainer skill selection is to recommend a balanced approach, which is also the experience summarized by the previous three generations of Beast Trainers."

Beast Training Techniques that enhance the pet beast can overly consume the Beast Trainer's physical energy, which is already a weakness. Wasting too much energy on this is even less favorable for exploration and combat.

Skills that enhance the Beast Trainer's strength are certainly good, but they can lead to overconfidence and taking unnecessary risks. Even if the enhancement is purely for better survival ability and excludes combat, there are downsides; it can easily result in the unenhanced pet beast failing to exert sufficient pressure on wild creatures, leading to defeat and forcing the Beast Trainer into combat as a result.

All things considered, the best choice would be a fifty-fifty split between the two types of Beast Training Techniques, cultivating abilities that strengthen both the Beast Trainer themselves and their pet beast.

In the future, the former would provide the Beast Trainer with enough physical strength and self-protection capacity, and when combined with the pet beast-enhancing Beast Training Technique, it would allow the pet beast to achieve greater combat power while the Beast Trainer wouldn't be too vulnerable.

"That's true... but if I had to choose, I'd still rather select a Beast Training Technique that gives me special abilities," Lu Ran pondered.

For instance, a Beast Training Technique that allows him to harness the strength of his pet beast, or one that lets him gain flame power.

He thought that if he was to focus on the Forging Master as a secondary profession, flame power would be essential.

Either he himself should know flame, or the pet beast should; having just the pet beast know flame wasn't enough, he also needed to be able to utilize its flame. That way, he could go far in the Forging Master profession, creating world-rare and even epic-level weapons for Mr. Husky in the future.

Considering this, it looked like God Sculpture Brother Xi's "Combine" and "Trait Borrowing" techniques were both quite suitable, but unfortunately, they were unobtainable for now.

Lu Ran sighed lightly and decided to wait until after the Breakthrough Secret Realm to address Mr. Husky and King of Sudden Death's second Attribute. As for the Novice Secret Realm, he had no good ideas at the moment and didn't want to settle for less.

"Forget it, let's focus on earning crystal coins for now," Lu Ran said.

The others nodded and started eating heartily, regardless of anything else, life was certainly looking up.

...

And so, three days later.

Having found a suitable method for earning money, Lu Ran's efficiency in earning crystal coins increased significantly.

After giving up on the Fiery Thunder Ruins, Lu Ran immediately chose the Abyss Difficulty Secret Realm "Molten Lake" to challenge.

The reason for choosing it wasn't to meet anyone's needs but because this Secret Realm was said to be the most valuable in terms of resources among the Novice Secret Realms.

This realm was populated mostly by Fire Attribute creatures, mainly dropping 'Fire Attribute resources,' 'Fire Enhancement Skill,' and 'Magma Trait Crystal.' It's known that Fire materials are extremely expensive, being in demand for certain secondary professions and even fetching higher prices than Thunder, Light, and Dark materials at the moment.

The logic behind the desire for Fire Enhancement is similar, and as for the Magma Trait Crystal, it could endow Flame with the Magma Attribute, famed for its destructive power, and was by no means cheap—this was the power of a volcano!

In just three days of challenging this Secret Realm, Lu Ran had harvested many advanced materials, including rare resources; annoyingly though, for some reason, he only managed to find 2 Fire Enhancement Skills and not a single Lava Trait Crystal in those three days.

"Could it be that you're just unlucky?" Lu Ran looked suspiciously at Lu Yi, who had a Thunder Attributed mastiff.

Since Fang Lan had left to prepare for challenging the Foggy Wetland Secret Realm, Lu Ran's Secret Realm team temporarily recruited Lu Yi, the captain of the Lu Family Village team.

Lu Yi was thrilled to join; he had envied Lu Bing's experiences for a long time. His strength was certainly not lacking, and his mastiff's combat power was fierce, especially in synergy with its Thunder Attribute, ranking him among the top three Beast Trainers in Lu Family Village.

However, Lu Ran always felt that a team with three people surnamed Lu seemed to have some bad luck.

Lu Bing, who also reared pigs, looked at Lu Yi with skepticism too. When Fang Lan was around, their luck had been excellent—getting Skill Cards, Trait Crystals, and Upgrade Cards in one go at the Fiery Thunder Ruins.

The Fire Enhancement Skill had also dropped while Fang Lan was with them.

"Don't kick me out, give me another chance... Should I go wash my face first?" Lu Yi, a strapping man, let tears fall.

He didn't feel his luck was that bad.

After another Secret Realm challenge, the group exited, joking about the luck. After all, they knew that consistently finding rare materials wasn't normal and things were simply returning to the usual pace, if not still a bit lucky.

Back in his private room, Lu Ran was in a good mood because he now had three Beast Training Skill Cards. With those, plus the crystal coins from selling a heap of materials, his total wealth no doubt exceeded 50,000 crystal coins.

In fact, he had nearly reached that amount already. However, since he needed to trade for some rare Dog Food for Mr. Husky and arrange awards for the Seven General Beast in Green Sea City through Fang Lan, there were many areas where crystal coins were required. So Lu Ran hadn't immediately gone to repay his debt after accruing enough funds, fearing he would be short on liquidity.

"Speaking of which, isn't it time for the Divine Pet List to be settled? If there's a good amount of crystal coins from that, I could probably start paying off my debt," Lu Ran suddenly remembered something. By his calculations, it had been a month already—time flew by quickly.

No sooner had the thought crossed his mind than a voice echoed in his mind.

[Divine Pet List, Extraordinary Divine Pet List settlements beginning...]