Chapter 129: Skill compression

Xu Yajie’s face was ashen, his eyes filled with panic and despair.

Power Head Duck silently retreated two steps.

In the vast training ground, there was only the sound of water dripping, and…

“Qunbao! Qunbao! Qunbao!”

The Little Treasure Hunting Ghost, who had been invisible, appeared, rolling around on Qiao Sang’s head with a smile.

Qiao Sang’s head wasn’t big enough for it to roll in a full circle, so the Little Treasure Hunting Ghost rolled off and stabilized itself, floating in the air.

That wasn’t all; after stabilizing itself, the Little Treasure Hunting Ghost looked at Zheng Baolong’s still dripping face, pointed at him with its short claws, and continued to laugh loudly.

“Qunbao! Qunbao! Qunbao!”

Everyone’s attention converged, including Zheng Baolong’s…

Qiao Sang’s expression remained unreadable, but her mind was a whirlwind of thoughts.

After two seconds of thought, she raised her hand and recalled the Little Treasure Hunting Ghost into her yu beast codex, pretending nothing had happened.

Shi Gaofeng and the others stared at the vanished Little Treasure Hunting Ghost with bewildered eyes; before this, no one knew there was a Ghost-type Pet in the training ground, and it had even been taken in by a new student into their yu beast codex.

A new student with two Pets?!

The news was so shocking that they momentarily forgot about the fuming Zheng Baolong.

The veins on Zheng Guoping’s temples bulged, his complexion shifting from white to green, then from green to black; he looked at Xu Yajie, then at Qiao Sang, finally settling his gaze on the former.

“Xu Yajie, get out and run 20 laps for me right now!”

Running 20 laps in this weather was simply inhumane.

Xu Yajie’s face was pale, but he dared not say more, turning and walking out of the training ground with his Power Head Duck.

“Next, Wang Yao.”

Zheng Guoping continued the training test.

Qiao Sang hadn’t noticed anything unusual during the Power Head Duck’s test.

She simply thought it was a training exercise to release skills, break through rock obstacles, and attack ultra-small targets.

But as soon as the Big Flame Sparrow unleashed its Flame Vortex, she realized it wasn’t that simple.

Yabao and the Big Flame Sparrow both belonged to the Fire-type Pet category, and when Yabao was still in its Beginner form as a Fire Fang Dog, it had daily training in releasing Fire-type skills.

As Flame Vortex was one of Yabao’s Fire-type skills, Qiao Sang naturally knew what the skill looked like when released.

Besides the increased rotation degree and temperature of the flames.

A Beginner-level Flame Vortex was about 20 centimeters wide, with an attack range of about 3 meters, while a Proficient-level Flame Vortex maintained the same width but had an attack range of about 9 meters.

Although Yabao had never unleashed Flame Vortex at the Yan Ling Dog stage.

She had thoroughly researched all of Yabao’s skills online.

When a Fire-type Pet evolves from Beginner to Intermediate, releasing a Flame Vortex of the same proficiency, the attack length range remains unchanged, but the width increases from the original 20 centimeters to 30 centimeters.

However, the Flame Vortex unleashed by the Big Flame Sparrow now was neither within the 30-centimeter wide, 9-meter long range of the Proficient level, nor within the 18-meter long range of the Minor Accomplishment level.

Instead, it was about 8 centimeters wide and could spray over 30 meters, almost reaching the red target.

Because they were undergoing a test of skill compression to increase attack distance.

No wonder the Power Head Duck couldn’t control its Water Gun, spraying it elsewhere.

Insufficient limb strength naturally led to an inability to control the compressed Water Gun, causing it to lose direction.

It was like firefighters in her previous life using high-pressure Water Guns, experiencing reactive thrust, which is the recoil from the water jet; they needed strength to handle it.

Thinking of this, Qiao Sang started to feel a bit of sympathy for Zheng Baolong.

With a compressed Water Gun attack, how thick must one’s skin be to withstand that…

When Wang Yao and Shi Gaofeng had both completed their tests, Zheng Guoping said, “Qiao Sang, you try it too.”

Qiao Sang nodded and walked to stand directly opposite the red target.

“Your fire… What is this Pet called?” Zheng Guoping asked.

Qiao Sang paused, deciding to stick to the name in the yu beast codex: “It’s a Yan Ling Dog.”

“Yaba?”

Yabao looked up blankly at its Yu Beast Master. Yan Ling Dog? Isn’t it Burning Fire Dog?

Qiao Sang looked down at Yabao with a beaming smile: “I’ll let you look in the mirror when we get back tonight.”

“Yaba!”

Yabao barked excitedly.

It hadn’t had a good look at itself since evolving!

Wang Yao watched Qiao Sang and the Yan Ling Dog’s interaction strangely from the side.

It’s just looking in a mirror, isn’t it?

Why so happy? Not at all like a Fire-type Pet…

As a Fire-type Pet, shouldn’t it scornfully smile, then proudly raise its head and ignore its Yu Beast Master?

“Does your Yan Ling Dog have any long-range attack skills?” Zheng Guoping continued to ask.

Because she knew too many skills, Qiao Sang thought for a moment before replying: “Spark, Flame Vortex, Ember…”

Before she could finish, Zheng Guoping interrupted her: “Then Flame Vortex it is. First, have your Yan Ling Dog release it once.”

“Okay.” Qiao Sang responded, then exchanged a look with Yabao.

“Yaba.”

Yabao nodded, then immediately sprayed a Flame Vortex towards the rock ground.

“Proficient-level Flame Vortex.” Zheng Guoping lowered his head, making a note.

Isn’t it just a Proficient-level Flame Vortex?

This Yan Ling Dog is already an Intermediate Pet, so this is quite normal…

Zheng Guoping tried hard not to recall that the person in front of him was still a high school freshman who hadn’t even enrolled yet.

Although Wang Yao wasn’t affected by the Proficient-level Flame Vortex, she looked at the scene that had just unfolded before her eyes in disbelief.

Just a glance, without saying anything, and the Flame Vortex was released just like that?

How did the Yan Ling Dog know to release Flame Vortex?

Wang Yao suddenly turned to stare at her Big Flame Sparrow, hoping it could also sense what she was thinking at that moment.

The Big Flame Sparrow looked bewildered by the stare.

After staring at each other for a while, the Big Flame Sparrow finally understood.

“Yan Yan.”

It pointed its left wing towards its Yu Beast Master’s left eye.

Wang Yao subconsciously touched her left eye.

Then, she felt a piece of eye booger…

Wang Yao: “!!!”

On the other side.

“Can you try now to make your Yan Ling Dog’s Flame Vortex maintain the same energy output but with a smaller width?” Zheng Guoping asked.

Qiao Sang nodded, then communicated with Yabao.

“It’s still the same skill, but try to make the flame about this wide.” Qiao Sang gestured with her hand, indicating a width of about 8 centimeters.

This was different from actively compressing energy when eating super invincible ultra spicy grilled wings in the alley before.

At that time, it was energy compression; now, the training was to compress the skill’s width while maintaining constant energy output, thereby increasing its length.

8 centimeters was the width she set based on the Big Flame Sparrow.

In her opinion, as a fellow Fire-type Pet, what the Big Flame Sparrow could do, Yabao should also be able to do.

“Yaba!”

Yabao sensed the energy within its body and quickly began to circulate it.

It recalled the width its Yu Beast Master had mentioned…

Zheng Guoping walked from the red target end, from the side towards the middle.

The first attempt at skill compression and deformation probably wouldn’t succeed.

A Proficient proficiency Flame Vortex, if it succeeded at the width Qiao Sang had just indicated, should reach about 15 meters.

Once the Yan Ling Dog failed, he could then set a length target for Qiao Sang.

15 meters would be quite good.

Zheng Guoping stopped at a position about 15 meters away from the Yan Ling Dog.

At the same time, Yabao perfectly released and sprayed a Flame Vortex with the width Qiao Sang had gestured.

The rapidly rotating flame struck a rock at the 13-meter mark.

“Bang!”

The exploding rock fragments flew everywhere, and one of them happened to hit Zheng Guoping’s face, who had just stopped nearby.