Chapter 741: Combination skills practice

Qiao Sang knew clearly that this was a dream, but in a few seconds, she forgot everything and subconsciously began to ponder the question the other party asked.

“If possible, I hope to have an unlimited card with no expiration date,” Qiao Sang said.

Recently, besides classes, training, and improving her own defense, her biggest worry was that her unlimited card was about to expire.

Now, Ya!, Qunbao, and Dorothy had all evolved to the General-level, and Steel Treasure, though still High Level, was nearly eight meters tall.

Aside from other extra expenses, just the Energy Pill alone was a huge sum.

Although she had invested in many projects and felt their prospects were good, two of the projects still hadn’t secured their cash investments, and besides the earnings from the online glasses store on Blue Star, none of the other projects had officially started generating profit.

Truly valuable items couldn’t be bought with just money, and if she bought valuable items among ordinary people and resold them, even ignoring the risk of losing money, others would suspect them to be fakes or have other reasons for not buying due to the overly cheap price.

All in all, money was a big problem.

Especially for someone who had once possessed an unlimited card.

The majestic voice was silent for more than ten seconds, then asked, “Are you short on money?”

Qiao Sang replied, “Soon to be short.”

“I understand.”

After the majestic voice finished speaking, the golden light in the air dispersed.

…

Seven in the morning.

Qiao Sang woke up, feeling as if she had a dream last night, but she just couldn’t remember what it was about.

She didn’t think much of it, simply washed up as usual, and came to the living room.

Just like yesterday, the Vice Principal had prepared breakfast but wasn’t present.

What exactly was the Vice Principal doing…? Qiao Sang was curious for a moment.

However, curiosity aside, she never thought of specifically calling or texting to ask.

After all, it was someone else’s private matter.

After breakfast, Qunbao’s eyes glowed blue.

The next second, Qiao Sang appeared in the classroom.

The classmates were already accustomed to Qiao Sang suddenly appearing in the classroom.

“Have you decided on a combination skill?” Dorothy asked as soon as Qiao Sang sat down.

“I have some ideas, but I haven’t finalized them yet,” Qiao Sang said.

“Indeed,” Dorothy sighed. “You have many Pets, so you should have many skills to combine, unlike me, who only has a couple of moves that can be combined, so I don’t need to think too much.”

Qiao Sang recalled what that teacher said yesterday:

“Skills are about quality, not quantity; sometimes having too many skills isn’t necessarily a good thing.”

Dorothy was silent for two seconds. “Are you being sarcastic?”

Qiao Sang stopped speaking.

During the first class break in the morning, a female classmate she had never interacted with before suddenly walked over and asked, “Have you joined a society?”

“No,” Qiao Sang shook her head.

The female classmate tentatively asked, “Are you interested in the Lingwen Society?”

Qiao Sang honestly replied, “No.”

Back on Blue Star, when she first became a Yu Beast Master, she was indeed interested in Spiritual Mark and even bought some Spiritual Mark materials online to experiment on Qunbao for a while.

Unfortunately, there wasn’t much progress, and later she was directly selected by Saint Water Middle School to join the School Team for training early, so she put the matter aside.

Now, she was no longer the novice Yu Beast Master she once was; she understood that the field of Spiritual Mark was profound, and without investing a lot of time, she couldn’t learn anything substantial.

It was better to focus on becoming a Professional Beast Tamer, and if she needed help after earning money in the future, she would find a professional Spirit Mark Master.

The female classmate, as if she hadn’t heard those two words at all, smiled and said, “There’s an event at the Lingwen Society at noon today, where lucky audience members can be invited up to have Spiritual Marks drawn for free according to their needs. Do you want to go and see?”

At this point, she paused and added, “I heard that the dean of Lingwen Academy will also be there.”

“I won’t go; I have something to do at noon,” Qiao Sang refused.

She planned to use the noon break to arrange the combination skill, as she had to demonstrate it in the afternoon.

“Oh, I see…” The female classmate left with an awkward expression.

Three minutes later, she walked over again:

“I just found out that the Lingwen Society event has been moved to after school in the afternoon. Do you want to go and see?”

Qiao Sang showed an awkward yet polite smile:

“I also have something to do in the afternoon.”

Before Qunbao’s seven o’clock training, she had to go to the Yu Beast Center to register Dorothy and Steel Treasure’s information.

…“Alright,” the female classmate nodded, her feelings mixed.

She felt that Qiao Sang simply didn’t want to go, and that saying she had something to do was just to make her refusal less awkward.

Indeed, she had no prior interaction with Qiao Sang, and for the other person to politely refuse with a reason was already quite kind…

The female classmate returned to her seat, took out her phone, opened the chat interface, and replied to the Lingwen Society president:

“[She also has something to do in the afternoon.]”

The female classmate’s thoughts raced:

She wondered what the Lingwen Society president wanted with Qiao, the monster. To be honest, she strongly suspected that the purpose of this event was Qiao, the monster. Otherwise, why would they suddenly find her, a newcomer to the society, and even specifically change the event time just now…?

Saying that the dean of Lingwen Academy would be present was probably also a tactic to attract Qiao, the monster.

…

After the morning classes ended, Qiao Sang returned home.

After lunch, she immediately took Steel Treasure to the outdoor training ground.

“Steel Treasure, try to use Air Absorption while approaching your opponent with Electro-optic Flash,” Qiao Sang said.

She had thought a lot about combination skills.

Ya!, Qunbao, and Dorothy had many skills and high proficiency, and most importantly, they were General-level Pets. If she were to combine their skills and demonstrate them in front of the whole class in the afternoon, it might seem like she was bullying them. It was more appropriate for the High-level Pet, Steel Treasure, to demonstrate.

In fact, Air Absorption could be combined with many skills.

Although space is infinite and air cannot be completely absorbed, with Steel Treasure’s current size, absorbing the space within a certain range around itself instantly to cause one or two seconds of suffocation to the target was not a problem.

Seizing the opportunity within these one or two seconds to unleash offensive skills, the hit rate couldn’t be said to be 100%, but as long as the opponent didn’t know Steel Treasure’s true abilities and it was their first battle against it, among Pets of the same level, there was a high probability they wouldn’t be able to dodge.

Electro-optic Flash could quickly approach an opponent to attack, and its hit rate was already very high. Coupled with Air Absorption, the hit rate would definitely double.

To be honest, Qiao Sang preferred the combination skill of Air Absorption and Mount Tai Press.

These two moves combined should be able to instantly defeat opponents of the same level.

However, Mount Tai Press was a skill Steel Treasure awakened only after evolving, and its proficiency was not high. Moreover, it was a High Level skill, making it too difficult to combine immediately.

In contrast, Electro-optic Flash had already been practiced to mastery by Steel Treasure in the past two days.

Although its proficiency was not high, Electro-optic Flash was a mid-level skill, and Air Absorption was a High Level skill. The latter’s higher proficiency made it easier to combine the skills.

With a little practice, it might succeed.

“Steel Slash.”

Steel Treasure nodded.

“Ya!”

At this moment, Ya!, who had been following his Yu Beast Master, let out a cry, indicating he could help.

“Okay,” Qiao Sang looked at Ya!. “Then you’ll be Steel Treasure’s attack target.”

“Ya!”

Ya! nodded, indicating understanding.

Immediately, he teleported into the sky.

“Steel Slash…”

Steel Treasure looked at Ya!, its gaze suddenly becoming serious.

It spread its wings, and a rampant Typhoon immediately rose around it.

Then, it shot straight forward like a white flash.

Its speed was so fast that it seemed to tear through the air, even forming a shockwave.

But what was amazing was that it didn’t make a terrifying sound.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Steel Treasure rushed in front of Ya!.

Just as it was about to collide, Ya! suddenly disappeared from his original position.

“Steel Slash…”

Steel Treasure stopped its movement, looked at Ya! dozens of meters away, and showed an expression of “it’s not that easy after all.”

“Pause, you two come over first,” Qiao Sang called out.

Steel Treasure flew over, flapping its wings.

Ya! appeared beside his Yu Beast Master after her voice sounded.

“Did you feel suffocated when Steel Treasure approached just now?” Qiao Sang asked.

“Ya!”

Ya! shook his head.

No.

Qiao Sang asked again, “Then difficulty breathing?”

“Ya!”

Ya! shook his head like an elder brother.

He had heard the conversation just now and knew that the fourth one was going to use Air Absorption, so he had already held his breath in advance.

Qiao Sang: “…” (End of chapter)