Chapter 154: Inheritance Levels
“Really can eat.”
Watching all the Ironthread Snake corpses inside the valley completely disappear, Zhou Ming only gave a brief comment and did not feel overly shocked.
Golden Horn and the others had just completed their metamorphosis into low-tier Ferocious Beasts and were precisely at the stage where they urgently needed to replenish energy. Coupled with the powerful digestive ability gained after becoming Ferocious Beasts, consuming all the Ironthread Snake corpses in the valley within half an hour was considered normal.
Seeing that the three little fellows in front of him were already stuffed, Zhou Ming shook his head and immediately recalled them into the Beast Taming Space, then released Silver Scale.
Silver Scale’s strength had now barely stepped into the realm of high-tier Ferocious Beasts. Its body size had hardly changed, but it clearly exuded a sense of heaviness.
Compared to before, its defensive capability had obviously increased quite a bit.
However, if one wanted to see concrete changes, it might have to wait until it truly became a high-tier Ferocious Beast.
Silver Scale pressed its body tightly against the ground. Zhou Ming lightly leapt up and sat on its neck, after which Silver Scale raised its upper body and crawled out of the valley.
Zhou Ming’s target this time was the Wildfolk camp.
Although he had already successfully advanced to a Professional Beast Tamer, the subsequent path would at most reach the advanced professional level.
As for the Transcendent Master class advancement, he had no direction at all.
The Half-Beastman class advancement materials Zhou Ming obtained included information on the Sealer class advancement that involved Transcendent Masters, but compared to the Half-Beastman path, the Sealer path was even more incomplete. Back then, the scientific research team inside the ruins had not even completed half of it.
Moreover, the Sealer class advancement was completely incompatible with his perfected Half-Beastman advancement, so he renamed his profession as Ruler.
That meant that if Zhou Ming wanted to become a Transcendent Beast Tamer in the future, he would have to open up a new path based on the Ruler profession.
This would inevitably require immense manpower, material resources, and financial resources.
Thus, going solo was no longer viable. He needed to consider establishing a force, and the most basic requirement for building a force was people.
How could he obtain the required manpower in a short time without paying too great a price?
Zhou Ming’s gaze immediately fell upon the Wildfolk.
Although their overall quality was low and they had no opportunity to receive higher education, they were not protected by Alliance laws.
No matter what was done to the Wildfolk, the Alliance would not trouble him over it.
These Wildfolk could not help him in researching class advancements, but they were perfectly fine for manual labor—at the very least, they could first help him set up the basic framework of a force.
During the idle time before reaching the Wildfolk camp, Zhou Ming began rummaging through Qi Shouwu’s Spatial Bracelet.
Over one million Alliance Coins in cash was better than nothing.
More than ten kilograms of Source Crystals caused Zhou Ming’s assets to skyrocket once again.
Whether purchasing resources, meditating, or nurturing Beast Taming partners, none of it could be done without these glittering items.
There was a pile of high-tier Ferocious Beast materials, dozens of top-grade precious medicinal herbs, and a total of fifty-three low-tier potions of various types such as healing, detoxification, and spiritual power recovery.
There were also more than twenty books and records of cultivation insights.
The remaining items were the most valuable ones.
One high-tier healing potion, two pieces of third-tier spiritual material—Earth Core Fire Stones—and a Crimson Crystal Barrier spell scroll.
There was no need to say much about the high-tier healing potion—it was something that could save one’s life at a critical moment.
Earth Core Fire Stones were spiritual materials nurtured within underground magma and appeared on the surface during volcanic eruptions.
These egg-sized treasures, resembling red crystals and radiating dazzling brilliance, were rare existences whether used to craft transcendent equipment or for fire-attribute Phantasmal Beasts.
Qi Shouwu had not used them on his own Beast Taming partners mainly because his strength had already been stuck at the initial professional level, unable to advance further. Even if his beasts used them, their strength would not improve.
Talent, at certain times, was indeed an insurmountable mountain.
The final item was the Crimson Crystal Barrier spell that Qi Shouwu had used to defend against the giant python’s attack.
In the historical development of the Beast Taming system, in order to bring out the strength of Beast Tamers, different types of skills were created according to different class advancements.
Secret Techniques were mainly used on Beast Taming partners. Even Apprentice Beast Tamers could learn them, and they belonged to the universal skills among Beast Tamers.
Spells were mainly used by the Phantasmal Tamer system to unleash the power of various energy element particles.
Combat Techniques were mainly used by the Beast Knight system, bringing out the terrifying physical strength of Beast Knights.
Together with the meditation methods that every Beast Tamer had to learn, as well as the ritual arrays required for class advancement, these formed the transcendent path of Blue Star’s Beast Taming.
Generally, these Beast Taming inheritances were divided into Basic, Low-tier, High-tier, and Legendary.
Based on what Zhou Ming knew, Legendary-level spells, combat techniques, and the like were all comprehended personally by Legendary Saints. It was impossible to learn another person’s Legendary spells or combat techniques.
At most, they could be used for reference, achieving the effect of using others’ stones to polish one’s own jade.
As for low-tier and high-tier inheritances, because they involved changes in spiritual power as well as abstruse and complex knowledge, they generally could only be recorded on specially made scrolls using spiritual power as ink.
However, to imprint an inheritance onto a scroll, one had to completely master the inheritance being recorded, and doing so would permanently lose a portion of spiritual power.
It was precisely because of this that when members of major forces went out, they generally did not carry Beast Taming inheritances with them.
Once lost, it would be an extremely heavy blow to forces without backups.
Even if backups existed, once such inheritances fell into the hands of hostile forces, it would be easy for the opponent to find weaknesses and exploit them.
Qi Shouwu carrying the Crimson Crystal Barrier spell scroll could only mean one thing—that this spell was something he had personally purchased and had not yet handed over to his family.
“What a pity, I can’t use this spell. Perhaps only combat techniques can barely bring out my strength.”
“But after all, it’s not a skill exclusive to the Ruler profession. Most of the skills recorded in the Half-Beastman class advancement are incomplete, and I still need to specially refine them according to my own situation.”
Although somewhat disappointed, Zhou Ming was not in urgent need of skills given the abilities brought by the Ruler profession, so he did not dwell on it too much.
After counting all the spoils of war, Zhou Ming felt that being targeted by others during this class advancement was not necessarily a bad thing—at least there were Wealth Boys delivering resources.
Qi Shouwu’s assets were almost several times that of an ordinary Professional Beast Tamer.
The only trouble was that he had completely offended the Qi Family.
However, this could not be blamed on Zhou Ming seeking trouble. If blame were to be assigned, it should be placed on the Qi Family themselves—after all, he could not allow himself to be slaughtered at will.
Fortunately, the Qi Family’s strength within Qinghui Base was not considered strong. The family only had five Professional Beast Tamers. The strongest, the family head and the grand elder, had Beast Tamer levels that only reached the mid professional rank.
Among the many forces in Qinghui Base, they could only be considered the front of the second tier.
At the very top were naturally the Alliance officials and the Hunter Guild.
Then there were Qinghui Base’s old-established forces that held council seats within the base—those were existences Zhou Ming could not afford to provoke.
Half an hour later, with Silver Scale’s deterrence, Zhou Ming smoothly arrived at the location where the Wildfolk were hiding.
It was a small hill twenty kilometers southeast of Qinghui Base, where vegetation had already been covered by accumulated snow.
The survival of the Wildfolk depended on various supplies from Alliance bases, so they generally lived near different bases, eking out an existence like underground rats.