Beast taming, starting from zero point novel Chapter 102

Chapter 102: Chapter 98: Spirit Mark

Back in her room, the Fire-Toothed Dog was watching the Hangkang sports channel as usual.

Qiao Sang, on the other hand, was watching an online course about Pet Beast Spirit Engravers while drawing on the cheeks of Xiao Xunbao with a brush specially made for Spirit Carvers. _{freёwebnovel.com}

It wasn’t that she was idly using her holiday time to acquire a new skill, she simply wanted to help her Fire-Toothed Dog with the aspect of condensing Energy Spheres.

After some time of training, she could more or less perceive the existing problems with the Fire-Toothed Dog’s practice of Mars Rain.

Mars Rain was an advanced skill, and even though she had awarded points to her Fire-Toothed Dog, its current energy was far from sufficient to unleash it.

Don’t be fooled by its rapid progress in the first step of condensing Energy Spheres.

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But even if the internal structure of the Energy Sphere stabilized, I feared that the explosion formed in the sky would not be Mars Rain, but rather a drizzle.

And the kind of drizzle that had hardly any droplets at all.

There were three possible solutions.

The first was evolution.

Practicing Mars Rain was just an attempt and not urgent, and it wouldn’t matter if the Fire-Toothed Dog evolved into a Blazehound even after more than a month of continuous practice.

But what worried her was that even after evolving into a Blazehound, the energy might still be insufficient, as the basics of a mid-level Pet Beast learning a high-level skill were also in textbooks.

The second solution was to use an item.

The reason for discarding this option was simple.

There was no money, at least not at the moment.

The third was to engrave energy patterns.

This mostly required skillful techniques; while individual materials might be expensive, compared to items, it was practically nothing.

The materials needed for those simple patterns and the proportions they needed to be mixed could be bought online with money, and with Qiao Sang’s current financial situation, it was still affordable.

Engraving patterns mainly tested one’s technique; each stroke had to be completed in a single breath.

Besides, the Spirit Power infused in each stroke had to be the same.

Uneven Spirit Power could lead to an imbalance in the energy structure of the pattern and ultimately lead to failure.

Simply put, using Spirit Power meant activating the Beast Taming Codex inside the brain.

Beast Tamers didn’t feel anything when summoning their Pet Beasts using the Beast Taming Codex, but constantly operating the Codex to use spiritual power and engrave the patterns would definitely be strenuous.

Qiao Sang had been learning how to engrave energy patterns for three days and had yet to encounter such distress.

Pet Beasts mainly relied on their own internal energy to release skills, and the energy patterns she was learning were designed to absorb outside energy when releasing skills.

Qiao Sang specifically signed up for an online course on this type of pattern for a month, and her test subject was Xiao Xunbao.

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to experiment directly on the Fire-Toothed Dog, but the thing detested water, and bath time was always a drag.

Given the Fire-Toothed Dog’s aversion to water, experimenting with this pattern on it would probably take forever to succeed.

Xiao Xunbao didn’t have this problem.

On the contrary, it had been quite enthusiastic about the pattern engraving these past three days, even proactively retrieving the materials each time.

“All done, give it a try,” Qiao Sang said as she set down the brush.

“Xun~”

Xiao Xunbao stretched out a short claw and opened its hand wide to indicate there was no hurry.

It picked up a small mirror that had already been prepared nearby and started looking at its face, occasionally squeezing its eyebrows and making all sorts of silly faces.

Qiao Sang watched on, feeling helpless.

If someone uninformed saw this, they might think she was drawing faces instead of Spirit Marks.

“Xun~”

Xiao Xunbao put down the mirror and let out a happy chirp, seemingly very pleased with its facial masterpiece.

The next second, a faint purple light emerged from its body, but soon dissipated.

“Xun.”

Xiao Xunbao spread its hands and shook its head, indicating it was no use.