Beast Tamer: Carrying a small world of the end times with you

"Oldest, what about you?"

Seeing that the others agreed with Lin Sen's statement, the Third Senior Brother curled his lips in boredom, then turned to look at Qian Er, who had been silent all along, wondering if Qian Er had any special thoughts about those wood source crystals, or if he was bewitched by some woman and wanted to give them to her?

As Qian Er's Third Senior Brother, he felt he should remind Qian Er.

"Me too, I'll exchange them when I get back."

Hearing the noise, Qian Er raised his head and said with a smile.

Actually, he was just struggling with what resources to exchange the wood source crystals for, but now he had decided.

This month, the Little Ice Dragon, the Soul-Calling Banner's Undying Bone, and the Holy Heart Lotus all had their shares, but he had returned the Blood Essence of the Blood-Burning Saint to Yu Feiyi, so he would exchange these wood source crystals for Blood Essence.

Yong Xuehai's advanced Shadow Dive skill was indeed worthy of being called comparable to a group space jump. In the time it took for the students to chat and laugh, they had already reached their destination and began to surface.

As the shadow bubble completely reached the ground and gradually shattered, the academy's gate reappeared in front of Qian Er.

"It feels like a lifetime ago."

Looking at the gate in front of him, Qian Er exhaled a breath of turbid air. The things he encountered on this trip were really not small. Not only did he learn that one of the eight rebel kings of the Eight Kings Rebellion was still alive, but he also personally witnessed a clash between True King-level Beast Tamers, although he only saw a little.

The harvest was also not small, one hundred grams of wood source crystals, which could be exchanged for about ten pieces of Blood Essence.

"Alright, you guys go exchange your resources. Oh, right, Qian Er, stay behind."

Reaching the school gate, Yong Xuehai's expression suddenly relaxed a lot. He waved his hand at the students and was about to leave, but as if he had thought of something, his footsteps suddenly stopped, and he turned his head to beckon Qian Er.

"Hmm? Okay, coming, Teacher."

Qian Er, who was just about to go with the others to exchange wood source crystals, looked over in confusion, but still nodded and followed Yong Xuehai.

"I now have some clues about the cultivation of your Soul-Guiding Banner. Come with me to get a skill learning machine. Your current beasts are the Blood-Burning Saint, the Little Ice Dragon, and the Soul-Guiding Banner. The Blood-Burning Saint's monstrous racial value goes without saying, and its future position will definitely be a front-line assault, while the Little Ice Dragon's final evolution, the Frost Bone Dragon, will definitely be a special attacker. What your beast team lacks most now is a defender, or rather, a defender who can protect you. Coincidentally, the Myriad Soul Banner can very well serve that purpose, and in addition to defense, the Myriad Soul Banner can also weaken the enemy's attributes."

He didn't know that Qian Er's Soul-Guiding Banner had evolved into a Soul-Calling Banner, so he still referred to it as the Soul-Guiding Banner.

Along the way, Yong Xuehai consciously instilled some knowledge of undead-type beasts into Qian Er, and Qian Er was willing to learn. In the five years of the apocalypse, he learned a lot of knowledge from the books he swiped from the bookstore, such as repairing circuits, planting vegetables and grains, and emergency bandaging, all of which he learned bit by bit from the books, so he naturally knew the importance of knowledge.

It must be said that for a teacher, teaching such a smart and willing student is a pleasure. In the past, Yong Xuehai would finish lecturing on the platform and leave without caring whether anyone understood, and he hadn't felt this kind of wholeheartedly teaching a student for a long time.

"That old codger Zheng Sanjin also told me that your academic performance wasn't very good. If it weren't for the recommendation, let alone the Imperial Academy, you probably wouldn't even be able to get into an ordinary university. Now that I see it, what does that old thing know?"

The journey passed quickly as the two of them, one teaching and one learning. They even felt that not much time had passed, but they had already reached the undead-type teaching building.

"Come, follow me."

Saying that, Yong Xuehai led Qian Er into his office.

The layout of the office was quite elegant. He even raised a few flowers and plants that were sensitive to yin energy to cultivate his emotions, which could be said to be quite beyond Qian Er's expectations.

In his imagination, Yong Xuehai's office should be more gloomy.

"Come, this is the forbidden skill of the undead type, Soul Symbiosis. After using it, it can allow your soul to coexist with the Soul-Guiding Banner, transferring the damage you receive to the Soul-Guiding Banner. I went through a lot of trouble to get it. Even a professor at the Imperial Academy like me would have a hard time taking out this kind of forbidden skill."

Yong Xuehai handed a gray skill learning machine to Qian Er. As a professor of the undead type at the Imperial Academy, it was certainly not difficult for him to learn this skill, but the difficulty was taking it out for others to learn. It required guarantees and proof of something, and he had been running procedures for the past few days.

"…Teacher, then what are the disadvantages of this skill?"

Holding the skill learning machine, Qian Er was speechless for a moment. He couldn't remember how long it had been since he had felt this kind of kindness.

After a long silence, he said in a somewhat hoarse voice, forbidden skills are not forbidden skills just because of their powerful power, but because they have unbearable side effects.

"How should I say it… Although this skill can create a connection between you and your beast, transferring the damage you receive to your beast, that damage is judged by your defense. That is to say, if an opponent attacks you, it can cause very serious damage to your beast, but undead-type beasts can avoid being directly seriously injured or dying by damaging their foundation."

"Most undead-type beasts can absorb the souls of their opponents to become stronger, and after receiving an unbearable attack, the beast can choose to give up a previously absorbed soul to block the attack, but the price is the loss of a part of the soul. After all, the absorbed soul has already merged with the beast."

Qian Er understood that most undead-type beasts only had a soul left. It could be said that the soul was the most important part of an undead-type beast, and losing a part of the soul would be a serious injury to the undead-type beast.

"However, beasts like the Myriad Soul Banner might be able to avoid this side effect, because the Myriad Soul Banner is one of the few beasts that can absorb souls and drive them to fight for itself. It might be able to let the driven soul block the attack for itself. This topic is a bit interesting, and I plan to write my next paper on it, but I need your help, because currently the strongest Myriad Soul Banner is only at the elite level."

Speaking of this, Qian Er was no longer sleepy. After all, his Myriad Soul Banner had no shortage of souls. The dense souls on the banner surface made him feel physiologically uncomfortable.

"But that will have to wait until after school starts. I can finally relax for a while, and I don't plan to continue to bother with it."

Saying that, Yong Xuehai took out two more ordinary skill learning machines and handed them to Qian Er.