Seven days later.

"Retreat!"

The clothes seemed to be a little shabby and dusty, but Li Changan, whose eyes were exceptionally bright, held a torch and shouted in a low voice.

Hearing his order, the Ink Shadow Three-Tailed Spirit Cat quickly retreated through the shadows, distancing himself from the spirit beast in front of him, which was dressed in heavy armor and covered with metal and spikes like a pangolin.

Bang bang bang!!

But Kui Dou did not retreat immediately, but set up a thick shield to cover Li Changan and Xiao Huan and slowly distance themselves from each other.

The sharp metal spikes were nailed to the wooden shield that was held by the bucket, the tips of which had pierced the wooden shield, but they could not penetrate any further.

"Meow!"

And Xiao Phantom, who retreated behind Kui Dou, did not leave there, and the inky mist on his body surged.

At the foot of the pangolin, which looked like a small tank, a large number of "shadow touches" spread out, attaching to its body and limiting its mobility.

Take this opportunity.

Kuidou quickly transformed and absorbed the wooden shield, turned around and ran, and the movements were done in one go.

In fact.

This wasn't the first time they'd come to trouble with this spirit beast.

As for the first time, they don't remember either.

I only know that every time Li Changan feels almost, he will bring them to challenge it, which can be regarded as practicing ability and cooperation at the same time, and testing some tactics.

Because this is a restricted-level sixth-order heavy-armored pangolin, it has extremely strong defensive capabilities, especially the metal spikes on its back, making it difficult for Xiao Phantom and Kui Dou to find a breakthrough.

Whenever they find the skills and inspiration to cooperate with other wild spirit animals, or to grow and improve in some other way, they will use it as their sparring partner.

They are even more familiar with the abilities and skills of this heavy-armored pangolin.

"Meow~~"

When retreating, Xiao Phantom didn't even forget to wave his hand and say goodbye to the other party.

provoked the heavily armored pangolin to roar even more angrily.

It's just that.

In the face of their retreat, the heavily armored pangolins had no intention of pursuing.

Seeing this, Li Changan's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Isn't this all coming out? Looks like it's something to be guarded. ”

Or, some kind of precious spiritual material.

Either that, it's a cub.

It's just that, judging from the state it shows, it doesn't look like it's weak after just giving birth.

Then there is a high probability that it should be a precious spiritual material.

But Li Changan is not in a hurry.

In the past seven days, although Xiao Phantom and Kui Dou's spirituality has not been able to achieve substantial and huge improvement, they have not been able to grow to the second order of the restricted level.

But their understanding and mastery of their own strength and abilities have been greatly improved.

Most importantly.

The run-in between them has begun to bear fruit.

The tacit understanding with each other and Li Changan has made great progress.

In addition, whether it is Xiao Fantasy or Kuidou, their skills, as well as their mastery of skills, have also made a lot of progress.

Return to the cave of the rocky rhinoceros again.

This place has been completely occupied by them, and has become a snack stronghold.

Li Changan walked to the bonfire that was about to be extinguished, added a few sticks of firewood to it, and then poured the boiling water on it into the wooden container made by Kui Dou for storage, and then walked to the wall and poured the accumulated water into the container on the bonfire.

After doing this, I walked to the wooden bench next to me and sat down.

In front of him, there was a very thin piece of wood with lines painted on it.

If you look closely, you can see that this is a map.

Through this period of exploration and investigation, he has gained a certain understanding of the intricate underground environment of this area.

Angel made a stone and crossed a marked place on the map.

"Meow?"

The curious little phantom walked up to him with the dried fish in his mouth, squinting curiously at what was depicted on the map.

After a while, they pointed to the only place on the map where they hadn't been yet.

That is, the road after the heavy pangolin.

Li Changan nodded, "Yes, if nothing else, it is indeed the way up." ”

In fact, it is relatively simple to judge the level of the horizontal line, as long as there is water and a container, you can judge which road can go up according to the inclination angle of the water.

In this way, many forks in the road can be eliminated.

"Get some rest tonight, we're leaving tomorrow."

As he spoke, Li Changan looked at Kui Dou.

I saw that the big guy was honestly pestle in place, digging his roots deep into the soil and absorbing nutrients to restore himself.

"Meow!"

Actually, these days.

In addition to the growth of the two spirit beasts, they also harvested a lot of spirit cores.

Among them, there are 7 restricted-level spirit cores and 11 negative-level spirit cores.

In a short period of time, the "Stealer's Tail Ring" can be used with relaxation.

It would be even better if you could obtain a dangerous-level spirit core and steal a suitable dangerous-level skill.

Li Changan counted the supplies.

Xiao Fantasy and Kuidou's food is still quite full, but he doesn't have much dry food.

Most of the underground is filled with spirit beasts with the "elemental-rock" attribute, and if the dry food is eaten, the food source will become a big problem.

So, it's almost time to get ready to leave.

"Shadowclaw!"

Bang!!!

The inky claws of the three-tailed civet of the Ink Shadow penetrated deep into the heavy armor of the heavily armored pangolin.

After the spikes on its back are fired, it will take some time to recover.

And in the gap between its recovery spikes, it is the weakest defense and the best time to break through.

After so many "sparring", I have enough understanding of the weaknesses of the heavy-armored pangolin.

Coupled with the fact that the tacit understanding between them has been established, it is up to Kui to attract attention and restrict his movements, and Xiao Phantom takes the opportunity to seize the opportunity to explode a blow.

Directly hit the spirit core in the body of the heavy armor pangolin.

Whoa—

Once the spirit core of the elemental attribute is concentrated, except for a spirit beast like Kui Dou, who has an extremely tenacious willpower of "Indomitable Heart", most of them will not be able to withstand this kind of blow.

The body made of rocks collapsed directly, and the spirit core was taken into the hands of the little illusion.

"Meow!!"

But.

After defeating this restricted-level sixth-order heavy-armored pangolin, the spirituality on Xiao Phantom's body swelled suddenly, and his momentum surged.

Grow!

Meantime.

It picked up the claws of the spirit core, and its color became more shiny and slender, and the metallic luster shone brightly.

Li Changan, who saw this scene, was not surprised.

These days of continuous battles, Xiao Fantasy himself has reached the edge of growth, and this time after defeating this restricted-level sixth-order heavy-armored pangolin, his spirituality has been improved again.

After all.

There is only a small illusion and kui dou of the first order of the restricted level, and there is still a big gap between them and the sixth order of the restricted level.

Although the results brought by tacit understanding are good, the improvement of experience and confidence brought about by crossing the strength gap is not small.

So it's a natural growth.

Restricted Level 2nd Order!

The swollen ink-colored shadows converged, and Xiao Phantom's eyes became a little brighter.

Whether it is them or Li Changan, they have to admit that compared with blindly training, the growth rate brought by combat is faster.

And what Li Changan attaches more importance to is actually the change of Xiaophant's claws.

[Name]: Ink Shadow Three-Tailed Civet

[Endeavor]: 72

[Efficiency]: 482

(Ink Shadow): 62

(Plagiarism): 57

(Shadow Claw): 100

(Shadow Escape): 62

(Shadow Yan): 69

(Touch of Shadows): 48

(Ink marks): 44

(Phantom Pupil): 40

The efficiency of Shadow Claw has reached 100 points!

A level of proficiency.

This means that even without the support of Li Changan's ability, Xiao Fan's "Shadow Claw" will be able to guarantee A-level proficiency at all times.

Although the efficiency value of the previous "Shadow Claw" was 99 points, which is only 1 point short of the current 100 points, it is this 1 point, which is a qualitative change.

The lethality of Xiao Phantom's current "Shadow Claw" alone is not something that ordinary restricted-level third- and fourth-order spirit beasts can resist.

In addition, Kui Dou has completely liberated its offensive ability, and if a spirit beast of the sixth or seventh order of the restricted level is hit by Xiao Phantom, it is not without a chance to kill it in seconds.

And its overall efficiency value has reached 482 points.

Li Changan has already tried to add more than 400 efficiency values to a skill, but none of them can increase the proficiency of this skill beyond the A level.

However, he has a feeling that he can make a reasonable guess based on the difficulty of adjusting the higher the value.

When the efficiency value of a skill reaches 500 points, it should be able to break through the shackles of A-level proficiency.

And above the A level of proficiency.

It's S waiting!

Theoretically, the highest proficiency that a spirit animal can achieve!

The reason why I say it is theoretical, because so far, Li Changan has never seen skills such as S proficiency.

He had never seen it in reality or in books.

But according to some expert speculation.

When the spirit beast skill reaches the proficiency level of S, it will usher in an extremely terrifying qualitative change!

Now, there are only 18 efficiency points left for proficiency skills such as Xiao Phantom Distance S.

At the current pace of its growth.

Perhaps, it will be possible to achieve it in two or three days at most.

"Bracket!"

Kuidou immediately sent congratulations.

However, Li Changan can still see seriousness in his eyes.

Obviously.

A healthy competitive relationship between the two spirit beasts has been formed.

Although Xiao Phantom is not lazy but also not diligent, and Kuidou's seriousness has successfully led it to the road of diligence.

And Xiao Fantasy's talent is not weak, and after being diligent, he has been maintaining a small lead in the strength of Kuidou, which makes Kuidou, who is already serious, work harder.

Promote each other and make up for each other, this is the best state of the two spirit beasts during the period.

"It turned out to be an 'elemental stone'."

Li Changan held a dark brown stone in his hand.

This thing is a very important spiritual material for some "elemental-rock" attribute spirit beasts, which can greatly improve their spirituality.

The heavy-armored pangolin is obviously preparing to let this "elemental stone" accumulate a little more, and at the same time let its own strength improve a little more, maybe it can grow to the ninth order of the restricted level in one fell swoop.

If it can endure for a little longer and wait until the ninth order is restricted before using it, it may be able to break the shackles of the restriction level and enter the danger level.

"Looking at the color, it is estimated that there is no 400,000 that cannot be delivered."

It's a big catch.

After Xiao Phantom's evolution formula was obtained, he had to start collecting the materials for this formula, and Li Changan began to run out of money again.

After crossing the territory of the heavy pangolin, move on.

This time, even if you don't need water, you can clearly feel that the road is going up.

I also encountered a lot of spirit beasts on the way, but in front of Xiao Phantom and Kui Dou, there was almost no ability to resist.

Of course, there have been some hiccups as well.

For example. Went the wrong way.

Or, in order to fight against the right spirit beast, they stay too much in some places.

In a word.

They wanted to leave, but they weren't in such a hurry.

"Huh - after walking here, even if there is no road, you can directly break through the soil layer above without worrying about landslides."

"Meow~~"

Xiao Fantasy who heard the words seemed very happy.

Finally, I don't have to stay in this dark underground anymore.

Although it is very happy and satisfied to grow every day, it feels like it is about to get lice all over its body if it stays any longer.

It wants to take a good bath right now.

Whoever prevents it from bathing will be killed.

Bang –

Kaito was at the forefront, smashing the rocks that stood in his way from the inside.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but after the rock shattered, they even felt the light around them shine a little brighter.

Rumble!!

It's just that.

The shattering of this rock seems to have woken up a sleeping spirit beast.

A red flame swept abruptly, and the surging light of the fire completely illuminated the cavern.

The steaming heat was surging, and the scorching waves of air stained the shield erected by Kuidou with a layer of black ash.

Teng Teng Teng –

Kuidou staggered back.

Li Changan and Xiao Fan also looked pale at the same time.

Wild spirit beasts!

And strong!

Before the flames were completely gone, they saw a spirit beast that wasn't too big.

It resembles a lizard, covered in thick black scale armor, and has magma-shaped bulges on its body, which seem to contain a large amount of fire.

A pair of cold vertical pupils, eyes locked on them.

"Flame Lizard, 'elemental-fire' attribute, danger level medium potential. It is rumored that the Flame Lizard contains dragon blood in its body."

Judging by the intensity of the flame just now.

The strength is at least the eighth order of the restricted level.

Even the Ninth Order of the Restricted Level!

(End of chapter)