The distant sky also seemed to be dyed a shade of crimson.

Nearly a hundred thousand Fire Element Beast Tamers, with such a scale and formation, even an ordinary flood would probably be powerless before them.

Only a particularly massive flood might be able to disperse them.

One couldn’t help but wonder if it was the atmosphere of the Illusion Realm that caused it, as it was supposed to be just an ordinary college entrance exam…

Chen Xing mentally sighed.

Yesterday, he had discovered that he could also open the Stone Booklet within the Illusion Realm.

He focused his attention on the skill at the very bottom of the Pet Trainer’s Skill Tree.

Then he silently chose to activate it.

[Pet Skill Optimization]Once the skills mastered by your pet surpass perfection, you can optimize that skill to grant it additional effects. (100/100) (Mastered)

With the activation of this skill,

a “+” sign appeared behind several skills that had already reached a Proficiency Level surpassing excellence.

At the same time, a flood of information appeared in Chen Xing’s mind.

In an instant, Chen Xing grasped the relevant knowledge.

Pet skills could be optimized.

Each optimization required the consumption of proficiency points.

Once the Proficiency Level reached beyond, every training session would convert proficiency into proficiency points.

Over this period of time, Chen Xing had accumulated a significant number of proficiency points with several skills that surpassed the threshold.

Chen Xing had speculated before that these proficiency points would be useful, and now it appeared they were intended for this purpose.

Currently, Taotie had four skills that achieved proficiency beyond excellence.

Water Devouring, Great Vortex, Great Flood, Vortex of Demise.

The skill with the highest number of proficiency points was the Primary Skill, Water Devouring, because it was the easiest to practice proficiency, having accumulated 7045 points.

Chen Xing clicked on the “+” sign behind Water Devouring.

Proficiency points decreased by 1000.

A line of small print floated behind the skill.

Please choose one of the following three optimization directions.

1. Increase healing effect (Ordinary)

2. Reduce magic power consumption (Ordinary)

3. Decrease skill cooldown (Ordinary)

Chen Xing glanced at the options and directly chose 1.

Water Devouring, being a Primary Skill, didn’t consume much magic power, and its cooldown time was also very short.

This was why many Beast Tamers, even those with a high Energy Level, still mastered some Primary Skills.

Choosing 1 had the highest cost-performance ratio.

Chen Xing looked toward the plains; it would take time for a hundred thousand Beast Tamers to cross the river, but not too much.

So time was limited, better hurry and make a choice.

The proficiency points required for the second upgrade doubled.

Chen Xing didn’t hesitate to choose to upgrade.

Please choose one of the following three optimization directions.

1. Increase Water Devouring Skill’s healing effect (Ordinary)

2. Reduce Water Devouring Skill’s magic power consumption (Ordinary)

3. Decrease Water Devouring Skill’s cooldown (Ordinary)

It was still a choice of three.

Chen Xing continued with option 1.

However, something different appeared in front of his eyes on the third upgrade.

Please choose one of the following three optimization directions.

1. Increase healing effect (Ordinary)

2. Reduce magic power consumption (Ordinary)

3. Each skill release can remove one random negative state from oneself. (Rare)

Chen Xing paused for a moment, halted his habitual choice of 1, and instead chose 3.

He didn’t expect such a type of choice to appear.

With this special effect added, was it still merely the strength of a Primary Skill?

Even some Intermediate Skills might not necessarily have its effect.

To raise from +3 to +4 required 4000 proficiency points, leaving 1045 remaining, insufficient for further upgrades.

A panel that could be expanded appeared next to the Water Devouring Skill.

Water Devouring +3

[Additional Effects]

1. Healing effect enhanced +2

2. Each skill release can remove one random negative state from oneself.

Besides Water Devouring, the other three skills didn’t have many proficiency points.

Just over a thousand.

Just enough for one upgrade.

Then Chen Xing upgraded the Great Vortex Skill.

Please choose one of the following four optimization directions.

1. Great Vortex’s area of effect will increase as the Beast Tamer’s size increases (Rare)

2. Increase the duration of Great Vortex (Ordinary)

3. Enhance the suction of Great Vortex (Ordinary)

4. Reduce the magic power consumption of the skill (Ordinary)

Chen Xing did not hesitate to choose 1.

As Taotie grew bigger and bigger, the coverage area of the Great Vortex Skill had gradually become somewhat insufficient.

When he first started releasing skills, the coverage of the Great Vortex was more than twenty to thirty times the length of the Taotie itself.

Now, it is far from reaching that number, at most only a few times its body length.

Great Vortex +1

[Additional Effect]

1. The coverage area of the Great Vortex will increase as the Beast Taming body size increases.

Then it was time to optimize the Great Flood skill.

A thousand proficiency points deducted.

Please choose one of the following five optimization directions:

1. The coverage area of the Great Flood is enhanced (Ordinary)

2. The magic power consumption of the Great Flood skill is reduced (Ordinary)

3. The cooldown time of the Great Flood skill is decreased (Ordinary)

4. After the Great Flood skill is released, enemies hit by the skill will gradually suffer from “drowning” state negative effects—suffocation, hypoxia, hypothermia, drowning (Rules/Laws)

5. In an environment with sufficient water, the power of the Great Flood skill will be boosted according to the proportion of the water terrain (Rare)

The higher the level of the skill, the more optimization options you can choose from.

Although the effect of choice number four seems ordinary at first glance, but just because of the word ‘Rules/Laws’ behind it, I definitely have to choose the rarest option.

Finally, optimize the Vortex of Demise skill.

Please choose one of the following five optimization directions:

1. The suction power of the Vortex of Demise skill is enhanced (Ordinary)

2. The cooldown time of the Vortex of Demise skill is shortened (Ordinary)

3. The magic power consumption of the Vortex of Demise skill is reduced (Ordinary)

4. When the Vortex of Demise skill is released, it creates a force field that prevents targets from leaving the skill’s range (Rare)

5. The crushing force of the Vortex of Demise skill is enhanced (Ordinary)

Like with advanced skills, there are also five choices.

Chen Xing chooses number four.

The Taotie floating in the water feels a tickling sensation in its brain…

It’s as if something extra has appeared.

Four skills completed optimization.

Chen Xing doesn’t even have time to see what new skills have emerged after the pet skill optimization is activated.

Looking down at the plains below, Chen Xing said softly, “Taotie, go!”

Boom, boom, boom~

The deafening sound came from the dam.

Taotie released the Great Flood!

This time when releasing the skill, Chen Xing noticed that the Great Flood skill was different from before.

In the surrounding void, countless deep and murky water droplets poured down like a pearl waterfall with its string cut, with every droplet emanating a disquieting aura, as if carrying the portent of a disaster.

This power seemed to tap into the primal fear of ancient flood calamities deep within the genes of living beings.

Chen Xing looked at the apocalyptic flood scene with a strange palpitation in his heart.

What he felt was not just the power of the skill, but more like a mysterious force from the ancient era, stirring the air and immersing the whole world in the terror of this flood.

Everything around seemed fragile, and the clear sky turned murky.

“Your skill…” Wang Tao also sensed something was amiss.

In the face of this scene, his teeth chattered instinctively.

He clenched his teeth, trying to control his inner emotions, only to find that this fear was like an instinct deep in his blood, not controlled by the body.

Atop a nearby mountain, Zhang Tianlin watched the falling torrential rain, feeling like the end-of-days flood, and had the sense that something indescribable was mixed into the skill.

Chen Xing took a deep breath to calm the shock in his heart.

As a Beast Tamer, he also felt the changes in the Great Flood skill clearly, but this fear was significantly diminished for him.

The swelling reservoir finally groaned under the overwhelming burden.

Boom!!!

The reservoir burst open thunderously.

The murky floodwaters, mixed with the silhouette of a behemoth, rolled mightily downstream.

On the plains,

Nearly a hundred thousand Fire Element Beast Tamings were marching across the broad plains.

Their momentum was massive, and the heat waves reached for the sky.

Atop Iron Rock Pass, Gu Yuzhi watched the approaching red clouds in the distance quietly.

The red clouds were drawing closer.

Outside the pass, a large number of civilians stirred into panic and began to rush at the city gates, incited by troublemakers.

“General… Should we attack with rocket artillery to clean the area first?”

“Wait, strengthen the defenses, we’re now entering a first-level battle readiness state, and no one is allowed to enter or exit the pass,” Gu Yuzhi said.

Although they didn’t understand, the subordinate officers still carried out the order.

“Do you really trust that kid?” General Qian Peiquan, who had the least presence, asked quietly next to Gu Yuzhi.

“Trust those whom you use, don’t use those whom you do not trust,” Gu Yuzhi said calmly. “Moreover, Zhang Tianlin is also over there. If there are any issues, he would report them. Since there’s no feedback, that means there are no problems.”

Suddenly, Gu Yuzhi’s expression changed subtly, and he looked towards the direction of the Bluebird Reservoir.

“Old Qian, did you hear that?”

“I’m not deaf. It seems they have made their move,” Qian Peiquan replied, his eyes still holding a hint of worry. After all, relying on the water in a reservoir to inundate so many Beast Tamings seemed a bit far-fetched.

It could at most serve to delay them.

However, Gu Yuzhi was always astute and must have a backup plan.

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