Beast Taming Starts with Ground Mushrooms

Chapter 66: A Sensation in Tiannan City

In the primeval jungle, the moment Jiang Xiaoran and Cheng Jiaqi followed the sounds of fighting and arrived, they witnessed a scene they would never forget.

In the primeval forest, dozens of meters high, a ground mushroom was fighting against five first-tier, level-five [Fallen Silver Tigers], their extraordinary power rippling outwards.

Those were five adult Fallen Silver Tigers, their bodies covered in hard, silvery fur. They were enormous, as strong as two water buffaloes combined, and exceptionally fierce. Their roars were deafening, and with each landing, the earth seemed to tremble. The battle's reach extended to an astonishing radius of several hundred meters.

However, this was not what stunned the two women. What truly stunned them was that the creature currently battling the five Fallen Silver Tigers was actually a Mushroom, a tiny and adorable Mushroom.

The ground mushroom erupted with boundless lightning power, its extraordinary lightning strength triggering the lightning element fluctuations in the surrounding world, turning that area into a lightning pool. The overwhelming lightning power bombarded the Fallen Silver Tigers.

Not only that, but as the ground mushroom unleashed the [Three Thousand Thunderclaps] secret technique, a sky-blue sword light dozens of meters long enveloped the surrounding area, suppressing the five [Fallen Silver Tigers] so they couldn't raise their heads.

Jiang Xiaoran and Cheng Jiaqi were not the only ones watching this scene; some nearby beast tamers were also drawn by the sounds of fighting, their eyes filled with disbelief.

"Holy crap, is that... a ground mushroom?"

"What the hell is that thing? A ground mushroom, how the hell does it know lightning magic?"

"The pinnacle-level [Grass Sword Technique], and so many combat-oriented clan skills—can anyone tell me how this is possible?"

"This is insane! This world is truly insane! Even the ground mushroom can use lightning-attribute beast pet secret techniques now."

The forest not only housed beast tamers from thirty-six beast taming universities, but also many elite beast tamers who had already entered society. However, everyone was dumbfounded at this moment, staring blankly at the scene.

Some beast tamers had discovered the absurd pair of man and beast long ago and followed them for more than half a month, but they were still incredibly shocked to see this unscientific scene.

At that moment, standing at the edge of that dangerous area was a handsome boy with delicate features, whose back was to Jiang Xiaoran and Cheng Jiaqi, cheering on the unscientific ground mushroom.

"Go, Mushroom! Go, Mushroom! Go, Mushroom!"

The boy completely ignored the increasingly outrageous stares around him and kept shouting encouragement, even managing to create a rhythmic sound.

"Lin Yi?"

"Three idiots?"

Jiang Xiaoran and Cheng Jiaqi looked at the figure who was ridiculously handsome even from behind. They knew who it was without the person turning around, especially the familiar voice and the nickname "Mushroom Boy," which solidified the identity of the beast tamer deep in their memories.

When Cheng Jiaqi confirmed that the beast tamer was indeed Lin Yi, her smiling face froze, her mouth agape, and her beautiful eyes filled with indescribable shock.

"Good heavens, it really is that idiot! How did his ground mushroom reach the fifth stage of the first tier evolution?"

And what about those thunderous beast pets and secret techniques filling the forest, and the sky-blue sword light that's dozens of meters long?

Jiang Xiaoran covered her mouth, her shock reaching its peak.

Actually, it wasn't the beast tamers in the primeval forest who were shocked at this moment; the instructors from Nanda University were also dumbfounded, although compared to Jiang Xiaoran and the other two girls, their expressions were somewhat numb.

"Old Liu, what's it like to witness a genius grow up?" Li Zhenbei asked softly. After a month of observation, all the mentors' opinions of that boy had changed, and he had successfully shed the label of being weak in the spiritual plant system.

Liu Bochuan, his mouth dry, said, "It felt great, at least I felt great."

That's my student! The stronger he is, the happier I am.

Su Guoan looked at the terrifying destructive power below without saying a word. At this moment, he only felt a pain in his stomach, as if the arena itself was protesting.

That kid is too abnormal. Old Su even suspects that the guy may have deliberately held back his strength during special training, not wanting him, the head of the first branch, to notice him.

Lin Zhong… Ge Tianming, who had been standing silently behind Lin Yi, had calmed down these past few days, but his heart was still churning. In less than a month, he had broken through five levels in one month, and his skills and combat power had continued to grow. This was simply unbelievable.

"Roar~"

Before long, the battle in the forest was coming to an end. After a month of intensive training, Mushroom Boy had reached the "Peak Level" of the Grass Sword Technique and even entered the "Slightly Accomplished" stage of the Three Thousand Thunder Movement. However, when facing the Fallen War Beasts, whose combat power was already relatively strong, it was still not so easy to deal with them.

But that was one against five! A tiny, pitiful ground mushroom single-handedly fought against five adult, Tier 1, Level 5 Fallen Silver Tigers and still won.

As the last Fallen Silver Tiger was blasted to the ground by lightning and its life force rapidly faded, the entire primeval jungle fell into a deathly silence.

Mushroom Boy put away the [Three Thousand Thunderclaps], and Lin Yi immediately stepped onto the scorched black earth and went up to put the five big guys into his spatial ring.

"Eighty-one now, another nineteen will bring in another ten million."

Feeling great, Lin Yi waved to the little guy after cleaning up the battlefield.

"Little mushroom, let's go."

There's no time to lose; we need to quickly track down the other '100,000'. There are only three days left before the training ends completely. At that time, although the Beast Tamers can continue their training on their own, training without the reward is like losing its soul.

Amidst pairs of "This is fucking unscientific" gazes, the little guy landed on Lin Yi's shoulder, and the two of them walked towards the edge of the battlefield.

en route.

"Lin Yi, Lin Yi?"

Jiang Xiaoran instinctively called out to the junior and ran over. The girl's delicate face and golden ratio figure immediately attracted many male beast tamers. Those elite beast tamers in society stared wide-eyed, their wild gazes sweeping over the girl, finally settling on her slightly raised breasts and exquisite face.

What a lovely young woman! I'm so envious!

"Senior Jiang? Senior Cheng?"

Lin Yi was somewhat surprised, as this was the first group of acquaintances he had met during his training. Although he had encountered many senior students wearing Tiannan Beast Taming University uniforms after entering the first-tier, third-, fourth-, and fifth-level training areas, he did not recognize any of them.

In fact, Lin Yi didn't know many people at Tiannan University, and even fewer senior students. Apart from Jiang Xiaoran, Cheng Jiaqi, Zhang Tao from the Beast Tamer Student Council, and Chen Shiqi, he could count them on one hand.

Therefore, it's not unreasonable to run into an acquaintance now.

"Lin Yi, you're already a Tier 1 Level 5 Beast Tamer?" Cheng Jiaqi looked at the boy in front of her, feeling like she was dreaming. What kind of beast taming monster was this? In the blink of an eye, he had advanced to Tier 1 Level 5?

Lin Yi smiled dashingly upon hearing this: "I advanced by sheer luck. Senior, what are you doing here? If I remember correctly, you're third-tier Beast Tamers, right?"

Especially Jiang Xiaoran, who is a sophomore in the Spirit Plant Department and a little genius. Her talent is among the best in Tiannan University. Logically speaking, she should be in the third-tier training area.

"We're training a new beast pet this time, so we're on the first-tier, level five path," Jiang Xiaoran answered subconsciously, her beautiful eyes fixed on the mushroom cub: "Lin Yi, is your Ground Mushroom following the 'Lightning Element Evolution' path?"

"Mm." Lin Yi nodded.

The two women were immediately shocked. Could the ground mushroom really evolve into the "lightning element"?

Jiang Xiaoran's heart skipped a beat: "What about mine? Can my Ground-shroom follow this evolutionary path?"

Lin Yi fell into thought upon hearing the voice, and after a while replied, "It's difficult, and the hope is very slim."

I have a cheat code, but you don't.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xiaoran's beautiful eyes dimmed, but Lin Yi continued, "Although it is very difficult for the Mushroom Clan to establish a 'Thunder Element Evolution Direction,' it is relatively easier to teach them various cross-species skills."

The key point is that the cross-species education skills modified by the cheat system can be used by all beast tamers and can be used to educate mushroom-type beast pets. However, the cheat system is "secret" when it comes to unscientific evolutionary construction. It directly modified the little guy's body. Unless there is a particularly talented cross-species beast tamer of the spirit plant type, it will be extremely difficult to go for the "lightning element evolution direction".

Jiang Xiaoran's previously dimmed gaze was instantly brightened by these words.

"You mean, mushroom-type pets can also teach other combat-type skills of their own kind?" If that's really the case, then the future of the ground mushroom race is likely to undergo a dramatic change.

Once mushroom-type pets can teach a large number of combat-type pets skills, this race will no longer be despised by everyone, but will transform into the most cost-effective contracted pets.

Although they can't evolve across elements like Lin Yi's ground mushroom, they can still follow the wood-type evolution route. You should know that the wood-type evolution route is one of the ten strongest elemental evolution directions. Some non-spirit plant-type battle beasts that awaken wood attribute talents are also among the strongest races.

For example, there is the "Iron-Eating Beast" which feeds on bamboo-type extraordinary evolution ingredients, the "Extraordinary Woodpecker" which lives in symbiosis with wood, and the "Extraordinary Peng Hou" which is born with wood attributes. Although these battle beasts cannot be contracted by spirit plant-type beast tamers, they are battle beast series that often appear on the top thousand battle beast lists in the combat type.

Once the Mushroom can learn a large number of Fighting-type moves, it will surely shine in the Wood-type evolution path.

"Good heavens, is the appearance of this mushroom-type pet going to change the future of the entire species?"

Cheng Jiaqi was breathing rapidly. At least the mushroom cub had already shown signs of being taught multiple cross-species skills, and this was also verified after Jiang Xiaoran obtained the [Grass Sword Technique] with cross-species teaching methods from Lin Yi.

Jiang Xiaoxi's pet, the "Ground Mushroom," has indeed learned the skill "Sword Spirit Grass."

Upon hearing that the ground mushroom could teach even more skills, Jiang Xiaoran was completely captivated. For the remaining three days, she followed Lin Yi, and whenever he had free time, she would sincerely ask him for advice. The more she asked, the more a strange emotion gradually developed in the little girl's beautiful eyes towards this beast tamer... admiration!

Lin Yi didn't object to this; as long as the money was there, he wouldn't sleep until dark.

On the thirtieth day of his city-wide training, Lin Yi finally collected one hundred Tier 1 Level 5 beast pets, bringing his prize money to a small goal.

He had only thought about it casually, but he never expected to actually achieve his goal. The thought of getting a huge sum of 100 million yuan made Lin Yi feel much more excited.

During his month-long training, Mushroom Boy consumed nearly 50 million units of extraordinary evolution ingredients. By that calculation, he earned at least 50 million more.

Of course, the calculation can't be done that way. After all, the 50 million extraordinary evolution ingredients were already inside the mushroom's belly, so strictly speaking, Lin Yi still made a profit of 100 million.

One hundred million! This was something neither the man nor the beast could have imagined before. How many keystrokes would it take to earn that? You know, aside from the forty million given by the old dean, Lin Yi had only earned less than thirty million in all these days. And in just one month, one hundred million was about to arrive in his account.

The moment the words "The trial is over" echoed in the sky, Ge Tianming left the primeval forest with mixed feelings.

"Mushroom, that's a wrap. Time to head back to Tiannan Beast Taming University."

He couldn't wait to claim his prize money. No matter how much the prize money was, it was only truly his own once he had it in his hands—this was a principle Lin Yi had always adhered to.

However, what neither the person nor the beast knew was the immense shock and psychological trauma this city-wide training had inflicted on some beast tamers.

News that a ground mushroom possessed multiple cross-species skills and could even attract lightning quickly spread throughout the mountains. Especially as people were converging on the mountain exit, the news swept through all beast tamers in Tiannan City like a hurricane.

"A ground-shroom that can attract lightning?"

"A first-tier, fifth-level evolutionary form?"

"The pinnacle of the [Grass Sword Technique]?"

"A single ground mushroom takes on five Tier 1, Level 5 [Fallen Silver Tigers]? A complete victory? How is that even possible? Dude, at least write something before you brag, holy crap."

"It's true. I saw it with my own eyes, and many other people saw it too. It seems to be a spirit plant-based beast tamer from Tiannan Beast Taming University."

In an instant, the entire training exit was abuzz with excitement. The story of the ground mushroom's remarkable turnaround began to spread by word of mouth, and the spirit plant-type beast tamer became a hot topic in Tiannan City.

However, at this moment, Lin Yi and Jiang Xiaoran were already on their way back to Tiannan University. Listening to the Beast Tamers on the bus talking about the ground mushroom, the two girls were still shocked and subconsciously looked at the quiet boy beside them.

How does this guy manage to stay so calm?