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#289 - Elemental Kirin Beast

With a muffled "bang~" sound.

Sparks flew, and dust filled the air as the originally burly Elemental Qilin Beast, which looked somewhat imposing, instantly exploded into a pile of broken earth and slag.

"It actually exploded!? This is… because the balance within the elemental formation was broken, right?"

Following his previous train of thought, Liang Yue merely tried to integrate some extra fire elements into the interior of this Elemental Qilin, and this summon, called a "Divine Beast," immediately collapsed from the inside out.

Amidst the scattered sparks, Liang Yue seemed thoughtful, and a hint of doubt couldn't help but appear on his face.

However, it was quickly replaced by a relieved smile.

"Although I haven't researched any useful information yet, using this method to grind levels isn't bad~!"

… …

《Summon Divine Beast》

Level: 1 / 3

Current Level: 1

One of the iconic skills of the legendary Taoist profession, summoning a fire-breathing Divine Beast to assist in battle. After being modified by the system, this skill has incorporated more ideas and possibilities of elemental magic.

Proficiency: 6 / 300

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Although his original intention was only to better understand the operating principle of this Summon Divine Beast skill, and on this basis, try to make certain enhancements or changes.

Proficiency and the like were actually an unexpected gain.

Moreover, only casters like Liang Yue can easily inject extra elemental power into the Divine Beast's body by relying on the specific connection between themselves and the summoned creature.

If it were someone else, the Elemental Qilin Beast would regard it as an attack and autonomously repel and defend against it.

"Whoosh~"

Soon, with Liang Yue's spellcasting, a new Elemental Qilin appeared again on top of the original rubble.

However, this time he didn't experiment in front of the dungeon gate.

After slightly cleaning up the messy things on the ground, Liang Yue led the Elemental Qilin Beast out towards the village gate.

As a result, after walking this short distance, he discovered another problem.

That is, this "Divine Beast's" speed is really a bit slow.

Such a small, flat path actually took him two minutes~

"Putting aside some operational factors, this guy's speed might not even be as good as a little teddy bear, damn it!"

"Just a showy thing, such a big size for nothing…"

… …

Just after walking out of the village gate's stone bridge, Liang Yue came to a thorn forest, or rather, a patch of thorn bushes.

Speaking of this thorn forest…

In fact, it was transformed from the seed of the Hundred-Year Thorn Tree that Liang Yue had previously bought from the system store.

It was a magical plant from a fantasy world. As long as a seed of a Hundred-Year Thorn Tree is planted, it can quickly grow into a Hundred-Year Thorn Tree.

Of course, the biggest function of this seed is actually as a weapon.

After being activated with magic power, it can be transformed into a wolf's tooth club with a hardness comparable to precision steel. It is a common self-defense weapon for forest races such as elves and druids who admire nature.

At that time, Liang Yue bought one out of curiosity.

After playing with it for a while, he found that it was temporarily useless, so he planted it outside the village.

As a result, more than a month ago, when the stronghold world was upgraded and the world outside the village was time-accelerated by the system.

The big tree grown from the seed of the Hundred-Year Thorn Tree was not protected within the exemption light罩.

As a result, now the original Hundred-Year Thorn Tree has directly evolved into a Thousand-Year one.

During the upgrade process, a large area of seeds of the Hundred-Year, Several-Hundred-Year, and even Thousand-Year levels also fell around…

"I can be considered to have picked up a big bargain, right? It seems that I should plan this place well after a while~"

Looking at the patch of thorn bushes in front of him, which had almost densely wrapped the outer periphery of the moat at the entrance of the entire village, Liang Yue felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart for a moment…

In the following time, after he picked a few thousand-year-level thorn seeds from the tree, he began to experiment with the improvement project of the Elemental Qilin by the river.

"Bang~" "Bang~" "Bang~"… …

In this way, accompanied by intermittent muffled explosions.

About an hour later, this 《Summon Divine Beast》 skill was leveled up to level two by him~

"Whoosh~"

Under Liang Yue's gradually skilled summoning skills, a new Elemental Qilin appeared in just five or six seconds.

"Eh! This level two summon is indeed a bit different. Its body has begun to develop muscular lines, and its appearance looks more refined~"

With a thought, he controlled the Elemental Qilin to run around a few times.

Then Liang Yue discovered that with the improvement of the skill, not only did the fire element in the summoned creature become more powerful, and the surface earth shell became more dense and tight.

Even the running speed has also increased a lot.

The movement method is no longer as stiff as before. When running, it looks somewhat similar to a wild bull.

More importantly, the Elemental Qilin no longer drops soil slag when running…

"It's not just these, even the elemental magic formation inside the Qilin's body is a bit different, becoming more complex and refined."

After discovering this phenomenon, Liang Yue suddenly felt like he had found a treasure.

He quickly turned his sleeve and took out his notebook from the storage space, and began to record some of the formations and special features he observed one by one.

Then, he combined these changes with the magic diagram inside the Qilin summoner at level one.

The shape looked quite strange, but faintly formed a discontinuous hexagonal pattern.

When Liang Yue was studying this Elemental Qilin before, although he still didn't understand its principle, he still did something after all.

At present, the elemental formation inside the Qilin, as well as the running direction and rules, are his biggest discoveries.

With this thing, it may be of great use to his research~!

After recording these changes on paper, Liang Yue continued his self-detonation experiment.

"Bang~" "Bang~" "Bang~" "Bang~" "Bang~"… …

For the next whole day, this guy spent it in such a forgetful explosion.

During the process, Teacher Jingxiang and others naturally noticed the abnormality here after finishing the dungeon and came to check it out.

When they saw that Liang Yue had already brushed out the 《Summon Divine Beast》 skill that they had been thinking about, each of them was immediately envious.

Among them, the little girl Nana even stayed by Liang Yue's side from eight or nine in the morning until the sky gradually darkened.

And after working hard for such a day, this skill was finally brushed to level three by him!

The Elemental Qilin after being fully leveled has once again undergone many changes compared to before.

The Qilin's body has become smoother, the muscles are well-proportioned, the limbs are slender, the face is majestic, and a layer of sharp and smooth scales is draped over the body.

It even has some elasticity~

Inside the gaps of the scales, blazing white light and fire are flickering at this moment.

Between the opening and closing of the giant mouth, a hot breath is unconsciously ejected, scorching and distorting the surrounding air.

However, to Liang Yue's surprise, when he put his hand on the Qilin's back again at this time, he suddenly found that the scales were warm!

It was completely unlike the situation at level one before, when it could be directly used for barbecue.

"The control over the power of the elements has become more precise, so that even the body composed of stone shells has undergone some kind of qualitative change… This means that the elemental magic formation inside it must have become more complex!"

"Hmm~"

Looking at the Elemental Qilin Beast in front of him, a look of satisfaction could not help but appear on Liang Yue's face.

However, when he raised his head and looked at the setting sun on the horizon, which had gradually begun to fall to the coastline, he temporarily gave up the idea of continuing to experiment.

Then, Liang Yue picked up Nana, who was also shining in her eyes beside him, and jumped onto the Qilin's broad back.

With a thought, he urged the Divine Beast to run towards the village.

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