BXBX NOVEL Chapter 290 - 147: Blackie’s Breakthrough, Chen
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But Snowy’s defense was a bit weak. Thunder and Lightning Armor was suitable for defending against some magic skills, but it had relatively weak defense against most physical skills. It couldn’t compare to Gangzi’s Magic Crystal Armor and even more so to the Black Iron Dragon Turtle’s Xuan Tie Armor.
Elder Ape’s attack power was too weak, but this shortcoming was made up for by the weapons Chen Fan bought.
Even a Level 8 Extraordinary monster couldn’t withstand Elder Ape’s claws.
Blackie’s Shadow Arrows posed a slight threat to Guardian Beasts of the same level but were unlikely to cause fatal damage.
If Blackie were to fight alone, it might not be able to kill a Level 7 Thorny
Predator even after chasing it for half a day.
Now, it could only use Mental Spike combined with Fear to cooperate in battle.
As for Gangzi…
Gangzi seemed to be neither here nor there.
Its teeth were sharp, and its Crazy Bite was powerful enough to break through a Level 8 Thorny Predator’s defenses once successful.
However, this skill was a melee skill and not fast enough.
In battles like this one, if Gangzi wanted to bite the Thorny Predator’s neck, it could only jump into the air, but in doing so, it would always be dodged and blocked by its opponent.
So, Gangzi could only try to bite the Thorny Predator’s legs.
Gangzi’s Purple Crystal Spike was quite powerful, but it didn’t stand out compared to the attack power of Snowy and the others.
Moreover, Gangzi’s personality seemed not to like using long-range magic skills, preferring to charge forward in battle with its teeth bared.
It preferred to use its teeth and two claws.
However, its four short legs did not give it any advantage in speed against most Guardian Beasts or monsters.
As a result, every battle it participated in turned into a war of attrition.
Once, when Fang Qingqing sent the Cold Ice White Python to the training ground, Gangzi fought it all night, almost driving the python to the brink of collapse.
During the Ring Match, it chased Li Fengxing and his three Guardian Beasts for a long time.
However, in that fight, Chen Fan didn’t allow Gangzi to use the Purple Crystal Spike… because he was afraid of turning Li Fengxing into Little Li.
After all, in modern society, even though there was an Imperial City in Tang
Country, there was no emperor.
If Li Fengxing became Little Li, there would be no one to serve him.
Thinking about all this, Chen Fan remembered the first skill he had unlocked in the system panel…
“Once the ‘Copy Function’ is activated, you can touch a Guardian Beast to copy its skills and then grant them to your own Guardian Beast (or one you have cultivated)!”
Although there were some limitations to this skill, such as not being able to copy conflicting attributes, it was indeed extremely powerful.
By then, he could copy powerful skills from other Guardian Beasts and combine them to solve all of Snowy and the others’ weaknesses!
He needed to speed up his Beast-raising…
For the past two or three days, Zhen Qing’s Golden Gyrfalcon hadn’t added any more system energy for him.
But these past two days, Lin Mengfei’s Wild Savage Ape had indeed helped him gain more than 4000 system energy.
It seemed that Zhen Qing had already left the 5th Secret Realm.
Meanwhile, Lin Mengfei had really taken the Wild Savage Ape to complete missions.
At the moment Chen Fan was thinking about these things, Gangzi finished its battle and killed the Thorny Predator.
And Blackie, after devouring the souls of the two Level 9 Thorny Predators killed by Little Qing, wobbled its way back.
“Huh…”
Chen Fan’s expression changed slightly when he saw Blackie return.
All the materials needed for Blackie to break through to Level 7 had disappeared on its attribute panel!
Did that mean…
Blackie was at the tipping point?
Maybe after taking some time to digest the souls of those monsters just killed, it could break through?
Chen Fan pointed at the Thorny Predator killed by Gangzi and said, “Blackie, go and swallow the soul of that Thorny Predator.”
“Ah!” Blackie cried out miserably, “I feel like I’m going to explode, I really can’t swallow any more! Just kill me!”
“You idiot!” Chen Fan laughed and scolded, “Once you swallow the soul of that Thorny Predator, you’ll almost be ready to break through to Level 7.”
“Nani!” Blackie’s eyes lit up, and it flew out in a flash, “Old man will become the first Guardian Beast to break through to Level 7, hehehe hahaha!”
Just a moment ago, it said it couldn’t swallow any more…
Upon hearing Chen Fan’s words, Blackie immediately threw caution to the wind and began devouring the soul of the Thorny Predator.
Meanwhile, Chen Fan picked up Gangzi, who had returned with his head held high, “Are you still angry about not participating in the battle yesterday?” Gangzi pouted.
Chen Fan continued, “In yesterday’s battle, you were the biggest hero!”
Gangzi: “Hmm?”
Chen Fan smiled, “The Elder Ape only managed to scratch the surface of the Ghost-faced Giant Lizard’s skin with his claws, leaving just a trace of blood, right?”
“Think about it, if it weren’t for your Bloodthirst buff on Elder Ape, even with weapons, Elder Ape’s claw wouldn’t have been able to break through the
Ghost-faced Giant Lizard’s defense!”
Gangzi blinked and looked at Elder Ape standing by its side.
Elder Ape smiled and gave Gangzi a thumbs up.
The Feicui on Chen Fan’s head drifted onto Gangzi’s back: “Tweet tweet tweet!
(So cool!)”
Gangzi looked somewhat embarrassed.
Then Chen Fan continued, “Without your Bloodthirst buff, would Chu Xuan be able to wound the Ghost-faced Giant Lizard’s leg? Would Ye Hao be able to chop off its tail with one axe? It wouldn’t have been that easy.”
Ye Hao grinned, “That’s right. Gangzi’s buff skill, Bloodthirst, is awesome.. I’m so jealous! If my Guardian Beast had a skill like that, it would be great!”