Chapter 417 - Fusion Rank Up. Speaking Human

Zhang Che didn’t stay in Bei Du long. He set off the next day on a new journey according to the map his father-in-law gave him.

As long as he wasn’t at Tier Seven, Zhang Che wouldn’t be able to feel secure. After all, his strength had reached the limit.

Even his strongest subdued beast, the Earthen Rock Demon, could only manage to force a draw at best if they encountered a high-tier legend-quality exotic beast. If Zhang Che encountered a high-tier epic-quality exotic beast, the Earthen Rock Demon could only kneel in defeat despite its massive size.

As for the argument that the scarlet and white sword had the power to cut down high-tier epic-quality exotic beasts, the range at which Zhang Che could control it was too short, only around a hundred meters. The False Domains of high-tier epic-quality exotic beasts extended for several hundred meters!

Zhang Che couldn’t guarantee he could get through such a long distance safely.

Of course, there were some epic-quality exotic beasts with no False Domains. They were surely not a match for Zhang Che. However, Zhang Che couldn’t possibly place his safety in the hands of probability itself, right?

-In the end, I have to advance to high-tier as soon as possible. Once I become a high-tier beatmaster, my soul force will change and improve my physique greatly. With that, in addition to wearing a good set of armor, I can ignore the attacks of most epic-quality exotic beasts.-

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Although Zhang Che was tracked, ambushed, and nearly killed by Miyazaki Musashi in the beast world the last time, he didn’t learn his lesson and rushed to his destination in Dijiang-hao.

In the information his father-in-law provided, many of the places were extremely remote. There was no transport available if he didn’t pilot his own sky shuttle there.

If he just flew on his mount, the time needed for travelling would increase tenfold. It was obviously not worth it. Moreover, this time was different than the last.

The reason why Zhang Che wasn’t able to retaliate before was because Miyazaki Musashi had a spiritual sword fragment with insanely high attacking power, not to mention his subdued beasts were extremely powerful, too!

Now, after Zhang Che’s spiritual sword fragments had devoured Miyazaki Musashi’s and fused into one, its attacking power wasn’t inferior to that metal-attributed spiritual sword fragment at all. Not only that, its attack was faster and nimbler, giving Zhang Che great confidence.

Putting all else aside, if he encountered another high-tier beastmaster like Miyazaki Musashi, who would come out alive in the end was really up in the air.

“Moreover, now that the higher-ups have issued me a ‘pardon token’, there shouldn’t be anyone stupid enough to find trouble with me in Hua Xia, right? As for the Bei Mei region, I don’t think they’d dare to do anything in Hua Xia, either…”

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This time, Zhang Che was also headed south, continuing on the route he had planned before.

As usual, he parked Dijiang-hao inside the military camp and crossed the spatial gateway.

After presenting the genetic evolution fluid research material, the Huang family’s position in the army was solidified. When Zhang Che came out to hunt exotic beasts, he could park Dijiang-hao in any military camp he wished to without worry.

“So that’s the private sky shuttle from the airlines company? It’s very cool, indeed!”

“Hubby, we have to work harder and buy our own sky shuttle in the future!”

“A sky shuttle plane would cost billions!”

The crowd in the camp noticed Dijiang-hao the moment it appeared, and people started talking about it.

It had to be noted that Hangtian Corporation really knew how to run a business.

After Zhang Che bought Dijiang-hao, they produced many ordinary models and invested more money into advertisements. Even ordinary citizens were now aware that private sky shuttles were now available on the market.

It didn’t matter that the common people couldn’t afford it. Just bringing the awareness to the public was a gain for them.

Moreover, who could be sure that common people now wouldn’t be able to afford one in the future? After all, this was a new era!

If a talented beastmaster appeared in any household, they would have the financial ability to buy their own sky shuttle.

An ordinary sky shuttle cost about ten billion alliance dollars. When converted to purple crystal points, it was equivalent to a million. A mid-tier legend-quality beast card would be enough to exchange for one.

Of course, very few had legend-quality beast cards!

On the other hand, many beastmasters had mid-tier dark gold-quality beast cards. If one wasn’t enough, they’d just have to get a few more of them to make up the numbers!

Anyone who had the need for a transportation tool that allowed them to save a huge amount of time and provided a very high safety factor would be tempted to buy one.

As Zhang Che walked past the crowd, the people were looking at him with envious and jealous gazes, but he was long used to it.

He looked straight ahead, ignoring them. After entering the safety zone, Zhang Che immediately summoned the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, mounted him, and flew off according to the directions on the map.

-I wonder if there are many similar five-star exotic beasts here. It really is too difficult to rank up my fusion skill,- Zhang Che thought as he looked at the lands ahead.

His fusion skill was stuck at level three for far too long. Zhang Che only needed a hundred pairs of similar beast cards to rank up his fusion skill.

In the past, it wasn’t too difficult when his fusion skill was only at level one or two. Now, in order to rank up his level three fusion skill, he needed a hundred pairs of five-star beast cards. It might seem easy, but Zhang Che was very clear on the actual difficulty in achieving that.

It had been months, and he hadn’t accumulated enough experience for the rank up.

Although Zhang Che didn’t specially go looking for similar five-star exotic beasts, the number of mid-tier exotic beasts he slew during this period of time wasn’t low, either. Even so, there were extremely few similar exotic beasts.

“Luckily I’m only a few points short now. If my luck is good, perhaps I’ll be able to hit it in one go.”

Zhang Che looked at the fusion skill’s experience points. It was currently at 92/100. He only had to obtain eight more pairs of similar five-star beast cards to successfully rank up the skill.

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With that in mind, Zhang Che diverted his attention slightly in this regard in the upcoming days. Although his harvests weren’t great, on the fourth day, he finally accumulated 100 experience points and ranked up his fusion skill to level four.

After achieving level four, Zhang Che was able to fuse six-star beast cards into seven-stars.

At this stage, the fusion skill finally had a decent function. After all, an exotic beast’s strength would increase greatly from mid-tier to high-tier.

A six-star beast could only fight against two five-star beasts of the same kind at the same time. A seven-star beast, however, could instantly kill a six-star. Even if it was facing against five of them at the same time, it had a very high chance of winning!

“Not bad. Although it won’t be easy to find multiple six-star high-quality beast cards of the same species, there will be times when it’ll come in handy. It’s better than nothing!”

Zhang Che wasn’t too excited when his fusion skill successfully ranked up. In any case, he wasn’t depending on it to increase his strength. Having it or not didn’t matter much.

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During the past four days, Zhang Che had almost cleared out the mid-tier exotic beasts in this area. It was about time for him to change locations.

Before that, however, he summoned out the frisky monkey with a wave of his hand.

Now that the frisky monkey’s skill had a search radius of ten thousand meters, they would be able to find some spiritual herbs every time, although their quality might not be high. Quite a few spiritual herbs have been accumulated in his spatial storage.

Not only that, with the lesson from the last time, Zhang Che specially asked his father-in-law to cut out a big piece of spiritual jade for him before he embarked on his journey. That way, he could preserve the spiritual herbs in his spatial storage, and transplant them all to the Huang family’s herb garden when he returned to Bei Du.

“Zhizhi, zhizhi!” the frisky monkey cried excitedly the moment he appeared.

Since he had to focus on hunting the exotic beasts, other than when looking for spiritual herbs, Zhang Che would keep the frisky monkey in his spiritual sea, leaving the pet feeling very terrible. Naturally he would be excited to finally have a chance to come out.

“Alright, stop crying. When daddy advances to Tier Seven beastmaster and becomes stronger, I’ll be able to let you be out here all the time,” Zhang Che consoled with a smile, caressing the back of the frisky monkey’s head.

“Zhi… ba… baba…”

Zhang Che immediately froze on the spot when he heard the frisky monkey.

-Oh shit!

-Why does this fellow knows how to speak!?

-Is it turning into a demon spirit?!-

“What did you just say? Say it again!” Zhang Che said with a trembling voice, staring at the frisky monkey, afraid that he had heard wrongly.

The frisky monkey blinked a few times, then opened his mouth and moved his tongue with difficulty, stammering, “Baba, baba!”

Zhang Che nearly jumped up from excitement. He hadn’t heard wrongly!

“Here, here, good boy, say that a few more times!”

“Baba, baba, baba…”

The frisky monkey’s tongue became more and more nimble, crying ‘baba’ nonstop, but his pronunciation was off. (TLN: Baba is similar to father in Chinese. The monkey is using a different tone.)

Even so, none of this was important. It was like Zhang Che had discovered a new continent, staring at the frisky monkey as if he was looking at a very interesting toy.

Zhang Che was actually very shocked. Since when was an exotic beast able to speak?

Was it because of the frisky monkey’s species? That fellow was a monkey, after all. It could be considered a distant relative of humans.

Moreover, this fellow’s intelligence wasn’t low to begin with. As his quality increased, his intelligence grew higher and higher. It seemed like gaining the ability to speak wasn’t so ridiculous.

Then, did that mean as long as the frisky monkey’s level and quality continued increasing, he would be able to speak better?

Just thinking about it was very exciting!

To put it in perspective, Zhang Che was often alone in the beast world for extended periods of time hunting exotic beasts. There wasn’t anyone to talk to. As time passed, that feeling of loneliness would drive him crazy.

If the frisky monkey could learn to speak properly, he would be able to fill the role of a conversation partner, making Zhang Che’s life in the beast world much more interesting.

“Hahahah, good boy, come, let’s go look for the spiritual herbs in the area first. Daddy will teach you to speak later!” Zhang Che laughed loudly. He reached out and patted the frisky monkey’s head, ordering him to activate his skill. They’d find the spiritual herbs in the area first before doing anything else.

Who knew? If their luck was good and found a high-grade spiritual herb, Zhang Che could feed it to the frisky monkey, letting him gain a level or two. Wouldn’t he be able to learn to speak faster?! (TLN: Last record of the Gluttony Monkey’s level is at Level 28.)