Chapter 24

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After about 10 minutes of resting, Ai Xi felt much better. It looked up at Li Changsheng who had “attended” to it, its gaze tender.

This poop shoveler was quite up to standards!

After resting, Li Changsheng continued facilitating Ai Xi’s training. He had to put the squeeze on Ai Xi as much as possible, to convert its potential into genuine strength.

With great robustness, Ai Xi strained its limbs to the limit, running around the training ground wildly like the wind. After the previous three consecutive failures, Ai Xi finally broke the original record this time and successfully drank the Healing Spring that it kept thinking about. This feeling of quenching a long-felt need was very memorable.

Alas, this situation did not last long. Very soon, Ai Xi once again reached a hurdle and could not break its record for several attempts.

“Ai Xi, stop here. We’re going to the bamboo grove now. Your task is simple, master the Claw Crush as quickly as possible!”

Looking at Ai Xi’s exhausted state, Li Changsheng knew that it had no more energy to break its running record, so he found another reason and changed the training regimen.

Unlike before, after entering the bamboo grove, Li Changsheng did not instruct Ai Xi to attack the bamboo. Given Ai Xi’s current improved strength, the bamboo was no longer an effective target, so he had to change to a new one.

Li Changsheng found the target in no time. It was a melaleuca stone about 2-meters tall, dense and hard, its texture solid.

“Ai Xi, shred this melaleuca!” Li Changsheng pointed at the stone and issued an order to Ai Xi.

Ai Xi pounced on the melaleuca with little hesitation. Sharp claws popped out quickly from the pads of its forelimbs. Both claws swiftly passed over one another.

Swish~ swish~

The next moment, several marks of differing depths appeared on the surface of the melaleuca.

With Ai Xi’s current strength, it would take a lot of effort to completely shred the stone.

Swish~ swish~ swish~ swish~

Without waiting for another order, Ai Xi leaped up once again and continuously used her Claw Tear, leaving more and more claw marks on the melaleuca.

Compared to before, Ai Xi’s hit rate had improved dramatically. It continuously deepened and enlarged the tear marks on the original spots again and again.

As time passed slowly, some small stone fragments started to fall off. Although the irregular fragments were far from being powdery, it was becoming closer to a Claw Crush.

Claw Crush, an advanced skill of the Claw Tear, was able to cause huge damage to an opponent’s bones and muscles with one swipe.

If this skill was dished out on the melaleuca, it would destroy the surface layer of the stone and the fragments that were scraped off would be powder.

Simply put, the Claw Crush was more powerful than Claw Tear and significantly increased the damage output.

Whenever Ai Xi improved, Li Changsheng praised it profusely and poured it a bowl of Healing Spring as a reward.

Right now, Ai Xi was full of energy and bursting with intense fighting spirit.

No one kept track of the time and, just as the sky slowly turned dark, Ai Xi’s attack finally showed a change. A faint white light appeared on its sharp claws as it struck the melaleuca.

Crash~

With a dull bang, the melaleuca shook violently. Where the newest mark was, white powder was visibly shaken off and scattered to the ground under the breeze.

“Claw Crush?”

Li Changsheng hurried forward and used his hand to dab some of the powder and rubbed it, feeling the texture. This powder was slightly smooth—that could only be achieved by Claw Crush.

After learning Claw Crush, Ai Xi’s attack power was raised drastically. If it were to duel Li Jianren’s Fire Wolf again, Li Changsheng believed it could kill its opponent in one swipe. Such was the advantage of Advanced Skills.

Of course, the foundation of most skills was built upon a demon pet’s base. The stronger the base, the stronger the skills it could unleash.

“Ai Xi, continue using Claw Crush!” 

Under Li Changsheng’s command, Ai Xi leaped up once again and continued attacking the melaleuca. This time, the white light did not appear. The Claw Crush failed to activate.

“Claw Crush is not an energy skill. Logically, there’s no cooldown interval. What happened was possibly because you just mastered it. Only by continuing training will you be able to thoroughly learn Claw Crush!”

In no time, Li Changsheng obtained the results.

Statistically, Ai Xi could successfully activate Claw Crush once every three attacks, but after some targeted training, the probability gradually increased.

Based on Ai Xi’s progress rate, he felt it would still take a few days to thoroughly master Claw Crush.

For the following week, Ai Xi’s training was mainly divided into two parts. Other than strengthening the Claw Crush, the remaining time was all spent on limit-breaking training.

With the aid of the Healing Spring, Ai Xi’s training was several times more intense than usual demon pets, which was a clear advantage. This lead to Ai Xi’s speedy progress which could almost be tracked with the naked eye.

In just a week, Ai Xi not only mastered Claw Crush, but her physique had also improved greatly, especially in terms of speed and stamina.

Back at the training ground, a panting Ai Xi successfully reached the finishing line. This time, it broke the record again.

However, the full burst consumed a lot of physical strength. It stuck out its tongue and took deep breaths of the fresh air.

At the same moment Ai Xi dashed past the finishing line, Li Changsheng glanced at the hourglass and calculated Ai Xi’s speed.

This time, Ai Xi, while bearing weights, took 1/15 of the hourglass to complete the course.

1/15 of hourglass equaled one minute, with the 10-kilogram weights. Ai Xi’s average speed had increased to 13.3 meters per second.

Compared to the beginning of the limit-breaking training, Ai Xi had made great progress. Its speed had obviously improved a lot. This also showed the effectiveness of the limit -breaking training.

Of course, this was also related to its level. Now, Ai Xi had already grown to Lower 7th Order, its body length was about 2 meters, almost big enough for Li Changsheng to ride.

“Congratulations, progress has been made again!”

Looking at Ai Xi’s eager gaze Li Changsheng smiled. He naturally guessed what Ai Xi was thinking.

Knowing that it had once again broken the record, Ai Xi’s eyes displayed a human-like pleasure. This meant that it could drink the Healing Spring again.

“Ai Xi, hard work will never betray you. I’m sure you understand this too!”

Li Changsheng smiled and added, “Alright, I hereby announced the end of the limit-breaking training. After this, we begin to focus on actual combat!”

Awoooo~

Ai Xi wagged its tail and cried out happily. Perhaps it was pleased and proud of its progress, or maybe it just thought that it finally saw the end of the hellish training.

PS: There was something that resembled a human, with two white bands hanging in front of its shoulder. It was good at howling, jumping, twisting, and toying with round objects. Its lifespan is about two and a half years and also contained a trace of the Kun bloodline. (TN: a Kun, in Chinese mythology, is a giant fish creature that can transform into a giant bird.)