Chapter 36 : Chapter 36
Chapter 36: The Eighth Trait: Bloodline Reversion!
A good place?
Looking at the bandit-chieftain grin on Wan Feipeng’s face, Ye Ze would have thought the man wanted to drag him off to a foot-massage parlor... if not for his strength and status.
But Wan Feipeng said nothing more. After tossing out that remark, he slung the Nightshade Jackal’s corpse over his shoulder and left.
The speed of a sixth-rank Hunter was several times faster than even a High-Speed Rail train.
Clearly, the appearance of a Fiend General had forced even him to take the matter seriously.
Ye Ze sighed helplessly. “I still need to get stronger?”
Yet the strength he had displayed here had not even reached half of his full combat power...
Not even Wan Feipeng had considered such a terrifying possibility.
A Level 7 Summoner fighting a Level 30 Rare-grade magical beast without even using half his strength—who would believe that?
Ye Ze shook his head and returned to the train.
Reinforcements from the city defense forces had already arrived as well, and the beast tide was completely over.
Beside the High-Speed Rail train lay heaps of beast corpses in utter ruin, and even the air was thick with the smell of blood.
Qin Cheng and Zhou Huahua were waiting outside the train. The moment they saw Ye Ze, shock filled their faces.
“Ye Ze... did you kill the leader of the beast tide?”
Ye Ze nodded calmly. “City Lord Wan Feipeng took the corpse away. It is all settled now.”
He removed his Bronze Medal, recalled Panda into the Summoned Beast Space, and returned to the carriage.
That left Qin Cheng and Zhou Huahua staring at one another in speechless disbelief.
He had killed the leader of the beast tide single-handedly...
Were high school students really this terrifying now?
...
This time, when Ye Ze returned to the carriage, every student on the train turned to look at him.
The entire carriage fell silent.
It was as though Ye Ze was no longer their schoolmate, but some immortal figure out of legend.
Only after watching him walk back into his compartment did the students finally erupt in astonished cries.
“He killed the leader of the beast tide by himself! Good heavens, is he even human?”
“Should I ask for his autograph now? I have a feeling I might not be able to get one later...”
Listening to the commotion behind him, Ye Ze returned to the compartment.
Xia Qing, dressed in a light green dress, was reporting the details of the attack to the academy.
When she saw Ye Ze come back, she actually grew a little tense.
For a moment, she did not know what sort of attitude she ought to take toward him...
At the very least, for now, it was difficult for her to keep treating Ye Ze as an ordinary student.
But Ye Ze only smiled calmly. “Teacher Xia, I’m going to rest for a while. Just call me if something comes up...”
With that, he really did lean back in his chair just as before, closed his eyes, and rested as though nothing at all had happened.
Xia Qing leaned closer and studied him, her expression complicated.
This was her first time leading students out during her internship, and they had already been attacked by a beast tide. Even now, when she thought back on what had happened, lingering fear still remained in her heart.
And yet Ye Ze could still fall asleep this calmly?
That, however, was a misunderstanding. Ye Ze was focusing his mind to draw a Trait!
After reaching Level 8, he still had one Trait left to draw.
Fortunately, nobody else could see the process of drawing Traits, so he simply did it right there in the compartment!
【You have drawn a Golden Legend Trait: Bloodline Reversion!】
【Bloodline Reversion: Awakens the power of the bloodline, returning it to the glory and inheritance of ancient times!】
(Note: Must be used on a target that possesses a bloodline.)
The moment he saw that Trait, Ye Ze almost failed to keep his composure in his inner vision!
It awakened the power of an ancient bloodline!
At once, he thought of a legend from Earth: Chi You and his mount, the Iron-Eater Beast!
If the Iron-Eater Beast had once served as Chi You’s mount, then that had to be the peak of its power!
Besides, among all his summoned beasts, only the Iron-Eater Beast possessed a bloodline, so there was no need to think twice about who should receive it.
Ye Ze turned his attention to the Iron-Eater Beast’s Summoned Beast Space.
It was a self-contained world of natural mountains and streams, and Panda was gnawing on half a stalk of bamboo...
“Bestow the Trait on Panda!”
【Trait ‘Bloodline Reversion’ successfully bestowed!】
【Summoned Beast: Kung Fu Panda (Epic☆☆☆☆☆☆) advanced → Jiuli War Beast (Golden Legend☆)!】
A flash of golden light passed over it, and Panda’s body grew much larger.
Its black-and-white fur looked as hard as armor, and its claws became even sharper. Aside from that, the changes were not too great.
A second Golden Legend-grade summoned beast!
And it even had one more star than the mantis. Filled with anticipation, Ye Ze checked its attributes:
【Jiuli War Beast · Kung Fu Panda】
Grade: Golden Legend☆
Level: 8
Attributes: Strength 251, Constitution 206, Agility 225, Spirit 189
Talents: Jiuli Bloodline (Legendary), Taiji Inner Force (Legendary), Battle-Hardened (Legendary), Legendary Renown (Legendary)
Skills: Jiuli Edge lv.8 (Legendary), Primordial Phantom lv.8 (Legendary), Taiji Fist lv.10 (Legendary), Deflect a Thousand Pounds with Four Ounces lv.10 (Legendary)
Equipment: Crimson Spirit Bracers (Rare).
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Other than Strength, all of its other attributes had increased by 45 points, while Strength itself had surged by a full 60!
Just looking at that attribute panel was enough to make one uneasy.
On top of that, it had gained two new combat skills:
【Jiuli Edge】: The Jiuli War Beast’s attacks are imbued with metal-element cutting power, ignoring defense and impossible to block.
【Primordial Phantom】: Condenses spirit and inner force, materializing the phantom of an ancient ancestor into tangible form. It unites offense and defense, greatly increasing both damage and defense.
These were pure damage skills!
If Panda in the past had overcome hardness with softness, then Panda now combined hardness and softness as one.
Especially with Primordial Phantom, which provided all-around defense and also expanded its range of attack, its combat power had increased enormously!
Earlier, when facing a beast tide of dozens of beasts along with two Level 30 beast kings, Panda had been somewhat stretched.
But now, with Primordial Phantom activated...
Against a beast tide of that level, Panda alone would have been enough!
With this level of improvement, whether he was facing the hidden Fiend General or the massive group dungeon ahead, Ye Ze felt much more confident.
And while he was drawing the Trait, the High-Speed Rail train had long since resumed its journey.
No matter what, the large group dungeon could not be delayed.
When Ye Ze opened his eyes, he found that Qin Cheng and Zhou Huahua were already gone from the seats across from him. Only he and Xia Qing remained in the compartment.
And Xia Qing was typing at her keyboard, her face full of indecision as she worked on something...
Ye Ze glanced over and saw the title: 《Application for Full Appointment - Xia Qing》, Fourth Revision.
Biting her lower lip, Xia Qing typed, “Led students outside during an attack; successfully maintained order among the students,” into the “Personal Achievements” section.
Then she added several dozen more words of detail.
A deeply familiar feeling rose within Ye Ze, and he said with heartfelt sympathy, “This is exactly what I used to do when I padded an essay to reach the word count...”
The sudden remark made Xia Qing’s fair face flush scarlet at once. In embarrassment, she hurriedly covered the screen of her laptop with her hand and cried out indignantly,
“Y-you... how could you peek!”
Between a student and a teacher, how could that count as peeking...?
Ye Ze put on an innocent smile. “I wanted to learn from you.”
“You do not need this...”
Xia Qing sighed helplessly. “I am only a university student still in my internship period. What teaching accomplishments could someone like me possibly have?”
“Of course I have to write as much as I can. Otherwise, I might not become a full teacher for another two or three years!”
There was one more thing Xia Qing did not say, but Ye Ze understood it.
If she wanted real teaching achievements, her students’ accomplishments would make up a large part of that...
Otherwise, the Vice Dean would not have been so eager to become Ye Ze’s nominal mentor.
And for Ordinary Class Three, where Xia Qing was doing her internship, the chances of producing any noteworthy results were vanishingly small unless she was blessed with extraordinary luck.
There was only so much she could do on her own.
Thinking of this, she could not help feeling again: If only she had a student with even half of Ye Ze’s ability, she would not be so troubled over becoming a full teacher...
Not long afterward, the High-Speed Rail train gradually began to slow.
Then a flat computerized announcement sounded:
【Qingfeng City has arrived...】