Chapter 494: Chapter 280: Three-Life Cocoon Room

Shen Xuan hadn’t expected that the seed Zhong Yi gave him would grant him a new Beastmaster Talent that completely shored up his greatest weakness.

The same shocked expression appeared on Zhong Ling’s face.

Zhong Yi used All Things Exploration to inspect the two of them.

[Mother’s Cocoon Room]: Anchor to a creature of the same species as one’s Lifebound Guardian Beast, designating it as a cocoon with a shared soul. Through this cocoon, one-way Contracts can be formed with other similar creatures. This type of Contract does not consume the soul within the talent user’s Soul Base.

[Three-Life Cocoon Room]: Allows the user to possess three cocoons. If the original cocoon is anchored to a Butterfly Guardian Beast, the new cocoons can anchor to two additional Butterfly Guardian Beasts.

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[Purge Poison Burst]: Detonates all poison energy from the user within a target at once, instantly dealing the total accumulated damage.

[Strong Poison Resistance]: When this talent is activated, all poison damage dealt by the user’s units is converted into a shield of equivalent strength, protecting the user and their contracted units.

Without the two of them having to say a word, Zhong Yi already knew what new Beastmaster Talents they had gained after consuming the Soul Taming Seeds.

Building on her original Beastmaster Talent, Mother’s Cocoon Room, Zhong Ling’s newly acquired Beastmaster Talent was named Three-Life Cocoon Room.

Three-Life Cocoon Room allowed Zhong Ling to contract two additional Butterfly Guardian Beasts without consuming Soul Power.

Using Mother’s Cocoon Room to form a one-way Contract with a Soul Vein Mother Butterfly was still Zhong Ling’s best option.

By forming one-way Contracts with a Soul Vein Mother Butterfly in each of her two additional cocoons, Zhong Ling effectively tripled the size of the Butterfly Guardian Beast army under her command.

Zhong Ling’s strategy had always been to use quantity to trigger a qualitative change.

Now, with her new Beastmaster Talent, Three-Life Cocoon Room, Zhong Ling’s combat prowess was strengthened once again.

At the Second Level Extraordinary Tier, with her new Beastmaster Talent, Three-Life Cocoon Room, Zhong Ling effectively gained an additional elite legion of 100 Blade Butterflies and Blade Princess Butterflies.

Zhong Ling had the support of her Cyan Gold Artisan Butterfly and Blue Sky Flash Butterfly, the control and harassment from her Luminous Beauty Butterfly, and the Reincarnation Nether Butterfly’s ability to reuse dead Blade Butterflies and Blade Princess Butterflies. If they met on the Soul Fighting Platform, Zhong Yi might not be able to defeat her without using his trump card: the combination of the Resurrection Celestial Lord’s Exclusive Trait, Withered Oasis, and his own Beastmaster Talent, Extreme Reversal!

The attacks of the Blade Butterflies and Blade Princess Butterflies were like a torrential downpour—swift and fierce.

Especially on the Virtual Source Network, where any losses the Blade Butterflies and Blade Princess Butterflies suffered in battle would not affect Zhong Ling in the real world at all.

The Beastmaster Talent, Three-Life Cocoon Room, allowed Zhong Ling to take another step forward in the ranks of top-tier geniuses.

However, compared to Shen Xuan’s new Beastmaster Talent, Strong Poison Resistance was tantamount to a salvation on his path to power.

It allowed Shen Xuan, a genius who had been just one step away from the summit, to forcefully claim a spot among the absolute best of the top-tier geniuses.

There was no doubt that Shen Xuan’s SS Level potential rating was well-deserved.

The Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother’s Rule Authority, Erosion of All Things, was exceptionally domineering, capable of corroding and eroding even Rules themselves.

Paired with Purge Poison Burst, it allowed Shen Xuan, a Guardian Beast Master who relied on poison as his primary offensive method, to overcome the typical weaknesses of poison-type Guardian Beasts, enabling him to unleash powerful bursts and large-scale damage in a short amount of time.

Relying on the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother’s Basic Skill, Poison Chain Conduction, Shen Xuan could grow stronger the longer a battle raged on.

No matter how many Defensive Guardian Beasts like the Prism Golem he used, Shen Xuan’s strength always lay in his offense.

Once the Beastmaster Talent Strong Poison Resistance was activated, all poison damage dealt by Shen Xuan’s units would be converted into a shield equal to the damage dealt, protecting both Shen Xuan himself and the Guardian Beasts under his control.

Shen Xuan’s Beastmaster Talent, Strong Poison Resistance, couldn’t be used as a conventional Defense Type ability.

This was because the Defense Ability only affected Shen Xuan and his associated Guardian Beasts, but that was more than enough.

This Beastmaster Talent allowed Shen Xuan to go completely berserk in battle, abandoning all defense to inflict the highest possible damage.

Shen Xuan was the perfect illustration of the saying, "The best defense is a good offense."

Originally, Zhong Yi had been thinking about having Shen Xuan contract another Poison Attribute, Defense Type Giant Beast.

But now, it seemed one Prism Golem was enough for Shen Xuan.

Area-of-effect poison abilities from the likes of the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother and Mire Poison Rain Moss could provide Shen Xuan with lasting defensive protection in a subtle, pervasive way.

If Shen Xuan had consumed the Soul Taming Seed and obtained the Strong Poison Resistance Beastmaster Talent before exploring the Second Level Swamp Crocodile Secret Realm, he likely wouldn’t have been injured at all, even when facing the boss Demon.

Zhong Yi looked at their shocked yet delighted expressions and said with a smile.

"Alright, once you two get used to your new Beastmaster Talents, you can participate in the Soul Fighting Ranking Competition whenever you’re ready."

"After you finish the Soul Fighting Ranking Competition, I’m sure plenty of factions will want to recruit you."

"Choose one you like, and then use that faction’s connections to participate in the Second Level Secret Realms opened by the Wanyu Gambling Company."

"From now on, you two will have to shoulder the heavy burden of supporting the family."

Previously, Zhong Yi had thought Shen Xuan only had a fifty-percent chance of becoming a Zhenxing C Level Talent.

But now, if Shen Xuan failed to become a Zhenxing C Level Talent, it could only be because he ran into one of the true monsters from the Nine Great Ecosystems.

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