Chapter 934: Have We Met Before

This scripture could change everything for her brother. As long as he could master these techniques, there was a good chance that her brother would be able to morph his body into the material of the alloy suited to his opponent, form blades from surrounding metals and reinforce his defences without rushing to look for metal around him. The last technique even described a skill that was called the thousand metal domain, which allowed a sufficiently advanced user to control multiple metal objects simultaneously.

Bai Meiyue could already imagine the sight of her brother standing in the battlefield with thousands of blades surrounding him, made of different metals. He would be invincible! With him alone, no one would dare to break into their safe base. Though learning these skills would be quite difficult!

She then turned her attention to the second book that caught her attention. It was a book on a myriad of beast transformation manuals. "How much for this book?" She could not help but ask when she saw that the book was thicker than the first one. However, after realising that this man might be the answer to her worries, her attitude was much more positive than usual.

"Nine second-grade crystal nuclei."

Sure enough, it was expensive! Though the number nine seemed small, Bai Meiyue knew that killing nine second-rank zombies was not an easy task. Many would die if they were not careful. This was practically asking for a weak ability user to risk his or her life. "You drive a hard bargain," she could not help but say.

The man simply chuckled. "This is what the price is; if you don’t like it, then you can refuse, Miss Bai. But I assure you that this is the fairest price you will ever get from someone. If you meet someone with the same products as me, then I will shave my head."

Bai Meiyue frowned. She did not know why, but something about the tone of this man made her feel troubled. She did not know, but the man seemed to be flirting with her; there was a note in his voice that made her suspicious of him and his actions. However, she still picked up the book and checked it out. The man sure sounded confident, as if he knew what she wanted and needed. And a second later, her eyes widened— stable transformations, partial transformations, enhanced animal senses, hybrid forms and instinct suppression.

This was something that her brother wanted very much. Though her brother’s ability was extraordinarily versatile, he did not have much control over his skills and forms. The last time he changed himself into a hamster, for three days he squealed and squeaked, and he also started eating more carrots instead of meat. There were times when he actually hid in the room.

And then there was another problem. When he changed into a beast form, he often let go of his instincts to the point that she needed to send three to four ability users to knock him down. The bigger his form was, the harder it was for him to control himself. A few days ago, he tried to change himself into an elephant, and then he was running around stomping on things, only Bai Meiyue knew how hard it was for her to make her brother transform back.

But this book was perfect. It taught the user how to maintain human consciousness while adopting an animal’s physical characteristics. It also explained how to combine useful traits from the different animal forms once sufficient mastery had been achieved. They even gave an example of how to develop the eyesight of an eagle, the hearing of a lion and the speed of a leopard without transforming into the beast form.

At higher levels, he might even form a hybrid beast form.

"It’s what you wanted?" The man asked, but she could hear a smile in his voice; it was as if he knew that he had given her exactly what she wanted.

Bai Meiyue narrowed her eyes. "Indeed. It is what I want, but that only makes me suspicious."

"What do you mean by suspicious? What did I do?" The man jumped as if his tail had been stepped on. He snorted and reached out to pick up the books. "If you don’t want them then I will just take them—"

However, before he could pick up the leftover books, Bai Meiyue reached out and picked them up. "I never said that I don’t want them."

As she spoke, she opened the third book. Genesis of Ten Thousand Plants. Just like before, this book seemed like it had been tailored for her mother. Her mother awakened the one ability that she loved the most. After she found out that she had awakened the wood ability, her mother was scared, but at the same time she was quite excited.

She had become more enthusiastic about cultivating plants, but she lacked a proper technique. Currently, her mother could grow plants, but she could only do that with ordinary seeds. She could not control their development or produce powerful mutant varieties. What was more, she did not have any defences. Bai Meiyue heard that some of the people in the safe base were actually stealing the plants that her mother grew and then sending them away to other bases at high prices.

Growing a plant from the seed was the big deal; after it was grown up, even a small-ranking ability user who had awakened the wood ability could maintain the plant’s growth. What Bai Meiyue wanted was for her mother to develop an ability that made it impossible for these people to steal the plants. She wanted the plants to die the second they couldn’t receive her mother’s spiritual energy.

Bai Meiyue had been looking for something similar to this, but she could not find it. This was the first time she had finally found something, and she could not help but get excited. This book could actually solve her problem, as it taught her how to control the growth of the plants.