Chapter 1449 - 71: The Salted Fish Turns Over

Chapter 1449: Chapter 71: The Salted Fish Turns Over

The water droplets fell on the leaves, sliding down them and disappearing into the dry grass below.

A towering tree that had endured a lightning strike stood tall in the rainforest. This tree had been growing for at least several hundred years, with a diameter of nearly 6 meters. Lightning had once shattered its crown, but the tree tenaciously survived and now had a new crown.

At the midpoint of the giant tree, Su Xiao emerged from a temporarily dug-out tree hole. In the rainforest, the most important point in resting was to stay away from the ground; otherwise, a peaceful rest would be impossible.

"Bubu."

Su Xiao called to Bubu Wang inside the tree hole. Bubu Wang appeared to be in a daze. Over the past few dozen hours, it had devoured the flesh of sixteen polar creatures, for which Su Xiao was covered in wounds.

Su Xiao wasn’t fighting those polar creatures to the death; if he had been, even if he didn’t die in the hands of a polar creature, he would have died from his wounds.

From the time they entered the rainforest until now, the man and dog hadn’t killed any polar creatures. It wasn’t for lack of trying; those polar creatures might drop a treasure chest when defeated, and some could at least drop golden quality chests, most likely dropping legendary level chests.

The polar creatures in the Hot Rainforest Forest wouldn’t fight Su Xiao to death when they first encountered him, but when they were cornered, they would fight him with their life at stake.

Su Xiao also needed to place the World Core deep in the rainforest, and he wouldn’t fight those polar creatures to the death before accomplishing that task.

Although they hadn’t acquired any treasure chests, under the pincer attack of Su Xiao and Bubu Wang, they obtained the flesh of over a dozen polar creatures. Taking only the flesh without fighting the polar creatures to the death was an inspiration Su Xiao got from Jungle Meow.

As facts proved, the polar creatures from which Su Xiao had chopped off a piece of meat were indeed furious. If it had been in the past, these wounded polar creatures wouldn’t have let it go.

However, Su Xiao, full of blood energy, was not someone to be trifled with, and those polar creatures knew it. Compared to revenge, survival was clearly more important.

These polar creatures bullied the weak and feared the strong. If a weak creature injured them, they wouldn’t just let it go; but fighting Su Xiao to the death had a high chance of them dying, so most of the polar creatures chose to endure for a moment to keep the peace, perhaps roaring before leaving, basically meaning: ’Wait and see.’

Of course, among the dozens of polar creatures, there was one that was particularly persistent, that was Jungle Meow. This vengeful cat had been following Su Xiao and Bubu Wang. Its mindset was the opposite of the other polar creatures; the more it thought about it after enduring for a moment, the angrier it got, and taking a step back just made it feel more at a loss.

One time, during a battle between Su Xiao and a giant ape, Jungle Meow appeared, ready to team up with the giant ape to take out Su Xiao. The giant ape, which stood six meters tall when upright, was extremely angry. But upon seeing Jungle Meow, it instinctively thought that the big cat was in cahoots with Su Xiao.

The giant ape fled in haste, making the scene very awkward. After taking two more strikes from Su Xiao and a pummeling, Jungle Meow fled as well. By now, the grudge had gone beyond just a piece of flesh and a few wounds. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

Su Xiao had just emerged from the tree hole when he saw a giant ape that had been drained of blood. The ape was covered in claw marks and was hanging by vines upside down from a distant tree trunk.

This ape was the same one that had fought Su Xiao, having escaped after losing a forelimb to Su Xiao’s sword.

There was no doubt about it; it had to be the work of the big cat, likely observing Su Xiao and Bubu Wang from nearby.

Bubu Wang lay lazily inside the tree hole. Compared to before, it had noticeably slimmed down, with the fur around its chest and abdomen growing longer than before. Su Xiao squeezed some meat on Bubu Wang’s front leg; it used to be all soft, but now there was a hint of muscle shape, though still mostly fat.

"Oooo~"

Bubu Wang whimpered softly, as if it wanted to stand up, but it couldn’t even open its eyes.

This was a normal state, having consumed the flesh of over a dozen polar creatures consecutively. Although Bubu Wang’s comprehensive attributes had improved significantly, it also placed a great burden on its body, not to mention the several prompts from a dozen hours ago.

[Prompt: Your servant Ripping Space Evil Dog· Bu Bu Te Ni’s charm attributes have reached the 80-point critical point. Do you wish to convert it to a true attribute?]

[Checking...]

[The Hunter’s strength, agility, stamina, and intelligence attributes are all true attributes, with four types of true attributes.]

[Ripping Space Evil Dog· Bu Bu Te Ni, as a servant of the Hunter, can choose two attributes to convert into true attributes.]

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Bubu Wang was different from A Mu. Although A Mu’s strength and stamina attributes had both reached 80 points, they hadn’t triggered the prerequisites for converting to true attributes.

Essentially, A Mu is a summon, while Bubu Wang is a servant. [Servant] is the highest tier position within the servant-type creatures, while summons are third tier.

Most servants have weak initial attributes, but they have growth potential; otherwise, they couldn’t become servants.

It lived up to its reputation. Bubu Wang was just like that. Su Xiao had four real attributes. This allowed Bubu to acquire two true attributes without undergoing assessment.

To be precise, Bubu Wang had experienced assessments; when Su Xiao entered the Demon Castle, Bubu Wang provided full assistance.

The transformation of the charm attribute was a default choice, as it was Bubu Wang’s main attribute. For the second true attribute, Bubu Wang chose agility because how could it frolic around if it wasn’t fast? That was very much like Bubu.

Bubu Wang was in a drowsy state, caught up in the transformation of its true attributes. After devouring the flesh of a dozen high-level creatures, Bubu Wang’s attributes were no longer trash. It could become strong, it just lacked the opportunity; the Hot Rainforest Forest was indeed its turning point.

Bubu Wang’s current attributes are as follows:

Bu Bu Te Ni

Class: Servant· Ripping Space Evil Dog

Life Value: 100%

Mana Value: 400

Power: 69

Agility: 82 (True Attribute)

Stamina: 72

Intelligence: 40

Charm: 86 (True Attribute)

Skill 1, Ice and Snow Goddess’s Gift (Aura Lv.5): Generates an Ice and Snow Goddess aura, recovering 3 points of allies’ life value per second, and 5 points of mana value per minute. This skill has no consumption, and the recovery effect is enhanced by intelligence/charm attributes (the highest attribute is prioritized for enhancement, currently enhanced by true charm attribute, with additional mana recovery effect obtained).

Skill 2, Power of Life (Active Lv.30): Remotely restores a designated target by 50 points + charm attribute x4 of life value.

Tip: This skill consumes 40 mana points.

Tip: The cooldown time for this skill is 5 minutes.

Tip: This skill was promoted by ’Loyal Guardian’ ability.

Skill 3, High-level Creature (Active Lv.MAX): Bu Bu Te Ni can evolve through consuming the flesh of high-level creatures.

Skill 4, Loyal Guardian (Passive Lv.MAX): Bu Bu Te Ni’s loyalty is locked to the highest value, there’s no possibility of betrayal in any situation.

Skill 5, You Can’t See Me (Passive, Self-learned skill): Bu Bu Te Ni can hide according to any terrain, currently with 928 types of hiding (67 types have been improved).

Skill 6, Secret Peeping of Dog Star People (Passive, Self-learned skill): When observing enemies from more than 40 meters away, there is an 80% chance of avoiding being perceived. If the enemy perceives Bubu Te Ni’s gaze, Bubu Te Ni will quickly enter the ’You Can’t See Me (Passive)’ state.

Skill 7, Scent Tracking (Passive Lv.10), can lock on to known scents/smells/traces to track, with a maximum tracking range of 6 kilometers. If not tracked to the enemy’s trace within 3 hours after locking on, or if the distance from the enemy exceeds 6 kilometers, the trace will be lost.

Skill 8, Howl (Passive, Self-learned skill): Bu Bu Te Ni actively exits the ’You Can’t See Me’ state, howling long to try to disturb the enemy’s mind, with a chance to attract a large amount of enemy aggro.

Tip: Bu Bu Te Ni’s abilities have reached 8 types, the maximum limit, and cannot further gain abilities but can evolve/replace/promote existing abilities.