Beast Taming: the More the Better

Chapter 143: Chapter 117: Mutation - Paper Body Control! Qian Yi, the union of man and sword!

The Ace of Spades on the little Paperman’s face remained impassive, as if such changes still couldn’t affect a swordsman’s heart. It was just like the three Paper Swords it firmly grasped, still and unmoving.

For the first time, Su Ping found the Paperman’s poker face rather endearing.

The Paperman indeed possessed a natural mastery and an almost instinctive understanding of swordsmanship.

In this peculiar stance, wielding swords in both hands, Qian Yi executed a strike by spinning its body. It used the sword piercing through yet fixed by its body, along with the swords in its hands, to form a circular arc—the Three Sword Style.

After delivering this strike, Qian Yi held the pose.

The next moment, as if quite satisfied with this strike, it sighed softly with its featureless face, ”UGH... (This sword, feels so lonely...)”

Su Ping pursed his lips, forcibly suppressing the urge to quip. He did his best to ignore this private display before using the Eye of Truth to examine Qian Yi.

In Su Ping’s eyes, this light was dazzling, brilliant. At the same time, it was so captivating.

This signified a momentous change had finally occurred in Qian Yi.

As Su Ping watched, Qian Yi’s abilities finally materialized before his Eye of Truth:

[Mutated Paperman (Contracted)]

[Attribute: Metal, Undead]

[Current Level: Common Tenth Level]

[Racial Potential: Elite First Rank]

[Skills: Paper Body Folding (Beginner), Jinge Technique (Perfection), Sword Soul Mark (Special), Accelerated Casting (Proficient Level), Mutated·Paper Body Control (Beginner)]

The breakthrough of Accelerated Casting to Proficient Level couldn’t divert Su Ping’s attention. Compared to Qian Yi’s next skill, Accelerated Casting seemed so trivial it was hardly worth mentioning.

Because this skill was too eye-catching.

[Mutated·Paper Manipulation (Beginner): A special mutated skill derived from the Paperman’s ’Paper Body Joint’. It enables perfect control over its own paper body, the separation of its paper, and control over Papermen within a certain range or those it has touched! It also allows for special jointing with any Paperman.]

The skill description was deceptively simple and unpretentious.

It was similar to Xiao Qing’s ’Heart of the Poison Wood,’ which had mutated and evolved from the ’Heart of Woods’.

It not only encompassed the ’Paper Body Joint’ skill itself but also possessed an even more incredible control effect.

In other words, compared to Xiao Qing’s relationship with the Forest Wolf pack, Qian Yi was now the absolute monarch among the Papermen! It was the true ’head’—the leader.

How interesting!

Breeding Pet Beasts is just too fascinating!

Su Ping watched Qian Yi with great enthusiasm.

At that moment, Qian Yi also seemed to be sensing the power it had comprehended. The Paper Swords in its hands seemed even easier to command at this moment. Any of its intentions, even under such circumstances, could be more thoroughly understood and executed by the Paper Swords it wielded.

At this moment, in Qian Yi’s perception, to use the terminology from those martial arts movies it had seen: This was ’Man and Sword as One’!

The little Paperman muttered to itself in bewilderment, ”UGH... (Have I become this strong...)”

The next moment, Qian Yi moved. Around the training dummy in the basement, CLINKING and CLANKING sounds rang out. Every strike left a faint sword mark on the dummy.

Su Ping intently watched Qian Yi’s every move.

The mutated Paper Body Control could very well be crucial to Qian Yi’s evolution!

That was certain.

So, what were the prerequisites for evolution?

Based on Qian Yi’s current foundation, Su Ping considered several factors: the consolidation of resources from the Metal Element and Necromancy Series, the improvement of its own Realm, and, possibly most importantly, the skill level of this Paper Manipulation.

Su Ping scratched his head.

Xiao Qing’s Heart of the Poison Wood, when linked with the regular Forest Wolves’ Heart of Woods through the Shared Connection in the Forest Wolf Catalog, experienced an increased skill enhancement speed.

But would Qian Yi’s Paper Body Control, if linked with other Papermen’s Paper Body Joint through the Origami Man Record, also experience an increased rate of improvement?

Su Ping didn’t know, but he was certain that ten Papermen were far from enough! To train Qian Yi’s Paper Body Control quickly, he needed even more Papermen!