Gaining A New Set of Hunting Skills

With a goal set in mind, Yao Zi then began to prepare, slowly settling up the decisive grass snake puppet as bait for his hunting trap, but nevertheless, currently, he is just simply messing around playing with the grass snake puppet that he recently made.

The grass snake puppet's interior is made up of tightly-woven together with strands of a grass blade, as they formed a thick robust grass robe, covered with Yao Zi's old snakeskin.

The body of the grass snake puppet's bottom is attached to the ground, with numerous speck of roots rooted deeply into the dirt soil. As Yao Zi then manipulated the grass snake puppet body and moving it around, he accidentally whipped the grass snake puppet body against the ground a few time.

A blue notification screen then appears in front of me, showcasing a new discovery that certainly surprises him.

[Skill proficiency has reached maximum proficiency! The skill {Basic Whip Mastery Lv.1} has been acquired!]

'Oh, a new skill!' Yao Zi excitedly commented as he looked at the notification screen.

'I wonder...' An idea then pops up inside his head.

With the control of the {Dance of a Hundred Grass Blades} spirit beast skill, Yao Zi then weaved together numerous long strong strands of grass blades, thereby forming a long thin vine grass whip of some sort.

Following suite Yao Zi then proceeded to whip the vine grass whip against the ground hard, that you could hear a momentarily short crack in the sound barrier.

This is because, as you go down the length of the makeshift grass vine whip, the thickness of the grass vine would decrease proportionally. And when you move the grass vine whip up and down, the kinetic energy then travels down the long grass vine whip, which is without certainly decreasing in thickness.

The kinetic energy would then propagate, rapidly gathering into the thin tip and end part of the grass vine whip. And when the thin tip and end of the grass vine whip hits the ground, it thereby gave out an explosive cracking sound, which momentarily broke the sound barrier.

'This would certainly do some additional damage, thereby possible to inflict and deal some major wounds, like lacerating the skin or flesh. In the worst-case scenario breaking a few bones or two, depending on the strength of the whip.' Yao Zi thought so to himself.

'With that many wounds possibly inflicted by the whip, it may be possible to get an infection. For a spirit beast to get an infection in one of his or her wounds is almost a death sentence, as there is no medical care in the wild, or much less a doctor or other spirit beast that would be kind enough to heal you.' He thought.

'But it is still not enough.' Yao Zi thought to himself, as he rapidly began to pour spiritual power into his numerous other grass blades.

And once the numerous blades of grass began to be empowered by Yao Zi's own spiritual power; the durability and structural stability of the feeble strand of grass blades began to increase, as it pierces upwards from the ground.

'Hmmm...' He thought to himself.

Changing the direction of where the numerous strands of grass blades towards a target, he turned his body around and found a nearby strong tree to become his target practice.

Yao Zi then activated his spirit beast ability {Dance of a Hundred Grass Blades}, as he instinctively felt his spiritual power depleting at a fast rate, and numerous strands of grass blade began to pop up from the ground. And Yao Zi began to pour additional spiritual power into each of the strands of grass blade that he conjured up from the ground.

The numerous strands of grass blade that are reinforced with Yao Zi's innate spiritual power, they have become as strong and durable as sticks, more comparable to semi-thick tree branches that have been grown for many years.

And under Yao Zi's command, the numerous reinforced strands of grass blades thereby acted like a spear army regiment, as they all pointed their grass spear towards the lone single forest tree.

With a mere thought, electrical signals are then discharged from Yao Zi's brain and throughout his entire body, and then down into the soil which is then interconnected with the numerous long grassroots, which builds the plant information network.

It all happens in under a few milliseconds, the amount of time that it for a flint and steel to ignite, as numerous long grass blades that are being empowered by Yao Zi's spiritual power. They strongly impaled the old forest oak tree's thick tree bark, thereby making the old forest oak tree look like a meagre pin cushion, with the numerous grass blade spears impaling at its sides.

Yao Zi then heard a sharp mechanical beep ringing inside of his head, and a blue notification screen then appears in front of me, measuring the short progress that he made.

[Skill proficiency has reached maximum proficiency! The skill {Grass Impalement Lv.1} has been acquired!]

[Skill proficiency has reached maximum proficiency! The skill {Basic Body Strengthening Lv.1} has been acquired!]

Due to repeatedly empowering the numerous strands of grass blades with his own spiritual power, Yao Zi thereby has unlocked the skill {Basic Body Strengthening} at his own leisure.

The skill {Basic Body Strengthening} does exactly what its name suggests by infusing the owner's own spiritual power into their flesh and muscles to give a temporarily short boost in durability and overall power.

'Through the recent experiment that I've just conducted, I've definitely managed to unlock a new set of skills that may prove useful in my venture.' He thought so to himself.

Yao Zi then activated his spirit beast skill {Dance of a Hundred Grass Blades} once again.

After having evolved from a ten years old spirit beast to a hundred years old spirit beast, the advancement of his own spirit beast skill was quite prevalent, as his control of the numerous strands of grass blades has slightly improved, but the range of grass blades that he could conjure up and control has been increased to about 12-13 meters.

Yao Zi's numerous blades of grass then spread out, rapidly sprung forth from the ground, much like bamboo shoots.

The surrounding twelve to thirteen meters radius, surrounding Yao Zi's figure at the centre is now covered in tall grass, which certainly seems slightly out of place, but nevertheless, it was not that farfetched when you are in a large wild forest completely surrounded by spirit beasts.

With his grass field hunting trap already set in place, and all that he needs to do now is just to wait in place, patiently waiting for a wandering weak spirit to set foot into the area of his grass field hunting trap.

And all he has to do then is activate his {Dance of a Hundred Grass Blade} spirit beast ability to manipulate the numerous grass blades to wrap themselves around the body of the wandering spirit beast, and then he would impale the wandering spirit beast with his empowered grass blades, shortly after that, thereby killing it.

After some time has passed, a nearby unsuspecting spirit beast has accidentally wandered into Yao Zi's trap, as it was only a meagre 47 years old Dirt Skin Spike Tail Squirrel.

The 47 years old Dirt Skin Spike Tail Squirrel's body resembles an ordinary common brown squirrel from Earth, except it has a long enormous tail that is almost twice its overall body size and height, as its large tail is also covered in spikes.

The Dirt Skin Spike Tail Squirrel spirit beast has an offensive-defensive mechanism where it is able to curl up into a ball, as the large spiketail is able to wrapped safely around its entire body, as a form of defensive armour. The Dirt Skin Spike Tail Squirrel spirit beast only has spikes on the backside of its tail, so the long spikes would definitely not cause self-harm to its own body.

However, Yao Zi then immediately activated his {Dance of a Hundred Grass Blades} spirit beast ability, as numerous strands of grass blade then themselves around the body of the 47 years old Dirt Skin Spike Tail Squirrel.

The numerous strands of grass blades then quickly bind and restraint the 47 years old Dirt Skin Spike Tail Squirrel in place, firmly stuck to the ground, with no alternative path of escape.

Afterwards, following in pursuit, more than hundreds of strands of grass blades being empowered by Yao Zi's own spiritual power, as they rapidly rose from the ground and then quickly impaled the 47 years old Dirt Skin Spike Tail Squirrel.

In the end, it thereby made the impaled 47 years old Dirt Skin Spike Tail Squirrel look more like a hedgehog, with the numerous strands of reinforced grass blades poking out from the other end of its body.