Chapter 26: You’re Making It Hard for Me!
Chapter 26: You’re Making It Hard for Me!
A normal Silk Spitting Soul Skill, after being spat out, would form a powerful controlling skill.
But once the connection was cut, it could no longer be controlled.
The Green Caterpillar could not understand Wang Che’s words.
“Bite the silk thread you just spat out!” Wang Che said quickly.
The Green Caterpillar immediately bit the silk thread that was just about to finish being spat out.
“Good, now try to suck these silk threads back in, feel the changes in your Soul Power.”
Wang Che said again.
The Green Caterpillar opened its mouth and sucked, and the spat-out silk threads were drawn into its mouth like slurping noodles.
“How do you feel?”
Wang Che asked, “Do you understand a little about releasing Soul Power now?”
The Green Caterpillar looked at Wang Che, and after a while:
“Burp~!”
Wang Che: “…”
Green Caterpillar: “╮(￣▽￣)╭”
Great, it didn’t understand.
“Again.”
Wang Che continued, “This time, after spitting out the silk thread, don’t cut it off. Fix it to the distant Cloud Tung Tree, then try to fly over.”
Green Caterpillar: “???”
It looked at Wang Che with a confused expression, squeaking a few times.
As if to say, I’m just a Green Caterpillar.
Can I fly?
You’re making it hard for me!
“If you don’t try, how will you know?” Wang Che encouraged, “Look at that beautiful starry sky, don’t you want to experience the feeling of flying?”
The Green Caterpillar looked up at the night sky scattered with countless stars, like a painting, beautiful and breathtaking for a caterpillar.
It suddenly felt a surge of boldness!
The Green Caterpillar walked to the windowsill, aimed at the top of the distant Cloud Tung Tree, opened its mouth, and spat out a thick silver thread.
Its Silk Spitting Soul Skill, after all this time of Wang Che feeding it the specially made Leaf Biscuit, had become much stronger.
Extremely tough and very sticky!
Thump!
The silk thread stuck to a branch at the top of the Cloud Tung Tree, pulling taut like a straight pole.
The Green Caterpillar jumped onto the windowsill and glanced down.
It immediately got scared, didn’t dare to move further, and jumped right back.
“What are you afraid of?” Wang Che was speechless. “When you fought that Kuka Beast before, you used your tail to spring up, which was only about half this height.”
Back when fighting the Kuka Beast, the Green Caterpillar’s tail spring reached about three stories high.
At that time, it wasn’t scared at all. Under Wang Che’s command, it even used its tail to attack upon landing.
Why is it so timid now?
“Squeak squeak!” the Green Caterpillar cried out.
That was different!
This is the sixth floor, it’s too high.
“What’s the difference.”
Wang Che thought for a moment, walked over, and without another word, picked up the Green Caterpillar and threw it out. “Looks like I need to help you.”
The Green Caterpillar was completely stunned.
When it realized what was happening, its whole body was swinging wildly in mid-air due to panic.
But its body kept falling downwards, like a cosine function graph.
It kept making panicked ‘squeak squeak’ sounds from its mouth.
But right in that panicked moment, it bit the silk thread and subconsciously pulled.
The highly elastic silk thread burst with intense springiness, and its body suddenly started bouncing upward.
The Green Caterpillar’s body stopped swinging. With the elastic force of the silk thread, it arched its back and floated upward.
As if flying, it seemed to be getting closer and closer to the starry sky.
“Squeak… eek~~”
It let out a long cry.
At the highest point, it was flung back down, then flew up into the sky again.
It kept bouncing up and down repeatedly.
Finally, it landed on top of the Cloud Tung Tree, stood there, and looked up at the stars. The scene seemed frozen.
Wang Che nodded slightly.
See, you could do it.
After a while.
“Alright, little guy, now use the same method to come back!!”
Wang Che called out, waking the Green Caterpillar who was lost in the beauty of the starry sky.
The Green Caterpillar turned around and looked at Wang Che: “(╬◣д◢)”
“If you don’t come back now, no snacks tomorrow,” Wang Che said.
The Green Caterpillar spat out a series of silk threads from its mouth, sticking them to the windowsill.
Then it bit the silk thread, curled its body, and flew towards the windowsill like Spider-Man.
Thump!
However, the next moment, it crashed directly into the wall below the windowsill.
It was flattened into a long meat pancake shape.
Wang Che: “…”
Its Proficiency Level was too low, and it couldn’t control the force well.
The window was also too small.
It wasn’t like the Cloud Tung Tree side, which was open.
Wang Che had to pull the silk thread and lift the little guy up.
There was a red mark on its head.
“You need more practice in the future,” Wang Che said. “How was the feeling of flying?”
“Squeak!”
The Green Caterpillar nodded and replied.
It felt wonderful.
It disagreed with only using its tail to bounce last time.
The distance wasn’t enough to begin with, and there was no feeling of flying.
But this time, using silk as an assist, it really felt a bit like flying.
“Good, now do you feel any change in your control over Soul Power?”
Wang Che asked.
The Green Caterpillar did not answer. It stood in place and began to control the flow of Soul Power inside its body.
That special Silk Spitting technique seemed to have made it understand something.
Gradually, a faint trace of Soul Power began to emerge from the Green Caterpillar.
It looked like mist, but it quickly dissipated.
Seeing this, Wang Che’s eyes lit up slightly.
“Not bad, you can already release Soul Power externally. Although it dissipated quickly, it’s a start. If you keep practicing like this, you should master it.”
Releasing the Soul Power externally and attaching it to the body—it also had to be highly condensed Soul Power.
Otherwise, it would be hard to enhance all aspects of physical ability.
Wang Che had looked it up; there was a Soul Skill called “Hardening.”
It was a Ten-Year Soul Skill that many Mountain Rock Type Soul Pets knew.
This Hardening Soul Skill involved condensing Soul Power throughout the entire body from the inside, which could also greatly improve defense.
Different from releasing Soul Power externally, externally released Soul Power that was highly condensed and attached over the whole body was more like a layer of armor.
It not only improved defense but also increased attack strength and even speed when attacking.
“Don’t try to cover your whole body with Soul Power first,” Wang Che instructed. “Try covering one part, like your tail.”
The Green Caterpillar understood quickly this time.
Because Rattler Tail Strike involved gathering Soul Power inside the body at the tip of the tail, then using a Soul Power circulation path formed by body posture to unleash powerful force.
One was internal, the other external.
They were naturally completely different.
But they still had something in common.
Soon, the Green Caterpillar managed to release Soul Power externally and condense it around its tail.
Sure enough, focusing and wrapping it around one part was much easier than wrapping it over the whole body.
But clearly, the Soul Power it controlled wasn’t condensed enough, and it dissipated after several dozen seconds.
Plus, the controlled Soul Power was relatively loose, so the actual improvement wasn’t great either.
But it felt like it had found the right path.
The Green Caterpillar felt a bit excited.
Because it was interesting—when using Rattler Tail Strike, the Soul Power gathering inside at the tail made the tail glow faintly.
But when Soul Power was released externally and wrapped around the tail, it made the tail look like it was coated with a faint fiery light, even more dazzling.
Only here, it couldn’t use Rattler Tail Strike.
Otherwise, it really wanted to see how its tail would look with both combined.
Even if the power wasn’t great now, it thought it would definitely look better and cooler!
Seeing this, Wang Che felt a bit more at ease.
Although it was still a beginner, it had finally learned something.
But it would probably take a lot more training to see real results.
In the next few days, if they just kept training, this Soul Armament Haki could be initially mastered.
And so, during the day, they maintained basic training at school, and at night, Wang Che trained the Green Caterpillar to learn ‘Soul Armament Haki.’
Until… seven days later…