For example, Elemental Soul Beasts cannot inherit the Primordial Wildness Talent from beast-type Soul Beasts.
The following is a list of collected Talent information (arranged by Talent grade)—
None
Collection Method: Gather shattered Talent fragments from the corpses of recently deceased Soul Beasts.
"!!"
’This is incredible! It can even copy Talents?’
At this moment, Han Ning wasn’t thinking about which Talents to pass on to his Soul Beasts.
Instead, a thought suddenly struck him: ’Can these collected Talents be inherited by humans?’
’If a human had a flesh-and-blood modification Talent, on top of an Elemental Affinity Talent, wouldn’t they be comparable to a Soul Beast?!’
Han Ning wasn’t asking for his body to become absurdly strong. He’d be satisfied just to be able to survive a single hit from an enemy Soul Beast in a moment of extreme crisis.
’Ugh, although that might be wishful thinking.’
He blinked and saw the final line of fine print at the bottom of the panel.
Note: If the target Soul Beast already possesses a Talent of the same type, they cannot be stacked. The lower-quality Talent will be replaced by the higher-quality one.
’Huh? The panel doesn’t specify a minimum Talent for the inheriting Soul Beast. Does that mean even a Soul Beast with an E or F Talent can inherit one?!’
This thought left Han Ning feeling a little restless.
He didn’t have to look far for possibilities. Just giving a Spiritual Power-related Talent to Yin Yi, Egg Pancake, or even himself would be a massive boost.
For a human who already had outstanding Spiritual Power, gaining a spiritual-type Talent would be like giving a tiger wings.
Of course, that was assuming they were compatible with the Talent.
"Awesome, awesome~" Han Ning was itching to test out the Talent inheritance function right away, but conditions didn’t permit it. He’d have to try later.
He still needed to spend some time familiarizing himself with the newly upgraded panel.
After quickly browsing the new functions, Han Ning turned his attention back to Egg Pancake’s interface.
Now, at the bottom of Egg Pancake’s data, a new line of text had appeared:
[Spend 10,000 Energy to unlock the Elemental Compression skill?]
’What’s the Elemental Compression skill?’
The thought had barely formed in his mind when the panel provided an explanation:
[To enter the High Energy Accumulation stage, a Soul Beast must master the Elemental Compression skill. This allows it to compress more Elements into its body, achieving a qualitative change that transforms it and allows it to break through.]
’Alright, that sounds important. Let’s unlock it!’
Han Ning shook his head, spent another ten thousand Energy, and unlocked the skill.
WHOOSH~
The air suddenly began to distort.
A figure constructed entirely from the Fire Element suddenly emerged.
The Flame solidified into a fiery red cat the size of a large dog. It bowed its head to Han Ning, who was sitting before it.
A line of information from the panel hovered above the Flame cat’s head.
[Energy Projection - C Talent - Fierce Striped Cat - A beast proficient in Fire Elemental Control]
"Meow~"
This cat, made entirely of Energy, was like an NPC. It possessed a degree of sentience and let out a clear meow, as if signaling Han Ning to summon the student.
At the same time, another line of text appeared above its head: [Please summon the student]
’It’s surprisingly smart,’ Han Ning muttered in amazement. A rift to the Soul Beast Space opened, revealing Egg Pancake’s silhouette.
The Fierce Striped Cat saw Egg Pancake and nodded slightly. It then rose onto its hind legs, and a fireball radiating scorching heat materialized above its paw.
"Egg Pancake, do as this cat shows you," Han Ning instructed.
"SQUEAK SQUEAK!!"
Egg Pancake copied the motion, extending its own paw and forming a fireball.
Just a simple fireball, but this one was made of Red Lotus Demon Fire. Now that it was being wielded by the War General Level Egg Pancake, its power was even more evident.
The blood-red fireball in its paw rapidly expanded, becoming a highly concentrated sphere of flame about the size of a basketball, which danced between Egg Pancake’s paws.
Egg Pancake playfully batted the fireball, sending it spinning around its fingertips before striking a shooting pose.
The fireball was stable, neither exploding nor emitting any scorching heat. It was as if it were a solid basketball.
Unexpectedly, the Fierce Striped Cat stared at the fireball between Egg Pancake’s paws and shook its head in a very human-like gesture.
"Meow~"
It gestured for Egg Pancake to watch, then raised its paw.
An orange fireball instantly formed above its paw.
When this fireball first appeared, it was roughly one meter wide.
Under the gazes of Han Ning and Egg Pancake, it quickly shrank, condensing to 50 centimeters in diameter.
Its original orange hue deepened slightly.
’This is...’
Han Ning extended his Spiritual Power to sense the Flame Energy within the fireball and immediately understood what the Fierce Striped Cat was doing.
’It’s a fireball made purely of the Fire Element, with no special properties. It’s not Red Lotus Fire, nor is it the purple fire of a Flame Fire Vermilion Centipede. It’s just an ordinary Flame...’
"Meow~" The Fierce Striped Cat meowed as a reminder and continued to compress the fireball.
The fireball slowly shrank from 50 centimeters to 25.
Its color deepened even more.
"Meow!"
The Fierce Striped Cat stared at Egg Pancake.
"SQUEAK!"
Egg Pancake understood. It dissipated the fireball above its paw and, copying the Fierce Striped Cat, manipulated the most basic Fire Element to create an identical orange fireball.
"Meow..."
Under the Fierce Striped Cat’s control, the fireball became smaller and smaller.
centimeters... 15 centimeters... 10 centimeters... 5 centimeters...
The smaller the fireball grew, the deeper its color became, and it began to radiate a terrifying power.
But then, to Han Ning’s surprise, Egg Pancake could only manage to compress the "ordinary" fireball down to a diameter of five centimeters before it couldn’t shrink it any further.
The fireball above its paw flickered violently, looking extremely volatile, as if it would explode at any second.
The keenly perceptive Yin Yi stared intently at the unstable fireball, a wary expression on her face.
"Squeak..."
Though it was just a simple, small fireball, Egg Pancake treated it like a formidable foe. The paw condensing the Flame was even trembling slightly.
’Egg Pancake is nervous. It probably didn’t expect that it could only compress an ordinary fireball down to five centimeters...’
Han Ning sensed Egg Pancake’s emotional shift through their Spiritual Power link.
"Meow meow~"
The Fierce Striped Cat watched the fireball on Egg Pancake’s paw while continuing to shrink its own.
Five centimeters... four... three... all the way down to one centimeter, roughly the size of a pea. The originally orange fireball had become like a solar flare, outwardly calm but containing terrifying power within.
Then, to Han Ning’s astonishment, the Fierce Striped Cat pinched the pea-sized fireball and, as if pulling noodles, stretched it out to the sides.
The fireball instantly transformed, like dough in a ramen chef’s hands, changing from a sphere into three thick, deeply colored "noodles."
The shape of these noodles was somewhat reminiscent of the Flame Rope a tiger-striped beast had once used...
The Fierce Striped Cat stretched the three strips of Flame several meters long, then, swinging them in its paws, began to jump rope on the spot...
It hopped casually a few times, then clapped its paws together, and the strips of Flame reformed into a fireball.
"Meow!"
The Fierce Striped Cat suddenly cried out and tossed the fireball forward.
The fireball hovered in the air between them, spinning silently.
As it spun, a thin tail, a round head, slightly curved ears, big eyes, whiskers, and paws began to grow from its smooth surface...
The small fireball had transformed into a tiny, one-centimeter-long Flame Fierce Striped Cat!
"Meow~"
This tiny Flame Fierce Striped Cat seemed to have gained sentience. It glanced up at Han Ning and Egg Pancake, then trotted on the air over to Han Ning and ran a small circle around him.
Finally, it perfectly mimicked the original Fierce Striped Cat’s movements.
It too began to compress a fireball above its paw.
The one-centimeter-long cat condensed ten minuscule fireballs, each one millimeter wide.
And these fireballs, in turn, transformed into ten even smaller Flame Fierce Striped Cats.
The one-centimeter cat was gone, replaced by ten one-millimeter Fierce Striped Cats.
The tiny Fierce Striped Cats all mimicked the motion of meowing, simultaneously spewing thin streams of Flame from their mouths. They continued for several dozen seconds before finally vanishing into thin air.