Chapter 31: Great Spirit Arena
After Xiao Wu finished "threatening" Wang Sheng, she subconsciously glanced toward Lin Mo.
However, after Wang Sheng's question just now, she could not help but start thinking about it.
"Lin Mo's current strength is indeed not weak," Xiao Wu thought to herself. "The flames that Charmander spits out are extremely hot and very hard to deal with."
"Even among the Spirit Beast cubs in the Star Dou Great Forest, few fire attribute cubs have flames with such a high temperature."
As a re cultivating 100,000 year Spirit Beast, she had extraordinary perception and could clearly sense the terrifying heat hidden within Charmander's flames.
"If we really fought head on, I probably would not gain much of an advantage, and I might even suffer a loss."
But even after realizing this, Xiao Wu still had considerable confidence in her own strength, and the source of that confidence was Lin Mo himself.
Thinking of this, Xiao Wu's gaze drifted toward Lin Mo again, and she muttered inwardly,
"No matter how powerful Charmander is, it is only an External Beast Martial Soul, and Lin Mo himself does not look like he has much combat power. As long as I find a chance to get close, with my Soft Techniques and strength, subduing him instantly should not be a problem."
In her view, Lin Mo's situation should be similar to Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang's.
Although Luo San Pao was also an External Beast Martial Soul, Yu Xiaogang himself was physically weak, the type who had no power to fight back once someone got close.
Lin Mo felt Xiao Wu's gaze and subconsciously turned his head to look at her.
Their eyes met, and Lin Mo immediately read the thoughts from her expression. They were practically written on her face.
"Heh..." Lin Mo could not help muttering to himself, "This little rabbit is really thinking that way."
"My Charmander is like Yu Xiaogang's Luo San Pao, both are External Beast Martial Souls, so she thinks I should also be like Yu Xiaogang, with a fragile main body that needs protection."
"If she really thinks that, then she is completely wrong." A faint, almost imperceptible light flashed deep in Lin Mo's eyes.
Yu Xiaogang without Luo San Pao could indeed be called weak, but he was completely different from Yu Xiaogang.
Although his second martial soul still had not attached a spirit ring, the high bonuses brought by his Body Martial Soul had already made his physical strength far exceed that of Spirit Masters of the same Rank.
Moreover, he had long since figured out a unique technique that belonged exclusively to his Body Martial Soul, the currently preliminarily perfected Self created Spirit Skill, Blood Burst.
Although it was currently only at the first stage, Boiling Blood, with the numerical boosts brought by Blood Burst, he had more than enough power to protect himself against Spirit Masters of the same Rank.
If Xiao Wu really treated him as an ordinary person with no power to fight back, she would be making a huge mistake.
In terms of physical fitness alone, both Xiao Wu and Tang San were no match for him.
Tang San's 2 Spirits were both Tool Spirits, which were naturally weaker than Beast Spirits when it came to improving physical fitness.
And Xiao Wu's Soft Bones Rabbit Spirit was not a strength type Spirit. Its bonus to physical fitness was only at the lower middle level among Beast Spirits.
If someone really wanted to bypass Charmander and sneak attack his main body, Lin Mo would let them witness the terror of a stat monster.
He would show them what it meant for the left fist to hit hard, and the right fist to hit even harder.
Watching Lin Mo's calm and unruffled expression, Xiao Wu's competitive thoughts slowly faded.
She curled her lips, picked up the half gnawed meat bone again, and continued her "battle" with it.
After this small interlude caused by Wang Sheng, the atmosphere at the table quickly returned to harmony.
Lin Mo continued taking care of Charmander. He watched it sweep away the meat on the plate, then stare eagerly at the other dishes on the table, especially the plate of sauce braised bones.
"You little fellow, you really do have a big appetite." Lin Mo smiled and picked up a few more pieces of meat for it, while continuing to calculate the matter of gold coins he had just been thinking about.
"Gold coins really are a problem."
As he fed Charmander, Lin Mo could not help thinking silently.
The Spirit coins he currently had were enough to maintain his own daily life, but if he wanted to touch those precious resources, he would immediately be stretched thin.
For example, the external forces that might allow his second martial soul to complete its evolution, whether Spirit Bones or Immortal Herbs like the qiluo tulip, were all treasures that could be encountered only by luck.
Leaving aside whether he could find them, even if he was lucky enough to encounter one, he simply did not have enough gold coins on hand to buy it.
Not to mention that treasures of that level rarely appeared in transactions involving gold coins. Most were exchanged through barter.
"To get the resources needed for Cultivation, I need a large amount of gold coins..." Lin Mo chewed his food silently.
"Relying only on the Spirit Hall subsidy and the wages of a Work Study Student is absolutely impossible."
However, as for how to solve the gold coin shortage, Lin Mo actually already had a preliminary plan.
It was just that in a small place like Nuoding City, it could not be implemented yet.
"Great Spirit Arena..."
This name surfaced in Lin Mo's mind.
Spirit Masters could sign up there for spirit fighting matches and earn generous gold coin rewards by winning.
That was the place where one could truly earn a large amount of gold coins quickly, while also tempering real combat ability.
"When I leave Nuoding Academy and go to a big city, there will definitely be a Great Spirit Arena near the Intermediate Spirit Master Academy."
Lin Mo already had a plan in his heart.
"At that time, with my strength and Charmander's strength, earning the gold coins needed for Cultivation there should not be a problem."
Of course, all of that was for later.
At this stage, he still needed to complete this last half year at Nuoding Academy peacefully, while working hard to raise his spirit power Rank.
This dinner lasted a long time, and it was not until the second floor of the canteen was about to close that everyone finally left contentedly.
Lin Mo returned to Dormitory Seven with the others, holding Charmander, who was also stuffed full. Even the flame on its tail seemed a little more vigorous.
After returning to the dormitory, Charmander seemed sleepy from being full and proactively turned into a red light and returned to Lin Mo's body.
Lin Mo could feel a tiny warm current merge into his own spirit power as Charmander returned.
Although the improvement was almost negligible, it definitely existed.
"The efficiency of using ordinary food to assist Cultivation is still too low," Lin Mo muttered inwardly as he lay on the bed.
"It can only be called better than nothing. In the end, the growth of spirit power still has to rely on daily Cultivation and obtaining spirit rings."
He glanced around the dormitory. Most of the others had already washed up and gone to bed, except for Tang San's bunk, which was still empty.
He did not know whether Tang San had not returned yet, or whether he was staying with the Grandmaster to Cultivate.
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