Divine Beast Creator
Chapter 400 Nighttime Teaching_1

Chapter 400: Chapter 400 Nighttime Teaching_1

"It’s just virtual online gaming~ Similar to those helmet-wearing games mentioned in novels~"

After listening to Feng Yuan’s explanation, Yang Hongzhi looked at Feng Yuan somewhat speechlessly, then suddenly came to his senses and stared at Feng Yuan, asking

"Big Cat can actually develop a virtual online game?"

"Is that strange?"

"No, isn’t Big Cat specialized in games? Why would it have the ability to create virtual games?"

"Isn’t that a game?"

"No, this... that..."

Seeing Yang Hongzhi stammering without making himself clear, Feng Yuan scratched his head, somewhat puzzled, when Agunas’s phantom seemed to understand something and explained

"Big Cat didn’t directly research the technology to realize virtual games. It currently doesn’t have that capability. Big Cat’s virtual online game exists by relying on the Data Domain."

"As for the Data Domain, it’s better to talk about it later when we’re back at the dorm."

Glancing around at the strangers that occasionally passed by, many people glanced curiously at Yang Hongzhi as they passed by. After all, Feng Yuan’s appearance was that of a ten-year-old boy, who didn’t at all look like a student at the academy, whereas the student uniform on Yang Hongzhi clearly identified his status as a student. Some even recognized Yang Hongzhi, the well-known figure within the academy.

"Your sudden departure late at night was..."

A scholarly-looking man with glasses stood at the entrance to Yang Hongzhi’s dorm, complaining. Noticing Feng Yuan and the group of Spirit Beasts following behind Yang Hongzhi, he hesitated before saying

"Since your friend has come, I’ll take my leave first."

"Eh?"

Watching the man leave without looking back, Yang Hongzhi scratched his head, puzzled, and said

"What’s up with Han Mo?"

Feng Yuan, as if deep in thought, said

"Seems like he’s not that unlikable."

"What?"

"Never mind, won’t you give Najia a tour of your new dormitory?"

Reminded by Feng Yuan, Yang Hongzhi, full of enthusiasm, took Najia and Feng Yuan into the dormitory. In the distance, Han Mo stepped out from the shadow beneath a roadside tree. The warm yellow light of the street lamps shone on Han Mo’s expressionless face as he whispered after watching those Spirit Beasts enter Yang Hongzhi’s dorm,

"Turned into a kid? What exactly does he want to do? But since he’s his friend, I suppose he wouldn’t mean any harm to him..."

At that moment, a brown little monkey with a tuft of white fluff on its forehead suddenly appeared behind Han Mo, making cheerful calls as if wanting Han Mo to do something. After glancing one more time at the entrance of Yang Hongzhi’s dormitory, Han Mo vanished into the night.

"Hey there, Xiao Hui~"

Ignoring Yang Hongzhi, who was showing Najia around the villa, Feng Yuan pushed open the back door and went out to the backyard. Xiao Hui got up from the ground, shook its body, and watched Feng Yuan vigilantly. After a moment, seemingly recognizing the visitor, it grunted a few times and lay down again. Feng Yuan walked over and patted Xiao Hui, saying

"How can you be so lazy? Get up, I’m going to teach you how to change your shape."

Xiao Hui glanced at Feng Yuan and grunted, remaining motionless on the ground. Leaning against Xiao Hui, Feng Yuan calmly said,

"Don’t you want to sleep with him? Well, even if you become smaller it wouldn’t be appropriate, but at least you could lie beside his bed instead of huddling in the backyard like now."

Hearing Feng Yuan’s words, Xiao Hui’s eyes lit up with hope, but after a moment it remembered something and resumed its lazy posture, flopping back onto the ground. Ignoring Xiao Hui’s actions, Feng Yuan continued talking,

"Don’t you think it’s bad to only be able to hide in his Spirit Beast Space all the time? Not to mention that it’s uncomfortable to stay there, but if he were to encounter any accident, you wouldn’t be able to protect him."

Xiao Hui uttered a low, dejected hum, and the phantom of Agunas seemed puzzled as it conversed briefly with Xiao Hui before saying to Feng Yuan,

"It seems it has learned to change shape before, but couldn’t master it. The mentor who taught it believed that it could never learn that technique."

"How could that be? Get up, try it the way I tell you. No, come here a bit, if you grow too big there, your little nest will be ruined."

Feng Yuan looked at Xiao Hui in surprise and spoke to it as it moved back to the large open space in the backyard.

"What’s he getting up to now?"

While talking with Najia, Yang Hongzhi felt a slight tremor on the ground and heard Xiao Hui’s cries. Puzzled, he walked to the window and saw a huge Xiao Hui stuck inside a spherical sky-blue energy barrier in the backyard. Noticing Xiao Hui’s pained expression, Yang Hongzhi hurriedly rushed downstairs with Najia.

"What are you doing!"

Upon bursting into the backyard, Yang Hongzhi yelled; at this moment, Xiao Hui had already returned to its normal size and was looking at Yang Hongzhi with pitiful eyes. Feng Yuan rubbed his forehead and said,

"I was teaching Xiao Hui to change its size—just didn’t expect it to overdo it and become so ridiculously large. Without a barrier, it would’ve destroyed the backyard."

Yang Hongzhi looked at Feng Yuan with suspicion and asked,

"Why would it get bigger when using the size-changing skill?"

Glancing at Yang Hongzhi, Feng Yuan said impatiently,

"Typically, the most common mistake when changing size is reversing the process when trying to shrink and accidentally becoming larger. If it can easily become smaller, it would mean it has almost mastered size transformation skills."

"But... aren’t the skills to grow bigger and smaller separate?"

"Who told you that? First of all, it’s not a secret move; it’s a skill! Not all spirit beasts can learn secret moves, but skills are different. Only those that are truly too dumb can’t learn them."

The phantom of Agunas glanced at Yang Hongzhi and said,

"Perhaps the person you found to teach size transformation is just incompetent."

"How is that possible?! He is a teacher at our academy," Yang Hongzhi protested.

"Tsk, with a teacher like that, you’re killing off my interest in coming to Maomu Academy."

"That shouldn’t be the case, right?"

Yang Hongzhi said, somewhat uncertain. Although the other party was a teacher from his own academy, Feng Yuan wasn’t just anyone. Yang Hongzhi had a feeling that even if the dean of his academy were to directly debate academic issues with Feng Yuan, the chances of losing were very high, with the slim possibility of winning due to Feng Yuan’s disinterest in debating or lack of interest.

"It’s probably the fault of the phased teaching method from earlier."

The phantom of Agunas seemed to recall something and said, followed by Feng Yuan pondering,

"It is possible, but the method should have been corrected by now."

"Phased teaching method?"

Yang Hongzhi was puzzled when a woman’s voice came from outside the door,

"The phased teaching method is an educational approach that reduces the difficulty of learning secret moves with multiple effects by dividing the learning into stages. Size transformation is divided into shrinking and growing stages. Is there something wrong with that?"

"Sorry, I didn’t mean to eavesdrop, but you suddenly ran out of school and the captain was worried you might have encountered some accident."

A woman poked her head out from the back door leading to the outside path. Yang Hongzhi walked over, opened the door, and welcomed her in, saying,

"I’m fine, just went to meet someone. Shudie, haven’t you gone to rest yet?"

Shudie slowly approached Feng Yuan and bent over to observe him closely,

"Is he your relative?"

"No, my friend."

Glancing at the spirit beasts following behind Feng Yuan, Shudie was well aware those spirit beasts definitely weren’t Yang Hongzhi’s. Moreover, considering the nervous demeanor of the Eggshell Chicken, it was obvious it had an unusual relationship with the young boy. Taking into account that adults wouldn’t have Native Level Beast Tamers, Shudie speculated that Feng Yuan’s actual age might not match his appearance.

"What’s wrong with phased teaching?"

Curious, Shudie asked. Though most of the main courses had ceased using phased teaching techniques to teach spirit beasts secret moves, some courses still did. However, according to them, it seemed that there was an issue with this method.

"Of course, apart from anything else, the size-changing skill itself is a whole, and breaking it down only adds difficulty for oneself," Feng Yuan explained.

"But that still doesn’t seem very helpful, right?"

Pointing at Xiao Hui, who was slightly uncomfortable after being squeezed by the barrier, Shudie didn’t buy Feng Yuan’s words at all. Glancing at Xiao Hui, Feng Yuan elaborated,

"The most common issue with size transformation is uncontrollable growth because for most spirit beasts, growing is much easier than shrinking."

"Especially for spirit beasts like Xiao Hui which have cruder secret moves."