The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#564 - Beast Taming

Lu Jing, a man of two lifetimes, had encountered many opponents, but fighting a hedgehog was a first for him.

Moreover, the battle was quite intense.

Lu Jing wielded the Zen staff in his hand, deflecting the incoming steel needles, but his body was forced back step by step under the barrage of those needles.

At first, he had appeared confident of victory because the hedgehog itself didn't seem very big, and the number of needles on its body was limited, while his internal energy was almost limitless in comparison.

If he kept shooting like this, it wouldn't be long before the hedgehog ran out of all the needles on its body.

At that time, it would just be a large meatball, ready to be kneaded into any shape.

However, after waiting for a while, Lu Jing found that the "firepower" from the opposite side not only showed no signs of weakening but seemed to be getting stronger.

Moreover, after shooting for so long, the hedgehog didn't look like it was going bald at all.

So, a bad feeling rose in Lu Jing's heart, and Ye Gongmei's words not far away further confirmed his guess.

"Don't wait, after Zhizhi shoots out the needles on its back, they can regrow in the time it takes for a breath. So, you can just assume that its needles are infinite," Ye Gongmei said leisurely.

"So fierce?!"

Lu Jing admitted that he had indeed underestimated this little thing. This wasn't a hedgehog at all; it was clearly a machine gun, and the kind with unlimited ammo in a game with cheat codes enabled.

So, the strategy he had formulated before was obviously not going to work. Lu Jing was also encountering an opponent who could last longer than him for the first time.

It wasn't that his internal energy would be exhausted by Zhizhi, but the key was that Lu Jing was still anxious about how to solve the problem of secret power and didn't want this battle to drag on for too long.

So, he had to quickly think of a way to send Zhizhi into the Beast Taming Formation.

However, Zhizhi seemed to have gotten excited at this moment, turning on "crazy" sweeping mode. Lu Jing couldn't even get close to it, let alone counterattack.

Seeing someone's hesitant and troubled appearance, Ye Gongmei couldn't help but hold her forehead with her small hand and sighed, "Alas, have you forgotten all the Beast Taming Arts you've learned from me for so long?"

Reminded by Ye Gongmei, Lu Jing also remembered that, yes, he also had Beast Taming Arts.

If he wanted Zhizhi to obediently enter the Beast Taming Formation, he didn't necessarily have to use force.

Thinking of this, Lu Jing used his lightness skill and took the initiative to retreat from the battle. After a few ups and downs, he was already twenty feet away.

Zhizhi was in the midst of an exhilarating slaughter, and wanted to chase after him, but unfortunately, its speed was so slow that it couldn't even see Lu Jing's taillights. After chasing for two steps, it realized it was hopeless and stopped moving.

Then, it turned around, standing tall and proudly accepting Ye Gongmei's inspection, and the latter also gave it a thumbs up, not stingy with her praise.

However, Zhizhi was only happy for a while before it saw the opponent who had been scared away by its steel needles earlier running back again.

So, it planned to repeat its old trick, but unexpectedly, this time Lu Jing struck first, and in the way of the person, treating the person in the same way, he took out a hidden weapon from the rattan basket behind him and threw it at Zhizhi.

Seeing this, Zhizhi immediately unleashed a barrage of needles without hesitation, and the steel needles easily pierced the hidden weapon thrown by Lu Jing.

However, the hidden weapon fell in front of it, and it immediately attracted Zhizhi's attention, because the hidden weapon was actually a golden fruit.

Because it had just been shot to pieces by its steel needles, it was still dripping with sweet juice. Zhizhi took a bite and was immediately fascinated by the taste, and then began to devour it in large mouthfuls.

At this moment, Lu Jing was like a warm host, afraid that he was not providing enough hospitality, and threw out a dozen more of these golden hidden weapons in succession.

Zhizhi also accepted all comers, taking them all into its arms. However, its stomach was not big enough. It was almost full after eating one, and at most it could only pick up one more with its mouth.

It could try to run a few more trips to bring all these fruits back to its residence, but at its speed, once it left, these fruits would probably be taken away by other birds or small beasts by the time it returned.

However, it also had a way to deal with this situation.

It curled itself into a ball, and then rolled on the ground, using the steel needles on its back to stab all the nearby fruits.

However, after it finished stabbing, it found that there was another fruit not far away, so it ran over on its short legs.

After stabbing that fruit and looking up, it saw a new fruit…

So, next, Zhizhi walked into someone's trap step by step. By the time it came back to its senses, it was already standing in Lu Jing's Beast Taming Formation.

Moreover, after Lu Jing manipulated the formation, Zhizhi in it no longer had the bravery it had before, and the steel needles it shot out were sparse.

It only lasted for less than a cup of tea before Lu Jing easily took it down.

Ye Gongmei didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She knew why Zhizhi had been defeated so quickly, because now the guy's back was covered with pears, and there were a lot fewer thorns that could be used to shoot out, which was equivalent to self-defeating his martial arts.

However, although it lost quickly, it looked quite happy, after all, this competition allowed it to get food for a week for free.

Ye Gongmei didn't know what to say about this blatant bribery and paddling behavior, after all, it was she who reminded Lu Jing earlier to use more Beast Taming methods.

However, Ye Gongmei did not praise Lu Jing like she praised Zhizhi, but frowned and said, "You use this great formation too roughly. Among the forty-nine changes, you have never used forty-seven of them from beginning to end. Only the Town Character Formation and the Strength Character Formation have been used by you upside down."

"However, you must know that Beast Taming is not something that can be done with brute force alone. No, it should be said that brute force is only the last resort. Wasn't the method you used to deal with Zhizhi before quite clever? Why are you so stubborn when it comes to formations?"

"However," Ye Gongmei changed the subject, "You finally used the Beast Taming Formation to successfully defeat Zhizhi, which can be considered a barely passing my assessment. According to our previous agreement, I will tell you the location of the more powerful fierce beasts."