Chapter 111

The pure and bright light was so intense that Director Hai, who was about to step forward to congratulate Mu Huiyue for passing the assessment and becoming a Senior Beastmaster, suddenly stopped in his tracks.

That was… the light of evolution?

Mu Huiyue’s Xiaoyun Can, at the moment the battle ended, actually evolved…?

Director Hai felt as if his mind were freezing. He remembered that this Xiaoyun Can’s core talent skill was [Howl], right?

C-level dark-type status skill—[Howl], which could suppress enemies while providing a slight boost to itself. No higher-level skill had been discovered.

It was basic knowledge that a core talent skill couldn’t evolve, meaning the pet itself couldn’t evolve.

This was fundamental knowledge every professional Beastmaster understood, yet it was now being overturned right before Director Hai’s eyes.

Before the battle, he had even lamented that Mu Huiyue had raised this Xiaoyun Can well, but it seemed there was no chance for evolution.

But at this very moment, Xiaoyun Can was basking in the pure light of evolution.

Its form continuously elongated and transformed in the light, ultimately solidifying into a fixed state, achieving a dual leap in both life form and tier.

As the brilliance faded, standing before everyone was a towering wolf-like creature over 1.5 meters tall. Its pure white fur gleamed like moonlight, shrouded in a faint, soft glow. Its cloud-like tail was twice the length of its body, now gently coiling at its side, resembling the ethereal clouds drifting in the moonlit night.

Its eyes remained the same pure pale gold, like the brightest moon in the night sky. Its neck fur was thick and soft, the ends slightly frozen into ice, emitting a crystalline glow like fresh snow, with a grayish-blue hue reflecting the snow-filled night.

The white wolf’s limbs were agile and strong. It slowly walked forward, its long wolf muzzle nuzzling affectionately against the Beastmaster’s cheek.

“White Fang…” Mu Huiyue gently stroked its upright wolf ears.

The investigator’s wristband displayed the information of this newly emerged extraordinary creature.

[Name]: White Fang (???)

[Attributes]: Dark, Ice

[Race Level]: High-level Sovereign

[Growth Tier]: Mature, First Tier

[Core Talent]: Echo of the Polar Night (Dark, A-Level)

[Skills]: Eclipse Impact (Dark, A-Level), Shadow Hunt (Dark, A-Level), Moonlight (Dark, B-Level), Ice Slash (Ice, B-Level), Frost Armor (Ice, C-Level), Sturdy Physique (Steel, C-Level)

[Normal Hidden Energy Value]: 142,528P

Mu Huiyue stared at the information on the wristband’s encyclopedia, her eyes widening slightly.

Not to mention the huge changes in the skillset, White Fang’s race name is displayed as [???], meaning it has never been logged in the Bureau’s database and has never appeared before as an extraordinary creature on Blue Star!

This is the entirely new evolution form of the Little Cloud Dog!

Director Hai Lin, witnessing this scene, also widened his eyes. After the evolution, the Little Cloud Dog didn’t become the already documented Dark-type evolution, the lower-level Sovereign species [Fateful Shadow Fighting Wolf], but rather a pet creature he had never seen before.

Its fur, glowing softly like moonlight, was so mysterious and beautiful that it made one unable to resist being captivated by it.

Director Hai Lin, belatedly realizing, understood that this was likely the experiment Professor Xie Qingwei and Mu Huiyue had conducted in the battle arena.

Just as he was thinking this, he saw Professor Xie, with a triumphant expression, walking over while carrying a heavy testing device.

“Professor Xie…” Hai Lin tentatively glanced at the beautiful white wolf and gave a questioning look.

Professor Xie Qingwei smiled and said, “This is our research topic. We’ve just made a historic breakthrough. If everything goes well, you’ll be able to see the research report at next week’s [High School Attribute Research Exchange Conference], Director Hai.”

“But now, we still have a lot of finishing work to do. Could you please help Huiyue complete the certification for Advanced Beastmaster first?” Professor Xie Qingwei set down the testing device and said to Hai Lin, “She’s not only an outstanding student in the battle department, but she also has great talent in attribute research.”

“Of course,” Hai Lin nodded. The subsequent certification was supposed to be handled by him as the examiner.

He glanced at Mu Huiyue, who nodded and thanked him, suppressing his curiosity, and returned to the teaching building.

He believed that Professor Xie would surely present a groundbreaking result at the exchange conference, and the evolution of the Little Cloud Dog would further elevate Mu Huiyue’s strength, bringing even more honor to the Battle Department of Jingzhou University.

After seeing Director Hai off, Mu Huiyue returned to the second-floor laboratory with White Fang, who had completed the preliminary tests.

Although further testing could be done on the battle arena, the tools and equipment here were more complete and more convenient for recording the data.

Feng Le looked even happier than Mu Huiyue, the Beastmaster. White Fang’s successful evolution meant that the project he had been working on for almost a year was finally coming to an end.

Whether it was the upcoming High School Attribute Research Exchange Conference or his future graduation thesis, everything had been settled, and he might even graduate with an excellent project.

After evolving, White Fang’s size had increased significantly, and its temperament appeared to have become much more composed. It walked quietly beside the Beastmaster, its cloud-like long tail gently circling around her.

Once inside the laboratory, White Fang skillfully picked up the sensing magnet and sat on the testing platform, gazing up at Mu Huiyue with bright, eager eyes.

Seeing that Mu Huiyue didn’t respond, White Fang wagged its tail and let out a whining sound, similar to when it was a Little Cloud Dog, acting coy and playful.

It wanted the Beastmaster to praise it and give it some affection.

Mu Huiyue: “……!”

Alright, it seems that the composure is only limited to those outside of the Beastmaster. After evolving, White Fang seems to be even more affectionate towards Mu Huiyue than before.

She reached out and gently rubbed the top of White Fang’s head, the sensation was so comfortable that she couldn’t help but pet it a couple more times.

White Fang, having its wish fulfilled, squinted its eyes contentedly.

The readings from the testing device quickly appeared on the large screen, and as Xie Qingwei finished recording the data, she couldn’t help but reveal an expression of astonishment.

White Fang’s evolution wasn’t just smooth—it had even become an entirely new species, adding a new evolution line to the Little Cloud Dog’s lineage.

And what’s more, this was an unprecedented dual-attribute evolution in the first stage.

Xie Qingwei recalled that the Daylight Flame Wolf’s first-stage evolution, the “Glory Fighting Wolf,” was just a light-type monarch species, and only in its second-stage evolution did it acquire the fire attribute.

“A dual-attribute species of Dark and Ice types, with the core talent skill shifting from the C-level Dark-type status skill ‘Howl’ to the A-level Dark-type domain skill ‘Eternal Night’s Echo’…”

Xie Qingwei’s voice trembled—Eternal Night’s Echo!

“If I’m not mistaken… this seems to be like ‘Evil Ghost Face,’ a superior domain skill of the same level as ‘Intimidation,’ right, Professor Xie?” Mu Huiyue recalled.

Because it is a skill of the same level as “Intimidation,” but doesn’t reach the full strength of a true A-tier core talent, White Fang’s species level was classified as a high-ranking Monarch species, similar to the Night Demon Scarecrow whose core talent is “Evil Ghost Face.”

“The situation with ‘Eternal Night’s Echo’ is a bit different. There has been much debate in academia regarding this skill. Is it a domain skill or a status skill? The argument continues as to whether it belongs to the Dark or Ice type…”

Xie Qingwei pulled up a research paper she had previously published in the database, which included an analysis of “Eternal Night’s Echo.”

“This skill causes the area covered by hidden energy to turn into an invisible polar environment, with blizzards and extreme night phenomena. However, it is more of a psychological and sensory deterrence rather than a natural phenomenon that changes the environment like the true domain skills of Emperor-level species.”

“Additionally, the resonating energy will also intimidate enemies within the area, increasing one’s own speed and strength, with the corresponding attribute skills’ power enhanced.”

“Skills like ‘Moonlight,’ which require a dark domain, can also meet the conditions within ‘Eternal Night’s Echo.’ As long as the domain is not breached by external forces, ‘Moonlight’ can be used without limitation.”

For White Fang, this was a substantial early boost. With “Eternal Night’s Echo,” it had essentially gained part of the power of domain skills ahead of time, and it could suppress the “Intimidation” of other Monarch species of the same tier.

Mu Huiyue said thoughtfully, “Could ‘Eternal Night’s Echo’ be the higher-tier skill of ‘Howl’?”

It seems similar to ‘Howl’ in that it suppresses enemies and enhances its own abilities, but with the added aspect of domain-based deterrence.

“No, these two skills are both independent skills, with neither an upper-tier skill nor a prerequisite skill,” Xie Qingwei said confidently. “White Fang’s situation seems more like a… fusion of skills?”

“The core talent skill fused ‘Howl’ and ‘Intimidation,’ combining its Dark and Ice attributes to become ‘Eternal Night’s Echo’…”

“Moreover, other skills have also undergone a fusion and upgrade to some extent.”

Mu Huiyue looked at White Fang’s skill list in the data.

Apart from the core skill, the previously learned B-tier skill ‘Moonlight’ remained unchanged, while B-tier skill ‘Moon Explosion’ evolved into the A-tier Dark-type attack skill ‘Moon Eruption,’ and D-tier skill ‘Strong Body’ evolved into the C-tier Steel-type skill ‘Strengthened Physique.’

So far, these were all normal skill evolutions. White Fang also independently comprehended and learned the C-tier Ice-type defense skill ‘Frost Blessing Armor.’

The next A-tier Dark-type skill, ‘Shadow Hunt,’ is a rare polymorphic attack skill with effects similar to ‘Shadow Step,’ ‘Moon Shadow,’ and ‘Dark Strike.’ It allows White Fang to create shadow clones anytime, anywhere, accelerate movement above shadows to hunt, and more easily strike vital points of the target.

As Professor Xie said, there was no evolutionary or prerequisite relationship between these skills. It felt more like a fusion of three lower-tier skills, abruptly jumping to higher-tier skills that would otherwise have been impossible to learn.

The original Ice-type skills were similar as well. “Ice Fang” and “Frozen Claw” were Ice-type skills executed from two different points: the fangs and the claws. In this regard, White Fang is more flexible. Depending on the situation, White Fang can unleash “Frozen Claw” from all four of its claws.

The skill born from the fusion of these features is the B-tier Ice-type attack skill “Frost Slash,” which can concentrate ice attribute energy from any part of the body to release a sharp slash, freezing the target.

Mu Huiyue recalled her newly awakened talent skill “Energy Condensation,” which changes the release path of a skill’s latent energy to make it more precise and concentrated, much like the way this skill fusion worked.

Making the release of two or even multiple lower-tier skills more condensed, and then forming a corresponding higher-tier skill, represents an evolution of extraordinary abilities in another direction.

Could the changes happening to White Fang be related to her Beast Master talent?