You, a druid, go to practice Taoism?.

Chapter 28: Tree Skin and the Heart of the Wild

"Finally upgraded!"

【等级：lv1（99/100）】→【等级：lv2（0/200）】

Qi Ping couldn't help but feel excited when he saw his druid level had reached level two.

After more than a month, I finally reached level two!
In the past month, he has been raising bees, farming, cultivating spiritual herbs, and even comprehending the nature of the forest, and has never slacked off.

"It took me so long to reach level 2. It's not easy!"

All the hard work comes!

After the level was increased, the two druid skills that Qi Ping had been looking forward to were finally available for selection!
[Druid level 2 skills are being generated]

[Please select your professional skills...]

[Beastmaster Druid (choose one): Dominate Beasts, Heart of the Wild]

Level 1 Beast Domination: Force an animal to fight alongside you. (Highly intelligent animals have a chance of failing to dominate)

lv1 Heart of the Wild: As a Beastmaster Druid, you can awaken the strong will and powerful anger of your animal companions, which will increase their willpower, attack power and attack speed. (Active, non-upgradeable)
[Jungle Druid (choose one): Tree Skin, Greedy Vines]

lv1 Tree Skin Technique: can consume energy to form a tree-like skin with high defense power on the body. (Active, upgradeable)

lv1 Greedy Vines: You can consume energy to summon a huge vine to attack the enemy. (Active, upgradeable)

"Beast Domination, Savage Heart, Tree Skin, Greedy Vines. Choose two of the four skills."

"When choosing a Jungle Druid, just choose Barkskin and exclude Greedy Vines for now."

Because Qi Ping now has the Golden Marrow Bee and will soon contract a second animal companion, he is not so lacking in attack.

On the contrary, due to his low talent, it is difficult for him to improve his strength quickly, which is a weakness that he cannot ignore now.

Meeting Jie Xiu during this outing just proved this point.

The ability to survive is what Qi Ping values most at the moment. The attack power of the greedy vines he is currently unleashing is far inferior to the combat power of the golden marrow bees.

The Greedy Vines' binding effect is good, but it is not necessary.

But the Tree Skin Technique is different. It can be combined with the Wood Shield Technique. With the double layer of protection, Qi Ping's ability to survive can be greatly enhanced.

"But how do I choose between ruling the beast and the wild heart?"

Faced with these two skills, Qi Ping was in hesitation.

The skill Heart of the Wild is a skill that enhances animal companions. In simple terms, it can improve the mental defense of animal companions and increase their strength by making them angry and bursting with blood.

This is a panacea-type skill that will be of great use both now and in the future, and the more animal companions you have, the more obvious the benefits will be.

For example, when you are at a disadvantage, or your animal companion is under attack from a psychedelic spirit, a boost from the Wild Heart skill may be able to turn the tide of the battle.

But the skill of controlling beasts is not bad either, as it allows you to control an animal to fight alongside you.

For example, if Qi Ping encountered an animal like a bloodworm, if he used his power to control the beast, he would most likely be able to successfully control the beast to fight for him.

Although the probability of failure is higher for animals with higher intelligence.

But through a series of recent events, Qi Ping strongly suspected that the inheritance of an Insect Taming or Beast Taming Sect might be about to appear in the world.

Things like bloodworms or even scarier monsters and insects may appear and pose a huge danger.

Once faced with this situation, the skill of Dominating Beasts may be able to turn the tide.

At least in this context, the skill of controlling beasts will definitely play a significant role.

Therefore, Qi Ping really wanted both the skills of Savage Heart and Command Beasts.

“It’s a pity that you can only choose one.”

After hesitating for a long time, Qi Ping finally made a decision.

"Let's choose the Heart of the Savage. The probabilistic skill of controlling beasts is too unstable."

After thinking for a long time, Qi Ping still didn't like this skill with too much uncertainty. He could be resurrected if he died in the game, so he could use this skill to do many things, and sometimes even control beasts that were much stronger than himself.

If you fail, you can just resurrect.

But now Qi Ping only has one life!
Qi Ping didn't want to gamble even if the success rate was 99%, not to mention that the success rate would definitely not be that high.

Instead of taking the chance, it is better to train your own animal companion.

Next, we need to accelerate the growth of Liuguang Grass to a medicinal effect of 50 years as soon as possible, and then we can try to prepare the blood alienation medicine.

The talent [Brewery Craftsman] shared with Qi Ping by the Golden Marrow Bee can just enhance Qi Ping's sensitivity in spiritual medicine, allowing Qi Ping to have a greater chance of successfully preparing the bloodline alienation medicine in a short period of time.

[Brewery Craftsman: You have a keen talent for pollen and some elixirs, and can brew them into honey with extraordinary effects.]

Looking back now, it was not bad to be able to share this talent.

Once the bloodline alienation liquid is successfully prepared, you can try to upgrade and cultivate the golden marrow bees.

According to the description of the bloodline mutation potion, the bloodline of the demon insect that has been successfully cultivated can basically be improved by one small level or more.

Therefore, after a successful upgrade, the Golden Marrow Bee must possess first-order advanced bloodline, and if it is lucky, it may even become the best among them!
The upgraded Golden Marrow Bee, with the enhancement of the Heart of the Wild, should be able to deal with many situations.

This is countless times more stable than choosing to dominate wild beasts.

"Choose Heart of the Wild and Treeskin!"

After confirming it, Qi Ping did not hesitate any longer.

[Skill selection completed, data panel being generated...]

[Name: Qi Ping]

[Level: lv2 (0/200)]

[Profession: Beastmaster Druid (primary), Jungle Druid (secondary)]

[Talent: Animal Companion, Nature Affinity]

[Animal Companion: (1/2) Golden Bee]

[Shared Talent: Brewing Craftsman]

【技能：lv1植物生长（58/100）、lv1兽王恩泽（8/100）、lv1树肤术（0/100）】

[Skills (constant): Speak with Animals, Make Friends with Animals, Heart of the Wild]

[You have obtained a new animal companion contract position.]

"Not bad!"

Looking at these ever-growing data, Qi Ping felt an indescribable sense of joy and satisfaction in his heart.

In fact, every level of experience or skill experience gained will give Qi Ping full motivation.

With these motivations, Qi Ping will be more serious when using his skills and understanding nature, and the more serious and attentive Qi Ping is, the easier it will be for him to gain experience.

Because Qi Ping discovered that the improvement of experience is not the result of mechanical repetition of actions, but that experience can only be improved when one’s understanding reaches a certain level.

But Qi Ping did not feel bad about this. Instead, he liked this method even more, because every gain he made was gained through his careful experience.

This experience, gained through his own real efforts and understanding, gave him an incomparable sense of security.

After the Druid was promoted to level two, Qi Ping was not satisfied or slack off, but became more motivated.

In addition to his daily beekeeping, farming, and medicinal herb cultivation, Qi Ping also added a new subject for himself to train in tree skin techniques:

That is, while becoming familiar with the combat method of Tree Skin Technique, you can also simultaneously upgrade the level of Tree Skin Technique to make this skill have stronger defensive power.

Qi Ping attaches great importance to this life-saving skill.

More than a week later, with Qi Ping's continuous efforts, one of the Liuguang grass finally achieved the medicinal effect of fifty years!

(End of this chapter)