My starting summon is a small skeleton-Chapter 225 - 222 Master

Lingnan, on a bus heading deep into the mountains.

A young boy sat by the window with a goblin by his side and a dog in his lap, staring blankly yet expectantly at the scenery outside.

His expression was a mix of bewilderment and anticipation.

Bewilderment because he did not know where his future was heading, anticipation because he knew exactly where he was going now.

He was heading to a place called the Demon Cave, an exploratory secret realm.

Exploratory secret realms are not fully controlled by humans.

In the eyes of a summoner, these are the true secret realms, representing opportunities that have given rise to countless formidable beings.

But at the same time, they also represent danger.

Five years ago, his parents had entered this very realm and had never returned.

Today, five years later, he had arrived.

The bus stopped at a campsite deep in the mountains.

At that moment, the boy on the bus hesitated briefly before taking out his phone to send a text message.

Then, he picked up the dog and, along with the goblin, stepped off the bus.

Heading towards the campsite deep in the mountains.

...

Jiangnan, at Lu Wu's house.

Early in the morning, Lu Wuyi made a phone call to Lin Jianying.

Still no answer.

"He told me he was going to visit grandma's grave and would be back after paying respects, but it's been several days now, and not only has he not returned, I can't even reach him through calls.

What on earth is Old Lin up to?"

Lu Wu was worried.

"He wouldn't have gone there, would he?"

That guy had always been obsessed with rescuing his parents.

Wanting to become a professional summoner was also for that reason, and it wasn't impossible that he had run off to try and save his parents during this period.

"But it's been five years, what could he possibly rescue? A pair of skeletons?"

Lu Wu's casual complaint attracted Little Skeleton over.

Obediently (Lu Wu, are you calling me?)

"Yes!"

Seeing the little guy come over on his own, Lu Wu didn't hesitate to take the phone straight out of Little Skeleton's hands.

Little Skeleton wasn't happy about that.

Angry (Little Skeleton's phone is not for Lu Wu to borrow. Lu Wu has turned bad and will break Little Skeleton's phone!)

"Go away, what's this 'your phone my phone'?

You are my skeleton, your phone is also mine!

I'm confiscating this phone today, you go and train!"

Super angry (Little Skeleton doesn't want to train. Little Skeleton is super strong. Little Skeleton doesn't need to train. Little Skeleton wants to play with the phone!)

"You? Super strong? You're just super inflated!

Do you believe that right now little goldfish could beat 10 of you? And that's just on land, if it were in the sea, a hundred Little Skeletons together wouldn't be enough for little goldfish!

See that Dragon Teeth? I brought that here for you to train your Bone Teeth. When you've trained your Bone Teeth into Dragon Teeth, then come and ask me for the phone!"

In the end, Little Skeleton was suppressed by Lu Wu.

He could only go reluctantly, holding the Dragon Teeth he had secured from Jiangnan University yesterday, to the training ground.

After suppressing Little Skeleton and obtaining Little Skeleton's phone,

Lu Wu hesitated for a moment, then made a phone call to the rich woman in his family.

It was because of Lin Jianying's situation, and Lu Wu wasn't comfortable with the boy going out alone. Furthermore, the exploratory secret realm of the Demon Cave was far too challenging for Lin Jianying, and Lu Wu was worried about him encountering accidents, so he asked the rich woman to arrange for someone to go and check on him.

The rich woman was quite easy to talk to, and indicated that she would send someone over.

The rich woman nodded in agreement, and Lu Wu breathed a long sigh of relief.

"With the rich woman's people watching, there shouldn't be a problem."

Lu Wu temporarily set aside the matter involving Lin Jianying and began to focus on the matters at hand.

Lu Wu didn't have many things at hand.

He had just secured the position of team leader, and with nearly a year left until the university league matches, Zhao Li would handle the preparations.

The launch of the Steel Armor Wild Boar into the market wasn't something Lu Wu planned to rush into either.

One reason was that the farm's production capacity couldn't keep up.

Another reason was that the Steel Armor Wild Boar, being a second evolution Summoned Beast,, catered mainly to professional summoners, and its release would certainly impact the market.

Some people's interests would be harmed.

Organizations that managed to make a living in the professional summoners' domain were enormous, and only those with strong arms and legs could handle such momentous affairs.

Clearly, Lu Wu was not currently capable of that.

Even his company would not have been feasible to start if not for the rich woman backing him.

At this time, if he took too large a step by launching the Steel Armor Wild Boar into the market and it caused trouble, the rich woman might not be able to protect his company.

This was also what the rich woman had said.

Therefore, Lu Wu was not in a rush with the Steel Armor Wild Boar matter and decided to delay it for a while.

In such a case, Lu Wu's most pressing issue was improving his own strength.

As a summoner, as the strength of his summoned beasts increased, his own strength also increased accordingly.

Among his summoned beasts, Little Goldfish and Han were relatively easy to handle.

Little Goldfish could be left to grow on its own; in fact, strictly speaking, it had already grown up.

It now had the strength of a Boss 3 Star (it had gained another star a few days ago), the Talent of Child of the Sea could elevate its strength by a major tier, and the Talent of Commander of the Water Clan raised it another major step.

It became a lord-level existence in the ocean.

For its skills, it could comprehend them on its own, happy to learn one, not happy learning another, without any need for Lu Wu to train it. In its presence, Lu Wu as a summoner seemed particularly useless.

Apart from spending money on nutritional supplements for Little Goldfish, he was of no use.

As for Han, well, its cultivation also had nothing to do with Lu Wu.

Just fight.

Grab it and thrash it vigorously, then feed it something after the beating, and Green Cub could heal itself and improve its own strength quality; Lu Wu could only design some tactics for it.

Han didn't even like that.

It believed that being a bird meant fighting head-on, none of this utilizing speed advantage, flying in the sky, or any skill combinations—it saw all those as useless nonsense.

Just fight head-on.

Either it's knocked down by the opponent, or it knocks down the opponent, this simple excitement is what battle is all about to a bird.

So, surveying the summoned beasts under Lu Wu, Lu Wu found the meaning of his existence as a summoner only in Little Skeleton, at his own home.

Whenever he looked at Little Skeleton, what surged in Lu Wu's heart was sheer pride.

It was he who, with a malfunctioning Golden Finger, with meticulous care, step by step, had cultivated Little Skeleton to its current state.

This made Lu Wu exceedingly proud; he felt incredibly awesome.

Thus, in terms of strength improvement, Lu Wu naturally focused all his efforts on Little Skeleton.

He needed to solve the evolution problem for Little Skeleton.

Only by resolving Little Skeleton's evolution problem, could this little guy's strength increase again.

Yet, regarding Little Skeleton's evolution, Lu Wu had no clues at the moment.

After all, he, Lu Wu, was the first to cultivate a Little Skeleton to the level of a Boss.

There were no previous instances of a second evolution for Little Skeleton, and Lu Wu couldn't gain experience from others, he could only draw inspiration from other Skeleton Series summoned beasts.

These other Skeleton Series summoned beasts indeed provided Lu Wu with some inspiration, letting Lu Wu think of some other evolution methods.

For example, like the Wild Boar Knight, but Lu Wu felt those weren't suitable for Little Skeleton.

So, for the time being, Lu Wu still focused his attention on Little Skeleton's phone, planning to first improve the quality of Little Skeleton's phone and Little Skeleton's quality, and bring out the talent within Little Skeleton's awakening before considering Little Skeleton's evolution problem.

For this reason, Lu Wu brought out the plan he had come up with while previously researching Little Skeleton's phone.

He began immersing himself in research, expanding his knowledge, and upgrading the plan.

In this research, Lu Wu's talent and abilities were undoubtedly exceptional.

Moreover, he now had in his possession a phone that contained the digital library of Jiangnan University and had, having spent over a hundred thousand, swept through the internal network Lu Wu could access for information.

He had the capability, the plugins, and the knowledge reserves.

The research on this plan by Lu Wu was progressing rapidly.

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Within a week, the plan was already nearing its conclusion.

However, just as Lu Wu's plan was about to conclude, there arose complications in his research.

One aspect was inherent to the plan itself.

When Lu Wu incorporated the element "Dragon Teeth" into the forming plan, he realized the previously nearly finalized plan collapsed.

The framework of his original plan couldn't support the addition of "Dragon Teeth."

There were only two solutions to this problem.

Either remove "Dragon Teeth" and stick to the original plan, or upgrade the plan structure.

Lu Wu couldn't bear to do the former, and his current reserve of knowledge wasn't sufficient for the latter.

Whether it was the Jiangnan University library or the information Lu Wu could collect from the internal network, all had their limits.

This knowledge was only up to the professional level; anything beyond that was off-limits for Lu Wu due to insufficient privileges.

Unless Lu Wu could secure a Master title, such knowledge wouldn't be accessible to him.

Meanwhile, as Lu Wu was grappling with this issue, Zhang Wentao brought him good news.

The "Little Skeleton" advanced plan he had uploaded more than half a year ago had been validated successfully; the plan for Little Skeleton to advance to Mage was feasible.

At first, this news didn't excite Lu Wu much.

Success was just success; in terms of validating a research plan, the rewards usually amounted to just a few hundred to a thousand merit points.

Currently, Lu Wu, who dealt with tens of thousands daily, no longer considered such a reward significant.

However, what Lu Wu didn't expect was that along with the validation of Little Skeleton's advancement to Mage, there came another piece of good news.

"Additionally, Xiao Lu, your Master title application has been approved."

"What's that?" Lu Wu, upon hearing this news, was stunned for a moment and only after a while managed to respond, "Does that mean I'm already a Master-level Cultivation Master?"

This gave Lu Wu a profoundly lonely feeling akin to solitude amidst snow.

He recalled that he seemingly hadn't yet received his professional certificate, and to his surprise, the Master certificate was set to arrive first.

"News came from Beijing; your Master-level certificate review was approved. Once you go to Beijing to collect the certificate, you'll officially be a bona fide Master-level Cultivation Master."

Zhang Wentao was quite excited, but Lu Wu frowned immediately upon hearing that he needed to make a trip to Beijing.

"Do I have to go to Beijing to collect it? Can't they send someone over? Or find someone to help me pick it up? I'm at a critical moment in my research."

"I'm afraid that's not possible. The awarding of the Master Certificate is a very serious and solemn affair, and your presence is required.

Besides, the award ceremony also comes with rewards. As the youngest Master-level Cultivation Master, the reward should be quite substantial!

Perhaps it could even grant you access to the treasury of the Beijing Cultivation Center."

Zhang Wentao clearly knew how to motivate Lu Wu by now.

With a single sentence, he got Lu Wu's spirits back up.

"When do we go? Is now okay?"

Upon hearing about the reward, Lu Wu was more enthusiastic than anyone; he instantly had Little Skeleton call little goldfish back and together with Dudu, he prepared everything needed for the trip.

Lu Wu was almost ready, and both Zhao Kai Ming and Zhang Wentao also arrived.

Lu Wu was set to go to Beijing, and the two of them planned to accompany him.

One was to support Lu Wu, and the other because they didn't want to miss such a face-gaining opportunity.

......

In Lingnan, deep within the Demon Cave Secret Realm.

A summoner squad was moving forward, chatting and laughing.

This squad consisted of four people, led by a middle-aged man whose Summoned Beasts were an Earth Cave People Warrior and a Dogman Warrior called Wu Yong.

The woman on his left seemed to be in her thirties, still charming, with a gentle smile on her face, and her Summoned Beast was a seemingly harmless Snowman.

Her name was Li Jing, and she was Wu Yong's wife.

There was also one girl, roughly twenty-one or twenty-two, who looked incredibly youthful.

This girl, Wu Mei, was Wu Yong's daughter.

This squad was a typical family of Summoners, and the only outsider in the team was Lin Jianying, who stood in the middle.

However, although Lin Jianying was the sole outsider, he wasn't alienated by the squad.

Whether it was the leader Wu Yong, or Li Jing and Wu Mei flanking him on either side, all three were very close to Lin Jianying.

They protected him, took care of him.

Wu Yong occasionally looked back to check on Lin Jianying's condition.

"Lin, are you tired? Do you want to rest?"

"Uncle Wu, I'm fine, you don't need to look after me."

Despite having spent a few days together, Lin Jianying was still somewhat shy when facing Wu Yong, his uncle.

"You shouldn't be polite with your uncle. If you're tired, or if anything's up, just talk to Uncle Wu. You're Old Lin's son, which makes you our son too. We should look after you.

Besides, your dad once told our family's Old Wu that we should marry Mei to you.

Old Wu has agreed to that..."

"Mom!"

Beside them, Wu Mei stomped her foot and pouted.

Lin Jianying's gaze was inevitably drawn to her, and watching her blushing face, the love-stricken Lin Jianying felt his heart pound uncontrollably.

Not daring to stare longer, he averted his eyes to his own feet after just a glance.

But his family's goblin kept staring fiercely at Wu Mei.

In the goblin's eyes, Wu Mei was also a weirdo, this bulging-chested weirdo who kept bullying their master and making their master's face turn red.

She was often distracted, and the goblin didn't think she was a good person.

Even worse than that weirdo in the large house who loved giving injections.

Speaking of that injection-loving weirdo in the large house, the goblin started to miss the large house, Little Skeleton, and the others, wondering when its master would take it back.

Now the goblin realized that aside from being touched and injected by the weirdo, the large house was actually quite nice.

The goblin was thinking about the large house.

At this time, Lin Jianying was also thinking that it was time for him to leave this squad.

He had encountered this squad on his second day entering the Demon Cave Territory, exactly speaking, they found him in the morning while he was inquiring around the camp for news about his parents.

Initially, Lin Jianying was very wary of Wu Yong's family who suddenly approached him.

After all, he was an adult and wouldn't simply believe anyone claiming to be his uncle, even though he really hoped to hear news about his parents.

However, after chatting with Wu Yong's family, Lin Jianying realized they were indeed acquaintances of his parents, whom he had heard about from his parents before.

Furthermore, the meticulous care of Wu Yong's family over the next few days fully won Lin Jianying over.

After all, apart from Lu Wu, Wu Yong's family had been the kindest to him since his parents vanished.

So, during those few short days of interaction, this family had gained a significant place in Lin Jianying's heart.

But the more this was the case, the more Lin Jianying felt he couldn't stay with them any longer.

He knew his own circumstances, and he knew he wasn't suited to have friends right now.

Thus, after some hesitation, Lin Jianying finally broached the subject of parting ways with Wu Yong during a rest.

"Um, Uncle Wu, school is starting, so I'm planning to go back tomorrow."

As soon as Lin Jianying spoke, the previously joyful Wu Yong's family suddenly fell silent...

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Adding the morning's 3000, that totals 7600 with 3400 left!