Becoming a master started with manually rubbing the control panel.

Chapter 041 A Jin of Strange Beast Meat

Twenty minutes later.

The two of them worked together to finish dealing with the entire blue-scaled dog.

Song Che peeled off more than three hundred scales, each of which gleamed with a dark blue luster.

Lin Bei cut off nearly thirty pounds of the strange beast meat, and neatly piled up the scraps such as tendons and membranes to the side.

"Well done."

After praising it, Fu Zhen pointed to the processed scales and beast meat and said, "These things are worth about 25,000. You two and Meng, who answered the question earlier, can share them after class."

As expected of a wealthy and generous beast hunter, he casually gave away beast meat and materials worth over 20,000.

"Thank you, teacher."

After returning the dagger, Lin Bei and Song Che went back to their seats.

The next half hour.

Fu Zhen recounted his entire experience of searching, tracking, and finally hunting down the Blue-Scaled Dog.

There were no thrilling plot twists or reversals.

The whole process was tedious and tedious, requiring careful planning at every step. It didn't feel like a hunt, but more like a meticulously calculated game of chess.

"For beast hunters, 99% of the time in a beast hunt is spent searching, waiting and scheming; the real battle often happens in an instant."

Fu Zhen looked at the students below the stage and said, "Remember, a beast hunter who doesn't use his brain will only become a dead hunter."

The words had barely left his mouth...

The bell rang, signaling the end of get out of class.

"get out of class dismissed."

Fu Zhen kept the meat and scales of the Green-Scaled Dog, and packed up all the other remains to take with him.

No sooner had he left than all the students below the stage surrounded him, their eyes fixed intently on the beast meat and scales.

"This is the first time I've ever seen such fresh exotic animal meat."

"This is meat from a fourth-tier bronze beast; it would sell for at least three hundred yuan per kilogram on the market."

"And these scales, if made into combat suits, their defensive capabilities would be off the charts."

The students watching were all talking at once.

"Teacher Fu just said that these things should be divided among the three of us."

Meng Shuyu approached Lin Bei and Song Che, "You two contributed the most, so how do you suggest we divide the spoils?"

"Equally split."

Song Che coldly uttered two words.

Seeing Meng Shuyu looking at him, Lin Bei nodded, "I have no objection."

"Okay then."

Meng Shuyu said, "The scales need professional processing to maximize their value. We don't need them now, so we might as well sell them for money. We can keep the beast meat for ourselves, though; it's good for our cultivation."

The three quickly reached an agreement.

Meng Shuyu was in charge of selling the scales, and the three of them split the money equally.

As for the meat of exotic beasts.

The three of them divided it on the spot, with each person receiving about ten kilograms.

……

8:30 p.m.

When Lin Bei got home, he handed the strange beast meat he had brought back to his mother, who was still awake.

"Where did the meat come from?"

Gao Lan exclaimed in surprise.

"I brought it back from school."

Lin Bei briefly explained, "During the beast class tonight, I helped dispose of the carcass of a Blue-Scaled Dog and ended up getting ten pounds of meat."

"Ah, this is actually the meat of a strange beast..."

Gao Lan was startled.

Upon closer inspection, it was indeed different from ordinary poultry meat.

The red muscle fibers were interspersed with an eerie bluish-green color, as if they had been left out for too long and had grown mold.

If she hadn't known it was the meat of a strange beast, she probably would have thrown it away immediately.

Gao Lan asked somewhat skeptically, "This meat... is it really edible?"

"Of course you can eat it."

Lin Bei smiled and said, "The Azure Scale Dog is a fourth-tier bronze beast, which is more powerful than a fourth-stage Qi and Blood martial artist. Its meat is a treasure with high nutritional value, but it is a bit troublesome to process."

Then, he told his mother how to handle it.

"Soaking it in salt water... and then boiling it for more than six hours... isn't too much trouble."

Looking at the beast meat in her hand, Gao Lan chuckled and said, "I'll stew this meat tomorrow and give you and your dad a good nourishing meal."

"Dad isn't back yet?"

"It'll be quick. Go take a shower and go to bed early."

"oh."

Lin Bei responded, but sighed inwardly.

A while ago, a small group of strange beasts appeared in the nearby waters. Although they did not cause any harm, the authorities still issued a sea ban, which has not been lifted to this day.

With fishermen unable to go out to sea, my dad, a fishmonger, had no business and could only continue doing temporary work.

After washing up.

Lin Bei returned to his room, opened the sandalwood box, and found only one stick of calming incense inside.

He had intended to keep this incense stick for emergencies.

Who knew?

The school suddenly opened up the concept map.

They also offered observation slots to these elite students.

The conditions are to master the basics of the "Elementary Visualization Method" and to rank in the top three of the grade in the monthly mental strength assessment.

The first condition was not difficult for him.

He estimated that he would be able to master the basics of visualization techniques within three days at the earliest.

The second condition is the difficult one.

In the recently concluded final exams, his mental strength score ranked nineteenth in the grade. After the exams, he also used up a lot of his available mental strength on mental coding.

If he were to take the exam again now, he probably wouldn't even be able to keep his nineteenth place in the grade.

"Plans are no match for change."

Lin Bei looked at the incense in his hand and made a decision.

For the next month, he planned to temporarily suspend the development of the [System Panel] and focus all his efforts on cultivating his mental strength.

He had to secure a spot as an observer, no matter what.

Lin Bei carefully placed the Nourishing Spirit Incense in his hand into the small incense burner in front of him, and then actively released a wisp of spiritual energy onto the Nourishing Spirit Incense.

That's right.

Lighting incense for nourishing the spirit cannot be done with fire, but must be done with mental energy.

After a dozen or so breaths.

The incense was lit, and golden smoke rose in wisps, carrying an ethereal fragrance that gradually filled the entire room.

Lin Bei closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and inhaled the wisps of golden smoke into his body.

immediately.

A thought flashed through his mind: "Activate the anchor point..."

……

The next day, at six o'clock in the morning.

Lin Bei's consciousness detached from the fourth layer of consciousness space.

After a whole night of meditation, his total mental strength reached 41.1.

As for the crucial available mental energy, it's 4.1, which hasn't returned to the level of 4.3 during the final exam.

"The manual control panel is a bottomless pit..."

Lin Bei sighed, his brows furrowing even more as he looked at the incense that had burned down to one-fifth of its original size.

Once the last stick of incense for calming the mind is used up, his meditation efficiency will be greatly reduced.

He checked online.

This kind of incense, which can help cultivate mental strength, is extremely rare and usually only appears at some auctions.

You can't buy it on the market even if you have the money.

Not to mention, he himself was a penniless wretch...

Just as I was at my wit's end, my phone, which was on the bedside table, suddenly rang.

He picked it up and saw that it was Shangguan Ling calling. "Why is this rich girl calling me so early? Could it be...?"

Lin Bei answered the phone.