Chapter 2669 - 2670: Limitations and Benefits

After taking a break, once the servant’s beast was fully recovered, Feng Yuan began testing the Qi Realm Stance Defense of the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound. Unlike Xiao Ji, the Qi Realm Stance Defense of the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound had little capability for counterattack.

However, this did not mean its attack ability was weak. Unlike the test with Xiao Ji, testing the Qi Realm Stance Defense of the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound not only required an opponent to attack but also a teammate to use supportive ultimate moves.

Compared to Xiao Ji, the Qi Realm Stance Defense of the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound was much more troublesome, at least to fully display it was more cumbersome than with Xiao Ji. Feng Yuan was also uncertain whether the Qi Realm Stance Defense itself was like this or if it was an exception.

After all, even with the most hassle-free Veronia, its Qi Realm Stance Defense still had the weakness of needing to maintain the Crystal Domain.

The sample size was too small, and Feng Yuan did not know if having significant weaknesses was a characteristic of Qi Realm Stance Defense. However, even if it was true, it seemed fine, as the increase in power with Qi Realm Stance Defense was quite evident compared to Qi Realm Stance Attack.

For Xiao Ji, if it wasn’t intended to charge forward, Xiao Ji’s overall strength would actually be higher under Qi Realm Stance Defense, because Feng Yuan asked and found that the Divine Beast Technique was least affected, as with Veronia, whose Divine Beast Technique could be exhibited in the corresponding stance or used in its original form.

Xiao Ji’s main ultimate moves were still in the Divine Beast Technique such as Crimson Judgement. In Defense Stance, aside from the corresponding defensive form, Crimson Judgement could also directly drop meteors just like in its initial form.

This indicates that if Xiao Ji uses Qi Realm Stance Defense, its strength is actually increased, and since the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound can share buff states when bearing damage, the Qi Realm Stance Defense is actually a good permanent state.

Of course, for Feng Yuan, it was different for Qi Chen and others, as their mental state did not meet the standard, they simply could not use Qi Realm Stance Defense. Feng Yuan himself would not use it often, as Xiao Ji being slightly stronger or weaker normally made little difference.

Not to mention Feng Yuan only had Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound as his beasts, both needed to bear damage to exhibit their maximum strength, so it’s not about being distressed but rather about the limited number of beasts, the amount of damage they can bear is limited, and the strength they can unleash is also limited.

"Thanks for the help, this data is sufficient."

After testing for a while, Feng Yuan said with a smile to the servant. Compared to the Qi Realm Stance Defense, the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound leaned more towards group assistance, although its aura needed a buff state to be triggered, the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound itself could randomly acquire various buff states based on damage received.

At the same time, it also had the ability to purify enemy buff states and clear its own negative states, not to mention its crucial recovery capability.

Aside from the special structure damage reduction previously noted by Feng Yuan, the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound also had many additional damage reduction ultimate moves, and even quite a few substitute ultimate moves that could be used to take damage in its place.

When taking damage, the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound could quickly recover stamina and injuries, unlike Xiao Ji, it had no energy shield but relied on its own health to bear damage, so substitute ultimate moves were very important in Feng Yuan’s view, because without an extra shield, excessive damage could directly wipe it out.

Correspondingly, the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound also did not have the weakness of Xiao Ji’s fear of shield-breaking ultimate moves under Black Sun state, since any shield would suffer from shield-breaking types of moves.

Health-based damage bearing is different, nearly no ultimate moves specifically target this, so in terms of defense, although the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound’s ability to withstand damage is not as strong as Xiao Ji’s, it wins in having no weaknesses.

Unfortunately, Xiao Ji’s Group Protection cannot adjust its protection target independently, perhaps this is related to Xiao Ji’s weak control over its ultimate moves, but it is precisely due to this, to avoid protecting the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound, Xiao Ji has to cancel the Black Sun state.

The protection from Xiao Ji would nullify the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound’s damage-bearing buff ability, as the damage does not fall on the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound, thus unable to trigger subsequent effects.

In Feng Yuan’s view, perhaps it could be considered to let the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound first take a wave of damage to enhance the aura effect before Xiao Ji activates Black Sun. This way, both would gain buffs, and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound could rely on multiple protections to break into enemy lines for combat.

However, compared to previous battles, this one was relatively troublesome, at least Feng Yuan needed to analyze the situation and give them orders, relying on the coordination between the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound and Xiao Ji, Feng Yuan felt issues could easily arise, unless their tacit understanding improved significantly.

Compared to Qi Realm Stance Attack, Defense requires higher cooperation, and given the current level of tacit understanding between Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound, Feng Yuan did not believe they could meet the cooperation demand.

Fighting alone, both Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound could perform well under Qi Realm Stance Defense, and if they could coordinate, they could easily handle strong enemies, and Feng Yuan also noticed that since it is called Qi Realm Stance Defense, its attack ability is certainly not top-notch.

However, this does not mean weak attack capability, although the aspect of breaking through tough defenses has not been strengthened, after the cooperation between Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound, the group damage will enable them to easily take on one hundred enemies singlehandedly, presuming the enemy’s strength isn’t much higher.

Perhaps this is also why Xiao Ji’s counterattacks are mainly aimed at group damage, as the best defense is a good offense. As long as the enemies in an encirclement are cleared, there will be no situation of ’ant bites kill an elephant’.

Of course, this point is meaningless to Feng Yuan, as if truly encircled, Feng Yuan himself could break the siege, with sufficient strength, it is but a game of mowing down grass.

"Compared to before, this time the strength increase is quite evident."

Veronia had been watching Xiao Ji and the Fluffy Fire Wolfhound’s testing, so it knew exactly what those ultimate moves could do, compared to offense, defense seemed stronger and more useful.

"It should be due to the difficulty increase, after all, not everyone can pass the mental state test."

Smiling, Feng Yuan said unconcernedly, although he wasn’t sure if this was the reason, it shouldn’t be much different. The more restricted and costly the power, the stronger it is usually, this is a very common phenomenon.

"That’s true as well, but submitting this data might lead someone to hatch crooked plans."

Veronia reminded with a chuckle, and Feng Yuan sighed with a helpless face.

"I can’t control that, even if I don’t provide the data, they would still conduct tests, the final result would be the same. If I submit the data, maybe they’ll pay more attention to those hidden dangers."

The reason Great Xia trusted the information given by Feng Yuan was because there was little hidden in the data he provided. Although they wouldn’t blindly trust the data, they would subconsciously deem them as true; what they needed to do was merely verify authenticity and check for omissions.

In this situation, warnings written by Feng Yuan would naturally be emphasized by them, as no one would recklessly take risks if the rest was verified as true.

"That’s true too, hopefully, they won’t cause any trouble because of this."

Understanding the situation, Veronia said while looking at the servant who was looking back longingly, it was evident that those two were very curious about Qi Realm Stance, but it was clear this was not something they could handle.

Qi Realm Stance Attack was one thing, although it had effects, it wasn’t big, but Qi Realm Stance Defense was truly unattainable, the restrictions on mental state were too great.

In Veronia’s view, even for those Beastmasters, not many probably met the mental state requirement, as this compared not to strength but to mental state, something that, unless specifically helped with mind cultivation, can only increase naturally with age and experience.

Even in some cases, mental state does not improve with increasing age.

If each subsequent stance gets stronger, perhaps humanity might specifically research how to cultivate the mind?

Thinking of this, Veronia found it amusing, the Divine Beings of the Mythical Era fought easily over trivialities, truth be told, probably few of them even met the mental state requirements.

If Qi Realm appeared in the Mythical Era, a lot of interesting situations might have occurred, but unfortunately, it’s something impossible.

Without testing, Veronia and Feng Yuan could guess that the subsequent Qi Realm Stances likely have higher mental state requirements, and given the current situation with human Beastmasters, not many might unlock more Qi Realm Stances all the way through, and even Veronia lacked confidence in this regard.

After all, it also hadn’t cultivated the mind much, the current mental state was merely due to experiences it went through...