Beast skills can be roughly divided into Attack, Movement, Defense, Support, Special, etc. Factor Exploration is a special type of skill; these skills possess unique functions.
Bide Time is a Support-type skill. It doesn't have the ability to deal damage directly but needs to be used in conjunction with Attack-type skills. For example, before Great Sage uses the Eight-Direction Staff, he can use Bide Time to accumulate momentum first, allowing him to unleash greater power when attacking. The longer the momentum accumulation, the higher the damage bonus, maxing out at 10 seconds.
[Detected "Bide Time", Target: Great Sage] [Do you wish to spend 50,000 Dragon Coins to simplify?]
The first time simplifying Eight-Direction Staff, it only cost 10,000 Dragon Coins. It seems the higher the quality of the skill, the more it costs to simplify. Yi Tian naturally chose Yes.
[Simplification Complete!] [Bide Time -> Squat down, and hold head with both hands] [Hint: This simplified plan can raise skill proficiency to Mastery at maximum]
Yi Tian issued the command to Great Sage according to the requirement. So Great Sage began to squat down holding his head, while staring blankly with empty eyes.
[Race: Stone Monkey] [Level: Bronze (97%)] [Potential: Bronze] [Skills: Drunkenness - Mastery (1%), Eight-Direction Staff - Perfect (0%), Evolution Factor Exploration (Simplified) - Not Entry (0% → 3%), Bide Time - Not Entry (0% → 2%)]
Yi Tian nodded with satisfaction.
"Oh, right. The Nurturing exam topic also requires finding a material ratio that can increase cultivation speed by more than 10%."
Tested before, as long as it's learning or research related to Beasts, it can trigger the simplification system. The question is how to trigger it.
Yi Tian thought briefly, walked to the bookshelf at the very front, and randomly picked up a few materials. Then returned to his experiment table, rudely mixing several materials in a vessel.
Chanting silently in his heart, I want to find the ratio to improve Great Sage's cultivation of Bide Time.
To his surprise, it actually worked.
[Detected research on improving cultivation speed of "Bide Time", Target: Yi Tian] [Do you wish to spend 200,000 Dragon Coins to simplify?]
200,000? So expensive? Yi Tian felt a bit of heartache, but still chose Yes! As long as he got first place, 1 million would arrive immediately. What is 200,000?
[Simplification Complete!] [Research Process -> Do addition and subtraction within 10 for 1000 times]
Yi Tian: "..."
Although a bit speechless, he still followed suit. He immediately picked up the black pen on the table and started scribbling on paper.
1+1=3 3-8=7 9+5=99
The system only required doing the problems, not necessarily getting them right. Yi Tian was mainly being rebellious. With every problem done, a prompt sounded in his ear.
[Research Process, Current Progress 1/1000] [Research Process, Current Progress 2/1000] [Research Process, Current Progress 3/1000] [...]
Man and monkey were constantly approaching the goal. About half an hour passed, Yi Tian exhaled. "Finally done."
At this moment, the white paper was densely packed with numbers. As the last prompt sounded, a stream of information immediately appeared in Yi Tian's brain. He directly wrote down the formula with a pen.
"Barbarian Bone Powder 4g, Sun Flower 3g, Dark Clay 1000g, mix evenly and smear over the Beast's whole body. Viscera-Cleansing Fluid 200g, Gold Cordyceps 4g, mix and stir, take 30% before cultivation, take 70% after cultivation."
"Hmm, that's about it. Can increase cultivation speed by 30%, far exceeding the 10% requirement to pass the assessment."
After copying the formula, Yi Tian finally had free time to observe the performance of others.
Most people's expressions weren't pleasant. He even saw a bro slapping himself while doing experiments.
"Bang~~~"
Suddenly heard a small explosion not far from him. Looking over, it was Zhou Qiong's table. The two had a good relationship, so Yi Tian quickly jogged over to see what happened. At this time, tears were swirling in Zhou Qiong's eyes, and her whole face had become pitch black because of the explosion just now.
"Sister Qiong, are you okay?"
Zhou Qiong wiped her tears with her sleeve and said stubbornly, "I'm fine. It was just a failed experiment."
She sighed. "Assessment reform... I definitely have no hope this time. Next time... even the time after next is uncertain. Sigh, I don't know when I can pass."
She felt depressed and was ready to give up.
Yi Tian thought for a moment. He directly picked up the pen on Zhou Qiong's table and wrote down several most important materials for her. Of course, he didn't write the specific amounts; writing that would be too obvious!
"Sister Qiong, try doing the experiment with the materials I wrote for you. I once saw a skill similar to Bide Time in a book, and the auxiliary material ratio was these few I wrote for you."
During the first two hours of the Nurturing assessment, free communication was allowed. Most topics in the Research Institute required collaboration of more than three researchers. So, team communication skills were very important.
But for most people, just two hours, they simply didn't have any communicable content to show. Moreover, even if someone was willing to share and dared to speak, others wouldn't dare to believe. Who knew if they would deliberately give fake data. Experimental verification takes time. The assessment totals only five hours; every minute and second is precious.
Zhou Qiong sent him materials before. Although he didn't use them, it was out of kindness, so consider this a repayment. For him, it was just a lifting of a hand.
Leaving the ratio ingredients, Yi Tian returned to his experiment table.
Zhou Qiong was somewhat dazed. "Seen a similar skill formula?"
Try it? Thinking briefly, she decided to try. Even if it failed, the result wouldn't be worse.
Zhou Qiong followed the formula Yi Tian left and fetched materials from the bookshelf in front. Based on her own experience, she adjusted the specific amounts. Soon, the production was completed.
"Big Black, come here."
Zhou Qiong didn't dare let Big Black try the internal medicine for now, only smearing the external mud all over the black bear's body. Then let him cultivate according to the skill booklet. At the same time, a small clip was attached to the black bear's ear, connected by a wire to a small screen. Through the numbers on the screen, one could see how much the cultivation speed increased compared to normal.
Two minutes passed.
12% displayed on the screen.
Zhou Qiong covered her mouth in surprise. 12!? How could it be so high?
"What Yi Tian said is true, he has seen similar material ratios? First experiment and it's 12%, there is still room for optimization!"
In usual research ratios, one of the most troublesome steps was finding materials. There are hundreds of thousands of known materials. Combining and matching multiple materials, the difficulty can be imagined. If all the materials are known, then finding the specific dosage isn't that difficult.