My starting summon is a small skeleton

Summoned Beasts had no special cultivation techniques for raising their power.

To increase the power of a Summoned Beast, one could only rely on training and battle.

Thus, some Summoners proposed the concept of an Experience Bar for Summoned Beasts.

They believed that there was an invisible, unmastered experience bar concerning the power enhancement of Summoned Beasts.

Only when this experience bar was full could the power of the Summoned Beast be raised.

Although this theory couldn't be verified, it couldn't be falsified either. Coupled with the recent rise of games and the complete lack of achievements by Cultivation Masters in this area, Summoners generally believed in this theory.

They had even compiled some tips to quickly boost experience points based on this experience bar theory.

Among these was the idea of fighting above one's level.

Summoners widely believed that fighting above one's level could drastically increase a Summoned Beast's experience points.

And as long as the experience points were nearly full, there was a high probability that fighting above one's level could lead to leveling up.

However, as for this, Lu Wu now felt that it was false.

His Little Skeleton had been knocking down small ground moles, one by one; within half an hour, it had defeated over a dozen three-star Summoned Beasts. By all logic, its experience should have been full and ready to reach three stars by now, but Little Skeleton showed no signs of leveling up.

"As expected, a group of Summoners don't know a damn thing about Summoned Beasts. How could fighting above one's level possibly lead to leveling up?

In the end, leveling up still comes down to smashing phones!"

Saying this, Lu Wu was about to pull out his large phone to show a smashing to Little Skeleton.

However, just then, a bell rang to the left—evidently another prey had shown up.

Since there was prey arriving, why not finish them off first?

It's just a matter of one strike, after all.

Yet this time, something was off. It wasn't a mole that appeared, but a gray snake with a rocky texture.

Lu Wu was startled by the Big Rock Snake: "Damn, what's going on? This isn't the area for Big Rock Snakes to roam in. How did a Big Rock Snake show up?"

Lu Wu quickly warned Little Skeleton at his side not to go out and fight this creature—it would be a hassle.

Better to just let it go on its own!

However, at this moment, the shadow of the Big Rock Snake revealed a mole behind it, clearly one that had been attacked not long ago.

The foolish mole was jumping around and shouting next to the Big Rock Snake, seeming to be saying something, then it pointed in the direction where Lu Wu and his companion were.

"What's happening here? Did the mole bring the Big Rock Snake to complain? Bringing the Big Rock Snake over for revenge?

Has the world gone mad? Aren't snakes and moles supposed to be natural enemies?"

Well, normally, snakes and moles indeed are natural enemies, but the Underground Cave was different.

This was a commercialized Trial Secret Realm managed by the Summoner Center for decades; all the Summoned Beasts here were old performers of many years, like domesticated Summoned Beasts.

Being domesticated, conflicts between them were relatively few. Additionally, since they experienced beatings together, they naturally grew close.

In such circumstances, it wasn't strange for a mole that was beaten to seek help from the Big Rock Snake to take revenge.

The most important point was that the Secret Realm Manager had noticed Lu Wu's situation; in gaming terms, his situation would be considered exploiting a bug to farm monsters—an issue the manager could hardly ignore and had to address.

While Lu Wu was stunned, the Big Rock Snake was already charging over.

At this point, escaping was too late for Lu Wu; he had no choice but to fight.

"The Big Rock Snake is charging over, Little Skeleton, it's all on you now. Do you have confidence?!"

Little Skeleton was confident, Little Skeleton was super capable!

After drawing lots of little ground squirrels, Little Skeleton was particularly excited and rushed with a club at the sight of the Big Rock Snake charging towards him.

He started charging, and at the moment he approached the Big Rock Snake, he swung the electric baton in his hand, adding the power of charging into the baton and smashing it on the Big Rock Snake's head.

If this hit were on a ground squirrel's head, it would have been knocked askew, but it was a different story with the Big Rock Snake.

The creature was a rock-type Summoned Beast, with extremely strong defense, so this hit was nothing more than a nuisance to it.

Instead, it took the opportunity to rear its head, almost making Little Skeleton lose his grip on the electric baton as the snake's tail whipped towards him at the same time, aimed straight at Little Skeleton's skeleton.

If it hit, Little Skeleton wouldn't just fall apart; he would be rendered useless.

"Left, use Block to leverage!"

Lu Wu issued the command immediately, and Little Skeleton instinctively followed by positioning the electric baton to the left, blocking the tail and leaping up, letting the force fling him away.

Next, while he was flung in mid-air, Little Skeleton turned and pushed off against the wall with his skeletal legs.

"Now, use Charge and Charging, hit it hard in the middle of its back!"

At this point, Lu Wu could no longer afford to let Little Skeleton hold back his powers.

If they couldn't get past this obstacle, there was no point in thinking about defeating the boss.

At Lu Wu's command, Little Skeleton flashed like lightning and instantly smashed into the middle of Big Rock Snake's body, the baton laden with electric light striking down, causing the Big Rock Snake to convulse.

At the same time, Lu Wu's wristband emitted a notification.

But Lu Wu had no time to care about the notification because, at that moment, a surge of icy energy rushed to his forehead, clearly indicating that Little Skeleton had just reached three stars in this battle.

Meanwhile, after taking down the Big Rock Snake, Little Skeleton turned and gave Lu Wu a thumbs-up!

"Well done!"

In his excitement, Lu Wu almost wanted to rush over and give Little Skeleton a big kiss.

The strategies figured out by the Summoners were somewhat useful, having saved him a phone at least.

But before Lu Wu could rejoice for long, the ringing of bells began from every direction.

"Damn!"

Lu Wu's expression changed, realizing that the situation was getting out of control, likely meaning the Secret Realm Manager was clearing a bug.

Lu Wu dared not stay any longer, closing his eyes to listen to the ringing once more before opening them sharply.

"There are no Summoned Beasts down the left fork, let's go left!"

It must be said, in his preparation to climb the leaderboards, Lu Wu was thoroughly prepared, not only setting up alerts in advance but also making sure the bells at each of the four forks were distinct in sound.

Lu Wu could tell immediately where there were beasts and where there weren't.

Moreover, after rushing into the left fork, Lu Wu didn't forget to throw a small ball towards the center.

This too was a prepared tool by Lu Wu; as soon as the ball hit the ground, it emitted thick smoke.

This was specifically prepared by Lu Wu for such situations.

This move left the Secret Realm Manager baffled.

They'd seen cunning tactics, but never tactics this cunning.

And over here, after throwing the small ball, Lu Wu immediately led Little Skeleton towards the third floor's defending boss.

"Just as I expected, the Summoned Beasts are all moving this way, now the third floor is relatively empty, it's the best chance to push forward, seize this chance to find the third-floor boss, defeat it to enter the fourth floor, jump two floors and easily score at least 200 points to claim the top spot!"