But... what if one were to learn two defensive skills at the same time?
Children make choices, adults take everything.
One could first learn one skill during the Intermediate Beast Tamer stage, then learn another after becoming a Senior Beast Tamer.
It's never been said that a Beast Tamer could only learn one defensive skill.
If possible, Chen Xing was prepared to load all available skill slots with defensive skills.
It wasn't that he was afraid of dying; rather, Chen Xing had always had a strong sense of safety since he was young.
However, if he could only learn one skill at the current stage, Chen Xing decided to choose Damage Transfer.
The reason was simple, because it was passive and didn't require activation.
If an enemy's strength were able to crush him outright, then whether it was an active skill or a passive skill would be meaningless, merely delaying the inevitable death.