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Little Treasure's eyes flashed with blue light.
In the next second, Qiao Sang and Qingbao were back in the waiting area.
"Xun xun~"
Little Treasure gave a thumbs-up and let out a call.
"Qing qing."
Qingbao suppressed the corners of her lips that were threatening to curl upward, putting on an expression of isn't this expected?
In the past, whenever her Beast Tamer participated in competitions, she always brought Yabao and the others along to win streak all the way. When it was her turn, she also constantly felt she could keep winning all the way to the end.
Her Beast Tamer was more impressive than other Beast Tamers, and she also considered herself no worse than other pet beasts of the same tier.
Therefore, when her Beast Tamer came to enter the competition together with her, her confidence surged immensely, and she had never once thought she would lose.
However, right at that moment, Qiao Sang spoke to Teacher Mikayla off to the side: "If the power of wind triggered by Qingbao's emotion hadn't broken the surrounding bubble in time during the match just now, the outcome of this match would have been hard to say."
After all, if the bubble hadn't broken in time, Moisture Sloth's attack would have most likely hit Qingbao. And Qingbao was fragile, no one knew if she would fall directly from a single hit.
Qingbao: ???
The outcome was hard to say?
Does that mean she would lose?
Qingbao looked at her Beast Tamer in disbelief.
Qiao Sang continued: "I was wondering if we should let Qingbao practice some defensive skills next?"
Pausing briefly, she added: "Also, as for skill applications, should I develop those further?"
Mikayla pondered for a moment and said:
"Qinyin Fairy can turn into wind, so ordinary attacks can barely hit her. However, once your information becomes known to everyone in the future, people will definitely come up with targeted attack plans against Qinyin Fairy. Adding defense to the plan can indeed be scheduled as early as possible."
"As for skill applications..."
Speaking up to this point, Mikayla swept a complex gaze over Yabao and the others, continuing:
"I know you only had this idea because of the match just now, but your situation is somewhat different from other ordinary Beast Tamers. Most Beast Tamers contract fewer pet beasts, so they have more time evenly distributed among their pet beasts. Moreover, pet beasts learn skills slowly, even skills awakened through evolution require a lot of time to truly execute."
"Precisely because skills are hard for them to learn, they push a single skill to its extreme, developing multiple applications for it or forming combo moves with other skills to increase power."
"Your pet beasts evolve far too quickly. Not only do they awaken numerous skills with every evolution, but those skills are also ones that other pet beasts couldn't learn even if they wanted to."
"Yet Blazing Divine Lion and the others train these skills with zero pressure, and their proficiency shows clear growth over time just through regular practice."
Mikayla rambled on a whole lot, and finally summarized:
"My advice is that Blazing Divine Lion and the others should stick to their current training arrangements. Wait until the day they hit a bottleneck and training skill proficiency no longer brings noticeable improvements, then start developing skill applications."
If the skills Blazing Divine Lion and the others awakened were all high-tier skills, she would actually support developing some combo moves right now. However, almost all the skills Blazing Divine Lion and the others awakened included super-tier skills.
Super-tier skills showed obvious progress over time through practice, so why bother practicing combo moves? The right path was to hurry up and raise super-tier skill proficiency while there was no bottleneck phase.
With a golden finger, bottleneck phases don't exist... Qiao Sang complained internally. On the surface, she put on an attentive listening look and finally spoke after reflecting: "Then how about letting Qingbao undergo training for skill application and development?"
Qingbao: ???
Hearing this, Mikayla nodded slightly: "Qinyin Fairy can indeed practice combo moves. The skill she used on the field just now that combined Tailwind and Fairy Wind together was very good. She has absolute talent when it comes to fusing wind-type skills; you can work hard in this direction."
Qiao Sang said: "I understand."
Qingbao off to the side understood it too: Her Beast Tamer and her Beast Tamer's teacher both felt she was currently too weak, so she needed to practice defense as well as combo moves separately.
She looked at Little Treasure, then at Yabao, Gangbao, and Lubao. For the first time, she clearly realized that she seemed to be the weakest in the team.
At the thought of this, a strange wind blew up around her.
"Lei lei..."
Tingbao poked his head out beside Lubao, feeling the surrounding wind with an expression of enjoyment.
Qingbao looked at Tingbao. Suddenly remembering that if her Beast Tamer contracted him in the future, she would no longer be the weakest, the gaze she directed at Tingbao became significantly friendlier.
The wind around her stopped at the same time.
Tingbao put on a disappointed expression of that's it?, shrinking back into the backpack and snuggling up right next to Lubao.
At this moment, the host in the guest area called out loudly: "This morning's competition ends right here! Let us meet again at two o'clock this afternoon, be there or be square!"
As the host's words fell, the reporters who had been waiting in ambush for a long time frantically ran toward the waiting area.
Seeing this grand display, Qiao Sang stopped her discussion with Teacher Mikayla. Very calm and composed, she spoke softly: "Little Treasure."
"Xun xun~" Little Treasure's eyes flashed with blue light.
In the next second, he vanished from the spot along with his Beast Tamer, Yabao, and the rest.
She slipped away again... The reporters stopped in their tracks, sighing and groaning one after another.
So it really wasn't that they didn't want to interview her, it was that the other party gave them no chance at all!
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At noon, in the villa.
The blazing sun hung high overhead.
After finishing her meal, Qiao Sang brought Qingbao to the room, opened her laptop, and searched for the video "Ultimate High-Level Beast Tournament: Venom-Backed Beast Match Highlight," playing it in front of Qingbao.
Qingbao put on an obedient act and looked at the screen.
The video playing above was Venom-Backed Beast's battle footage.
Venom-Backed Beast was precisely the other contestant who had made it to the finals.
Qiao Sang spoke up: "I watched Venom-Backed Beast's matches from the previous rounds and noticed it has a habit: At the start of a match, it will first spray poisonous gas. You can treat this skill as roughly similar to Meitianhua's stench gas. As long as you cast Misty Terrain and stay inside it, the poisonous gas won't affect you."
"The coverage of the Misty Terrain you can cast right now is only about twenty square meters. Remember not to leave this area when there is poisonous gas around."
"If you have no choice but to leave Misty Terrain, such as being blasted backward by an attack, hold your breath in time and quickly use Tailwind to blow the poisonous gas away."
Blasted backward by an attack? Qingbao recalled what she heard in the waiting area this morning, putting on a downcast expression and letting out a call: "Qing qing?"
Will you dislike me for being too weak?
"Ah?"
Qiao Sang was taken aback for a moment, then quickly said, "How could that be? Why would you think that?"
"Qing qing."
Qingbao continued to call out with a downcast expression, indicating: But you thought I would lose this morning's match, and you even want me to train defense and combo moves, while Little Treasure and the others don't have to.
Is Qingbao being this sensitive now? What on earth did that legacy memory pass down to her... Qiao Sang grumbled internally, then patiently explained:
"I didn't think you would lose this morning's match. It's just that Moisture Sloth trapping you was a situation beyond my expectations, which made me feel the match wasn't fully under my control. To prevent such a situation from happening again in the future, I wanted you to practice defense, just like having you train odor tolerance a few days ago."
"Having you train these isn't because I think you're weak, but because I want you to become stronger."
"As for defense and combo moves, Yabao and the others had all practiced them back then. It's just that you've been contracted with me for a shorter time, so we haven't had the chance to do this training yet."
"Qing qing?"
Qingbao took it in. She put on an expression of then I can rest easy, and then, remembering something, she let out a call, asking when she would contract Tingbao.
She hadn't realized it before, but now that she did, she didn't want to be the weakest one in the team.
Especially at the thought of how even Little Treasure, with his sloppy, carefree attitude, was stronger than her, Qingbao felt strangely upset.
Qiao Sang sighed: "Brain domain development isn't something I can just do whenever I want."
Meaning she didn't know when she would contract Tingbao either.
"Qing qing?"
Her hope of directly escaping the status of being the weakest in the team shattered, Qingbao felt slightly disappointed. Then, putting on a serious expression, she let out a call.
Does she have a chance to catch up to Little Treasure?
Qiao Sang paused for a second, then smiled and said: "Of course. In the past, Yabao had the leading level in the team, but later Lubao was the first to evolve into King-level. As long as you work hard, overtaking them is very possible."
After all, Qingbao possessed a complete evolution path leading straight to God-level, and she didn't need to worry about evolution materials.
Unlike Yabao and Gangbao, whose subsequent evolution paths were completely unknown, or Lubao and Little Treasure, where one's evolution path was absurdly difficult, and the other required finding rare materials.
As long as Qingbao's nurturing followed the established steps, it was just like a cultivation technique leading straight to the Great Dao in a Xianxia novel: If the practitioner's natural talent met the standard, following the technique step-by-step would allow them to achieve the Great Dao and complete their ascension.
"Qing qing!"
Qingbao could tell her Beast Tamer wasn't joking. She couldn't help but put on an excited expression and let out a call, indicating she would work hard!
At the same time, Little Treasure, who was currently battling Moda Dragon on the outdoor training field, mysteriously sneezed, causing his movements to briefly pause.
Seeing this, Moda Dragon seized the opportunity, rapidly opening its mouth to blast a beam of silver-white light right onto Little Treasure's body.
BOOM!
A loud explosion echoed.
"Xun xun!"
"Mo mo!"
Little Treasure and Moda Dragon let out painful cries at the same time, both tumbling down from the high sky.
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In the evening, 7:30 PM.
Hasman.
Quanman Arena.
"Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to the site of the Ultimate High-Level Beast Tournament!"
The host shouted loudly into the microphone: "Tonight, at this very moment, what is about to take place is the finals of our current Ultimate High-Level Beast Tournament! The ones entering the finals are contestant Qiao Sang! And contestant Invincible Poison!"
Invincible Poison was the name Venom-Backed Beast gave itself.
As the host's words fell, two white beams of light shone down, making the figures of Qiao Sang and Venom-Backed Beast, who were already standing on the field, clearly appear before everyone's eyes.
The cheers in the audience instantly exploded.
There were people calling out both Qiao Sang's and Venom-Backed Beast's names, and all the spectating wild pet beasts were cheering as well.
If someone proficient in multiple pet beast languages were here, they would discover that what they were shouting was almost exclusively Venom-Backed Beast's name.
In battle competitions, the ones who ultimately claimed victory in the end were basically always Beast Tamers.
When wild pet beasts and Beast Tamers competed on the same stage, it was rare for wild pet beasts to take home the final championship.
Therefore, whenever a wild pet beast won the championship or showed hope of winning it, it would often harvest a surge of sky-high popularity.
Just like Pseudo-Crying Ghost, who had once won the Ultimate High-Level Beast Tournament championship, even though there had been so many champion contestants across various editions, precisely because it was the only wild pet beast to win the championship in the past decade, the organizers invited it as a guest.
"Du bei!"
On the field, Venom-Backed Beast raised both claws upward and let out a roar.
The cheers of all the wild pet beasts in the audience instantly grew even more intense.
Why does this Venom-Backed Beast look a bit chuunibyou... Qiao Sang thought to herself.
After the host rambled on thanking a whole bunch of sponsors, he spoke up: "Who on earth will win the final championship of this edition's Ultimate High-Level Beast Tournament? Let us turn our cameras to the field!"
The pet beast wearing the referee license appeared out of thin air on the field, then raised its green flag and waved it toward Qiao Sang's location.
Qiao Sang formed hand seals, and a dazzling red star array lit up.
Qingbao soon appeared within the star array.
The pet beasts cheering Venom-Backed Beast's name in the audience instantly went quiet.
Support was support, but seeing this red star array, deep down they still felt Venom-Backed Beast had little hope of winning.
"Du bei!"
Venom-Backed Beast let out a provocative call at Qingbao.
Qingbao was stunned for a moment, then her face turned ugly, and a strange wind blew up around her body.
"Calm down." Qiao Sang spoke up.
"Qing qing..." Qingbao took a deep breath, her expression returning to composure, and the wind around her stopped along with it.
At the exact same time, the flag raised by the pet beast wearing the referee license waved toward the middle, and then it vanished from the spot.
Vanishing at the same time was Qingbao.
Venom-Backed Beast put on a serious expression and opened its mouth, a wave of purple poisonous gas instantly spewing forth from its mouth.
However, in the next second, a violent gale roared up.
The spreading poisonous gas was abruptly blown by the wind back toward Venom-Backed Beast's location.
Venom-Backed Beast's figure was instantly surrounded by the poisonous gas.
After these past few days of training with Meitianhua, Qingbao's breath-holding duration had increased immensely, she could hold her breath for up to roughly a minute and a half.
Her skills could basically only be used after she revealed herself. However, the wind that suddenly appeared under the influence of her emotions was different, as long as she could utilize this emotion-triggered wind, Qingbao could control the gale to blow away the poisonous gas on the field even while in her Wind Transformation state.
I didn't expect having Qingbao think about things that make her angry before the match would work this well. I wonder what on earth she thought of... Qiao Sang sighed emotionally in her heart, looking toward that faint figure inside the poisonous gas.
Venom-Backed Beast, a Poison and Dark dual-type high-level beast, had a fierce temperament and was covered in lethal poison. If it disliked someone, it would pretend to bump into them casually to poison them directly. It possessed a Toxic Body by nature, causing opponents who came into contact with it to enter a poisoned state...
As thoughts flickered, Qingbao revealed herself high in the sky, opened her mouth, and spewed a pink gale packed with fairy energy toward the figure inside the poisonous gas.
Yet right at that moment, the purple poisonous gas abruptly expanded, its density actually veiling the pink gale and enveloping the entire field within it.
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