“Snow, Snow Centipede is unable to battle. Qiao Sang wins!” the female teacher announced, her voice trembling.
He lost... Xue Chuhua, looking devastated, recalled the Snow Centipede into his Beast Codex.
At this moment, the entire Holy Water Hall erupted in total chaos; almost every student had gone wild.
“Heavens! How is Qiao Sang so strong?!”
“The Flame Listening Hound is so cool!”
“By the way, what the hell was that just now? Did my eyes deceive me? How did the Flame Listening Hound suddenly disappear?”
“I saw it too! And that Fire Fang move! Why did it feel different from a normal Fire Fang?”
“Don't you think the move the Flame Listening Hound used to move beside the Snow Centipede looked a lot like the teleportation used by a Treasure Ghost?”
“You... you mean...”
“Exactly what you're thinking.”
“!!!”
“Old Yao.” Principal Wang Weidou’s eyes were fixed intently on Qiao Sang on the field as he asked, “Between her and Ding Yanjing from Li Tan, who do you think is stronger?”
Liu Yao thought for a moment and said, “If they were the same age, Qiao Sang would naturally be stronger. Give her another six months, and it's possible she could beat Ding Yanjing. But right now, Qiao Sang can't.”
Ding Yanjing, the pride of Li Tan Beast Taming High School, was currently a senior.
In the national campus beast taming league for freshmen of his year, he had ranked first in the province, and later achieved impressive results in the regional qualifiers.
Now, he was simply waiting to pass the D-rank Beast Tamer examination to take the tests for top-tier universities. With his strength, admission to a top university was a foregone conclusion.
He was a treasure to Li Tan High School and a rather special existence to Holy Water Middle School.
Although Holy Water Middle School was always overshadowed by Li Tan High School, in previous years they had managed to keep pace, and the gap hadn't been too vast.
However, ever since the national school team league of Ding Yanjing's year, the gap had widened visibly.
As long as one faced him in a match, there was simply no hope of winning.
That would have been fine, but Ding Yanjing had a quirk: he loved hearing his opponents admit defeat with their own mouths.
If the opponent refused to surrender, he would repeatedly torture the opponent's pets during the match. Xue Chuhua had dropped out of the school team after losing to Ding Yanjing during his freshman year.
This behavior had caused dissatisfaction among the leaders of various schools at the time, and Wang Weidou was one of them.
Unwilling to give up, Wang Weidou continued to ask, “What do you think if I let Qiao Sang participate in the senior division of this year's national campus beast taming league?”
Under normal circumstances, the national middle school campus beast taming league was grouped by grade level. If nothing unexpected happened, Qiao Sang should have participated in the freshman division.
“You need to think this through.” Liu Yao glanced at him. “If Qiao Sang participates in the freshman division, the probability of her taking first place in the province for that group is over 99%. If she joins the senior group, there's a high probability she won't have a chance at first place.”
Wang Weidou fell silent.
While he desperately wanted his school's student to beat Ding Yanjing, he wanted even more to beat Li Tan High School in front of the major media outlets and strip away the title of "eternal second place."
“Is anyone else coming up?” Seeing that no one had stepped forward for a long time, the female teacher asked into the microphone.
Everyone looked at each other, pushing the responsibility back and forth.
“Didn't you say you wanted to go up? Hurry up and go!”
“Didn't you also say you were going up just now? You go first!”
“I was just talking for the sake of the atmosphere, I didn't actually want to go.”
“I was just talking casually too. My grades are in the top hundred of the school; getting into a first-tier university is no problem. Why would I want to be on the school team?”
*Pah, just say you're too scared to go up, stop making excuses...*
*Heh, look who's talking...*
The two speakers exchanged glances and then tacitly shifted their gaze away.
...
On the field.
“Ya ya!”
Ya Bao wagged its tail, looking at its beast tamer with an expectant expression.
Where was the opponent?! It remembered her saying that as long as it didn't lose, it could keep fighting!
*Don't worry, I just need to say something provocative. I'm an expert at this...* Qiao Sang gave Ya Bao a look telling it to stay calm.
Before she could make a move, the female teacher beside her suddenly asked, “Do you want the microphone?”
Qiao Sang paused for a moment. “Yes.”
The female teacher wore an expression that said, *As expected.*
Qiao Sang: “...”
She didn't want to either!
But if she didn't say something, no one would come up. If no one came up, what would happen to her points?
There were so many people here now; if she didn't take the opportunity to fleece them, she didn't know when she'd finish collecting the points Ya Bao needed to evolve into a high-level pet.
Anyway, she had already offended most of them; one more time wouldn't make a difference... Qiao Sang stepped forward, took the microphone from the teacher, and looked up. “Is it possible that no one else is coming up?”
No one spoke.
Who the hell would go up now!
One Treasure Ghost wasn't enough, and now there was a Flame Listening Hound with both Fire and Psychic types. How could they fight that?
It was just one spot on the school team; they could just give it up, couldn't they!
Seeing that the crowd didn't react much, Qiao Sang continued, “I haven't even gotten serious yet, and you're already giving up?”
The crowd stirred slightly, but still, no one stepped forward.
Qiao Sang was now a bit puzzled.
Ya Bao hadn't even revealed its ultimate move yet; why was no one coming up?
Qiao Sang thought for a moment and decided to play a hard card.
“Whoever beats me, I'll give them a secret manual to learn teleportation.”
A teleportation manual?!
Everyone present was stunned.
Nowadays, who didn't have to spend a fortune to learn a skill?
Beast tamers who lived in extreme frugality, making their lives miserable just to let their pets learn a new skill, were everywhere.
If it really was a manual for learning teleportation, it would cost at least six figures!
Even if their own pets couldn't learn it, wouldn't they make a fortune just by selling it?
Everyone present, including the teachers, could no longer sit still.
Good grief, this manual was worth more than a year's salary!
No one suspected Qiao Sang was lying.
One pet learning it might be a coincidence, but two pets knowing it was enough to prove the authenticity of the manual.
Suddenly, it was no longer just the seniors rushing forward; the freshmen and sophomores were also squeezing their way up.
*As expected, people rely on temptation...* Qiao Sang looked at the crowd huddling together to get up and was very satisfied with her ingenuity.
“Stop pushing!”
“I got here first, okay!”
“You're a freshman, right? Do you even have a mid-level pet? Why are you joining the fray?”
“I want to, what's it to you?”
“Everyone, quiet down!” Qiao Sang waved her hand.
The speaker was the protagonist who had triggered this event, so everyone gave her face and fell silent.
“Ahem.” Qiao Sang cleared her throat and continued, “I have an idea. You all saw just now that it's quite hard to defeat me. How about this: as long as someone eventually beats me, I will give a copy of the teleportation manual to every single person who came up to challenge me in the meantime.”
All teachers and students: “!!!”
The hearts of over 3,000 students in the entire school were moved.
(End of Chapter)