Chapter 17: Don't you know?

The two of them didn't speak for a long while.

Xiang Qiaosang stood to the side without saying a word.

Hedgehog-head gave Jiang Liu a look.

Jiang Liu asked curiously, "What's wrong with your eyes?"

Hedgehog-head: "..."

Too stupid.

Hedgehog-head resisted the urge to slap his forehead and choked out one word: "Money."

Jiang Liu finally realized and hurriedly fished 50 Alliance coins from his pocket and handed them over.

Hedgehog-head: "..."

You really deserve to be single! Can't you just add me on contact and transfer the money!

"Thanks, I'll be going now," Xiang Qiaosang said with a smile as she took the money.

There was only so much time during the after-school rush, and she still had to use this period to stake out more people.

"Wait, have a match with me too." Hedgehog-head blocked Xiang Qiaosang. "I don't want money either, just tell me the secret to raising a Fire Tooth Dog."

Xiang Qiaosang shook her head and said, "I don't have any secrets."

"Impossible. If there's no secret, why is that Fire Tooth Dog so obedient?" Hedgehog-head looked completely unconvinced.

The methods for raising pet beasts were no secret; universities even had majors dedicated to pet beast raising.

People who graduated from such majors were called Breeders by the Alliance, and just like Beast Tamers, they needed to pass certification exams, ranging from F-rank all the way up to SSS-rank.

Some people who contracted pet beasts would specifically hire Breeders to formulate a series of raising plans.

But there were also people who had their own unique ways of taming beasts and were unwilling to share them with others.

Like the Wei family in Jiang Cheng, who relied on food that Fairy-type transcendent creatures loved, forcing elusive Fairy-type transcendent creatures to appear before them and voluntarily become their pet beasts.

Such food naturally made people envious; if the formula were taken out to apply for a patent or sold, they could make a fortune.

Yet the Wei family only gave it to their own kin.

Later, almost everyone in the Wei family could own a Fairy-type pet beast, and after more than 300 years of development, they earned the title of the Fairy Family.

Hedgehog-head believed that Xiang Qiaosang was just unwilling to tell him.

He still remembered that one of the only two seniors in the second year who had contracted a Fire-type pet beast had taken out his Fire Armor Mouse to let the junior girls pet it, only for the Fire Armor Mouse to spray a mouthful of flame at him the moment it came out.

The person was fine, but his hair was scorched, leaving him bald, and he still wore a hat every day to this day.

Nothing like this Fire Tooth Dog, which could obediently stand still under such circumstances.

Xiang Qiaosang asked, puzzled, "I'm its Beast Tamer, isn't it normal for it to listen to me?"

"Ya."

The Fire Tooth Dog nodded, considering it an agreement with its Beast Tamer's words.

Seeing the Fire Tooth Dog like this, Hedgehog-head became uncertain. Could it be that this Fire Tooth Dog was just naturally well-behaved?

"Can I pet it?" Hedgehog-head asked.

"Chen Tongtong, don't be impulsive," Jiang Liu advised.

The reason the senior became bald was already known to the whole school; he was afraid Chen Tongtong would become the school's second bald person.

"It's fine, go ahead," Xiang Qiaosang said with an indifferent expression.

Back when they were at the pet beast base, the Fire Tooth Dog was willing to let her pet it even before they had contracted.

Chen Tongtong was tempted. He squatted down to look at the Fire Tooth Dog and just reached out his hand.

"Ya."

The Fire Tooth Dog showed its sharp teeth to him in a friendly display.

Chen Tongtong immediately retracted his hand, terrified that the Fire Tooth Dog would take a bite out of him the next second.

"You'd better just have a match with me. I don't want any secrets anymore, just tell me how you usually raise the Fire Tooth Dog," Chen Tongtong said as he stood up.

"Fine," Xiang Qiaosang agreed.

Although the Fire Tooth Dog had only been with her for three or four days, she did have some insights on raising it.

Seeing that the two had decided, Jiang Liu stepped out and said, "I'll be the referee this time."

Xiang Qiaosang nodded.

Chen Tongtong summoned his own pet beast.

Xiang Qiaosang fell silent as she looked at the transcendent creature before her.

A brown Bug-type pet beast, about 10 centimeters long and resembling a foxtail grass, was wriggling its body on the ground.

It was actually a Cotton-Joint Worm...

Cotton-Joint Worms were mostly green, and brown ones were rare. Most Beast Tamers with any ambition were unwilling to contract such cheap and common pet beasts.

However, it had diverse evolutionary forms. Currently, five evolutionary forms with different attributes had been discovered, among which the Snow-Butterfly form was a rare Ice-attribute pet beast, instantly increasing the value of the Cotton-Joint Worm by dozens of times.

But all this value was predicated on its evolutionary form.

Xiang Qiaosang had read in books that Cotton-Joint Worms couldn't learn any skills other than Silk Spit and Tackle.

Wasn't this just handing her money?

"You go first this time," Xiang Qiaosang said.

She was afraid the Fire Tooth Dog would end the battle with a single Spark...

Chen Tongtong naturally knew what Xiang Qiaosang was thinking; every time he brought out the Cotton-Joint Worm, the opponent would let him attack first.

This kind of contempt, this feeling of being looked down upon, always benefited him in battles.

A normal Cotton-Joint Worm could evolve in three to five months, but his Cotton-Joint Worm had been dragged out for nearly a year, all to build a solid foundation for a perfect evolution.

With this solid foundation, his Cotton-Joint Worm was no longer comparable to an ordinary one!

He had even achieved 39th place in this freshman beast taming battle competition by relying on the toughness of his Cotton-Joint Worm's silk, which far exceeded that of ordinary ones!

"Cotton-Joint Worm! Let her see your strength!" Chen Tongtong raised one hand and roared forcefully.

"Jie!"

The Cotton-Joint Worm opened its mouth and let out a cry, and a snow-white, bright thread shot toward the Fire Tooth Dog at high speed.

It was so fast that the Fire Tooth Dog hadn't even taken a step before it was bound by the thread.

The Fire Tooth Dog struggled, but couldn't break free.

Xiang Qiaosang frowned; it seemed that the Fire Tooth Dog's speed training needed to be put on the agenda.

"Give it the final blow!" Chen Tongtong continued to roar.

The Cotton-Joint Worm's body glowed with a faint white light, and its 10-centimeter-long body didn't wriggle but instead charged through the air!

The speed was much faster than the Fire Tooth Dog's tackle from earlier.

Xiang Qiaosang gauged the distance, and after 3 seconds, she issued the command: "Fire Fang."

The brilliant flames instantly destroyed the snow-white thread and accurately bit onto the charging Cotton-Joint Worm.

"Jie!!!" The Cotton-Joint Worm let out a shrill cry.

Two seconds later, its eyes rolled back, and it fainted.

"Xiang Qiaosang wins," Jiang Liu announced.

"Cotton-Joint Worm!" Chen Tongtong sprinted over to embrace the fallen Cotton-Joint Worm.

After confirming that the Cotton-Joint Worm had only fainted, he recalled it into his Beast Taming Canon.

"Why?" Chen Tongtong raised his head, looking at Xiang Qiaosang with red eyes.

"What?" Xiang Qiaosang asked in return.

She didn't understand; wasn't it normal for the Fire Tooth Dog to beat the Cotton-Joint Worm? Why was he reacting so strongly?

"Why was it so easy to break the Cotton-Joint Worm's silk?" Chen Tongtong stared fixedly at Xiang Qiaosang, asking unwillingly.

His Cotton-Joint Worm's silk was incomparably tough; as long as it bound the opponent, they basically couldn't break free, and even those with great strength would have to spend quite a while.

It was nothing like this, where it was like playing around.

"Uh," Xiang Qiaosang thought for a moment. "Don't you know that Fire-type counters Bug-type?"

Chen Tongtong: "..."

"Perhaps you haven't battled against a Fire-type pet beast before?" Xiang Qiaosang felt she had hit the truth.

Chen Tongtong: "...!!" ===== CHAPTER 18 =====