Chapter 278: Welcome to the Gao San School Team

The experiment was a success!

Looking at the fully energized Lubao, Qiao Sang seemed to hear her own heart pounding violently.

Normal adults and most pet beasts spend one-third of every day sleeping.

With the feedback from pet beasts, a person's sleep time can be shortened while still maintaining a full day's energy, but that doesn't mean going without sleep is viable.

Even if a beast master has developed their brain domain to 70%, reaching the realm of an S-rank beast master, they wouldn't, like in some stories, reach some realm and achieve enlightenment, never needing to sleep, pulling all-nighters 365 days a year.

But now, a single Healing Light has made 365 consecutive days of staying up late a reality!

Staying up late feels great once, and it keeps feeling great the more you do it!

With Healing Light, staying up late won't make you ugly, won't give you a headache, won't turn you bald. For people who work overtime, can't get up in the morning, and can't sleep at night, it's simply the ultimate divine skill among divine skills!

"Lubao."

Lubao observed the surroundings, spotted Qiao Sang, leaped up, and jumped straight into Qiao Sang's arms.

This also pulled Qiao Sang back from her thoughts to reality.

How did you just jump up here? You're covered in saliva right now! Qiao Sang silently pulled Lubao a little farther away in her arms.

"Lubao."

Lubao wore a cool, aloof expression as it looked at the human who had once examined its body, completely unaware that its own beast master was currently disgusted with it.

At this moment, Liu Yao stood there in a daze, unable to speak, looking at Bingluqiya one moment and at Xunbaoyao the next, showing none of his usual mature and steady demeanor.

"Vice Principal?" Qiao Sang called out to him.

Liu Yao came back to his senses, looked at Qiao Sang with an extremely complicated expression, and for the first time felt a surge of envy and jealousy.

Others might not be able to tell, but he could see at a glance that this Xunbaoyao was a heterochromatic pet beast. Although the heterochromatic area wasn't large, it undeniably fell within the category of heterochromatic pet beasts.

Bingluqiya, a heterochromatic Xunbaoyao, plus a Yanling Dog — is this even human?!

No!

This isn't human!

Which normal kid could have three pet beasts at fifteen?!

And they've all evolved to Intermediate!

"Vice Principal?" Qiao Sang called out again.

"All three of your pet beasts are Intermediate." Liu Yao said in a hoarse voice.

Actually, the news of Qiao Sang's Xunbaogui evolving into Xunbaoyao was known to most of the students in the school since yesterday's sports meet; the only thing everyone was still discussing was whether Xunbaoyao could really split tiles.

Additionally, Liu Yao wasn't at school during the sports meet, so his information was a bit behind, and he didn't learn about Xunbaogui's evolution right away.

"Mm." Qiao Sang nodded.

Liu Yao held it in, then couldn't hold it in any longer, and asked: "How do you usually train your pet beasts?"

Qiao Sang thought for a moment and said: "I don't really have time to train them. I'm usually in class, and I still have homework when I get home. It's basically all up to Like Ya Bao and the others to be self-disciplined. For food, I just use the customized Energy Pills made according to the formula you gave me."

Liu Yao's face wore an expression that questioned his entire life.

After a long while, he waved his hand and said wearily: "Go back to class. Don't forget to go to Training Ground No. 1 after school. Lao Xian, escort her back."

After saying this, Liu Yao refused to look in Qiao Sang's direction any longer; he was afraid of having a heart attack.

……

When the bell for the last class of the afternoon rang, everyone packed up their things and filed out of the classroom one after another.

At this moment, a girl wearing glasses, with fair and clean looks and a standard student-cut hairstyle, appeared at the door of Class 1, Grade 10.

"Is Qiao Sang here?"

Ever since receiving the feedback, Qiao Sang's hearing had improved considerably compared to before. Even with the classroom full of chatter, whenever someone mentioned her name, she could hear it very clearly.

She looked toward the door and realized she didn't recognize this person.

The girl standing at the door clearly recognized Qiao Sang. Before the classmates at the classroom door could point her out, she had already spotted Qiao Sang and smiled while waving.

"And you are?" Qiao Sang finished packing her things, walked to the classroom door, and asked.

"I'm Xu Yixuan, from the Gao San school team. Teacher Sun asked me to come get you." The girl said with a smile.

So she's a senior… Qiao Sang nodded and said: "Then let's go now."

Along the way, Qiao Sang's ears suffered tremendously.

Xu Yixuan looked gentle and refined, and spoke softly and gently, but she was a complete chatterbox. From Class 1, Grade 10 all the way to Training Ground No. 1, she simply never closed her mouth.

"Qiao Sang, who gave you that name? Your dad or your mom?"

"It was my…"

"You don't need to answer, let me guess."

"……"

"Actually, during the new student strength demonstration at the start of the semester, I wanted to go up and challenge you, but my sixth sense told me not to, so I didn't go."

"Did you really contract a third pet beast?"

"How did your Xunbaoyao learn to split tiles?"

"Is your Yanling Dog male or female? My Fenhuogou is male. If the genders match, how about we arrange a marriage between our pets?"

"What is your third pet beast?"

"Are you really related to the Vice Principal?"

"I heard from Teacher Sun that you're going to participate in the upcoming National Campus Beast Master League for the Gao San division. If that's the case, our Gao San battle team will have one extra person. Do you think Teacher Sun will just have us battle it out, with the loser being the substitute, or going to the team battle group as a substitute?"

Qiao Sang felt this question needed an answer, so she opened her mouth and said: "I don't kn—"

Xu Yixuan interrupted again: "You don't need to answer me, let me guess."

Qiao Sang: "……"

When she saw the building marked as Training Ground No. 1, Qiao Sang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally free…

This person is practically comparable to Tang Sanzang…

Qiao Sang pushed open the door and walked into Training Ground No. 1.

The surroundings were dim, and on the virtual giant screen directly ahead, over twenty meters wide, the currently hotly discussed hot-blooded battle anime "The Beast-Taming Boy of the End" was playing.

This anime had gorgeous art, burning budget, and awesome fight scenes.

It was famous for making people feel their blood boil and unable to resist wanting to jump into a battle right away.

"This is Coach Sun's training method," Xu Yixuan explained. "Every few days we'll watch some hot-blooded battle anime to boost our enthusiasm for fighting."

"Can't be helped, we fight every single day. Apart from missions when we can find different opponents to battle, normally at school it's just the same few people going at it over and over—we got bored ages ago. If we didn't watch some hot-blooded anime to fire up our passion for fighting, we'd probably have turned into emotionless battle machines long ago."

"You need to be mentally prepared. This isn't like the Gao Er school team—you'll have to fight every day."

Qiao Sang smiled and said the first complete sentence expressing a thought since leaving the classroom: "I couldn't ask for more."

Xu Yixuan sincerely felt that this junior sister was still too young.

Thinking this, she said it out loud: "You're still too young."

At that moment, the virtual giant screen vanished and the lights in the training ground blazed on.

Sun Boyi stood where the virtual giant screen had been, looked at Qiao Sang, and smiled: "Welcome to the Gao San school team."

(End of chapter)