Chapter 697: Too Unreliable (Happy Lantern Festival!)

Qiao Sang stood at the edge of the rooftop, overlooking the building below, her footsteps not moving in the slightest.

With Lubao by her side, plus her own current defensive power, she didn't feel afraid at all about being targeted for attack; instead, she felt a bit of hidden excitement.

It seems everyone has a big opinion of her, thinking of attacking her directly...

"Ya-ya!"

Like Ya Bao let out a cry, asking if they should strike first and resolve all these humans!

Your thinking is very dangerous... Qiao Sang said:

"No need. We don't need to do anything right now; we just need to wait for others to come and attack."

Her goal is points, and points are obtained through pet beasts; attacking the Beast Tamer has no benefit for her at all.

And taking the initiative to go out and attack those pet beasts would make Like Ya Bao and the others leave her side.

Since the other party's target is herself, if one of Like Ya Bao and the others is missing, her safety coefficient will decrease.

"Ya-ya..."

Hearing her Beast Tamer's words, Like Ya Bao resisted the urge to rush down and attack.

It stared intently at the humans below who were discussing how to resolve its Beast Tamer, the flame wings on both sides of its body unable to stop expanding and burning.

Under the eaves, the boy with a face full of acne who had proposed attacking the Beast Tamer directly shivered inexplicably, subconsciously glancing toward the rooftop.

At this time, the girl beside him spoke, instantly pulling back his attention:

"Do you guys think the school's architecture can be destroyed?"

The crowd immediately cast their gaze over.

"What do you want to do?" one of the boys asked.

"Our previous fights were all too restrained," the girl said calmly, stating her opinion: "But if we fight openly, it's not like we have no chance of winning. The Ice Flower Seal limits the actions of most pet beasts. We can't get over, but that doesn't mean we can't make the opponent change the venue."

The crowd didn't make a sound, signaling her to continue with their eyes.

The girl continued:

"Thunder-type pet beasts or pet beasts with weather-type skills can release skills above her head, making her take the initiative to leave that place."

"If the school's architecture allows destruction, we can also have Xi-yuan-ke-ke teleport high-level pet beasts directly to the floor below her and attack from below."

The crowd was very hesitant.

They felt this plan would indeed increase their chances of winning, but destroying school buildings and such was very troublesome.

Everyone had just entered school, so it was inevitable they would think twice before acting.

Even before, when battling, they all thought about meeting in open spaces without buildings around. Even when they were initially blinded by anger, they thought about attacking when they were close to the rooftop.

If pet beast skills destroyed buildings during a battle, would the school give them a demerit?

They had finally gotten into Yulidun University and didn't want to be punished on the first day of school.

In the silence, the boy with a face full of acne spoke up:

"Have you forgotten? The assessment location can be anywhere."

Hearing this, the crowd was stunned and subconsciously pondered.

They had indeed seen this information, but did "anywhere" mean they could destroy school buildings at will?

Wasn't it talking about any battle venue or open space in the school?

Just as the crowd was still hesitant, a senior student who had just come out of the building, looking to be in her early twenties and having stayed because she was watching the fun, smiled:

"You guys just go ahead and fight openly. It's very common for pet beast battles to cause architectural damage in our school."

As she spoke, she pointed to the building diagonally opposite where Qiao Sang was, saying:

"See that building? Last semester, a doctor's pet beast in our school had a mistake in energy control and unleashed a thunder-type skill, directly piercing that building from top to bottom, and nothing happened."

"Our school has a maintenance department specifically responsible for architectural repair. Every day, they repair the places in the school that have been damaged, so just fight boldly."

"If you can't fight openly in our Yulidun University, what kind of talk is that."

As expected of a top-tier institution ranked third in the entire star system... The crowd's eyes lit up, no longer hesitant, and they all started introducing their pet beasts to the girl with Xi-yuan-ke-ke, striving for the opportunity to be teleported over.

At the rooftop.

Qiao Sang was very satisfied looking at the continuously increasing points on the virtual panel.

Although she didn't know how many points it would take to hire those S-rank big shots, if it kept increasing like this, she would definitely be the richest among the freshmen in the Beast Taming department.

Just as the thought arose, strips of hard tree roots suddenly emerged from the ground, becoming soft the moment they emerged, twisting like tentacles and winding toward Qiao Sang.

Qiao Sang was startled and instinctively made a dodging movement.

She took two steps back in succession.

The next moment, a hard tree root emerged from the ground behind her, quickly winding around Qiao Sang's ankle.

"Hu!"

The second it wound around her, a purple blade broke through the air, cutting the tree root in two with a whistling wind sound.

Immediately after, Qiao Sang soared into the air and landed on Gangbao's back.

Actually attacking from below... Qiao Sang stared at the ground destroyed by the tree roots on the rooftop, silently tensing her nerves, concentrating her energy, not daring to be careless.

Judging from the attack just now, everyone was clearly much more irritable than she thought, directly destroying the building...

The tree roots twisted, and seeing there was no target, they shrank back down.

"Ya-ya!"

At this very moment, Like Ya Bao covered the tree root that was retracting with a claw.

Then it retracted its claw and pulled upward with force.

The ground cracked, and a pet beast about two meters tall, mostly green, with claws that looked like tree roots, was immediately pulled out.

Like Ya Bao threw it upward, then spat out a high-temperature flame that was invisible but distorted the surrounding scene.

"Gen-gen!"

The pet beast whose claws looked like tree roots screamed and fell to the ground.

"Boom!!!"

At the same time, there was a loud noise in the sky, and thunder shook.

Qiao Sang looked up and found the sky above was dim, with yellow electric snakes dancing, as if they were about to strike down the next second, while except for the area above her head, the rest of the places were cloudless.

She keenly spotted the yellow figure with wings amidst the flashing lightning.

"Lubao, shrink!" Qiao Sang said at a very fast speed.

"Ice-ke." Lubao also sensed the danger, stretched out its claw and pressed on the shrinking bracelet, and its body slowly shrank.

"Ting-ting!"

A high-pitched cry sounded above, and amidst the dark clouds, dozens of lightning bolts that tore through the clouds suddenly struck down.

It's not just you guys who have space movement... Qiao Sang said calmly:

"Little Treasure Hunter."

"Xun-xun~"

The specific instruction wasn't spoken, but Little Treasure Hunter inexplicably understood its Beast Tamer's meaning.

It glowed with blue light and let out a cry.

Qiao Sang and Gangbao vanished, appearing outside the range of the black clouds.

Appearing at the same time was Lubao, who was falling downward.

Qiao Sang reached out and caught it steadily.

Little Treasure Hunter's space movement teleportation is getting more and more on point... Qiao Sang glanced at the yellow pet beast dozens of meters away directly opposite and sighed inwardly.

Under the eaves, a black-haired boy looked at the scene in the sky and exclaimed: "Holy crap! Her pet beast can also use space movement!"

"Her Yan-qi-lu is a General-level pet beast; it's nothing strange that it can use space movement." The boy with a face full of acne looked at the figure in the high altitude far away, which was only the size of a bean, took a deep breath, and in order to stabilize everyone's emotions, said with a guilty conscience.

Pet beasts have always had primary attributes and secondary attributes. It's much easier for pet beasts to learn skills of their primary attribute than their secondary attribute.

That pet beast called Yan-qi-lu has such an obvious fire-type trait; at a glance, its primary attribute is fire-type. I didn't expect it to know space movement, which is recognized as difficult to learn among all high-tier psychic-type skills...

"She has already changed her position. Can I summon the Ting-bao Bird back now?" the red-haired girl beside him said with a hint of worry.

"Don't rush. While her attention is all on your Ting-bao Bird, let Xi-yuan-ke-ke teleport another one over that can fight in the air..." The boy with a face full of acne's voice came to an abrupt halt.

Others around also fell silent.

The red-haired girl realized something was wrong and looked into the sky in the direction they were looking.

She saw a pet beast about six meters tall, with gorgeous red fur, appearing as if its whole body was burning under the illumination of giant flame wings, looking incomparably demonic, biting the Ting-bao Bird hard.

The Ting-bao Bird screamed, and the surrounding lightning suddenly became violent, running wild frantically.

But the yellow lightning striking Yan-qi-lu's body was like rain falling on it, as if it had no attack power, and it didn't provoke any reaction from it, just biting the Ting-bao Bird tightly.

This scene made everyone's heart tighten.

The Ting-bao Bird sent out was a thunder-type pet beast with powerful attack power, and its Thunder Destruction had reached the late stage of minor achievement. But such a pet beast with powerful destructive power couldn't cause damage to Yan-qi-lu.

Is the gap between high-level pet beasts and General-level pet beasts really this big...

Everyone's heart sank to the bottom at this moment.

"Bang!!!"

A loud noise, an explosive flame bomb was launched from Like Ya Bao's mouth. The Ting-bao Bird at the center of the explosion was instantly wrapped in a red ball of light, and the terrifying flame energy made the surrounding air waves like a tidal wave, one wave after another.

Like Ya Bao teleported to Qiao Sang's side.

In the red air wave, the Ting-bao Bird closed its eyes and fell downward.

So strong... Qiao Sang glanced at Like Ya Bao.

After Like Ya Bao evolved into a General-level pet beast, it hadn't had a decent battle. She knew it was strong, but she never knew it was this strong, actually able to remain so calm in such a powerful thunder-type skill, as if it hadn't been struck by lightning...

"Ya-ya!"

Just at this moment, Like Ya Bao let out a cry, indicating to hurry and heal it.

Qiao Sang was stunned for a moment, then spotted yellow electric arcs faintly floating on its body.

Qiao Sang: "..."

Good guy, it turns out it did cause damage, it just endured it and didn't show it on its face...

"Ice-ke."

Without Qiao Sang issuing an instruction, the gem on Lubao's forehead lit up with blue light, shining on Like Ya Bao.

Under the eaves, the crowd watched this scene, silent.

After a few seconds, the red-haired girl, who was the Ting-bao Bird's Beast Tamer, sighed:

"Forget it, we..."

She didn't finish the last few words, but everyone knew what they were.

"Can't beat her."

They couldn't beat her... Everyone realized this point once again.

One General-level pet beast Yan-qi-lu was already this strong, almost instantly killing the Ting-bao Bird, and Qiao Sang still had another General-level pet beast, Ghost Ring King.

Even if they finally managed to cause damage, her Ice-ke-xi-lu still had healing-type skills...

Everyone's expression was dejected; their momentum was just so full, and now it was just as decayed.

The scene of Yan-qi-lu instantly killing the Ting-bao Bird while braving the lightning was really something that made them unable to say there was any hope of winning.

"I have an idea." Suddenly, a voice sounded.

Everyone looked over and found it was the guy who had proposed ideas several times just now.

"What other ideas do you have?" the boy wearing a hat said unhappily.

The boy with a face full of acne straightened his expression and said:

"Let's have all the pet beasts that can still fight go up, but not blindly. Instead, divide into four routes and attack her four pet beasts separately. As long as there are enough pet beasts, we can drag down her two General-level pet beasts. Even if we only drag them down for a few seconds, we can still sanction her."

"That Steel Guard Falcon is a mid-level pet beast; there's no need to pay attention to it at all. Although the other Ice-ke-xi-lu is a high-level pet beast, it's water and ice dual-attribute and can't fight in the air at all."

Speaking of this, he intensified his tone and said seriously:

"Don't go over one by one to deliver points anymore. Let's just go up together!"

"Look." The boy with a face full of acne pointed to the sky outside that had returned to calm: "The Ice Flower Seal is gone."

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed, and their dead hearts started beating rapidly again.

At this time, a girl said hesitantly: "But that Yan-qi-lu has space movement; we shouldn't be able to drag it down."

As soon as this was said, the hearts that had just started beating cooled down again.

The boy with a face full of acne scanned the circle and said sternly:

"There are so many of us; can't we find a pet beast with skills like Shadow Step or Shadow Nail?"

Everyone's spirits lifted, and their heartbeats were rekindled for the nth time.

Soon, someone shouted: "My ghost-type pet beast knows Shadow Nail!"

"Mine knows Dark Shadow Control!"

Seeing that quite a few people had skills to restrain space movement, everyone decided to fight one more battle.

"Good! Then let's try one last time!"

"Forget it, it's already like this anyway; I agree with this plan!"

"Count me in. Although I only have one mid-level pet beast left now, dragging it down for one more second is one more second!"

Actually, everyone didn't have much hatred or resentment toward Qiao Sang; it was just that they had already shown the momentum to fight to the end, and now retreating like this made them feel like cowards.

If they were driven by anger to battle before, now it was a matter of face.

In the high altitude.

The blue light dissipated, and the paralysis effect on Like Ya Bao disappeared.

Qiao Sang looked at the countdown on the virtual panel and found there were only twenty minutes left.

She pressed the side of her smart glasses frame, and the virtual panel disappeared.

Like Ya Bao has returned to its original size and even showed off a trick; they shouldn't come up again, right... Qiao Sang thought while looking up, and then froze.

She saw the sky was dark, and a group of flying-type pet beasts of various forms carrying other attribute pet beasts were approaching here.

Holy crap! As expected of freshmen at Yulidun University, they saw Like Ya Bao's strength and still wanted to fight her... Qiao Sang's eyes revealed a hint of excitement.

With such a large group, if they were all frozen by the ice flowers, Lubao's points would probably jump up by a large margin...

Qiao Sang didn't dare miss the opportunity and called out: "Ice Flower Seal!"

"Ice-ke."

Lubao jumped to the top of its Beast Tamer's head, raised its head slightly, and opened its mouth.

But the next moment, Qiao Sang felt her head lighten.

Qiao Sang was stunned for a moment, reached up to touch it, and found her head was empty.

"!!!"

Qiao Sang was dumbfounded.

Where is Lubao? Where is my big Lubao?!

"Steel Guard."

At this time, Gangbao turned in a direction and let out a cry, indicating the third one was over there.

Qiao Sang looked up abruptly and saw Lubao appearing on the claw of a pet beast in the distance that was round and mostly pink.

Space movement; this pet beast used space movement to transfer Lubao directly... Qiao Sang keenly drew this conclusion.

She waved her hand, then froze.

Lubao actually couldn't be summoned back? Qiao Sang looked in the direction of the pink pet beast and found that there was also a ghost-type pet beast beside it that was mostly black and had only one eye on its entire face.

She turned her gaze down and saw its shadow connected to Lubao's.

Dark Shadow Control... Qiao Sang's heart sank.

The other party first used space movement, then used Dark Shadow Control; this was clearly designed...

"Like Ya Bao!" Qiao Sang called out, but saw Like Ya Bao, who usually gave a response the first time, didn't respond.

She turned her head and saw Like Ya Bao being surrounded by a group of high-level pet beasts all about three meters tall. They were moving in a surrounding formation, releasing skills of various colors and attributes.

"Bang bang bang!!!"

Violent movements sounded from another direction.

Qiao Sang sensed something and lowered her head, only to see another group of pet beasts of various forms surrounding Little Treasure Hunter.

Are they planning to separate Like Ya Bao and the others and resolve them one by one?

Just as she was thinking, dozens of pet beasts of various forms surrounded them.

No, their target is me... Qiao Sang's pupils shrank, and before she could speak.

Dozens of skills of various attributes shot over like lines of various colors, covering the sky and earth.

At this moment, a thought flashed through Qiao Sang's mind:

They are really ruthless!

Under the eaves.

The crowd looked at the scene in the sky, excited but also a bit worried.

"Will she be okay?" a short-haired girl asked with some concern.

Although everyone who got into Yulidun University had received pet beast feedback, even if they were attacked by pet beasts, as long as they were treated in time, basically nothing would happen.

But the one in the sky wasn't being attacked by one, but by a group of pet beasts. If something went wrong, the consequences would be unimaginable.

After all, looking at this strength, let alone freshmen, even seniors probably didn't have this level.

If she suffered some irreparable injury, the school would definitely not spare them.

The blonde crew-cut boy beside him said: "Don't worry, we just want to teach her a lesson. As long as at the most critical moment when the skills are about to attack her, have Xi-yuan-ke-ke teleport her in front of us, and let her know we aren't easy to mess with."

"But." The short-haired girl pointed to the sky, still worried:

"Why haven't they transferred her yet? I feel like if they don't hurry, these skills are going to hit her."

Hearing this, the blonde crew-cut boy looked up at the situation in the sky.

At this time, Steel Guard Falcon was carrying the girl and flying down rapidly, turning its wings from time to time to change the direction of movement, with various skills chasing behind, each giving the illusion that it would attack in the next second.

The blonde crew-cut boy's eyelids jumped, and he whispered to the red-haired girl beside him: "Why haven't you let your Xi-yuan-ke-ke teleport her over yet?"

The red-haired girl took a deep breath and said:

"My Xi-yuan-ke-ke has been dragged down."

What do you mean? The blonde crew-cut boy was stunned for a moment and looked in another direction in the sky.

He saw that pet beast called Ice-ke-xi-lu had used water mist at some point, a white expanse, also shrouding Xi-yuan-ke-ke inside.

It's over... The blonde crew-cut boy's mind went blank.

Without Xi-yuan-ke-ke, who could use space movement, what should they do if these skills hit the other party?

People will die!

The blonde crew-cut boy's heart tightened, and he suddenly reacted, shouting:

"Hurry! Everyone summon your pet beasts back first!"

Someone didn't understand: "Why?"

"We are about to win; don't make trouble," someone said impatiently.

"What win? Xi-yuan-ke-ke's line of sight is blocked, and it can't use space movement. If this continues, these skills will really hit her!" the blonde crew-cut boy said urgently.

The crowd was stunned, looking at the scene in the high altitude, falling into silence for a moment, very hesitant.

They had finally caught the opportunity to win; stopping now, they were simply unwilling.

But if something really happened...

Just as the crowd was hesitant.

In the high altitude.

Gangbao was moving at high speed, its figure so fast it was a blur, dodging the attacks from behind time and time again.

Qiao Sang leaned over, hugging Gangbao, her eyes almost unable to open from the wind.

This can't go on. Gangbao's Flash is an explosive skill and can't be sustained for a long time; it will be caught up by the attacks behind sooner or later... Qiao Sang's brain was running at high speed.

Like Ya Bao is now surrounded by a group of high-level pet beasts; even if it uses powerful skills to kill them, it needs time to come over. Lubao is trapped, and only Little Treasure Hunter has space movement, which can take her and Gangbao to a safe position in the next second.

But Little Treasure Hunter's body is too small, and now it is almost surrounded by high-level pet beasts all about three meters tall. At its height, it can't see her direction at all... Qiao Sang glanced at Little Treasure Hunter's location, took a deep breath, and shouted with her loudest voice:

"Little..."

At the same time.

Gangbao felt its speed slowing down.

"Steel Guard..."

Gangbao listened to the whistling sound of the skills behind breaking through the air and chasing after them, its heart beating faster, rarely unable to maintain objective calmness, becoming anxious.

This can't go on; they will be caught up.

Its Beast Tamer is right behind. If the skills catch up, she will be the first one hit.

Thinking of this, the energy in Gangbao's body operated rapidly, trying to accelerate.

But the sound of various skills breaking through the air behind them was still getting closer and closer.

"Steel Guard!"

Gangbao gritted its teeth.

Just at this moment, it felt unprecedented danger.

About to be caught up... It clearly couldn't see the movement behind, but at this moment, Gangbao inexplicably felt unprecedented danger.

Qiao Sang... Gangbao thought of its Beast Tamer.

It didn't have time to think too much; its body reacted first, spinning, and at the same time, its whole body glowed with a bright iron-grey, blocking its wings in front of Qiao Sang, directly swapping their top and bottom positions.

And at this time, the word "Hunter" after Qiao Sang's "Little" was also forgotten because of this change.

Skills of various colors and attributes hit Gangbao's body.

Flame.

Water pillar.

Lightning.

Air blade...

Gangbao fell downward, but its wings were still tightly hugging Qiao Sang.

"Gangbao! Gangbao!"

In a trance, Gangbao heard its Beast Tamer's voice.

It struggled to open its eyes and saw its anxious Beast Tamer, and the pet beasts behind her trying to attack again.

"Steel Guard..."

Gangbao sighed inwardly.

Like Ya Bao, Little Treasure Hunter, Lubao are really... too unreliable...

The next second, white light lit up on its body.

ps: Happy Lantern Festival to everyone! ===== CHAPTER 698 =====