Chapter 163: Su Yang Skips the Matches and Parachutes Straight into the Semifinals!

When someone else gets parachuted into the semifinals, it's called rigging.

When you get parachuted into the semifinals, it's called strength!

His sister's double standards were extremely satisfying to Su Yang.

Definitely his own dear sister, no question about it.

After resting well for a day, the next day Su Yang didn't spend the day lounging around at home; instead, his sister dragged him to the selection tournament site.

The Seven Star City talent selection arena was set up outside the city, a vast open field that allowed beast tamers to fight freely.

By the time Su Yang and the others arrived, the grounds were already packed with spectators.

The selection tournament wasn't held every year—only once every three years—so anyone with free time would come to witness the young talents of Seven Star City compete.

Especially the common folk, who rarely got to see beast tamers fight.

The once-every-three-years selection tournament was their best chance to enjoy beast tamer battles.

In this world, people's lives were uncertain day to day, and entertainment was scarce.

Those beast tamers with powerful strength, those young genius beast tamers, were the brightest stars.

Some base cities would even deliberately cultivate beast tamer talents that belonged to their own city.

These beast tamer talents could bring the public a great sense of security.

Su Yang followed his sister through the crowd and bought her a bag of sunflower seeds and a stick of candied hawthorn.

Sunflower seeds and candied hawthorn were absolute luxuries in this world.

Because the vast majority of farmland had to be used to grow food crops.

But Su Yang had money now, so he could afford to splurge a little.

He casually squeezed into one of the competition grounds, where two young beast tamers were preparing to fight on the wide arena.

But with just one glance, Su Yang already knew the outcome.

Judging from the energy levels emanating from them, one was a Silver-level beast tamer, the other a Bronze-level beast tamer—the gap was simply too large.

Unless that Bronze-level beast tamer had some powerful beast capable of fighting above its rank.

But Su Yang knew very well that beasts capable of fighting above their rank were far too rare; only someone like him, with his cheat, could cultivate one.

"Brother, who do you think will win?"

"The one in white!"

"Brother, you have great taste. Feng Guangyao is a Silver-level beast tamer, one of the favorites to win this tournament!" Su Xiaoxiao licked her candied hawthorn and said with squinted eyes, "Of course, he's definitely no match for you, Brother!"

"Mm! You have great taste too!"

"Brother…"

Su Xiaoxiao couldn't help but laugh.

She was almost embarrassed to point out how narcissistic her brother was.

Soon, under the referee's direction, both sides summoned their beasts.

After the referee announced the start of the match, he retreated to the sidelines and summoned his own beast to protect the surrounding spectators.

Watching the two beasts fight, Su Yang was rather unenthusiastic.

That Feng Guangyao, though billed as a favorite to win, was still too weak.

A mere Silver Low-Grade beast tamer couldn't rouse even a shred of fighting spirit in Su Yang.

Just as Su Yang was bored, someone suddenly called out to him.

"Su Yang, you here to watch the tournament too?"

Su Yang turned his head and saw four of his old classmates.

From Class 1 of the third year.

Because he hadn't stayed long in Class 1 of the third year, Su Yang couldn't remember all their names; he only recognized one of them, Ai Jiaming.

They had fought before.

"Yeah!"

"Did you enter this selection tournament?"

Su Yang nodded. "I did!"

Ai Jiaming asked, "You're here, which means you got eliminated?"

Su Yang really wanted to ask him: which pair of eyes of yours saw me get eliminated?

Ai Jiaming said with a smile, "It's fine, getting eliminated is no big deal. Your talent is so high—three years from now, you might just get a good result!"

"Right, three years from now you'll definitely be fine!"

"That Feng Guangyao is just too strong—he's already a Silver-level beast tamer!"

"Su Yang will definitely be fine in three years. Maybe by then, you'll be a Silver beast tamer too!"

"…"

These old classmates, at least in what they said, were trying to comfort Su Yang.

But it was precisely this kind of talk that left Su Yang not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

"Well, we're off then!"

"Mm!"

After they left, Su Xiaoxiao turned back. "Brother, aren't you going to tell them?"

"Tell them what? Am I supposed to go brag to them?"

Su Yang couldn't exactly grab anyone he met and announce that he'd parachuted straight into the semifinals, could he?