Chapter 97: Steady and Solid, One-Hit Victory 【Two-in-One】

"Teacher Zheng, be more tolerant; they are all children in their prime."

Ping Ningyan heard Zheng Mingchun's words, turned her head lazily, and defended the students on the field nonchalantly.

Zheng Mingchun snorted coldly and didn't say anything more, but he also made up his mind that once the new school team members were selected, he would definitely teach them well.

On the field, Fang Miaowen didn't care about that much and happily called Baipangzi off the stage.

Baipangzi stood up straight as if nothing had happened, and although it was still an underage bear, it was already nearly two people tall.

It didn't transform back into its mini form and just walked off the field with Fang Miaowen like that.

The quiet and cute little girl and the honest and giant big white bear walking together were exceptionally pleasing to the eye.

Ge Bai watched Fang Miaowen walk off the stage, looked toward her side, and gave her two thumbs up from afar.

She had just taken the opportunity to look closely at Baipangzi; this Cold Ice White Armor Bear's strength was truly not bad.

Not to mention that its spirit power level had reached Transcendence Realm Level 1, the mastery of its three attack skills and one defense skill were all at the proficient level.

As expected of coming from an old-brand martial arts hall.

Long Junchi, who was leaning on the side of the field, also glanced at Fang Miaowen, with no excessive expression; it was just within expectations.

The 32 students participating in the Jinggang No. 1 Middle School special recruitment had all finished the first round of the elimination tournament, which only took about half an hour.

"Winner: Beast Master Long Junchi."

"Winner: Beast Master Yi Kaijun."

"Winner: Beast Master Shi Chenliang."

All were one-hit victories, turning and walking off the stage, which made Zheng Mingchun's face turn black.

If it weren't for the fact that the battle order for the special recruitment had already been arranged, Zheng Mingchun really wanted to let these few conspicuous people meet in the next round to see who else could be so arrogant.

The blacker Zheng Mingchun's face became, the more Ping Ningyan laughed, not only not persuading him, but also starting to add fuel to the fire.

"I really like the few seed players this year."

There was no interval between the second round of the elimination tournament and the first round, and it started immediately.

Four matches in the upper half started at the same time, and Ge Bai had long been in position next to Field No. 1.

In this match, her opponent was a boy with black-rimmed glasses who had contracted a Huangze Dongjin Egui.

It was also strange this year; rare pet beasts that couldn't be seen for years were indeed common in the Jinggang No. 1 Middle School special recruitment arena.

This kind of Huangze Dongjin Egui not only didn't live in China, but was even rare on this planet, belonging to the unique pet beast of the Ze Hai region of Dong'ao Xing, the second planet controlled by the Interstellar Alliance.

She didn't know how this boy contracted it.

"Lümao, you have to work hard in this match too."

The boy brought his Huangze Dongjin Egui onto the stage, squatted by the turtle, patted the turtle's heavy shell, and encouraged it full of energy.

Hearing the name of this turtle, not only Ge Bai, but even Da Liu couldn't help but look sideways.

The shell of this Huangze Dongjin Egui was covered with brown patterns and looked very shiny, but not a single green hair had grown on it.

The Green-Haired Turtle was also a pet beast that could be contracted, completely different from the Huangze Dongjin Egui, and there was even reproductive isolation.

To be honest, Da Liu was even more suitable for the name Lümao than this turtle.

Ge Bai coughed lightly, choosing to respect her opponent.

Ge Bai had seen the tail end of the Huangze Dongjin Egui's previous match; the attack skill intensity of this water-element pet beast was average, with only a single water bullet, but its defense was truly astonishing.

In the previous match, the Ji Fengniao launched all its skills at the Huangze Dongjin Egui until it was exhausted, without being able to harm it in the slightest.

When the offensive was strong, the Huangze Dongjin Egui would shrink directly into its shell, remaining unmoved no matter how the attacks slammed into it.

In the end, the Ji Fengniao had to lose helplessly.

"Da Liu, block the water bullets casually, use the Storm Willow Blade Hammer, flank attack, flip it directly."

Ge Bai gave her attack advice concisely and clearly.

"Liu Gu!"

Da Liu shouted excitedly.

He liked this kind of close-range attack the most; he hadn't felt much in the previous duel, but seeing the bombardment of the big white bear had stirred up Da Liu's interest.

"Battle start!"

This time, just as the battle started, it was far from as intense as Da Liu's previous match.

The Egui was steady and solid, walking in a square step without haste, walking two steps toward the center of the field, which was the meaning, and then stopped.

Water bullets were thrown at Da Liu one after another.

It seemed that this match, the opposite side was still prepared to adopt a strategy of defense instead of offense.

Ge Bai patted Da Liu's trunk and said softly.

"Go, solve it."

Da Liu understood, mobilized the power of Time Soil, and pulled his root system out of the arena.

At the same time, he mobilized the spirit power in his body, gathering spirit power at the roots, mimicking two large root feet.

He wasn't in a hurry either, walking forward steadily step by step.

Looking closely, this speed wasn't slow, at least not slower than the two steps the Egui was shuffling.

While walking, he waved his willow whip, easily solving the water bullets thrown at him.

At the same time, he found one or two gaps, aimed casually at the Egui's head and limbs, and threw one or two wind blades.

Not seeking to defeat the enemy, just to make the Egui not so relaxed.

The water bullets and wind blades of both sides were like playing, nothing to talk about.

But these two steps of Da Liu made the Spirit Plant Masters off the field and on the stands frown again.

"Do the contracted spirit plants of you Spirit Plant Masters already have such movement ability?"

In the waiting area of Field No. 1, a girl in a white dress looked at Da Liu on the field, looking at the boy beside her with confusion.

This boy's Devil Vine was wrapped around his arm; he naturally also saw Da Liu's movement and was so shocked he couldn't speak.

Facing the sudden inquiry, he had ten thousand profanities he wanted to explode.

Ghost's movement ability; didn't he know that Spirit Plant Masters hated others mentioning the movement ability of spirit plants the most?

The boy with a straight face looked straight ahead and replied coldly.

"I don't know, I contracted a vine-type spirit plant, it doesn't move like that."

He was right; vine-type spirit plants generally take root at one point and then extend branches and vines, rushing straight toward the enemy or covering the whole field.

Vine-types really don't move like that.

On the stands.

"Chu Qiang, I see the two steps this Weeping Willow took are very steady, much smoother than the movement of your Explosive Ball Shrub."

The difference between shrubs and arbor-type spirit plants was much smaller than the difference between vine-types and arbor-types.

The Beast Master teammate in the row behind Chu Qiang didn't know much about spirit plants, but he also keenly discovered that although Da Liu's action was slow, it was very smooth.

In his impression, Spirit Plant Masters were mostly standing output.

Take Chu Qiang's Explosive Ball Shrub as an example; sometimes when it had to move on the field, it was also pulling its root system out of the arena and then stumbling a few steps in a small range, looking exceptionally difficult.

It was nothing like the Weeping Willow on the field now, taking small steps not fast, but winning by being steady.

"How would I know, this Weeping Willow is strange."

Chu Qiang, who was a Spirit Plant Master, saw much deeper than his teammates; normal arbor or shrub-type spirit plants, unless specifically trained by the Spirit Plant Master to walk, would never have such an effect.

No matter how high the spirit power of a spirit plant is, it is willing to connect with the earth. For ordinary spirit plants, every step of lifting the feet is lifting the root system away from the land, which will definitely make the spirit plant uncomfortable.

Unless, high-tier resource assistance.

Chu Qiang thought of another possibility and looked at Ran Caijiao with a suspicious face.

"Captain, what is Ge Bai's background?"

Ran Caijiao's gaze shuttled back and forth on the four battlefields; she didn't take the two steps Da Liu took to heart at all.

You know, in the previous audition tournament, Da Liu completed movement by teleporting.

"Ah? Ge Bai, I heard she grew up in the Blue Star Welfare Institute."

"Oh."

Then it must be that he guessed wrong.

Chu Qiang shook his head and threw the unrealistic conjecture out of his head.

High-tier resources, Time Soil; every Spirit Plant Master knew how rare, expensive, and difficult to get they were.

Ge Bai must have used another method he didn't know about.

Chu Qiang decided that after the competition, he would have a good chat with this little junior.

"Time Soil?"

Ping Ningyan still had this bit of discernment, but she also showed a look of surprise.

Shocked at this girl's resources and background.

"I heard this girl has a very close relationship with the Jinggang Spirit Plant Research Institute."

Zheng Mingchun also saw it; not only that, his understanding of Ge Bai was much more than Ping Ningyan's.

"Oh."

If the Jinggang Spirit Plant Research Institute was providing support, then it was easy to understand.

This misunderstanding was perfectly formed just like that.

So much so that for a long time to come, various channels and multi-party forces tried every possible way to ask the Jinggang Spirit Plant Research Institute for Time Soil.

Da Liu had commendable movement ability, but this didn't mean he could definitely break the defense of the Huangze Dongjin Egui.

The Beast Master standing behind the Huangze Dongjin Egui didn't feel particularly nervous watching Da Liu walk over.

He was exceptionally confident in his turtle's defense.

"Lümao, hold steady."

Da Liu walked to the front of the Huangze Dongjin Egui while accumulating power.

On the Egui side, the interval between water bullet attacks was getting longer and longer, but the force of each water bullet was greater than before.

The two small eyes on the turtle's head were like two small black beans, staring tightly at Da Liu.

The originally long-extended turtle head also quietly retracted, as if ready to shrink into the turtle shell at any time.

Da Liu stood still, continued to mobilize the spirit power in his body, and gathered almost all the spirit power into the few willow threads that were already twisted together.

The Egui could see that Da Liu was ready to strike, silently shrinking its turtle head into the turtle shell, while its four limbs were still tightly clinging to the arena ground.

One second, two seconds.

Da Liu's momentum reached its peak, and the entire cluster of willow threads twisted into a hammer shape swung out violently; besides the biting wind, it even brought out a sense of thunder breaking the sky.

Seeing this strike, Chu Qiang stood up directly, his hands gripping the back of the chair turning white.

Everyone with a discerning eye on the field could see that the intensity of this strike was no weaker than the Wind Weaving Domain Da Liu issued in the previous match.

Another high-tier skill, and a high-tier skill with esoteric proficiency.

This Weeping Willow was too heaven-defying.

"Where did this girl dig up this Weeping Willow?" Chu Qiang's jealous voice changed.

He absolutely didn't believe that a Spirit Plant Master could cultivate two high-tier skills of a spirit plant to the esoteric stage in one month.

He would rather believe that this Weeping Willow had already mastered these two high-tier skills before being contracted by Ge Bai.

Chu Qiang could deceive himself, but Ran Caijiao was very clear.

"Half a month ago, this Weeping Willow mastered the Storm Willow Blade Hammer for the first time while training at our martial arts hall."

Ran Caijiao didn't know that actually, the Wind Weaving Domain was also mastered by Ge Bai and Da Liu on that day at her martial arts hall when they were sparring with the macaques.

"..."

Hearing Ran Caijiao say this, Chu Qiang was completely speechless.

He really wanted to leave here now and design a short-term rapid improvement plan for his Explosive Ball Shrub.

But he was reluctant to leave now; he really wanted to see exactly how powerful this Spirit Plant Master named Ge Bai was.

He now completely believed what the captain said was right; Ge Bai was truly a formidable rival who affected his status as a Spirit Plant Master in the team! A drop of cold sweat slid quietly from Chu Qiang's back.

Boom! On the field, the Huangze Dongjin Egui made a posture of hard reception in a turtle-shrinking posture.

Da Liu's Storm Willow Blade Hammer slammed down mercilessly from the left side of the Egui.

With a loud noise, the four limbs of the giant turtle clinging to the ground trembled violently, and after being impacted, it could no longer cling to the ground.

The giant turtle, weighing in tons, was knocked flying by Da Liu like a rugby ball.

Not only that, the giant turtle that was knocked flying let out a dull whimper.

Careful observation revealed that starting from the landing point of Da Liu's Storm Willow Blade Hammer, web-like cracks spread all over the turtle shell.

"Lümao!"

The Beast Master felt the pain of the Huangze Dongjin Egui and shouted urgently.

The moment the Egui flew out of the Field No. 1 area, the head referee blew the whistle for the end of the match at high speed.

It wasn't that he and the winner couldn't wait another second, it was mainly to save the turtle; seeing the giant turtle already smashed unconscious, such a heavy giant turtle landing would only cause its injuries to be more serious.

Receiving the signal from the head referee, the side referee acted immediately.

The spirit power of the Sea Black Squid on his body moved, tentacles extended, and steadily caught the giant turtle that was about to land.

Overlord-level Sea Black Squid.

Ge Bai only then noticed the side referee's pet beast and couldn't help but shrink her pupils.

Jinggang No. 1 Middle School was full of hidden talents; just any teacher was an Overlord-level Beast Master.

"Winner: Spirit Plant Master Ge Bai."

In this match, Da Liu spent his time slowly walking toward the Egui, but Ge Bai was still the first to solve the battle among the four matches in this round.

Before the head referee announced the victory, Ge Bai had already walked to Da Liu's side, and Da Liu hurriedly transformed back into his mini form and jumped onto Ge Bai's shoulder to watch the show.

He couldn't help but complain to her.

"Bai Bai, next time let Qian Dai come out too, teleporting is much faster than shuffling over step by step!"

Da Liu missed the feeling of Qian Dai sending him directly to the best attack position, where he only needed to strike with all his might.

"Fine, next time I won't let you shuffle yourself."

Ge Bai agreed very readily.

"This, it should still count as a one-hit victory."

Ping Ningyan on the rostrum liked Ge Bai more the more she looked at her, and couldn't help but tease Zheng Mingchun.

"The little girl and the Weeping Willow were steady and solid, walking over step by step." ===== CHAPTER 98 =====