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Chapter 508 - 469: Advanced Dragon-type Pet Beast

Chapter 508: Chapter 469: Advanced Dragon-type Pet Beast

This... the audience present didn’t know what to say all at once.

It’s common for High Level Pet Beasts to overpower Intermediate Pet Beasts, but this is the national competition, and the Intermediate Pet Beasts of the participating players can usually take a couple of moves from the High Level Pet Beasts.

And Qiao Sang’s Spectral Ring Ghost had only evolved recently.

Wu Chongyu’s Ice General Dragon, as a rare and powerful Dragon-type Pet Beast, was highly regarded by many people and considered a very popular Pet Beast.

Although no one expected Wu Chongyu to win against Qiao Sang’s Spectral Ring Ghost with his Ice General Dragon, nobody thought that the Ice General Dragon would lose in less than half a minute!

"I take back what I said about Wu Chongyu making it into the top five of the national competition."

"In the last match, I didn’t expect Wu Chongyu’s Electric Cutting Beast to fight Qiao Sang’s Liaoxing Dog like that, and in this match, I didn’t expect the Ice General Dragon to be beaten by the Spectral Ring Ghost like this."

"Me neither..."

"Look at this Spectral Ring Ghost, from entering the ring to the end of the match, it didn’t even move its position."

"This is the weakest Dragon-type Pet Beast I’ve ever seen..."

"If you had seen the Ice General Dragon’s other matches you would know it’s not weak at all, it’s just that Qiao Sang’s Spectral Ring Ghost is too abnormal, with very high proficiency in Shadow Control and hypnotism. Not to mention Intermediate Pet Beasts, not many High Level Pet Beasts can withstand it."

"I have to say, the Ice General Dragon is the most miserable Pet Beast I’ve seen in the national competition so far, it was gone right after releasing the Quick Freeze Ray!"

Qiao Sang turned around amidst the noisy discussions of the audience and headed towards the player’s passage, planning to return to the player area.

Having entered the player’s passage and taken just a few steps, she immediately remembered something and formed a hand seal to summon Lubao to heal Yaobao.

She had just formed the first hand gesture.

"Dada dada..." Footsteps sounded at this moment in the quiet player’s passage, followed by a cheerful voice:

"Qiao Sang, you fought brilliantly just now, I knew you could win."

Who is that... Qiao Sang dropped her hands, lifted her head, and saw a figure that was not quite unfamiliar—Zhou Shanliang, a player in the next group.

Now that the competition had progressed to this point, only a few players were left, and each had a certain understanding of the others.

Zhou Shanliang, a player from the Zitiya Region.

Although his name was Shanliang (meaning ’kind-hearted’), the two Pet Beasts he had a contract with were both Spectral-types.

One of them, the High Level Spectral-type Pet Beast Masked Dream Ghost, was particularly notoriously temperamental among the Spectral-type Pet Beasts in the Zitiya Region.

It liked to slip into a person’s body in the middle of the night and slowly steal their body heat.

If it fixed its attention on you, you would feel cold for 24 hours and it liked to cast curses on people it found interesting, supposedly filling them with cursed energy.

The Zitiya Region had the most diverse types of Spectral Series Pet Beasts out of the 13 regions in Dragon Country.

To be well-known in such a region where Spectral-type Pet Beasts were prevalent, one could imagine that the nature of the Masked Dream Ghost must indeed be so eccentric that the public found it difficult to accept.

And having contracted with a Masked Dream Ghost like that, Zhou Shanliang might not necessarily be as his name suggests.

After all, it’s a common belief that Pet Beasts follow their master’s nature.

Even if they don’t, with prolonged contract time, certain aspects between Pet Beasts and Beast Tamers become more and more alike.

However, because Qiao Sang had contracted with Xiao Xunbao, she felt that the world’s understanding of Spectral-type Pet Beasts was somewhat one-sided.

She didn’t think that a Beast Tamer contracting with a Pet Beast that had a not-so-good reputation meant that the Beast Tamer themselves were necessarily bad.

"Thank you, and good luck in your match later," said Qiao Sang with a smile.

Zhou Shanliang was stunned for a moment, then immediately displayed a sunny and cheerful smile: "I will."

Having said that, he lifted his leg and walked towards the entrance of the passage.

Qiao Sang was about to take a couple of steps inside and continue the summoning of Yaobao and Lubao,

but suddenly, Zhou Shanliang seemed to remember something, stopped in his tracks, turned his head and said:

"Oh, by the way, you have Spectral-type Pet Beasts, so you might want to visit our Zitiya Region in the future, you’ll gain a lot from it."

Qiao Sang was taken aback: "I’ll remember that."

...

Qiao Sang, holding Yaobao who had completely recovered, returned to the player area.

At this moment, the second group’s match had already begun.

Qiao Sang watched Zhou Shanliang in the arena and fell into thought.

Spectral-type Pet Beasts were prevalent in the Zitiya Region, and resources concerning Spectral-types were especially abundant. Even if he hadn’t mentioned it, she would have made a trip there eventually.

But in recent years, she definitely had no time.

If she had not been very confident about winning a spot as an Intergalactic Exchange Student when she first joined the National School Beast Taming League, now she was almost certain she could get one.

Once she secured the spot, she guessed she would spend a long time on another planet, by then...

At this moment, Sun Boyi suddenly spoke and interrupted Qiao Sang’s thoughts, "How did the Liaoxing Dog defend itself in the thunderstorm at the end?"

"Ya." Hearing someone wanted to discuss his heroic moment, Yaobao hooked the corner of his mouth into a proud smile and gestured with his right front paw to the side.

"Xun~"

Xiao Xunbao immediately understood what big brother Yaobao meant and took off a circular ring to fetch a dark green triangular pair of sunglasses and placed them on Yaobao’s extended paw.

"Ya ya."

Yaobao put on the sunglasses with his paw, tilted his head 45 degrees upward, struck a cool pose, and barked to indicate the final defense was a long story...

"It’s the Counter-Protective Barrier. Ning Yu’s Explosive Battle Turtle had used it before, and it was Teacher Zheng who asked me to learn it," Qiao Sang said.

Counter-Protective Barrier... Sun Boyi looked astonished.

As a professional coach, he certainly knew what a Counter-Protective Barrier was, but he couldn’t understand what kind of skill was capable of defending against an attack from the center of a thunderstorm.

Sun Boyi was about to ask more when Liu Yao suddenly asked, "Was it Zheng Guoping who taught you?"

"Yes," Qiao Sang nodded.

Liu Yao gave Sun Boyi a silent glance.

Sun Boyi said nothing more.

Yaobao: "..."

...

A dozen minutes later, Zhou Shanliang, as expected, won the match.

His opponent, Liu Yongming, although strong, had a High Level Pet Beast that was a Combat Series.

Spectral Series overpowered Combat Series, so being able to hold on for so long was already an indication of strength.

Time flew by quickly.

One by one, the names of those advancing were announced.

It had to be said, none of the contestants who had made it thus far were weak.

Every time Qiao Sang thought someone had a greater chance of winning, the other would suddenly unleash a powerful move, turning the situation around.

By the morning, six names on the advancement list had been announced.

The much-anticipated match between Zhao Chuanyu and Cui Pingkun was scheduled for the afternoon.

...

Qiao Sang didn’t go to the afternoon’s matches but watched the live broadcast in her hotel room instead.

In the video, a gigantic Dragon-type Pet Beast, predominantly red, carried a completely mechanical beast, shooting up into the sky, and began to spin rapidly.

Visually, it looked like a giant burning fireball.

After several seconds, the Dragon-type Pet Beast stopped spinning and started plummeting downward with the Mechanical Beast in its grasp.

It fell so fast that a high-pressure air wave formed wherever the Dragon-type Pet Beast passed.

Just before reaching the ground, the Dragon-type Pet Beast let go, and the Mechanical Beast, head first, smashed into the ground.

"Bang!!!"

Following a thunderous noise, the ground cracked, and dust billowed into the air.

When the dust settled and the camera zoomed in, the Mechanical Beast was already unconscious with eyes closed.

At that point, the camera shifted back to the predominantly red Dragon-type Pet Beast.

Meanwhile, the screen was filled with a barrage of comments.

Almost all were "666" and "Awesome."

Qiao Sang turned off the comments and stared at the red Dragon-type Pet Beast in the video.

The Red Extreme Dragon, Zhao Chuanyu’s Pet Beast, was also the only High Level Dragon-type Pet Beast in the National School Beast Taming League.