Everyone: "!!!"
Sure enough, it had used Spirit Body Exchange at the last moment to transfer Little Seeker into the Water Domain Barrier... Qiao Sang looked at the scene before her. Rather than being shocked, her eyes lit up, and she quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Spirit Body Exchange could only swap positions after an attribute had been set during the beginner stage.
The spirit body attribute Xia Huo's Water Star had set for itself was Water Type. That information could be found online.
Logically speaking, it could not swap positions with Little Seeker, which had no Water Type attribute. However, after learning that Water Star knew Spirit Body Exchange, Qiao Sang had researched the skill in detail.
The book had recorded it clearly: once Spirit Body Exchange reached the Ultimate Skill level, it could attach energy to an object of the same attribute. If that object was currently in contact with a creature or another object, it could transfer everything it was touching along with it, regardless of the attributes of the creature or object being transferred.
It was raining outside the barrier, and the rain was in contact with Little Seeker. As long as Water Star's Spirit Body Exchange proficiency had reached the Ultimate Skill level, it could swap the rain—and Little Seeker, who still had rain on its body—with itself.
Luckily, she had thought of this at the last moment and subtly altered the command she gave Little Seeker. When it moved, what reappeared before the crowd was its Substitute.
Otherwise, if Water Star had truly succeeded in transferring Little Seeker, Little Seeker would probably have had to trigger Mutual Destruction and Life Borrowing.
After her last match, she had just declared that if she wanted Little Seeker to trigger those two traits, the opponent would