Vine Tree Spirit (Please Read On!)

"Charge in and use Bite!"

"???"

The Mystic Spirit Turtle slowly stretched out its head and glanced at its Beast Master, its hesitant gaze seemingly brimming with refusal.

"Get up there!"

Beast Master Bai Yi repeated the command, but as if he had suddenly realized something, his expression stiffened and sweat began to bead at his temples.

It couldn't be this embarrassing, could it?!

Bai Yi had never expected his pet beast, the Mystic Spirit Turtle, to lose its nerve the moment it was summoned. Gazing at the imposing Cold Jade Snake in the distance, it had no desire to fight whatsoever.

No matter how he communicated with the Mystic Spirit Turtle afterward, it showed no intention of obeying his orders.

The Mystic Spirit Turtle had its own plans—it stubbornly wanted to turtle up inside its shell and refuse to move!

Hey, hey, hey! He had stepped onto the stage for a pet beast battle, not specifically to make a fool of himself.

With that thought, Bai Yi hurriedly used the Beast Master Contract to forcibly control the Mystic Spirit Turtle's body, making it charge rapidly toward the Cold Jade Snake.

He could accept defeat, but he could not accept surrendering without a fight like this.

Watching the Mystic Spirit Turtle's somewhat stiff movements from afar, Chen Wei's brows drew together slightly. He felt that something seemed to be wrong with this opponent.

Forget it. The battle had already begun anyway.

End it as quickly as possible!

"Color Spirit, use Telekinesis to move it out."

This time, Chen Wei did not even want to use an offensive skill.

He had more or less realized that the Mystic Spirit Turtle was fiercely resisting the battle, its heart filled with nothing but terror.

Such a completely suspense-free battle failed to stir any enthusiasm in him. If anything, he was disappointed.

Color Spirit's eyes instantly bloomed with pale blue light. In the blink of an eye, the Mystic Spirit Turtle charging toward her was sent flying off the battle platform at an even greater speed.

With several loud bangs, the Mystic Spirit Turtle rolled continuously as it tumbled out of bounds.

The referee immediately blew his whistle. "The victor has been decided!"

"What a spectacular match! A simple and brutal display of overwhelming strength! In just one round, the Cold Jade Snake has claimed another victory!"

The host announced loudly, setting off another fierce wave of cheers from the audience.

"Cold Jade Snake is my favorite!"

"Go, snakey! You're the strongest!"

"Ten straight wins!"

"..."

Chen Wei's mouth twitched when he heard that. Whether the host was actually good at hosting, he did not know, but the man certainly loved forcing awkward hype. The other side had clearly come onstage just to feed him a free win, yet he could still gush over it.

Even among the enthusiastic audience, Chen Wei suspected that the few people shouting the hardest were paid hype men hired by the organizers.

Chen Wei stopped letting his imagination run wild, walked over to the referee, and asked softly, "I don't need any rest time. Can I proceed directly to the next match?"

He did not want to keep wasting time like this. A battle like that did not even warrant a break.

The referee shot him a surprised glance. "Of course. We respect your choice."

He had not expected the Beast Master before him to be so bold! He had the air of the referee in his younger days.

Standing on the arena stage, Chen Wei quietly waited for the referee's command.

He had already defeated eight opponents in a row, but aside from Meng Haoge, the other opponents had been rather hard to describe. Most of them had only moderately gifted pet beasts that were not particularly strong.

Even now, Color Spirit did not have so much as a single scratch on her body. Her bright, watery eyes remained as spirited as ever.

It was nowhere near as difficult as Chen Wei had imagined.

Meanwhile, the slightly chubby youth not far away, Hang Lezhi, was his ninth Beast Master opponent.

The referee sharply lowered his right hand. "Battle begin."

Hang Lezhi, the Beast Master across from him, summoned his pet beast with astonishing speed.

In an instant, a three-meter-tall tree covered from head to toe in green vines appeared on the arena stage.

If one looked carefully through the dense foliage, one could even spot a horrifying human face growing from the tree's main trunk.

"A rare plant-type pet beast?"

Chen Wei gave a soft cry of surprise and used the Appraisal skill. He had only seen such rare creatures in books before; this was his first time encountering one in reality.

[Pet Beast Name]: Vine Tree Spirit

[Pet Beast Attribute]: Wood

[Race Level]: High Extraordinary

[Strength Level]: Level 8 Juvenile

[Species Skills]: Rooting, Vine Whip, Hardened Bark, Rapid Growth

[Beast Potential]: Low-Grade Profound Rank

"Root yourself, then use Rapid Growth." Hang Lezhi gave the order at once.

The Vine Tree Spirit controlled a great mass of roots and swiftly burrowed them into the frost-covered arena floor. A faint green gleam then flashed across its surface, clearly enhancing both its condition and wood-element abilities.

Rapid Growth was a wood-element enhancement and recovery skill. It made the already exceptional regenerative ability of plant-type creatures even more pronounced, greatly accelerating the healing of their injuries.

Seeing this, Chen Wei issued a mental command. "Turret Mode. Use Cold Breath. Be careful not to get close to it."

Chen Wei knew the strengths and weaknesses of this kind of plant-type beast all too well.

The Vine Tree Spirit possessed outstanding strength, defense, and recovery, especially in close combat. Its wildly flailing vines would teach its enemies what the art of binding truly meant.

But its sole weakness was its relatively slow speed, as well as its particular fear of fire-element skills.

As long as one kept their distance, at the juvenile stage, this kind of beast was a living target.

Yet once it reached maturity, few high-level Beast Masters would dare challenge such a plant-type beast in a forest carpeted with greenery.

Color Spirit's command of Cold Breath was becoming increasingly skillful.

In the span of a single second, Color Spirit fired two icy-blue beams of extreme cold in rapid succession from its mouth, striking the Vine Tree Spirit that was rooted in place with perfect accuracy.

Explosions rang out without pause, whipping up an ice storm across the battlefield.

The shards of ice unleashed by the violent explosions of Cold Breath carved countless wounds into the Vine Tree Spirit's body.

Before the green sap could flow from the tree spirit's wounds for long, it was frozen by the brutal frost, then burst apart again, tearing open even larger wounds.

"Ugh..." The Vine Tree Spirit let out a pained roar.

Its once-lush foliage was now sparse, while several sections of its branches had snapped off and vanished. Most crucially, the bone-piercing cold made recovery extraordinarily difficult.

The massive damage left the Vine Tree Spirit unable to move. Even the vines secretly buried beneath the Cold Jade Snake's side of the ground could not launch an attack.

Feeling his beast's injuries through their contract, disbelief filled Hang Lezhi's slightly chubby face.

His Vine Tree Spirit was that tanky, and it had just been one-shot like this?

Referee, someone's cheating! Was that beast on the other side really in the juvenile stage?!

At the same rank, even if it took the strongest fire-element skill that countered it, his tree spirit could withstand four or five hits after using Rooting and Rapid Growth.

Yet these two Cold Breaths before his eyes had directly taken more than half his beast's life.

"I surrender! Can you hurry up and treat my beast?!"

Before the referee could react, Hang Lezhi shouted urgently.