Arena Victor (Please Keep Reading!)

"An ambush?"

Watching the tide of battle turn sharply against her and sensing the panic rising in the Blue Frost Ice Falcon's heart, Yu Xiumin's expression darkened. Her pet beast would not be defeated so easily.

"Unleash a Froststorm with everything you have!"

"Shriek!" The Blue Frost Ice Falcon let out an angry cry, as though venting the fury in its heart. Several small tornadoes gradually appeared around its body, preparing to converge into a Froststorm that would swallow everything.

It still wanted to unleash a large-scale attack skill while under Color Spirit's telekinetic control?

"Pull it away and strike it with telekinesis!"

Seeing the Blue Frost Ice Falcon struggle, Chen Wei smiled faintly and immediately gave Color Spirit the order.

The Blue Frost Ice Falcon's body was slammed violently into the ground under Color Spirit's pale-blue telekinetic control. It struggled back into the air, only to be hurled down at high speed once more.

"Boom, boom, boom..." Thunderous crashes rang out across the arena.

The Blue Frost Ice Falcon's body lay weakly embedded in the pitted ground. The intense pain coming from all over made its face twist in agony, while the miniature tornadoes it had painstakingly condensed had long since been disrupted and dispersed.

Yu Xiumin stared at the Ice Falcon, which had lost most of its fighting strength, her pretty face somewhat pale and her thoughts tangled like a mess of hemp.

She knew perfectly well that if the battle continued like this, defeat was the only outcome awaiting her.

At that thought, a trace of determination flashed through Yu Xiumin's eyes. Biting her red lip with pearly teeth, she began driving all her Source Power, attempting to activate her innate talent, Blessing of Ice, in one final gamble.

In an instant, flames seemingly dark blue rose rapidly over the Blue Frost Ice Falcon's body. Its entire body suddenly shone brilliantly as vast amounts of ice-element Source Energy gathered before it.

Her Blessing of Ice could maximize an ice-element pet beast's Source Energy reserves and increase the power of all ice-element skills.

The boost produced by stacking the two effects could increase a skill's damage by as much as threefold.

"One final, all-out Ice Blade!" Yu Xiumin shouted.

Immense ice-element Source Energy rippled above the Blue Frost Ice Falcon. Glittering blue Ice Blades continuously condensed from those ripples, then transformed into masses of blue light and shot fiercely toward Color Spirit.

"Face it head-on with Cold Breath—hit it with everything you've got! Let it see our strength too!" An excited smile immediately appeared on Chen Wei's face.

At his words, Color Spirit's slender body rose upright, her eyes coldly fixed on the Blue Frost Ice Falcon, which had suddenly erupted with power in the distance.

She then began gathering strength with all her might, ceaselessly drawing in the surrounding ice-element Source Energy. Dazzling cold-blue radiance began shining from her mouth.

Facing the incoming Ice Blades, Color Spirit suddenly unleashed a massive Cold Breath infused with enormous quantities of ice-element Source Energy, kicking up a terrifying burst of compressed air.

Under the tense gazes of countless spectators, a horrifying current of extreme cold collided savagely with the blue light formed by countless Ice Blades like meteors crashing together, setting off a tremendous explosive roar.

A deafening boom suddenly erupted above the battle platform, and quite a few spectators lowered their heads and covered their ears.

After a moment, the smoke and dust on the field gradually dispersed.

Color Spirit's crystal-clear body slowly emerged before Chen Wei.

Chen Wei gave Color Spirit a slight nod, then looked toward the Blue Frost Ice Falcon still flying ceaselessly in the air.

"Use telekinesis to pull it down!"

Chen Wei did not know how much longer this proud Blue Frost Ice Falcon could hold out, but its flying posture alone told him that it had little stamina left.

Yu Xiumin, meanwhile, stared gravely at the Cold Jade Snake, whose body remained completely unsoiled, and commanded through her mind, "Keep using Ice Blades!"

"Yee!" Color Spirit let out a crisp cry.

The Blue Frost Ice Falcon's movements in midair came to an abrupt halt. A powerful binding force locked down its flight, and its blue-and-white body began plummeting rapidly from the sky.

"I concede." Yu Xiumin decisively raised her right hand.

The outcome of the battle ahead was already obvious. If she could not win, she could not win—there was no need to let her Blue Frost Ice Falcon suffer further injuries.

"Stop!" Chen Wei immediately told Color Spirit upon hearing that.

Color Spirit promptly withdrew the powerful telekinetic restraint pressing down on the Blue Frost Ice Falcon.

The referee immediately blew his whistle and announced, "Winner: Chen Wei!"

At the same time, the host's passionate, booming voice suddenly rang out over the arena broadcast.

"After an intense morning of competition, the first arena champion among the new generation of Beastmasters to achieve ten consecutive victories has appeared! He will receive a prize of one million Star Coins from the Beastmaster Association, as well as a special grand gift package."

"Let us congratulate him!"

"Ten straight wins! Ten straight wins!"

Wave after wave of cheers also rose from the spectator stands.

Led by a staff member from the arena, Chen Wei arrived at a room on the ninth floor of the Beastmaster Tower.

Here, he would receive the true rewards granted by the arena challenge tournament.

"As the winner of this arena challenge, what do you think of the difficulty of this Beastmaster competition organized by the Association?" Meng Bowen, president of the Beastmaster Association, asked curiously.

In the past, competitions held by the Water Mountain City Beastmaster Association had always used a one-on-one elimination format. Competitors were eliminated round by round until the top three victors in terms of strength were determined.

This year's revised competition, however, had deliberately raised the difficulty in order to select Beastmaster geniuses from Water Mountain City who excelled at pet beast battles.

New Beastmasters had to face ten opponents alone, and most importantly, their pet beasts did not have sufficient time to rest.

Given these two key conditions, Meng Bowen had originally thought that there might not be an arena champion capable of successfully defending the title this year.

Chen Wei had given him a huge surprise.

Looking at the distinguished middle-aged man before him and sensing his keenly interested gaze, Chen Wei smiled. "Not bad. It was a very interesting competition."

Meng Bowen smiled helplessly at that, then decided to keep it short. He took out a black card and handed it directly to Chen Wei.

"There are one million Star Coins on this card. It's the Star Coin reward you earned for successfully defending the arena."

"Besides that, the special gift pack you received is actually a qualification to enter the Southshore Mountain Secret Realm a month from now." Meng Bowen looked at Chen Wei as he spoke in a steady voice.

"A Secret Realm?" Chen Wei was slightly stunned, unable to process it at once.

Since when had a Secret Realm emerged in a remote third-tier city like Water Mountain City, where Source Power was so thin?

"That's right—the Heaven-Blessed Secret Realm you know of."

As though he had noticed Chen Wei's surprise, President Meng calmly confirmed it.

"Of course, this Southshore Mountain Secret Realm is only a low-level ice-type Secret Realm. It contains few Beastmaster resources, and the pet beasts living inside are all below the first rank in strength."

Seeing delight begin to surface on Chen Wei's face, Meng Bowen could not help but cough twice before speaking.