Chapter 77: Never Short Of Geniuses [2-in-1]
“Liu Gu!”
Big Willow bathed in the Peach Blossom Jellyfish’s treatment halo, feeling his spiritual power quickly recover, very comfortable.
“Bai Bai, this jellyfish’s spirit recovery effect is better than Little Peach’s Spirit Recovery Peach.”
He didn’t forget to share his feelings with Ge Bai.
Ge Bai used spiritual sense to communicate with the system, glanced at this Peach Blossom Jellyfish named Hua Jiao, spiritual power level: Hegemon Realm Level 7, skills: Spirit Recovery Halo – Proficient.
Good grief, the Jinggang City Arena Competition organizers are rich and imposing, the healer at the preliminary competition stage is already at advanced Hegemon Realm, and the skill proficiency is also high.
The effect of this Spirit Recovery Halo is naturally better than Little Peach’s Spirit Recovery Peach.
“Ge Bai contestant, congratulations, you have won another match, your current ranking is 101st.”
“We are truly sorry, but due to your pet beast’s actual spiritual power level being low, it has affected the competition organizers’ assessment of your estimated strength, your current estimated strength level is still at Transcendence Realm Level One.”
The staff member found Ge Bai and very dutifully came to inform her of the latest information.
“But it does not affect your subsequent matches, you can apply to challenge higher level contestants at any time.”
Hearing the staff member say this, Ge Bai’s spiritual sense stirred, and she brought up the system task list.
[Defeat (Repel) Spirit Plant Spirit Beast Task Progress: Mortal Spirit Realm spirit plant or spirit beast (completed), Transcendence Realm spirit plant or spirit beast (4/10)]
Big Willow and the others have been sparring every day recently, the Mortal Spirit Realm repel task was completed long ago.
The four Transcendence Realm defeats (repels) are the results from these two participations in the arena competition preliminary, the first two were recognized by the system after beating that Mystic Phoenix.
This time is also pretty good, in one match, the system recognized two defeats (repels).
Probably one was Qian Dai’s final strike, and the other was Big Willow’s Wind Weave Domain.
Looking at it this way, after another three or four matches, the task will be almost done.
“As long as the matched contestant is Transcendence Realm or above, it’s fine.”
Ge Bai didn’t act arrogant, and very humbly told the staff member her plan.
The staff member was a bit surprised, thought for a moment, and still kindly reminded.
“Ge Bai contestant, if following the official matching mechanism of the competition, in the next few matches, your opponents will all be Transcendence Realm Level One or Level Two, battling contestants at this level won’t provide much boost to your current ranking.”
In Jinggang City’s city level arena competition preliminary, without major surprises, beginner Transcendence Realm are basically hovering at the edge of qualifying in the preliminary, Ge Bai’s current ranking is already very high, even by strength rating.
However, Ge Bai came to participate in the preliminary not aiming for the ranking.
Her current goals are one to complete the task, and the other to raise Big Willow and Qian Dai’s spiritual power levels, striving to steadily pass Jinggang No. 1 Middle School Special Recruitment.
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Jinggang No. 1 Middle School admissions office.
A room full of teachers were reviewing the materials of students who signed up for Jinggang Special Recruitment this year.
“Eh? There is a spirit planter’s material here? Why is it marked with preliminary review exemption?”
A teacher at the secondary review position happened to flip to Ge Bai’s materials, the kraft paper sealed file bag stamped with a large preliminary review exemption seal.
Another teacher stretched his head to look, pointed to a small seal below and said, “Look, Director Zheng signed the exemption, probably a seedling he dug up from the school.”
The Director Zheng they mentioned was Zheng Mingchun, the director of the practical teaching and research department at Jinggang No. 1 Middle School, who had previously visited Ge Bai’s school.
The secondary review teacher, hearing his colleague say this, became even more curious, opened Ge Bai’s materials, and looked with some frown.
After all, when submitting these materials, Ge Bai had only registered the initial information of the Weeping Ancient Willow.
“This, it feels like even if let in, it won’t pass.”
The reviewing teacher looked at the materials with some headache, a young male teacher nearby just came over and saw Ge Bai’s ID photo and Big Willow’s registration photo.
“This girl and this willow tree, why do they look so familiar to me?” As he spoke, he pulled out his phone, found yesterday’s hot search post, “Take a look, isn’t this Ge Bai?”
Seeing them chatting here, the teachers who had been working at their desks for half a day also lifted their heads, stretched, preparing to listen to the gossip and chat for a bit.
The post the young male teacher found was the analysis post of Ge Bai’s first arena match, the post had several venue mid-shot pictures, and the registration photos published by the arena competition organizers.
“It seems really to be the same person.”
The secondary review teacher didn’t look at the post content, just glanced at the few pictures in the post.
“If it’s really this Ge Bai, she might be this year’s dark horse for our Jinggang No. 1 Middle School Special Recruitment, Director Zheng has good eyesight.”
This young male teacher was clearly a high-intensity surfing contestant, quickly briefing his colleagues on Ge Bai’s battle records in the arena competition these two days, and the wild spirit plant information that Ge Bai contracted, published by the Spirit Beast Research Institute.
Another slightly older teacher patiently listened, then picked up his teacup and took a light sip.
“Not necessarily, this year there are several little monsters coming to our Jinggang No. 1 Middle School.”
Work stopped, teacup lifted, and another wave of fresh news.
The most noteworthy is Long Jun Chi from Jinggang’s Long family, his grandfather is the president of Jinggang City Adventurers Association, one of the few commander level beast tamers openly in Jinggang City, his father and several uncles have long become hegemon level beast tamers, and in recent years have prospects for impacting commander level.
Coincidentally, the Long family generally contracts dragon type pet beasts.
Although cultivating dragon type pet beasts requires enormous resources, proportional to the input resources, dragon type pet beasts generally have very high growth levels, basically no weak periods from early to late stages.
Not only the cultivation resources issue, dragon type pet beasts themselves have personalities that aren’t particularly good, fairy dragon is aloof, fire dragon is irritable, sea dragon is cold, each with their issues.
Gaining recognition from dragon type pet beasts is not easy at all, but the Long family seems to have some non-public secret methods, they always gain recognition more easily than others.
As long as it’s a decently cultivated dragon type pet beast, it can steadily crush other pet beasts at the same level.
This Long Jun Chi is the outstanding one among the Long family’s generation, already successfully contracted a Black Spine Dragon, with a high cultivation level.
Lacking neither resources, talent, nor effort, this Long Jun Chi is the legendary child from someone else’s family.
There is also Fang Miao Wen from a martial arts school family, who is Ran Cai Jiao’s cousin from the senior department of Jinggang No. 1 Middle School, their mothers are blood sisters.
Similar to Heng Ran Martial Arts School, this Fang Miao Wen’s family also has a martial arts school open for nearly a hundred years.
Unlike Ran Cai Jiao’s family specializing in cultivating large ape type pet beasts, Fang Miao Wen’s family focuses on cultivating only one type of pet beast, Ice Armor White Bear.
Legend has it, nearly a hundred years ago, the old owner of this martial arts school saved an Ice Armor White Bear in a secret realm, after contracting it, helped the pet beast complete bloodline evolution, and maintained good relations with a lineage of Ice Armor White Bears in that secret realm, mastering the method to enter the secret realm.
Several generations of the family have contracted Ice Armor White Bears of the same bloodline, using them as the main cultivated pet beasts.
Ice Armor White Bear itself has superior combat power, this little girl has long been internally determined by Jinggang No. 1 Middle School, just waiting for her to enroll and become the new main force of Jinggang No. 1 Middle School Team.
Another one is not as famous as the previous two, but has a more bizarre experience.
This young man named Yi Kai Jun was originally an average-performing, average-family junior high student, the kind you couldn’t find in a crowd.
As a result, in this year’s spiritual consciousness development test, he tested a maximum spiritual power value of 15.7%, the highest in the past decade, not only that, in spiritual type creature affinity, he also tested extremely high pet beast affinity attribute.
Before he even left the testing center, various high schools had already extended olive branches to him, this guy is a natural beast tamer, the kind where heaven chases him to give him food.
Heard that the alliance Spirit Beast Research Institute wasn’t idle either, immediately contacted this young man, provided resource support, even helped him select a pet beast.
This young man is also competitive, his first pet beast contracted with a Dark Nether Ghost, this Dark Nether Ghost was a carefully nurtured young pet from the alliance Spirit Beast Research Institute.
Definitely promising future.
When Jinggang No. 1 Middle School recruitment team secured this young man, they even had a celebration banquet.
The elusive Dark Nether Ghost is not only a natural top assassin, after training it’s also the alliance military’s favorite scout race.
In arena competitions, Dark Nether Ghost’s win rate when appearing is far ahead, often opponents haven’t seen anything, and the match is over.
There was once an Interstellar Alliance arena competition contestant whose Dark Nether Ghost was particularly dramatic, loved to mysteriously appear and draw ghost faces on opponents with lipstick.
This actually made it convenient for the referee, ghost face drawn on opponent’s vital spot, theoretically can judge loss, if touched close by Dark Nether Ghost, they have a hundred ways to cause damage.
Every time this Dark Nether Ghost appeared, everyone was most curious about what brand and shade of lipstick he used.
There was a rumor that this contestant’s beauty makeup endorsement fees were a hundred times higher than competition winnings.
As one of Huaguo’s top metropolises, Jinggang never lacks geniuses.
Of course, the currently popular Ge Bai is also very good, especially in the spirit planter circle, already regarding her as the leading figure of the next generation combat type spirit planters.
“There are still 3 weeks until special recruitment, let’s see who can take the lead in the end.”
After gossiping about this year’s several good seedlings, the admissions office teachers dispersed, each returning to their desks to continue working.
Ge Bai’s materials were also smoothly stamped with the passed review seal.
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“No problem, I don’t have much demand for ranking, Transcendence Realm beginner contestants are fine.”
Ge Bai was very grateful for the staff member’s kind reminder, but also seriously expressed her own thoughts.
Reminder done, the staff member’s duty fulfilled.
“Okay, Ge Bai contestant, if you have no special requirements, today’s competition has matched you with two opponents, one randomly matched Transcendence Realm Level One beast tamer, this match can be refused, the other is a Mortal Spirit Realm Level 5 beast tamer’s challenge higher level, this challenge higher level match cannot be refused.”
“Refuse neither.”
Ge Bai actually didn’t care, no matter what kind of battle, Big Willow and Qian Dai would always make progress.
“Then your next opponent information is as follows, name: Li Ya Xin, occupation: Beast Tamer, registered pet beast: Ice Armor Warrior (Transcendence Realm Level One), contestant ranking: 109th. Battle arrangement in the next match okay?”
“No problem.”
Big Willow just had relatively large spiritual power consumption, a bit of superficial injury was just casually healed by the Peach Blossom Jellyfish.
As for Qian Dai, it didn’t even count as spiritual power consumption, right now she was excited.
Starting the next challenge immediately was no problem at all for Ge Bai and them.
“Do your best.”
Healer Lika and Peach Blossom Jellyfish Hua Jiao quickly got familiar with Big Willow, playing happily with Big Willow.
Hua Jiao, having completed the healing task, also turned into mini form, a small jellyfish half a palm size jumping around in Big Willow’s Willow Threads.
Big Willow also happily raised Willow Threads to play with the little jellyfish, even a hegemon level jellyfish still likes plants similar to aquatic grass.
Seeing Ge Bai’s side preparing to go on stage, Lika called back Hua Jiao, and didn’t forget to cheer for Big Willow.
Ge Bai smilingly extended her hand to Big Willow, making it easier for him to hop onto her shoulder, nodded to Lika, and walked toward the arena entrance.
While walking, Ge Bai outlined the summoning array, Qian Dai’s figure solidified in mid-air.
“Bai Bai, don’t be angry.” Qian Dai just came out and rubbed to Ge Bai’s cheek, intimately nuzzled.
Ge Bai kept a straight face, pulled Qian Dai in front of her.
“You know you did wrong in the previous match?” Ge Bai’s tone was serious.
“I know, I know, don’t keep me from going on stage.” Qian Dai was still acting spoiled.
Sigh, Ge Bai helplessly sighed.
“Fine! One more match, you guys decide as you go.”
Talk in the evening, Ge Bai helplessly shook her head.
When going on stage, Ge Bai’s Big Willow and Qian Dai were both by her side, opponent’s too.
The Ice Armor Warrior directly followed behind its beast tamer Li Ya Xin, walked onto the arena itself, passed the beast tamer, and stood at a forward position on the arena.
[Type: Ice Armor Warrior (Hegemon Race)]
[Spiritual Power Value: Transcendence Realm Level One (58.37/100)]
[Attribute: Ice]
[Skill: Ice Blade Knife – Proficient. Skill Description: Wields the ice blade extending from its own ice armor, causing ice damage.]
[Skill: Warrior Charge – Proficient. Skill Description: The warrior quickly approaches the target enemy in an extremely short time, shortening the distance between both sides, physical damage to the target enemy, and adds a certain amount of ice spiritual power damage.]
[Skill: Ice Snow Domain – Beginner. Skill Description: Area control skill, when activated, forms a cold ice snow domain around itself, slightly repairs own injuries. Enemies in the Ice Snow Domain receive slow effect, continuous ice cold damage, allied ice damage enhanced.]
The Ice Armor Warrior’s information appeared before Ge Bai’s eyes.
Looking at this skill proficiency, no need to fight, she knew this Ice Armor Warrior had just entered Transcendence Realm not long ago, previously he and his beast tamer mainly trained physical attack, almost no learning of Ice Snow Domain related.
This is also a cultivation method for Ice Armor Warrior, in the pet beast early stage, prioritize teaching knife skills and warrior skills, which greatly benefits improving Ice Armor Warrior’s attack power.
At the same time, also lays foundation for later advanced skills.
So it seems, the opponent is the steady and solid type.
