Chapter 131 — Shi Jin's Strongest Tactic

Yet just as in the Iron-Eating Beast versus Maned Rock Beast fight, this giant Iron-Eating Beast phantom's reaction speed was absurd—as if it were the genuine article. Its body pivoted with the motion, and the racket kept swinging straight toward the Void Crystal Butterfly as it reappeared from its Teleport!!!

"Mii!!!" This time, unable to sustain continuous Teleports, the Void Crystal Butterfly was forced into Void Concealment.

And then, in a thunderous instant.

The net of strings came into intimate contact with the Void-Concealed Void Crystal Butterfly, and in that instant, the Void Crystal Butterfly's eyes flew wide open.

Then it felt an immense force surging directly through the net of strings!

With a "bzz", the silk-string net shattered the Void Crystal Butterfly's concealment outright!

The giant Iron-Eating Beast phantom followed with a smash, sending the fragile butterfly crashing into the ground with a "bang"!!

BOOM!!!

For all its strangeness, the Void Crystal Butterfly still had the defense of a Bug-type.

In a single blow, the Void Crystal Butterfly lay unconscious in the giant crater on the arena floor!

At that moment, Yin Huan stood frozen in place, unable to comprehend.

Two Iron-Eating Beasts—what the hell was he even supposed to do!!!

Everyone fell silent.

Mouths fell open as they watched the Green Fluffworm one-shot the Void Crystal Butterfly.

Now they understood—that silk could pierce stealth.

A low-tier extraordinary-species Green Fluffworm versus a high-tier commander-species Void Crystal Butterfly.

And the Green Fluffworm had won completely...

Then came the most absurd part of all—another reversal.

The tremendous commotion forced the Maned Rock Beast to clamber painfully to its feet. It had finally recovered a bit of stamina, and it decided to fire off one more Lava Burst!!

And having completed that whole seamless sequence of attacks, the giant Iron-Eating Beast phantom and the Green Fluffworm phantom simply vanished. The Green Fluffworm, eyes closed, opened them panting for breath, then shut them again and sank into Absolute Sleep to recover.

Just like Eleven a moment before—completely spent.

If it had ended there, fine.

The most absurd thing was that, right then, beside it—shrunken down plus in Absolute Sleep, having swiftly regained some stamina—the real Eleven stretched and climbed to its feet.

At the same time, its bulk kept expanding, expanding, expanding.

It recovered to a stature of nearly ten meters and looked toward the Maned Rock Beast, which was rising at the same moment.

Eleven: "Chirp!"

Maned Rock Beast: ???

It stared at the Iron-Eating Beast—not a scratch on its body, its spirit fuller than its own—and its jaw dropped.

What the hell!

Is this the kind of recovery a mid-tier extraordinary-species beast is supposed to have?

Everyone stared dumbstruck at the arena.

The Seven Luminaries of Archaeology, the elites of the Ancient Capital University Battle Society—every one of them goggled.

Are you sure you just fought a battle?

Lu Heng, Bai Xi, and Lin Zhuo—the three senior sisters—fell quietly silent, somewhat discovering that they no longer recognized the Iron-Eating Beast.

"This tactic is called the Infinite Loop True-and-False Iron-Eating Beast Relay Tactic!"

Shi Zhao declared that it could perfectly utilize the full move sets of both beasts!

Amid Shi Jin's lament over his own brilliance, the giant Eleven swung out another palm, and beneath the Maned Rock Beast's expression of despair, sent it sprawling.

Mid-tier extraordinary-species Iron-Eating Beast versus low-tier monarch-species Maned Rock Beast—Iron-Eating Beast wins!

In that instant, the whole hall fell silent.

No one had expected Shi Jin to win the final match so easily with such an outrageous tactic.

Yin Huan simply stood there in a daze, having lost all capacity to think about life.

He was no longer quite sure what beast-taming combat even meant.

Countless candidates gaped, and the seed candidates and promoted candidates in particular came to feel outright fear of Shi Jin.

Zhang Qianyi, Yu Shu, and the others were struck dumb, wondering how long they could hold out against such a tactic...

This fellow Jiaqi's tactics were drenched in gimmickry—but why did every one of them have to be so outrageous, so unscientific, so buzzing-in-the-skull maddening!

Two doubled Iron-Eating Beasts—that was just plain ridiculous!

"Damn," even Qu Li, the master beast master, could not help saying inwardly. This was too disgusting. He looked with pity at the bewildered young Yin Huan.

That Iron-Eating Beast probably even had a sleep-based recovery skill too. The opponent's move set was filthy.

From what he knew, not even the evolved form of an Iron-Eating Beast was this outrageous!

From now on, don't let me fight him!

At this very moment, the master-level beast masters too fell into collective silence.

Legend Yin watched his son, dazed and vacant, and under the gaze of the old man beside him, could not help but shake his head.

"That Shi Jin..."

"Has really figured out how to play the tactics-and-moves game."

His face dark, he wondered whether his son meeting such a rival as Shi Tan would prove good or bad for his future...

"Heh... heh..." The old president of Ancient Capital University gave a dry laugh, corners of his mouth twitching as he looked toward the hall.

Somewhat worried that Yin Huan might really run off in the end...

Still, this year's professional assessment, rocky as the process had been, was finally nearing its end.

Shi Jin, the strongest rookie in Ancient Capital City's professional circuit, was it.

Right now, standing on the field, Shi Jin felt only inner torment. Why wasn't this over yet? He could hardly wait to go pick out his third beast with that rich senior girl! Then again, the Iron-Eating Beast was definitely going to go up in price this time, wasn't it!