Chapter 314 — The Lucky One Crushed by a Slime

But this water cannon was, after all, a strike in which Susu had gathered the power of nature, mustered a stretch of sea stored within its body, and wrapped it all in deterrence — nothing its opponent could block. Even with its beast tamer's enhancement, the Tornado Sparrow's energy value was still less than half of Susu's.

Faced with this blow, pregnant with terrifying deterrence and the power of water, the white Jade of Wind shattered the instant it touched — like a balloon falling beneath a waterfall, torn to shreds by the current, and in the end even the shreds were swallowed.

The water cannon struck the Tornado Sparrow head-on.

In that instant, the Tornado Sparrow's expression convulsed, and its whole body was engulfed by the cannon and swept off into the distance!

BOOM—

The whole valley shook.

For the cannon drove the Tornado Sparrow straight into the cliff face, and at the moment of impact the entire mountain collapsed under that single shot, a rumbling like tsunami and earthquake sounding as one.

The cliff split, the earth roared, rain fell from the sky, stray ripples of deterrence scattered everywhere — and the Tornado Sparrow sank slowly into the newly formed little lake, amid the rubble, its expression tragic, utterly stripped of its ability to fight.

As for Li Qiu, who had been grazed by the passing cannon, he stood frozen where he was, listening to the lament of the combat-crippled Tornado Sparrow, his mind a blank.

"Mii! (Surrender!)" Seeing that this beast tamer did not seem especially bright and reacted rather slowly under deterrence, Susu did not press the attack — considerate to a fault.

At that moment Li Qiu had indeed lost the capacity to think, and could not for the life of him work out what this Water Slime was.

Call it a wild ferocious beast — whose wild ferocious beast looked like this, and was this strong?

Call it another contestant's bonded beast — Li Qiu had never heard of anyone contracting a Water Slime, let alone one this monstrously powerful; and above all, he had not even laid eyes on its beast tamer yet.

Right now Li Qiu was unwilling to face the facts, feeling only that he was still dreaming, that the national tournament did not begin until tomorrow.

The other spectators, though their worldview was not shattered as directly as Li Qiu's, still had their minds ringing with shock at seeing a Water Slime erupt with such power and annihilate in a single blow a high-tier Monarch species, Monarch-level Tornado Sparrow that had been enhanced by its beast tamer.

"This— this— this this..."

"I'm starting to doubt my own eyes."

Once again the two hosts and commentators could not explain what they were seeing.

"This is a Water Slime???"

Now, as the encounter between the Water Slime and Li Qiu turned into a conflict and ended with Li Qiu utterly crushed, the teachers and students of Lingdu University wore looks of utter bewilderment — this this this, could somebody please tell them what on earth was going on!!!

Shi Ying's Butterfly of Imagination and the Jiuli battle beast being strong was one thing — but why was this Water Slime also so unscientific!!!

Everyone stared at the Tornado Sparrow, slain in a single blow.

This was beyond doubt Li Qiu's ace, and even it had been one-shot; they did not doubt for a moment that even if Li Qiu summoned every beast he had, he would still not escape being carved to pieces by this Water Slime.

This freaking strength was simply not on the same plane of existence.

Silly child, they told you to run, why didn't you listen — see, aren't you about to become the first unlucky wretch eliminated? And eliminated by a beast its tamer had left to roam free, no less. When he gets out and learns the truth, how crushed he will be.

At the last national tournament, among those of the same Monarch level, only Gao Xuan's Ultimate Holy Dragon Beast had possessed such strength.

But this time... any random Water Slime had it???

It was not only Lingdu University; teachers and students of the other universities too were staring at the screen in shock. Only the Imperial Capital and Ancient Capital University contingents were utterly silent, feeling that this situation was both familiar and strange.

Clearly — this was unscientific!