7: Chapter 7: A breeze through the game.

"W-What is that?"

"A dragon? It's actually a dragon? How can an F-rank Bloodline spirit beast be a dragon?"

"Could it be that Mengxue actually hid her true bloodline rank?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible! Dragon-type spirit beasts are at least S-rank or higher bloodlines. How could Mengxue have an S-rank or higher bloodline?"

Qin Shousheng shouted with a face full of disbelief.

The Dragon Race—that's a contract partner so many Beast Tamers dream of!

And now he's being told that the spirit beast an E-rank Beast Tamer contracted is a dragon?

He wouldn't believe it even if it killed him.

However, the facts were right before their eyes, leaving them no choice but to believe.

In the next second, the Blaze Hound was summoned.

Its entire body was wreathed in blazing flames, and the surrounding air distorted from the high temperature.

With almost no pause, as soon as it appeared, it spat out streaks of scorching fire, shooting straight toward Lin Mengxue.

However, facing such an attack, Lin Mengxue simply exhaled a light breath.

The biting cold wind even made the spectators in the assessment area shiver uncontrollably.

The flames spat by the Blaze Hound and the fire on its body were instantly frozen, and its body was turned into an ice sculpture along with them.

*Crack—*

With a crisp cracking sound, the ice sculpture shattered.

The Blaze Hound's body also turned into countless ice crystals, dissipating into the air.

[First stage assessment over. Congratulations on passing!]

[Second stage: Tier 1, Rank 3, Gray Wolf!]

[The AI Magical Beast will appear in thirty seconds. Please prepare for battle!]

Silence!

A deathly silence!

At this moment, the entire assessment viewing area fell into a dead silence.

If Lin Mengxue was an F-rank spirit beast, then what were they?

Z-rank spirit beasts?

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At the same time.

In the backstage monitoring room of the Beast Taming Academy.

"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! A dragon, it's actually a dragon!"

The Dean of Students, Zhao Yi, slammed the table, letting out a string of colorful expletives.

After all, with the final assessments approaching, many awakened Beast Tamers and spirit beasts were finalizing their contracts and participating in the Beast Tamer assessments in rapid succession.

As Jiangcheng was a small city, Jiangcheng Beast Taming Academy was the only higher education institution here, so it naturally had the right to set up a live broadcast channel for the Beast Tamer assessment on campus to observe the students' performance.

Who would have thought that while watching, a dragon would actually appear?

The several teachers nearby were also quite surprised.

"Isn't that Lin Mengxue? Wasn't she registered with an F-rank Bloodline? How did she become a dragon?"

"Could she have lied back then?"

"That shouldn't be possible. Even if she lied, the testing equipment wouldn't make a mistake. You can't say the recorder back then conspired with her, can you?"

Everyone discussed it animatedly, but they couldn't come up with a reasonable explanation.

At the very back of the room sat a man in his sixties.

Despite his advanced age, his posture remained upright, and his eyes were bright and spirited.

Unlike the other teachers, his gaze didn't stay on Lin Mengxue but was fixed intently on Chen Yi.

His SS-rank talent—Source of Power—not only allowed him to manipulate spiritual energy from nature for combat but also let him sense areas rich in spiritual energy and its flow.

On the screen, the flow of spiritual energy was clearly visible; it was surging from Chen Yi into Lin Mengxue!

This meant that the reason Lin Mengxue could transform into a dragon with an F-rank Bloodline was likely closely related to Chen Yi.

The old man stood up, walked to Zhao Yi's side, and asked, "Is this Chen Yi a student at the academy?"

"One moment, Mr. Luo, I'll check for you right away—"

"No need to check! That Chen Yi isn't a student at our school."

A female teacher chimed in, "He used to be very close to Liu Ruyan from the Sophomore Class 3. I often saw him signing in for her; I couldn't even be bothered to expose him."

"Liu Ruyan? The E-rank spirit beast who just finished her assessment?"

"Yeah, it feels like they'd been dating for over a year. I didn't expect them to break up so suddenly."

Hearing this, the old man's brows furrowed deeply.

E-rank spirit beast?

Does this person have some kind of special talent that can specifically strengthen low-level spirit beasts?

It seems necessary to pay some attention to this person named Chen Yi.

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In the live broadcast, the Beast Tamer assessment continued.

The Gray Wolf in the second stage met the exact same fate as the Blaze Hound.

As soon as it was summoned, Lin Mengxue exhaled, turning it into an ice sculpture that then shattered.

An unquestionable instakill!

Next, the Tier 1, Rank 4 Demon Hound in the third stage also fell powerlessly under Lin Mengxue's single breath.

Following that, the fourth, fifth, sixth... all the way to the eighth stage, the AI Magical Beasts in every stage were instantly reduced to nothingness by Lin Mengxue's light breath.

The spectators in the assessment area were completely stunned by the scene before them; their jaws practically hit the floor!

S-rank, she's definitely an S-rank spirit beast!

Only an S-rank spirit beast could defeat these AI Magical Beasts so easily!

Over the years, it wasn't that no one could pass all nine stages of the assessment, and it wasn't even particularly rare—an average city would have about a dozen pairs succeed each year.

But someone as effortless as Lin Mengxue was definitely the first in history!

Not to mention Lin Mengxue was only Tier 1, Rank 2!

She didn't even use a skill; she just casually blew a breath and instakilled AI Magical Beasts several ranks higher than herself.

This kind of scene could probably only be found in beast-taming novels, right?

Several Beast Tamer students in the viewing area with ranks B or higher were filled with deep regret.

After awakening their talents, it wasn't that they hadn't considered inviting Lin Mengxue to form a contract.

However, under the earnest persuasion of family, friends, and teachers, they eventually gave up those naive thoughts.

After all, in this world, strength was the foundation of one's survival.

Once you had strength, why worry about not having beautiful women by your side?

Although a Beast Tamer could form contracts with multiple Spirit Beast Girls...

...in the early stages, especially at Tier 1 where one can only contract one Spirit Beast Girl, if you contracted a useless 'vase' that was only good for looking at, life would undoubtedly be difficult!

One slow step leads to every step being slow; you might even kick the bucket before breaking through to Tier 2.

If the awakened talent was something like Qin Shousheng's, which improved one's own combat power, then it might be worth considering.

You could just replace her once you got bored; the impact on yourself wouldn't be nearly as large as it would be for a Beast Tamer with a support-type talent.

But now they were being told that the Beast Taming Academy's campus belle, Lin Mengxue, was not only peerlessly elegant but also possessed heaven-defying strength.

Missing out on this, damn it, they were slapping their thighs in regret so hard they were swelling!

In the footage, the assessment test finally reached the ninth stage.

[Eighth stage assessment over. Congratulations on passing!]

[Ninth stage: Tier 1, Rank 10, Snow Girl!]

[The AI Magical Beast will appear in thirty seconds. Please prepare for battle!]

"Holy crap, it's actually a Snow Girl!"

"Six-star difficulty, and it's an ice-attribute magical beast, plus its rank is nine levels higher. You can't tell me she's still going to instakill it with one breath, right?"

"Mengxue's luck is really bad. Not only did a Blaze Hound appear in the first stage, but now in the final stage, she gets a Snow Girl with extremely high ice resistance?"

"Hmph! If you can still win this time, I'll take a dump while doing a handstand!"

Qin Shousheng said with gritted teeth.

He had originally stayed here to watch Chen Yi and Lin Mengxue make fools of themselves.

But who would have thought he'd end up seeing the two of them showing off such incredible power?

This felt worse than eating ten pounds of manure, damn it!

Hearing this, the others also rolled their eyes one after another, as if looking at a clown.

This Qin Shousheng—every time Lin Mengxue killed an enemy, he would stand by and make sarcastic remarks.

Does he really hate seeing Lin Mengxue rise that much?