67: Chapter 67 You two are surprisingly good at hiding
The Heart-Confusing Fox felt a sudden chill.
It quickly changed direction and acted cute toward Xue Qin below the battle platform, begging its Beast Tamer to show mercy and let it off the hook.
"I'll deal with you when we get back!"
Xue Qin's lips moved as she spoke soundlessly.
She adjusted her state to return to the battle, channeling her contract power without reservation to activate her Beast Taming Talent, [Soul Sympathy].
Xue Qin erupted with a terrifying pressure, passing it to the Heart-Confusing Fox through the pet contract, causing the Heart-Confusing Fox's mental power to surge dramatically.
The Heart-Confusing Fox immediately activated its talent.
A mysterious radiance flickered in the fox's eyes as its powerful Mental Energy transformed from formless to tangible, wrapping around the Heart-Confusing Fox layer by layer.
It looked like a silver-purple cocoon.
A strong sense of unease rose in Yun Qingrang's heart.
He controlled the Dreamy Jellyfish to launch the skill Mental Shock, but the invisible mental strike hit the cocoon and was easily deflected.
Crack!
The silver-purple cocoon emitted a faint sound of shattering.
The familiar, tall Terracotta Warrior burst through the cocoon, its petrified body incredibly hard. The thick blade of the three-pronged halberd steamed with Evil Qi, revealing supreme majesty.
This was exactly the Divine General that Yue Yun transformed into!
"What?!"
The entire venue fell into a momentary silence, followed by a sudden uproar.
Even Professor Qi Yao's old bones shot up from his seat as he wiped his face, revealing an expression of disbelief: "Mimicry! It's actually the Mimicry talent!"
Whether it was the aura or the hard rock body, everything was real; it was the Heart-Confusing Fox using its talent to mimic it.
This was fundamentally different from Xue Qin's mother's illusions.
Even Yue Yun was slightly stunned on the spot, looking at the Divine General mimicked by the Heart-Confusing Fox with a face full of surprise, unable to find a single flaw.
The four from Nanyuan First Middle School felt a total sense of oppression.
Jiang Hanqiu turned, wanting to fall back and defend his teammates, but the Thunderwing Griffin let out a shrill cry and pounced on the Steel Guardian, pinning it down firmly.
"I don't have time to mess around with you!"
Jiang Hanqiu couldn't help but feel the pressure of the situation.
Under his control, the Steel Guardian opened its boxy body, and nearly a hundred tiny missiles flew out, forming a dense barrage of attacks aimed at the Thunderwing Griffin.
Xu Qingfang showed a fearless expression.
"Let's go!"
Electric arcs exploded around the Thunderwing Griffin, its golden fur transforming into dazzling golden lightning that burst across the sky.
The wrath of the heavens shredded the missile barrage. The popping sounds of explosions were like New Year's firecrackers, yet they were drowned out by the surging thunder, leaving only brief and brilliant fireworks to be seen.
"This isn't looking good!"
Jiang Hanqiu whispered to himself.
The Steel Guardian released an energy shield, covering itself to block the lightning, and then continuously reinforced it.
The Thunderwing Griffin's Thunderous Body was a huge threat to it.
Aside from firepower suppression, the Steel Guardian didn't have many good ways to deal with elemental Pet Beasts.
And now, it had already missed its chance for firepower suppression.
Even the Light Element Sprite was being tied down by the Ice Crystal Sparrow.
The Dreamy Jellyfish could only keep pulling away, trying to delay the fight with the Heart-Confusing Fox until the Mimicry talent ended.
But the Divine General the Heart-Confusing Fox had become gave it no chance.
Recalling Yue Yun's maneuvers, it chased while charging energy with its three-pronged halberd, leaping high and smashing down heavily, the blade tearing through the air to unleash a glorious slash.
The Dreamy Jellyfish was instantly struck down hard to the ground.
Its already fragile body suffered the Divine General's Earth-Shattering Slash, immediately rupturing under the strain as water spilled all over the floor.
Yun Qingrang's expression became increasingly grim.
Zhang Xiaotang controlled the Light Element Sprite to release a healing skill. The healed Dreamy Jellyfish's condition began to improve, but immediately after, the Divine General charged again, another Earth-Shattering Slash coming down.
The Dreamy Jellyfish's jelly-like body split open.
"Damn it!" Yun Qingrang gritted his teeth.
He provided a steady stream of contract power to the Dreamy Jellyfish, and it expanded a Domain where reality and dreams overlapped, the blurred boundaries filled with mysterious emotional light.
"Dream Realm Domain?"
Professor Qi Yao was shocked once again from the spectator stands.
If these two talents—Mimicry and Dream Realm Domain—could be well-cultivated, they wouldn't be much weaker than S-rank Pet Beasts.
Of course, that was assuming the S-rank Pet Beast didn't have a super-strong talent of its own.
The emotional light absorbed the stray emotions on the battle stage, converting them like a siphon into healing energy, recovering its own wounds and replenishing the Light Element Sprite's stamina.
Some emotions were also turned into dream fuel.
The strength and duration of the Dreamy Jellyfish's dream creation were boosted, and it immediately launched control skills at the Divine General.
One skill after another landed on the Divine General, but they had no effect at all, just like a real Terracotta Warrior.
"Why isn't it affected by crowd control?"
Yun Qingrang's mental state was inevitably starting to crumble.
The Dreamy Jellyfish gave up on crowd control skills and instead began manipulating the Dream Realm Domain to attack the Divine General, trying to suppress the Heart-Confusing Fox.
However, the Divine General rampaged freely within the Dream Realm Domain.
The Light Element Sprite's attack on the Ice Crystal Sparrow was nearing its end.
The Ice Crystal Sparrow's body was no longer transparent, gradually returning to its ice-carved appearance, shimmering with its usual starlight glow.
"It seems you can't outlast me after all!"
Having been replenished by the Dreamy Jellyfish, Zhang Xiaotang was a bit smug and immediately ordered the Light Element Sprite to deliver the final blow.
The Light Element Sprite held its light-forged baton high, gathering a massive amount of light elements to launch a fierce Element Shock.
A thick beam of light blasted into the Ice Crystal Sparrow.
Crack!
A faint shattering sound rang out.
The Ice Crystal Sparrow finally let out a cry of pain.
Its transparent body returned to normal, and it was sent flying by the impact of the light element, barely managing to steady itself in the air.
The Light Element Sprite should have been the victor, but at this moment, it began to twist wildly as if enduring immense pain.
"What's going on?"
Zhang Xiaotang felt the Light Element Sprite's pain. Her face instantly turned pale as she looked at it in confusion and panic.
Bang!
The Light Element Sprite suddenly exploded. The gathered light elements dispersed, leaving only a fist-sized orb of pure light.
Professor Qi Yao was dumbfounded again: "Mirror Heart!"
The Ice Crystal Sparrow had activated its talent, Mirror Heart, reflecting all the damage back to the Light Element Sprite. Even an elemental body couldn't withstand this force, and it was blown into a heavily injured state, unable to fight further.
Zhang Xiaotang opened her mouth, but no sound came out.
She recalled the Light Element Sprite and looked in shock at the Ice Crystal Sparrow, which had only sustained minor scratches, her mind filled with confusion.
She didn't understand how Su Lixia had hidden herself so deeply.
And that Heart-Confusing Fox with the Mimicry talent.
Did these two not even need to fight in the previous matches?
She subconsciously looked at Yue Yun, who was suppressing the Prison-Suppressing Vajra, and the Thunderwing Griffin, which had become a thunderstorm. It seemed that was indeed the case.
"Well, we've been beaten back to our original forms!"
Huo Ying noticed Yun Qingrang and Zhang Xiaotang's predicament and looked helplessly at Jiang Hanqiu: "Boss, how about I withdraw first too, and let you take them all on solo?"
Yue Yun truly lived up to being a humanoid Pet Beast.
Ever since he gained the ultimate move, Thousand Army Parting, which allowed him to transform and recover health, he had been fighting with all his might without holding back.
Even the Prison-Suppressing Vajra had fallen into a disadvantage and was being suppressed by him.
Jiang Hanqiu was also having a bit of a headache now.
"You help me hold off Yue Yun, leave the rest to me!"