"Ye Bai's Thousand-Change Silkworm has extremely strong defense, passed the exam."
"Next, who's up?"
The classmates were eager to try, gearing up, and summoned their Pet Beasts. They also wanted to show off in front of everyone.
The Pet Beasts summoned by the students present were mostly similar to Hedgehog Pig, Boxing Rabbit, and Hundred-Change Silkworm.
Among them were also less common ones like Poison Fang, Fluorescent Jellyfish, etc.
Fluorescent Jellyfish is a rare Pet Beast. It has five tentacles and can emit a strong light.
Moreover, based on its mood, its body color changes.
When happy, it's green, and when it's happy, it particularly likes staying on the Pet Beast Master's head.
This has been made into jokes online, humorously referred to as 'happily receiving a green hat.'
And the Pet Beast Master of this Fluorescent Jellyfish is a cool and handsome hip-hop girl student.
It's said she just transferred to Shen Mountain Middle School from another school.
"Teacher, let me go first."
"My Hundred-Change Silkworm's defense is also quite impressive."
"It's not worse than Ye Bai's Pet Beast."
One person raised his hand to indicate his desire to show off his Hundred-Change Silkworm, to establish himself as the top student in the class.
He found out that Ye Bai usually kept to himself and rarely participated in class activities.
So Ye Bai wouldn't compete with him for the top spot in the class.
"Sure, Wang Hu, come on up."
Wang Hu was a boy with a buzz cut, looking thick-browed and big-eyed.
His Hundred-Change Silkworm had a sharp gleam in its eye, unlike Ye Bai's Silkworm, which liked to mooch around for food and drink, clearly showing the style of a seasoned fighter.
Wang Hu slightly raised the corners of his mouth and said loudly, "My name is Wang Hu. My talent is C-level Defense Enhancement, which can increase the pet beast's defense several times."
"Go ahead, Hundred-Change Silkworm, use Hardening to boost your defense."
As streaks of white light appeared on the Hundred-Change Silkworm, just as it was about to complete its enhancement, the white light intensified several times.
This was Wang Hu's talent kicking in.
Pet Beast Masters can amplify their beasts through contracts.
Everyone nodded, thinking this guy should be reliable.
It seems he will easily pass the examination.
Zhang Lingxue raised an eyebrow. Oh, this guy can't possibly think that the Vine Cat's attack is easy to block, right?
The talent of Defense Enhancement also has to be at a high level to be effective, the higher the level, the more apparent the strengthening.
Just like Wang Hu's small Karami Hundred-Change Silkworm, even if you fully stack the enhancements, it can't withstand a casual strike from Vine Cat.
This is the gap in levels.
"Vine Cat, shoot the seed."
The emerald green light flashed by, and the once confident Hundred-Change Silkworm displayed a look of horror on its face.
It's going to split open.
The attack of this level is something a little silkworm like it cannot handle.
Judging by the full, even, and vast energy emitted from this seed, it can't hold on, really can't hold on, my lord, I truly can't hold on.
Pet Beast Master, why are you putting me in this situation!
Beads of sweat started to form on the Hundred-Change Silkworm's forehead.
It's just a baby, why does it have to bear the weight of life?
At this moment, Wang Hu was still beside it, cheering it on.
"Hundred-Change Silkworm, you can do it, cheer up!"
The Hundred-Change Silkworm's forehead perspired heavily.
The pupils dilated rapidly.
Cheer up, my foot! Don't put this old man on the fire, having a contract with you is the worst luck in eight hundred lifetimes!
The shooting seed turned into a stream of light, everyone couldn't help but sweat in their palms. From Wang Hu's look of sheer confidence, it seemed the Hundred-Change Silkworm should handle it.
Little did they know, the light ball hit the Hundred-Change Silkworm.
With a bang, the Hundred-Change Silkworm's body drew a perfect parabolic trajectory in the air like a baseball.
It fell from the sky like a ragged bag, rolling several times on the ground.
The Hundred-Change Silkworm was covered in dust, with multiple wounds on its body.
The whole place fell silent.
Wang Defa.
Is this shooting seed skill really that terrifying?
Then why did Ye Bai's Pet Beast handle it so easily?
At this moment, everyone suddenly realized that the defense of the Thousand-Change Silkworm was even more incredible than they had imagined.
Zhang Lingxue said to Wang Hu, "Quickly return your Hundred-Change Silkworm to the Pet Beast Space; the Pet Beast Space can help it recover quickly."
Wang Hu waved his hand, a vortex appeared on the ground, pulling the Hundred-Change Silkworm back.
At this time, the Thousand-Change Silkworm was sitting beside Li Chen, munching on a carrot cheerfully.
Its face was beaming with happiness, almost overflowing.
The currently cheeky Thousand-Change Silkworm looked somewhat cute to the female classmates.
"Wang Hu, nice defense, you passed the exam."
Zhang Lingxue disinterestedly ticked a mark on the examination sheet.
Wang Hu walked down with a black face, giving Ye Bai a fierce glare as he passed by him.
Ye Bai knew Wang Hu resented him now.
Wang Hu's Hundred-Change Silkworm and Defense Enhancement talent, when combined, did indeed have good defense.
But with the Thousand-Change Silkworm's brilliant performance before, Wang Hu's Hundred-Change Silkworm paled in comparison.
Sure enough, in the exams that followed, everyone's Pet Beasts suffered minor injuries.
Only the girl contracted to the Fluorescent Jellyfish and Li Chen's Boxing Rabbit managed to withstand the attack.
This caught Ye Bai's attention.
To participate in the Phoenix Cup, you need a team of three; relying on one person alone would be too difficult.
So Ye Bai decided to pick his teammates.
"Alright, the exam concludes here."
"Next, when you go back, make sure to practice diligently."
"You need to manage your relationship with your Pet Beast well."
"Pet Beasts are our friends, not our enemies."
"Ye Bai, stay behind."
"The rest of you are dismissed."
Ye Bai was quite curious about why Zhang Lingxue wanted him to stay behind.
He just happened to see his Thousand-Change Silkworm joyfully hopping away with Li Chen.
Ye Bai's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but clench his fists.
"You little scoundrel, come back here!"
The Thousand-Change Silkworm ignored him, happily trotting along behind.
Ye Bai clenched his fingers; it seemed he'd have to resort to his trump card.
A huge vortex appeared behind the Thousand-Change Silkworm. Decidedly hopping, it suddenly felt a strong pull from behind.
With tears in its eyes, it looked at Li Chen's departing figure, crying out in despair.
Its cry was ear-piercing, making listeners shed tears and viewers feel heartbroken.
Like Romeo losing Juliet.
Like a salt soda without the salt.
Ye Bai maintained a calm demeanor, forcibly summoning the Thousand-Change Silkworm back.
The Thousand-Change Silkworm had become too accustomed to the wild, given a stick, it'd climb up it.
It needed a profound lesson.
"Ye Bai, I've recently been working on a reproducibility experiment with Hundred-Change Silkworms."
"I need someone to help."
"I hope you can come with me to the research institute to assist me temporarily."
Ye Bai nodded, just as he wanted to learn about Pet Beast Cultivation in this manner to gain more confidence for the future Young Qilin Cup.
Without further delay, Zhang Lingxue took Ye Bai to her research lab.