Beast Taming: the More the Better

Chapter 988 - 413: Qin Xiaoxue’s Full Strength! The Final Battle! (Part 2)

Thinking of this, Su Ping rubbed his temples.

He looked up at the arena.

The six players for the round had already taken their places,

Qu Zhen, Qin Feng, Feng Rong, Xie Qiong, Pan Xiaoyu, An Hong.

These were the six members from the previous top twelve who had been eliminated.

Among these six contestants.

According to Su Ping’s estimation, the two most likely to be eliminated should be An Hong and Feng Rong.

As the fourth seat of Tianfu College, An Hong’s strength was a bit lacking to begin with.

He’d basically ridden his luck to squeeze into the top twelve.

However, if you make top twelve but not top ten, it’s really no different from being in the top twenty.

As for Feng Rong, with Yingling Academy being the last of the Eight Great Beastmaster Academies, he was relatively more restricted.

And his raw strength really was inferior to the others.

No need to say much about Xie Qiong and Pan Xiaoyu: one had a Bone Dragon that had mastered a Super-Rank Skill, the other was only a half-step behind Mu Hanchan.

As for Qu Zhen and Qin Feng, the combat power of their Pet Beasts had also already been verified.

Relatively speaking, although they were excellent, they didn’t have any Super-Rank trump cards, so it was only natural they’d be eliminated.

In fact, it wasn’t unexpected at all.

In the first round, Qu Zhen, Feng Rong, and An Hong all lost to their opponents; Qu Zhen only narrowly lost when facing Qin Feng, and in the subsequent battles, he had an overwhelming advantage when facing those two.

This let this Beastmaster from Tianfu College breathe a sigh of relief, stumbling his way into the top ten.

Although An Hong and Feng Rong were unwilling to accept it, they were weaker and there was nothing they could do.

The top ten meant that after they advanced to Monarch, they would directly receive a Pet Beast cub with Emperor Level potential.

The gap this represented obviously left the two who’d been eliminated extremely dejected.

But there was nothing to be done about it.

No one was going to brood over them, because soon, the battle for the top five—everything before the final—kicked off in the afternoon in full swing.

Compared to the dense rounds in the morning.

The fight for top five only had three Beastmaster matches.

Mu Hanchan, Qin Xiaoxue, Shen Fu.

A round-robin format.

No doubt, just stepping into this next ranking bracket instantly doubled the intensity of the battles.

Qin Xiaoxue vs Shen Fu.

Shen Fu vs Mu Hanchan.

Mu Hanchan vs Qin Xiaoxue.

Three battles—right from the first one, it was Miss Qin’s entrance.

Su Ping perked up and watched carefully.

Once you reach the top five, with Dragon Pets on the line, even if this Shen Fu was the eldest young master of the Shanhe Group and didn’t seem short on money,

Dragons aren’t something you can buy just because you’re rich.

This Young Master Shen really went all out.

Those three Mechanical Pet Beasts he’d played to the extreme really were Firepower Full Throttle.

However, the final result was brutal.

The development of Mechanical System Pet Beasts in Dragon Nation wasn’t exactly blazing fast.

Basically, for some cutting-edge mechanical blueprints, Dragon Nation had previously relied on Meng Huangliang to bring in a few.

Especially those massive mechanical warships that roamed the starry sky.

But when it came to regular combat Mechanical Pet Beasts for civilian use, they were still a bit lacking.

Even though Shanhe Group’s batch of Mechanical Pet Beasts was quite good, especially that Judgement Angel.

It actually had two form modes and styles of combat.

But being weaker in raw strength is still being weaker.

If it had been before yesterday, Shen Fu might still have had some chance of winning,

but after yesterday, with Woodhead naturally Awakening Thorn Garden, and even almost stepping directly into Monarch Level if not for deliberately holding back, there was really nothing he could do in front of that Flower Fairy and Life Ancient Tree.

The loss in the first match seemed to throw Shen Fu off his rhythm.

In the second match against Mu Hanchan, it was still the same outcome.

That’s right—by the time the second battle of this three-match top-five struggle ended, the top five had already been decided.

Shen Fu’s face was pale, full of unwillingness.

At this moment, he tasted the feelings of those previously eliminated,

just one step away, the difference between a regular Emperor Level Pet Beast and a Dragon Pet.

Regular Emperor Level cub Pet Beasts were not something the Shanhe Group couldn’t get.

As the third-generation direct heir of Shanhe Group, that wasn’t a big deal, but Dragons were different.

Still, no matter how much he said, it was useless; losing consecutively to two people basically settled the final result.

It’s just that the last match still had to be fought.

Because aside from the top five, there was also the difference between fourth and fifth place.

That distinction didn’t matter much for top ten or top twenty.

But within the top five, it was extremely crucial, because those five Dragon Pets were chosen based on ranking.

If the Dragon Pet you had your eye on got taken by someone ranked ahead, that’d be a huge loss.

And in this final match of the top five fight, the last two remaining female contestants—both of whom could be called top-tier beauties—instantly pushed the topic meter to the max.

A showdown of Wood Element versus Ice System!

The random map was a snowy plateau.

Clearly, this was a map completely tilted in Mu Hanchan’s favor.

In her previous battles, aside from being helpless against Ye Zhou, Mu Hanchan’s terrifying dominance was enough to inspire confidence.

This time, with a small terrain advantage on top, even before the match started, plenty of people were convinced Mu Hanchan had already locked in fourth place.

However, the final outcome exceeded the expectations of almost everyone except Su Ping.

That’s right, you could basically say Qin Xiaoxue locked in her own fourth place with a refreshingly decisive victory.

Because that Flower Fairy finally made a move.

Life Tide!

This Super-Rank Skill could be viewed under master-level permissions in the Breeder Association; Su Ping naturally knew it well.

And in the Breeder Association’s records, Life Tide was summed up in one sentence.

When this skill is activated, within its range, as long as you’re not dead, you won’t die.

On the surface, that line is full of awkward phrasing and sounds kind of baffling.

But when Qin Xiaoxue had that Flower Fairy unleash it, it vividly proved the gold content of Life Tide as a Super-Rank Skill of the Life Series and Wood Element—one of the strongest combat-type state Skills.

Is Absolute Zero scary?

Of course it is—that’s a terrifying power that can even freeze Energy solid.

The Ice Spirit King, the Cold Wing Golden Eagle, the Snowflake Divine Sword.

Her three Ice System Pet Beasts unleashed unimaginable killing power under Absolute Zero.

Yet once Life Tide was activated.

With Woodhead and the Life Ancient Tree fully restoring all Energy and injuries and breaking free of the frozen state, they finally no longer had to worry about Energy as they recklessly unleashed Jungle Carnival and Thorn Garden, and under that Life Ancient Tree blooming with Death Ripple.

They directly steamrolled Mu Hanchan’s three Pet Beasts and completely defeated them.

Instead of going for "capture the Beastmaster first to catch the bandits," they fought head-on on the battlefield, tanking Absolute Zero in a fully unleashed brawl.

This scene made Miss Qin’s momentum explode to its peak at that moment.

At the same time, a chorus of unusual voices rose:

"Why didn’t Qin Xiaoxue let the Flower Fairy use Life Tide yesterday?"

"Isn’t that just letting Su Ping walk straight into the top three? What’s up with these two?"

"Cheating! This is straight-up cheating! If you ask me, even if Qin Xiaoxue went up against Chen Zhan’s Wind Dragon, she might not necessarily lose!"

"+1. Shen Fu and Chen Zhan traded blows for so long, and while Qin Xiaoxue did have to work a bit, she still beat Shen Fu pretty easily. Qin Xiaoxue totally has top-three strength."

"Bah! I object!"

"Object to what? They’re a perfect match, a talented man and a beautiful woman—since when is it your turn, you weirdo, to object?"

"Can’t it be that Qin Xiaoxue judged that even if she activated Life Tide, she still couldn’t break through Su Shen’s Green Demon Wolf? There was still a minute left then; that Paperman would’ve been able to move, right?"

"Exactly, a bunch of people are just sour over my hubby. Who knows what Qin Xiaoxue was thinking—maybe she did it on purpose to get his attention."

"..."

Clearly, this final battle for the top five set off a storm of discussion.

Especially after the Wolf King battle yesterday, once the Flower Fairy’s strength exploded and Life Tide stunned the entire arena, it was even more so.

Still, spats and flame wars like this are always around.

And better yet, after a short one-hour break, as the setting sun slowly tilted toward the west.

The final, headlining battle for the top three was finally about to determine the rankings.

And the first one to take the stage was Su Ping, who’d briefly been at the eye of the storm.

The first match to decide the final top-three ranking:

Su Ping vs Chen Zhan!