Chapter 15: It Turns Out I'm the Unlucky One (Please Follow)
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Farmer (Green)
Challenge Content: Within one week, cultivate a rare-level spiritual material from scratch.
Entry Effect: There is a small chance that the spiritual material you plant will mutate.
"Another almost impossible challenge. To cultivate a rare-level spiritual material within a week, a grass-type spiritual beast is essential, and probably only a high-level cultivator could achieve it, right?"
Besides Spirit Masters, Blue Star has many other professions related to spiritual beasts. Cultivators who focus on planting spiritual materials, Spirit Chefs who specialize in creating cuisine, researchers who focus on developing new moves, Pharmacists who study potions, Mechanics who create Mechanical Spirit Beasts, and so on.
Of course, these special professionals are often Spirit Masters, and only with the help of spiritual beasts can they achieve success in these fields.
"Then I can only choose the Gourmet Tracker challenge."
Culinary-type spiritual beasts are very rare because they are most likely to be born among high-end spiritual materials (ingredients), which are highly coveted by both other spiritual beasts and humans in the wild and in cities.
These high-end spiritual materials are often consumed before they can give birth to spiritual beasts.
However, Chen Mo knows a place where the probability of culinary-type spiritual beasts appearing is definitely high.
That is the Spirit Chef Academy, a place for training Spirit Chefs.
Here, whether teacher or student, most will contract one or several culinary-type spiritual beasts.
Here, it is simply a paradise for food lovers.
Chen Mo searched online and found that Shenghai City did not have a Spirit Chef Academy, but there was a Spirit Chef University in the neighboring Nanluo City—The Food God Spirit Chef University.
"Then I'll compete in the morning and visit the Chef Academy in the afternoon, no training at the Daoist School today."
Chen Mo murmured.
Today is the first day of the fledgling cup preliminary round.
Thinking of the 300,000 prize, he and Xiao Jiu couldn't wait!
The venue for the fledgling cup preliminary is in the Shenghai City Center Arena, one of the largest spiritual beast arenas in Shenghai City.
The arena is located by the sea, shaped like a giant cruise ship, and can accommodate up to 300,000 spectators.
When Chen Mo arrived, he found that the stadium was already crowded. Besides the competitors, many tourists came to watch the matches.
The venue is vast, and it took Chen Mo quite a while to find the registration desk.
At that moment, a long line had already formed at the registration desk, and it seemed everyone had arrived early.
"Let me see your spiritual beast information."
Standing at the end of the line, Chen Mo leisurely took out his Spirit Master Bracelet and began scanning the spiritual beasts of other competitors.
After all, there's nothing better to do.
Xiao Jiu obediently lay in Chen Mo's arms, watching the spiritual beast information displayed on the bracelet with him.
Although it couldn't understand anything except the pictures, this feeling made it feel very warm.
After scanning, Chen Mo discovered that most of the competitors in this round were not very strong, with spiritual beasts below Awakening 5th Rank.
Spiritual beasts at Awakening 7th Rank were considered excellent, and those at the Extraordinary Level were few.
"Let's hope these experts haven't all hidden their spiritual beasts in their Spiritual Space."
"Chirp?" (No way?)
More than half an hour later, it was finally Chen Mo's turn.
"Hello, please give me your Spirit Master Bracelet."
"Okay."
Chen Mo handed the bracelet to the staff. After scanning and confirming the registration information, the staff also said:
"Do you want to start the competition now?"
The fledgling cup is divided into two phases, the preliminary and the main event.
There are 3 rounds in total in the preliminary, and each contestant must win 3 matches in a row to pass the preliminary and enter the top 32.
Luck plays a big part in the preliminary. If your opponents are all Awakening 3rd or 4th Rank participants just there for the tournament atmosphere, you can easily make it to the main event.
Of course, even if your spiritual beast is Transcendent 1-stage, you might still lose if you encounter a spiritual beast at the Extraordinary High Stage.
Additionally, there is no time limit for the preliminary. Once a Spirit Master is present, the system automatically matches them until 3 rounds are completed.
"Yes."
Chen Mo nodded.
"Matching has already begun, and once successful, the match information and opponent's information will be displayed on your trainer's bracelet. Please check it."
In less than a minute, information on Chen Mo's bracelet popped up about his opponent.
[Spirit Master: Gao Fan]
[Spiritual Beast: Swamp Frog]
[Spiritual Beast Growth Level: Awakened 9th Rank]
[Match Venue: Venue 6]
[Match Time: Starts at 9:30 AM, if not arrived within 10 minutes, it is considered a forfeit]
"Jiu Bao, an Awakened 9th Rank opponent, do you have confidence?"
"Chirp!"
With a week of training and mastering several trump cards, Xiao Jiu was full of confidence.
"To be safe, let's eat a few honey milk candies!"
To avoid any mishap, cautious Chen Mo took out dozens of pre-prepared honey milk candies from his pocket.
This wasn't drug use, just a rational use of his Spirit Master talents!
After all, the "Gourmet Enthusiast" entry is just one effect of his Spirit Master talent!
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"Awakening Level 7 Blazing Flame Fox, Lao Gao, your luck isn't bad!"
At the same time, not far from the venue, a buzz-cut young man in a white t-shirt also received his opponent's information.
Seeing Chen Mo's information, his companion patted his shoulder with a smile.
"The preliminary doesn't count. If you continue to encounter such opponents, that's what you call luck."
Lao Gao smiled and scratched his head, not really concerned about the opponent.
His Swamp Frog was Awakened 9th Rank, and it had rich combat experience, coupled with attribute advantages. How could it lose to an Awakening Level 7 Blazing Flame Fox?
When Chen Mo arrived at Venue 6, he found his opponent Gao Fan was already there.
Seeing the pure white Blazing Flame Fox, Gao Fan was amused.
It's even a mixed-blood Blazing Flame Fox, yet someone contracted such a mixed-blood spiritual beast; today's match is sure to be a total crushing.
"Please summon your spiritual beasts!"
Xiao Jiu jumped lightly onto the arena.
These days of rigorous training had left it unfazed.
In front of Gao Fan appeared a light blue Summoning Array, and a sleek, light blue frog-like spiritual beast appeared.
Swamp Frog, Water Element Spiritual Beast, loves moist, sticky environments, often found in swamps.
"Start the match!"
"Swamp Frog, use Water Gun to directly overwhelm the opponent."
Following the referee's command, Gao Fan was poised to have his spiritual beast take down the opponent in one move.
"Use Swift Gale, then Thunderclaw!"
Chen Mo immediately issued his command.
Whoosh!
A stream of purple lightning surfaced beneath the Blazing Flame Fox's paws, suddenly speeding it up to become a white blur, quickly closing the distance while dodging the Swamp Frog's Water Gun.
Hey! Why is a Blazing Flame Fox using Thunder abilities!
Gao Fan was startled, then quickly realized this Blazing Flame Fox was a mutant spiritual beast!
He was careless!
In the next moment, when the Blazing Flame Fox was just inches away from the Swamp Frog, a terrifying electric glow erupted from its forepaws!
Crack!
At the moment its claws struck the Swamp Frog's body, the purple lightning burst out fiercely.
The Swamp Frog was sent flying over ten meters, almost leaving the battlefield and getting knocked out.
But at this moment, it found its body immobile in terror.
It was paralyzed!
"I concede!"
Knowing the outcome was inevitable, Gao Fan conceded decisively.
Today was indeed a crushing match, but his spiritual beast was the one crushed!
His expression was somewhat dejected, though he voiced no complaints.
The Blazing Flame Fox was clearly far superior to the Swamp Frog; turns out, the unlucky one was him!
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