Chapter 3927 — Li Zhengming's Spirit Beast
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In an instant, the way everyone looked at Li Zhengming changed. The mockery and jeers turned to envy and awe.
A rare spirit beast like the Ghost Tiger truly deserves the saying "encountered by chance, never sought by design." Anyone else present, even if they ran into one, would not even notice it, let alone subdue it.
"How is that possible? Where did you get a spirit-pet talisman?" Meng Zhou's face was full of disbelief, and for a moment he stared at the Ghost Tiger, murmuring in a daze.
"Sorry, that's classified," Li Zhengming said with a curl of his lip and a smile. He snapped his fingers, and the Ghost Tiger vanished into thin air once more before everyone's eyes.
It must have been a spirit-pet talisman snatched from these useless wretches!
Meng Zhou glared viciously at the four newcomers beside him. All four had failed to subdue a spirit pet; if Li Zhengming had managed to luck into subduing a Ghost Tiger, the spirit-pet talisman must have come from the hands of these four idiots. A pack of trash!
Little did he know, Li Zhengming's spirit-pet talisman had not been taken from any of these people at all—it had come from Wei Zhao.
During the month-long expedition to the outer reaches of the back mountain, Wei Zhao had not run into Xiao Che and Qiao Hongcai, the two who had been so eager to find him. Instead, he had encountered Li Zhengming. Upon learning of Li Zhengming's plight, Wei Zhao had produced his own spirit-pet talisman without a second thought, which moved Li Zhengming deeply.
More than that, even Li Zhengming's success in subduing the Ghost Tiger had been thanks to Wei Zhao's help. Otherwise, relying on himself alone, even if he could detect the Ghost Tiger's presence, he would have had no ability to capture and subdue it. Not that there was absolutely no chance, but at the very least it would have been exceedingly difficult.
In all this, Wei Zhao and Shangguan Lan'er had contributed no small effort.
"Hmph, what's there to be so proud of? So it can turn invisible—so what? It's only at the early Heaven Rank, nowhere near a match for my Blackback Staff Ape!" Meng Zhou scoffed, craning his neck.
Rare as the Ghost Tiger's racial gift may be, its own strength is generally not very high. The one Li Zhengming had subdued, for instance, was currently only at the early Heaven Rank—a spirit beast that might be described as sufficient for self-preservation but wanting in offense.
"Doesn't matter. If it can't win, it can't win. I didn't subdue it to play with a staff," Li Zhengming said, his words barbed.
A spirit beast like the Ghost Tiger is the quintessential example of a gift that outstrips its strength. Even if its power is not formidable, its invisibility gift alone makes its utility utterly extraordinary. It is no exaggeration to say that this is a strategic spirit pet of the rarest kind.
So even if it was no match for the Blackback Staff Ape at present, its value far exceeded that of a mere monkey that could do nothing but twirl a staff.
Meng Zhou knew this perfectly well himself—which was exactly why he was so frantic to save face. But Li Zhengming's retort left him choked, unable to utter a word for a long while.
Just then, several figures came walking slowly from the distance, instantly drawing the newcomers' attention. They were none other than Wei Zhao and his companions.
At the sight of the spirit pets trailing behind the three of them, the whole crowd erupted in an uproar. The newcomers whispered among themselves, buzzing with discussion.
Above the three of them, neither too high nor too low, flew a bird-type spirit beast. Anyone with a keen eye could easily recognize it: this was a Ghost-Eye Golden Eagle chick! R1152