Chapter 3930 — The Outcome Is Settled?
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Without lifting a finger, he had merely drawn a lot and sailed smoothly into the next round, and on top of that had pocketed a free ten points. For a moment, every newcomer's gaze toward Wei Zhao was filled with envy.
"What goddamned dog-shit luck. To think he'd run into something like this—it's enough to make you see ghosts!" Meng Zhou stood rigid, unable to stop himself from cursing under his breath.
In his eyes, that stupid pig of Wei Zhao's might have a terrifyingly high level, but its true strength was no match for any combat-type spirit pet present. After all, once spirit beasts were bound into spirit pets, suppression by rank and aura between them no longer had any effect. A Heaven Thunder Pig, a spirit beast that couldn't fight, might be as high-level as could be—but once it stepped onto the arena, it was still trash.
Who would have thought that in the first round Wei Zhao would draw such a perfect cherry of a match, and riding the coattails of that weakling Zha Wu, advance directly. The very thought of it left a knot of frustration in one's chest.
But then Meng Zhou reconsidered. So much the better, he told himself—best if the next round's draw pits him against this lord. Then he'd have the Blackback Staff Ape tear that stupid *pig to pieces on the spot, and make that grandstanding boss spew blood for once!
Of the sixteen newcomers of Azure Cloud Pavilion, four—Zha Wu among them—had failed to subdue a spirit pet. So by the law of probability, in the eight first-round matchups there was a theoretical possibility that two people without spirit pets would be pitted against each other, and how to arrange things then would have been rather awkward.
Yet whether by the referee's deliberate arrangement or by the will of heaven, no such awkward matchup of two of those four came to pass in the first round's eight matches. Four of the eight, Wei Zhao's among them, were direct byes.
Wei Zhao, Xiao Che, Li Zhengming, and another newcomer of middling strength were all beneficiaries of the first round. That is to say, although there were eight matchups in the first round, only four were actually fought out in blood and sweat.
And of those four, apart from Meng Zhou's Blackback Staff Ape's easy crushing of its opponent to advance, another matchup proved a regular clash of titans, full of interest—the focal battle of the first round.
The two sides were Murong Zhen's Butterfly Queen and Qiao Hongcai's Ghost-Eyed Golden Eagle.
The Butterfly Queen's strength was beyond doubt. A mid-Heaven-rank level placed it easily among the top three spirit pets present—and besides, the numbness and stiffness afflicting everyone including Meng Jueming was all thanks to it.
On the other side, Qiao Hongcai's Ghost-Eyed Golden Eagle was likewise no easy foe, and could be counted the spirit pet with the greatest potential in the whole assembly. Though still only a fledgling, its strength had already reached the early Heaven rank, and it belonged to a race born to fight. Its ferocity in battle was by no means to be taken lightly.
Such a clash of two mighty spirit pets would have been worthy of the grand finale, yet here they were meeting already in the first round—truly beyond anyone's expectation.
Had they not been frozen stiff by paralysis, the Azure Cloud Pavilion newcomers would long since have been crying out in astonishment, rubbing their hands in eager anticipation of this rare spectacle. Unfortunately, it now took them the strength of nine oxen and two tigers merely to turn their heads; to watch, they could only strain their eyes sideways, all wearing the bitter expressions of wronged wives.
Even as they spoke, the Butterfly Queen and the Ghost-Eyed Golden Eagle had both soared into the air, each on guard against the other, circling up into the sky.