Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 1170 - 1171: Admit Weakness

"Watching that self-proclaimed superb fellow struggle under one’s hands is quite an amusing entertainment."

Veronia glanced at Agunas, who slightly moved his fingers and held his head high, flicked her tail, and Agunas didn’t want to say anything. These two were dead set on bullying the weak, and there was nothing he could do about it.

Gently pulling on the black longbow in his hand, Feng Yuan looked at the spirited Xiao Ji, gently patted Xiao Ji’s head, and with a troubled expression said,

"Why do you enjoy fighting so much? Isn’t a carefree life much better?"

Although he said this, if Xiao Ji truly never trained, Feng Yuan figured he would still have to find a way to drag it to training. There was no helping it, although he didn’t like a life of constant training, he couldn’t let Xiao Ji fall too far behind in combat ability either. Agunas glanced at Feng Yuan without explanation; if it weren’t for him, Xiao Ji wouldn’t be so enthusiastic about fighting, but it was better to let him realize this on his own.

"Please go easy, I don’t want to end up like Wu Qi, without even a chance to receive feedback."

As soon as he entered the arena and saw Feng Yuan, the well-dressed young man bowed gracefully and slowly said, Feng Yuan looked at the young man in surprise and said,

"You... shouldn’t you start with taunting me?"

Looking at Feng Yuan, the young man said with a bitter smile,

"Do we look that foolish? At the very least, we’ve looked into your background."

He wasn’t worried that saying this would displease Feng Yuan. Although their research wasn’t as thorough as Great Xia’s official studies on Feng Yuan, putting themselves in his position, they believed they wouldn’t mind it too much either. Seeing how openly and straightforwardly he said it, Feng Yuan chuckled and gently stroked Xiao Ji’s back, saying,

"There’s no way I’m going to let you win easily, it wouldn’t agree to it, look at its stance."

Xiao Ji turned its head to look at Feng Yuan; if he truly wished for it, it could... go easy.

"That’s not what I said. A victory gained by kneeling and begging doesn’t make me happy at all; I only wish that you would go easy, don’t eliminate me in one move."

The young man explained with a smile, the teachers from Shangjing Academy frowned slightly, but soon, most of them understood his approach. There was no helping it, even they weren’t arrogant enough to think they could easily defeat Feng Yuan.

His strength was simply too formidable, even if the odd Spirit Beast wasn’t considered, his own strength might not be worse than theirs. At this point, they also couldn’t figure out who was holding back whom between him and that eagle-shaped Spirit Beast. Facing such a formidable opponent, they didn’t think there was anything wrong with what the young man said.

After all, this was a coaching match, not a ranking match. Coaching is the most important reward, maybe Feng Yuan doesn’t care, but they were very pleased with the young man’s attitude. Even if it might not be needed, it showed their consideration, and if he was to be defeated in one move by Feng Yuan, they wouldn’t be able to pinpoint any flaws in his taming.

Not everyone has Guo Huai’s system, even though it doesn’t do much other than providing a bunch of ambiguous information, it does have a special ability to discern the state of Spirit Beasts. Although limited by occasionally grossly inaccurate data due to those questionable sources, the system does possess the ability to discern most of the states of Spirit Beasts based on data from its database, whether it’s a training flaw or something else.

"Don’t worry, it doesn’t have the ability to take you out in one hit. You really have that little faith in your own strengths?"

Gently pulling on the black longbow, Feng Yuan said with a smile, looking at Feng Yuan, the young man sighed and said,

"My confidence isn’t lacking in your strength... I just have no idea how strong you could possibly be..."

Although in the eyes of ordinary people, Feng Yuan is involved in incidents by relying on his friends, those Divine Beasts, these people all knew, if he himself didn’t possess the capabilities, those Divine Beasts, no matter how good their relationship, wouldn’t allow him to participate in actions, having to look out for him and ensuring his safety from time to time? They wouldn’t do such a thing either.

"I can only... give it my all."

The boy said, his gaze on Feng Yuan sharpening. Despite appearing pleading before the start, he wouldn’t place everything on the opponent’s thoughts. To give it his all; even if he failed, he would have no regrets.

"Really... it makes me seem like the bad guy..."

Scratching the back of his head, Feng Yuan said somewhat awkwardly. As the referee signaled the start, the competition began, with Xiao Ji taking to the skies first. Though the space wasn’t very high, it was still enough for Xiao Ji to barely fly. Holding a longbow, Feng Yuan suddenly leaped up.

Three small black shields combined below into a large shield, and a huge metallic crash sounded as a metallic-looking vine hit the large shield.

"Tsk! How cunning..."

Stepping on a small shield, Feng Yuan leapt up a short distance again, pulling the black longbow, and ignoring the boy who was making evasive movements while also using the strength of the small tree turtle for defense, Feng Yuan let go, sending black energy arrows barraging towards the small tree turtle.

He was confident that he did not need to turn it into a grand battle targeting Beastmasters like Qi Chen. He found that boy quite interesting; letting him have a slight advantage wasn’t a big deal, moreover, Xiao Ji wouldn’t like it.

Although he was still unclear why Xiao Ji enjoyed battling so much, he vaguely sensed that Xiao Ji wasn’t absolutely pursuing victory; it seemed to enjoy the feeling of fighting alongside him. If that was the case, then they might as well have a good fight, Feng Yuan thought as he leaped back to dodge several splinters of wood hurtling towards him.

"Don’t dive!"

Seeing the pale blue flames lighting up on Xiao Ji, Feng Yuan reminded, not forgetting that the small tree turtle’s attributes were Earth plus Wood. The Wood Attribute comes from the little sapling on the back of its turtle-shaped body, while the Earth System power originated from its turtle-like main body.

Xiao Ji was now flying in the air, Earth System ultimate moves were tough to aim at the opponent unless it was an indiscriminate wide-range attack, thus lower stage Earth System ultimate moves mostly couldn’t handle the agile Xiao Ji in the air.

Hearing Feng Yuan’s words, Xiao Ji cried out longly, its body’s pale blue flames plunging towards the ground. Rings of giant boulders rose from the Earth and trapped the eagle shadow of the pale blue flames, the flames slowly extinguishing; Xiao Ji in the air flapped its wings, causing a storm, the pale blue flames mixing with the storm added a hint of pale blue luminescence to it.

"What a pity..."

The boy said in a low voice, somewhat regretfully. Just now, the pale blue flame’s eagle shadow had dived towards the small tree turtle, but the opponent, caught off guard, had instantly released the previously set Earth Prison. Although it could be reset, since it had been discovered, he believed that the eagle-shaped Spirit Beast in the sky definitely would not fall for it again.

"Don’t want it to turn into a battle targeting Beastmasters?"

Looking at Feng Yuan, who landed on the ground, the boy murmured to himself, shifting his targeting arrow from Feng Yuan to Xiao Ji. He had his own pride; since Feng Yuan himself chose not to actively attack Beastmasters—a rule not established by the rules—he naturally could abide by that unspoken agreement as well. Victory might be impossible, but he could follow the same principle as his opponent.

Vines gathered beneath him. The small tree turtle supporting a green Energy Barrier and raising several massive stone pillars on the ground to mitigate the impact of Xiao Ji’s storm couldn’t support him. However, because Feng Yuan would not attack him directly, he didn’t have to worry about a sneak attack from Feng Yuan.

Noticing the boy’s moves, Feng Yuan’s lips slightly curled up, and he turned his black longbow towards the sky, with three black energy arrows appearing on the longbow.

"What is he planning to do?"

Qi Chen, noticing Feng Yuan’s actions, felt puzzled. Both the boy and the small tree turtle were not in the air; even if it were Arrow Rain, it wouldn’t be about shooting arrows up into the sky unless he intended to initiate the Arrow Rain centered on himself. He didn’t believe Feng Yuan was planning to backstab Xiao Ji; aside from the fact that Xiao Ji’s own power couldn’t hurt him, although Feng Yuan sometimes annoyed Xiao Ji, he had never targeted it, or even his own Spirit Beast, like that.