The hotel Fu Erdai chose happened to be near the competition's dormitories.

After the teams got organized, they walked over, taking only a few minutes.

As the host, he certainly wouldn't let everyone down.

The hotel was high-end; you could tell from the decor that only rich people frequented it.

After selecting a spacious private room, everyone took their seats.

"Are we really okay doing this?"

Li Pu had just sat down, and Wu Guinan next to him seemed a bit absent-minded.

Everyone had agreed not to bring their summon beasts to this meal; they were either kept in storage spaces or left in the dorms.

The dormitory area had a special activity zone for summon beasts, and the entire team, except for Chang Shoushang, chose to leave their summon beasts there to roam freely.

"I kind of feel a chill on my head."

Wu Guinan added.

Without the Rolling Turtle on his head, he wasn't used to it.

"Don't worry, just let them stretch a bit, nothing's going to happen."

Jiang Guiju waved her hand, signaling Wu Guinan to relax.

Under her training, Eggshell Beast and Thorn Mouse were well-behaved and not the type to cause trouble.

She believed that with their lead, the other summon beasts would behave too.

"..."

Chang Shoushang wanted to say, "Don't jinx it," but held back out of fear of jinxing it himself.

"Junior, you said before that we should prepare a lot of nurturing materials. Are you planning to help us train?"

Wang Nuonuo looked at Li Pu.

She had vaguely heard that Li Pu was quite adept in nurturing.

"Of course, Senior."

Li Pu nodded with a smile.

In team battles, the rewards for second and third place were also quite substantial.

To achieve good results, naturally, everyone's summon beasts needed to be as high-level as possible.

He never intended to hide his (?).

Moreover, he had recently found out that within the student body, his training level was not unique.

Some senior students in helping to train summon beasts were not necessarily inferior to him.

After all, his edge in this area was just the B-level inscribed tool [Sapience].

Simply relying on a B-level inscribed tool to surpass everyone was impossible.

But it's just that he himself was a nurturing kind of guy, which greatly increased his efficiency.

So before the team competition officially started, Li Pu planned to spend some time trying to raise everyone's summon beast levels as much as possible.

"I've prepared a lot of nurturing materials this time."

Having experienced it before, Jiang Guiju was already looking forward to it.

"I've even prepared reincarnation materials and summoning charms."

Wu Guinan had prepared even more thoroughly.

Only Chang Shoushang wasn't blessed to enjoy this benefit.

Over more than a month since school started, he finally completed the reincarnation of Bite Flower.

However, he unexpectedly gained a rather odd inherent ability.

That is, all future contracts would not successfully summon.

The trade-off is that after a contract, the power would transfer to Bite Flower.

Which means, except for Bite Flower, he could no longer have any other summon beasts. But with the second and third summons, the strength of Bite Flower would be greatly enhanced.

However, this guy still didn't want to leave the storage space, so he couldn't receive Li Pu's training.

"Everyone, by the way, is there any team worth noting in this Southwest Star Cup?"

While Li Pu was casually chatting with Wu Guinan and Fu Erdai, a senior suddenly asked a question at the table.

"Shouldn't the team worth noting be us from Xidu University?"

Someone joked.

"Not necessarily, the guys from Zhongdu University shouldn't be underestimated."

Someone answered seriously.

If there was any university in the surrounding southwest provinces capable of rivaling Xidu University, it would have to be Zhongdu University.

Zhongdu University is also a long-established institution.

But unlike Xidu University, which is completely focused on summoning, it's a comprehensive university, with both summoning and non-summoning majors.

Although compared to the long history of Xidu University, Zhongdu University started its summoning major only 50 years ago, but it has made rapid progress.

In the past decade, it has shown signs of nearly catching up with Xidu University.

"Indeed, I went to Zhongdu University as an exchange student last year and made a few friends."

At this moment, a fourth-year student shared his information.

"Before I came, I looked into it; the level of the students they're sending this time is very high."

"And all of them participated in last year's individual tracks."

"It's said that the average level of the summoned beasts is above LV25."

"Most are 0-turn + 1-turn configurations, and some have 2-turn summoned beasts."

All 0-turn LV25 + 1-turn LV25, this really sounds like quite intimidating information.

Especially the mention of 2-turn summoned beasts left the students from Xidu University in brief silence.

They even doubted if their school's preparations were somewhat insufficient this time.

The reason being, none of their teams could achieve a full team of 0-turn LV25 + 1-turn LV25.

"I heard too, and their selection system is completely different from ours."

Another third-year senior explained.

It turns out that at Xidu University, the emphasis is on student experience.

Although every teacher or club sets various assessments when giving out spots, in general, there's no mandatory requirement on students' strength, level, or other aspects.

The goal is more for students to gain experience and broaden their horizons.

But at Zhongdu, the focus is on results.

Some senior students have even leveled down on purpose to participate in this year's team competition.

That means clearly having completed the 2nd turn but not proceeding to the third contract.

The competition rules state that as long as you don't make a third contract and your age qualifies, no one will stop you from competing even if both of your summoned beasts reach 9 turns.

"It seems Zhongdu University has been planning for a long time."

"Indeed, their team competition results in the past two years have been mediocre."

"So they've been storing up for two or three years, waiting for this moment."

"Then I guess we're the ones in trouble."

"Suddenly, I feel we shouldn't be sitting here eating; we should follow Yi Lunyou and train."

"This dish of orange-fried eggs is pretty good, you should try it."

For a moment, everyone showed some concern.

Only Li Pu remained unfazed, still enjoying his meal, occasionally urging others to try the dishes.

Discussing all this right now didn't really matter.

They'd just see who truly excels when they got onto the battlefield.

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