The Banana Elephant is considered a very affordable and cheap pet beast. In Xiangdu, known as the Yoga Capital and the City of Elephants, you can buy a Banana Elephant calf for 500,000 Alliance Coins. Even if you purchase it across cities, as long as it's within cities in the eastern hemisphere, you can get a Banana Elephant calf for just 5 million.

Li Cunxu gave it a little thought and abandoned the idea of buying a Banana Elephant as a sparring partner.

The reason being that the Blood Lotus Carp grows too fast.

If you buy a Silver-grade Banana Elephant, at the growth rate of the Blood Lotus Carp, it will soon break through to Gold grade, and the Silver-grade Banana Elephant will be useless.

Purchasing a Gold-grade Banana Elephant is too costly; one Gold-grade Banana Elephant can buy five hundred Silver-grade Banana Elephants.

The potential limit of the Banana Elephant tribe is usually at the Silver level, and breaking through to Gold level under normal circumstances is extremely difficult unless it consumes precious natural resources to enhance its potential and alter its aptitude.

The fifth round.

Li Pingxue once again summoned an elephant.

Iron Spike Elephant.

Metal type, Silver nine.

The Iron Spike Elephant is covered in an iron-grey color, its body full of iron spikes like thorns.

"The battle begins."

The Iron Spike Elephant needed no command; it was as if the instinct was engraved in its bones. As soon as the referee gave the word, it started to set up the arena.

Metal Terrain: Land of Golden Sharpness.

The Land of Golden Sharpness generates a sharp metallic energy that enhances the damage of metal-type skills.

The Iron Spike Elephant set up the terrain very quickly, faster than the previous elephants.

In less than half a second, the golden aura spread like a dense fog, quickly covering the entire field.

Li Cunxu felt slightly uncomfortable as the air infused with the sharp metallic energy became extremely piercing. When a gentle breeze blew, it felt like blades were cutting against his skin, and with each breath, it felt as though his lungs were being sliced by knives.

Li Pingxue: "Iron Spike Elephant, Iron Pounds, full force attack, don't give it a chance to wear us down."

Like a locomotive pulling a thousand-ton weight, it charged with tremendous force; the Blood Lotus Carp braced with a Dragon Scale Shield and a Constant Light Armor, a double-layer defense standing in its way.

At the moment of contact between the Dragon Scale Shield and the Iron Spike Elephant, the Dragon Scale Shield shattered like tiles, and the Constant Light Armor broke like tofu. The Blood Lotus Carp was sent flying, crashing into the protective wall like a cannonball, causing spider-web-like cracks to spread.

The crowd was somewhat surprised, as the protective wall was built with ink crystal stone, capable of withstanding a full Silver-grade hit without breaking. Yet now, the ink crystal stone had cracked, indicating that the Iron Spike Elephant's strike possessed a level of power akin to Gold-grade.

What surprised everyone even more was the Blood Lotus Carp; despite being hit by a Gold-grade strength skill, the protective Deathless White Light that determines the match outcome had yet to break.

The white light remained unbroken, but the Blood Lotus Carp was not far from defeat, lacking the strength to even get up from the ground.

Li Cunxu raised his hand, saying, "I concede."

The emergency team quickly carried the stretcher, taking the Blood Lotus Carp away for treatment.

In fact, the Blood Lotus Carp's miserable defeat was within Li Cunxu's expectations and was also the result he desired; he needed a loss to educate its arrogance.

Teaching through words can be ineffective, but experiences are lessons readily learned.

The Blood Lotus Carp's established combat system had a significant flaw: it lacked a defensive skill to withstand a one-hit kill technique.

But learning such defensive skills wasn't very cost-effective for the Blood Lotus Carp. With the time spent practicing skills, it could raise its level several ranks, thereby enhancing its defense along with its elevated level.

So, Li Cunxu didn't deliberately correct this flaw.

This flaw was manageable, but the next one was problematic.

As everyone knows, dragon pets tend to be arrogant, and the self-disciplined Blood Lotus Carp was no exception.

The Blood Lotus Carp's arrogance lay in its self-conceit, thinking its defense was extremely strong.

Li Cunxu repeatedly advised the Blood Lotus Carp that when facing an opponent's skills, it shouldn't just take them head-on; it needed to learn to dodge.

Relying on the innate defense of a dragon pet, the Constant Light Armor skill of a holy beast, and the growth trait of becoming stronger by being beaten, the Blood Lotus Carp ignored Li Cunxu's advice as an old-timer.

The Blood Lotus Carp showed signs of not listening to its Beast Master, which wasn't a good sign. If not corrected promptly, its arrogance would only grow, thinking it didn't need the Beast Master's guidance to defeat enemies, eventually not needing or listening to the Beast Master at all.

It's why many Beast Masters who raise dragons end up parting ways with their beloved dragon pets—because they failed to curb the dragon pet's arrogance when it was young.

It's like training a dog: if a puppy bites someone and you don't correct it but continue to spoil it, the dog will become increasingly unruly, biting everyone, even you won't be an exception.

"Hopefully, this miserable defeat will make the Blood Lotus Carp acknowledge its shortcomings."

Li Pingxue had brushed off her depression after beating Li Cunxu in one round.

She had almost thought she would be completely defeated with a 0-6 score.

"Let's go again."

Li Pingxue's spirits were high, her face animated with joy.

Li Cunxu smiled slightly, and Li Pingxue suddenly felt a chill in her heart.

The battle was concluding; Li Cunxu had no further interest in continuing.

The battles with Li Pingxue were merely to train his pet beasts' combat awareness.

The ones that needed training had already participated; the Mechanical Pupil and the pony Xiaoguang lacked sufficient rank, the gap was too vast, so fighting them wouldn't yield effective training.

Hence, there was no reason to continue the match.

It was time to end.

"Xiaoruan, come out."

A soft, cute water-blue Slime was summoned from the Beast Taming Space.

Students from other schools were totally perplexed.

"What on earth is this guy doing, summoning a Slime?"

"Can a Slime, such a useless pet beast, be used in a battle? Is he joking?"

But those from the same school were visibly excited.

"Oh, oh, that abnormal Slime is about to be unleashed to torment people?"

Li Pingxue was full of confusion and said, "Cunxu brother, why did you contract a Slime? And why are you bringing it out to fight, are you trying to be funny?"

Li Cunxu replied, "You really don't understand me at all! Xiaoruan is my strongest pet beast."

"It? Strongest?"

Li Cunxu couldn't be bothered to explain; every time he did, nobody believed him after explaining for ages, so he'd rather prove it with battle.

"There's no point in talking, let's begin, referee."

The referee declared, "The battle begins."

Li Pingxue had occupied the field five times, and now it was Li Cunxu's turn.

Li Cunxu softly said, "Land of Myriad Phenomena."

Xiaoruan's Land of Myriad Phenomena took over the Land of Golden Sharpness in an instant. The Iron Spike Elephant tried to regain it, but to no avail.

The quality of the Land of Myriad Phenomena is above that of the Land of Golden Sharpness, and Xiaoruan's mastery skill level of the Land of Myriad Phenomena was also higher than that of the Iron Spike Elephant's Land of Golden Sharpness.

No matter how hard the Iron Spike Elephant tried, it couldn't reclaim the terrain.

Li Cunxu noticed that Xiaoruan mastered the Land of Myriad Phenomena skill incredibly fast, but it mastered other skills just as slowly as before.

Li Cunxu suspected that this skill might be related to attributes; the more attributes it has, the faster it masters the skill proficiency.

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