The Ice and Fire Sword Rider's dual attributes of ice and fire coincidentally countered the wood element perfectly.

Ice freezes trees to death, and fire burns them to ashes.

"Your Cyan Lotus Sword Blade is completely useless against me," Zhang Shuihuo said calmly.

Li Cunxu smiled slightly, showing excellent acting skills. If he didn't know that the skills of the sword-breaking series consumed a lot, he might actually have been bluffed.

"Xiaoruan, continue."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Shuihuo maintained a calm expression, but his tightly clenched fists were sweaty.

Xiaoruan once again used the Cyan Lotus Sword Blade; the Ice and Fire Sword Rider crossed its Fire-Breaking Sword and Ice-Breaking Sword in a cross pattern to block.

From the chilling aura of the Ice Sword and the flames of the Fire Sword, it was apparent the Ice and Fire Sword Rider's spiritual energy was depleting.

In the process of countering the Cyan Lotus Sword Blade, the Ice and Fire Sword Rider was forced to step back.

Li Cunxu contemplated; not only was the spiritual energy nearly exhausted, but their physical strength was heavily drained as well.

Yet another Cyan Lotus Sword Blade struck, and the Ice and Fire Sword Rider was powerless to resist; the Deathless White Light that protected its life shattered into triangular light shards as it was swept away by the Cyan Lotus Sword Blade.

"I lost."

Zhang Shuihuo sighed slightly.

The commentator exclaimed, "Water Slime has defeated the Ice and Fire Sword Rider, oh my! The Ice and Fire Sword Rider endured three strikes of the Cyan Lotus Sword Blade, but Water Slime is even more terrifying; it unleashed four Cyan Lotus Sword Blades. As far as I know, the Cyan Lotus Sword Blade is a skill that consumes a lot of spiritual energy. Is this Water Slime's spiritual energy pool an ocean?"

Half an hour later, under the recovery of the medical team, Li Cunxu and Xiaoruan had fully recovered from their spiritual energy injuries.

The opponent in the second round was a young girl from the Celestial Eye Yang Family, Yang Meixin.

Her pet beast was a Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey.

The ultimate evolutionary form of the Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey was the Three-Eyed Saint Monkey, which was a sacred beast. However, currently, the Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey lacked sacred attributes and didn't count as a sacred beast.

The Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey had a blue face, a large protruding mouth, highly regressed nostrils, thick lips, no cheek pouches, and a third golden eye on its forehead. The fur on its back was long and shiny, colored cyan, with the head, neck, shoulders, upper arms, back, and tail having gray-black fur; the side of the head, neck, torso's underside, and inner limbs had brown-yellow fur.

It looked like a refined standing version of the golden monkey.

"Little monkey, the Slime on the other side is very strong, be careful."

The Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey patted its chest.

"Ji ji~ (Leave it to me! I have grasped the key to victory.)"

"The battle begins."

With a call from the referee, the Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey initiated its skill.

Skill Sealing.

The Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey made an X gesture, directly sealing Xiaoruan's Cyan Lotus Sword Blade.

At the same time, the third eye on Yang Meixin's forehead opened, releasing Celestial Eye Golden Light towards Li Cunxu, with a beam of golden light shooting from the eye.

To prevent being ambushed, Li Cunxu threw ten water balls, lining them up to block the path of the Celestial Eye Golden Light.

Water can refract light, and Yang Meixin's Celestial Eye Golden Light wasn't strong enough; the light-destroying Celestial Eye Golden Light that could penetrate stone was easily deflected this way.

The little girl stomped her feet in anger.

Li Cunxu dodging the Celestial Eye Golden Light didn't anger her as much as resolving it using water balls, a weak skill rarely seen in competitions, didn't this imply her Celestial Eye Golden Light was inferior to water balls.

"Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey, use Spiritual Needles."

An invisible spiritual power gathered into a spiraling needle, targeting Xiaoruan.

Li Cunxu raised an eyebrow; Xiaoruan had no spiritual defense skill, unable to block it.

"Xiaoruan, dig and hide underground."

Xiaoruan spit out a pickaxe, grasped it, and quickly dug a hole.

The Spiritual Needle struck nothing but air.

"Should have used Spiritual Thread, the needle's wind-up is too long, giving him time to react."

Yang Meixin's third eye could track Xiaoruan through layers of soil.

"X-ray vision, how enviable!"

But unfortunately, it wasn't of much utility.

Modern clothes and buildings are fitted with anti-x-ray material, unable to see through others' clothing.

Yang Meixin was in a difficult spot; the Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey had no skill to target underground.

"In that case, Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey, enhance yourself with the Spirit Monkey Dance."

Spirit Monkey Dance, a spiritual system Silver skill, exclusive for monkey species, greatly boosts spiritual power.

Li Cunxu shook his head, the little girl was still too inexperienced; if the Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey couldn't hit the underground Xiaoruan, could it not hit the Beast Master standing above ground?

After Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey danced for three rounds, stacking buffs.

By this time, Xiaoruan had already positioned itself underground, ready to burst forth with stored energy.

Li Cunxu shouted loudly, "Ultimate Blast."

Yang Meixin warned, "Watch out, Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey, it's right under your feet."

Xiaoruan emerged from the ground, surrounded by a sudden burst of bright white light, like a missile charging forth, protected by dual layers of metal and light armor against the recoil damage.

The Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey cast a spiritual power shield; under such overwhelming force, it was as fragile as paper.

The gust howled and struck the Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey in the stomach, causing it to fly high like a broken rag.

Zhang Shuihuo swallowed, once thinking Cyan Lotus Sword Blade was Slime's strongest skill, little did he know there was an even stronger skill.

This impact force would have been unstoppable for the Ice and Fire Sword Rider too.

People wondered if this Slime's strength exceeded the norm a bit.

The commentator passionately shouted.

"Slime has won, easily defeating the Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey with a single blow, leaving no dispute. It created a miracle, becoming the only Slime to ever reach the top of the Strongest Rookie Cup championship."

The audience erupted in applause.

To reach the top as a Slime was truly encouraging.

Many people thought, the Slime surely worked hard behind the scenes to achieve such an earth-shattering collision skill today.

If Xiaoruan knew what they thought, it would surely be baffled; there was no effort, just happy play each day, and growing stronger by collecting taxes at the end of the month.

Having won the championship, the award wasn't received immediately.

Yang Meixin and Zhang Shuihuo still had a match to compete in.

In the end, Zhang Shuihuo narrowly won, mainly because the Yang Spirit General summoned by his Yin Yang Eyes could resist spiritual attacks in place of the Ice and Fire Sword Rider, nullifying much of the Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey's spiritual prowess. Additionally, Yang Meixin's revelation of her trump card [Skill Sealing] during her battle with Li Cunxu provided Zhang Shuihuo with foresight.

Li Cunxu received the award.

This awards ceremony differed from the last; previously, it wasn't widely publicized since Li Cunxu wasn't a student in the Beast Master class, but this time, the publicity was substantial.

It directly made the headlines in Tongdu's hot topics.

[Shocking! The Strongest Rookie Cup champion is actually him.]

[Can you believe a Slime is the champion?]

[Water Slime one-shot-killed the buff-stacked Three-Eyed Spirit Monkey.]

[Rumor has it, this Slime carries sacred attributes.]

...

Li Cunxu didn't mind the fame from the publicity.

What he cared more about was the championship reward.

Finals champion reward: Three portions of Iron·Epic level resources and one excellent pet egg.

Runner-up reward: One portion of Iron·Epic level resources and one excellent pet egg.

Third-place reward: One excellent pet egg.

"The eggs need to be selected at the breeding farm; champions and runners-up, please select resources first!"

The trio boarded the bus to the breeding farm, and the supervisor handed two tablets to Li Cunxu and Zhang Shuihuo. Yang Meixin, being third place, didn't receive a resource reward.

Zhang Shuihuo had already set his sights; it only took him three seconds after receiving the tablet to make his choice.

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