Astral Pet Store

Several people with overwhelming, yet restrained presence were seated on the rows closer to the stage, both male and female; precious fruits were placed on the desks in front of them. Each of the fruits could be sold at several hundred coins but none of these people darted a single glance at them.

“The girl that used the Phantom Flame Beast has a fast reaction. She is worth training.”

“I see two good students here. I believe I must pay this place another visit in two years.”

“Well, why bother? I think you like to sign contracts in private. Why don’t you go and sign them now?”

“Right. We agreed that we must compete fairly. It turns out that a certain shameless person went and used contracts to confuse the kids. How despicable!”

Several people were sneering and anger was visible in their eyes. Only two in the group were smiling as if they couldn’t understand what the others meant. One of the two even had the guts to say with a laugh, “The view tonight is stunning.”

Vice Principal Dong Mingsong was sitting on the side with those guests. His face was smiling while his heart was beaming with pride. Usually, the school had to try hard to make those top-tier teams select their outstanding students, and to ask those teams to take care of and train those students. But the tables had turned. It was the teams’ turn to beg him. This made Dong Mingsong feel so good!

Someone noticed how this old, sly fox was grinning. Pulling a long face, that person asked, “Vice Principal Dong, tell me honestly. How much money have they paid you?”

Dong Mingsong was taken aback. With confusion, he answered with more questions, “Money? What money?”

“Hmm! Still lying!”

“Vice Principal Dong, this is unfair of you. The Principal never did such things. Are you going to hold the scales evenly or not?”

Filled with anger, several people turned their looks to Dong Mingsong. They were all from top-tier teams. While they couldn’t do anything to the two shameless people, they could be less polite toward Dong Mingsong.

Dong Mingsong replied with an innocent tone, “I don’t know about that. By the time I found out, they had already signed the contracts. There’s nothing I can do.”

“How could you possibly not know? I will tell this to the Principal. Believe me,” someone claimed in rage.

Dong Mingsong said, upset, “I don’t have anything else to say even if you tell the Principal. I honestly did not know.”

Since he was sticking to his story, the others were enraged and yet helpless. They were at a loss when they tried to figure out what to do with the two shameless people and one old fox. Secretly, those people were regretting not coming up with such shameless moves themselves. Why did they have to be so noble and pure in their thoughts?

That was a sin!

On the spectators’ seats, Su Yanying said to Su Ping as she looked at the champion of grade two who had come to the stage for the match, “It’ll be our turn soon.”

Su Ping sat on his seat and looked around, bored. Now and then, he would gaze at the seats in the distance by the stage. He saw several people there. They had to be the most powerful few in the entire stadium.

“Are those top-tier teams that have come to the school to recruit students?” Su Ping’s eyes glowed. The top-tier explorer’s teams would only pick students with both potential and strength from amongst the famous students. The second and third-tier teams could only pick students out of average Astral Pet universities.

There were seven famous schools in the Longjiang Base City, and Phoenix Peak Academy was one of them.

Fan Yujing’s sister, Fan Xiaoyu, was studying in another famous school as well, one that was in the upper town area. Even amongst the seven famous schools, that school was at the top; it had a well-established fame that went beyond the Longjiang Base City.

Su Yanying noticed that Su Ping’s mind was wandering. She whispered to alert him, “Sir?”

Su Ping came back to his senses and threw her a glance. “What is it?”

“It’ll be our turn soon,” Su Yanying repeated.

Su Ping replied, “Oh, I heard you.”

Su Yanying was surprised. “Aren’t you going to get prepared?”

“Prepare?” Su Ping gave her a look of confusion. “Prepare what?”

“Eh…” Su Yanying didn’t know how to answer when Su Ping had such a nonchalant attitude. It was the exhibition match and winning or losing would not change anything. That being said, if she were to suffer a huge loss, that could still exert some influence and she would be embarrassed.

Besides, she had signed a contract with a team; she knew that the team she was going to join after the vacation was there that day. They could see her performance.

Even if it was only an exhibition match, she was not less nervous than when she was in a formal competition.

“Nothing.” Su Yanying shook her head. She supposed Su Ping just wanted to step on the stage and advocate his Lightning Rat. She was the main character. The splendor of the match was going to be up to her. She closed her eyes at once to adjust herself and relax her body first.

Then, she began to go through the possible scenarios of the match in her head. After all, she had fought against the Thunder Basilisk. She knew what skills that pet had mastered. This time around, the Thunder Basilisk had improved and progressed, which gave her more pressure. She could not make any mistakes. Otherwise, she would lose with shame!

Time zipped by.

The exhibition match between the champion and the runner-up of the second years had come to an end. The combat was more intense compared to that of the first years. The atmosphere was heated and everyone was more excited than ever.

With much anticipation, the commentator presented Su Yanying and Ye Hao’s names. Another wave of passionate cheers came from the audience. Many families of the students present were inspired by this lively scene. At the same time, they felt a bit jealous and pitiful. After all, those two were not their kids.

“Brother, it’s our turn now!”

Ye Hao sat amongst the crowd of the third year’s class six. He was radiating like the sun and people could pick him out from the crowd immediately. Sitting next to him was a girl about 16 or 17 years old. She dressed in a pretty and fashionable way, wearing a coffee-colored knitted hat, and her earlobes were shining because of two delicate crystal ear studs.

Noticing that the atmosphere had been ignited because of Ye Hao’s name, her face was covered with excitement. Ever since she was a kid, her brother had been her idol. He had always been the best whether considering his powers as a battle pet warrior or his strength in other studies.

“Yin, let’s go.” Ye Hao smiled and stood up. His classmates applauded him and cheered for him. Ye Hao was the monitor of his class. He was handsome and wealthy, as well as gentle and humble. The girls in his class adored him and… so did the boys.

Ye Qingyin stood up, giggling.

The two of them walked in the corridor. Many contract runes began to emerge in the air. The Thunder Basilisk stuck its head out from the space. Ye Hao held his sister’s hand and hopped onto the head of the Thunder Basilisk. The next moment, its more than ten meter long body also came out from the contract space. The Thunder Basilisk flapped its wings, creating turbulent currents for those who sat by the corridor.

Some boys had spent a long time getting their fangs ready but were left in a mess after the crazy wind surge. They weren’t looking good in front of their muse. Angry, those boys said some swear words in their hearts.

At the same time, Ye Hao had already mounted onto the dragon and taken flight. He caught the attention of all those present. The dragon roared as he neared the stage.

This kind of appearance was undoubtedly impressive and arrogant; adding his handsome looks, many girls began to cheer in a frenzy. Some of them almost fainted due to the excitement.