125: regret

Seeing his firm attitude, Su Ze had no choice but to continue climbing upward after he had mostly recovered.

Although Feng Qingyi was already impatient to come out, with her power, Su Ze could ignore most of the phoenix imprint's power and fly straight to higher places.

However, he still wanted to use the power of the wutong tree to strengthen his physical body. For a Beast Tamer who majored in Spiritual Power, the physical body had always been a major weakness. Having finally found such an opportunity to make up for this shortcoming, Su Ze was naturally unwilling to miss it.

But the reason he was so unhurried was naturally because he hadn't been left too far behind; otherwise, if the wutong fruit was snatched by someone else, it would be more loss than gain.

At this moment, seeing that the number four seed from Vermilion Bird Beast Taming University also wanted to continue climbing, Jiang Jianbin immediately rushed up to snatch that gold-rank monster beast egg from the other party's hands.

That person was startled, initially thinking that Su Ze and Jiang Jianbin were joining forces to deal with him.

So, after seeing only one person rushing up, he breathed a sigh of relief, and the two instantly began to fight and tangle with each other.

Seeing this, the people on the other branches continued to coexist peacefully. After all, in their view, the things hidden on these lowest branches weren't worth the effort to fight over.

But Jiang Jianbin was serious. His full-force attack made even the number four seed of Vermilion Bird University, whose strength was superior to his, feel a bit strained.

After a moment of thought, the person threw the gold-rank monster beast egg in his hand to Jiang Jianbin. He still wanted higher-level prizes rather than fighting to the death with someone here.

"If you want it, take it, you short-sighted fellow!" he said irritably.

His strength was clearly superior, but he couldn't be like Jiang Jianbin, who didn't consider the future at all. Therefore, he felt very frustrated fighting while holding back his strength.

Not far away, on another branch, Liu Yiyi observed everything that happened here and thought for a moment.

She knew that although this big dark fellow Jiang Jianbin looked dull, he was actually very shrewd and shouldn't be so short-sighted.

So she also moved to snatch some of the prizes, and the others didn't go all out against her.

"Is your Azure Dragon Beast Taming University so poor that you're going crazy? You even want these things? Fine, then they're all yours!" they mocked.

In this way, the vast majority of the prizes hidden on the two branches fell into the hands of the two of them.

Liu Yiyi knew when to stop and was already following in everyone's footsteps, climbing to higher places.

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Jianbin resolutely gave up on continuing upward.

Instead, he went to other branches at the same height, searching for prizes that had been overlooked.

After all, everyone was thinking of going higher and looked down on the things here, so they naturally wouldn't look very carefully.

Especially on the branches where the seven favorites to win were resting; even if the prizes hidden there were right in front of them, they didn't deign to touch them.

These things naturally all went to Jiang Jianbin. He even summoned his monster beast, just to use its massive size to carry more prizes.

As the saying goes, many littles make a mickle. Once these things that others originally looked down upon reached a certain quantity, they were enough to make others envious.

"No need, no need... there are better things above..."

Everyone comforted themselves like this as they climbed upward, but they soon noticed something was wrong.

The power of the wutong tree helping them adapt to the environment could no longer keep up with the increasing power of the phoenix imprint.

More and more people began to feel a scorching heat from the inside out, as if their internal organs were being boiled.

Flames even appeared out of thin air in some places. Had they not dodged in time, they would have followed in the footsteps of the previous person and been burned off.

The power of the phoenix imprint wasn't impossible to offset; at least, the stronger a person was, the easier it seemed.

But for the vast majority of people, they knew that the next batch of branches at a higher level would likely be their final stop.

Regret couldn't help but well up in everyone's hearts. After all, if they only increased their height once, the prizes wouldn't be much better, and they had suffered so much.

They could only comfort themselves in their hearts, hoping for some good things to soothe their wounded souls.

Then, very soon, they were all dumbfounded.

The higher they went, the fewer and thinner the branches of the wutong tree became.

There were only five branches in the second batch of wutong tree branches available for rest!

Given that the seven favorites couldn't even have one branch each, others were forced to stay with them, and those good things were naturally picked first by them.

Fortunately, the number one seeds of each school still cared about their own people and didn't take everything clean.

Compared to the first batch of prizes, the second batch merely had a few more platinum-level demon beast eggs and several higher-level monster beast crystal cores on each branch.

It just so happened that they took these items first as they were to their liking. The remaining items were almost no different from the first batch of prizes, and the quantity was even slightly smaller.

On the Azure Dragon Beast Taming University side, the three of them happened to gather together, with no one else around.

Kuang Yi took four Level 70 monster beast crystal cores and two platinum eggs and said, "These crystal cores are of some use to me, but I don't need the platinum-level demon beast eggs. Who among you will take them?"

Su Ze glanced at them and shook his head, saying, "I don't need demon beast eggs either. Leave them for Sister Yiyi."

"Really?" Liu Yiyi's eyes instantly lit up.

The prizes she had just obtained from below were actually no worse than anyone else's, and after arriving here, she received a share without having to fight others for it.

She hadn't expected to actually get two platinum-level demon beast eggs; this already far exceeded the others.

"Sister Yiyi, are you planning to continue upward?" Su Ze said, looking at the excited Liu Yiyi.

"Huh?" Liu Yiyi was stunned for a moment and said, "I feel like I can hold on a bit longer, but it's probably not necessary. This is already enough."

Su Ze looked around and then said, "Then I think you'd better just take the things and jump down to forfeit your qualification."

Liu Yiyi was stunned. Even if she didn't intend to continue upward, she could still compete for prizes on other branches like Jiang Jianbin.

But after looking around, she understood why Su Ze said that.

Because Kuang Yi was definitely going to continue upward, and this kid Su Ze, who had hidden his strength, likely had strength at the level of a favorite and would also continue upward. That would leave only her.

Of the remaining five people, besides Liu Yiyi, the other four were already fighting tooth and nail for those insignificant prizes.

As the only one who had gained a lot, once Kuang Yi and Su Ze left, they would very likely join forces to rob her first.

Some people even set their sights on Jiang Jianbin, but looking down, they realized that he had already jumped down on his own at some point.

Seeing this, Liu Yiyi also didn't hesitate and jumped down with her bountiful harvest.

Leaving those four people filled with immense regret.

"If I had known... I would have taken the first level's prizes first!"