131: Something fishy is going on.

"Is it really the Golden Feather Phoenix Bird? And its aura is actually this powerful. Even at this distance, my own beast can feel a hint of bloodline suppression..." Jiang Ren thought to himself as he sensed the aura coming from Su Ze's direction.

Although he had been prepared, he still hadn't expected Su Ze's Golden Feather Phoenix Bird to be this strong.

It suppressed his own beast in both level and bloodline.

His only advantage was that his own beast's level was higher than Su Ze's, which meant he could fully realize a synergy where one plus one is greater than two when coordinating as a Beast Tamer with his beast, whereas Su Ze could not.

"But if his opponent is Xue Yuhe... Hehe, then things will get interesting. That woman was originally just a so-called genius forced into existence by the Xue Family; she can't even fully control her own beast."

Although the Xue Family was the oldest of the Four Great Families, after centuries of prosperity, they had begun to decline, but the Xue Family was clearly unwilling to accept this outcome.

Thus, they forcibly molded Xue Yuhe, the strongest of the younger generation, into a genius.

In fact, she could indeed be called a genius, but she was still far behind the likes of Jiang Ren and Qi Lin.

Jiang Ren shifted his gaze back; Qi Lin was indeed a powerful opponent with a very solid foundation.

To defeat him, Jiang Ren would also need to go all out.

Neither of them made a move immediately, instead observing each other and waiting for an opportunity.

As for Su Ze and Xue Yuhe's side, there wasn't much ceremony.

Accompanied by a phoenix cry, the Golden Feather Phoenix Bird let out a joyful chirp and flew out of the Formation towards the sky.

Unsurprisingly, it also triggered the phoenix imprint remaining within the wutong tree and was surrounded by a mass of flames.

However, she didn't fall down in pain like the person before; instead, she descended with great satisfaction and pleasure.

Then, she slowly shrank her body until she transformed into a young girl with the appearance of an eighteen or nineteen-year-old, with an impeccable figure and face.

Feng Qingyi's excited voice echoed directly in Su Ze's mind through their contract: "The Phoenix Fire remaining here is much higher grade than mine; it meets the requirements for my Nirvana! I feel that as long as I go through this Nirvana, I can become a true Divine Beast!"

"But first, I have to find the location of the phoenix imprint..."

She looked up at the fruit above; it was now certain that the phoenix imprint was inside it.

For other demonic beasts, this wutong fruit could indeed purify their bloodline, but that was all.

However, for Feng Qingyi, who possessed the phoenix bloodline and had already undergone one Nirvana purification, it could directly help her break through to become a Divine Beast!

"Stop looking. Help me win this match first so we can take that wutong fruit away fair and square. Otherwise, even if you get your hands on it, you won't be able to take it with you," Su Ze said, looking at Feng Qingyi, who had turned into human form beside him.

Only then did Feng Qingyi reluctantly look away and glance at the enemy on the other side, saying with a look of disgust, "Why is the opponent a disgusting toad?"

"What? You can't beat it?" Su Ze provoked her on purpose.

Although Feng Qingyi's appearance now looked very mature, her mentality hadn't changed at all compared to before.

So she immediately took the bait: "How could I possibly lose to this ugly freak? Just you wait, I'll deal with it in a moment!"

Then, she reverted back to her original form as a Phoenix Bird and flew over, breathing out a Death Fire Line that forced Xue Yuhe off the back of the Sky-Swallowing Toad.

But she didn't choose to dive into the Sky-Swallowing Toad's mouth like before; instead, she looked at Su Ze.

"Hold on! Once I deal with him, everything will be over!" Xue Yuhe said, looking at Su Ze.

Although her strength was a bit lower, her insight wasn't bad; she could see that Su Ze's own strength was still relatively weak.

At the very least, he hadn't broken through level sixty, which meant he was inferior to her.

So instead of choosing to go head-to-head with his Golden Feather Phoenix Bird, it was better to let the Sky-Swallowing Toad stall it while she dealt with Su Ze herself.

Xue Yuhe summoned her other three beasts, which transformed into a set of beast taming armor, a longsword, and a Mask covering the upper half of her face.

The Mask's effect was similar to the Crown of Lin Queer, whom Su Ze had eliminated, both being used to guard against mental attacks.

Su Ze didn't dare to be careless and summoned the Void Spirit Turtle and Shadow Moon Wolf King to meet her.

As the number of times the two clashed increased, Xue Yuhe's expression became more and more unsightly.

After excluding the power that was outside her control, she was actually no match for Su Ze and was gradually falling into a disadvantage.

And this was even while Su Ze was constantly on guard against her attempting another desperate self-detonation.

"Impossible... Why... have I been pushed to this point twice by commoners..."

But looking at the Sky-Swallowing Toad, which seemed about to give in under Feng Qingyi's flames, she could only face reality, yet she had no intention of surrendering.

"So what if you're all more talented than me... the heritage of a great family is something you commoners and upstarts can't even imagine!" Xue Yuhe roared in her heart.

Then, she called back the Sky-Swallowing Toad, whose skin had already been charred somewhat black from the roasting.

"I can only use that move again..."

Seeing Xue Yuhe call the Sky-Swallowing Toad back to her side, Su Ze thought she was going to perform some control maneuver, so he also called Feng Qingyi back, prepared to use Weaponization at any moment.

But after observing for a moment, he found that Xue Yuhe didn't seem to have that intention.

"She wouldn't be planning to self-destruct a Diamond-rank Demonic Beast, would she? That... I might really not be able to withstand that!" Su Ze shook his head; surely it wouldn't come to that point.

He saw Xue Yuhe look up and then shift her position.

Su Ze also looked up in confusion and noticed she seemed to be paying attention to the positions of the machines hidden around them, which were live-streaming their match.

"Is she looking for camera angles? What kind of move is this? Hogging the camera?" Su Ze didn't quite understand; this wasn't a movie, why was she trying to get on camera?

Or maybe she wanted the people outside to see her?

Just as he was thinking, he saw the Sky-Swallowing Toad suddenly open its mouth wide and quickly spat something out, while she herself dove into its mouth at top speed.

Just as Su Ze was feeling puzzled, another familiar sensation struck him.

"self-detonation again?! Where did she get another demonic beast?"

He had seen it clearly just now; Xue Yuhe's three weaponized beasts hadn't been released, and the Sky-Swallowing Toad was still right there.

In other words, she had another demonic beast specifically for self-detonation?

Otherwise, why hadn't she summoned it to fight together just now?

Something's fishy! There's definitely something fishy going on!