Loopholes in the rules

Gu Xiaoyue and Chu Li carefully studied the ranking rules.

First, the current freshman ranking list is based on college entrance exam scores and innate attributes, which is not very accurate.

The top dozen or so spots are held by students with Heaven Tier and Earth Tier talents who were admitted through special recommendations.

Because of her all-attribute Human Level talent, Gu Xiaoyue was even ranked outside the top fifty.

Chu Li joined later, so he was also ranked sixteenth.

But they knew that, in Nanya Academy right now, Chu Li's strength was definitely among the best.

A Young life stage 8 Fire Phoenix and a Young life stage 7 Lihuo Red-Eyed Beast, both of Heaven Tier quality.

If released at the same time, even a single-attribute pet beast at Young life stage 9—would not be unbeatable.

Looking across the Dragon Kingdom, there are likely few peers who can raise their pet beasts to Young life stage 9.

Gu Xiaoyue knew that she had an Immortal Tier talent and had eaten a few pieces of lanzhi grass, but Xiao Qi still hadn't reached Young life stage 9.

However, she calculated that it would be soon.

Looking at the challenge rules again, freshmen can challenge each other, but one can only choose to either challenge or be challenged.

If challenged by multiple people, one can choose to accept one person's challenge. But if only one person challenges, it must be accepted, and then one must go to the teacher in advance to file a record; it cannot be changed privately.

The winner can continue to challenge others the next day.

The loser can only be challenged for the next three days, and if they want to challenge the person who beat them, they have to wait a week.

However, this is until the freshman ranking list is finalized, and it starts from 0 next month.

Finally, Chu Li and Gu Xiaoyue set their battle plan.

First, Chu Li will go directly to challenge the top ten in the freshman ranking list and test a few of them out.

On the day before the list is released at the end of the month, Chu Li and Gu Xiaoyue will report to the class instructor, and Gu Xiaoyue will challenge Chu Li.

Chu Li will directly concede, and Gu Xiaoyue will be number one on the freshman ranking list.

On the first day of the next month, Chu Li will challenge Gu Xiaoyue again.

Gu Xiaoyue will concede, and Chu Li will be number one on the freshman ranking list again, so those who want to climb the rankings will still have to challenge Chu Li.

On the last day, it will be Gu Xiaoyue challenging Chu Li again, repeating the cycle.

Anyway, there is more than one person challenging, and one can choose their own battle opponent, so Chu Li only needs to choose Gu Xiaoyue.

As for if someone challenges Gu Xiaoyue, even if she has to accept, she can just concede.

Compared to face, she prefers to hide her strength.

If there are truly people who don't know any better, Gu Xiaoyue wouldn't mind teaching them a lesson.

The next day, Chu Li went directly to challenge the first place on the freshman ranking list—Wei Liuyun.

It is said—that he has a Heaven Tier talent, and his strength is terrifying.

Wei Liuyun agreed, and after the two reported to the class instructor, they set the arena time—6:00 PM.

At 5:30 that evening, the students had all eaten early and went to the arena to wait in advance.

Not only freshmen, but some sophomore and junior students also came to watch.

After all, it was the first match for the freshmen, with the sixteenth place challenging the first place.

Ye Wanrou disliked the crowd and secretly grumbled, "What are these sophomores and juniors here for? Their pet beasts are already in the mature stage, are they still coming to watch Young life stage little beasts playing house!"

Gu Xiaoyue chuckled, "Just to watch the excitement. We all know Chu Li will win, but aren't we here too?"

"That's true, Xiao Yue is right!" Ye Wanrou pouted and gave Gu Xiaoyue a sweet smile.

When the time came, the referee blew the whistle, and the previously noisy scene instantly quieted down.

Wei Liuyun was seen summoning his pet beast with extreme confidence—the Darkwing Thunderhorn Lion.

【Name】: Darkwing Thunderhorn Lion

【Quality】: Heaven Tier Top Grade

【Attribute】: Lightning Attribute

【Skills】: Lightning Strike (Advanced), Thunderbolt Spell (Intermediate)

【Level】: Young life stage 8

Exclamations came from off the stage—

"Wow, it's already Young life stage 8, Heaven Tier talent is truly awesome!"

Seeing this pet beast, Gu Xiaoyue remembered Lin Zhiyi.

It seems she doesn't know she is at Nanya yet; she should send her a message when she has time to tell her.

Wei Liuyun looked at Chu Li with some disdain, "I know you have Earth Tier talent, but this is—a Heaven Tier Top Grade single-attribute pet beast. How about it, do you still want to fight?"

Chu Li gave him a scoff with an even more arrogant attitude and summoned the Fire Phoenix and the Lihuo Red-Eyed Beast.

The students off the stage exploded—

"My God, how can he summon two pet beasts? Let me see what attributes they are—"

"Young life stage 8 and Young life stage 7! Both are Heaven Tier pet beasts!"

"I'm going to faint, which big shot is this? How come I had no idea before—"

Looking at Wei Liuyun, whose face was extremely ugly, Chu Li returned all the words he had just spoken to him— "I know you have a Heaven Tier talent, but I have two Heaven Tier pet beasts. How about it, do you still want to fight?"

Wei Liuyun's face turned black; it was the first time he had been humiliated like this.

Ever since he awakened his Heaven Tier talent, he had always felt that he was born to be an elite. Looking across the Dragon Kingdom, how many people have Heaven Tier talent?

His pride was now trampled under Chu Li's feet; he definitely couldn't win the fight.

If it were a dual-attribute pet beast at Young life stage 8, with a low-level one at Young life stage 3 or 4, he would still have a fighting chance.

Now it was a Young life stage 8 with a Young life stage 7, and both were Heaven Tier quality; his pet beast had no advantage in quality either.

Not fighting—he couldn't save face.

"I concede—" Wei Liuyun clenched his fists, squeezing the three words out through his teeth, filled with unwillingness.

"Sigh—" There was a chorus of sighs from off the stage. The passionate battle scene everyone was expecting didn't appear, and everyone was very disappointed.

However, seeing the freshman Chu Li actually able to summon two pet beasts, it wasn't a wasted trip for them.

You have to know, only some outstanding fourth-year students who have promoted to high-level Beastmasters can summon two pet beasts.

Then when Chu Li promotes to a high-level Beastmaster, wouldn't he be able to summon three pet beasts?

Dare not think about it, simply dare not think about it—

This chasm-like gap is too big, and it's unknown if it can ever be closed.

Chu Li put away the Fire Phoenix and the others, hands in his pockets, looking both rakishly handsome and flamboyant.

Wei Liuyun had a stifled breath stuck in his chest and issued a harsh warning, "Don't get cocky. The nail that sticks out gets hammered down; you better hold onto this first place in the freshman ranking list!"

"Then that won't require your concern. Anyway, if you want to challenge me again, it will take at least a week. By then, I might not necessarily accept just anyone's challenge!"

Wei Liuyun definitely wouldn't challenge Chu Li after a week. He calculated that Chu Li's pet beasts must have just promoted to Young life stage 8 and Young life stage 7.

He should be able to promote to Young life stage 9 next month, and by then, he will regain both his dignity and face!

Having successfully completed the challenge, Chu Li went to Gu Xiaoyue to claim credit after getting off the arena.

"Xiao Yue, am I amazing? Is there a reward?"

Gu Xiaoyue asked: "What reward do you want?"

Yesterday, she only focused on studying the loopholes in the rules and really hadn't thought about what reward to give Chu Li.

After all, in the whole plan, it seemed like Chu Li was the one doing all the work.

"Let's continue practicing the summoning skill; I'll still give you two hundred thousand every hour!"

Gu Xiaoyue put her hand to her forehead and asked helplessly: "This is the reward you want?"

Chu Li was full of anticipation and nodded very firmly.

"Give me a reason." Gu Xiaoyue wanted to hear why Chu Li was so persistent about upgrading his summoning skill.

Before, she always thought that Chu Li just purely wanted to be paired with her, but now it felt like it wasn't such a simple matter.

Chu Li was silent for a few seconds, his eyes looking into the distance, as if recalling many things.

"I just hope that I can protect you. If you encounter danger, I can immediately come to your side.

Of course, it's the same for me; if I am in mortal danger, I also hope you can step in to save me!"