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Chapter 303: 300 Master Level (please subscribe)

Chapter 303: 300 Master Level (please subscribe)

Phoenix Nest Training Ground, top 32 tournament ring.

Perhaps the beating it had received earlier was almost forgotten.

Dudu’s advancement was going smoothly.

Under the watchful eyes of the audience, the wounds on Dudu’s body began to heal rapidly.

The few remaining feathers on its body started falling off quickly.

The bird became bald in no time.

But it did not stay bald for long.

Shortly after, new feathers began to grow back on Dudu’s body, and along with the growth of the feathers came an increase in Dudu’s size.

From an original height of around 1.8 meters, it shot up to 2.5 meters, with wingspan that extended nearly ten meters when spread.

This length was enough to consider riding it.

Lu Wu’s long-cherished dream of flying on the back of a bird was finally about to come true.

Besides, there were significant changes in Dudu’s attributes as well.

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Name: Ice and Snow Skylark (Second Evolution)

Power: one star

Quality: Gold (Upgraded)???

Attribute: Ice and Snow

State: Excited (“Is anyone going to hit me? Is anyone going to hit me?!!”)

Weakness: Fire (Slight)

Special Skill: Unyielding·Growth (Master)

Advanced Skill: Cold Ice Body (Master) Frozen Heart (Master)

Killing Move: Absolute Freeze (Mastered) Frozen Ray (Mastered)

Talent: Little Strong Physique (Passive) (A passive talent awakened through numerous beatings, greatly enhancing life force and resistance to beatings, as well as recovery ability. As long as it doesn’t die, it can keep fighting!)

Thorny Shield (No changes, no explanation)

Domain: Ice and Snow Domain 0.1% (Basically useless, just a figure)

Description: Forget about its killing moves; They are powerful, but it’s not interested in using them. It just wants to take beatings.

…

These were Dudu’s current attributes.

On the other hand, there were also changes in Lu Wu’s attributes.

After all, Dudu was his bird, and when his bird advanced, Lu Wu naturally received feedback.

The feedback from this advancement to Lord wasn’t small. It took Lu Wu quite a while to recover from roasting meat, making the nearby Pang Duddu extremely anxious.

Once he recovered and looked at his own attributes, Lu Wu laughed.

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Name: Lu Wu

Power: Master Level Cultivator (Lord 1 Star Combat Power)

Mastered Skills: Charging (Master) Cold Ice Body (Master) Frozen Ray (Mastered)

Flood (Master) Dragon Bone Power (Master) Slap Lu Wu (Master)

Special Skill: Unyielding·Growth (Master)

Dragon Transformation (Entry-Level)

Summoner Talent: Power of Inheritance (Awakening) (Analysis and inheritance-related power can accelerate awakening)

Damage Sharing

Description: If you go all out, you might be able to compete with Loli Dragon Indeks.

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A new skill “Frozen Ray” was added, and “Power of Inheritance,” a skill that had been in an Unawakened state since acquired in the Inheritance Land, began to awaken.

This was a very nice surprise for Lu Wu.

Overall, he was quite satisfied with today’s battle.

But while he felt content, Guzhentian was not.

Or rather, he no longer knew what expression to make.

Just as he had said before,

he didn’t stand on this stage today to defeat Lu Wu.

He only came to prove himself.

Because from the start, he never took Lu Wu seriously.

After all, Lu Wu had been a Summoner for less than two years.

Guzhentian thought they were not on the same level, and defeating Lu Wu should have been an easy task for him.

But in the end, after suppressing eight others in the top 32, he was casually crushed by Lu Wu, who was leisurely eating roasted meat and singing songs.

During the entire match, Lu Wu hadn’t even begun to show his true power.

As Loli Dragon’s tail swept out, followed by Dudu’s advancement, Guzhentian became the butt of the joke.

Even though the arena was deathly quiet at that moment, he felt as if countless jeers and taunts were surging towards him like a tide.

At that moment, Guzhentian felt as though he had traveled through time, back to September 1 of the previous year.

He returned to the day he was crushed by Lu Wu, the day the ‘genius fell.’

Just as Guzhentian was about to fall back into darkness, about to shut himself away again, applause broke out from the previously silent stands.

“Congratulations to Lu Wu and Pang Duddu for advancing successfully.”

The applause shattered the deathly silence in the arena, as it echoed from everyone at once.

This match ended amidst the applause.

As the clapping died down, the staff of the College League stepped forward to announce the end of today’s competition.

The second round of the top 32 will take place tomorrow.

There was no helping it; all three of Guzhentian’s Summoned Beasts had been beaten up pretty badly, especially the Shanzhai Monkey which nearly got killed by Loli Dragon’s tail whip, and needed some time to recover.

More importantly, there was Guzhentian.

It was clear to anyone that Guzhentian was on the verge of a breakdown, in no condition to fight and needed to stop and regain his composure.

And as the match ended,

The person who had started the applause came forward to take Guzhentian away.

This person was no other than Gutian, who had been avoiding Lu Wu ever since he arrived in Beijing.

Originally, he had resolved not to show his face until Lu Wu left.

But for the sake of his son, he ultimately came out, grateful that he did. Otherwise, if he was absent at the moment his son needed him most, he would have been too unfit as a father.

And it was precisely because he showed up, Gutian was able to gently pull his son back from the edge of a dark abyss with a round of applause.

While that was the case, it was still not nearly enough.

After the competition ended, Gutian took Guzhentian to a rest room.

Inside the rest room,

Gutian passed a cup of water to his son, who had become silent and dispirited, a stark contrast from the pride and confidence he had that morning.

“Have some water.”

Guzhentian silently took the cup but didn’t drink it. He didn’t respond either and just sat there quietly.

This state was basically the same as it had been several months before.

Gutian felt a mix of helplessness, resentment for his son’s lack of competitiveness, but above all, heartache.

He squatted down to make eye contact with his son, who was deliberately avoiding his gaze.

Suddenly, Guzhentian saw panic in his father’s eyes and subconsciously wanted to look away, but Gutian held his head steady with both hands.

“Look at me!”

Guzhentian was shocked, but he eventually met his father’s gaze without resisting.

Only then did Gutian see his son’s eyes filled with confusion, despair, and defeatism.

“Look at the state you’re in!”

Gutian said with a bitter smile, rubbing Guzhentian’s head.

“Is a single loss worth this?”

“Father, it’s not just about losing one match.

The last Cultivator competition, my cultivation skills that I started learning at five, lost to his one year of learning.

This competition, my five years of effort since I was 18, lost to his less than two years of growth, I’ve thoroughly lost!

Everyone says Guzhentian is a genius, that I have the makings of a grandmaster.

But now I realize, whether it’s cultivation or summoning, I’m nothing but trash!”

Having always excelled at everything since memory, Guzhentian truly couldn’t accept being inferior to others, especially being treated like nothing in front of them.

“I could still lie to myself and say that my cultivation was crushed by him because my cultivation talent wasn’t up to par.

My strength is in summoning, so I’ve been working hard on that.

Do you know how I spent the past seven months?

Do you know what effort I put in?

But now, the result of seven months of hard work, standing before him again, I realize I’m still a joke. How can I continue lying to myself?

What should I do next?”

Gutian listened quietly to his son’s venting.

He didn’t interrupt him and just waited for him to finish. Then Gutian stood up, got two cups of wine in the resting room, returned to his son’s side, handed the son a cup, and took a gulp from his own before saying.

“The problem with you is everything goes too smoothly.

You can’t handle even a little setback.

You’re acting like it’s the end of the world because you’ve been pinned down by the same person twice. If everyone were like you, many would have hung themselves by now.”

Guzhentian was about to say something, but Gutian continued.

“You know about Yuan Hua, right?”

“Know him, the chairman of the Professional Cultivator Center headquarters.”

“And about Xing Zhanlong?”

“Know him, the chairman of the Professional Summoner Center headquarters.”

“What about Zhao Kuan?”

“Know him, the president of Jingcheng University.”

…

Gutian rattled off more than a dozen names in one breath—each one a top figure in today’s Federation.

By the end, Guzhentian was somewhat perplexed, unsure why Gutian was mentioning these names.

Then, Gutian dropped a bombshell.

“What if I tell you, the group of people I just mentioned, decades ago were continuously tormented by one person, crushed in every aspect, even had their childhood sweethearts, sisters, and fiancées taken away by the same person, would you believe it?”

“That’s impossible!”

“But it’s true!

Decades ago, there was such a person.

His talent was extremely terrifying. He alone suffocated all the geniuses of the Federation.”

Gutian recalled that person’s brilliance, his face showing complex emotions: “Compared with that person, Lu Wu of today is like comparing a firefly to the sun and moon.

During his prime, he was like a sun, when he shone brightly, no other star could emit light.”

Guzhentian wanted to call it a lie, but seeing the look on his father’s face, he vaguely felt what he was saying might be true.

So, after hesitating for a bit, Guzhentian finally spoke, following Gutian’s narrative: “Where is he now?”

Gutian shook his head: “Don’t know, he disappeared twenty or thirty years ago. No one knows where he went.

But that’s not important. Even if he is around now, do you think he would hold a higher status than those I just mentioned?”

At this point, Gutian seriously entered the motivational speech phase, looking solemnly at his son.

“I know you can’t accept this defeat now.

But you need to understand, temporary success or failure doesn’t really mean anything.

Even if he was as strong as that man, how many people remember him now?

On the contrary, the ones he suppressed are all emerging from the shadows.”

“And you don’t have to be too bothered about today’s match.

It’s true that no one can rival Lu Wu’s cultivation talent, but your summoner talent far surpasses his.

Before he came to Beijing, none of his summoned beasts were three-star lords.

After coming to Beijing, someone helped him cultivate his summoned beasts.

Otherwise, he would have never been a match for you. Remember the bone dragon by his side?

That bone dragon isn’t truly his. I’ve mentioned before, Lu Wu’s background is a mystery, and that bone dragon was likely arranged by someone behind him for his protection.

So, you didn’t really lose to Lu Wu, you just lost to the forces backing him.”

“Your summoner talent is still the strongest in the alliance. Look around, apart from Lu Wu, who among the top 32 in the university competition is your opponent?”

“So, you need to get a grip and finish this competition!

Let the world know who’s the real number one young summoner!”

With these words from Gutian, Guzhentian’s eyes lit up completely.

His defeatism was swept away.

At this moment, Guzhentian was revived!

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