Chapter 349 — Don't Scrape Anymore, Master Ji
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That was the true use of Beans to Soldiers.
Chi Tong's Scapegoat and Ginseng Baby's Time Imprint worked on the same principle.
Ji Feng's side would certainly not pass up the practice of loading up reserve energy before the fight, and Shi Jin's side naturally had to prepare just as thoroughly.
A short while later.
Inside the relic space, the round Eleven sat on the ground, eating as he condensed little black beans one after another, sticking them to his body like tiny magnets — armed to the teeth...
Night had not yet fallen, and all thirty Bean Bears had been born in bean form and patterned all over Eleven's body!
......
The next day.
The Star Capital Arena.
As the largest arena in Star Capital, it had been cleared outright that day by the president of the Star Capital Association and set aside for one purpose alone.
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The reason was simple: he had received Ji Feng's application. Sequence Seventh, Ji Feng, would face Sequence Fifth, Shi Jin, in a one-on-one duel at the Star Capital Arena!
This was no small matter. Headquarters had long since issued its instructions: every engagement involving a top-ten Sequence tamer required the full cooperation of the local associations.
Director Zhong of the Sequence Contest Committee had even rushed to Star Capital overnight, wanting to witness the battle with his own eyes.
"Elder Zhong, you've come."
"Little Ma. It's been a long time."
Inside the Star Capital Arena, Director Zhong — head of the Eighth Bureau and one of those in charge of the Sequence Contest Committee — met President Ma of the Star Capital Association, and the two exchanged pleasantries.
"At last I've caught another of Shi Jin's battles." Director Zhong said with feeling.
Back at the Minghua Exchange Competition, he had judged that iron-eating beast's full strength to be terrifying.
But who could have imagined that it would go on to defeat the Void Emperor's beast outright, taking off in a single bound and quietly becoming the strongest Monarch in the country?
After that, Shi Jin's ranking had climbed, yet Director Zhong, never having witnessed a battle with his own eyes, had kept hankering to see Shi Jin fight at full power; now that Ji Feng was challenging him, it was the perfect chance.
"Hahaha, I've long heard of the genius of Ji Feng and Shi Jin. Now at last I'll get to see the two of them fight." President Ma was rather moved as well. Ji Feng's grandfather was a Legendary tamer; the boy had inherited Old Master Ji's Myriad Affinity talent perfectly, and was frighteningly strong. And Shi Jin... President Ma had watched his own city's Star Capital University get thrashed by Shi Jin, so he was hardly a stranger.
"So everyone's here."
Besides Director Zhong and President Ma, Feng Jin, Grandma Li and the rest had been unable to resist the urge to watch the fun; hearing the news the day before, they had all turned up at the venue today... To that, Director Zhong and President Ma had, it seemed, no option but a warm welcome.
That was about the whole audience — not many. A top-ten Sequence battle was not suited to being opened to the public at large; after all, as a great human nation, Donghuang had no shortage of totem alien races eager to get their hands on intel about its competitors.
The first lesson in every academy's combat department was to teach tamers that, no matter when, it was best to keep one trump card no one knew about.
Before long, the hour Shi Jin and Ji Feng had agreed upon arrived.
The two each collected some combat supplies from the staff — stamina supplements, wound medicine and the like — and then entered the field from opposite sides of the arena.
On the left, Ji Feng wore brocade robes, his long hair flowing; he did not look like a modern man. But that was only natural — after years undercover and honing himself in the Totem Nation, his old habits had probably never been shed.
On the right, Shi Jin wore his everyday panda suit. His old level-six flame demon coat had been all but burned beyond use now that Su Su had grown strong so quickly, and a level-seven or higher combat suit was not something Shi Yun could find a fitting one of at short notice; Shi Jin planned to have one custom-made in a while.
For now, since there was no need for possession combat anyway, he had made do with casual clothes.
Once the two stepped onto the field, they nodded to each other.
"Let me see just how strong that iron-eating beast of yours really is." Ji Feng spoke.
To be honest, in all his time undercover in the Totem Nation, he had seen a great many century-old Monarchs, and in the Totem Nation, Monarch-tier dire beasts were on the whole stronger than the beast Monarchs of Donghuang.
Even so, Void Tan was unquestionably the strongest Monarch he had ever laid eyes on, fiercer even than some Overlords. Given that, he still had not worked out how on earth Shi Jin had beaten it.
"Let's both go all out," Shi Cen said with considerable seriousness.
In single combat, Lu Heng might not beat Ji Feng either. For a tamer with an enhancement talent, strengthening one specific beast and strengthening an entire team cost very different amounts. To make his Sequence fifth place live up to its name, and to leave fewer challengers coming after him, Shi Jin felt it truly necessary to fight Ji Feng.
Mainly because his record was too thin.
Once Ji Feng lost to him, no one would have grounds to leapfrog Ji Feng to challenge him, and things would be easier afterward.
Beyond that, if he could steady himself in the top five, legendary resources might be easier to ask for too!
It was with this thought that Shi Jin accepted Ji Feng's challenge.
At this moment.
The battle about to unfold drew every eye in the arena.
Director Zhong, President Ma, Feng Jin and the rest could hardly wait.
Boom!
As Shi Jin and Ji Feng summoned their beasts together, the fight began in an instant!
"Xiao Zhang, record it!" Director Zhong of the Sequence Dispute Committee said to the bespectacled recorder beside him.
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"ELEMENTAL SOVEREIGN!!!!!"
Purple light flickered.
With a boom, the natural energy of the field surged, and the sky churned and shifted.
Fire, wind, light, three elements in one; its body wrought of red, cyan and gold, a humanoid elemental being over two meters tall descended into the arena amid a purple summoning array.
A spectral figure, a lucid gaze, powerful fluctuations.
Mid-tier Overlord species, Monarch-level: the Elemental Sovereign! The darling of nature!
Ji Feng had indeed sent out his ace.
Many of the bigwigs' eyes flickered.
On Shi Jin's side, the same purple summoning array.
"This kid--"
The expressions of Director Zhong and the others began to grow rich.
Shi Jin had broken through to level six?
That fast?
The Void Emperor's ruins really were a fine place to train, it seemed.
Bathed in purple light, amid bursts of blue-violet lightning, Eleven was summoned as well.
In his restrained state, black and white interwoven, Eleven shook out his fur; his blue eyes, steeped in lightning, were bright and piercing, watching the enemy calmly amid the field's chaotic elemental surges.
"Yii!!"
The little Iron-Eating Beast, barely a meter tall, stared intently at the big fellow opposite.
Ji Feng too gazed gravely at the purple array and the Iron-Eating Beast before him.
Elemental Sovereign versus Iron-Eating Beast!
At the sight, Director Zhong and the others drew a deep breath. This was exactly what they had come to see.
While the two sides stood locked in confrontation, the bigwigs gathered together rapidly began their analysis.
"The Elemental Sovereign, base energy value 5.77 million."
"Its energy value isn't high, but its mastery of natural force is extremely deep."
"Add to that Ji Feng's Myriad Affinity talent..."
"It guarantees every one of its attacks strikes with no less force than an Overlord's blow, while the cost stays small."