Zeng Zhaoying's eyes lit up: "How did she do that?"
Fang Juexia looked proud: "I told you long ago that Huaijin was number one!"
Cheng Huaijin picked up the black egg beast, patted its eggshell, and temporarily stored it in her wrist tag. Ignoring the sullen-faced Lei Ke, she turned and walked out of the training room.
"Hello, I'm Zeng Zhaoying. May I ask how you changed the direction of the Black Flame Meteor's release?" Cheng Huaijin had just stepped out when he bumped into a female classmate wearing black-rimmed glasses.
She smiled and replied, "Just encourage her."
This wasn't meant to fob off Zeng Zhaoying; the direction in which the Black Flame Meteor was released was indeed unintentional.
At that time, Cheng Huaijin and Black Egg Beast were practicing skill release. Because Black Flame Meteor was a large-area damage skill, Black Egg Beast was not very familiar with it and found it a bit difficult to use.
The skill's range was too large; the Black Egg Beast couldn't precisely control the density and accuracy of the black flames.
With enrollment imminent, Cheng Huaijin was always uneasy if the Black Egg Beast didn't have enough strength.
After studying it for a long time, Cheng Huaijin decided to take a different approach.
Since we can't maximize the skill, let's take a surprise attack and catch the opponent off guard!
Black Egg Beast had complete trust in its Beastmaster and naturally had no objections.
So the person and the egg began training. At first, the black egg beast had a poor sense of direction, so Cheng Huaijin came up with a solution: she made the black egg beast stand upside down to release its skill.
Surprisingly, this method actually worked! After several attempts, the Black Egg Beast changed the direction of releasing the Black Flame Meteor from top to bottom to bottom to top.
However, during the duel, it wouldn't be good to let the Black Egg Beast stand upside down and deliver a fatal blow to its opponent! So Cheng Huaijin promised to give the Black Egg Beast more steamed buns and coax it to lie on its side and unleash its skills.
For several days in a row, the Black Egg Beast released black flame meteors from all angles—upside down, on its side, front, and back—without any blind spots.
Teng Yunhe kept laughing as he watched.
Sometimes the black egg beast would get angry, and Cheng Huaijin would try to coax it.
"Let others laugh! While they laugh, you work hard, and in the end, you'll definitely be better than them!"
"Want to use your skills to scare the Cloud Crane in the future?!"
"Black Egg is amazing! I'm so happy to have you as my pet!"
Under Cheng Huaijin's intensely encouraging teaching style, Black Egg Beast's self-confidence exploded, and he practiced with increasing vigor.
Finally, on the day before school started, I successfully practiced the upgraded version of Black Flame Meteor!
The Black Egg Beast can not only unleash black flame meteors from all directions, but also release them instantly, truly making it able to hit any target it aims for.
Invincible!!
—These are Cheng Huaijin's words praising the Black Egg Beast.
Getting back to the main point, in short, Cheng Huaijin didn't do much besides psychological counseling during this training. Black Egg Beast basically figured it out on its own. So when Zeng Zhaoying asked about the training methods, Cheng Huaijin didn't have much to say.
"Encouragement?" Zeng Zhaoying asked thoughtfully.
Fang Juexia pushed her aside, looking at Cheng Huaijin with starry eyes: "Huaijin, you're amazing! No wonder you're number one!"
Cheng Huaijin was both amused and exasperated: "Alright, stop talking about first place. We've just started school, let's keep a low profile."
The students watching couldn't contain their excitement any longer and bombarded Cheng Huaijin with questions.
Unable to withstand the pressure, Cheng Huaijin had no choice but to ask Fang Juexia to bring out the Styx jellyfish again to escort them away from the crowd.
"Phew." Cheng Huaijin breathed a sigh of relief. He hadn't expected the students from Yaotian Junior High to be so enthusiastic.
Fang Juexia asked, "Huaijin, why did the gold chain guy challenge you? It's so strange."
Cheng Huaijin didn't quite understand what was going on either. She had just enrolled and didn't know anyone at the school: "I don't know either, it's so weird. But I won, so it doesn't matter."
She touched the mark on her wrist: "The black egg beast is a bit tired, and I want to finish reporting quickly and take her to the pet center for a check-up."
"Mmm." Fang Juexia nodded. "Then let's hurry up and go."
Led by Fang Juexia, Cheng Huaijin quickly found the classroom, completed all the formalities, and was about to leave when he received a message on his communicator.
[You have received a message from the "Yaotian Junior High School Beast Taming Combat Team". Please click to view.]
Cheng Huaijin stopped and opened the message.
[Dear Cheng Huaijin, congratulations on becoming a preliminary member of the Yaotian Junior High School Beast Taming Combat Team. Please proceed to the Yaotian Junior High School Beast Taming Training Hall tomorrow afternoon at 5 PM for the first round of selection. —Guan Shanyue, Head Coach of the Yaotian Junior High School Beast Taming Combat Team]
"Is it some important news?" Fang Juexia asked.
Cheng Huaijin glanced at it and said, "They told me to participate in the selection for the Beast Taming Combat Team tomorrow."
"!!!" Fang Juexia read the message over and over again. "That's amazing!!! You should be the first supplementary applicant in our batch to make it into the school team!"
Cheng Huaijin never really understood why Fang Juexia kept bringing up "supplementary admission exams," as if there was a huge difference between students admitted through supplementary admissions and those who entered the school normally.
This can't be blamed on Cheng Huaijin. Although she has been in this world for ten years, she has been living the life of an ordinary person. Her only connection with the Beast Taming Society is her younger brother, a beast tamer who doesn't like to talk at home, and her father, who loves watching beast taming competitions.
Apart from that, her knowledge of beast taming was limited to what she read in books.
The exam-oriented knowledge printed in books cannot reveal the unspoken rules of the beast-taming society. That's why Cheng Huaijin felt out of place when she became a true beast tamer and stepped into this world of beast taming.
It's like having your worldview shattered and rebuilt.
Because this is a world far more brutal than the original one, a world where the strong prey on the weak.
Fang Juexia is different from Cheng Huaijin. She comes from a family of beast tamers; both her parents are beast tamers. She grew up with beasts, and all her friends are beast tamers. She is naturally familiar with the rules of the beast tamer society and has a kind of innocent cruelty.
Might makes right.
This is the unchanging ironclad rule of the beast-taming society.
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