Ao Cang had once seen other sacred beast avatars participate in this training from afar. After nodding the dragon's head, the dragon's body crawled into the beam spray range of the training machine.
Without the red knitted shawl covering him, the bald spots on his dragon body became very clear. Combined with his slow crawling speed, it gave him a very weak and unnatural appearance.
"Is it even capable? I feel like it's having a hard time climbing over there. Can it even dodge a beam of light?"
"I don't know, but it really looks so weak. How could its scales be so bald?"
"Hey, look, it's wearing a life force necklace around its neck. Could it be that Qiao Mei is lending it life force?"
Qiao Yingying noticed that everyone's attention, which had been focused on her, had shifted to Qiao Mei. A flicker of irritation and jealousy appeared in her grey eyes, and she feigned speaking up for Qiao Mei:
"Don't say that. Seventh Sister doesn't want her familiar beasts to look so weak either. Besides, the little black dragon is also an avatar of the Holy Abandoned Beast Dragon God, so it's normal for it to be so weak. It's understandable that it can't even dodge a beam of light!"
Her voice wasn't quiet. After hearing her familiar, tea-flavored remarks that subtly and overtly belittled Ao Cang's abilities, Qiao Mei already guessed how her protectors would fawn over her.
But she wasn't really interested in listening carefully. Instead, she put on the control gloves she had bought yesterday, intending to have her first collaboration with Ao Cang.
When she chose Ao Cang, a sacred abandoned beast destined to be controversial, as her familiar, she had already anticipated how much criticism and doubt she would face.
If she had to verbally refute everyone who questioned her, it would be exhausting and would also make her seem petty and narrow-minded.
Therefore, she plans to let her abilities speak for themselves.
As the girl's thoughts settled, Ao Cang had completely crawled into the beam's range. Qiao Mei tried to control Ao Cang's dragon body with her control gloves, wanting him to move to the right a little, only to find that it wasn't as easy as she had imagined.
She felt as if she were trying to unscrew the lid of a brand new can with her bare hands. When she tried to swing it to the right, she encountered great resistance. Only when a thin layer of sweat appeared on her forehead did Ao Cang's dragon body move a small distance to the right.
Ao Cang, who was bound to her by kinship, noticed the changes in her physical condition and said to her, "Let me do it myself first, you don't need to rush."
Qiao Mei was indeed exhausted. She quickly took off her control gloves and officially clicked the "Start Training" button on the computer of the online training machine.
[Moving beam in preparation. Please prepare to dodge, allied beasts. Firing countdown: 3...2...]
The moment the mechanical sound of "1" fell, Qiao Mei saw multiple beams of milky white light shooting towards Ao Cang's location. Seeing this, everyone started making bets.
"What speed rating do you think this little black dragon will get?"
"I think it would be difficult for it to even climb a hill, let alone climb a car."
The speed rating is based on the number of beams the summoned beast dodges. The machine fires a total of 100 beams in one minute at several intervals. Basically, dodging more than 50 beams will get you a speed rating of at least C, 70 beams is B, 90 beams is A, and 100 beams is S.
Ao Cang is a dragon, and his hearing is much more sensitive than that of ordinary humans. When he heard these words that looked down on him and also disregarded Qiao Mei, his golden dragon eyes ignited with fighting spirit. His slender dragon body nimbly dodged the first beam of light, and then, in the same way, dodged the other two beams at a very tricky angle.
When the next five beams of light struck him at once, he used the lightning gathered around his body to stand in the air and quickly dodge them.
Those who had previously doubted him were utterly astonished.
"Really? Am I seeing things? How can it be so agile?"
Compared to these people, Qiao Mei wasn't too surprised to see the little black dragon easily dodging the beam attacks.
Since he scored 90 out of 100 in the speed test, his performance in evasion training should not be too bad.
However, apart from Xu Hui, her, and Dean Li, no one else knew about this.
Seeing that Ao Cang had successfully dodged the fiftieth beam of light and was about to receive the most basic C rating, Qiao Mei used her Familiar Bond to stop Ao Cang, who could have continued to dodge.
"Cangcang, that's enough. Let's end the initial test here."
She didn't tell Ao Cang the reason, but Ao Cang could roughly guess that she wanted to hide her strength and ensure her safety. He quickly pretended to be exhausted and let the remaining fifty beams of light hit his body, leaving half of his dragon body marked with red crosses.
"It's already failing? Judging from its condition just now, I felt it should have been able to hold on."
"It's probably just putting on a brave face. Look how many scales it's lost; its health must be terrible. Getting a C rating is already the best it can hope for."
"I think so too. I just don't know if Qiao Mei will let the little black dragon unleash its lightning minions next. She still hasn't done the attack and defense ratings."
After the machines completely stopped, Qiao Mei went to get the potion that could wipe off the red cross marks amidst a chorus of discussion.
Coincidentally, the place where the medicine was placed was not far from Qiao Yingying, so Qiao Mei went over and picked up Ao Cang. When accepting the C-level speed rating, she deliberately walked past her and whispered to her:
"I'm sorry, Eighth Sister, my Cangcang isn't as bad as you think. I'm sorry to disappoint you. There's nothing I can do. At worst, he can still get a C-level rating, unlike some people's familiars who can't even get a C."
After Qiao Mei finished speaking, she glanced meaningfully at the little white wolf following Qiao Yingying, and then left with Ao Cang.
Unable to even manage a fake smile, Qiao Yingying stood there awkwardly, her nails digging into her palms, her face pale and sickly, unable to utter a word.
The people surrounding her had been comforting her about how the little white wolf had only dodged ten beams of light and hadn't even achieved a C-level speed rating.
Qiao Mei's words were practically a direct statement that she and Little White Wolf were both good-for-nothings. Qiao Yingying felt her face burning, as if she had just been slapped.
Those who were close to her and acted as her protectors had also heard what Qiao Mei had just said, and they comforted Qiao Yingying: "Eighth Princess, don't pay her any mind. So what if she got a C rating? What's the big deal? She acts like she's inferior to everyone else..."
At this point, the protector realized he had misspoke and quickly corrected himself, but Qiao Yingying, who had already been humiliated multiple times, didn't want to listen anymore. She gave a fake smile and left in a sorry state.
Qiao Mei was unaware of what had happened to Qiao Yingying. She took the elevator to the second floor and, upon arriving at the training area for attack power, did not rush to let Ao Cang go first. Instead, she picked him up and found a spot to wipe the red cross marks off his body.
But before she could finish wiping for more than a few seconds, she heard a startled cry from the other side.
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