Icefire Snow Mountain.

Standing on a spirit sword, the red bird spirit flying on its sword silently faced the water slime on the ice field.

Beside them, Eleven, Chongchong, and Ginseng Baby were all holding melon seeds, eating and watching Shi Yu.

They strongly suspected there was something fishy going on.

"I just like watching women fight... no."

Shi Yu stood in the distance, watching the battlefield fairly and impartially.

"There's nothing fishy going on, it's all random."

"Friendship first, competition second. First team competition, first battle, Chi Tong vs. Su Su, are you all ready?"

"Ning!"

"Mi!"

Both pets nodded immediately, indicating they were ready.

Friendship second, competition first! They understood!

In an instant, the battle began.

Boom.

A deafening sound immediately echoed across the ice field.

With the huge noise, dark clouds instantly appeared in the sky.

A torrential rain fell, the sky was pitch black, and in the rolling rain clouds, one could vaguely see the phantom of a Dragon King summoning wind and rain.

A combination of Water Dragon Bullet and Rain Prayer, the ultimate skill, Dragon Descent Rain!

At this time, the torrential rain that fell was like each drop of water contained a compressed water dragon, each drop of water was extremely hard, and each drop of water fell at an incredibly fast speed.

These water droplets, like high-speed bullets, fell indiscriminately towards the ice field, as if a meteor shower was descending.

Chongchong: ╰(*°▽°*)╯ It's the Dragon King spitting water!

Eleven, Ginseng Baby, and the other pets pointed and commented.

Unexpectedly, Su Su, who had just completed her skill point allocation, had already begun to study ultimate skills.

This move, although seemingly fierce and with a large attack range, actually didn't consume much energy.

It mainly borrowed the power of nature through the Rain Prayer.

At the same time, as the surrounding water elements gathered, Su Su could also reuse them by controlling the water elements and infinitely devouring and swallowing them...

Chi Tong: Σ(°△°|||)︴!!

Seeing Su Su attack without warning, Chi Tong was immediately shocked.

However, it was not "vegetarian" either.

This kind of ultimate skill that looked not very powerful at all was not worth mentioning, and it could easily break it.

If Chongchong's Instant Transmission wasn't counted, Chi Tong was the fastest in Shi Yu's team.

Even if Instant Transmission was counted, Chongchong was only faster in instantaneous speed; in terms of sustained speed, Chi Tong was still better.

High-level skill, Light Flame Sword!

Whoosh!

In an instant, Chi Tong used the Yang Flame skill, which had been raised to the proficient level by the Energy Storing Light Beam, as energy, and launched the max-level Light Flame Sword, transforming itself into an invisible sword light, and killing towards Su Su's main body.

This sword light was extremely fast, even Su Su's Super Vision could hardly capture it. Before the rain fell, Chi Tong was only one step away from Su Su, and the attack arrived in an instant!

Whoosh!

Su Su was shocked and didn't react at all. Fortunately, the automatic defense skill "Guardian Water" saved it once, turning into a water curtain to block the Light Flame Sword. However, even so, there was still a violent energy fluctuation between the two sides, producing a big explosion that blew both Chi Tong and Su Su away.

However, this kind of non-frontal aftershock damage was negligible for Chi Tong, who had "Regenerative Flame," and Su Su, who had "Water Regeneration."

At the same time, countless raindrops completely fell. At this time, Chi Tong was surrounded by Yang Flame. Before these raindrops touched Chi Tong, they all evaporated due to the high temperature. However, this couldn't invalidate the Rain Prayer. As the water droplets turned into high temperatures, the properties of the water droplets changed, turning into high-temperature steam and then producing a "steam explosion"!

Boom!

In an instant, continuous explosions were triggered next to Chi Tong. Seeing this, Su Su revealed a happy expression, but the next moment, its expression suddenly changed.

"Mi! (Annoying!)"

Chi Tong temporarily ignored the damage, while enduring it and recovering itself, it separated countless sword spirits filled with Yang Flame, swirling in the air.

Then, countless clones began to overlap each other through the Possession skill.

The final ultimate skill of Possession and Clone, Unity of Ten Thousand Swords!

Boom!

After the Unity of Ten Thousand Swords, a terrifying aura burst out from Chi Tong's main body. The attributes of countless clones were superimposed beyond the limit on one body through the Possession skill, instantly making Chi Tong's power reach an extremely terrifying level.

It swung its sword towards the sky, and an unparalleled sword pressure was born from its body. Vigorous energy spread in all directions, and countless sharp swords flew and swirled like a storm. The sword force was like a net, sharp and unparalleled, a spectacular sight. In an instant, the water droplets in the sky vanished, and a big hole was broken in the dark clouds, with the Dragon King's body swimming inside being split in two.

At this moment, Chi Tong's energy value approached the ten million level.

Although both were ultimate skills, Chi Tong's Unity of Ten Thousand Swords was more powerful than Su Su's Dragon Descent Rain!

The so-called combination ultimate skill didn't only depend on skill proficiency and skill level but also on the effect after skill combination!

Unity of Ten Thousand Swords was obviously a super burst skill.

Of course, Chi Tong couldn't maintain this state for long. Taking advantage of the increasing burden, it directly launched the Light Flame Sword again, turning into a beam of sword light.

This time, the speed of the sword light not only completely prevented Su Su's transcendent Super Vision from capturing it, but even the Guardian Water didn't have time to automatically defend.

The sword pierced through Su Su's body. With a "boom," Su Su was smashed to pieces.

"Ning..." After the steam dissipated, Su Su had circles in its eyes. Its body was broken into pieces about the size of a fist and it fell asleep. At this time, countless sword lights floated above Su Su's head, indicating that they could strike the final blow at any time. In a team competition, everyone knew each other well, so there was no way it would be given time to recover.

After a moment of silence, Eleven, Chongchong, and Ginseng Baby looked at Chi Tong. This ultimate skill was indeed strong.

After Shi Yu was silent for a moment, he said, "The winner of the first battle is Chi Tong!"

"Mi~~!!" In the sky, Chi Tong cried out happily.

Yay!

"Ning..." Su Su was dizzy and didn't understand why it couldn't defeat Chi Tong, even though its attributes restrained Chi Tong. This, this wasn't scientific.

"Both sides did well. Keep up the good work next time." Shi Yu shook his head with a smile. Su Su's combat experience was obviously insufficient.

Because it had been allocating skill points during this time, it didn't have much time to train independently and develop powerful combination ultimate skills. Therefore, in terms of combat power, it was still a bit behind Chi Tong and the others, who had trained with Eleven and the others for a long time and had their own tailor-made ultimate skills.

Chi Tong's Unity of Ten Thousand Swords and the advantage of being the fastest in the team were indeed unsolvable, but if Su Su combined all the skills it had just maxed out into a suitable ultimate skill, it might not be able to fight.

In general, the future was promising. Su Su's next direction of improvement should be the same as Eleven, Chongchong, Ginseng Baby, and Chi Tong: to develop stronger and more suitable combination ultimate skills.

Soon, Su Su was dragged away to eat fruit and rest, tearfully and angrily watching Chi Tong on the field.

Shi Yu said with a smile, "Then let's continue. The order of the ten battles has already been drawn. Chi Tong, come over and rest too. It's still your turn in the next match."

"Mi??? (You still say there's nothing fishy going on?)"

"Don't worry, the one resting is really randomly selected by the system."

……

Second team battle.

Recovered Chi Tong versus Chongchong!

Chongchong didn't dare to be careless, but it wasn't afraid either. If there was anyone who knew each pet in the team best besides Shi Yu, it would be Chongchong.

When Eleven and the others were training their will, Chongchong had stolen their phantom templates through Dream Stealing.

Although the phantom templates were not as powerful as the real ones, they could give Chongchong a sufficient understanding of each teammate.

At the beginning of the battle, Chi Tong still repeated its old trick, using a speed attack strategy, slashing wildly with the Light Flame Sword.

"Mi Mi Mi! (Phantom Sword Dance!)"

However, skills that Su Su couldn't react to didn't mean that Chongchong couldn't react to them.

The same Super Vision, when used by a mental-type Chongchong, would definitely be more effective than when used by a water-type Su Su.

Buzz!

Chongchong used Instant Transmission to leave the attack range of the opponent's skill.

"Roar!!!"

After dodging the attack, Chongchong immediately entered the Imaginary Dragon state, gaining the various qualities of a dragon. Its comprehensive attributes instantly surpassed Chi Tong's, and it conjured a divine dragon body, wrapping it around the outside of its butterfly body. It used its strongest ultimate skill, Painting the Dragon's Eye, and crashed towards Chi Tong.

Under the powerful attributes and the acceleration of mental power, at this moment, Chongchong's Painting the Dragon's Eye ultimate skill speed surpassed the Light Flame Sword, and its power far exceeded Chi Tong's.

As a blue light flashed before its eyes, Chi Tong was forced to continue entering the Unity of Ten Thousand Swords state, planning to rely on its stronger attributes to fight Chongchong head-on.

Boom!

Chi Tong once again stacked itself with ten thousand swords.

At this moment, Chi Tong's power and speed, with the outbreak of its ultimate skill, once again surpassed Chongchong's. Of course, Chi Tong's side effects were greater.

The two sides broke out one after another. Su Su, who was watching the battle, stared with wide eyes, thinking, "So strong, so strong..."

Eleven and Ginseng Baby silently watched, constantly collecting data and analyzing information...

As expected, Chongchong, who was using Painting the Dragon's Eye, and Chi Tong, who was using Unity of Ten Thousand Swords, collided directly. A violent wave was transmitted, and Chi Tong took the upper hand, piercing through the divine dragon!

However, at this time, Chongchong itself was not injured at all, and its consumption was not much. Because it was in the divine dragon phantom body, it directly activated the Empty Concealment state, which could ignore all non-spatial attacks, and Chi Tong had no means to break the Empty Concealment skill.

So, basically, it was equivalent to Chongchong making Chi Tong pay the greatest price at the smallest cost.

"Mi!!!" As it suffered the backlash of Unity of Ten Thousand Swords and endured the frontal damage of Painting the Dragon's Eye, with its consumption exceeding its load, Chi Tong looked at Chongchong, who had entered Empty Concealment, and shouted that it was cheating and playing dirty, then quickly dispelled its Possession.

"Ugh, hehehe~" Chongchong didn't care so much. It continued to repeat its old trick, entering the Imaginary Dragon state and manifesting Painting the Dragon's Eye. This time, Chi Tong learned its lesson. It didn't erupt with more power than Chongchong, but just maintained parity. It planned to defeat Chongchong with its strong endurance.

Chongchong: ✧(≖◡≖✿)

Unfortunately, this time Chongchong didn't plan to fight head-on either. At the instant when the two sides were about to collide, Chongchong and the skill disappeared into this space, making Chi Tong miss. Obviously, Chongchong had used Instant Transmission with the skill. Then, it instantly appeared behind Chi Tong and, without exchanging injuries for injuries, slammed Chi Tong from the sky to the ground with one claw.

"Mi!!"

In terms of tactics, Chongchong suppressed Chi Tong throughout the entire battle. Not long after, the battle between the two ended with Chongchong, who was not lightly exhausted, winning without any suspense. Not only was its body tired, but its brain was also quite tired from constantly calculating Chi Tong.

For this battle, everything was still within Shi Yu's expectations.

And this time, it was Chi Tong who was dragged back for first aid, tearfully and angrily watching Chongchong.

"Ning ning ning." Seeing its Chi Tong elder sister, who had easily defeated it, defeated, Su Su was a little sad. It wasn't pitying Chi Tong. Instead, it was thinking, "Does that mean I'm weak?"

……

Third team battle!

Chongchong vs. Eleven!

"Well, do your best."

As Shi Yu announced the next list with a smile, Chongchong's expression became solemn.

"Ying!" Eleven stared at Chongchong, but its expression was still calm.

The little panda rubbed its fists, its eyes shining.

Come on.

Chongchong, let me test the results of your training!

"..." Chongchong was silent. It didn't expect to face the leader so soon.

Could it... defeat the leader?

"Iya..." Ginseng Baby's expression also became serious. It really wanted to know the result of this battle.

In its opinion, the two biggest threats to it were Eleven and Chongchong.

"Mi." "Ning."

Chi Tong, who was resting, cheered for Eleven, hoping that it could beat up the insidious and cunning Chongchong.

And Su Su, was silent, constantly analyzing and thinking, before determining that it... might be at the bottom QAQ?

At the beginning of the battle.

Eleven burst out with all its strength.

It had grown to more than ten meters in size, and its sharpness had erupted, doubling its energy value.

At the same time, Chongchong also used Illusory Phantom and Imaginary Domain to create Dragon God Valley... creating geographical advantages.

But the next moment.

"Boom—"

The Imaginary Domain that Chongchong conjured to strengthen itself was directly shattered by Eleven, who had grown to more than ten meters and evolved into a Nine Li Battle Beast, with a tremor of its arms.

Super-level skill, Space Shatter!

Specially designed to counter space-type skills!

Boom.

The space was completely shattered.

Chongchong: (⊙ˍ⊙)

The overwhelming power was transmitted to the surroundings, even preventing Chongchong from using Instant Transmission and Empty Concealment.

These two skills were just suicide in front of Space Shatter!

It could only maintain the Imaginary Dragon state, trying to fight Eleven head-on.

However, Chongchong's strongest ultimate skill, Painting the Dragon's Eye, turned into a beam of light and crashed into Eleven. The result made Ginseng Baby, Su Su, and Chi Tong cover their mouths with tears.

Bang!!!

The divine dragon phantom seemed to have crashed into an unbreakable copper wall. There was only a sound, no cracks. With a "thud," Chongchong itself was knocked dizzy by the reaction force and then was hugged up by Eleven, who continued to grow!

Even in the Imaginary Dragon state, facing the giant body covered in Bean Bears and in the Fortified Defense state of the Legion Skill, Chongchong couldn't break through the defense!

Chongchong:凸(艹皿艹) What kind of defense is this!!!

Chongchong even suspected that even Chi Tong's full-strength sword couldn't break through Eleven's legion defense skill.

Boom.

The thunder fell.

With the thunder washing the ground, Chongchong, who was hugged by Eleven, was unsurprisingly smashed to pieces by Eleven.

Seeing this, Chi Tong and Su Su's expressions became extremely dignified, and Ginseng Baby was even more serious. However, its eruption was stronger than Chongchong's, so breaking through Fortified Defense should not be a problem.

"As expected of Eleven." Shi Yu said with a smile.

……

Fourth match, Su Su vs. Ginseng Baby!

The fourth match list was finally announced, and Su Su approached the stage with fear.

Facing this team senior who had smashed two overlords to pieces, Su Su believed that it was even more threatening than Eleven.

The main reason was that the Time Fruit was too broken, it could even increase combat power to the overlord level!

How could it fight that!

Ginseng Baby: &a

Su Su also opened its mouth wide, everything was self-evident.

Shi Yu sighed. Eleven might like to be reckless, but it wasn't stupid. Direct head-on confrontation was for the weak. Who would want to confront the Suicide Ginseng head-on?

"Continue, continue, cough, otherwise, let's limit the venue range next time?"

The unconscious Ginseng Baby raised both hands in strong agreement.

Chongchong said that it was best to update the equipment system! Chi Tong also agreed with this point. It could also possess equipment, and that Ice Dragon Blade was pretty good.

Su Su said that it was best to change the venue... to an ocean battlefield...

For a time, the pets discussed heatedly.

……

About a day later, five more battles were held.

A total of 10 battles ended, and the first team competition came to a successful conclusion.

The final rankings, from weakest to strongest, are shown below.

Fifth place, Reincarnated Azure Sea Elf, Su Su.

First, it was smashed to pieces in a sisterly battle with Chi Tong, and then it was countered by Ginseng Baby's anti-Su Su energy fruit.

After that, it encountered Chongchong, who was even more unreasonable. Chongchong directly manifested Ginseng Baby and instantly moved it next to Su Su. Su Su was not fast, nor was its defense strong. It had no power to resist and was blown to pieces.

It was countered by "Ginseng Baby" again.

As for the match against Eleven... Although Su Su had max-level lightning resistance, Eleven's main attribute was metal. The result was self-evident, it was suppressed and shattered by a giant Space Shatter palm.

There was no way, even if Eleven just stood there and let Su Su attack, as long as it activated the Legion Skill, Su Su might not be able to win.

In Shi Yu's team, under the rules of one-on-one battles, only Ginseng Baby could currently break through Eleven's legion defense skill with the Time Fruit. Su Su was powerless in this situation.

At the end of the competition, Su Su completely shut itself off.

It was even at the bottom of the team competition, so how could it protect the sea?

Shi Yu's evaluation was: "Keep it up. Even if you can protect the sea in the future, you might not be able to win the team competition."

Su Su: ?

Human language?

Fourth place, Mu Huiyin's Spirit, Chi Tong.

It only defeated Su Su.

Then, it was first defeated by Chongchong using space-type tricks, and then it encountered Ginseng Baby.

At first, Chi Tong also wanted to learn from Eleven and use a kiting strategy to defeat Ginseng Baby, especially since it countered Ginseng Baby.

However, Chi Tong's endurance, attack power, and defense were obviously not as strong as Eleven's. Eleven was almost strong without any weaknesses, which led to Chi Tong directly being shot down by Ginseng Baby's Energy Storing Light Beam while learning Eleven's tactics, and then smashed to pieces.

Finally, in the match against Eleven, Chi Tong was also indifferent.

After failing to break through the defense with several attacks, it was directly suppressed.

Third place, Ginseng Baby.

Although Ginseng Baby was calling itself invincible, it still couldn't defeat Eleven and Chongchong, besides defeating Chi Tong and Su Su.

Of course, it didn't lose to Chongchong either.

The two sides drew, with no winner at all. They fought for three hours without a winner, and Shi Yu called it a draw.

Chongchong's chosen tactics were similar to Eleven's.

There was no way, this was the best tactic for dealing with Ginseng Baby, who was not good at flying and aerial combat.

Although Ginseng Baby had accumulated space-type mutation power in advance through the Mutation Fruit skill and could create an "Anti-Chongchong Energy Fruit" at any time, it had no effective means of launching the fruit when facing Chongchong, who was hiding high in the sky and unwilling to confront it head-on. Throwing it with tree branches couldn't throw it high or fast enough, and it could easily be dodged by Chongchong's Instant Transmission.

The only Energy Storing Light Beam that could attack high in the sky was countered by Empty Concealment, similar to the situation with Eleven's Fortified Defense.

However, Chongchong couldn't do anything to Ginseng Baby either. Facing Ginseng Baby, who was hiding and unwilling to cripple itself and upgrade to the overlord level, it had no good means of attack. Manifesting Eleven, manifesting the Ice Dragon, manifesting Ginseng Baby's bombs and instantly moving them next to Ginseng Baby's main body were all cracked by Ginseng Baby one by one. After all, the manifested ones were definitely not as strong as the real ones. Even if the Ginseng Baby phantom self-destructed, it couldn't knock down Ginseng Baby, who had used some Time Fruit power to increase its energy value to the ten million level and had endurance.

The two stubbornly fought for three hours, both hoping to get second place and not wanting to be third.

If they continued, they might be able to determine a winner, but Shi Yu was tired of watching and directly called a stop...

……

The evening of the second day, the moon and stars were sparse.

As the team competition came to a complete end, each pet was somewhat unwilling.

Team rankings: Eleven, Chongchong/Ginseng Baby, Chi Tong, Su Su.

Even Eleven, who won first place, was a little regretful because it felt that it didn't win honorably. Chongchong and Ginseng Baby were both second. It would be perfect if it could smash Ginseng Baby head-on like it did Chongchong.

It was also thanks to the fact that there were no restrictions on the venue range this time. Otherwise, it and Chongchong would probably have been smashed to pieces by Ginseng Baby.

Eleven, as the most comprehensive pet in Shi Yu's team with the most super-level racial skills, was undoubtedly the first. Its powerful physique, sufficient endurance, legion defense skills that no one could break through, and the fact that metal and lightning were both powerful attack attributes, were almost perfectly allocated.

Chongchong relied on its understanding of each teammate and used the weakest racial attributes and powerful racial skills and tactical arrangements to defeat and tie with other teammates.

Chongchong was indeed not easy. If the enhancement brought by active skills was not counted and only vitality, energy value, and physique were divided into the three dimensions of pet racial attributes, then Eleven's three dimensions should be vitality (medium), energy value (medium), and physique (extremely high).

Chi Tong and Su Su's three dimensions were vitality (high), energy value (medium), and physique (medium).

Ginseng Baby's three dimensions were vitality (extremely high), energy value (extremely high), and physique (extremely low).

As for Chongchong's three dimensions, they were vitality (extremely low), energy value (medium), and physique (extremely low), a miserable situation.

So it was really not easy for Chongchong to get to this point. Thanks to the weirdness of the space type and the fact that its space-type skills didn't have as many side effects as Ginseng Baby's time-type skills.

Although it was said that if the venue was restricted, it might not be able to defeat Ginseng Baby, Chongchong hadn't brought any equipment yet. If it could bring an eighth- or ninth-level dragon-type resource, its improvement might not be smaller than the Time Fruit's. After all, as a high-level skill, the Time Fruit's upper limit for improvement, without mythical racial potential, was to increase the pet's strength to the overlord level.

Shi Yu wasn't surprised that Ginseng Baby, who had the highest racial attributes, was tied for second.

Its attributes were really strong.

But unfortunately, if it hadn't been taught skills, it wouldn't have a single racial skill that was an attack skill besides Moon Blast. This was also the price of having strong racial attributes.

"A bunch of little perverts."

After finishing the team competition, Shi Yu began to take them down the mountain. Next, it was time to go to the National Competition to see the situation.

With the current strength of this team, although it was still difficult to participate in the World Competition, where the entry threshold was the overlord level, and going there would be suicide, it should be possible to massacre the National Competition, just like playing the Baby Cup... It could be said that this team competition was a warm-up for the National Competition. Hopefully, everything would go smoothly!