Beastmaster: I don’t want to be a breeder!

“It's another instant kill! Three consecutive instant kills against his opponent's pets. And his opponent was tenth on the freshman ranking list. Just how strong is he?”

“The commenter above is wrong. It should be said, the *former* tenth on the freshman ranking list, now eleventh.”

“Oh my goodness, guess what I saw when I looked at his profile just now?”

“Spit it out, don't be a riddle-maker, or I'll just go look at his profile myself.”

“His profile has two achievements listed: he cleared the Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm.”

“Oh my god! He actually cleared that super-challenging Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm!”

“Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm? What about it? Is that secret realm very difficult?”

“It's super difficult. There are many number ones on the freshman ranking list, but he's the only one who's cleared the Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm so far.”

“He not only cleared the Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm, but he also cleared the White Jade Secret Realm, which is only 0.1 points less difficult. And the most terrifying thing is that the successful clearance records for the Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm and the White Jade Secret Realm are on the same day, which means that after clearing the Mechanical Demolition Secret Realm, he immediately cleared the White Jade Secret Realm without stopping.”

Li Cunxu's ranking has risen to tenth place and he wants to continue matching.

He discovers that there is no match button anymore, only a button to book a battle.

He books a ranking battle against the ninth-ranked player.

If the second-ranked player booked a battle against the first-ranked player, it would still take at least seven days.

Li Cunxu was able to book it so quickly because it's almost September. Once September arrives, the freshman ranking list will be updated, with high school seniors becoming freshmen and freshmen becoming sophomores.

At the end of August, it's the end of the season for the freshman ranking list.

The top ten players have to accept challenges from others every day. If they don't accept one for a day, their ranking drops by one. If they don't accept one for two days, their ranking drops by three. If they don't accept one for three days, their ranking drops by five.

During this special period, anyone in the top one thousand will see their ranking drop if they don't accept a challenge from someone else for even one day.

“It's only 5 PM now, there are still three hours until 8 PM. I'll go eat first.”

The virtual pod is a bit different from the game pods of his previous life. Game pods could deliver nutrient solutions, but virtual pods don't have this function. When it's time to eat, it will remind you to log off and eat. If you stay in the virtual arena for too long, you will even be kicked offline.

Ding-dong~

[You have received a challenge request.]

[Note: You are currently ranked tenth, the gatekeeper of the top ten, a very special position. For challenge requests from those ranked in the top thirty, try not to refuse. If you refuse, your ranking will drop by one.]

And this challenge request is from the twenty-ninth-ranked player.

“Refusing will drop my ranking, that's so unreasonable.”

“People ranked below the top ten want to break into the top ten, they have to defeat the tenth-ranked player. If the tenth-ranked player keeps refusing battles, people ranked below the top ten won't be able to break into the top ten.”

Li Cunxu thought about it and understood.

“It's not easy being the gatekeeper of the top ten!”

Li Cunxu decisively defeated the challenger. Before he could log off, he received another challenge.

Defeat, and another challenge comes.

Defeat, and another challenge comes.

… …

After defeating five people in a row, Li Cunxu noticed that something was wrong. Their timing was too good. As soon as one battle ended, someone would immediately request a ranking challenge.

These people's command of their pets was very cautious, as if they knew how powerful Little Soft was.

They weren't aiming to win, but rather to test what skills Little Soft had.

“Someone hired them to test Little Soft's skills? Is it someone above me in the rankings doing this? Worried that I'll defeat them, they're sending people to get information about Little Soft.”

Li Cunxu guessed it, but there was nothing he could do.

He couldn't report this.

To be precise, it's not that he couldn't report it, but that reporting it would be useless.

It's not that the school isn't doing anything, but that the school is deliberately doing this.

From his conversation with Senior Mu Qingyan, Li Cunxu learned that for minor injustices, Divine Capital University deliberately tolerates them. Their purpose is to instill in students the idea of working hard and using their strength to overcome injustice when they encounter it.

However, Li Cunxu didn't care too much.

After all, at 8 PM, he would be ninth, and he wouldn't have to suffer the fate of being the gatekeeper of the top ten anymore.

Things went as Li Cunxu expected.

Without any surprises, his ranking rose.

The strength of the ninth-ranked player was about the same as the faceless man in the black robe. The battle was very easy.

He continued to challenge higher rankings, and his ranking gradually rose.

Eighth place.

Seventh place.

… …

Second place.

The battle with the second-ranked player was the most difficult, and it took him three hours to take him down.

August 31st.

The last day of August.

Li Cunxu challenges the first-ranked player.

The first-ranked player is a little beauty who is 1.8 meters tall, has long legs, and wears pigtails, looking playful and cute.

But that's the image in the virtual arena. In reality, the first-ranked player is also a playful and cute little beauty, except that her height is fake. She doesn't have long legs, and her real height is 1.5 meters.

The first-ranked player is one year younger than Li Cunxu.

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“Hello! My name is Ao Meng.”

“Hello! My name is Li Cunxu.”

“After this battle, can I hug your slime offline? I really like your slime.” Ao Meng said, staring straight at Little Soft with her long-lashed beautiful eyes.

Little Soft's cute appearance and its super strength that doesn't match its appearance are very popular with girls, especially young girls.

Which girl can refuse a pet that is very cute and also fierce in battle?

“Sure.”

“Great! Then let's make this quick!”

Ao Meng summoned her pet.

Li Cunxu was very familiar with this pet, a Sacred Lotus Armored Jiao with golden dragon scales all over its body.

Sacred Lotus Armored Jiao? The evolved form of the Sacred Lotus Carp.

Isn't this standard for the Sacred Lotus Li family?

“Is your name Li Ao Meng?” Li Cunxu asked tentatively.

Ao Meng said, “My surname is Ao, not Li.”

“Your mother's surname is Li?”

“My mother's surname is not Li.”

“Your father is a live-in son-in-law, and you have the same surname as your mother?”

“My father is not a live-in son-in-law, and I have the same surname as my father.”

“Do your grandparents or maternal grandparents have the surname Li?”

“No.”

Not surnamed Li, nor an in-law of the Sacred Lotus family, how did she get the Sacred Lotus Armored Jiao?

“Then how did you get your Sacred Lotus Armored Jiao?”

“My godfather gave it to me.”

Using the Sacred Lotus family's lifeblood, the Sacred Lotus Armored Jiao, to give to someone, Li Cunxu was very curious who Ao Meng's godfather was? To have such great power.

You must know that even Li Shiji can't openly give a Sacred Lotus Armored Jiao to an outsider.

Of course, this is also related to Li Shiji's lack of influence in the Sacred Lotus family.

“Who is your godfather?”

“Li Shiwu.”

Li Shiwu, quite famous, the current patriarch of the Sacred Lotus family.

Why would he give a Sacred Lotus Armored Jiao to Ao Meng?

Li Cunxu couldn't help but ask curiously, “Why did he give you the Sacred Lotus Armored Jiao?”

Ao Meng said, “I don't know either, he just forced it on me.”

Forced it? Such an uncommon word.

He also wanted to experience having a Sacred Lotus Armored Jiao with the two tags of Dragon Pet and Sacred Beast forced on him.

The audience was also extremely envious upon hearing this.

Eh? It seems like I don't need to be envious.

As long as I am willing to expose the Blood Lotus Eye, the Sacred Lotus family will also force a Sacred Lotus Carp on me, and two of them, one male and one female.