Chapter 38: Scheming! Shock! Transform, Green Caterpillar!
Chapter 38: Scheming! Shock! Transform, Green Caterpillar!
The third-floor Viewing Platform.
“Sis, go for it!”
Lin Xi was extremely excited, her cheeks flushed, her eyes full of admiration as she looked at Lin Xi, “That guy is about to lose!”
This match was thrilling to watch.
Sis had been overpowering that guy the entire time.
She was so outstanding, so exhilarating, so dazzling.
The frustration and gloom from being instantly defeated by Wang Che yesterday were now completely swept away. She felt very happy.
“The gap between the two sides is still too big.” Professor Yan shook his head. “Miss Xi’s Zhiyun Snake, after a week of training, is no longer something the Green Caterpillar can match… right from the start. Facing a Soul Pet like Zhiyun Snake, which has no weaknesses, he wanted to gamble with the Silk Spitting Soul Skill. If he could hit even once, there might have been some chance.”
“Unfortunately, after he used the Silk Spitting Soul Skill yesterday, Zhiyun Snake was fully prepared today. With such a clear difference in strength between them, hitting is too difficult.”
“For a Green Caterpillar to fight a Zhiyun Snake to this extent is quite remarkable.”
As Professor Yan spoke, he kept watching, faintly feeling something was off again.
He looked at the blind old man beside him.
“Tell that girl Xi to raise the Viewing Platform by fifteen meters.”
The blind old man said.
“Huh?”
Professor Yan was slightly startled.
He didn’t quite understand the meaning.
“Why, blind grandpa?” Lin Xi, still excited, frowned.
“Raising it fifteen meters will make it clearer.” The blind old man said casually.
“I feel like I can see pretty clearly now.” Lin Xi was a bit speechless.
This was the Viewing Platform, basically the best angle to watch the fight, about four or five meters higher than the Dueling Platform, the height of one floor.
Looking down diagonally, the fight on the platform was very clear.
But since blind grandpa had instructed, she had to call the staff to raise this rather special Viewing Platform by over ten meters.
After it was raised.
“Interesting.” The blind old man suddenly laughed heartily. “This young man is really something… He even fooled me… How clever!”
“What do you mean?” Professor Yan asked, puzzled.
“Look now?” The blind old man pointed at the huge dueling ground.
Professor Yan looked down.
At first glance, his expression changed abruptly.
Then, his face changed too, showing great shock.
“So that’s it!”
At the same time.
Following Wang Che’s command.
The Green Caterpillar once again used the Silk Spitting Soul Skill toward the Zhiyun Snake standing on top of a piece of rubble in the distance.
Zhiyun Snake dodged again.
Just as the Green Caterpillar was about to use its silk thread to bounce and evade.
Wang Che suddenly ordered, “No need to dodge. Coil up where you are and defend.”
Green Caterpillar: “???”
Can I block this?
The Green Caterpillar didn’t understand, but it still obeyed the command.
It coiled up directly, wrapping its whole body.
Everyone who saw this, including Lin Xi, was stunned.
Changed?
Defense?
Her combat intuition told Lin Xi that something seemed wrong.
But at this moment, the Rattler Tail Strike that Zhiyun Snake had built up was like an arrow on the bowstring; it had to be released.
There was no possibility of change.
After all, victory was in sight. This time, there was no evasion. If it hit, it would basically be over for the opponent.
Boom!
The Rattler Tail Strike, undiminished in power, directly hit the Green Caterpillar, which was now curled up into a ball!
The explosive sound shook the area around the platform.
The already cracked Dueling Platform now had countless fissures, sending shattered stones flying everywhere.
Dust filled the air.
A figure shot out.
It was the Green Caterpillar that had been hit!
Taking a Rattler Tail Strike, even in a defensive state, the powerful force sent it flying.
It landed on the ground in the distance.
What puzzled everyone was that the Green Caterpillar could still stand up. Although it had suffered significant injuries, it wasn’t enough to make it lose the ability to fight.
Lin Xi frowned slightly. Seeing the Green Caterpillar was at the end of its strength, she immediately said, “Zhiyun Snake, finish it with one last strike!”
At this point, the Green Caterpillar’s condition had greatly declined. Naturally, it couldn’t withstand another strike.
Yet, after the command.
There was no response from the dust-covered Dueling Platform.
A sense of foreboding rose in Lin Xi’s heart.
The next moment!
As the smoke gradually cleared.
What happened next stunned everyone present.
In the central area, the Zhiyun Snake was tightly wrapped in dense white silk, unable to move at all.
“How is this possible!”
Lin Xi’s calm and beautiful face showed a loss of composure for the first time.
She was shocked, unable to believe it.
“Hiss!” The Zhiyun Snake let out an angry sound from the center.
Everyone was confused.
Unfortunately, the Dawn Cup, due to its simple and beginner-friendly competition format, didn’t even have commentators.
Even if it did, they would probably be just as dumbfounded right now.
“Could it be…”
Lin Xi looked around the platform.
Her body suddenly trembled, as countless white silk threads, like coiling dragons and dancing snakes, lay hidden among the shattered stone fragments.
They were tangled and tied together, and not without any pattern.
It seemed to be…
A giant web!
“It’s a massive spider web.” On the viewing platform, the blind old man sighed. “Through repeated uses of the Silk Spitting Soul Skill, that young man had laid a huge spider web across the dueling platform, without anyone noticing!”
“His initial move to have Green Caterpillar use the Silk Spitting Soul Skill was all for this moment. He never intended to hit Zhiyun Snake directly with the silk threads; it was all an illusion to confuse and numb the opponent.”
“With the platform shattered and countless broken stones covering it, unless one stood at a certain height to get a full view of the entire arena, it was extremely difficult to detect. Finally, Green Caterpillar’s defensive move at the center of the web was a disguise to make the prey fall into the spider web…”
“My goodness… such intricate planning… truly impressive.”
The blind old man’s tone shifted. “With both sides’ abilities clear, he set a trap from the very beginning, making Green Caterpillar appear as the prey, luring step by step, engaging in a battle of wits…”
“A skilled hunter often appears in the form of prey… what an old fox.”
Professor Yan also sighed.
He hadn’t noticed it either.
People say onlookers see the game best, but even they hadn’t spotted it, let alone Lin Xi, who was on the platform.
It was only after raising the viewing platform more than ten meters and looking down at the entire arena that they faintly saw the traces of those white silk threads and realized what was happening.
Beside them, Lin Xi was completely stunned.
Was this for real?
Who was Blind Grandpa, after all? If even he said so…
At that moment, the entire venue erupted in uproar.
The Dawn Cup had been held for who knows how many sessions.
Such a unique match had likely never occurred before.
This final twist and counterattack simply left everyone in awe.
However, at this point, Wang Che did not show much of a victorious smile.
Everything was within his expectations.
But still…
After a long silence…
Lin Xi’s face flushed slightly red, a reaction from being outsmarted and yet unable to do anything about it.
There was no helping it.
She felt she had been cautious enough.
But who could have imagined this.
“I must say… Wang Che, you are truly impressive.” Lin Xi looked at Wang Che with a hint of admiration in her eyes. “If it weren’t for the previous round, under normal circumstances, I would have lost already.”
“Only… it’s a pity, in the previous round…”
At this point, Lin Xi’s gaze suddenly sharpened. “Zhiyun Snake has learned an elemental soul skill! This move of yours can no longer hold it!”
“Zhiyun Snake, use Seed Bomb!”
As her voice fell,
“Hiss, hiss!”
Zhiyun Snake let out a sharp cry.
Immediately after, the small feather-like wings near its head, resembling flowing clouds, began to glow.
Seed Bomb was one of the plant-type soul pets’ elemental soul skills.
It was a very powerful elemental soul skill.
It could condense plant-energy seeds and then detonate them, causing significant damage while restoring a small portion of stamina and soul power.
It was a ten-year soul skill that combined damage and recovery.
It was a core ten-year soul skill for plant-type soul pets.
Only an ultra-rare soul pet like Zhiyun Snake had a chance to learn it at seventy years; for other plant-type soul pets, it would take at least a hundred years or more to possibly grasp such a powerful core soul skill.
Tiny green specks, the size of rice grains, flew out from the small feather-like wings near Zhiyun Snake’s head.
Densely packed, like fireflies, they exploded all around the spider web formed by the white silk threads.
In just a moment, they destroyed the spider web that had taken most of the match to create.
The silk threads binding Zhiyun Snake also gradually disintegrated amid the explosions.
At the same time, faint streams of energy slowly infused into Zhiyun Snake’s body.
Restoring a small portion of its stamina and soul power.
Seeing this, Wang Che was not surprised.
As Lin Xi had said, his original plan for the battle with her had ended when Zhiyun Snake was trapped earlier.
That would have been the best outcome, allowing him to keep a trump card hidden.
He just hadn’t expected that in the previous round, Lin Xi’s Zhiyun Snake would learn Seed Bomb during the battle…
Well now…
Such an unexpected event had crossed Wang Che’s mind, but only as a passing thought.
After all, the probability was extremely low, yet it happened…
With the explosions of the Seed Bomb, everything seemed to return to the starting point.
The arena fell silent once again.
The situation on the field had reversed again.
Such an exciting match was likely a first in the history of the Dawn Cup.
But this time, it seemed nothing could change anymore.
Was the outcome decided?
Lin Xi watched calmly and said, “Wang Che, you have no chance left.”
That was the truth.
It seemed as if everyone instinctively nodded in agreement.
The disparity in both sides’ conditions was too great at this point.
There was no possibility of any further opportunity.
“I think there’s still a chance to turn things around.”
Wang Che thought for a moment, glanced at Green Caterpillar, and called out clearly:
“Green Caterpillar, transform!”
He silently recited in his heart, use the Soul Equipment Domineering Aura!