Inside the combat room,

Chen Yuan and Liu Jinglan stood on opposite sides of the arena, facing each other from a distance.

The next moment,

Liu Jinglan’s eyes focused, and with a thought, a complicated and mysterious white summoning array appeared in front of him. The Red Flame Ox, covered in fiery red hair, emerged with its head held high. The white fluff around its neck swayed with the wind, the flames at the tip of its tail reflected in everyone’s eyes, and the flame patterns on its lower limbs were more prominent than before.

Chen Yuan’s eyes flickered slightly as he muttered to himself, "It seems like many fire-type Pet Beasts have a common feature - a tail with flames."

Generally, the flame burning on the tail can represent the Pet Beast’s life state; if the flame is vigorous, the beast is healthy, if it is weak, the beast is in a poor state. Once the flame extinguishes, it indicates that the Pet Beast is on the brink of death or has already died.

Compared to the last time, the Red Flame Ox had noticeably grown larger, with subtle changes in its bodily details, and the aura it unconsciously emitted was far superior to before.

Evidently, not only had the Red Flame Ox’s strength improved, but its quality had also advanced to Commander level.

At the same moment,

With a thought, a striking green summoning array appeared in front of Chen Yuan. Accompanied by a clear cry, an orange-yellow figure wrapped in white light soared upwards, shaking off sparks all over its body, with deep blue eyes fixed on the Red Flame Ox below.

"Moo..."

The Red Flame Ox, clearly feeling the unrestrained pressure from Spark, looked serious, lightly stepping on the ground with its limbs, its tail swaying left and right, taking a stance as if facing a formidable enemy.

As the Beastmaster of the Red Flame Ox, Liu Jinglan quickly noticed its vigilance and unease, hastily comforting it: "It’s okay, Red Flame Ox, as fellow fire-type Pet Beasts, it can’t possibly take you down in one move."

"Moo..."

Upon hearing this, the Red Flame Ox turned and gave its Beastmaster a rather resentful look.

So even the Beastmaster only has such low expectations of me...

Liu Jinglan coughed lightly, quickly added, "What I mean is, we’re still in a high-speed growth phase, we need to respect objective facts, recognize the gap between us, and turn that gap into motivation..."

On the other side,

Staring at the green summoning array in front of Chen Yuan, Jiang Hu’s three teammates stared wide-eyed and full of surprise: "High-tier Beastmaster!"

Jiang Hu withdrew his surprised look, and his teammates’ exclamations rang in his ears. He twitched the corners of his mouth, thinking to himself they were making a fuss over nothing.

As the champion of an A-level competition, is it strange to be a High-tier Beastmaster?

Subsequently, Jiang Hu moved closer to Liu Jingyi, fist gently coughing, waiting for her to look his way, then showing a flattering smile:

"Does the champion have any interests?"

"Does the champion need fire-type resources?"

"Does the champion have thoughts about forming their own team?"

"I can, I really can, I can do anything!"

If he could pull such a big player into the team, not to mention top ten, even top three or first place would be within reach!

Liu Jingyi sweetly smiled, "Hu, don’t bother, Brother Chen Yuan will join us."

Hearing this, disappointment unhiddenly surfaced on Jiang Hu’s rugged face, and he sighed deeply.

With the champion along with Liu Jinglan, dragging along Liu Jingyi this burden, plus a female Beastmaster whose strength was unknown, top ten wasn’t a problem, but getting top three seemed unlikely.

But if it were him plus Liu Jinglan, then pulling in this champion from outside, the ranking would absolutely climb higher.

Meanwhile,

The referee provided by the Combat Club entered the field, looking around. Seeing both sides had sent out their Pet Beasts, he waved the flag high and announced loudly, "The battle begins!"

Almost the moment the referee’s voice sounded, Liu Jinglan’s thoughts rushed, issuing a command quickly: "Earth Fire Melting Abyss!"

Liu Jinglan knew well there was a significant gap between the two, so the battle strategy could not be the same as before.

If they slowly probed, they would definitely be strongly suppressed by the Flame Cloud Falcon, it was better to start with the strongest move currently mastered by the Red Flame Ox, hoping to pose some threat to the Flame Cloud Falcon.

At that moment,

"Moo!"

The Red Flame Ox roared with its head raised, its fiery red hair dancing with no wind, and the flame patterns surging at its limbs bulging like blood vessels.

The forehooves heavily struck the ground, the massive body impacting the earth, instantly cracking the ground like a spider web with dozens of fissures - within each crevice, boiling magma churned, the blazing earth fire surged upwards, leaping out from the cracks, storm-like heat waves rushing towards the Spark in mid-air.

"Starting with a big move..." Seeing this, Jiang Hu couldn’t help but click his tongue.

Just like Ultraman fights, first deplete the opponent’s stamina with various basic attacks, weakening their state, and finally unleash a big move to seal the victory.

But Liu Jinglan chose to unleash a big move at the start, precisely showing that the Red Flame Ox had no chance of victory against the Flame Cloud Falcon, having to use the strongest move first, otherwise there might not be another opportunity to use it.

Watching the grandiose "Earth Fire Melting Abyss," Chen Yuan nodded secretly.

It’s quite a good fire skill, but unfortunately, the Flame Cloud Falcon soared in the air, unable to draw on the earth’s power to control the earth fire.

A thought flashed by, and Chen Yuan gave the order: "Spark, Flame Energy Assault."

"Chirp!"

Spark faced the overwhelming heat wave, the surging earth fire, its deep blue eyes as profound as the deep sea, the surface calm, while beneath were raging waves.

In an instant, Spark spread its broad wings, the turbulent flames surged forth, and trailing flame streams, it launched an explosive dive from above!

Under the horrified gaze of everyone, Spark regarded the surging earth fire as nothing, dodging nothing, boldly charging forward!