Chapter 510: Chapter 305: The Gap

Su Zhi chuckled. "Well, it’s not like you can’t just do as you please."

"Really? Then I’ll do as I please! Su Baby, you can’t be a picky eater, okay?"

The girl jogged away.

Su Zhi smiled as he watched her go, then turned his attention back to the arena. Fang Yuan looked at them, hesitating as if he wanted to ask something. In the end, though, he said nothing and turned his gaze to the ring below.

"Wang Haokun is playing first singles. The doubles team is the one Cao Mingyu and I faced last time, and Chen Xinghao is second singles. Overall, it looks like Shanyou Province has the same general strategy as us..."

Fang Yuan frowned as he read the match info on his phone. "But this won’t be an easy fight. They’re up against Southern Desert Province, which has been on the rise lately. The Pet Beasts in the Southern Desert Region are similar to ours, but their innate genetics are superior."

Su Zhi asked, intrigued, "Is that really a thing? Genetics aren’t that decisive, are they? Unless you’re talking about different Tiers or Races."

Fang Yuan gave him a long look. "That’s generally true, but there are always exceptions. Take a Pet Beast like the sand wolf, for instance. The difference in power among them can be enormous—even greater than the gap between different Tiers."

As they were talking, the first singles player from Southern Desert Province took the stage. Sure enough, their Pet Beast was a sand wolf.

To Su Zhi’s surprise, the opponent’s sand wolf was far stronger than any he had ever seen at the Shanyou Breeding Base or in the wild, both in its Energy Control Ability and its absolute Energy reserves.

In theory, Wang Haokun’s Shadow of Ancient Jing was a counter to the sand wolf, yet the two were still locked in a fierce battle. In the end, Wang Haokun had to change tactics and go on the offensive to regain the initiative, ending the one-on-one match that had lasted for nearly half an hour.

Wang Haokun looked grim, and Lei Ji came over to say a few words to him after the fight.

It wasn’t wise to expend so much energy in the very first round of the point matches. The next day’s opponent would be just as tough, and it would be easy to fall into a vicious cycle.

Besides, with so many eyes watching, revealing their tactics too early would just put a target on their backs.

"When you put it like that, we were actually pretty lucky," Su Zhi remarked.

Ganpo Province’s overall strength was slightly greater than Shanyou’s, but when it came down to the actual point matches, it was a different story.

In the first round, Xue Li had opened with an ultimate skill right to her opponent’s face, utterly steamrolling their first singles player and giving no one a chance to observe or draw any conclusions.

The second round was the doubles match with Fang Yuan and Cao Mingyu. They stuck to their strategy from the qualifiers: Cotton on support while Lilith launched lightning-fast strikes. They too finished the battle in minimal time.

In the third round, Su Zhi sent Shan Bao into the ring. That match was a unique case; while it was incredibly entertaining to watch, it didn’t offer much in the way of useful data.

Shanda University Affiliated School wasn’t so lucky. Southern Desert might not have been a top-tier opponent, but they were a tough nut to crack. Since both teams were just scrubs trying to survive, neither wanted to get knocked out of the point matches, so they pulled out all the stops.

In the end, Shanda University Affiliated School still won three-to-zero, but they were far less efficient than Huai City First Middle School had been.

"They’re still very strong. It would have been a tough fight for us, too," Fang Yuan said, shaking his head slightly.

Before Su Zhi could say anything, he saw the next match slowly begin: Hundred Rivers Province versus Celestial Water Province, with Shen Chuqing as the first singles.

In the moments that followed, Su Zhi saw what a true championship contender looked like.

Shen Chuqing finished her battle with incredible speed. The spectacle was on par with Xue Li’s match where she’d utterly devoured her opponent. Her team’s doubles and second singles players were just as decisive, cutting through their opponents like a hot knife through butter the moment they stepped into the ring.

Keep in mind, while Celestial Water Province wasn’t a top-tier powerhouse, they were still one of the most competitive teams in the second tier!

This entire series of matches took less than half an hour—shorter than Wang Haokun’s one singles match.

Su Zhi and Fang Yuan were both silent for a long time, their brows slightly furrowed.

They felt the gap.

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