“Win, and you eat lotus leaves.”
The lotus leaves that Jun Wu Xie was talking about could only be the sweet juicy lotus leaves from Little Lotus’s Snow Lotus. Little Lotus should have accumulated quite a horde by now and Lord Meh Meh absolutely loved the taste of that Snow Lotus. Well, it was not allowed to bite Little Lotus himself, but his leaves would still do very well indeed.
As Little Lotus always got so terrified that he would immediately break out into tears whenever he saw Lord Meh Meh, never had the little plant spirit had the presence of mind to instead feed it with some of his lotus leaves. Little Lotus would either straightaway burrow into Jun Wu Xie’s arms to seek protection or immediately morph into his spirit ring form to disappear without a trace. At that moment, all Lord Meh Meh could think of was to win itself a few bites of those succulent and sweet fresh lotus leaves to ease its hungry craving.
As expected, upon hearing the three words “eat lotus leaves”, the displeasure in Lord Meh Meh’s eyes evaporated into nothing, a glint of joy and anticipation immediately shining brightly in its eyes!
“Meh! Meh!”
[You promised, don’t cheat meh feelings!]
Although she did not understand what Lord Meh Meh was saying, but seeing the change in the sheep’s demeanor, Jun Wu Xie knew that it had agreed and she nodded in reply.
Having gained its feedstress’ affirmation, Lord Meh Meh immediately turned its fluffy tail around, held high up in the air as it trotted “tappily” with its hooves to go towards the centre of the battle platform, its eyes narrowed into two crescents of bliss.
[Gonna have lotus leaves to eat~ Lord Meh Meh is just too happy now~]
The ferocious tiger’s owner could not fathom what the exchange between the boy and his Spirit Beast was all about as he fed another piece of bloody raw meat to the ferocious tiger and said: “Go get him.”
The ferocious tiger did not understand what its owner said but its barbed tongue licked with anticipation at the traces of blood smudged around its jaws, as it slowly turned its body around, ready to proceed with its next match.
Upon the arena stage, a round wooly fluffball could be seen standing on one side and facing it on the opposing corner, was the ferocious tiger that was heavily marked with the blood of its previously defeated opponents. Looking based purely on size and aggression, it was clear who had the upper hand in this match.
The ferocious tiger’s owner glanced over at Jun Xie who was standing by the side of the arena stage and he clicked his tongue with disdain. He had never seen a kid that would send his Spirit Beast to seek death so persistently.
“Later, when your Spirit Beast gets eaten up, you’d better not bawl your eyes out.” The man sneered nastily.
Jun Wu Xie swept him a cold glance and did not give him any other reaction.
Inside the Spirit Beast Arena, the crowd wasn’t showing much interest in this current match as they had already decided the result in their minds. They would much rather look forward to the matches coming up after this.
The person in charge of the match looked at the enormous disparity of power between the two sides and his heart was suddenly overcome with nervousness.
That little Lord Meh Meh, had just been registered by Qing Yu, the Fiery Clan Hall’s Deputy Chief moments ago and none of them had seen the Spirit Beast before. They had thought that since it was recommended by the Fiery Clan Hall’s Deputy Chief, it must be a highly impressive Spirit Beast.
They had finally gotten to see the Spirit Beast in the flesh now and all that anticipation and confidence had suddenly crumbled to dust.
They could all picture it vividly in their minds at that moment. Moments after the match began, that helplessly dumb looking little sheep would very quickly end up becoming food for the ferocious tiger and they hoped that Qing Yu would not be too upset by it at that time.
The bell for the match rang loudly, its crisp clang tearing through the air!
The ferocious tiger ambled slowly as it ringed its opponent, its tail raised up behind stiff like an iron rod. After having fought several battles and having just been fed those blood filled raw meat, the bestial animal instincts within it had been greatly heightened and brought out to the fore. The great amount of exertion earlier had made it absolutely ravenous with hunger and those two tiny slices of meat had done nothing to ease its appetite in the least, which served to further hone its innate hunting instincts to a keener edge!
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The ferocious tiger’s heavy steps plodded upon the arena stage, dull thuds sounding out from under its paws. Its malicious gaze stared unwavering at the delicious succulent prey before it eyes as it approached one step at a time towards Lord Meh Meh.
Qing Yu watched perched on the edge of his seat as the ferocious tiger got closer, his heart stuck in his throat. He was extremely worried that the ferocious tiger would swallow Lord Meh Meh up whole and he would not be able to answer to Jun Xie. Even though this had been requested by Jun Xie himself, but he had been appointed to be Jun Xie’s chaperone and Qing Yu did not dare to imagine how he was going to explain to Xiong Ba when he comes back how he had allowed Jun Xie’s Spirit Beast to be “slaughtered” on the youth’s first day in the Thousand Beast City. Wouldn’t Xiong Ba immediately tear him limb from limb on the spot when that happened?
Although he was not directly responsible for it….. but Qing Yu was however still certain that his fate would not get any prettier just because of that.
At that moment, Qing Yu was really seriously considering whether he should just rush in to save Lord Meh Meh right in the middle of the match. Although that would be a blatant breach of the rules of the Spirit Beast Arena, but compared to a raging and mad Xiong Ba, he would rather choose to suffer a severe verbal admonishment from the Grand Chieftain.
As Qing Yu continued to fight with himself feeling highly conflicted in his mind, the ferocious tiger had already come to stand right before Lord Meh Meh.
Staring at Lord Meh Meh who was just about the same size as its own head, the ferocious tiger licked the sides of its jaws as its hunger and the faint residual scent of blood agitated its senses, the bloodthirstiness urging it to swallow up its prey before its eyes!
“Roar!” Its jaws opened up widely and a deafening bestial roar erupted!
The roar was so loud that the spectators sitting nearest to the arena stage were feeling their eardrums ache.
Its owner was standing at the side and he broke into a wide grin that showed upon his face.
Lord Meh Meh stood staring blankly and did not move from its spot at all. It continued to look at the “kitten” who was splattering its drool over all the place right before it. It was thinking that the “kitten’s” breath was rather strong, completely different from the clean breath it had been used to from the little black cat.
Lord Meh Meh was thinking how it was going to smack the little “kitten” to death when it suddenly remembered what Jun Wu Xie had promised it.
Its feedstress had said that it had to win before it would be able to munch on those lotus leaves. But what must it do before it’s counted as a win?
In Lord Meh Meh’s mind, there was only one way to deal with other Spirit Beasts. And that was to swallow them up. So, when it was told to “win”, it didn’t really understand what that was supposed to mean.
Lord Meh Meh stood there wrecking its brains about it with its head tilted as it stared at the ferocious tiger.
[Swallowing them up doesn’t sound like winning, does it?]
[Lord Meh Meh doesn’t know what to do!]
The crowd had after seeing the ferocious tiger roar so loudly, thought that the round ball of sheep must have been too terrified to move and had frozen up in its spot. They thought the match was about to end in a bloodbath next.
Finally, Lord Meh Meh came up with an idea. It might not understand what it meant to win, but what this little “kitten” was doing now should be
the correct way of doing it, right?
Hence, Lord Meh Meh copied exactly what the ferocious tiger did and opened its mouth and used all its might to…..
“Meh!”
That one bleat didn’t even reach far into the spectators’ stands and just as everyone was roaring with laughter, a strange situation unfolded before their eyes!
Immediately after Lord Meh Meh’s soft and feeble bleat sounded, the gallant and magnificent tiger Spirit Beast suddenly reacted like it had been struck by lightning, its entire body stiffened and unmoving. The eyes with its malicious gaze suddenly widened up and just as everyone expected that it would pounce on Lord Meh Meh’s little round body, the ferocious tiger suddenly turned tail, scrambling and clawing frantically to go back the way it had come….. to run away with its tail between its legs…..
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“Hooowl!”
The ferocious tiger ran like its life depended on it, its face twisted into a mask of terror. Its completely horrified look was totally devoid of any sign from its earlier strong dominating demeanor!
In an instant, everyone was totally shocked beyond words.
Nobody could have thought that such a thing would happen!
The ferocious tiger’s owner was even more surprised as his eyes bulged wide open and his mouth went agape as he saw his tiger Spirit Beast leaping off the battle arena platform in fright, completely bowling his stunned self over to fall onto the ground!
What kind of a situation was this?
The entire battle arena fell deathly silent.
Everything that the people there expected to see did not happen. Everything had instead been completely turned around.
The Spirit Beast that should have dominated over its opponent and exhibited its overwhelming strength with a satisfying bloodbath was suddenly trembling like a newborn chick in its owner’s arms, almost crushing him to death under its weight.
While the fat sheep that should have become the ferocious tiger’s feed was standing safely upon the arena platform, looking every inch just like a dumb and innocent sheep.
The people were staring in utter disbelief and it was even harder for them to accept what was happening as fact.
No one knew how they were to react to such a result…..
Who could tell them what had actually happened?
Qing Yu who had his heart stuck in his throat was equally stunned. Lord Meh Meh had not only avoided being swallowed up by the ferocious tiger, it had even managed to frighten so badly the ferocious tiger which had been several times its own size with just a weak and feeble “meh”…..
The way things turned out really threw the people there into complete disarray.
Lord Meh Meh stood upon the stage and looked at the ferocious tiger who was at that moment curled up into a trembling ball upon its owner, and a faint trace of white foam could even almost be seen. Its eyes were almost showing its whites which told of the immense terror the Spirit Beast was feeling, almost fainting away in fright!
With the ferocious tiger’s immense size, its owner’s ribs were almost breaking under that great hefty weight.
“Meh?” Lord Meh Meh opened up its four hooves in stride as they tapped upon the battle platform floor, coming to stand right on the edge, its round fluffy tail wagging happily as it raised it head to look excitedly at Jun Wu Xie.
[Lord Meh Meh won the “mehtch”? Will there really be lotus leaves for meh?”
Seeing Lord Meh Meh putting forth an expression that was asking so innocently for praise and reward, the icy frost in Jun Wu Xie’s eyes finally dissipated and a faint light of joy came to show in her eyes.
The other people did not know, that the little round ball of a sheep before their eyes was in reality a Guardian Grade Spirit Beast. It usually assumed its tiny sheep form which allowed it to suppress a good part of its Guardian Grade Spirit Beast’s dominating presence. Moreover, Jun Wu Xie had always asked for it to try its best to hide it for quite a period already and hence, Lord Meh Meh was by then able to completely hide its real presence as a Guardian Grade Spirit Beast when it took on the form of this little bumbling sheep.
But at the moment when Lord Meh Meh had opened its mouth earlier, it had summoned up its powers as a Guardian Grade Spirit Beast. That weak and feeble sounding bleat might not have sounded any different to humans, but when it reached the ears of another Spirit Beast who possessed sharp animal instincts, they could feel that that bleat had come from one who stood at the highest pinnacle of Spirit Beasts, an admonishment from the boss, a Guardian Grade Spirit Beast!
Needless to say that the ferocious tiger was just a low grade Spirit Beast, even for a high grade Spirit Beast, Lord Meh Meh’s “roar” would have scared the wits out of them just the same. They wouldn’t be able to resist Lord Meh Meh at all, they would not even have the courage to look Lord Meh Meh straight in the eye.
Not having been shocked out its life on the spot already spoke a lot about the ferocious tiger’s mental resilience!
But all of this about Lord Meh Meh was known only to Jun Wu Xie and not anyone else in the arena. In the eyes of everyone there, it was a strange and incredulous sight that they witnessed!
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To think that a ferocious and powerful tiger Spirit Beast would really fall over to foam at its mouth in terror from a feeble bleating “meh” by a sheep that was only as big as its head. That was…..
An extraordinarily strange incident completely unheard of!
Within the sudden silence that fell, Jun Wu Xie turned to look at the person in charge of the match at the other end of the stage. The man’s jaw had dropped in shock as he stared at the ferocious tiger fallen into a dead faint and foaming at the mouth upon its owner, and it was clear that the man was still gripped in surprise.
“You can announce the result.” Jun Wu Xie said coldly.
With Jun Wu Xie’s reminder, the man snapped back to his senses and according to the Spirit Beast Arena’s rules, once a Spirit Beast was pushed off the battle arena stage, it would constitute as a loss. And as the ferocious tiger’s entire body was currently outside the stage’s boundaries, the result was clear to see.
“Err….. the winner for this match….. is Jun Xie’s Spirit Beast…..” The man stammered hesitatingly, the expression on his face looking rather flustered.
A result like this, had really been beyond anyone’s expectations.
Even though it had all happened right before their eyes, but they were all still finding it all rather surreal.
Immediately upon that announcement, the entire Spirit Beast Arena immediately broke into an uproar. Everyone was discussing excitedly about the result, though not a single one among them was able to give a plausible answer explaining what had actually occurred.
Under that noisy ruckus, the announcer looked at Jun Wu Xie and hesitated a moment before he asked: “Young Master Jun, will your Spirit Beast be continuing to take part in the matches after this?”
According to the rules of the Spirit Beast Arena, the owner of the Spirit Beast competing in the arena would be able to choose the number of times its Spirit Beast would compete. If the Spirit Beast got injured, the owner could choose to stop first and continue with the competition later, or to immediately proceed on with the next match. And to successfully win the opportunity to challenge the top ten ranks in the Spirit Beast Arena, they would need to gain victory in ten consecutive battles.
But, the announcer did not think that Jun Xie would really allow the tiny little sheep Spirit Beast to continue to compete. The result of this match had been completely unexpected but no one there would credit that victory to Lord Meh Meh’s power. From everyone’s perspective, Lord Meh Meh had merely bleated weakly and the ferocious tiger had suddenly for no good reason just run away as if possessed. Most of them believed that something must have occurred to the tiger Spirit Beast internally.
It might be possible that the issue had been in the food its owner had fed it just before the match that had brought about such a result.
Lord Meh Meh had been able to emerge victorious this time entirely because of pure dumb luck.
However, Jun Wu Xie replied: “Continue.”
The man was taken aback and he repeated his question. When he received the same answer, he then went back feeling highly flustered and with great consternation as he made arrangements for Lord Meh Meh’s next opponent in the upcoming match.
When the crowd heard that Lord Meh Meh would be continuing with the competition, the Spirit Beast Arena was suddenly abuzz with frenzied debate. They could not find anyway to link the previous victory to Lord Meh Meh in the slightest and they were all thinking that it had just been a case of a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse, where some issue had come up with the ferocious tiger’s body, like it could be sick of something, that had allowed to win as a result.
Holding all these preconceived notions in their hearts, the people soon came to all kinds of “reasonable” conclusions to justify it to themselves.
They believed, that good fortune would never stay with a person forever.
They assumed that Jun Xie must have wanted his Spirit Beast to continue with the Spirit Beast Arena matches because he was still dizzy with his fortunate win in the first round!
Finally having calmed themselves somewhat, the crowd settled back and sat back into their seats, all prepared to see how the next match would play out. They strongly believed that the strange occurrence would not happen a second time!
However…..
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However…..
Not long after that, those people who had been so confident of themselves became fully aware of what it meant by a….. face slap!
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