"We’ll fight again later."

But Akagi Shu was completely fixated on getting his revenge, and his very first words made it hard to take him seriously.

However, with a battle between Five-star Pet Beasts happening right before his eyes, he didn’t want to miss the grand spectacle of watching High-star Pet Beasts fight, so a brawl didn’t break out.

After a moment of speechlessness, Gu Ming also refrained from making a move.

He, too, cherished the grand spectacle of the battle, watching alongside Cyan Treasure for nearly half an hour.

Logically, since the teachers had a numerical advantage and they were all Five-star Level, the battle should have ended quickly.

However, the reality of the situation defied everyone’s expectations.

The Five-star Demon Fiend was entrenched in the valley’s medicine garden, having absorbed an unknown amount of Life Energy from the local Spirit Beasts and Spirit Medicines.

Its physical body was incredibly powerful, possessing immense Endurance.

Whenever a large wound appeared on its body, it could repair itself rapidly.

In particular, the flesh-and-blood Star born from its flower bud, which it held aloft, rained down an endless sky of Blood Drops. These both attacked and plundered the Life Force of the teachers’ Pet Beasts at the same time.

This caused the teachers’ Pet Beasts to suffer immensely. Even the thick-skinned great porcupine slowly shriveled after being bound—a terrifying sight.

This was the reason why ten Five-star Beastmasters had been fighting for half an hour and, shockingly, had yet to defeat their opponent.

Just as the enemy’s second flower was preparing to bloom, a cyan-green flash suddenly lit up the horizon.

Cyan Treasure and the Sunflower Seed-eating Hamster both straightened up. The Dragon Pattern Bronze Tripods within their bodies began to vibrate and hum in unison.

They sensed the arriving presence of a true expert from the Dragon Race.

That’s right. It was Minister Feng Gu, who had been guarding the rear.

Knowing the teachers on the front line couldn’t suppress the Five-star Demon Fiend, he had mobilized directly, descending with his True Dragon Pet Beast.

This was also the first time Cyan Treasure had seen a real member of the Dragon Race up close.

In the pitch-black sky, an emerald ripple of light suddenly appeared.

The distant clouds were torn asunder by an invisible, giant hand, and a figure wreathed in cyan winds burst forth.

Teacher Feng Gu, clad in a jade-green, double-breasted trench coat, sat steadily upon the scales on the King of Stopping Wind’s back, the hem of his coat dancing in the wind.

He placed a hand on the True Dragon’s horn, his expression grave as his gaze swept over the battlefield below.

The King of Stopping Wind was a hundred meters long, with a magnificent set of horns crowning its head.

Its body was covered in close-fitting, cyan-green scales, and jade-green gales swirled constantly from its claws.

The winds would sometimes condense into sharp Wind Blades and other times transform into soft, fluffy tufts, spreading out beneath it like the nimbus cloud that supported its flight.

With the arrival of the Six-star True Dragon, the entire wind field for ten miles around grew agitated.

The trees in the valley bent in unison under the suddenly strengthening gales, groaning in protest.

Even the black roots of the Tree of Evil in the valley’s medicine garden slowed their assault amidst the gales.

"HMPH—"

The King of Stopping Wind let out a low True Dragon’s growl, the sound waves manifesting as a physical gust that twisted the air into vortexes wherever it passed.

Where the cyclone passed, the Demon Tree’s black mist instantly dissipated. The miniature blood blades formed from the Blood Drops shattered inch by inch upon contact with the gust.

The oppressive might of the Dragon Race’s bloodline washed out like a tide, its shocking power felt even by the students watching from a distance. Their Pet Beasts shivered uncontrollably.

"It’s the King of Stopping Wind!"

"A Six-star Wind Dragon, truly as powerful as the legends say!"

Around Gu Ming, many Pet Beasts lost their footing, overcome with an irresistible urge to kneel in worship.

Cyan Treasure and Mouse Treasure felt the same urge, but the Foundation Establishment Platform Dragon Pattern Tripods inside their bodies swayed gently. An Ancient Dragon Illusion emerged from within the tripods, completely neutralizing the True Dragon’s oppressive might.

In an instant, they regained their footing and stood tall, watching the True Dragon in the sky.

Ah Kun wasn’t much affected either. It was already in the process of Foundation Establishment and also had a Dragon Pattern Tripod for protection.

Dumb Flower, on the other hand, was heavily affected.

Lacking a Foundation Establishment Platform Dragon Pattern Tripod, it buried half of its body in the dirt, becoming a plant with only two eyes peeking out from the ground to watch the sky.

It was both terrified and desperate to watch, utterly conflicted.

The nearby Red Flame Flood Dragon wasn’t faring much better.

Its body trembled, involuntarily bowing and arching as it lowered its head toward the sky.

Although it possessed a Sub-dragon Bloodline, making it stronger than most Pet Beasts, it was not a True Dragon Bloodline, after all.

In the face of a true member of the Dragon Race, it couldn’t suppress the urge to worship.

When Akagi Shu saw that Cyan Treasure and Mouse Treasure were completely unaffected, and Ah Kun only showed slight effects, he felt like cursing.

’A Pet Beast with a Sub-dragon Bloodline can’t even compete with a mutated Little Cyan Snake and a Sunflower Seed-eating Hamster?’

’Damn it!’

Akagi Shu had been itching for a fierce fight with Cyan Treasure, but before their battle could even begin, his Red Flame Flood Dragon had already bowed down.

’What a huge loss of face!’

Gu Ming and Lu You, however, looked slightly pleased.

It seemed that from now on, they would be immune to the bloodline suppression of any Flood Dragon or True Dragon Pet Beast they encountered.

"Now that a Wind Element True Dragon is here, this should be a sure win, right?" Wang Teng said to the other two while comforting Dumb Flower.

Gu Ming agreed; a victory was highly probable.

The system, however, was quite pessimistic.

A Seven-star Demon Fiend versus a Seven-star Wind Dragon. Heaven and earth will be destroyed, and all life will be devastated.

The Wind Dragon will fight with all its might, only to suffer a crushing, bloody defeat.

Who would have thought? Your comeback tour as a fifty-year-old Old Deng, just as it was starting to gain momentum, is now over.

’What, the Wind Dragon lost?’

’My life is about to end?’

Gu Ming’s head was full of questions.

He raised his head and looked toward the battle on the horizon.

The King of Stopping Wind raised its head and roared, a Wind Ball held within its mouth.

The green wind swirling around its five claws instantly swelled. In less than ten seconds, it had formed a hundred-meter-long Spiral Wind Blade between its front claws, which it sent hurtling down with a piercing shriek that seemed to tear through Space itself.

The Demon Tree’s roots, like a tentacled monster’s appendages, flew up to intercept it. But upon entering the cutting field of the Spiral Wind Blade, they disintegrated inch by inch, turning into a sky full of splinters.

Its flesh-and-blood Star burst with a blinding crimson light, summoning countless more Blood Drops to form a living barrier.

A brilliant cyan glow erupted from the Wind Dragon. With a sweep of its tail, it compressed the air in a hundred-meter radius into a transparent wall of wind. Every wisp of air within it was compressed to the extreme, vibrating rapidly as it slammed into the barrier of Blood Drops.

Amidst the surging, blood-red mist, the Wind Blade broke through the defense and precisely pierced the flower’s core.

With a crisp CRACK, the sound carried for ten miles.

The flower of the flesh-and-blood Star exploded into a rain of blood, and the Demon Tree let out a long, mournful wail.

Before the second flower bud could even bloom, the Wind Dragon made a grasping motion with its claws. The gales that had scattered throughout the valley were drawn back, spinning faster and faster to form a gigantic, high-speed vortex that sliced through everything.

Wherever the arms of the cyclone passed, spiderweb-like cracks appeared in Space. It shredded the second flower in mid-air, pulverizing its petals into dust.

The remaining buds were enveloped by the cyan hurricane before they even had a chance to bloom, uprooted and sucked into the vortex to vanish in the blink of an eye.

Having lost its core Power, the Demon Tree frantically twisted its roots, trying to burrow underground.

But could it escape? It could not.

The Six-star Wind Dragon once again made a grasping motion with its claws, manipulating the wind field to seize the tree and drag it out.

Now, the Wind Dragon hovered with beating wings, its Dragon Mighty immense. A deathly silence fell over the valley once more.

Gu Ming glanced at the system again. ’What crushing defeat? It’s clearly dominating the fight!’