Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle

*Yunxi's beautiful eyes glimmered with anticipation, wondering how Xiao Ye would react. What innate skill would he use?*

*In the past, when she had sparred with Xiao Ye at close quarters, she had never seen him use any innate skills. This time she was determined to experience it for herself, to satisfy her unquenchable curiosity.*

Xiao Ye activated his [Illusion-Reality Conversion] innate skill.

In an instant, both Xiao Ye and Mu Qingxue's bodies turned transparent, growing more and more ethereal, until they disappeared completely, transforming into their Phantom States.

Phantom State, untouchable, invisible to the naked eye, undetectable even by spirit sense.

The highest realm a Blazing Fire Demon Beast could reach was only King Beast at Five-Star Venerable, and its [Fire Attribute Innate Skill] just couldn't measure up to the mythical-level inherited [Illusion-Reality Conversion] in terms of class.

With a whoosh, that blazing little sun charged forward with tremendous impact and explosive force, but crashed straight into thin air, boring into the dirt and blowing a huge crater into the ground.

The Blazing Fire Demon Beast group looked utterly confused, like, *Where the hell did the humans go?*

After yanking their heads out of the ground, they scurried around left and right, searching everywhere, but still couldn't find any trace of the humans—it was like Xiao Ye and Mu Qingxue had vanished into thin air, completely gone.

Mu Qingxue's beautiful eyes widened in shock, and her sexy red lips parted in a perfect "O" shape!

*Wait, aren't we standing right here?*

*Are you all blind?*

*Can't see us?*

Mu Qingxue walked up to the meatball heap of Blazing Fire Demon Beasts and waved her hand in front of their faces, discovering that the demon beasts really couldn't see her.

Next, she reached out her soft white hand to touch one of the beasts, but her hand just passed right through, like it was phasing through matter—she felt nothing, as if it was just air.

"What the hell?" Mu Qingxue blurted out, stunned.

*This innate skill was just way too overpowered!*

*Just like those Phantom Spirit Elves in the underground crystal ore—they're invisible and untouchable! It was totally cheating, how was anyone supposed to compete?*

Despite her shock, she didn't forget about the exam, and once again activated her [Future Prediction] innate skill.

[Divination Skill] foretold events that would happen in the future, while [Prediction] only let you know what would happen in the next few seconds. The time span was different, and so was the consumption of time factor energy.

An image flashed through her mind—under orders from the Beast King, the Blazing Fire Demon Beast group would pretend to disperse, trying to lure them into revealing themselves.

Immediately, Mu Qingxue shared her prediction with Xiao Ye.

Xiao Ye indicated that he understood.

[Supreme Dragon Might, the ultimate version of Holy Golden Dragon's might, after unleashing, reduces enemy attributes by 50%, transforms into King Beast Sovereign, and commands all King Beast bloodlines] (nerfed version)

Whether he was in material or phantom state, he could unleash his innate skills.

"Get down!" Xiao Ye barked coldly, his voice infused with supreme dragon might that radiated outwards, reaching the ears of every Blazing Fire Demon Beast.

BOOM!

The innate skill's effect activated—every attribute of the Blazing Fire Demon Beasts was instantly reduced to 65%, a crushing pressure weighed down on them, forcing them to squat lower, their movements becoming sluggish. A spirit shock quietly swept over, striking at their minds, and instantly the demon beasts' eyes grew vacant, freezing them right in place.

The Beast King, and all Blazing Fire Demon Beasts with King Beast bloodlines, felt like their very bloodline had been chilled with coolant—using or channeling that bloodline power became almost impossible.

In the blink of an eye, the dazed Blazing Fire Demon Beasts flopped to the ground like dumplings—plop, plop, plop.

[Million Volts: Lightning Strike, an area-of-effect skill with paralysis, char, and electrical effects]

The two of them—Xiao Ye and Mu Qingxue—returned to their material states, reappearing on top of the Thorny Jungle.

Arcs of lightning flickered around Xiao Ye's body, crackling in all directions. In this moment, Xiao Ye towered above the Blazing Fire Demon Beast group like the king of thunder.

He raised his hand, summoning a ball of furious lightning in his palm.

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He slammed his palm down toward the ground without warning.

Streaks of black Silent Annihilation Thunder descended instantly, lashing the still-dazed Blazing Fire Demon Beasts.

Chunks of flesh exploded on the spot, blood and gore flying everywhere, the stench of charred meat filling the air as charred limbs were blasted in all directions.

The Blazing Fire Demon Beast group, wiped out!

*Mu Qingxue watched in silence, secretly alarmed—one hand doing spirit shock and stun, one hand unleashing thunder bombardment, another for phantom state defense. Xiao Ye was a real jack-of-all-trades when it came to attack types.*

*Yeah, not to mention he had that lightning-body movement skill—blazing fast, like some speed competition winner, no way anyone could catch him.*

*As for herself, even though her attribute was time, she only had two innate skills, and both were support skills—not much boost to her combat ability.*

*In a fight, she could use two ancient secret techniques, but those merely increased her hand-to-hand combat power. Her methods were pretty one-dimensional.*

"I heard making a contract awakens more innate skills." For the first time, Mu Qingxue actually felt some excitement at the notion of forming a contract.

*Since her dad, Mu Cheng, was dead set on her making a contract, and she couldn't go against him, she decided to give it a try—and even start to enjoy it.*

*Xiao Ye figured Dean Kunpeng, the Quasi-Saint Yunxi, must have arrived by now. After all, it'd been one or two hours since they crushed that spatial item.*

*He was getting antsy. He wanted to hurry up and start capturing space-type demon beasts.*

A circular ring-shaped portal appeared before the two of them, indicating that they had passed the second trial.

Through the halo, the two returned to the altar's side.

Mu Qingxue looked at Mu Cheng with curiosity and asked, "So, did we pass?"

Mu Cheng nodded, "Even though you didn't contribute much, your cooperation was good. We all think your team synergy is up to standard."

Mu Qingxue puffed up her cheeks in protest, her mouth pouting. She had put in a ton of effort, too, okay?

When Xiao Ye appeared, the Mu Family crowded around him, shoving Mu Qingxue off to the side so she wouldn't block their view of Xiao Ye.

"Xiao kid, you really are something else. No wonder you're a multi-attribute Beastmaster—you even have the Phantom Spirit Race's signature innate skill."

"Heh, that palm-heart thunder move looked sick—blew those Blazing Fire Demon Beasts to pieces!"

"Bro-in-law, how'd you win over my sister? Can you teach me how to pick up girls too?"

The senior generation of the Mu Family were all high-level, even peak Great Venerables. Their spirit sense covered hundreds of miles, so they'd seen everything that went down in the Thorny Jungle.

The atmosphere grew awkward for a moment. Mu Qingxue: "…"

Xiao Ye grinned, insisting he'd never chased after Mu Qingxue, they had just naturally ended up together.

After that, Mu Cheng resumed presiding over the trial.

[Third Trial: Combat Power Checkpoint, tests the limits of both combat powers, wave battle—hold out for one hour to pass]

A circular halo portal appeared again, and Xiao Ye and Mu Qingxue stepped through it.

Meanwhile, at a thin spot in the Dark Night Realm, by a tiny spatial rift, a pair of creamy white hands reached through and pulled the crack wider—barely enough to fit a person. An absolute bombshell of a woman in a bulky white robe squeezed her way through.

But halfway through, the rift bounced back, shrinking again—and got stuck.

It got wedged right at her tiny waist.

"Ugh!" Yunxi's pretty face was filled with confusion.

Her upper body was inside the realm, but her hips were still stuck outside.

"Damn it, my chest used to be bigger than my ass, but since I drank that golden blood, my body developed fast—and now my butt's gotten even rounder. I can't fit through anymore!"