My starting summon is a small skeleton

"So, I won, right?"

The Secret Realm Management Backend for the Underground Cave.

When the young one timidly asked, the managers on the backend fell silent.

It took a while before someone spoke up.

"Um, should we look at the playback? There was such a commotion just now, maybe this kid brought something in with him?"

"Exactly, exactly, these breeders are all sneaky. He must have smuggled something in!

I absolutely refuse to believe that the burst just now came from Little Skeleton!"

"Right, we're talking about Little Skeleton fighting Little Rock. If this kid was cheating, then it wouldn't count as a loss for us!"

"Check the playback. Let's see Lu Wu's Secret Realm Bracelet for any clues!"

...

For 200 Internal Network Points, these managers really put up a fight.

They immediately got to work, gathering footage from the recently destroyed cameras and from Lu Wu's Secret Realm Bracelet, casting it onto the big screen to reconstruct the scene of the incident.

They saw Lu Wu, covering his face, suddenly lower his hand and whisper something secretly into Little Rock's ear.

Then he started to direct Little Skeleton, telling Little Skeleton to go in and fight with Little Rock.

Nothing abnormal up to this point.

Little Rock, after swallowing the metal given by Lu Wu, hopped and skipped over to Little Skeleton, holding up its arms, trying to puff up its figure to look very serious and strong.

Just that its big eyes would occasionally glance over at Lu Wu, and when it saw Lu Wu looking, it would wave its little hands even more vigorously.

Meanwhile, Lu Wu, after Little Skeleton entered the battle ring, started to slack off.

"Little Skeleton, where's your phone? You have to protect it during the battle. You can't break it!"

Upon hearing this, Little Skeleton's Pupil Fire flickered violently.

It proudly expressed that it wouldn't happen, Little Skeleton's phone wouldn't break, Little Skeleton took good care of its phone, and wouldn't be as silly as Lu Wu to let it get destroyed!

Lu Wu was quite far from it and wasn't touching it.

But having raised Little Skeleton for so long, he could more or less gauge its mood, and immediately, veins popped on his forehead.

Getting cocky, huh? You'll be crying soon.

He continued to coax Little Skeleton at the same time.

"How about Little Skeleton gives Lu Wu the phone to look after? Lu Wu will help Little Skeleton film, so Little Skeleton can be on TV again!"

This had happened before during the Quancheng Cup.

Lu Wu had filmed a clip for it, the one where it was beating the Earth Cave People. Little Skeleton really liked it, so hearing this, it was immediately tricked.

Nodding its head like mad, it set aside its electric baton, then took out its carefully hidden phone from its skeletal frame.

However, at the moment when Little Skeleton's phone was taken out, Little Rock, who had been watching the fun from the sidelines, immediately sprang into action.

With a roll and a charge, it made its way to Little Skeleton's side, and with a clap of its big hands—crack!—Little Skeleton's phone shattered on the spot.

In the moment the phone shattered, Little Skeleton was dumbfounded for a few seconds.

Little Rock, however, was not confused and immediately turned to look at Lu Wu, waving its hands to signal that it had done its job. Lu Wu had to bring it something tasty next time he came in.

Then, a flash of electric light zipped by, and the camera footage went out.

However, it was clear from the footage on Lu Wu's Secret Realm Bracelet that the electric light was the energy burst that came from Little Skeleton's frame after being dumbfounded for a few seconds.

After that, Little Rock, who was still happy, was caught unprepared and knocked down.

Watching this scene, the Secret Realm Management Backend fell quiet once again.

They'd figured it out: Lu Wu had just played with the emotions of two Summoned Beasts.

His Little Skeleton had a Big Move.

Considering what had just happened and Lu Wu's action of smashing his smartphone, it was clear that the smartphone's energy consumption was linked to Little Skeleton's Big Move.

A Big Move for one smartphone.

To activate Little Skeleton's Big Move, Lu Wu lured Little Rock with food to smash Little Skeleton's smartphone.

And in the end, Little Skeleton, having lost its smartphone, unleashed its Big Move.

As for Little Rock, it didn't even get the promised food and ended up taking a beating first.

Considering the battery life just now, Little Rock's injuries must've been considerable!

"Indeed, breeders are all dirty-minded!"

...

Whether dirty-minded or not, Lu Wu didn't care, for he had passed the third challenge.

While the others were crying, Lu Wu cheerfully approached Little Skeleton.

Little Skeleton was now having a temper tantrum because the smartphone was broken.

Although Little Skeleton was a bit slow, its instincts were sharp. It could already sense that its Lu Wu had turned bad, and it wanted nothing to do with him.

However, Lu Wu had already mastered the trick to soothe a petulant Little Skeleton.

He immediately hugged Little Skeleton and stroked its skull.

"Good skeleton, don't cry, don't cry. It's just a broken smartphone, no big deal. Once we get out, Lu Wu will buy another one for you!"

Hugs, head pats, promise of a new smartphone.

This combination managed to successfully dispel Little Skeleton's bad mood.

Seeing that Little Skeleton's state had changed from [resentful] to [happy], Lu Wu couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth upwards.

He found his Golden Finger quite handy.

With this Golden Finger, he could completely control his Summoned Beasts' emotions.

Being able to control emotions meant controlling the pace of conquest.

"It seems that I do have the Talent of a playboy. Even if I can't be a playboy among humans, I could still be the playboy of Summoned Beasts, right?"

Having defeated the third challenge's boss, Lu Wu's subsequent challenges became much easier.

In fact, the difficulty of this challenge was multifaceted, with the greatest factor being the Survivability of the Summoned Beasts.

Many Summoned Beasts could pass two challenges in a row due to their power or outright attribute suppression.

But that required them to be in peak condition.

Such thoroughfares, needing to find the next level and fight battle after battle, would be too much for even the strongest Summoned Beast to withstand for several hours straight, even with items that replenished energy.

So, no one on the top hundred leaderboard had managed to pass two levels consecutively.

But it was different for Lu Wu; with the aid of his cheating brain, he barely exerted any effort in the first challenge, and though the second one had some complications,

It equally didn't take much of his strength. When Little Skeleton arrived in front of the third challenge's boss, it was almost in full condition.

Plus, Little Rock was easy to fool, and besides expending a piece of metal and two smartphones, only about eighty percent of Little Skeleton's Electric energy was consumed.

Little Skeleton was still in good shape at the moment. Although it had a minor mood swing, with just a touch and a flurry from Lu Wuyi, it was instantly gone, and Little Skeleton once again strutted forthrightly into the fourth challenge with Lu Wu.

Since he had passed two levels in a row, Lu Wu only needed to stay five minutes in the fourth challenge to earn 100 points.

For the well-prepared Lu Wu, this was a breeze: he easily scored 100 points and officially secured the first place.

This left the Secret Realm Manager with a headache—how should they score Lu Wu's performance?